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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Mon May 4, 2015, 12:01 PM May 2015

School serves burned burritos covered with melted plastic for ‘healthy’ lunch

PHILIPPI, W.Va. – Think you’ve seen the worst of awful school lunches? Think again.

Several students and parents shared photos of their recent disgusting cafeteria lunch at West Virginia’s Philippi Middle School.

They featured a severely burned burritos covered in melted plastic.

“They were eating plastic and the chemicals that melted with the plastic, that’s not good,” says Sherie Bolton, a grandparent of a Philippi student.

“I think this was something they weren’t used to making so they just burned them and rather then choosing to throw them away and remaking something else, because of what was on the menu that day, they served them.”

The whole thing has administrators apologizing and saying cafeteria employees will receive “training.”

http://eagnews.org/photo-school-serves-burned-burritos-covered-with-melted-plastic-for-healthy-lunch/

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AwakeAtLast

(14,134 posts)
16. Nobody "cooks" school lunch anymore
Mon May 4, 2015, 06:37 PM
May 2015

You would have to pay people to do that. All they do is open boxes, heat it up, serve. Or in this case, burn.

JHB

(37,163 posts)
6. It has carbon and hydrogen atoms, so it's organic...
Mon May 4, 2015, 12:22 PM
May 2015

...chemically speaking.

Nutritionally speaking, much less so.

LuvNewcastle

(16,860 posts)
5. My kid would have a packed lunch
Mon May 4, 2015, 12:18 PM
May 2015

for each day of school from that point. You would think that culinary students could work in school kitchens and come up with nutritious meals. Why not have a program for doing that?

dembotoz

(16,860 posts)
7. when i was in school this would have produced a food fight
Mon May 4, 2015, 12:23 PM
May 2015

but today such an event would prob result in expulsion or jail....

Trillo

(9,154 posts)
9. Appears to be RW source....
Mon May 4, 2015, 03:09 PM
May 2015

The site reads as dedicated RW/Christian, author appears on Fox News as first mention, list of contributors appears as anything but progressive.


Kyle is Publisher of EAGnews.org, a news service dedicated to education reform and school spending research, reporting, analysis and commentary.

He recently appeared in a weekly “Fox & Friends” segment called “The Trouble with Schools” on the Fox News Channel.

His second documentary film is “A Tale of Two Missions,” featuring Juan Williams. His first book, “Indoctrination: How ‘Useful Idiots’ Are Using Our Schools to Subvert American Exceptionalism,” can be purchased here.

Kyle is a contributor to Townhall.com.

He has made other appearances on Fox Business Network, NPR and MSNBC. Kyle has given scores of interviews on talk radio programs coast to coast. His work has been cited by the Drudge Report, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck.



Trillo

(9,154 posts)
15. Sure, the site itself. Was the photo was taken in that particular school cafeteria?
Mon May 4, 2015, 03:48 PM
May 2015

There are no room-identifying marks from which to determine whether the photo was taken where it is alleged to have been taken.

Further, the article says "cafeteria employee", but doesn't mention if this is a school-district position, or a sub-contracted position, as has been reported to occur in public schools all over the country. Missing information.

Am I saying the site is lying? Unknown, but the association to Fox News and all the RW sites certainly suggest that there is something misleading in the story.

Another missing bit of information, is the pay scale offered to the employees in question. Are they minimum wage employees?

This is a fantastic story, with too much missing information to be believable.

Pooka Fey

(3,496 posts)
11. OK here's where I get really PISSED off
Mon May 4, 2015, 03:22 PM
May 2015

because we don't feed our kids GARBAGE. "Training?" I have a strong suspicion that this is a 'feature', not a 'bug'.

lpbk2713

(42,769 posts)
12. PTB need to check the credentials of everyone involved with food in that school system.
Mon May 4, 2015, 03:25 PM
May 2015



Anyone with any common sense and a tenth grade education would know better than that.


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