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Can a Proper School Lunch Make a Difference
Thanks to ‘mad right-wing’ disease, even feeding kids properly has been politicized.
When my son comes home from school, he asks what I am making for dinner. In this instance, I tell him I’m grilling seabass with asparagus.
“Pop, we had that today in school.”
“Bud, do you want something different,” I ask. He declines and tells me how much he likes seabass.
It’s pretty common that his lunches in school outdo the dinners we plan at home. The soup you see here is made of puréed vegetables and some spices. It is the most popular soup in Portugal and is eaten by half the country every day by 2 p.m.
I love to ask him what he has for lunch each day because, as an American, I know how the right so ignorantly politicizes school lunches.
“We had grilled octopus today.”
Imagine a kid in the U.S. coming home and telling his parents they had grilled octopus. The amazing thing in American schools is there is actually nowhere to prepare food. Food can only be warmed up. Okay, you get my point about the lunches. In American schools, they are horrific and not created with concern for the child’s future health, both mental and physical.
