She writes remarkably well for a nine year-old, quite witty. I may have smirked a couple times.
Nine-year-old’s lunch blog shames school into making changes
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#12I get the impression that had she been American, the school would have suspended her for her actions.
Beat me to it. Agreed. There's no way we'd put up with that kind of insolence over here.
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#13Can't help but wonder how the school will retaliate.
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#14As a vegetarian growing up in England, I remember having non-packed lunch at primary school only once: I was given a hamburger, and told to take the burger out. At the time I just took it in my stride, but on reflection...
I became vegetarian when I went to University and had my very own Baby Belling.
My school dinners in the UK were cooked in a kitchen in the school by cooks my Mum knew, the veg and meat were bought locally and there was always meat and two veg except Fridays when there was fish. I quite liked them. I have fond memories of those chocolate brick puddings with the minty custard served from metallic effect jugs (60s we are talking).
The trouble started in the UK when they outsourced catering so the cook was not a school employee and did not live over the road. You began to get meals served from a central kitchen and produced as cheaply as possible using frozen veg/mechanically recovered meat. Budgets were low.
Enter Jamie.
Good for this wain. You can get yourself excluded from a UK school for writing things on the Web, but school meals are a 'safe' area of dissent.
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#15As a vegetarian growing up in England, I remember having non-packed lunch at primary school only once: I was given a hamburger, and told to take the burger out. At the time I just took it in my stride, but on reflection...
There is speculation that one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, Ramanujan, died because of just that-- a lack of vegetarian food in England.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#Illness_and...
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#16Please, sir, may I have no more?
Yes, Dickens would seem to describe how the school views the children. "Please, sir, I want some more" is all that they should be saying.
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#17Wow. Fantastic result for a young blogger. However I don't think the new meal looks that much better, apart from the sprinkle of salad.
Before: Pizza, Corn, Potato Chip, Cupcake
After: Pasta, Potato, Cake, Salad
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#18As a vegetarian growing up in England, I remember having non-packed lunch at primary school only once: I was given a hamburger, and told to take the burger out. At the time I just took it in my stride, but on reflection...
There is speculation that one of the greatest mathematicians of all time, Ramanujan, died because of just that-- a lack of vegetarian food in England. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#Illness_and...
Yes, plus a rather bad bacterial infection, probably as a result of a low resistance.
That was in the 1930s. Things have changed (I can walk down the road and get a reasonable South Indian curry in a cafe where UK Indian people go).
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#19Wow. Fantastic result for a young blogger. However I don't think the new meal looks that much better, apart from the sprinkle of salad. Before: Pizza, Corn, Potato Chip, Cupcake After: Pasta, Potato, Cake, Salad
Exactly. The bar should be set a LOT higher.
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#20School lunches were never great, but they've gone down hill stupendously since I was younger.
Making my son's lunch for him every morning might be the single greatest favor I do for him on a day to day basis.