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Showing posts with label School. Show all posts
Showing posts with label School. Show all posts
Sunday, September 02, 2012
PeeChees
Saturday, September 01, 2012
Schoolhouse Rock!
Schoolhouse Rock! was a series of educational shorts that ran Saturday mornings on ABC-TV from 1973 to 1985 and for a generation became a regular part of our Saturday mornings.
I remember when my mom first heard "Unpack Your Adjectives"
She looked at the TV and said "That's Blossom Dearie"
"What?" I asked
"The person singing this is Blossom Dearie" she said
"Why are you calling me dearie?
My mom rolled her eyes.
"I mean the person singing this song on TV! She's Blossom Dearie!"
"Why are you calling her 'dearie'? You don't even know her."
My mom facepalmed.
"One more time.....Her NAME is Blossom Dearie!....That is her NAME! She was a jazz singer from back in my day. I saw her at a nightclub in San Fransisco when I was in nurses training"
"That's weird"
"And so are you."
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
School Lunches
Ahhhh.....The delicious, irresistible public school lunch........
Oh hell, they were horrible.
At elementary schools in the Edmonds School District in the '70s, school lunches consisted of a weekly rotating menu of:
- Some Slop Over Rice or Mashed Potatoes: This wasn't the official name of it on the menus that went home to our parents and I can't remember what they billed it as. This was just what the lunch ladies themselves called it.
The slop itself varied in colour from a pinkish beige to a gelatinous brown substance, both with bits of an unknown meat by-product.
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| An Edmonds School District lunch lady making slop...... |
- Hot Dog (This was infamously called on the menus - are you ready for this? A "Wiener Wink".)
- Sloppy Joe: Ubiquitous on EVERY school lunch menu in America to this day
- Fish Sticks
- Burrito
- Taco
- Spaghetti
And the list went on.
I found a very disturbing web site recently. One that's actually quite shocking, considering we should be feeding our kids (who've committed NO crimes) better than THIS.....
http://cityrag.com/2012/05/prison-food-or-school-food/
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
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