Kids Are Smuggling in White Powder Into Their Schools

[SeaBreeze]

Just heard this on TV, but the white powder is salt and sugar, since the schools have been making their foods healthier for the children. I think it's good that the kids eat less sugar especially, too many type 2 diabetics these days, and many times it's related to eating junk foods that are full of salt and sugar. Do you know any kids that are complaining about their food at school? When I was a kid, I brown bagged it, so I had no choice but what my mom packed for me...no sweets involved.

 

[imp]

Interesting! Here's how it was when I started school: Kindergarten, 5 years old, school about a mile and a half from our house. My Mother walked me there for the first couple of days. Two "through-streets" had to be crossed; both had adult "crossing guards". Apparently, she had good instincts about her kid's abilities, soon allowing me to "go it alone". My Mother never drove a car. That winter, one morning it was about -10 degrees, I walked to school, well-bundled up. 3 kids showed up that morning, the other 2 driven by their mothers.

Picture that scenario today? No way. imp

 

[SeaBreeze]

I'm like you Imp, my mother walked me to school until I was old enough to go on my own, winter or summer, no bus pass or car drives. My mother never drove either.

 

[truespock]

When I was in elementary school, there was a full service cafeteria at which I happily ate my lunch for 30 cents a day. Then I hit junior high (er, middle school now) and the lunchroom was replaced with a row of junk-laden vending machines. No complaints here. In high school, well before the days of the armed and locked campus, we all swarmed across the street to the beleaguered der Weinerschnitzel where we washed down our burgers and dogs with the best mug root beer in town.

Ah, for the good ol' days.

 

[jujube]

I was five when I started first grade. It was a mile to school and I walked it with other kids from the neighborhood. Since we only went to school half day in the first and second grades, we didn't eat lunch at school. From the third grade on, I either ate in the cafeteria or brought lunch from home (it's hard to say which was worst.) We had a cafeteria in the basement manned by scary old "cafeteria ladies" and the food was grim, to say the least. We'd frequently have stuff like okra and stewed tomatoes, which I love now...but what kid likes that? Every single Friday, we had salmon patties and cream corn. I hate salmon patties and cream corn to this day. You had to "clean your plate" or face the consequences. I can't remember what it was that sickened me, but once I threw up all over the table. The lunches my mother packed for me weren't much more attractive, though. She ran to the cheese or bologna sandwich type of lunch. I hate bologna now, too.