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You know what we got to eat at school? NOTHING. You brought your own god damn bread. Stop giving kids money for school lunches and pack a bloody lunch. It's cheaper and healthier. There, fixed it.

Is it really that hard to replace the current junk with something slightly healthier?

Yes, because chocolate milk is the culprit!

Soladrin wrote:Yes, because chocolate milk is the culprit!

I was thinking more along the lines of salads. Those nasty, unhealthy, fattening salads that they're feeding kids these days.

djphranq wrote:

Soladrin wrote:What the hell is a sloppy joe...

IT.IS.HEAVEN!

If by heaven you mean a messy... well, mess of non-tasty mush stuffed between two buns, yes.

feth sloppy joes, I want properly made and thick chili.

Melissia wrote:

djphranq wrote:

Soladrin wrote:What the hell is a sloppy joe...

IT.IS.HEAVEN!

If by heaven you mean a messy... well, mess of non-tasty mush stuffed between two buns, yes.

feth sloppy joes, I want properly made and thick chili.

With lots and lots of hot sauce...

FITZZ wrote:

Melissia wrote:

djphranq wrote:

Soladrin wrote:What the hell is a sloppy joe...

IT.IS.HEAVEN!

If by heaven you mean a messy... well, mess of non-tasty mush stuffed between two buns, yes.

feth sloppy joes, I want properly made and thick chili.

With lots and lots of hot sauce...

And extra meat.. me and my housemate always make chili con carnage.

Venison (or any wild game) is the best for chili.

micahaphone wrote:Venison (or any wild game) is the best for chili.

I 100% agree...I also make a deer meat Spaghetti (using ground Venison and Sweet/spicy Sausage) that is fantastic...

Hell, anything made with venison is good.




Including Jello.

I am drooling right now. Can't remember the last time I had venison chili. And that spaghetti sounds awesome, FITZZ.

micahaphone wrote:Hell, anything made with venison is good.




Including Jello.

.... ..Ok..I don't know so much about "Venison Jello", I'm a certified coonass ,and will eat just about anything...but even I might have to draw the line at that.

Which...getting back on topic..brings to mind the fact that,even the food we ate at home as kids wasn't exactly "healthy",you could actually skim the grease off my Grandmothers Gumbo,yet...most of us were in pretty good shape as kids...
Again,I have to atribute this to the fact that we were all active...spent every hour we could outside running and playing and didn't have the first clue what a video game was...(well not until I was 12 or so).


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Mannahnin wrote:I am drooling right now. Can't remember the last time I had venison chili. And that spaghetti sounds awesome, FITZZ.

I'd be more than happy to share the recipe for it...

I knew what video games were! They were those awesome things like Gauntlet I could blow a few quarters on at the arcade when we drove out to the beach! And those terribly annoying and limited things that took so much time to program ourselves into the TRS-80!

Give pre-14 year old me the outdoors, my bike and a stick for day to day entertainment, though.

Edit: I'd be more than happy to see and drool over that recipe! Maybe even cook it sometime soon. I make homemade meat sauce regularly.

Mannahnin wrote:I knew what video games were! They were those awesome things like Gauntlet I could blow a few quarters on at the arcade when we drove out to the beach! And those terribly annoying and limited things that took so much time to program ourselves into the TRS-80!

Give pre-14 year old me the outdoors, my bike and a stick for day to day entertainment, though.

Edit: I'd be more than happy to see and drool over that recipe! Maybe even cook it sometime soon. I make homemade meat sauce regularly.

The first time I even saw a video game was when I was perhaps 8 or so,it was a "Pong" display that had been sat up in a local department store...
The first Atari and Intelevision systems came out a few years later...my family got one when I was 13 or so,and truth be told...it got dull rather quickly...I was much more content to find my fun outside.

I'll PM you the recipe BTW.

From what I remember of grade school. It's not the chocolate milk or the lunches themselves. It is the vending machines and outside food. I went to Catholic School, but it wasn't like an expensive private school we were not getting fancy food. I've always loved milk, 1% regular being my favorite. 1% chocolate milk isn't bad and was one of the only ways to get kids to drink milk, I remember kids giving me their milk because they wouldn't drink it. Chocolate milk was 10 cents extra, but everyone who got a lunch got milk and we had a lady that made sure you ate all your food and drank all your milk, they would actually make you dump your carton over the garbage can.

The problem is
1. Vending machines. The amount of soda available to kids is really bad. These things are evil, but the schools get kickbacks. School funding is tight and they will take it anyway they can get it.
2. Fast food lunches. Seriously some school public grade school have burger king, McDonalds and taco bells!
3. Cuts to phys ed. Kids get literally no exercise now.
4. Parents catering to their children. I've seen kids who's parents just let them eat what they want and pack them lunches of pizza hut. Yes it's their right, but common sense please.

Speaking of this reminds me. I like water and hate soda. Most people hate water will just drink soda. Gamers especially. I have seen so many mountain dew and monster fueled gamers to make me ill. So my wife doesn't really like water either. She bought this stuff called MIO, you squirt it into your water and it tastes pretty good, like really good, not like nasty diet soda. NO CALORIES. It comes in a little pocket sized container so you can take it with you. Try it if you hate water and put the soda down. Coke is meant to be mixed with rum or whiskey.

All this food talk has reminded me of the Meatloaf thread from a few weeks ago. I remember promising to post some pics and my recipe. I took the pics, just give me a bit to write down the recipe. I am making a pulsa rokkit right now.

Holy crap, they allow fast food restaurants inside schools?

Also, as far as water: show them the basic outdoor first-aid data. Soda actually dehydrates you. Or give them some short hike: 2-3 miles, and see how well they do on soda.

While the Americans are trying to ban chocolate mile from school, us Canadians are selling it on every street corner and every second radio ad is claiming that chocolate milk is the best drink around, good for you, great for sports, energy and concentration. Sigh...

On a side note, school lunches where I go to school involve greasy garlic fingers and pizza that you cn twist and have a little puddle of yet more grease drip on to your plate. Oh and they have put pop/soda/fizzy drinks back in the vending machines!

Wait...McDonalds and Burger King inside public school cafiterias...???

When did this happen??

FITZZ wrote: Wait...McDonalds and Burger King inside public school cafiterias...???

When did this happen??

http://www.chipolicy.org/pdf/FinalFastFoods.pdf

here is another one

http://www.education.com/magazine/article/fast-food-school-cafeterias/

"On a recent afternoon at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, Calif., students sat at picnic tables and bit into McDonald’s cheeseburgers, Subway sandwiches and Quiznos flatbreads. They didn’t have to travel far to get their fast-food fix for lunch. In fact, they didn’t even have to leave campus. The burgers and sandwiches were available right inside their school cafeteria.

As they try to keep pace with student taste, lunchrooms across the country have given up meatloaf and mashed potatoes for brand-name fast-food items. In Edmond, Okla., middle school students load up their trays with Chick-Fil-A sandwiches. In Niskayuna, NY, elementary-schoolers get slices of Pizza Hut, fresh from the deliveryman. In Livermore, Calif., the high school cafeteria offers Panda Express rice bowls, Little Caesar’s pizza and burritos from a local chain."

Chipotle Burritos every Wednesday? Yes please.

Yeah, that helps?

micahaphone wrote:Venison (or any wild game) is the best for chili.

I had venison chili a couple of months ago. It was better than other venison I've had, but still quite a ways below non-venison chili. Venison's always bland, dry, and grainy. Like liver or tongue, only a little less so.

What? Venison could be described as "gamey", but that's quite the opposite of "bland". Someone must have mistreated that meat!

Sir Pseudonymous wrote:

micahaphone wrote:Venison (or any wild game) is the best for chili.

I had venison chili a couple of months ago. It was better than other venison I've had, but still quite a ways below non-venison chili. Venison's always bland, dry, and grainy. Like liver or tongue, only a little less so.

I've been eating venison since I was a boy and have never had any that could be described as "bland,dry or grainy"...perhaps whoever is preparing the venison you had just doesn't know how to cook it.


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Andrew1975 wrote:

FITZZ wrote: Wait...McDonalds and Burger King inside public school cafiterias...???

When did this happen??

http://www.chipolicy.org/pdf/FinalFastFoods.pdf

here is another one

http://www.education.com/magazine/article/fast-food-school-cafeterias/

"On a recent afternoon at Amador Valley High School in Pleasanton, Calif., students sat at picnic tables and bit into McDonald’s cheeseburgers, Subway sandwiches and Quiznos flatbreads. They didn’t have to travel far to get their fast-food fix for lunch. In fact, they didn’t even have to leave campus. The burgers and sandwiches were available right inside their school cafeteria.

As they try to keep pace with student taste, lunchrooms across the country have given up meatloaf and mashed potatoes for brand-name fast-food items. In Edmond, Okla., middle school students load up their trays with Chick-Fil-A sandwiches. In Niskayuna, NY, elementary-schoolers get slices of Pizza Hut, fresh from the deliveryman. In Livermore, Calif., the high school cafeteria offers Panda Express rice bowls, Little Caesar’s pizza and burritos from a local chain."

Chipotle Burritos every Wednesday? Yes please.

Yeah, that helps?

...How are nationally incorperated food chains being allowed to sell their products in public schools..?

EDIT:...I suppose that vending machines would be a variation of the same sort of thing...but still...it seems somehow...wrong.

Because the schools are desperate, the chains are helping fund the schools in return, and the district has basically given up on feeding the kids right.

Mannahnin wrote:Because the schools are desperate, the chains are helping fund the schools in return, and the district has basically given up on feeding the kids right.

It would appear so...of course it sort of negates the whole "chocolate milk is evil" argument if (eventually) Big Macs and fries will make up the base of most kids lunches..

Eh, tastes and textures are too subjective in their descriptions, and English doesn't have more specific words, as far as I'm aware. The semi-comparison to liver or tongue sums up my opinion on venison: it's not bad or unpleasant by any means, but it's also not something I'd go out of my way to have.

FITZZ wrote:

Mannahnin wrote:Because the schools are desperate, the chains are helping fund the schools in return, and the district has basically given up on feeding the kids right.

It would appear so...of course it sort of negates the whole "chocolate milk is evil" argument if (eventually) Big Macs and fries will make up the base of most kids lunches..

Well, this is where we need to bear in mind that specific, local school districts are making these decisions. And it's not like they're all on the same page.

Mannahnin wrote:

FITZZ wrote:

Mannahnin wrote:Because the schools are desperate, the chains are helping fund the schools in return, and the district has basically given up on feeding the kids right.

It would appear so...of course it sort of negates the whole "chocolate milk is evil" argument if (eventually) Big Macs and fries will make up the base of most kids lunches..

Well, this is where we need to bear in mind that specific, local school districts are making these decisions. And it's not like they're all on the same page.

That's true enough...still it's a bit concerning,I don't mind my kids having McDonalds from time to time...but I'd not want it as an option for their lunch on a daily basis.

Y'know, all our problems would be solved if the darn kids just ate coconuts. If it was good enough for t-rex it's good enough for the fatties.

Meanwhile they lie to the populace and tell them to eat tons of grains knowing full well that many Americans already gorge themselves on soda.

Want to lose wait? Cut back on excess carbs! Biggest source of excess sugars? Soda and Gatorade/Powerade crap.