Re: In the army now
I've no idea where they get 70p a head, it costs £2 a day for school meals.
but for 70p I can do a pretty good packed lunch, and for £2 its a very nice packed lunch!
A Scottish council have said that a nine-year-old food blogger was misrepresenting her school dinners and distressing the canteen staff, by publishing a photoblog about her lunch. The media attention caused by the photos, such as the one below was causing "distress and harm" to staff the council said. School Dinner by Glasgow …
Salad bars, etc, are no good, if they're not accompanied by suitable teaching about food and introduction to foods which may differ from what has been previously experienced. If all you eat at home is burgers and chips, you're not going to stuff yourself with salad at school, especially if burger and chips is also on the menu.
I'm all for choice, but it's not a choice if you're not capable of understanding the options or the consequences of your actions. Most children (any many adults) are not.
I agree to a point. Yes the school may have more luck if it accompanied a salad br with education as you state. However, the biggest change has to be driven by the parents. Parents are usually kids role models, before they get to school they have had 4 years of conditioning from their parents. It would be an uphill battle for the school without parental support. True some kids would respond better than others but I do believe (and I am more than happy to hear your thoughts) that the biggest battle is in the home.
I remember our primary school picked a different country every month and you learnt about their culture (and history etc), including making their national dishes. How we didn't poison each other I don't know, but it did make us braver when it came to trying different foods. Some kids hated it. Funnily enough it was the kids with more affluent parents who could afford junk food who hated anything that wasn't burger, chips and coke.
I'd probably be "distressed" too if the someone was if someone was publishing a blog with photographs proving my work wasn't up to snuff. That doesn't mean that the blog is in the wrong though.
As for the charge of misrepresentation, if there were two choices each day, unless one was something she absolutely hated then it would seem reasonable that she chose the better of the two options. Therefore, the photos potentially show the school dinners in an overly flattering light as they don't factor in the less palatable option. I suppose technically that is misrepresentation, but surely one that if anything is in the school's favour.
Right. That meal looks like toy food you give a 5 year old to play at cooking with on their Little Tykes play kitchen.
Distress & Harm caused to the councillor's wallet which was getting a kickback for awarding that catering contract to the cookery clowns that would net him/her the most moolah, most likely.
No no no - its all about da a la Carte Kitchen with the Swiss roll drizzled with baked beans! Or it least it would be if it was 1987 still!
Back to the main topic - so a nine year old girl is causing harm and distress is she? I take it her local council are planning the extradition charge to the US for terrorism against canteen food as we speak - or maybe they have decided to just drone her as it's now the in thing to do to terrorists and those that cause harm and distress to society and interfere with the functioning of the state!
What a bunch of losers!
"The Council has directly avoided any criticism of anyone involved in the ‘never seconds’ blog for obvious reasons despite a strongly held view that the information presented in it misrepresented the options and choices available to pupils"
The only "obvious reasons" I can think of is that, while the Council believes the options and choices have been misrepresented they know that a Court of Law would think otherwise.
The trouble with politicians is they never stop digging when they realise they are in a hole. Say hi to the Earth's core for me......
I grew up in dumfries and as I said earlier, that looks a lot better than the thin watery slop that i got as a school dinner when I was in primary school.
If it couldnt be boiled to death is those huge aluminium cauldrons then it wasnt done. I do remember we did get a plate of salad once a month with a pork pie on it. Everyone ate the pork pie, egg and cheese and slung the rest.
Dinners rhymes with dinners
chips rhymes with chips
semolina rhymes with semolina
sick rhymes with sick.
And there you have it. Children aren't known for their poetic prowess.
I'm sure we used to try and insert toilet talk into that song, but I can't for the life of me remember how. But then again, i can barely remember last week, let alone 30 years ago.
find themselves in the hole and... start digging, deeper and deeper, furiously, and with the most ridiculous tools, like a toothbrush up their arse. I bet they'll soon, faced with "general public outrage" send some poor "spokesperson" to apologize to the family and issue a statement that their position has been mis-interpreted and mis-represented, etc,etc.
and, by the way, is it one of those "healthy" meals on that plate? Yum-me! :/
that's a lolly she's got there for desert! a lolly!! ffs!!!
why's she comlpaining? we never got lollies at our canteen when i were a lad at school. it was always horrible unidentifiable stale pudding of some kind drowned cold custard. i would have killed for a lolly!
kids these days, tsk, [cue Monty Python....]
What concerns me, is that primary school are given the option to eat junk food. Its OK to give them an ice lolly and burger, as there was the option of an 'all you can eat salad bar'. These are small children - given the option of course most of them will eat the high in sugar and fat food.
If my child went to this school i would be fuming, and the catering staff, teachers and councillors should be disgraced of themselves.
I have kids at school, the school menu is published and rotates over 2 weeks (9 day option). They are allowed a "junk" option once a week (burgers for our little uns) and chips one day. The rest is pasta, rice, pie, sausage and mash, jacket potatoes. Veg with every meal and fruit as an option daily.
I have brought up my children to appreciate fruit and vegetables as a normal part of their eating as such even the 5 year old picks up fruit to eat (not just in school but in cafe's too).
Whilst not the best looking thing in the world there is a hell of a lot worse and I would like to see both sides of the story (and the menus) before I jump on the venom wagon.
The council are saying choices include things like 'meat or vegetarian lasagne served with carrots and garlic bread or chicken pie with puff pastry, mashed potato and mixed vegetables,' but what the photo shows is a very small hamburger, two potato croquettes, three slices of cucumber and an ice lolly. With a disparity that wide between advertisement and reality, small wonder the council has moved to stop the child.
There's lasagne and then there's lasagne, there's chicken pie & then there's chicken pie.
From the picture in the previous article I had a problem working out that the strange flat brownish thing was supposed to be pizza. I've seen (and eaten) burgers that bear virtually no resemblance to the one in the picture for this article. 3 slices of cucumber could be described very loosly as "salad" - especially if there were other offerings available on the salad bar, however inedible they may have been (brown slimy lettuce, the same bowl of tomatoes that was offered the previous day etc).
1 scoop of "smash" made with no butter and dried out through being sat under a heat lamp isn't really any more appetising than those croquettes, and cheap tinned or frozen mixed vegetables can be pretty revolting. A small brick of rock hard bread that's been baked to death with a drizzle of artificial garlic flavoured oil isn't exactly haute cuisine either.