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What a luscious non sequitur.

kimmygibblershomework: Why the fark is she allowed to have a cell phone on at school is beyond me. Could have saved everyone trouble...

/be glad you have something to eat and are privileged enough to biatch about it.

She wasn't using a cell phone camera, but an actual camera.

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What a luscious non sequitur.

Hey, she's Scottish.....

But her school girl outfit pics were meh..... I love the classic face shot with her...... That's all I need!

/TMI?

You're quite right-she IS pertinent to this thread,after all. Mea culpa.



/And you do mean the ADULT Shirley in the school girl outfits,right?

BafflerMeal: Bathia_Mapes: vegasj: Fark, that sometimes posts repeats, then doesn't post repeats, is back to posting repeats.

Did you miss the "followup" tag?

The followup tag doesn't stop it from being a repeat, nor having less information than the original article.

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There was BafflerMeal: Bathia_Mapes: vegasj: Fark, that sometimes posts repeats, then doesn't post repeats, is back to posting repeats.

Did you miss the "followup" tag?

The followup tag doesn't stop it from being a repeat, nor having less information than the original article.

Link

This followup is about the city council reversing their decision. It's not a repeat.

Begoggle: Wow, the nanny state caved?
That's a first.

Not exactly. A city council isn't the nanny state, but it's still good that all the negative publicity they got made them back down and reverse their initial decision.

Tyler Perry presents Tyler Perry's School Lunch, starring Tyler Perry.


/I got nuthin'.
//Actually less than nuthin'.

GreatGlavinsGhost: Tyler Perry presents Tyler Perry's School Lunch, starring Tyler Perry.


/I got nuthin'.
//Actually less than nuthin'.

A zany new comedy about a lunch lady (Tyler Perry) who takes on a corrupt school lunch distributor by enlisting the aid of the school's Future Chefs of America club.

/gouging out my eyeballs as I type this

Man On A Mission: What school lunches are supposed to look like, by god!

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what is in the squeeze package on top of the pretzel?

Well......... good.

When i was a kid, ( elementary school 80-86) we brought our lunches except on friday when there was a rotating hot lunch day which meant one of three possibilities a) square pizza slices from a local and delicious pizzeria. B)boiled hotdogs made in the staffroom . C) cheeseburger,or hamburger and fries from mcdonalds (next door to our school). In later years they added KFC snackboxes to the rotation (my daughter went to same school)

Curious: Man On A Mission: What school lunches are supposed to look like, by god!

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what is in the squeeze package on top of the pretzel?

It's says "mustard" on the packet.

I know some people like to dip pretzels in mustard, but personally I think that tastes nasty.

HairBolus: Bathia_Mapes: I don't think we'll ever see school lunches like that in the U.S., not even at the most posh private schools.

I doubt such quality school food will be widely spread, however for a while the Berkley College Dining Hall at Yale had top rate food. According to the Wall Street Journal [2], Berkeley has the best college dining hall in the country. Until 2006 it was the testing ground for an experimental organic food and sustainable produce dining plan overseen by celebrity chef Alice Waters. Currently, the dining hall has joined the rest of the residential colleges in serving the same menu, thereby rescinding its unique status. I haven't seen any recent reviews of Yale dining hall food.

My junior high cafeteria made some pretty decent meals. Spaghetti or lasagna w garlic toast and garden salad was my favorite, but there were some other good ones as well. Our caf was run by a company called Beaver Foods.
/canuck

dopekitty74: HairBolus: Bathia_Mapes: I don't think we'll ever see school lunches like that in the U.S., not even at the most posh private schools.

I doubt such quality school food will be widely spread, however for a while the Berkley College Dining Hall at Yale had top rate food. According to the Wall Street Journal [2], Berkeley has the best college dining hall in the country. Until 2006 it was the testing ground for an experimental organic food and sustainable produce dining plan overseen by celebrity chef Alice Waters. Currently, the dining hall has joined the rest of the residential colleges in serving the same menu, thereby rescinding its unique status. I haven't seen any recent reviews of Yale dining hall food.

My junior high cafeteria made some pretty decent meals. Spaghetti or lasagna w garlic toast and garden salad was my favorite, but there were some other good ones as well. Our caf was run by a company called Beaver Foods.
/canuck

You were lucky and that does sound delicious.

Africa holds the lead for the majority of lousy school lunches, which usually consist of beans and rice as a base. Japan and Korea are among the best.

Things have changed dramatically in the US concerning lunches. Most schools 'outsource' their lunches to save money, meaning the lunch ladies basically reheat and serve. Plus, in the majority of schools, there are very few if any food donations. When I was a kid, living in a high citrus production area, farmers would drop off crates of fresh produce for free to help out the schools, which their kids attended.

After the 70's gas crisis, schools got the short end of the stick almost immediately. For the first time, major corporations were allowed to put in soda and snack machines and advertise their products so long as the schools got a kick back from the profits. That had NEVER been allowed before.

In efforts to cut costs, schools cut staff, especially in the cafeteria and started seeking cheaper sources of food. Old style school cafeterias usually had a chief cook, who could work magic with basic ingredients and secondary cooks who incorporated their own recipes, such as delicious hand made biscuits, wonderful cakes and frosting which DID NOT come out of a can.

They had to produce several entree's for the various dietetic needs along with religious concerns. (Back then, Catholics had to eat fish on Fridays.)

Pizza was hand made when it showed up on the menu. (No one in my city knew what pizza was until I was a junior in high school. There were NO sub shops and no pizza joints.)

Today, the schools are constantly under pressure concerning their budgets and, thanks to mandatory regulations by the government, can loose millions if they don't suspend that 6 year old boy who kissed that 6 year old girl on the cheek. (Sex violation. It doesn't matter if the boy had absolutely no idea why his wiener stood up now and then, no concept of sex and considered most girls 'icky'.)

Plus in this litigious society they now have to battle nearly constant lawsuits, keep a team of lawyers on staff, pay attention to the 'cultural needs' of the morass of foreign students piling in and invest in high end security to keep the gangs, drug dealers, thieves, perverts and homeless from getting at the students.

Now, they have to contend with 'Student's Rights', 'Children's Rights', 'Religious Rights', 'Freedom of Speech' and helicopter parents. Not to mention that a mass of things us kids used to get away with and considered normal are now forbidden, illegal, a sex offense, abuse, assault and/or harassment.

The school lunches I had were mainly great. It wasn't until I got into college and ate at the cafeteria there that I discovered just how many assorted dishes could be made from macaroni and cheese, chili, tomato sauce, sausages, cream sauces and salad fixings.

I preferred to eat off campus.

My Mom worked for a time in the local school cafeteria and even she was impressed by the time and care the ladies took to make good food by hand. She was a bit envious over the biscuit's the head cook turned out, never being able to make anything as good at home.

PLUS, back then you did not have to treat raw meats like a biohazard. The government provided most of the meats and they were grade A and so closely handled that you could eat raw hamburger with no concern. (My older brother developed a taste for raw beef liver -- that being the cure prescribed by our doctor for a case of anemia he had. He developed a taste for raw hamburger also -- but today wouldn't dare eat anything raw.)

Don't blame the lunch ladies. Blame the federal and local governments.

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What a luscious non sequitur.

Hey, she's Scottish.....

But her school girl outfit pics were meh..... I love the classic face shot with her...... That's all I need!

/TMI?

You're quite right-she IS pertinent to this thread,after all. Mea culpa.



/And you do mean the ADULT Shirley in the school girl outfits,right?

Ummmmm..... Of course....... Are there any others? You know, for research purposes?


That warrants further investigation. For SCIENCE.

Bronies_4_Paul: Looks like they call popsicles "lolipops" in the UK

No, they're called ice lollies.

Restricting the media, in this case the girl,never works. Why do they keep trying?

After all the decades, I still want to know what the hell a "Turkey Pom-Pom" is supposed to be. As far as I could tell it contained no turkey and is probably the worst tasting food I have ever experienced.

// as soon as I hit High School, stopped eating at school