My new post at Cato at Liberty explains how raw green onion came to be served as the “snack” in a Washington, D.C. public school, and why one smart suburban district decided to pull out of the federal school lunch program entirely.
My new post at Cato at Liberty explains how raw green onion came to be served as the “snack” in a Washington, D.C. public school, and why one smart suburban district decided to pull out of the federal school lunch program entirely.
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The amazing thing is that the raw onion “snacks” do not appear to be an error.
Trillions in debt and we can afford some over-paid lunatics in Washington mandating raw onions for school children?
[…] friend Walter Olson at Overlawyered has the unbelievable story of a Washington, DC school that passed out scallions – green onions – as a snack for school […]
I wonder how much in the way of food gets wasted because the kids won’t eat it and it has to be thrown away.
“I wonder how much in the way of food gets wasted because the kids won’t eat it and it has to be thrown away.”
All of it, as best as I can make out from the article.
Well, famously under Reagan’s watch, ketchup was considered a vegetable…
Bottom line: you want my money, you follow my rules.
When I was a young man my father-in-law used to pick up garbage from a local boy-scout camp. His picks looked forward to servings of vegetables, as the children put them directly into the garbage pail. I have fond memories of his delicious pork.