METHUEN (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A lunch menu typo caused a bit of controversy in Methuen schools. About 6,500 students in four elementary schools got menus on Monday for the month of March. One entry reads "KKK Chicken." The superintendent told the Eagle Tribune the menu was supposed to read "KK Chicken Tenders" short for Krispy and Krunchy, spelled with a K. She called the typo unfortunate and apologized.
For real? Are those the actual nuggets in question? Because I'll tell you, I'm a product of Methuen Public schools, and they sure as shit weren't serving anything like those gourmet looking, crispy, golden beauty's. Our nuggets were rubbery, barely unfrozen, and mostly bread...didn't stop me from usually ordering two servings on nugget day, but still, they sucked. So if these nuggets here are the actually nuggets in question, I'd say school officials can call them whatever they want and I'd still scarf them down.
In fairness, maybe the KKK was a bit too blunt and frankly, offensive. You're a school system, your job is to educate, maybe go with something a little more subtle that the kids can learn a history lesson from..."Maybe Uncle Tom's Crispy Chicken", or "Nat Turners Tenders," that has a pretty good ring to it and it's educational.
(NewsCore) - A North Carolina preschooler was fed cafeteria chicken nuggets after a state employee decided that her homemade lunch was not nutritious enough, the Carolina Journal reported. The West Hoke Elementary School student's lunch box -- which contained a turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips and apple juice -- was inspected by a state agent in the girl's classroom and deemed not to meet the nutrition guidelines set by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), according to the report Tuesday.
Real talk, I would not make it as child these days. Too much beurocracy. From kindegarten thru 8th grade, little CW ate one of three things for lunch, a bologna sandwich, a roast beef sandwich, or PB & Fluff. As a side dish I had a chewy granola bar...And I was as happy and healthy as a pig in shit.
But today? Shit, I probably would have been suspended, my parents would have probably been featured in the police notes of the local newspaper for child abuse for repeatedly packing me "non-nutritious" lunches, and I would have rebelled. Would probably be emo or something, just lashing out against the man and wearing black eye liner, I don't know.
This kid's lunch basically sounds more healthy than anything I've put together for myself in the last couple of years, and I'm an adult. Leave the kid alone...who swaps out a turkey sandwich and banana for chicken nuggets? Talk about hypocrisy. What, does this "state agent" get a cut of every $2.15 lunch they force students to buy? And what the hell is a state agent, for that matter? States all across the country are facing budget deficits and we have schools employing special agents to inspect 8 year old Tommy and Tammy's lunch boxes? Get the fuck out. That's the biggest waste of money I've ever heard of.
This country is going straight to hell in a hand basket, little kids can't even eat the lunches their parents packed for them, jesus. I'm looking up flights to Australia right now, just going to start a whole new civilization of common sense down there.
