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Primary School Girl Told To Stop Photographing and Blogging School Meals
JamieKitson writes "British primary school (elementary to those of you in the U.S.) pupil Martha/'Veg' has been taking photographs of her school dinners and writing about them at her blog Never Seconds since April. The blog has become popular, and Martha decided to do something with the popularity: namely, raising money for an international school dinners charity. Unfortunately, the local council, Argyll and Bute, having apparently not heard of the Streisand effect, didn't like the publicity that her blog was generating and have shut her down. They said the blog made the catering staff fear for their jobs. There is a happy ending though: donations have gone through the roof and she has already passed her target."
there is very little meat in these gym mats
There is a limit to free speech though. And apparently that bar has been lowered to shouting "Eww!" in a crowded cafeteria.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
They get fucking popsicles in the UK?! Christ, even way back when I was in school, decades ago, the best we could hope for was "nature's candy", raisins, which nobody ever, ever ate, and instead lobbed at each other across the lunch room.
You got raisins? When I was in school, "nature's candy" meant moose droppings. They'd just give us a dull knife and tell us to go out and kill something for lunch. And if you weren't fast enough to catch a squirrel or a vole, you starved to death. Once there was this kid who twisted his leg trying to catch a rabbit and we ended up tearing him to bits and eating him.
I'm telling you, we had it tough back in those days.
You are welcome on my lawn.
What a coincidence! American schools love to serve salmonella.
I thought that the UK had banned all metallic objects longer than they are wide by now, to tackle the knife-crime menace...
you must be from Winnipeg.
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/06/07/Teachers-let-kids-eat-moose-droppings/UPI-41501339102360/
One 13-year-old boy ate one and then rushed to a river to rinse his mouth, while the second, a girl with braces, threw up, the report said.
Well I am a Yorkshireman and after school dinners we sometimes had "secs" (meaning second helpings). However it you think about the pronunciation of that word you may understand what caused considerable confusion for me as a 7 year old when I came out of school and announced to my dad that "after dinner we had secs" and got into a lot of trouble...at least until he understood what I meant. Fortunately he did not "thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle" though so by Four Yorkshiremen standards I was very, very lucky!
Lisa Simpson: Isn't there anything here that doesn't have meat in it?
Lunch Lady Doris: Possibly the meat loaf.