Idiots running the school food programs
Seriously, what other explanation can there be for this:
I know my chocolate chip cookies, which are a third each fat, sugar and flour (not counting the chocolate chips and egg) would not pass those guidelines. Are we going to say, “Yes! buy that garbage from Kraft, like Snackwells”—are we really this stupid?! Yes, we are!—and forgo making our own? How about banning processed food from our schools, and allowing the handmade stuff, no matter its fat content?
Between that and the skyrocketing insanity around “food allergies”, I just don’t know what’s wrong with Americans. When I was in school peanut butter was king, and I don’t recall any kids dying randomly in unexplained ways. We coddle our children too much, and treat them like Fabergé eggs, in the process creating fragile creatures who can’t deal with anything without a pill.
I’m not saying there aren’t food allergies. I’m just saying that 99% of the people claiming them are liars and disguising their dislike of something in some amoral bullshit of allergies. I know people with real allergies and trust me, you don’t want that.
So, shut up and eat the cupcake you whiner.
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1) I agree that home-baked cookies can be dangerous too—as all things in excessive quantity can be—however I think that it’s likely to be less bad generally than the massive amount of artificial crap stuffed in manufactured goods to cover up for the horrible quality of ingredients (i.e. cheap).
2) I also agree that food allergies exist, just that they are not nearly as common as people would like to claim. They jump from “I don’t like X” to “X will kill me”, without any sanity check in between. This is dangerous because, like The Boy Who Cried Wolf, it diminishes the importance of the small number of people with serious issues. I have observed that outside the US, the rate seems to be dramatically lower, which leads me to believe that either it’s something in our food (dihexoflourobenzanate and other unpronounceable “additives”) or we’re just a bunch of whiners.
Overall, people just need to stop checking their brains at the door.
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Just because you make your cookies at home, doesn’t mean they’re not bad if eaten in quantities. Kids can get obese on homemade food just fine.
If you want stories of real people with food sensitivities, read a bit from Karl Dahlke’s experience:
http://eklhad.net/adhd.html