undercover lunchroom detective: part 2
Wednesday chicken sandwich:
Notice the aforementioned "ice and sugar thing" which stands in for fruit (and makes the kids hyper all afternoon). The baked beans were eaten by about 40% of the kids around me. The chicken is fairly tasty, though VERY processed, and served on a quite dry white bun...
Thursday hot ham and cheese:
Notice the same white buns that appear yesterday. Today's vegetable? Fries. And the classic fruit cup from the can. Now, don't get me wrong, I think fruit from a can is fine (I can't get enough of canned pineapples!) but I think that, in an ideal world, we should alternate canned food with the fresh stuff at least once and a while... And the ham was gross, by the way... or so they told me.
Today two students argued over whose tray would be photographed -- "Take that to the government!" "Are you turnin' this in? Oh yeah, take one of mine -- turn those folks in!" I didn't try to go into the fact that it IS the government providing the food (this food comes in giant boxes labeled with stamps from the federal government), because the last time I mentioned that fact, it opened up a very frustrating discussion where my students argued that the government is against black people... and I couldn't convince them otherwise....
EDIT: My camera has turned against me, so the 4th and final lunchroom pictures (Friday pizza) won't make it to the site. Alas.
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