OT: Give me liberty, or give me.. Ritz crackers? Daycare fines mom for not including grains in lunch

Almost half of the stuff she was supposed to pack for lunch I wouldn't have been able to eat. Fruit, milk, grain and carrots in particular give me diarrhea. I would have had fun. I can't believe you would have to bring a doctor's note if your child had any special needs in food. That's ridiculous. A lot of children today have allergies or food tolerances. Anyways, I'm getting angry and should stop now.

ambling said...
StealthGuardian says: "Save the Ritz crackers for the low income population or the impoverished - they actually need the calories."

What an offensive statement.

They're only poor people, so they don't matter.

They can't even afford organic food for heaven's sake. What kind of person can't afford organic food? The type of person who can eat Ritz crackers, that's what. Their health or quality of life doesn't matter. That sort of thing only matters to those who are the enlightened. Their colons are made of delicate china, which will shatter if you put anything so coarse as a sandwich (urgh, gluten!) into it. Poor people's colons are probably made of tyre rubber, or something.

ambling said...
StealthGuardian, as I said it is a beat up story about one daycare center only, and not any overarching scheme by an evil overlord. You prove my point by jumping back on your tired old soapbox. It is not a cause, it is just boring rhetoruc. Parents are the main arbiters of the food their young kids eat, not some anonymous poster on a forum.

Hey, the enlightened must pretend to care about other people occasionally. If that means seizing upon a non-story of slightly silly bureaucracy resolved with a single phone call the next day, so be it.

NiceCupOfTea,

If you live where I live, homeless men scrouge dumpsters for remnants of leftover foods. The shelters are not adequate enough to provide even a portion of the food they need.

I dare you to go up to one, give him something unhealthy and tell him not to eat it. Go see what happens.

You are also implying that I'm not charitable and "greater" in some way than homeless people. You have no idea what you are saying.

How much do you give to charity? Have you done anything for those who are less fortunate than you? I can play that game too.

Post Edited (StealthGuardian) : 11/21/2013 6:05:39 AM (GMT-7)

Oh! Inspector Javert, how you misjudge me.

If you live where I live, homeless men scrouge dumpsters for remnants of leftover foods. The shelters are not adequate enough to provide even a portion of the food they need.

I know this. I have lived in London most of my life and have seen plenty of beggars, sadly. I'd happily give a hungry homeless person a box of Ritz crackers, but then again I would eat Ritz crackers myself.

You lot call refined carbs 'garbage', wouldn't touch them with a barge pole yourselves, and see nothing wrong in feeding the poor them.

What more is there to say?

NiceCupOfTea said...


You lot call refined carbs 'garbage', wouldn't touch them with a barge pole yourselves, and see nothing wrong in feeding the poor them.

Because Ritz is not poor man's food. It's rich man's coronary heart disease food. We know this because the hydrogenated vegetable oils in these foods are connected to many underlying health problems, including ulcerative colitis.

With that being said, it's possible to sustain a civilization with ritz crackers. In fact, this very experiment is going on today in most developed countries. :)

My point is that starvation leads to far more issues than refined foods do. If the body is in a catabolic or stressful state, which is the state that most homeless, dumpster dwelling people are generally in, and where it's eating its own tissues, it will quickly metabolize carbohydrates and not put the pancreas on overdrive.

This is the same reason athletes don't get type-2 diabetes from drinking pounds of gatorade or sugar water during and after workouts.

ambling said...
You've read Les Miserables, good for you. Now use your powers for good and not evil ;-)

I can assure you that I'll never be as evil as Dr.Evil.

Post Edited (StealthGuardian) : 11/21/2013 8:36:55 AM (GMT-7)

Dear Levi and World

If you and USA! USA! are so darn smart then howcome there aren't any "thumbs up" buttons on this forum I can push huh? Answer that my friend. I only see a "thumbs down". How is that American?

My finger would be on that button and bygod I would push it.

ambling:
don't think I missed your sly little joke either:
it is just boring rhetoruc