Waffles are Pennsylvania Dutch. Not the fried chicken.
I donât think chicken and waffles are racist/stereotypical by themselves. Itâs the watermelon for me. They could have done without it.
Anywho to address the original OP. I donât think there is value added with the feds dictating nutritional value in lunches. I think they can mandate âschools must serve lunchâ. However Iâd say leave it to local school districts to figure out.
To be more clear⌠I donât see how setting that standard nationally advances the US nationally. Not in the same way as standardizing core curriculum, for example.
Yes definitely southern but for whatever reason Ican tell you here in the Midwest that along with fried chicken and watermelon has idiotic stereotypical associations.
I never noticed until I started driving a school bus here in South Florida. Sugars and salt really need to be eliminated from public school lunches and breakfasts along with high carb foods. There are in my opinion too many children that are not just overweight, theyâre morbidly obese!
Schools need to promote more nutrition and physical exercise. Some schools have either no physical ed classes or once a week!
There are middle and high schoolers that play sports both school and rec programs and that is commendable. But not that theyâre allowed to eat on school busses, I find candy bar wrappers and empty Doritos bags all the time. For breakfast??
We had to actually pay for the crap they fed us. But I only had to deal with that in the 7th, 8th, and 9th grade. All other years I either went home for lunch, or out.
I also understand fried checked also. But not chicken and waffles. It is getting beyond rediculous if we are gonna start considering any meal with fried chicken as culturaly insensitive.