Chicago school bans some lunches brought from home

[PaleoPhil]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-school-lunch-restrictions-041120110410,0,4567867.story?page=1

So much for this being a "free country." Admittedly, it sounds like the food that most of these kids were bringing from home was pretty crappy.

For many CPS parents, the idea of forbidding home-packed lunches would be unthinkable. If their children do not qualify for free or reduced-price meals, such a policy would require them to pay $2.25 a day for food they don't necessarily like.

That's the ol' American cheapness when it comes to food at work again. Heaven forfend that a parent have to spend more than $2.25 a day on a child's food. LOL

"We don't spend anywhere close to that on my son's daily intake of a sandwich (lovingly cut into the shape of a Star Wars ship), Goldfish crackers and milk," education policy professor Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach wrote in an email.

Of course, lovingly cutting the sandwich into the shape of a Star Wars ship cancels out the damage from the toxins. LOL

[goodsamaritan]

sounds more like the cafeteria business wants a monopoly.

[PaleoPhil]

Yuppers

[RawZi]

    Maybe they're afraid kids will bring RAW CHOPPED LAMB to school.

Remy Eats Raw Kibbee (Food Oddities - www.foododdities.com)

    This young man eats silkworms, dung beetles and pig brains on Youtube.  You wouldn't want it getting out that chicken-fried steak isn't the only meat that's edible, would you?