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by I show you something fantastic and you find fault.
Published on June 3rd, 2009, 9:47 pm
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Or why America is raising kids like cattle!

Image Sweden Image China Image Malawi Image Korea: Tofu soup, a banana, some noodle stuff, broccoli?, kimchi, and rice. Image Korea: Kimchi, rice, soup, some greens, and some white thingies. Image Korea: Kimchi, a fish, some seaweed looking thing, and some colorful mystery items. Image Japan: Rice, some dry seaweed(?), an orange wedge, some type of coleslaw(?), tofu soup and tea. Image India: Rice, curry, and sauce. Image USA: A healthy lunch. Chicken, beans, milk, salad, a roll and crackers. Image France: French fries, a piece of baguette, mystery meat, cake, something resembling an omelet, and a cup of something to drink. Image France: Scallops, an artichoke, grapefruit, cheesecake, baguette and fries. Image USA: Tater tots, chicken nuggets, fruit, chocolate milk and ketchup. Image China: A fish, something that looks like kimchi, rice, broccoli, cauliflower, and soup. Image Japan: A roll (hot dog bun?), vegetable soup, orange wedge, something that looks like lasagna, milk, and some sort of vegetable salad. Image USA: orange, milk, baguette, green beans and spaghetti. Image USA: Broccoli, chocolate milk, chocolate cookie, marinara sauce, and what looks like pizza or cheese bread. Image USA: Applesauce, chocolate milk, hash browns, and chicken nuggets. Image USA: Taco salad, soda, mashed potatoes, and something that looks like it has either cheese or corn in it. Image USA: A partly eaten BBQ sandwich, potato chips, baked beans, and peach cobbler. Mmmm. Image Japan: rolls, a slice of pineapple, soup, milk, and some noodle stuff. Image Korea: Rice, milk, kimchi, meat looking substance, noodle things, tofu soup. Image Japan: Sardines, milk, rice, orange slice, and what looks like something totally foreign to me, in a bowl. Image USA: an organic lunch of chicken(?), vegetables, mashed potatoes, organic milk, and a pear. A little bland as far as my taste. Image USA: A roll, some salad with ranch dressing, chocolate milk, mashed potatoes, chicken nuggets and ketchup. Image USA: peas, mashed potatoes, some sort of cake with sprinkles, a biscuit and what I believe is a beef pot pie. Image USA: a roll, mashed potatoes, Salisbury steak, some sort of desert, and something resembling a pile of sauteed onions. Image USA: Milk, fries in the shape of smiley faces, soup, crackers, ketchup and chicken nuggets. Image USA: Chocolate milk, baked beans, fruit, ketchup, french fries, a corn dog and coleslaw. Image USA: A soft pretzel and mustard, chocolate milk, fruit cocktail, corn and lasagna or possibly pizza. Image
June 3rd, 2009, 9:47 pm   Share
 
I dunno.... The concept of serving soup with chicken nuggets or corn with pizza, all in the name of nutrition, seems rather odd to me. But, then again, you can recreate these combinations at your local buffet.
June 3rd, 2009, 10:30 pm
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Last year, when Mr Alice was diagnosed with cancer, they brought him a lunch consisting of a slice of ( we think it was pepperoni ) pizza and a medium serving of boiled white rice.

Later that day, we got a note from the hospital dietician's office asking about his appetite ( or lack thereof) and general questions about what he ate and the state of his nutrition. I requested a member of their staff come to his hospital room so we could discuss things face to face. I showed them a picture of the " meal" they'd served him taken with his phone and we had a nice chat. I explained that while I didn't have " RD" after my name, I'd taken two graduate classes in nutrition but that even a learning-disabled second grader could tell that the meal they'd served him was unacceptable. They didn't have much of a response nor did they have a defense of what was served him. I explained that I was staying at the hospital with him about 20 hours a day, would be monitoring his meals and would be making sure that if any more crap on a plate showed up that I'd be chatting with hospital administrators about their dire need to find and hire some competent dieticians. Thankfully he's around and well enough to laugh about that " lunch",
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June 4th, 2009, 7:11 pm
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The problem I find isn't necessarily the food, it's the amount of time our kids have to eat said food. I distinctly remember having an hour and a quarter for lunch break at my primary school in England - which included outdoors play (a.k.a. "recess"). My son gets about 35 minutes.

Once you stand in line, wait to get your food, you're literally having to shovel it down your throat quick enough before you're forced outside to run about a bit before being shepherded back in for lessons again. A bit much I think for a six year old.

To this end, we now send my son to school with a packed lunch, so he doesn't waste time standing in line.
June 4th, 2009, 11:14 pm
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mwooldri wrote:Once you stand in line, wait to get your food, you're literally having to shovel it down your throat quick enough before you're forced outside to run about a bit before being shepherded back in for lessons again. A bit much I think for a six year old.


They're just getting em ready for life in the cubicle. My last job gave me 30 minute lunches. I eventually just gave up eating till I got home..... Otherwise I ended up burping on the phone.... and getting stomach cramps....
June 4th, 2009, 11:19 pm
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Liv wrote:France: Scallops, an artichoke, grapefruit, cheesecake, baguette and fries.


Those are mussels, not scallops
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June 4th, 2009, 11:23 pm
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Liv wrote:They're just getting em ready for life in the cubicle. My last job gave me 30 minute lunches. I eventually just gave up eating till I got home..... Otherwise I ended up burping on the phone.... and getting stomach cramps....


For around here, yep. 1 hour lunch breaks in UK are still pretty normal - even in retail.
June 4th, 2009, 11:33 pm
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A Person wrote:
Liv wrote:France: Scallops, an artichoke, grapefruit, cheesecake, baguette and fries.


Those are mussels, not scallops


Damn... you beat me to it. Best mussels I've had were in Brussels. I think the restaurant was named Leon's. mmm mmm mmm
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June 5th, 2009, 6:31 am
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i think the first one is japanese. the food is completely japanese. miso soup, donkatsu, and rice in lacquered bowls... it's very similar to meals from one japanese restaurant i like. anyhow, it's japanese. unless it's some sort of well researched international foods night in sweden... heavy emphasis on 'well researched'
November 11th, 2009, 7:23 pm
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