On 2010-08-09, sf > wrote:

> If school cafeterias in my district cooked their own food, I'd fall
> over in a dead faint. It arrived prepackaged and looking just as
> horrible as ever.

It's a crying shame, isn't it, sf?

I grew up in schools where real people cooked real canned food. Don't
get me wrong. Canned food is some of the least adulterated food
available. I do know the cooks in my childhood schools DID cook the
ground beef in the sloppy joes, jes like I do, today. We also ate
real lettuce and tomatoes in our grn salad side, when we got it, but
more often than not it was canned fruit salad or potato salad from I
know not where. But, the corn bread, chili, meat loaf, cole slaw,
etc, were all real food, made from fresh ingredients cooked by two
little ol' ladies in the kitchen. We could see the pots and pans
a-bubblin' on the stoves. I don't see why an illegal can't cook real
food for min wage as well as a push microwave buttons for min wage.

nb

You're cool. I just get stoked over this kind of stuff. I think diet is the simplest way to change kids health, physical and mental, there is. It just makes me sick when I hear about the money issue with good food. If you make bread and soup, they will come!!

Sorry if I'm thinking aloud (awritten?) too much and not contributing enough.

On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:02:50 GMT, notbob > wrote:

> I don't see why an illegal can't cook real
> food for min wage as well as a push microwave buttons for min wage.

Don't cloud the issue with legal status, nb. School districts are not
the culprits who hire them (as far as I know). It's hard enough to
get hired if you're legal. Have you ever tried it? They send your
fingerprints out to be checked. They say they're looking for wants,
warrants and prior convictions but I'm betting they check your legal
status and pedigree while they're at it.

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Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

Sorry, but nope. It has a lot more to do with the kinds of foods we stuff down our gullets. People in the past were not simply inherently more virtuous. People is people.

"Cornelius" > wrote in message
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>
> 'sf[_9_ Wrote:
>> ;1514624']On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 12:21:53 +0000, Cornelius
>> wrote:
>> -
>> think about how slender and healthy
>> people used to be, compared to now.-
>>
>> That has a lot to do with the volume of food that we stuff down our
>> gullets today.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.
>
> Sorry, but nope. It has a lot more to do with the kinds of foods we
> stuff down our gullets. People in the past were not simply inherently
> more virtuous. People is people.

I think it has more to do with our level of activity today. In addition,
the processed food.