U.K. Parents Compare Strict New School Lunch Rules to "Slavery" and "Prison"

[c.d.]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/parents-compare-strict-new-school-lunch-rules-to-slavery-and-prison/ar-AA16cidi?cvid=b9c6e4a243af4b3a9671fcfba4a33638

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[Herlock Sholmes]

Perhaps I’m a freak of nature but I can still run with my hands behind my back.

I’d be interested to know what ‘songs’ they have to sing? I suspect that they won’t be plundering Led Zeppelin’s or The Beatles back catalogue’s?

I can hear one of the kids being asked “and where do you go to school?” With the reply being “in the 17th century sire!” At least they might have a public burning or two to look forward to in the school hols.

[c.d.]

Hello Herlock,

I was surprised at the number of comments on the article supporting the actions of the school. Obviously, we don't have all of the facts relating to what went into the decision but it seems like a blatant attempt at social engineering and a complete denial of the fact that kids will be kids.

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[c.d.]

I’d be interested to know what ‘songs’ they have to sing?

My guess would be something along the lines of Deutschland Uber Alles.

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[Ms Diddles]

Weird!

I wonder if they still get that pink custard that only seems to exist in English primary schools?

[Al Bundy's Eyes]

Weird!

I wonder if they still get that pink custard that only seems to exist in English primary schools?

And a square of sponge cake with jam and coconut on top.

[Ms Diddles]

And a square of sponge cake with jam and coconut on top.

Yep! That's the one.

Occasionally they would shake it up a bit and do a chocolate sponge.

Crazy days!

[Pcdunn]

I went to a co-ed Catholic school in the 1960s. We walked in lines (hands at sides, as far as I recall), stood beside our desks to answer questions, had to eat fish on Fridays, wore uniforms, watched misbehaving students get punished by standing at the front of the room, etc. Don't know what these kiddos are complaining about!

The assigned conversations are very Victorian, don't you think?

[caz]

And a square of sponge cake with jam and coconut on top.

I loved that! Until one day, when the jam was crawling with ants.

[Ms Diddles]

I loved that! Until one day, when the jam was crawling with ants.

Eeeeewwww!!

I reckon it was acceptable for you to sing the blues that day, Caz!

[c.d.]

Eeeeewwww!!

I reckon it was acceptable for you to sing the blues that day, Caz!

Ain't cried this hard
since my days in a pram
but the tears they done came down
cause there was ants in my jam

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[caz]

Wonderful!

I got no sympathy from my old dad, who was allergic to the blues but had a cast iron stomach - thanks to the food he was given in the RAF during the war, and then by my mum afterwards!

When I told him about the ants on our school pud, he said that was nothing. One of his wartime meals was crawling with small creatures, so he got seconds and thirds when his comrades pushed their plates away. Waste not, want not.

Spam fritters, anyone?

Love,

Caz
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[Pcdunn]

My Dad greatly offended my mother by rejecting the lamb she had cooked one night after his return from service. He said they had fed him "mutton" constantly, and he hated it! (Of course, lamb is hardly mutton (usually tougher meat from older animals), but Dad didn't agree. (I think he got over it later, as I do remember having roast lamb occasionally.)

[caz]

Hi Pat,

My dad's favourite Sunday roast was lamb shoulder - fatty but tender as a baby's bottom. We never had beef because he couldn't chew it. I think that must have been a combination of his dodgy teeth and my mum's cooking! My childhood was one week lamb, next week pork, next week chicken, then back to lamb.

Mum's roast potatoes, however, remain the very best I have ever tasted in my life. I could turn vegan for them if they weren't cooked in lard.

I do them in goose or duck fat these days. Yum. Roll on Sunday.

Love,

Caz
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[mpriestnall]

Hello Herlock,

I was surprised at the number of comments on the article supporting the actions of the school. Obviously, we don't have all of the facts relating to what went into the decision but it seems like a blatant attempt at social engineering and a complete denial of the fact that kids will be kids.

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Sorry to quote your reply to Herlock.

I'm glad you posted this. I thought of posting a link to this too. Totally agree with everything you said in the post quoted above.

I wonder whose bright idea this was? If a parent treated their own child like this at home, I wonder what other people would think of it?