I don't think crudité sales are going to finance that band trip

Massachusetts performs a valuable service as a laboratory for nutso social experiments, right up there with California.  Its newest contribution is a movement to phase out school bake sales, those nefarious attempts to corrupt our children's innate preference for watercress over cookies.

I don't know if we're losing the battle on obesity, but the fatheads definitely are taking over.

18 comments:

Grim said...

In case any of the rest of you also need to look up the word crudités, here you go.

All part of the service.

Texan99 said...

Obviously your schools didn't provide you with the proper nutritional-cocktail-party grounding.

Grim said...

Obviously. I even took French, and never came across the term.

DL Sly said...

Sooooo......it's not a whole lotta crud in little bits?
No, I know! It's the Southern faction of the Luddite's with that infamous emblem the kudzu vine.
Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket!
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Grim said...

Although, we do eat this stuff. We just call it "celery sticks and carrots." Usually it's served with a side dish of Hell-On-Wheels Hot Wings.

Grim said...

Served with beer, of course, to go with the hot wings. And once you've eaten the hot wings and drunk the beer, well, celery with blue cheese dressing would just be adding to the calories... so we leave them uneaten, to maintain our diet.

DL Sly said...

It's nice to see you've got your priorities in the proper order, Grim.
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bthun said...

As one of the folks commenting at PJmedia observed, this latest is from minds of the same flock of fowl who first decided to remove competitive activities from recess --everyone gets a gold star-- and finally decided to do away with recess altogether. And now they are shocked to see children with overly developed thumbs growing fat.

Idjots imposing more idiocy while the community at large twiddles their thumbs.

douglas said...

Technically, at my kids school, they are not allowed to run on the yard, except in authorized games of kickball. I kid you not. Fortunately, even here in health nut la-la land, nobody enforces this rule.

I hate this stuff about obesity and wanting to regulate things like caloric content etc. I'm lean, my wife is quite fit, and my kids are sticks (as my wife and I both were as kids). If anything, my kids need MORE calories and fatty foods. Who are these morons to deny my children their nutritional needs because some other people can't figure out how to feed themselves? (/rant)

E Hines said...

Jeez. Crudités aren't food--they're what food eats.

I'll settle, though, for my childhood peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. They had your four major food groups: bread, peanut butter, jelly, and bread.

...not allowed to run on the yard, except in authorized games of kickball

I was walking past my neighborhood's grade school during recess this winter while the kids were trying to play a game of hockey. Of course it was a properly organized game, and the teacher-monitor kept screaming at the kids the entire time: "Keep those sticks on the ground!"

Eric Hines

Assistant Village Idiot said...

Is there evidence that bake sales contribute to childhood obesity, or is this just another one of those "Well, we figured that they must...it only stands to reason...we don't need no steenkin' statistics...?)

Texan99 said...

Causation? Statistics? That's not important here. What's important is surrounding the children with a soft, fluffy blanket, free of empty calories. And hate. And anxiety-producing words on tests. And prejudice. And bullying. And blows to self-esteem. And physical injury from primitive recess rituals. And carbon dioxide. And mean dogs, toxins, genetically modified foods, cavities, mood swings, allergens, non-optimum birth order, archaic religion, and gender-normative peer pressure.

BillT said...

I'm six-foot-zip with a sixteen-and-a-half inch neck, a forty-four inch chest, and a thirty-five inch waist. According to the BMI calculator at the H&HS website, I'm overweight.

We don't have an epidemic of obesity in the US -- we have an epidemic of stupidity in DC...

bthun said...

"I'm six-foot-zip with a sixteen-and-a-half inch neck, a forty-four inch chest, and a thirty-five inch waist. According to the BMI calculator at the H&HS website, I'm overweight.

We don't have an epidemic of obesity in the US -- we have an epidemic of stupidity in DC..."


Howdy Mr. Bill,

I think I've recently commented with a similar sentiment on the BMI nonsense...

I'm 6'4" (when I can get the kinks outta the titanium superstructure surrounding my spine enough to stand up straight) with a 44" chest and a 34" waist, and at 200# ± a brew or two, yup, you guessed it, I too am relegated to the overweight corral.

One positive on not having the same use of my lower body that I once had, is the additional muscle mass in my legs would only add to my obesity, at least in the view of the NANNY State spore containment vessels posing as my fellow Americans.

I'm not sure placing the warning label of stupidity on those who would be NANNY is a strong enough descriptor.

Eric Blair said...

As is noted, those BMI calculations have big problems, but I am sort of gleeful that such silliness is being forced on people, because it wakes them up.

I'm also waiting for the 'get the fat people' stuff to start in earnest--I've already seen indications of preparing the battlespace so to speak, with items about the cost to healthcare of obese patients and the like.

I can't wait to see the looks on the faces of fat leftists (I'm aware of several such bloggers who are in no way thin) when the gov't starts telling them what to eat and how much they must exercise.

heheheheheheheh....

Anonymous said...

Let's see. I'm 5'1", 145 lb, bench press 80 lb, easily do 280 lb leg extensions and 80 lb shoulder presses, can walk four miles plus in an hour pretty easily at 5000' elevation, and my BMI says . . . bing, bing, bing! Seriously overweight to borderline obese. Riiiiight. Me and all the other short, muscular people on the planet.

LittleRed1

douglas said...

Just about any athlete comes in as obese on the BMI- utterly non-scientific, if you ask me. But if it's in service of someone's agenda, they label it 'science'.
Bah.

Eric, about that teacher/monitor
"Keep those sticks on the ground!"
Were the kids equipped with helmets with face cages? If not, I get the admonition- those kids not used to playing and handling the stick will take another kids head off if you don't make them keep the ssticks down. If they have helmets on, you can allow the occasional whack, and penalize the careless stick handler and let that be enough of a lesson. With no helmets, you'll be stopping for busted lips, missing teeth, cut ears and such left and right- never mind that the only way they were probably able to get permission to play hockey was with the lawyers stipulation that sticks stay down.

...and I'm with you on PBJ's- with lots of PB.

bthun said...

I think I read, yesterday in the Boston Globe maybe, where the Ma. legislature had either slapped this nonsense down legislatively, or had started the how a bill becomes law process to do so in response to the uproar from the peasantry.