Nanny Knows Best brings us this story from Great Britain: not content to regulate the ingredients in school lunches,
Raising this above the usual level of carping is this anecdote:
Under Nanny's "obesity strategy" (give me strength!), there are plans to force all schools to implement a "healthy lunchbox policy".
Good grief!
Seemingly parents may even be asked to sign a form agreeing to ban unhealthy foods from their children's lunches.
Raising this above the usual level of carping is this anecdote:
When I was a "nipper" my mum would make me a nice lunchbox containing a myriad of delights, eg:
-a thermos of soup
-a banana sandwich
-homemade crisps (with added salt and grated cheese)
-a chocolate cup cake, or Jaffa cakes
Nanny wouldn't have approved of much of that.
Even the soup was risky, one day I dropped the thermos and the vacuum glass interior broke. Being a thickheaded child I happily drank the contents anyway, wondering why there were silver bits in the soup.
When I came back home I told my mum about this, and she promptly rushed me off to the doctor.
"Don't worry Mrs Frost, they don't use mercury now and whatever he swallowed will come out later."
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