Guest guest Posted January 23, 2003 Report Share Posted January 23, 2003 We had a wondeful ethnic mix where I grew up, so we had Italian, Polish, Czech, German, and even Welsh cooks, so it varied, but as I grew older the Italians sort of took over, so we had things like spaghetti with fresh-made sauces, lasagne, and so on. We also had a school nutritionist whose job was to approve each day's menu. She'd often add odd things to make sure we got all the food groups in proper balance; one I remember was plums, which we of course laughingly called prunes, to a chorus of rude jokes. What they did was exploit the local products, literally from local farms and farmers, and also dairies of course. They did a good job through my senior year of high school but, as my younger brother reports, it worsened not long afterwards. (I gradumacated in 1976, by the way. Hail, Brittania.) It went to the high-starch, high-fat, low-veggie, low-fiber stuff supplied by pre-fab food suppliers and so on. Up went the candy and soda machines, too, so some kids subsisted on sugar, basically. It changed because it was the political, profitable thing to do, and to hell with being responsible for even trying to offer healthful, nutritious lunches. Remember Ron E. Ray Gun's thing about ketchup being a vegetable, and Daddy George hating broccoli, etc. On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 12:29 PM, (AT) (DOT) com wrote: > Just out of curiousity, what were school lunches like when you were a lad? " The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church. " - - Ferdinand Magellan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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