A policy to boost local take-aways and kill tuckshops

What they really need in our schools is the good old fashioned “English School Dinner” (the pre-Thatcherite, non-outsourced-junk version). It’s the food that built empires. Corned Beef and turnips in white sauce, or bangers and mashed spud, peas, gravy and carrot, spotted dick or treacle pudding or gypsy tart for dessert. Ya cannae hand a man a grander dinner. Twenty minutes of purest pleasure. Then out for a run around with a stick and a hoop.

“If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding! How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat!!?”

SnapperJack said :

I’ve mentioned here before about kids at schools in Sydney rebelling against healthy food at school canteens and using their mobiles to order pizzas being driven in.

I remember the school canteen in the 1970s selling pies, hot dogs, Twisties, Glugs and lollies. We didn’t have a childhood obesity crisis, in fact I went on to compete in powerlifting and bodybuilding.
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I don’t think there was actually anything healthy sold at all in our tuckshop in the 70’s, add hot chips, sausage rolls, Eskimo pies and jelly snakes to your list as well..I never saw too many fat kids at my school as we were all too busy playing sport and burning it off, not glued in front of X-boxes, Playstations or PCs…

johnboy said :

Mr Evil said :

Katy could decree that it should be a small plastic model of each MLA, and then the kids can collect the whole set!

Oh for a sunny day and a magnifying glass.

Or firecrackers………..oh hang on a minute, they’ve been banned too haven’t they, to prevent them being thrown at fat, ugly kids.

fund an online order system for parents to make healthy lunch choices for their children.

What, like this? Seems to work fine already at my son’s public school.

Once the gubmint muppets get their hands on it he’ll need an australia.gov.au account and 100 points of ID before he can buy juice.

housebound said :

Are Labor really so out of touch?

More than a few schools already have an online ordering system for school lunches. Why fund the introduction of another one?

Because nothing strikes more fear into the heart of a government than the knowledge that somebody, somewhere is doing something by themselves without being told what to do.

johnboy said :

Mr Evil said :

Katy could decree that it should be a small plastic model of each MLA, and then the kids can collect the whole set!

Oh for a sunny day and a magnifying glass.

My immediate thought was hot needles and a bit of voodoo. Your idea is equally good. 🙂

SnapperJack said :

We didn’t have a childhood obesity crisis, in fact I went on to compete in powerlifting and bodybuilding..

True, I’ve never seen an overweight powerlifter…

They would soon remake themselves, like the T-1000 in Terminator 2. The Greens and Labor might fuse.

Mr Evil said :

Katy could decree that it should be a small plastic model of each MLA, and then the kids can collect the whole set!

Oh for a sunny day and a magnifying glass.

Maybe school tuck shops should start giving the kids some crappy plastic gift with every meal?

Katy could decree that it should be a small plastic model of each MLA, and then the kids can collect the whole set!