"Packed lunches should be banned and cooking lessons compulsory" say experts - Polidicks

[QUOTE=Amiga OS;39543227]Fuck you, who the hell even wants to eat revolting school food?[/QUOTE] My school had the best "processed meat discs" ever. You might be thinking about hamburgers... Well, the school did call them hamburgers, but they were just thin slices of processed meat as big as those cucumber slices you put in your eyes during spa sessions. Not to mention the forkbeard fish that always tasted like utter crap and that got several people sick on a daily basis. (yeah my school was shit) Then I had lunch on a private school and felt like that was heaven.

[QUOTE=dass;39544330]My school had the best "processed meat discs" ever. You might be thinking about hamburgers... Well, the school did call them hamburgers, but they were just thin slices of processed meat as big as those cucumber slices you put in your eyes during spa sessions. Not to mention the forkbeard fish that always tasted like utter crap and that got several people sick on a daily basis. (yeah my school was shit) Then I had lunch on a private school and felt like that was heaven.[/QUOTE] I remember, back when I was in school they used to have these mini pizzas where you could squeeze the crust and something like 2 tablespoons of grease would come out.

[QUOTE=Melkor;39544553]I remember, back when I was in school they used to have these mini pizzas where you could squeeze the crust and something like 2 tablespoons of grease would come out.[/QUOTE] our school actually switched from a sticky rectangle shaped pizza that you couldn't eat without a lot of ranch to greasy stuff like that.

I had a school lunch once. It was so bad that i climbed over the fence and got my lunch at the chippy across the road for the rest of the time i was at the school.

i don't think they even let kids off campus during lunch at my school. but then my school is also about thirty minutes away from civilization.

[QUOTE=Glorbo;39543233]School should focus on more useful subjects in general I mean, for crying out loud, I don't even know how to fill out a fucking check[/QUOTE] Cooking is more useful than writing cheques This isn't 1960 where you can just write a cheque to the wife store and get someone to cook for you or however the sixties worked

[QUOTE=Scrimp;39543242]Cooking lessons in school are a joke. When I was there all they taught us was how to make pita bread pizza and brownies.[/QUOTE] I dunno about you, but in Mississippi, I learned to make all sorts of good stuff. :v: I don't agree that this should be forced on the children. It should be something they opt into, as with any other "class".

cooking lessons seems like a really useful thing, but in this day and age you can make those 20 dishes and more by googling "pizza recipe" or "how to make lasagna" and so forth for basically everything banning packed lunches is pretty stupid though, because in my experience school food is usually just as greasy as most fast food without the benefit of being occasionally good

[QUOTE=Melkor;39544553]I remember, back when I was in school they used to have these mini pizzas where you could squeeze the crust and something like 2 tablespoons of grease would come out.[/QUOTE] That reminds me of the deep deep deep double fried chips my granmma does. When she puts fries in the fryer or whatever its called, they taste fine, like fries should taste after being pre-fried, frozen and then fried again. But comes the night, she pops in the leftover fries fron the afternoon into the fryer again. The result is a mix of brown and transparent potato chip, hard to crack, that leaks its size in grease. A mouthful of those actually feels like a heart attack. Worse than any fucking McDonalds, and they used to put a shitload of salt on them. Then, whenever she saw me with a bag of chips, she would say they are deep fried in saturated and fucked up oils. Oh the irony.

[QUOTE=PeejsterM;39544876]I dunno about you, but in Mississippi, I learned to make all sorts of good stuff. :v: I don't agree that this should be forced on the children. It should be something they opt into, as with any other "class".[/QUOTE] My cooking teacher in school didn't even know how to cook. She would fuck up even the most basic of recipes. She gave us a recipe for bread that didn't even rise, the dough would just dry out and crack in the oven.

[QUOTE=Melkor;39544970]My cooking teacher in school didn't even know how to cook. She would fuck up even the most basic of recipes.[/QUOTE] Wait... How does that work? (assuming it actually worked at all)

[QUOTE=TMBGFan;39544922]cooking lessons seems like a really useful thing, but in this day and age you can make those 20 dishes and more by googling "pizza recipe" or "how to make lasagna" and so forth for basically everything[/QUOTE] To be fair, it takes practice to become a good cook, and there are always quirks in your environment like your oven not heating perfectly evenly, or having above average temperature fluctuations. EDIT: Not that I support anything like what is being proposed here.

[QUOTE=dass;39544984]Wait... How does that work? (assuming it actually worked at all)[/QUOTE] What happened was she gave us a shit recipe that no one in their right mind would eat. And then we cooked it. Then we threw it in the trash when she wasn't looking.

[QUOTE=God of Ashes;39543482]i dunno what kinda life you live in cause i fill out several every month[/QUOTE] I'm assuming they are for bills? I don't have any paper bills, so yeah I never use them either. Its usually debit/credit cards or regular old cash. Heck, many places don't even accept checks anymore.

Years of being brought up on meals that required more effort than a minute in the microwave, I cook for myself alot. I prefer my own meals to TV dinners and what not. Also that little feeling of accomplishment, I made my meal and now I get to eat it.

eat some fucking grapes remember those things

reminds me back in kindergarten when i use to rock my winnie the pooh lunch box. bitches loved winnie the pooh

[QUOTE=Melkor;39544998]What happened was she gave us a shit recipe that no one in their right mind would eat. And then we cooked it. Then we threw it in the trash when she wasn't looking.[/QUOTE] What the hell did she do while you guys were cooking?

[QUOTE=dass;39545365]What the hell did she do while you guys were cooking?[/QUOTE] She did demonstrations before hand. Then we were all separated into groups.

Haha I'd hate that if they done it here. It would also be counterproductive at the high school I went to. At the canteen, the cheapest "healthy" thing you could get was a single salad sandwich for $3.00. Instead of that you could get these chicken nugget kind of things (breast chicken, not shit at least) for $2.00 and they were pretty greasy, I guess very fatty as well. Or you could just slip out at lunch break and go to the Maccas which is a five minute drive and bring back some McDoubles and chicken and mayos for the boys. Better value and taste.

the school I went to used to have cooking lessons They stopped when someone snuck laxatives in other people's cooking. that was a shitty day.

Why does it seem like some devious way to get rid of the kitchen crew at school.

Not so sure about the whole "no packed lunches", but teaching kids early and hopefully showing them how fun and rewarding cooking can be is definitely one of the best ways to fight obesity. If you're good at properly, it's not hard making healthy dishes that are also tasty.

Me and my friends go to A&W or Subway every day for lunch. Not the healthiest for you, but I use the excuse that I'm bulking so its all k

There are still A&W's somewhere?

hahaha how the fuck do they expect to enforce this? toss the kid's food in the trash? yeah right

[quote]schools should police what parents give their children and confiscate unhealthy items such as sweets and fizzy drinks[/quote] yes while we're at it let's just ban fun you can be healthy while still treating yourself to sweets occasionally, fuck this stupid black and white mindset

I like how we have it in Sweden with basically "home knowledge" where we do cooking, baking and other stuff that is useful to know like washing. It's like 50% theory (Etc. Which fats are good and which aren't) and 50% practical (Like letting half the class bake with olive oil and the other with regular butter).

I learned to cook the day I needed to cook for myself. Following a simple recipe really isn't very hard, it's not like you need to make crème brûlée as a student.

Whilst learning to cook is an important thing, especially for latchkey kids who need an after-school snack and are sick of pot ramen and pre-prepared canned junk, they should NOT outlaw packed lunches; not every kid has easy lunch money and not every kid wants to poison themselves with low quality school dinners that would make even Dr Stuart Ashens puke out of his eyeballs (last time that happened was when he had a run-in with some poorly-made century eggs). Best decision is to keep the packed lunches and have cookery as a mainstream subject; that way a kid can be a bit more self-sufficient and a bit more ready for life as an adult.