Stick that in your lunch box
Without wanting to age myself too much, when I went to school buying your lunch meant stopping off at a dairy first thing in the morning, placing an order and having your food delivered at midday in a brown paper bag with your name on it.
The aforementioned food was invariably a pie (mince, for pie makers hadn't stumbled upon the notion of other fillings back then) and a donut.
At my house buying your lunch was a treat, something that you'd only get to do on special occasions.
Well it seemed that way, bur in reality it probably was more a case of my siblings and I running my mother so ragged she didn't get round to making our lettuce and marmite sandwiches.
Occasionally we were able to order food from the local fish and chip shop. However, the nuns looked upon you with scorn if you ordered a sausage or other meat related product on Friday.
Anyway, today it seems you don't have to order out to get your saturated fat fix as many school tuck shops have their own deep fryers.
Then there are machines that spit out soft drinks, lollies, chippies and other things that put dollar signs in the eyes of heart specialists.
For many kids, buying food at school comes down to choosing between having too much fat or too much sugar,
Kids all over are bursting out of their uniforms and the Government is stepping in and saying no more.
Oddly enough some schools have come back saying that it's not their fault the kids eat bad things; they're just giving them what they want.
After all it's the parent's job to teach their kids what to eat.
The same schools would probably say parents should also be teaching their children the potential harm associated with drugs and alcohol.
Perhaps they should open bars and tinny houses on campus as well.
If that happened, maybe truancy rates would fall as well.
The aforementioned food was invariably a pie (mince, for pie makers hadn't stumbled upon the notion of other fillings back then) and a donut.
At my house buying your lunch was a treat, something that you'd only get to do on special occasions.
Well it seemed that way, bur in reality it probably was more a case of my siblings and I running my mother so ragged she didn't get round to making our lettuce and marmite sandwiches.
Occasionally we were able to order food from the local fish and chip shop. However, the nuns looked upon you with scorn if you ordered a sausage or other meat related product on Friday.
Anyway, today it seems you don't have to order out to get your saturated fat fix as many school tuck shops have their own deep fryers.
Then there are machines that spit out soft drinks, lollies, chippies and other things that put dollar signs in the eyes of heart specialists.
For many kids, buying food at school comes down to choosing between having too much fat or too much sugar,
Kids all over are bursting out of their uniforms and the Government is stepping in and saying no more.
Oddly enough some schools have come back saying that it's not their fault the kids eat bad things; they're just giving them what they want.
After all it's the parent's job to teach their kids what to eat.
The same schools would probably say parents should also be teaching their children the potential harm associated with drugs and alcohol.
Perhaps they should open bars and tinny houses on campus as well.
If that happened, maybe truancy rates would fall as well.