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xoxoxoBruce 04-30-2010 07:02 PM
They took away a toddler's cheese sandwich.:rolleyes:
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Yet the impossible has happened: staff at a nursery in Pemberton, near Wigan, have confiscated a cheese sandwich belonging to a two-year-old pupil, Jack Ormisher. Its failing was to contain neither lettuce nor tomato.

Wigan Council has since confirmed that the straight-up combination of cheese and bread contravenes its healthy eating guidelines — and fully supported the cheese-snatchers. “The centre has a list of recommended healthy food, according to national guidelines, which children are encouraged to eat,” said a spokesman. “A cheese sandwich would not feature on the list.”
Fucking unbelievable.

jinx 04-30-2010 07:05 PM
Well duh, needs mustard, clearly.

squirell nutkin 04-30-2010 09:51 PM
So fucking wrong where do we start?

Clodfobble 04-30-2010 10:01 PM
Meh. It's a private organization, with food rules that were known by the child's mother beforehand. Tons of preschools would confiscate a peanut butter sandwich these days. Or there are other private preschools that don't allow commercial characters on the premises (like Mickey Mouse on t-shirts.) And there was that big brouhaha awhile back, about a Catholic school that kicked out a student because her mother was a stripper and refused to take a different job. Private organizations get to make their own rules, and if you don't like it, you can pick a different one.

squirell nutkin 04-30-2010 10:12 PM
I guess actually reading the link makes for a more informed opinion. I'll have to agree with you in that case.

I'm frequently telling the malcontents at the coop: Don't like the way things run? Join the board or start your own coop.

(But the irony of it all --England making rules about food?)

xoxoxoBruce 04-30-2010 11:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 652849)
Meh. It's a private organization, with food rules that were known by the child's mother beforehand.
Where do you get private organization from? If so, why is the Wigan council involved?
I still think they could have handled the situation better than snatching a 2 year olds sandwich away from him, take it up with his mother for christ's sake.

Cicero 05-01-2010 01:10 AM
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Originally Posted by jinx (Post 652816)
Well duh, needs mustard, clearly.
:sweat:

I am dying to know what they replaced the confiscated sandwich with...One of those things I guess I will just never know.....

I am so glad cheese sandwiches are of highest priority for the Wigan Council.....:facepalm: This has to be stopped. It's an outrage!!

Sundae 05-01-2010 05:13 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce (Post 652814)
Fucking unbelievable.
Fucking untrue...?
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But nursery manager Aukje Clegg said: “This is absolutely untrue. That is all I can say. I know what happened. The mother knows what happened. If she wants to make this out of it, that’s her problem but it’s not the truth.”

Asked if children were allowed to eat cheese sandwiches, she said: “Of course they are.”

Clodfobble 05-01-2010 07:50 AM
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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce
Where do you get private organization from? If so, why is the Wigan council involved?
Went back to the article to find the details that had given me that impression (I know I had thought that the "Wigan Council" was the preschool's board, not an elected council, but that definitely could have been wrong,) but the article's been taken down now.

monster 05-01-2010 08:08 AM
cheese sandwich is the punishment lunch in school here if you haven't paid your lunch bill....

the article linked to is sensationalist BS though, written for the rise, not necessarily in the interest of reporting the truth.

Besides, given the location and it's proximity to Liverpool, they nursery staff are probably just trying to cover up that some scouser stole the kids sandwich while they were on a fag break.

:p:

classicman 05-01-2010 08:58 AM
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Earlier this month a school in Atlanta, Georgia, penalised pupils who had indulged in a food fight by serving a “cheese sandwich only” menu for several consecutive days. Sounds like heaven to us.

Clodfobble 05-01-2010 09:21 AM
Don't forget, this would be school cafeteria "bread" and "cheese," not some fragrant emmantaler melted delicately atop a toasted baguette. School food is the same processed stuff they feed to prisoners.

jinx 05-01-2010 10:51 AM
mmmmmm... subsidized....

xoxoxoBruce 05-01-2010 11:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Clodfobble (Post 652893)
... but the article's been taken down now.
Strange, I got a 404 from my link, in IE7. But when I copied the link in Firefox, it connected ok. Then I tried in IE7 again, and it connected. The reason I tried that was, I had saved a link to the Cardboard Dad in another Brit paper, and when I tried to post last night the same thing happened.:rollanim:

jinx 05-02-2010 10:23 AM
Local, not weird, sorry.... didn't want to start a whole thread though.

Jimmy Johns burned down.

Quote:
CHADDS FORD — Fire ripped through Jimmy John’s Eatery about 8:19 a.m. Saturday following a propane-tank explosion in the kitchen grill area.

Restaurant employee Scott Gilmour described the fire as a tragedy. The historic eatery was to celebrate its 70th anniversary Saturday.


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