to think there shouldn't have been a Dominos Pizza stall at DD's Junior School Fete?

[MarkStretch]

Fete was yesterday. We had all the normal things, singing, dancing, games, toy stall, treasure hunt, tea and coffees, etc.

Food on offer was a BBQ run by staff members, a homemade cake stall (including a Jubilee cake competition) and a whacking great Dominos Pizza stall selling 4 slices of pizza for £2. £1 of this was giving back to the school.

Considering the school promotes a healthy eating ethos and are quite strict about chocolate/fizzy drinks etc not being sent in in packed lunches, I was very surprised (and quite horrified) that junk food was being promoted and advertised in the school playground.

My friend laughed and said I was being a twat and eating slices of pizza was no different to eating a cake from the cake stall.

I want to email the head and express my disgust.

So AIBU?

Loving e.one nicking the pizza idea. Not quite what mark had in mind.

Blimey, do get over yourself

Can#'t really see the problem.

Everything in moderation here; pizza isn't totally bad.
No worse than having a place selling cupcakes or the ice cream man imo.

Sorry but that sounds great. We have a big Dominos office in our town- I wonder if they would do our fete next time?

The people doing the BBQ at our fete were not good at cooking and burned a lot of the food.

Could you buy just a slice of pizza or did you have to buy 4? In America people often eat "a slice" and it's a good amount to stave off the hunger.

Mine usually overdo the cakes and squash so pizza would be better in my opinion.

That is a great idae. Well done to pTA for getting a big company involved.

Just noticed the price, 4 slices for £2! We would have had our tea there!

Pimientos de Padrón tombola. A small tub of artisan yoghurt for the "winners".

I know, bargainarama.

now i want pizza

YANBU

I agree with you OP. Schools should not be sponsored in any way by companies. Tis the start of a slippery slope.

See here for why:

www.ibiblio.org/commercialfree/commercialism.html

Crikey. I cant see the big problem here. 50% of profits going back to the school, Pizza is ok for a treat (no worse then cake)

Surely branded drinks etc were being sold?

Don't think seeing a branded stall occasionally is going to send them into a life time of Pizza Abuse.

Maybe if it was there every lunch time it would be different.

YABU, and your friend is right but am not ok with the advertising of the brand at a school event.

YANBU - the school needs to be consistent. It's undermining its own healthy eating message if it allows a junk food vendor into the school fete.

Shouldn't really sell cakes then.

pizza is not junk food bread cheese and veg isnt junk imo its when you eat too much 'junk' then it becomes junk food just like the lovely home made cakes

It's not about what food is served. It is about the fact a corporation was given carte blanche to come in and market its product to a captive market of children.

I know. These companies helping the school fundraise - how awful of them!

It's costing the company nothing and in turn they get to advertise their product to the children.

Yes very generous of them.

the didnt walk in did they , school or PTA invited them a bit of advertising for the pizza place and money for school pizza place will be seen as a good company, and TBH dominoes doesnt need the advertising does it , and primary school children dont really get to walk into dominoes on their own , Im not really seeing the problem here ,

Some links (worth reading) that express my concerns better thatn i can (the second link is American and shows where we are headed) :

www.kidsandadvertising.co.uk/advertising-schools-ethical.html

www.ibiblio.org/commercialfree/commercialism.html

It was a one off! Crikey.

Like they are not going to see adverts every day on every bus and every other wall, on the internet, on the TV.

You would have to permanently blindfold them.

They are hardly going to make a fortune from brand awareness from the little kids are they? They are not going to be calling up on a Saturday night for a mighty meaty with cheese balls.

They're not, no. But the brand awareness will have gone in, and have you never heard of pester power?

Do you secretly work for Domino's?

Because all your OP has done is:
Made me want Pizza
Realise that Domino's have a website and deliver
Want to tell every school/playgroup/church group that Domino's are available to cater their event

Im sorry, if it was a branded lunch stall there every day I could see your point, but as a one off for a special occasional I really cant.

And I probably never will!

pester power there is a word for that and its NO parents have the power not advertising , imo ive managed to bring up children without them being dressed head to foot in brand clothes whilst munching on branded fastfood ,