How Boring Can Lunch Get?
The nanny state in action. This is courtesy of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010:
Because of limits on fat and sodium, some of those who crave French fries get baked sweet-potato wedges. Because of calorie restrictions, meat and carbohydrate portions are smaller. Gone is 2-percent chocolate milk, replaced by skim.
“Before, there was no taste and no flavor,” said Malik Barrows, a senior at Automotive High School in Brooklyn, who likes fruit but said his classmates threw away their mandatory helpings on the cafeteria floor. “Now there’s no taste, no flavor and it’s healthy, which makes it taste even worse.”
Source: The New York Times.
I’m sure with more regulation it can get even more boring.
“and it’s healthy, which makes it taste even worse”
Probably the best qoute I’ve heard in a long time!
So they also intend to regulate what we can and cannot eat? What is this government coming to? Geez.
But Lucy.. they’re doing such a stellar job of it. Those “get out and play” commercials feature Shrek, who also has his face plastered across candy bars and “juice boxes,” which might as well be labled as an efficient delivery system for type 2 diabetes.
If the government is going to be providing food, then it should be healthy. The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids act is not a nanny state in action; it is simply redirecting federal spending in a positive way.
Also interesting:
“Research shows that children must be exposed to vegetables 10 to 12 times before they will eat them on their own”
BREAKING NEWS IN MANHATTAN: seventh graders pronounced vegetables “gross.”
Not to mention that the calorie limits often leave student athletes starving.