Kids aghast at healthy snacks

[Loonman]

http://www.boston.com/yourlife/health/fitness/articles/2004/05/27/boston_students_ponder_slimmer_pickings_in_vending_machines/


Jesus wept....

We never had snacks at all, let alone healthy ones. We ate our cardboard pizza and soggy fries and we liked it, dammit!

The day they installed a Veryfine© juice beverage machine it was like the apes encountering the monolith in 2001.

[Gothic Sponge]

1. I like fresh saw dust

[lilymidnite]

2. We had the venerable ...

... Fruit-O-Matic

[lanparty]

3. Soda machines ...

Soda machines should be BANNED from public schools. They dispense a HIGHLY addictive substance to minors ... CAFFIENE!!!!! The same substance interfers with their ability to learn and behave properly.

[MissMarple]

7. Sodas also inhibit the absorption of calcium.

Just what growing bodies need. I think it is insane and abusive to have soda machines in schools.

edited: I can't spell.

[Loonman]

10. Not talking about soda machines

Healthy snacks.

[Dogmudgeon]

4. Snack time?

When I was in school, every day at 2:00 we had to line up for a flogging! With a chain! And we liked it!

The kids today ... they don't know how easy they have it!

--bkl

[eyesroll]

5. Are kids really this decent-food-averse?

''I guess I won't be eating lunch, then," said freshman Tanisha Gray, who usually plunks about $1.50 in change for Doritos and fruit juice during lunch. ''You'd get more money from the vending machines with real snacks."

Sherrel Stokes, 15, and Akeem Brown, 14, said they worry what the move could do for their image.

''Nobody eats bananas or apples for lunch -- nobody," said Stokes, folding her hands across her chest.

''Who's going to walk around school eating an apple?" scoffed Brown. 

...if that was the only choice, wouldn't more people be eating apples and bananas? Or bringing food from home?

[MissMarple]

6. These kids are just too weird.

<Sherrel Stokes, 15, and Akeem Brown, 14, said they worry what the move could do for their image.

''Nobody eats bananas or apples for lunch -- nobody," said Stokes, folding her hands across her chest.

''Who's going to walk around school eating an apple?" scoffed Brown.>

I did read in the newspaper a few months back that some schools are installing cold milk machines, and kids are drinking the milk. It does sound like Boston's approach is a bit heavy handed. Soy milk? Perhaps a gradual and collaborative approach would be better accepted.

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. Oh we had the Veryfine juice machine too!

:7 But, I admit back in '82 we could get watered down Pepsi as well...and we drank it even.

[Kazak]

9. We had our 5 year old nephew over recently...

My wife tried to feed him healthily, whole wheat macaroni with real cheese and some fruit salad. He would have nothing to do with it. Kids these days, ya know...

[tigereye]

11. well my son's school has implemented a Living Lunch

program this year, after a year of scary fatty and carbo-laden food last year provided by the Diocese here. The kids have healthy foods once per week made by some parents and also one day of an Asian food buffet. The kids seem to like it and also are reported to be better behaved. The parents based this on the program started by Alice Waters of Chez Panisse in Berkeley.. she has helped to institute a program for kids to know about "real" food and where it comes from, etc.

So not all kids are averse to healthy food, I guess.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

12. When I was in grade school

we all went home for lunch.

When I was in junior and senior high school, we had cafeteria glop made on site, and the only available beverage was milk. We could buy milk separately if we brown-bagged it.

When we got to senior high school, we could substitute a hamburger or a hotdog for the regular lunch, and we could buy ice cream treats from a machine. Milk was still the only available beverage.

This was in the 1960s. We had very few fat kids.

By the way, soft drinks are just loaded with sugar and usually caffeine, and they add empty calories and make kids hyper without supplying any nutritional value. The kids should survive just fine with just water, milk, and 100% juice available.

[Deja Q]

13. Well thank goodness for the Burger King next door! Whew, otherwise

it would have been a travesty of galactic proportion.

Sheesh, how dare the lib'rul school system do this to our children!?



Sherrel Stokes, 15, and Akeem Brown, 14, said they worry what the move could do for their image.

"Nobody eats bananas or apples for lunch -- nobody," said Stokes, folding her hands across her chest.

"Who's going to walk around school eating an apple?" scoffed Brown.

Well, knowing how teenagers make fun of the shape of the banana (and sometimes the apple for the more creative), this should come across as NO SURPRISE WHATSOEVER. Good grief, of course a teenager won't eat a banana because of how it'll affect their image. The banana is the shape of an erect dingahdoodle for crying out loud! :wow:

Let them eat cake. :eyes: