Primary School Girl Told To Stop Photographing and Blogging School Meals

JamieKitson writes "British primary school (elementary to those of you in the U.S.) pupil Martha/'Veg' has been taking photographs of her school dinners and writing about them at her blog Never Seconds since April. The blog has become popular, and Martha decided to do something with the popularity: namely, raising money for an international school dinners charity. Unfortunately, the local council, Argyll and Bute, having apparently not heard of the Streisand effect, didn't like the publicity that her blog was generating and have shut her down. They said the blog made the catering staff fear for their jobs. There is a happy ending though: donations have gone through the roof and she has already passed her target."

there is very little meat in these gym mats

[Joe_Dragon]

there is very little meat in these gym mats

Re:Free speech

[Rogerborg]

There is a limit to free speech though. And apparently that bar has been lowered to shouting "Eww!" in a crowded cafeteria.

Re:U turn

[AngryDeuce]

They get fucking popsicles in the UK?! Christ, even way back when I was in school, decades ago, the best we could hope for was "nature's candy", raisins, which nobody ever, ever ate, and instead lobbed at each other across the lunch room.

Re:Yum

[Greyfox]

I was an Air Force brat, so we moved around a lot. In Hawaii it was pretty common to get spam and pineapple in some sort of green sauce. I'm going to assume the green sauce was dioxin. It was so disgusting that I still remember it clearly 30 years later.

I honestly don't remember the school food in Georgia, though I do remember bringing my own lunch and awful lot.

Upstate New York we had some choice. My favorite was actually a fried brown chicken puck sandwich. Except the week I got strep, then the fried bits were like swallowing broken glass (The subsequent visit to the school nurse was how I found out I had strep.)

I'm pretty sure even the spam-in-dioxin was still healthier than my college diet of ramen and pop tarts. The pop tarts were for vitamin C, you see, otherwise you get scurvy.

I wasn't the least bit surprised when the pink slime story came out a while back. In a few of the districts I attended, canned pet food would have been an appetizing improvement.

Re:U turn

[PopeRatzo]

They get fucking popsicles in the UK?! Christ, even way back when I was in school, decades ago, the best we could hope for was "nature's candy", raisins

You got raisins? When I was in school, "nature's candy" meant moose droppings. They'd just give us a dull knife and tell us to go out and kill something for lunch. And if you weren't fast enough to catch a squirrel or a vole, you starved to death. Once there was this kid who twisted his leg trying to catch a rabbit and we ended up tearing him to bits and eating him.

I'm telling you, we had it tough back in those days.

Re:U turn

[Bob the Super Hamste]

I am more impressed by what appears to be actual metal flatware. That and it looks better than anything I ever got served in k-12 school.

Re:there is very little meat in these gym mats

[gregg]

but they go so well will a tall glass of malk.

Re:U turn

[MickyTheIdiot]

What a coincidence! American schools love to serve salmonella.

Re:U turn

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

I thought that the UK had banned all metallic objects longer than they are wide by now, to tackle the knife-crime menace...

Re:U turn

[milkmage]

you must be from Winnipeg.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/06/07/Teachers-let-kids-eat-moose-droppings/UPI-41501339102360/ [upi.com]

One 13-year-old boy ate one and then rushed to a river to rinse his mouth, while the second, a girl with braces, threw up, the report said.

Yorkshire school dinners

[Roger W Moore]

Well I am a Yorkshireman and after school dinners we sometimes had "secs" (meaning second helpings). However it you think about the pronunciation of that word you may understand what caused considerable confusion for me as a 7 year old when I came out of school and announced to my dad that "after dinner we had secs" and got into a lot of trouble...at least until he understood what I meant. Fortunately he did not "thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle" though so by Four Yorkshiremen standards I was very, very lucky!

Re:Oblig...

[jkiller]

Lisa Simpson: Isn't there anything here that doesn't have meat in it?
Lunch Lady Doris: Possibly the meat loaf.

Re:U turn

[Sulphur]

The school is confused because their inspectors don't confiscate anything except peanuts

Err...peanuts confisticated? Seriously? Are peanuts now a dangerous weapon?

I suppose the nuts themselves might be thrown and could put someones eye out....but would they allow a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?

I'm guessing you're being as tongue and cheek as I am....?

Peanut butter could be thrown, and the spoon would put someone's eye out.

One should rely on tongue and cheek sandwiches.