TASTELESS SCHOOL FOOD LEADS TO BLACK MARKET IN SALT, SUGAR

The House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R., Ind.). has found that children are creating their own black markets to trade and sell sugar and salt due to First Lady Michelle Obama’s school lunch rules. During a hearing on Thursday, a school administrator told the Congressional committee of the “unintended consequences” of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. “Perhaps the most colorful example in my district is that students have been caught bringing–and even selling–salt, pepper, and sugar in school to add taste to bland and tasteless cafeteria food,” said John S. Payne, the president of Blackford County School Board of Trustees in Hartford City, Indiana. “This ‘contraband’ economy is just one example of many that reinforce the call for flexibility [with the rules],” he said.
* In response, the elementary school has begun a very successful business program.
* This is how the Star Wars Spice Wars started.
* Better this than having the kids selling crack and meth.
* Unfortunately. they’re probably doing that too.
* I see his point. If we don’t let the kids have more sugar, how will they get juvenile diabetes?
* Don’t be fooled here. The Republican chairman really cares about this issue and the fact that Michelle Obama is involved has nothing to do with it.