[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Subjectivist', 'I') am not referring to your skin color Preston, I am referring to some peoples world view filter.

[Tanada]

Preston what are you going on about now, I can not follow the logic tying your posts together into a coherent thought. As the resident Libertarian I find your use of the term right wing quite odd. I think we should go back to the school lunch menu we had in the 1970's before the obesity crisis even existed because clearly what we have been doing for the last 20 years is not helping.

[Shaved Monkey]

We used to bring our own lunches when we went to school in Australia or buy it at the canteen run by volunteer mums with an emphasis on healthy choices.
Once a week we would put in a Fish and Chip order from the local shop that would be delivered though.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dolanbaker', 'G')ood to see a US school actually try to fight childhood obesity, one of the main precursors to early onset of heart disease. Or maybe it's better to just fatten 'em up to reduce the future pension bill.

[AgentR11]

First disclaimers:
1. My daughter's answer to Michele's rule is that she simply refuses to eat until school is over. She's height/weight normal, bmi fine, blah blah. We get lunch after school, usually Chick-fil A or McDonalds, whatever. (meals are actually fine, its that drink that kills on calories and energy ratios; make it a diet soda, and the numbers are fine.)

2. *I* ate school lunches as a kid, we had a snack bar; my lunch 99% of the time was a large Frito Pie with enough salt in it to pickle an acre of cucumbers. In spite of that sort of food in quantity, I was rail thin, underweight till my 20s. I was however, constantly active, and only rarely inside.

So all that said... now I'm gonna stick up for that lunch, that has been mutilated first by a disinterested food service worker, and a mischievous teen out to get even for being denied a good, huge, salt laden Frito Pie.

1. The piece of bread, is a piece of bread, whole wheat is basically that color when cooked. Its bread. Without the salt though, so its probably seriously bland, but nothing a salt shaker stowed in a backpack can't fix.

2. The fish, that's a skin-on filet; I don't see anything that suggests the scales were left on. If they were, that is poor food prep, but it wouldn't change the way it looks. The layer that is non-white just below the skin, is actually where everything good about fish flesh is located. The bleach white flesh is just some protein and water for the most part. So... if you look at that lunch from a nutrition point of view, its just about perfect for a sedentary teen that goes to school, then goes home and watches tv or plays social media or video games. From a foodie PoV, the fish needs to be seared, with some salt, a half-lemon; the roll needs to be butter glazed; and the corn is definitely overcooked, canned, low-grade, cheap stuff. (corn isn't a veggie though, so I'm not sure why its there instead of like green beans, broccoli, or steamed carrots) Its also balanced a little too heavy on the carb/protein side; but that's something the feds haven't quite bought into yet.

Unfortunately....
Its also a lunch that only the most desperate or deranged teen would eat.
Its also completely insufficient from a calorie pov for any teen that is involved with ANY outdoor/sport extra curricular activity.

So the above approach to lunches has created a new way of the world for school kids. When I was a kid, the only ones who brought lunch in a bag were those who were too poor to buy a Frito Pie and soda; or those few who had peculiar, strong allergies. Now days, the kids that can afford "stuff", bring lunches (not unlike the image with the full calorie can of coke) or buy lunch after school at a fast food restaurant.

Basically, I rag on Michele's food crusade, not for the idea that she's pushing, but rather, it simply can't scale at a price districts or the kids can afford. At $10 a plate, MO's idea will work like a champ (most especially if they eased up on their hatred of sodium) for most kids. At $2 a plate, you end up with something the kids won't eat. There also needs to be some understanding that the kid in track really does need close to 4k kcal's during the day, and it would be better if the bulk of the calories came early, and were heavier on fats. Saving the carbs for post training glycogen recovery; so for them, the lunch in question is not only insufficient, but its completely messed up even if they bought three of them. So, M.O.'s fails hard on flexibility.

[PrestonSturges]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'P')reston what are you going on about now, I can not follow the logic tying your posts together into a coherent thought..

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Subjectivist', 'S')ome people use what I call the White Male filter.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AgentR11', 'F')irst disclaimers:
1. My daughter's answer to Michele's rule is that she simply refuses to eat until school is over. She's height/weight normal, bmi fine, blah blah. We get lunch after school, usually Chick-fil A or McDonalds, whatever. (meals are actually fine, its that drink that kills on calories and energy ratios; make it a diet soda, and the numbers are fine.)

[Sixstrings]

I'm a registered Democrat, I may wind up voting Hillary after all, but Republicans are right on something so basic as this -- school cafeterias need to be under the control of local school boards.

We're talking about food so that kids don't go hungry, we're talking about running a restaurant operation and the First Lady cannot do that from Washington DC and have it turn out okay.

They need to get back to the USDA just helping out with basic supplies.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')N passes bill allowing schools to drop Michelle's school lunch program
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/04/tn_passes_bill_allowing_schools_to_drop_michelles_school_lunch_program.html

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Keith_McClary', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', 'I') don't really care about this issue

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrestonSturges', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'P')reston what are you going on about now, I can not follow the logic tying your posts together into a coherent thought..

[dinopello]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') tend to be one of the most even tempered people you will ever meet in real life.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dinopello', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I') tend to be one of the most even tempered people you will ever meet in real life.

[Keith_McClary]

Could it be Scottish Kippers?

Acquired taste.

[PrestonSturges]

Just bouncing around the internet, without looking I found multiple examples of people doing their little emotional rants and as soon as someone pushed back they say "I don't know what you're talking about, that doesn't make any sense." It's really interesting when people do identical things because it means the behavior is so primitive that it's hardwired into the brain, and it remains visible because it never got replaced with a more productive learned behavior. I also notice that people are increasingly labeling that as passive-aggressive and blowing them off.