Michelle out to starve the parents of children starving due to her school lunches

I'm assuming they need not have all of these things, but a selection of them to pick from. I don't expect a 7/11 to carry butterfly shrimp and lamb roasts, but some packs of turkey and ham deli meat and a few apples and oranges isn't asking too much.

Or chicken thighs. Those are pretty cheap.

The problem with poor people is that they figure out how to make the throwawaycrapthatnobodywantssotheycanaffordit taste freaking awesome. When the word gets out, it starts costing $10 a pound.

The minimum wage is irrelevant, other than it's already so high that inner city people can't even get a job.

Having the school serve "options" means having food to choose from. Students aren't given that choice. It's the chicken nugget and pear or nothing.

Maybe you should work to rebrand an empty cupboard as "a healthy option."

The Sidwell Friend's kids are given options. Other kids are not. Private school is for the ones who are more equal than others.



And it's all served like this:


In a dining room that looks like this:


Here's one of the meat options:


The "options" you pretend exist for ordinary school kids look like this now:




Good thing Reagan classified ketchup as a vegetable!



That last picture is from Oak Hill's schools in Cincinnati. That's what the cafeteria uses as a display!

And high school linebackers who are hoping to get picked up by Alabama or Auburn are supposed to survive on that.

Remember, in the perfect socialist state all kids are the same size.

No, athletes don't get extra because that would get the school district in hot water with the federal government.

But that wasn't enough for Michelle, so they're going to effectively cut off food stamp recipients so the kids can't even get any food on the way home.

No it's for the people who can afford it.

More anti-capitalist, socialist bullshit from gturner, why am I not surprised.

You like it so much, go fuck off to Venzeuela or something.

I don't remember being given any choice in school other than eat it or don't eat it.

Everybody like the dinner rolls though. Those things were like crack.

@gturner:

I shouldn't even engage this bullshit, but what's your point? Rich people have better options than the poor? That's been the case since the beginning of society.

The only thing this does is allow kids the option of having something even remotely healthy along with the pig slop that passes for "meat" in most schools.

Exactly. That's why Michelle's been pushing for more veggies in poor schools. Hungry kids will eat what's availible, so why not make that food be something with actual nutritional value instead of empty calories?

Ya heard it here first - minimum wage is irrelevant when one is discussing what people can afford to buy and can't afford to buy.

Yeah, $7.25/hr or $15k a year is OUTRAGEOUS!

That's assuming that person has a full time job. Most min wage earners are getting capped at 30 hours because employers don't want to pay health benefits....a fact that people want to blame Obama for, except companies had been doing this well ahead of that anyway, Walmart.

And who sat on the Walmart board of directors? Oh, that would be Hillary Clinton.

Between this and the money she's made since she left the White House in the '90s you keep on bitterly bringing up how great a capitalist Hillary Clinton is.

Meanwhile Donald Trump bankrupts casinos.

You probably started out being a Sanders guy, amirite?

Nah, he has no real political philosophy, just:

Can I just say, I'd eat ALL of that.
The gourmet, the cheap, the whole deal.
My belly has no class system.

I'm eating a smoked beef brisket sandwich from an upscale food/music place down the street. Willie's Locally Known

I've heard good things about their brisket, and although it's very flavorful and tender, it's also very very fatty, almost like bacon.

Then my cat started eating the French fries, so I gave him some of the brisket. I realized that visually, I can't distinguish the brisket from Little Friskies beef in gravy. I don't think the cat could either.

Fair enough...
My neighbourhood is filled with old school veggie stores and butchers, so fresh(ish) food is available and reasonable without supermarkets nearby.

OTOH, my folks live in the boonies where if you ain't got wheels, you don't live there. Even still, there's an actual grocer in town stocking local produce.

Yeah, vouchers of any sort just get bartered at a depressed rate. Bunz in Toronto uses transit tokens as a base currency, I think... if we had food stamps... Oy...

That's the best kind

My dog doesn't seem to mind either.

An Australian friend of the family was in awe of American supermarkets, because Sydney didn't have any such store twenty years ago.

As I would find upon joining the Navy, America is pretty unique with its superstores. Certain Japanese malls had a full grocery store to buy food stuff (but not toileties), but most people still had to go to individual fish and meat stores, green grocers, and bakeries.

I miss Japan

Two of my kids prefer the school lunch over the hassle of making and bringing their own. They are both thriving, and definitely getting enough calories.

This is my veggie source, the butcher is behind the white van. Wouldn't want it any other way.



definitely not this



Wasaga Beach Ontario (Which is located in what we call "cottage country") there are more people within 200 metres of me some days than there are within 2kms of this store.

As much as I like my car, I wish I didn't need it so often.

I'm with you, Turkey. My neighborhood has dozens of specialty food shops and an outstanding farmers' market. I can easily avoid a super market and usually do. Nothing beats a steak from my butcher, accompanied by bread from one of the bakeries.

the beauty is, I can spend less than eight bucks for meat and three veggies and get at least two meals.

oh, and bakeries??? yeah, fresh hard dough or cornbread from the Jamaican place around the corner.

everything i could get at the SuperStore, but without demolishing a community for parking lot space

I must say a great compromise between a mega-store and a small mom & pop grocery store is the latest trend, the Walmart Neighborhood Market. It's strictly a grocery store, but has a wide variety of foods & brands, it's a quick "get in, get out" without long lines, and not packed with a gazillion people shopping for tires, clothes, toys, etc.etc.etc.

Ick... no way.
We spent months fighting against allowing the zoning for a Walmart in the area.

It worked though

We've got this though... 1950's sized market... nobody really likes it.

Mind you, Oldfella lives in the middle of Walmart Country, so standards are a bit lower

oh.. that madhouse of massed humanity is the monthly "pedestrian sunday".

brings all the tourists to the Market so they can treat it like a food court :/

I have the means and know how to make my own hard dough and cornbread from flour and corn meal. I also make the best fresh pasta you've ever tasted.

I win.

Little known fact. King George III's favorite meal was beans and cornbread. The British government didn't let that leak out because it could have been used as propaganda.

I dunno man... I'm one neighbourhood (i.e. 250m) away from TO's Via Italia.

Besides, you'd be making 'merkin style stuff, non? I gotta get me my Caribbean styled foods