What next? You going to let school children point fingers and say “pew pew?” Chaos! Anarchy!
Foods sold at school fundraisers no longer have to comply with federal smart snack requirements, eliminating what Arizona schools chief Diane Douglas calls “overreach of government.”
The exemption is related to the efforts of Sen. Debbie Lesko who is sponsoring a bill stemming from an incident in which a fundraiser was told not to sell snow cones after school unless they were allowed on a list of snacks approved by the federal government.
It takes a giant federal program to raise a child. Everybody knows that. You know how many obesity-spawning calories there are in a snow cone? Well…none at all, actually, but that’s not the point. The point is, um…
No calories? Not saying they are bad or should be “banned,” of course… but they do have empty calories. Not in the “snow,” or shaved ice, but in the syrup poured over it that makes it worth eating. 🙂
Recipe for snow cone syrup:
Ingredients
Original recipe makes 12 servings Change Servings
2 cups white sugar
1 cup water
1 (0.13 ounce) package unsweetened, fruit-flavored soft drink mix
Okay. I don’t actually know how many fricking calories there are in a snow cone, and I made it up. I am not now and never have been a nutritionist. I sit humbled and corrected.
Silly person. 🙂 I am just a picky old nurse. LOL
Your point is right on, of course. Nobody has legitimate authority to dictate what people eat or feed their children. The sad thing is that, by sending them to government “schools,” such authority is actually granted by the parents. The answer to that is obvious, don’t send them… but not generally well received.
Debbie Lesko, doing what she can to make the government appear less ridiculous and tyrannical than it is. Go, Debbie! 😉