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2014-09-26 -Land of the Free
More schools mull dropping Michelle O's lunch rules
[EAGNEWS.ORG] GREEN LAKE, Wis. -- The Green Lake School District is the latest the join a number of schools reevaluating their participation in the National School Lunch Program.

The Ripon Press reports the district is dissatisfied with the new school lunch and snack rules championed by First Lady Michelle Obama.

"When I walk through the school cafeteria, I see multi-colored fruits and vegetables and whole-grain pasta or wraps on the trays of our students. The food looks really good, but the students aren't eating it," principal Mary Allen says, according to the paper.

"... The limited salt, whole-grains, vegetable substitutes for meat, and unfamiliar foods such as 'quinoa' and 'jicama' are not being embraced. Although the food looks good and is undeniably healthy, it is unflavored and tasteless."
Posted by Fred 2014-09-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ]  Top

#1 I have to say I will at least give credit for trying. But it is not her job in the first place
Posted by Cheaderhead 2014-09-26 05:47||   2014-09-26 05:47|| Front Page Top

#2 
Posted by Big Thromoth3646 2014-09-26 06:07||   2014-09-26 06:07|| Front Page Top

#3 

Jicama, Black Bean and Quinoa Salad. Little wonder they won't eat it.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-26 07:16||   2014-09-26 07:16|| Front Page Top

#4 My kids schiol lunches never look like what besoeker posted
Posted by chris 2014-09-26 07:37||   2014-09-26 07:37|| Front Page Top

#5 I've made a test---showed the pic to grom Jr (9). He said "Ichsa!!!"
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-09-26 07:57||   2014-09-26 07:57|| Front Page Top

#6 That salad of Besoeker's sure looks good to me - lots better than any of the unhealty foods they offered (and I didn't eat) when I was in school. And I'm not even much into health foods...
Posted by Glenmore 2014-09-26 08:42||   2014-09-26 08:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Looks like what I imagine a cow's 'cud' to look before that second chew.
Posted by CrazyFool 2014-09-26 08:50||   2014-09-26 08:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Looks like that will generate some clean, dependable, natural gas. There's the bell, back to class kiddies.
Posted by Procopius2k 2014-09-26 08:53||   2014-09-26 08:53|| Front Page Top

#9 My kids schiol lunches never look like what besoeker posted

Most lunches don't. Check an advertising pic of a Big Mac™ versus what the real thing looks like when you unwrap it.
Posted by Steve White 2014-09-26 09:46||   2014-09-26 09:46|| Front Page Top

#10 that will generate some clean, dependable, natural gas.

OMG! Moochelle's lunch menu is contributing to global warming. Oh, the huge manatees!

As a side note, demand for quinoa by trendy food hipsters has driven up the price per kilo by roughly an order of magnitude since 1980, making what once was a staple food item in Andean countries too expensive for the poor.

As for the salad pic, that would go nice with a big juicy cheeseburger.
Posted by SteveS 2014-09-26 09:48||   2014-09-26 09:48|| Front Page Top

#11 May I suggest the "Bad Columbus! Bad!" salad, with a handful of cilantro, contraband hotsauce, and a furtive but unassertive skim en cardboard?

Well, hallelu, all hail the jicama!
It's every kid's favorite root newcomer:
It's crunchy! It's bland!
And it's much in demand
For folks to whom paint drying's great drama.

Kids, please eat your whatchamacallit!
When stunned and prepared with a mallet,
Its flavors can rage
From gray over to beige
On the milquetoast's adventurous palette.

Ever wonder why Olmecs would worship
What we know as the Mexican turnip?
It resembled their heads,
So they'd nibble some shreds
And the rest, as a sacrifice, burn up.

The canned water chestnut of limericks.
Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2014-09-26 10:06||   2014-09-26 10:06|| Front Page Top

#12 A little Sriracha and some tuna and that salad would be pretty good.
Posted by Shipman 2014-09-26 10:08||   2014-09-26 10:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Why is it I have visions of Weird Alabama's Eat It when I read about Michele's lunch program?
Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-09-26 10:42||   2014-09-26 10:42|| Front Page Top

#14 Weird Al. Damed predictive text.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-09-26 10:44||   2014-09-26 10:44|| Front Page Top

#15 Hey Deacon, I like the Weird Alabama name.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-09-26 10:54||   2014-09-26 10:54|| Front Page Top

#16 "dropping Michelle" <-- Sounds like a great new Lunch Game !

Time to go back to the Meals that Made Milwaukee Famous... The Dagwood

Posted by One Eyed Panda1291 2014-09-26 12:01||   2014-09-26 12:01|| Front Page Top

#17 Doubt you'll find any Quinoa at Rudy's. Prolly won't find the FLOTUS at any of the Rudy's either.
Posted by Besoeker 2014-09-26 14:29||   2014-09-26 14:29|| Front Page Top

#18 Underfed, overworked, underexercised, miseducated.

Foreword Komrades!
Posted by swksvolFF 2014-09-26 16:28||   2014-09-26 16:28|| Front Page Top

#19 Kids are genetically programmed not to eat strange foods, especially vegetables.
Posted by phil_b 2014-09-26 20:00||   2014-09-26 20:00|| Front Page Top

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