Michelle Obama's "healthy lunch program" made school lunches unpalatable - this created a new market.
From The Washington Free Beacon:
Kids Create Salt Black Markets in Cafeterias Due to Michelle Obama’s Lunch Rules
Children are creating their own black markets to trade and sell salt due to First Lady Michelle Obama’s school lunch rules.
During a hearing before the House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R., Ind.), a school administrator told Congress of the “unintended consequences” of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.
“Perhaps the most colorful example in my district is that students have been caught bringing–and even selling–salt, pepper, and sugar in school to add taste to perceived bland and tasteless cafeteria food,” said John S. Payne, the president of Blackford County School Board of Trustees in Hartford City, Indiana.
What do you think they are going to do? Their lunches are being meddled with by someone who never has to eat them herself - of course this is going to create a new market.
The Obama daughters go to Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. The school used to publish their lunch menus on their website but no longer. I did manage to find some older posts about the food being served - here is one from CNS News:
Obama Girls Enjoy 'Best School Lunch in America;' Public Schoolers Lament 'Let's Move' Meals
With public school students using #ThanksMichelle to tweet photos of their skimpy, stomach-turning school lunches, I decided to look at what Michelle Obama's daughters are served at Sidwell Friends school, and it turns out the girls dine on lunches from menus designed by chefs.
First Lady Michelle Obama's daughters attend Sidwell Friends, and their meals include hot lunches that are prepared every day fresh-from-scratch. The company that caters the food, Meriwether-Godsey, uses chefs to prepare the food on-site - from scratch - with local and organic foods where possible.
Here's a sampling of the school's "soup of the day": Borscht, Tuscan white bean, Italian bean and kale, calico wild rice, Thai chicken coconut soup, local butternut squash soup, chilled cucumber and mint soup, and chilled blueberry soup.
Other delectable lunch items include:
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- Crusted tilapia
- Herb roasted chicken
- Strawberries and chevre salad
- Freshly baked muffins
- Pesto cream & garden fresh marinara sauce
- Cheese tortellini
- All natural house-made chicken fingers
- Scallion rice
- Roasted edamame & Shitake mushrooms
- Jicama mango slaw
- BBQ sliders
- Pesto pasta
- All natural rosemary chicken
- Fresh herb risotto
- All natural beef nachos
- Vegetarian stuffed Portobello mushrooms
- Baked lemon herb tilapia
- Arugula, fennel and parmesan salad
- Baked organic French fries
- Baked three-cheese lasagna
- Pepperoni flatbread pizza
If the items listed above look like they could appear on the menu at a wedding or a five-star restaurant, that's because the menus are prepared by people that have studied under Sous Chefs.
Of course - another case of rules for thee but not for me... I will be so frickin' glad when we get some adults in the room over there...
