"No matter how healthy it is, if kids don't like it they're not going to eat it."
JULIE CRITCHLOW, a mother, on efforts to serve healthier lunches at British schools.
Do you remember school lunch??? Ugh!
It was, "line up in alphabetical order" (which didn't matter much to me, unless it was the days we went by first name), "stand still," "don't talk," blah, blah, blah... Then you got to the window. Grandmas (who seemed ancient to one in elementary) dress in white uniforms, hair strapped back with a hair net and grumpy grunts as they litteraly slapped pre-cooked food onto a green plasti-tray.
I am still smell the french fry grease and the distinct smell of chicken nuggets as they came out of the oven on 3ftx3ft trays. This was the day we looked forward to. We also loved Friday's when they brought Pizza Hut pizza in.
It was the days that cooked spinach, anything pasta or anything else that didn't fit into the category of chicken nuggets or pizza that I dreaded. It was grose... Maybe the equivalent of bad conference food... No matter how healthy you tell me it is, the green plasti-tray will come back to you will food on it.
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