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Due to the obesity epidemic in certain states. They are looking to ban the Chocolate milk commonly available in Elementary schools.

Source ABC News. Though i will cite Fox news for the LULZ:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4640349/schools-banning-chocolate-milk

I would literally Die without Chocolate Milk, then again i am 21 and British, still......... Harsh.
EDIT: totally dig the amount of times they say 'chocolate milk' in the video.....

Perkustin wrote:Due to the obesity epidemic in certain states. They are looking to ban the Chocolate milk commonly available in Elementary schools.

Source ABC News. Though i will cite Fox news for the LULZ:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4640349/schools-banning-chocolate-milk

I would literally Die without Chocolate Milk, then again i am 21 and British, still......... Harsh.

It's a bandaid on a gunshot wound. Most school lunch programs are atrociously unhealthy and the derth of available privatized foods through vending machines makes such a move utterly ineffectual.

Yeah i would guess they should look more at the 'Sloppy joes' or whatever rather than the (comparitively) pretty healthy chocolate milk.

Somehow I feel that the chocolate milk was healthier than... well everything else my school served me... Where does this idea that schools give healthy lunchs to kids come from anyway?

LordofHats wrote:Somehow I feel that the chocolate milk was healthier than... well everything else my school served me... Where does this idea that schools give healthy lunchs to kids come from anyway?

Jamie oliver?

Perkustin wrote:Yeah i would guess they should look more at the 'Sloppy joes' or whatever rather than the (comparitively) pretty healthy chocolate milk.

They should look at premade plastic wrapped danishes, chocolate bars or mountain dew. Sloppy joes are fine.


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LordofHats wrote:Somehow I feel that the chocolate milk was healthier than... well everything else my school served me... Where does this idea that schools give healthy lunchs to kids come from anyway?

The idea is that they should as its a state sponsored meal plan typically and the kids are getting fething fat. Make those little gaks eat an apple. They don't have the presence of mind to chose healthy meals for themselves, they're children.

Fair point, like vending machines?

WHAT? what about us that are actually freaking healthy? What the hell!
I have a 5 pack! and they are banning it. I would lead a revolt.

ShumaGorath wrote:

Perkustin wrote:Due to the obesity epidemic in certain states. They are looking to ban the Chocolate milk commonly available in Elementary schools.

Source ABC News. Though i will cite Fox news for the LULZ:
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4640349/schools-banning-chocolate-milk

I would literally Die without Chocolate Milk, then again i am 21 and British, still......... Harsh.

It's a bandaid on a gunshot wound. Most school lunch programs are atrociously unhealthy and the derth of available privatized foods through vending machines makes such a move utterly ineffectual.

For once (maybe its the 2nd time) I agree completely with Shuma. When I went to school, we actually had a badass salad bar if you wanted that instead of the hot lunch (which was trash put on a sub bun) but they ended up saying it was too costly, and nixed it for more trash can food.I brown bagged it from then on

I was thinking less that the schools should have healthy food, and more that they actually don't have healthy food. I'm almost certain all my school lunches were made of card board and some kind of mystery powder.

AND deep fried to add "flavor" I mean, its bad when you can literally ring out your grilled cheese sandwich. Which by most accounts should be a fairly healthy food

Perkustin wrote:Source ABC News. Though i will cite Fox news for the LULZ:

Meh, Fox is a much more trustworthy source than ABC.

Anyway, isn't this the type of nanny-state protectionism that lots of people are in favor of? If the government doesn't take care of the kids, who will?

I'm guessing my school hasn't changed from when I left it, so: there ARE apples, bananas, and oranges available. It's just that the apples are tiny, horrible tasting Red Delicious (who ever gave them that name was crazy) or Granny Smith (supposed to be sour, just end up tasteless but make milk taste bad), the bananas are shrunken little things (they were the only fruit that I could stomach), and the oranges were sour and/or dried out inside 60% of the time.

Meh, Fox is a much more trustworthy source than ABC.

Unless monsanto has something to do with it. Which this might. In which case they report lies, as proven in court, because they don't want to embarrass a major contributor and advertiser.

You know what? No. Fox news has been proven to be a compromised and untrustworthy news source on thousands upon thousands of major and minor news events. It is not worse then ABC. It's barely better then Russia Today and is actually statistically less accurate and more politically partial then Al Jazeera.

Perkustin wrote:Fair point, like vending machines?

At least in my state, vending machines in schools are only operable 45 minutes after the buses leave, and they charge $1.50, so no one ever uses them.

As the only current k-12 schooler posting right now, I feel that Choco milk is only milk anyone drinks. The skim milk is crap.

LordofHats wrote:Somehow I feel that the chocolate milk was healthier than... well everything else my school served me... Where does this idea that schools give healthy lunchs to kids come from anyway?

We had healthy lunches in my school, a salad. They made ten of them every day!

Requia wrote:

LordofHats wrote:Somehow I feel that the chocolate milk was healthier than... well everything else my school served me... Where does this idea that schools give healthy lunchs to kids come from anyway?

We had healthy lunches in my school, a salad. They made ten of them every day!

Or they had a "salad bar" which was filled with nothing but cut-rate iceberg lettuce and dried out carrot sticks!

Oy! I've drunk chocolate milk in school for eleven years so far. And I'm underweight! The milk ain't the problem, it's the rest of the food. I should know, I've been eating it for the majority of my life. Did I mention I'm underweight?

In all seriousness, that's not a horrible idea. Cutting down wherever possible will do wonders for our overweight people.

KingCracker wrote:When I went to school, we actually had a badass salad bar if you wanted that instead of the hot lunch (which was trash put on a sub bun) but they ended up saying it was too costly, and nixed it for more trash can food.I brown bagged it from then on

Man, that makes my local public colleges look good, because we DO have a salad bar that's kept fresh in our cafe, and actually quite popular here.

Mind you, it also makes freshly cooked burgers with whole wheat buns and cheddar/swiss cheeses, and other fairly healthy hot foods in properly sized portions depending on the day of the week and the whims of its cooks.

Man I love college compared to high school.

One thing I can definitely say improves in college. You're not eating crap anymore

KingCracker wrote:AND deep fried to add "flavor" I mean, its bad when you can literally ring out your grilled cheese sandwich. Which by most accounts should be a fairly healthy food

When I went to school it was common practice among the kids to dab the grease off the top of their “pizza” before eating it.

It usually required two napkins…

LordofHats wrote:One thing I can definitely say improves in college. You're not eating crap anymore

What university do you go to?

There isn't anything served in mine that isn't deep fried or so loaded with salt that you're intestine’s shrivel up.

Do you want to know how they make scrambled eggs here?

They have this huge flat grill thing that they squirt some kind of white colored grease on (no its not butter I’ve asked) then some dude comes out with a huge bag of this thin bright yellow liquid (think heavy cream only it’s a bright nauseating yellow color) and dumps about a gallon of it on the grill where it floats on the grease. They then move this stuff around with big spatula’s until it looks something like scrambled eggs and then dump it on your palate where upon the grease/water runs off of it onto your wheat toast and ruining it.

Ma55ter_fett wrote:What university do you go to?

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Why, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry sir!

There isn't anything served in mine that isn't deep fried or so loaded with salt that you're intestine’s shrivel up.

We definitely have unhealthy food, but the cafeteria's here have burgers, steaks, chicken, pasta's, pizza etc. Not five star mind you, but eating doesn't make me want to vomit so it passes

The only unhealthy part is the snack area, but frankly I get full just from a burger and a small salad so if I'm gonna eat lunch there I don't need to get any chips.

Other, heavier people might not be satisfied though.

This, as a subject of stupidity in the U.S., is a drop in the bucket.

Deadshane1 wrote:This, as a subject of stupidity in the U.S., is a drop in the bucket.

There are other, more serious problems the bucket has right now:

Still haven't given up on it.

I agree with Shuma's first post after reading this, it doesn't really seem like it will solve anything. Also what's to stop the kids from bringing their own lunch from home, some sort of no outside food policy?

This is why I enjoy going to private school. We actually have good food.


Chipotle Burritos every Wednesday? Yes please.

Why do people think that the food is the problem, and not the lack of exercise? Hell, chocolate milk is probably healthy compared to the other crap most kids eat.

Blitza da warboy wrote:Why do people think that the food is the problem, and not the lack of exercise? Hell, chocolate milk is probably healthy compared to the other crap most kids eat.

It's not so much what people "think" as it is an "easy target" quick "fix"...
It's much easier (and cheaper) to blame chocolate milk for contributing to obesity in children than it is to over haul the entire public school lunch program on a national level.

...Not that I see either chocolate milk or greasy cardboard pizza as the main contributing factors to begin with (though both are to a lesser degree IMO),I belive the chief cause of child obesity stems from the sedentary lifestyle most kids seem to lead.