Lunch, anyone?
The new school year is about to start, and along with it come a whole raft of new "guidelines" (yeah, right, more like Nazi orders) about what schools can feed children, and even how often they can do it.
Here's a selection of some of the new "guidelines":
- Fizzy drinks and crisps should not be sold AT ALL
- Salt should not be available at lunch and ketchup and mayonnaise should only be available in sachets
- The only savoury snacks available at lunchtime should be nuts and seeds with no added salt, fat or sugar
- Oily fish should be served at least once every three weeks
- Not less than two servings per day of fruit and vegetables (are there two lunch times now?)
Do the phrases "protectionist" and "nanny state" spring to anyone's mind here? If these changes had come in whilst I was in school - and I had ever had school dinners - then I would have gone hungry. The new menus must be utter bores. Completely un-interesting, un-tasty, and un-likeable. It just seems ridiculous that in this day and age we're still giving out so many of these, ahem, "guidelines". As for banning fizzy drinks, well, that's utter madness. Without my Cokes (admittedly not very often from a school vending machine, but enough), I would have been asleep through at least 50% more of my classes. The whole thing just stinks of typical Labour pouring taxpayer's cash into another load of time-wasting bollocks, whilst letting situations which need real attention spiral out of control.
I swear we'd have had less state intervention if Hitler had won.
posted by Aaron at 7:47 AM
2 Comments:
If the new school diet prevents the spread of fat girls with their knickers poking out of their wobbly low-cut jeans for all to see then bring on the salad.
4/9/06 1:40 PM
Chances of that are "unlikely" to "HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAAHHAAHHAAA".
It's crap on television, in newspapers, magazines, and in films which leads to that.
4/9/06 3:43 PM
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