Congressional Republicans: Pizza is a vegetable

[Hauldren Collider]

Wow, my (public) school had way better lunches than that

Mine didn't.

[The Mad Monk]

We did not have the same school lunches, we were children before high-fructose corn syrup was in everything, and before federal deregulation allowed districts to cut back on expensive vegetables and replace with cheap starch.

My grade school had a lunch room, but no lunch program. My middle school had a lunch program, I ate peanut butter and jelly most days, and pizza on Fridays. My high school had a lunch truck roll in, the kind that shows up in inustrial parks. I graduated in 1985.

[Mojotronica]

My school lunches were often unappealing, but generally healthy.

[Kuciwalker]

I believe you have been subpoenaed, sir, on the matter of the identity of Wiglaf.

I plead the fifth.

[Tupac Shakur]

I'm really tired of the "OMFG, fedgov has no business doing that" argument. That may be the case, but it just deflects the focus away from what's disturbing about this story.

To me, the big issue here is government for sale: special interests essentially paying for the right to rewrite the rules. The fact that our representatives are perfectly willing to sacrifice the overall health of their constituents to keep a few corporations happy isn't a big surprise, but this particular case shows it pretty starkly.

If the effort was toward eliminating federal standards as an overreach of govt authority, I could understand it. But this strikes me as just blatant pandering to corporate interests.

The corporate interests would have far less incentive to lobby the federal government if the "OMFG, fedgov has no business doing that" argument was taken seriously and limits on federal power and jurisdiction were brought back.

[BlackCat]

Look familiar?



At some point, at least in Philly, they switched out the chocolate milk cartoon missing in that picture with a weird bagged milk.

That is probably the wost case of unhealthy calories that I ever has seen

[Hauldren Collider]

No.



American ingenuity

I can feel my heart stopping just looking at it. Though I'm not sure if that's love or heart disease

[BlackCat]

And that you say to a person that have had three heart attcks on a better diet - it's not "yankys must die" it's "yankys kill themself"

[Hauldren Collider]

Truthfully, that's the most revolting sandwich I've ever laid eyes on.

[Fake Boris]

Seriously, WHAT THE **** IS WRONG WITH PIZZA?

It's too fat, too salty, and usually full of empty carbs (white flour). The vegetables we put on them are too few to be considered a meaningful serving.

[Dinner]

Noodles & Company is a great chain found in 18 states and they offer very health options for just $4-$6. They give you organic but tasty salads, a good sized portion (but not overly super sized) of whole grain noodles, and usually some fruit for dessert. No soda is sold there but water or tea are both free and they sell some great fruit juice options. If a chain can do this why can't we offer something like this at schools? Heck, why can't we even get a salad bar in schools if even Wendy's has been doing that at fast food prices for the last 20 years.

[Al B. Sure!]

Noodles & Company is a great chain found in 18 states and they offer very health options for just $4-$6. They give you organic but tasty salads, a good sized portion (but not overly super sized) of whole grain noodles, and usually some fruit for dessert. No soda is sold there but water or tea are both free and they sell some great fruit juice options. If a chain can do this why can't we offer something like this at schools? Heck, why can't we even get a salad bar in schools if even Wendy's has been doing that at fast food prices for the last 20 years.

$4-$6?! Holy ****. What? You think school districts are made of money?

[Dinner]

You have to remember that includes large staff costs, advertising, and paying rent in trendy parts of town. If you remove the rental expenses, advertising costs, switch to reusable tableware instead of disposable, and decrease the staffing costs then I bet you could reduce costs but 1/3rd to 1/2. That's pretty cheap but still healthy.

[Lorizael]

Noodles & Company is a great chain found in 18 states and they offer very health options for just $4-$6. They give you organic but tasty salads, a good sized portion (but not overly super sized) of whole grain noodles, and usually some fruit for dessert. No soda is sold there but water or tea are both free and they sell some great fruit juice options. If a chain can do this why can't we offer something like this at schools? Heck, why can't we even get a salad bar in schools if even Wendy's has been doing that at fast food prices for the last 20 years.

My meals at Noodles usually cost $8-10, and they serve soda.

[The Mad Monk]

Japanese Pan Noodles