Comments on: Hot Potatoes Become Political

By: bikeboy

bikeboy — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:44:07 +0000

Re Zippo’s insightful comment:

Things COULD be worse… at least it doesn’t say FAMOUS TURNIPS on our license plates!!
:-O

By: Cyclops

Cyclops — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 04:04:31 +0000

We should be concerned about the fries and tots. But let’s address them after we address the processed chicken strips, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza that is far worse than tater tots. The main concern in most districts is “how much?” not “how good for them”!

By: Zippo

Zippo — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 03:18:44 +0000

How about the kids at the top of the conditioning chart have free choice and the others get a special diet. Kind of commie to make the healthy kids eat like that fatties.

They should also be mandating physical activity. Put them on exercise bikes which are wired into the schools greenpower grid. Alternate classes to provide lighting for the others to learn by. Teaching some basic physics then too. We might also use this for the teacher who need exercise but can’t find the time. This could be their classroom.

As for the Idaho rootball; ick. How the heck this every became a popular food is mysterious. It needs all kinds of stuff to make it taste like something other than tastesless mush. Might as well put all those toppings on some healthy but also bad tasting greens.

Lastly a skinny kid should not be presumed a healthy kid. He’s probably found a way to hide the food or feed the dog under the table.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:59:38 +0000

There are any number of things you can do with a potato, however, tots and fries are about the same fat content as cream cheese @ 18% fat content by weight. And more often than not they are fried in hydrogenated cooking oils aka artery cement.

We have become a society that the four food groups are KFC, McDonald’s,Pizza Hut and any other fast food you care to name. Once or twice a week of this stuff is probably OK but more often is simply not good for children or adults.

By: Rod in SE Boise

Rod in SE Boise — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:20:48 +0000

Republicans – denying and disrespecting science, again.

By: sam the sham

sam the sham — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:42:58 +0000

My grade school aged grandkids say that they are “just about” the only kids they know at their school who like veggies – so other kids give them theirs (and my grandkids eat them). But their favorite is always a good dill pickle (that is as much of a veggie as a fry or a tot).

By: bikeboy

bikeboy — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:22:44 +0000

A couple personal observations:

– Seems to me the “obesity epidemic” in this country is more about sedentary lifestyles, than it is about poor nutrition. (Although bad eating habits certainly contribute.) We are in constant pursuit of remote-control, power-operated everything, and for many folks, pushing buttons and keys is the extent of their physical exertion. It doesn’t take a nutrition scientist to figure out that you gain weight, if you don’t burn more calories than you cram in your potato[e]-hole.

– As the government takes over health care, we should all expect increased bureaucratic badgering about food choices, lack of exercise, unhealthy habits, etc., etc. And most likely increased taxes for making poor choices.

By: ola

ola — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:11:36 +0000

I love it when repubs get on their high horse about government regulation goring their ox. Now they know how it feels when repubs support more government regulation when it comes to individual freedom. I say bring on the recommendations to limit potatoes to kids, why not, it’s just another probably failed plan from another failed government bureau. Heck, deep down Simpson and Labrador probably know that since the government is wanting less potatoes at school lunch, then more will result. Just like the war on drugs, poverty, obesity, terror, the war on potatoes will be a tremendous success.

By: Anne

Anne — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 06:39:41 +0000

A potato would be good nutrition in a balanced meal — but there is nothing balanced about French fries, and worse, most of the cafeteria fries aren’t even good.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 04:11:30 +0000

As long as they put a compost bin in the cafeteria so the kids can put all those green vegetables in it on the way to the lunch table.

Just because you serve it, doesn’t mean they will eat it. I still think that Dems have a really hard time thinking in market terms.