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Mothers buy chips to get around schools healthy eating

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Blandmum · 15/09/2006 15:49

I have just heard in the radio that some mothesr have been boycoting a schools healthy food initiative.

They have been taking orders from the kids, going to the local chippy, and taking food trollys of junk food round to the children at lunch time.

Oh FFS!

Taking out of the equation those small numbers of children who have special needs issues with food, what the fuck do these women think that they are doing?

How do they think this will help the children or the school?

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beckybrastraps · 15/09/2006 16:12

Ah, the flaw in my plan...

expatinscotland · 15/09/2006 16:12

I'm surprised those gals gave birth to kids and not puppies.

Holidaymum · 15/09/2006 16:13

yep I agree theres 2 schools near us, my kids go to the one with a closed campus and the other school with an open policy is also the one with the behaviour problems.....hmmmm?

yeahinaminute · 15/09/2006 16:18

Are they offering some bread and marge and mugs of milky tea with eight sugars to wash it down with !!
Good God Almighty - you have to laugh don't you !!

expatinscotland · 15/09/2006 16:20

In their case, yeah, I'd say it'd be more appropriate to bark! That's a language they could understand

intergalacticwalrus · 15/09/2006 16:21

And for those that don;t like tea, they have some nice blue Panda Pops so the kids can bounce off the walls all afternoon

UnquietDad · 15/09/2006 16:21

They'll be bringing the vats of blue pop next. Can't have that Jamie Oliver forcing our kids to drink that nasty low-fat fruit juice and that water rubbish.

UnquietDad · 15/09/2006 16:22

damn, intergalacticwalrus got there first

southeastastra · 15/09/2006 16:23

i don't like the comment on the link that the mums could be visiting their kids in the morgue in a couple of decades

intergalacticwalrus · 15/09/2006 16:23

nur nur!!!!!!

intergalacticwalrus · 15/09/2006 16:26

I love the kids in the background reaching through the bars of the fence, as if they needed the life giving properties of F&C

Saturn74 · 15/09/2006 16:32

I hope someone has risk assessed that shopping trolley, or there'll be mutterings at the LEA!

UnquietDad · 15/09/2006 16:34

Imagining the horror-film version already. Fat-deprived zombies stalking the playground, sticking their arms through the bars, moaning "Chiiiiiips! Chiiiiiips!" Kids forced to eat broccoli and deprived of their gristle fix, upending burger vans in desperation.

expatinscotland · 15/09/2006 16:35

Do they also provide alchopops for the over 8s?

MadamePlatypus · 15/09/2006 16:47

"Kids need a bit of fat in their diet - there is nothing wrong with burgers and chips. At school they only get chips once a week if they are lucky".

Are these honestly real people?

Blu · 15/09/2006 16:49

Mad mad mad - very funny. Only in Britain, I think!

marthamoo · 15/09/2006 16:52

Didn't something like this happen in the original series of Jamie's Dinners? At the school with the marvellous Nora, the dinner lady? Can't remember if it was parents bringing food to their children at lunchtime or children going out to get it themselves but I definitely remember Jamie confronting kids with polystyrene burger cartons coming into school.

Blu · 15/09/2006 17:11

'moo - I think the kids were going out and buying their own chips and burgers, and JO was all downcast - and then it rained, and the kids stayed at school and ate the dinners!

UnquietDad · 15/09/2006 17:14

Currently picturing this story as a sketch on "Armando Iannunci's Time Trumpet".

"In 2007, children deprived of their bodily fat ration were reduced to quivering husks, and had to be force-fed chips and Turkey Twizzlers through the railings by school-gate mums. The Oliver backlash began in earnest. Vegetarian quiche shops and delicatessens were firebombed, while burger-vans were upended and raided. By January 2008, the Government had introduced compulsory lard and Sunny Delight at school breakfast clubs."

dinosaur · 15/09/2006 17:15

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hulababy · 15/09/2006 17:21

Yes, I thought there were parents bring up burger cartons and the like in the original JO programme.

Some parents!!! Poor children. What chance have they got with such ignorant parents?!

singersgirl · 15/09/2006 17:21

I just heard this on the radio. Unbelievable.

Surely the children have the option to take a packed lunch - what about a nice flask of vegetable soup if they want something warm?

marthamoo · 15/09/2006 17:27

Blu - so, not only do they want junk food, they're too nesh (do you know that word?) to go out in the rain.

There is no hope, no hope I tell you, for the younger generation...

Btw, my two are having pizza tonight and dh and I are having a takeaway curry

southeastastra · 15/09/2006 17:36

i don't like all this 'poor kids don't have a chance' stuff. alot of kids get the healthy eating thing when they're older. show me a teenager who doesn't like chips or go out with their mates to the local take away.

Blu · 15/09/2006 17:39

Ah, but there is a strong junk food : nesh factor correlation.