School Lunches in France[Video]

[Mblova]

Looks like the French take alot of pride in their food and culture. http://wimp.com/schoollunches/

 

[StephenHero]

None of that stuff looked very good.

 

[impolyt_one]

Originally Posted by StephenHero

None of that stuff looked very good.

I don't know about that, man. Some of it looked very good for being school food. Everything I ate at school during my childhood was vile. Some horrendous ****.

 

[Mblova]

^^^
Fried Brocolli?
Thats an awesome idea.
School lunches in the USA consist of chicken nuggets, domino's pizza, and hamburgers.

 

[runner-guy]

That food looked incredible. It's good to see that at least some countries take pride in providing nutritious foods to students, because the United States certainly doesn't.

 

[lefty]

As Mr. Oliver prepares to serve beef fajitas and coleslaw, made from scratch, he learns that the students are given only spoons with which to eat. His eyes go glassy, but the Americans give no quarter.

"Let me ask you, what would be the point of the knife?" the principal says. Alice, a cook with a bureaucrat's soul who opposes every change Mr. Oliver hopes to make, curls her lip and says, "Are you telling me, honestly, your kindergarteners have knives and forks?"

Yes, Mr. Oliver declares, as centuries of civilized Anglo-European tradition threaten to expire in the lunchrooms of West Virginia. "You don't want to bring up a nation of kids that only use their fingers and a spoon," he protests. Then he threatens to cry.

That does the trick, as the primal American instincts of kindness to strangers and avoidance of embarrassment take over. Alarmed looks are exchanged, a cook is dispatched to a distant storage area, and knives are found. All that remains is for the extremely patient principal to go from child to child, explaining how to use a knife and fork.

lefty

 

[nmprisons]

Originally Posted by runner-guy

That food looked incredible. It's good to see that at least some countries take pride in providing nutritious foods to students, because the United States certainly doesn't.

As a result, our waists are balooning and our sense of adventure dissipating. Very sad.

 

[changy]

Is it just me or the supposedly obessed girl who goes to mickey d's is pretty cute.

 

[impolyt_one]

Originally Posted by changy

Is it just me or the supposedly obessed girl who goes to mickey d's is pretty cute.

already thought that earlier today. She is a 'solid' 7, solid as in literally, but still cute. Being French adds 1 pt.

 

[runner-guy]

Originally Posted by changy

Is it just me or the supposedly obessed girl who goes to mickey d's is pretty cute.

She was really cute.

 

[Nil]

Originally Posted by StephenHero

None of that stuff looked very good.

Compared to Salisbury steak, steamed hamburgers, canned green beans, those awful rectangular slices of pizza with strange fake cheese on top, etc., that French lunch looks amazing.

 

[dfagdfsh]

they even have plates!

 

[Beetleything]

Compare this to Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution where he could not get the school staff to provide knives to cut the food .

It looks like kids in the US get feed a lot of pre processed, frozen Pizza / chicken nuggets etc....fast food.

 

[nmprisons]

Originally Posted by StephenHero

None of that stuff looked very good.

Um, the chef (i.e., not some lunch lady) was filleting fresh (i.e. not frozen months or years ago) fish in the kitchen and making stock from scratch. Come on.

 

[CouttsClient]

The French way is fantastic. I don't think America would ever wholly adopt such a program in the public school systems