Triple take

Random ramblings of a British guy that's moved to Australia. And now back to UK.

Sunday, May 28, 2006

I'll have a rectum flavoured brain burger with extra udder please, miss!

If you're about to eat then probably don't read this. If you have a child that eats school dinners get ready to start making sarnies.

Most people that live in the UK and Australia have heard of Jamie Oliver and his school dinner campaign. I don't know if the show got aired in US or not. For those not familiar, Jamie Oliver is a well known british chef and about 2 years ago he got angry when he discovered that british schools were providing meals to school kids on a budget of something like 30p per child. To achieve this they were buying shitty ingrediants and serving fries with everything.

So Jamie visited other schools around europe to see how they were doing things and then started putting pressure on the government to change things here. He's eventually been successful because the goverment have now banned junk food from school menus.

More specifically they've banned processed food made from Brains, lungs, rectum, stomach, feet, oesophagus, spinal cord, testicles, large intestine, small intestine, spleen and udder. Shit! All my favourite foods banned!

The thing that makes me even queasier is that about a year ago I happened to be at a British school in Germany and due to european law they already had this ban coming into effect. So they laid on a massive free dinner for all staff and visitors to clear the freezers. I wish I'd gone for the vegetarian option....

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