sd wrote:
In article 9,
Wayne Boatwright wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com wrote:

On Tue 09 May 2006 11:18:21a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Melba's
Jammin'?

Maybe it's just you Minnesotans.

I balance out Barb in liking beets in 'most any form. But, then, I'm
not a born-and-bred Minnesotan. :^d

sd

I have never met a beet I didn't like. But compared with Barb, I'm
southern ;-)

Anyone watching Jamie's School Lunch Project? (It's filmed in the UK.)
Pretty much on target with what he discovered - peer pressure rules in
the lunchroom. If a few of the elementary kids wouldn't try something,
nobody would. If a few did try something, they all would. He's had
an impossible task, though - feeding school children lunch on 65 cents
each. Last night, he finally got to the elementary crowd with some
chicken dish and real green-leafy salad. But the head cook says the
kids have to be convinced when they're young - no hope for the
high-schoolers.

Most of the elementary kids had never seen fresh vegetables like
asparagus, leeks, rhubarb, etc. They had absolutely no idea what they
were.

Some of the stuff they serve to the kids, that they like, are just
offal (intended) looking - "turkey twizzlers" - some kind of
reconstituted stuff - other chicken nugget things (same appearance) -
bare-foot shaped fish sticks ("fish feet"). These were all provided by
a private company hired by the councils in various school districts to
provide the lunches - the lunch ladies just heat stuff and serve, don't
do any actual cooking. The private company head says that he has to
offer these horrible things because his customers demand it. Right.

According to the previews at the end of Monday's program, Jamie takes
over either 600 school kids or 600 lunchrooms, I didn't hear which. It
should be interesting.

N.