Yr Wonkette has made kind of a cottage industry about how terrible school districts and states and lunch ladies and errrebody can be about giving poor kids food because socialism or laziness or awfulness or all of them, Katie. But then Boston stepped up, prolly because we have scheduled
No real news here, as even in my plush suburban school system of many, many years ago, milk was next-to-free as a nice subsidy/gift/tax expenditure to America's patriotic dairy farmers, who have lots of time to lobby for such goodies because the cows do all the work.
Having spent a portion of my misspent youth on my uncle's farm, I'd like to see your ass up every morning at 4 am to milk the damn cows. It's a fair amount of work (yes, even with the fancy milking machines), and it is work every damn day. No days off. If you want a vacation, a neighbor or relative has to milk your cows plus their own cows twice a day. It ain't an easy life.
The good news: free lunch! The bad news: tofu.
No real news here, as even in my plush suburban school system of many, many years ago, milk was next-to-free as a nice subsidy/gift/tax expenditure to America's patriotic dairy farmers, who have lots of time to lobby for such goodies because the cows do all the work.
Having spent a portion of my misspent youth on my uncle's farm, I'd like to see your ass up every morning at 4 am to milk the damn cows. It's a fair amount of work (yes, even with the fancy milking machines), and it is work every damn day. No days off. If you want a vacation, a neighbor or relative has to milk your cows plus their own cows twice a day. It ain't an easy life.
And a bacon wrap.
You're right, of course. But mere facts can't be allowed to get in the way of snark.
This way the poorz will have more food stamps left over for lobster and caviar. Duh.
Bacon: the only food so good you wrap it around other foods to make them better.