America’s children are still by and large grotesquely overweight these days, we hear? AND STAY THAT WAY is the message from the corporate shills in Congress waging a heroic battle against a USDA proposal requiring school cafeterias to quit counting french fries and tomato sauce on frozen pizzas as “vegetables,” because the “federal government shouldn’t be telling children what to eat.” Except that, by putting a giant pile of oil-and-salt-packed sawdust shavings on the plate of every child in America’s school lunch lines, they kind of are!
A spending bill released late Monday would unravel school lunch standards proposed by the Agriculture Department earlier this year, forcing USDA to pull back an attempt to limit potatoes on the lunch line, delaying limits on sodium and delaying a requirement to boost whole grains.
The spending bill also would allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now. The department’s proposed guidelines would have attempted to prevent that.
Of course, brave as they are, the obesity-pushers in Congress never do anything without orders from their corporate overlords. So now you are probably wondering, who are the real heroes here, calling for early death by complications from diabetes for America’s bulging youths? Don’t think too hard! “The changes had been requested by food companies that produce frozen pizzas, the salt industry and potato growers,” the report adds. So long as there Congresspeople in Congress, these Key American Industries will always have a voice.
Maybe it really is time for a few drones over Burger King? [AP]
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"Eat Cheese and Die"?
I thought it was "Live, Cheese, and Die"
DSF? Isn't that the French guy who rapes maids?
To quote Meat Loaf "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad".
I thought for a moment it was 'DTF."
No, it's what ATT is always promising me but never delivering.
What percentage of Army recruits are obese? Why does Congress hate the military?
It's my understanding that the Army doesn't take obese kids because it takes too long and too much work to slim 'em down. An Army of One (Ton).
I think I read somewhere that 75% of the kids trying to get in are too fat, and get rejected. Christ.
"Congress waging a heroic battle against a USDA proposal requiring school cafeterias to quit counting french fries and tomato sauce on frozen pizzas as “vegetables,”
Do "Freedom Fries" count, though?
Just don't make them have to endure miracle whip!
Hey! Best sandwich ever is peanut butter and Miracle Whip. Don't knock it til you tried it.
Wrong… SPAM and Miracle Whip…
(He said… never having tried PB&MW)
Elitist. Who can afford Spam?
Hobo Spam… (ground opossum and wood glue)
I'd rather tongue-kiss Newt Gingrich.
Eeeeewwwwwwww.
No… No you wouldn't. I know you well enough… you would not…
Is Burger King hiring, or is limiting garbage in our childrens lunches "jawb killing"? Gawd. These people.
LET THEM EAT SATURATED FATS
I don't have the facts to back this up, but it seems that there's a link between melted cheese and book learnin'.
I beleive thats called an inverse correlation.
It's especially bad if you melt cheese all over your books.
You're right, it's what you call your inverse relationship.
#notintendedtobeafactualstatment
That just never gets old.
no sir it don't.
"there's a link between melted cheese and book learnin'. "
They're both awesome?
That's not what I was thinking at the time, but yes, that is now the correct answer.
President Cain would ban veggies altogether. "Kids: veggies are for librul pussies."
Except for those great, big, manly zucchini.
How can they count tomato sauce as a vegetable? Tomatoes are fruits.
SorosBot:
I know where you are going with that "fruit sauce" stuff…
St Reagan would say it could be either so long as it was n the form of catsup.
And lawmakers in Congress are fruitcakes….
Oh God, not again…
Tomato sauce comes from tomato sauce "plants", fruit comes from "trees", except for strawberries, which were probably brought to this planet by aliens.
Rick Perry will uproot the lot of them.
They can count Perry and Cain as serious Presidential contenders…
As long as each slice of pizza has 16 – 24 oz of tomato sauce on it, they'll be fine.
Cigarette butts in gallstone sauce, for everybody!
Back to 'ketchup is a vegetable'?
If I didn't stop to spell check, I would have beat you.
Spell chek? I nevar do or use that!
spell czech? How about bringing that job back to 'Mur'ca?
Really, all condiments are vegetables.
For a safe and balanced meal, always remember to put a condoment on your sausage.
That's right, back to St. Ronnie's day! Pass the MSG!
Don't forget Reagan's favorite vegetable: Ketchup.
I thought it was sour grapes…
I thought it was jelly beans.
which are legumes, right?
I think it became painfully, or maybe forgetfully, obvious it was not any type of fish.
And Nancy Reagan's favorite vegetable: Ronald.
That's going to provoke some interesting water cooler talk at MSNBC between noted Wonketeer Rachel Maddow & Son of God Ron Reagan, Jr.
And don't forget Nancy's favorite vegetable: Ronnie
(too soon?)
Actually, about 3 hours too late.
Damn…did someone already to that joke? I looked, dangit.
I guess he'd know vegetables.
See? This only strengthens my argument that my cheap luncheon martini should count as a vegetable, also.
Sure, that's real juniper berry in there!
Don't forget the olive.
Make it dirty and you'll be covered for the day.
It's a green vegetable, right? That's what I tell myself each night when I order one instead of a salad.
Or potato if you are doing a vodka martini. Same idea though.
Think of the veritable salad in a bloody Mary!
V-8 and vodka – a full serving of veggies in every glass!
I prefer Hendrick's gin and tonic, served with a slice of cucumber. Very nutritious!
That sounds good! But I also like FNMA's olive in a Sapphire martini!
Just finished a Hendrick's martini before I came here to catch up on my porn…err…..news…I meant news…dammit.
Me too! Wish I was drinking one right now, except it's time for breakfast.
I lived on onions, olives, and maraschino cherries for about 9 years.
No orange slices?
Plus you had a more balanced diet during those 9 years than today's schoolchildren, apparently!
Too messy. Plus, the manager might have noticed.
When I owned a bar, I had a couple customers who dined on nothing but lemon twists, olives, pickled asparagus and the occasional celery stalk or marischino cherry. If I hadn't put out the occasional beer nuts or pretzels, I suspect they would have starved to death.
Hey — nuts, fruits, whole grain, veggies — sounds like how I eat every day.
Barley sammiches!
Any chance of getting you to run the school cafeteria?
And cigarettes! Why not? They come from a plant.
As an Idahoan (not by choice!), I would like to apologize for the elected asshats from my state who no doubt helped engineer this. I keep voting for the other dudes, but it's hard to go up against Big Potato.
Next they'll turn them into dildoes.
or the Super Tuber Potato Pocket Pussy.
I saw that. Popeil, wasn't it?
yes. the only infomercial ever featuring both Ron Popeil and Ron Jeremy.
Mr Potato Head™ dildoes.
"Next they'll turn them into dildoes"
That would be a Dick Tater.
Big Potato. I snorted! I laughed so hard. You are gonna make me fry.
RIght about now, I really wish I were baked.
Good luck beating your Big Potato.
I saw what you did there.
Reluctant Ida-HO here as well. Our empty suits are among the emptiest (we're #1!). Yeah, this smells like Simplot taint alright.
Big Potato Is Watching You!
(You know, all them eyes and all…)
Obama want to turn America's kids into swarms of weak little hipsters. Herman Cain is the ONLY man who can fatten our youth into an army that will be able to crush our foes just by sitting on them.
Because veggies on pizza be unmanly!
All I can say is, no spud ever called me "Fatty."
In other news they also loosened restrictions for coaches in the showers.
"Don't worry Johnny. It just a potato."
Too soon.
Just what obese America needs – more coach potatoes.
a spud, after all, is just a tuber, Johnie….
After an intense NAMBLA lobbying effort, I'm sure.
In France, kids have to eat snails. With a sauce a l'ail and ganache au chocolat for dessert, sure. But still, God Bless America. Fucking skinny French people.
Escargot libel!
Lookit my s-car go!
Sure…but in the eternal words of RoastBeef, a Frenchman will walk 2 miles to buy a stalk of asparagus or a date.
Which kind of date?
I'm just wondering what other's worst meal in school was. We had Chuck Wagon (yes like the dog food) it was mashed potato's AKA unused paste from art class, with a psudo gravy and faux meat product (brown gravy and meat for "beef" and yellow gravy and meat for "turkey") slapped on a styrofoam tray.
De-lish!!!!
At our high school, we used to have "spinach" or "turnip greens" the day after they would mow the athletic fields.
Our athletic fields seemed to be a prime stopover spot for seagulls, especially in the rain. Appearance of roasted chicken always seemed to coincide with the disappearance of said seagulls.
You elitist whiners. The three JW brothers used to have to carry our lunch in a paperbag, and we liked it. It was difficult when the lunchhour was staggered and we couldn't find the brother with the bag. But we learned to get by. It made us tough.
You had a paper bag?
LOOOOXURY!!!
You people, by that I mean Americans, have no idea of the foul nature of a British school lunch in the late 70s in a state school. Spam fritters, mashed swede and carrots, lumpy brown gravy and mushy peas , anyone?
But I love mushy peas!
Ewwwww, they are vile, I loathe them, once our headmistress, upon see me push them off my plate and down the crack between the lunch tables, made me sit in her study and eat a huge serving of them for punishment, it took me 4 hours to eat just a few and then I vomited on my plate.
Fortunately, she was into Roman showers.
good on you, Lizzie – I hope some of them landed on her shoes….
Do you mean the extra-vinegary kind of mushy peas? Yeah, we had those in the "Kentucky of Illinois".
But God help me, I love pub food. Bangers and mash, anyone?
Now that is good food, ploughman's lunch with a really stinky cheddar and pickled onions is one of my favourite meals of all time.
Mmmmmm. Don't forget the pint of bitter!
English food ain't allowed in this game. You'll win every time when it comes to bad food.
Not when it comes to bacon, we so have you whipped on that front.
You guys don't trim the fat….I like that.
"mashed swede"
The stereotype is that English cuisine is notoriously bad, but I'd hate to think you guys were cannibals.
AKA Rutabaga.
Would have been better, I am sure, if they had slapped it on a Freedom Tray!
In my college cafeteria, we used to take those little paper ice cream cups, carefully pull off the lids, eat the ice cream, fill the empty cup with mashed potatoes (also unused paste from the Ein Farts Department), carefully repostion the paper lid, and replace the cup in the open freezer on the cafeteria line.
We were into recycling before it wuz kewl.
In jail we got "Pork" gutlet… amazingly… they used to tell us once in a while we were getting "veal" gutlets…
C'mon… veal? In jail? The Seagull on Fridays was OK though.
Gutlet? or cutlet? Either way, unappetizing. They actually served us "cheese cutlet," which was basically a fried, flat, cheese stick. Horribly unhealthy, but quite tasty.
"Horribly unhealthy, but quite tasty"
That's on my family crest.
We called 'em GUTlets… but again, we enjoyed the seagull as well.
"The seagull fries on Friday… "
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We had "deep dish pizza". We called it abortion bread. Bleughhhhhh.
I wasn't allowed to buy the school lunches. My mom was a nurse. She packed me a lunch with real food every day. I tried to sneak bites of my friend's lunches a few times in my early years – then quickly learned why I was happy with my packed lunches.
In rural Arkansas, we were routinely fed squirrel, possum and raccoon meat–because it was all trapped and brought to the schools by the nearby farmers! Squirrel, possum and raccoon meat do not taste good!
Mystery "meat" covered in gelatinous "gravy," stewed spinach with vinegar, green beans cooked with greasy bacon fat until they were a vile yellowish color, and a canned peach half for dessert. I was well into my 20s before I realized spinach is a fresh leafy salad green that can actually be quite tasty.
"Salisbury steaks" the consistency of a rhino's heel. We took one out and used it as a hockey puck at recess.
Our cafeteria had fish sticks, which of course the bad boys called "fish dicks".
That Broadband post must be popular. It keeps rising with a bullet.
The only vegetables I eat are french fries and onion rings. I also wash myself with a rag on a stick.
Whaddya clean your tooth with?
Hey! That's the stick I use to dig ants out of the anthill! Give it back!
Daze gud eatin', btw.
The 'salt industry'? Really?
"No Country for Garden Slugs"
A few minutes of Googling don't turn up any link to the Kochs but I wouldn't be surprised to find they have a finger in that shaker somehow.,
Struck me as well.
Care to venture a guess as to the volume and/or dollar value of a year's consumption of salt in the US? Imma say it's no small potatoes.
And what the hell, Congressmen are cheap whores.
Na + Cl = $$$$
So, there really are children toiling in the salt mines. Who knew?
And there are old salts toiling in the child mines.
[What? What do you mean Penn State doesn't have a maritime science program?]
Ouch.
When our power was out last week and we ran out of five star resturants in western New Jersey (the first night) we dropped in the local McDonalds. I was HORRIFIED to see some of the things on their menu – litterally the hand of Michelle Obama herself must have been behind these mooslim blessed chicken wraps and MEAT-less APPLE fritters!
What has our nation come to?
"Would you like to Supersize that?" "Fuckin'eh"
Don't tell Hermie that tomato sauce is a veggie, cuz veggies on pizzas is for pussies.
My 8 and 6 year-old were psyched about the "Walking Taco" on tap today in the cafeteria.
Silly!
Everyone knows Tacos swim 'cross the Rio Bravo…
Is that how they do sex ed in your neck of the woods? (or I am I the only one who thinks of "hairy" when I hear the word "taco?")
It's
harddifficult to get good seafood here in the Rocky Mountain west. It's been ages since I've had a good bearded clam.You said a mouthful, flamingpdog!
Yep, the tacos they serve at The Lamplighter in St. Paul are svelte and hairless – it's a fad whose time is almost up, thank dog…
Ugh; who would want a hairy taco? They look weird and you'd get hair stuck in your teeth.
Ooh, I know my grandkids would have loved that.
It's not the Government's job to tell us what we should feed our progeny. It's the job of our Butler, Maid, Chef, Kitchen staff and Chauffeur!
And sometimes, the Cabana boy.
You who else fed a crude gruel of sawdust and rancid lard to individuals herded into institutions by the state?
Joe Arpaio?
W's personal chef?
Beef ranchers?
Msrs. Bumble and Limbkins?
/19th-century English Lit
The Kanamits?
Ken Kesey?
Father Flanagan?
Major Margaret J. "Hot Lips" Houlihan?
Graham Spanier?
William R Simonson, director of the Soylent Corporation?
The Movementarians?
And who wants to bet these representatives will throw up their hands and go "PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY LOL" when our kids get fat and beg for Medicare to cover their Hoverounds?
I don't think I can snark anymore, there's only soul-blackening rage and bottomless despair. I can't even link my favorite Sin City suicide .gif since I learned Frank Miller is a snarling Islamophobe.
And who wants to bet these representatives will throw up their hands and go "PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY LOL" when our kids get fat and beg for Medicare to cover their Hoverounds?
Maybe not the reps, but almost certainly their constituents.
Snark is the antidote to this increasingly absurd corporate putsch we are living through. In those dark moments, imagine David Koch wearing assless chaps, being buggered by Lindsey Grahm. See? Snark restored.
"See? Snark restored."
And brain bleached.
And how. If there's going to be any assless chaps or buggery in my imagination, it'll certainly not involve those two. Some World of Warcraft characters maybe, but definitely not those two.
Karl Rove in leather S&M/bondage gear, blubbering and crying as Mistress Sarah flogs him?
Good thing they didn't take away our children's french fries — Michele Bachmann says they're the only way to prevent mental retardation!
For "some conservatives in Congress" who are "saying the government shouldn't be telling children what to eat", the government paying for these meals; it can perfectly well direct how its own money is to be spent.
You, SorosBot, are rational. Nuff said..
In case you didn't know, we the people are the government
Wait, what?
I thought the school lunches were handouts for, you know, Those People.
So, the conservatives who are saying the government shouldn't be telling children what to eat are actually saying that Those People should have *more* freedom in choosing their gubmint handouts?
They're so eyeball deep in hateful bullshit that they can't even keep track of their own dogma.
From a school lunch pizza to a free Hoveround … the government is looking out for us.
Made largely from the same materials, no doubt.
DSF? WTF???
I watched that last night. I wonder who gets voted off tonight?
But whatever will Kortney do without her vegetables?
Why do Republicans hate Kortney?
I do NOT wanna see Kortney and her… ketchup.
Cause she's a girl. Duh…
Thej would just lurve her if she would only change her name to KKKortney.
You see, Callyson, when a woman and a vegetable love each other very much….
Needs more kohlrabi.
or baby bok choy! num nums..
I knew a rabbi Kohl once.
If French fries are outlawed, only outlaws will have French fries.
Well, them and McDonald's
Many years ago I worked in a Chicago suburban shopping mall. Many of the little children were more interested in meeting Ronald McDonald than Santa Claus.
This made me very, very sad.
Yeah, because Ronald McDonald doesn't exist.
Even moar sad, their youthful love of clowns caused them to grow up and become Republicans.
I never considered that before. I think clowns are terrifying ugly creat–
Oh wait.
What's even sadder is that the same kids were probably more interested in either Ronald McDonald or Santa Claus than their actual parents.
Also:
Reagan: ketchup is a vegetable.
Today's Reeps: tomato paste is a vegetable.
What's it going to be tomorrow from them, red dye is a vegetable?
Blood, is a vegetable.
Well, blood oranges are a fruit, liberal.
Callyson – and it's not even topof-the-line, extra virgin Red Dye #1.
For christsakes, it's Red Dye #3!
But Reagan is still a vegetable, right?
What?
Soylent green, when illuminated by red light the color of a tomato, is a vegetable.
Tater Tots and Salt Shakers are vegetables too, my friend…
Hey… so is half of congress!!
Are you kidding? Tater Tots and Salt Shakers are my friends !!
the United States Department of Agriculture.
That must be the third one Perry was looking to abolish.
Well, to be fair, the way Mrs. DaRooster likes her pizza… the sauce is aplenty to be considered a vegetable.
Good for Mrs DaRooster, I like a smidgen of cheese and a boatload of the tomato sauce.
Amen! I like my pizza like I like my wenches – extra saucy.
Then I am your gal, I don't even like meat on it just lots of sauce, as thin a crust as humanly possible and slightly charred.
So… Obama?
Eh, it'll all work out in the end.
…explosively.
…and no child's behind will be left.
I feel sorry for Col. Peters, the author of the linked article. His commenters sound like the Idiots United chapter of the People of Wal-Mart.
Are there hobo beans on the menu?
And what about hunting and gathering? Shouldn't we make the little lardasses go outside and find their food? Ted Nugent could do an instructional video on how to track, kill, skin and cook a raccoon on an open flame.
Eve8Apples:
About six months ago, NPR had a piece about urban foragers – finding edible weeds in vacant lots, etc. That's pretty much what it's coming to. Eating for free. We'll be digging roots in the public parks.
And the lucky SOB's will snare a squirrel.
"And the lucky SOB's will snare a squirrel."
Lucky is a relative term. Once he snares it we can all converge on the SOB and bludgeon him to death for it.
You know, there's a lot more meat on this here SOB than on that stupid squirrel. I'm just sayin' …
The teabaggers will love urban foraging. If we make the kids eat weeds and grass from public parks and spaces, we won't have to pay government employees to mow the grass. It's a win-win. Kids get their veggies and fiber and we cut government jobs.
Years ago I watched about 4 minutes of Ted hunting… I figured he wasn't all that great when he set up his perch in the tree and put out the salt lick.
Then I heard about him at a local archery shop doing a demo. He shot an arrow straight through the roof, turned and said, "Hey, you guys want me to climb up there and sign that for you?"
The worst part is, I've been lectured by school administrators when I send snacks that don't "measure up" to their standards! They're schlepping cheese-covered cheese sticks with a side of deep-fried cheese, and they want to give me shit if my daughter brings in an oatmeal/raisin cookie once in a while. Fuckers.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it Michelle. USA USA USA USA US….U…..whew….I'm getting this wierd tingling feeling in my left arm…
Listen, if we take fries out of the school system, then how will the college graduates of 2030 ever learn the key phrase they'll need for the working careers:
"You want fries with that?"
Actually, our college graduates of 2010 (and many of our social sciences/humanities MAs and PhDs) are already saying, "Buddy, can you spare a fry?" Just proving that fry-based education WORKS!
Soylent Green is a vegetable because it's green. Let's feed that to our chilluns.
I don't know what potato growers are worried about. There are plenty of uses for potatoes.
Corn syrup is a vegetable.
The 4 new food groups:
Pizza
Potato
Salt
Corn syrup
"new"?
Yes, replacing the old basic 4:
Salt
Sugar
Fat
Caffeine
You'll note that chocolate contains all four, which is why scientists consider it a perfect food.
As long as they don't ban gnocca I'm ok with it as I remain, as always, in the tank for Big Gnocca.
I look forward to helping my future grandchildren with the intricacies of gout management. Nothing is funnier than seeing a bunch of 2nd graders limping around like a 70 year old Italian restaurant owner.
Skoal for dessert.
Isn't tobacco a vegetable?
Michele Obama's head just exploded.
The fucking salt industry didn't like the proposed regs!!?Oil lobby runs climate policy, salt lobby runs childrens nutrition? Folks, when the history of this era is written, we will appear no less absurd than any fiction ever written. It is ….beyond description.
First they came for the fat, diabetic, immobile third graders, and I said nothing…
If they had done that when I was in 3rd grade, I still would have been — per my pants from Sears — "husky", but at least not tormented by the even flabbier kids (one of whom looked like an "if they mated… Michael Moore & Bruce Villanch").
For once, I'm glad you said nothing. It's rude to talk with your mouth full.
"Oh Gawrsh, I don't want the Government telling me what I can spend my federal food subsidies on."
We can't touch the refined grains in the crust or the saturated fat in the processed cheese, so we're reduced to debating the nutritional content of the sauce?
Insanely OT, a friend of mine is part of a group that helps reunite soldiers with dogs that they adopted in Afghanistan and she has a new planeload that arrived 2 days ago and the soldiers are just getting back today, so they have been parted for up to a month or so and she had to find people to look after some of the dogs, so a friend was taking care of this beautiful little girl dog while her soldier who is Special Ops was en route. He said that the dog was crying and so sad for 2 days and then the buzzer rang and a really deep voice said "It's Bill" and the dog went insane , this huge, bald, heavily muscled scary man shows up with a dog carrier and scoops the dog up and calls her 'My Baby girl" and no other words were spoken-very covert ops, and away they go.Very heartwarming.
Wow. Just wow.
Writing as a big guy owned by a small dog (mini-schnauzer), that story choked me up.
Apparently he found the puppy in Kabul and she was nearly dead, so he brought her back to the base and she has been with him for about 6 months going everywhere with him and sleeping in his sleeping bag, so she finds herself in the all-white apartment of a gay man on the Upper East Side in NYC! But she knew her special ops man when he showed up to take her to his home in the South! I was sobbing when I heard about it.
That's a great story and sounds like an organization I would love to support. Can you post the organization's name/website? Most of my 9 critters are rescues, the latest is the sweetest 6 m.o. dobe pup who I wish would eat republican politicians instead of my slippers.
You can try http://www.army.mil. No need to send a contribution, though. You already own it.
You weren't talking about the dog, were you?
<a href="http://www.nowzad.com/2011/11/a-message-from-pen-farthing/http://www.nowzad.com/2011/11/a-message-from-pen-… />it's run by a British Marine , now working with an American Organization jointly, he wrote a book, probably still available that is unbelievable.
Special Ops knows people; thus they know-the more one knows about people, the more one appreciates one's dogs.
The problem I have with this is that it implies that the crappy frozen pizza that is sold in high school cafeterias has tomato sauce in it. Which is a dirty fucking lie.
They can have my anusburger when they pry it from my cold, dead, cardiac-arrested fingers!
Loki Poodle (all 76 pounds of him), who in't much for salutin', salutes your dog-rescuing friends. And me, *I* wonder, would being a natural tenor be a disqualification for getting into Special Ops?
Anus burgers for EVERYONE!
delaying limits on sodium
I see the heavy hand of Big Salt behind this.
As I now make over half my income selling crack cocaine to school children, I believe it is unfair to make schools "drug free zones." I am also currently employing two of those school children as distributors, and if I don't get my way I will fire them, so there. WHO IS JOHN GALT.
Here's the weekly Republican Lunch Menu, as posted at Dwight D. Eisenhower High School in Libertytown, Mississippi, for this week:
Monday: Ketchup, mustard, relish, mayonaisse, seafood sauce and barbecue sauce. With ranch dressing on the side.
Tuesday: Potatoe skins, french fries, mashed potatoes, potatoes au graten. Fried potatoe sticks for dessert.
Wednesday: Thick-crust double-chesse extra-sauce pizza. With choices of five sides, including sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, olives, green peppers, red peppers, pineapple, smoked ham, anchovies, broccoli, extra American cheese and grated parmesan cheese. With garlic and butter bread sticks on the side.
Thursday: Hamburgers and hot dogs. With chili, melted cheese, onions, sauerkraut, relish, ketchup, mustard, bacon, blue cheese dressing and fried mushrooms for toppings. With grits, biscuits and gravy, cole slaw and potatoe salad (made from Tuesday's extras).
Friday: Fried chicken, tacos, buffalo wings and leftover pizza all-you-can-eat buffet. With side salad.
Very nice use of the Dan Quayle spelling of "potatoe".
America is sick and tired of the 'Nanny State' telling our children what they should eat and what they should learn.
Government exists just to tell children who they can have sex with and when.
Nom nom nom.
The salt lobby is asking people to "invest 5 minutes online for salt freedom"
http://www.saltinstitute.org/
They want people to "make their voice heard" by responding to a request for comment.
Those who are so inclined can leave the government their own message about salt. For instance, one could leave a message advocating science based standards for salt consumption independent of industry influence.
http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=FDA… http://www.regulations.gov/#!submitComment;D=FSIS…
The terrorists hate us for our salt freedom!
Oh noez! Another federalistical government department for Rick Perry to forget.
Today our children are all Huckabees
What's the problem? Back in my day, all we had for lunch at school was Space Food Sticks.
They want the chilrens all fat and sassy like them!
Where the fuck is Jamie Oliver when you need him, huh?
I remember reading in one of his books that Italian schools that serve food are required by law to use organic tomatoes, pasta, extra virgin olive oil etc. Mmmm, tastes like sanity!
Oh what the hell… they're just kids, right?
Honeybadger don't eat no vegetables. Honeybadger don't give a $___
When I was in school we spent lunch time drinking hooch and making out with skanks. What is this "school menu" thing they're talking about?
Weed and hard liquor, breakfast of champions.
Gonna have to ask Cain what he thinks about this matter… His opinion is highly regarded, here.
We want our kids eating only manly food. It should bypass the digestive tract and march straight to the arteries, yelling "Gang-Way, Motherfuckers!" as it goes…
Oh my, this entire thread is a visual feast, in a way.
This makes me feel ill just to look at it.http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=ush-mailn&va=mushy+peas
My favorite!
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