On 9/7/2014 12:10 PM, sf wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Sep 2014 11:41:58 -0600, Mayo > wrote:
>
>> On 9/7/2014 7:13 AM, sf wrote:
>>>>
>>> If not eating in the morning is due to parent apathy, then why make
>>> children suffer even more? In any case, it sounds like you're calling
>>> teenagers who have food in the house available to eat "kids". Sure
>>> they might be eligible for the new food for all program, but they are
>>> not the focus of this discussion. The teenagers you're talking about
>>> made a choice to sleep and to not eat, the choice wasn't made for them
>>> because their families couldn't afford to buy food.
>>>
>>> There is also a stigma to being eligible for a free food program, so I
>>> can understand why the criteria was waved. Don't think that just
>>> because "free" food is made available before the start of school that
>>> they will suddenly choose to eat. That's not how teenagers work.
>>> Additionally, while the menu may read like it's some sort of gourmet
>>> food - it's not. It is cooked off site and reheated, if the school
>>> has the equipment to do it. The truth is that in most school
>>> districts, it's more like prison food than home cooking. Think of the
>>> worst cafeteria food you've ever eaten. It's worse.
>>>
>>>
>> The menu we read posted was impressive.
>
> I take school menus with a grain of salt.

Touche!

> It may look good on paper,
> but what does it look and taste like in living person? I've seen too
> much industrialized cr*p being served to think otherwise.
>>
>> The reality that Jamie Oliver found in his program on W. Virgina school
>> food was appalling.
>
> More the norm, I'm sure.
> http://www.sfusd.edu/assets/sfusd-st...hool-lunch.pdf
> I've seen these things in person. The reality is they are more like
> an MRE than desirable food.
>
>
I suppose that like airline food there are packaging and presentation
economies of scale. That said, it sure reads as quite palatable.

I mean come on, I used to get fried fish sticks, sloppy joes, hot dogs,
some utter garbage when growing up.

This reads way better.