35p for school dinners

i was dragged into doing my bit for the local community today when i had to judge a cooking contest at the local high school where i live.

before the contest got underway me and my head chef we're chatting to fellow judges two of which we're head of the schools funding dept at the council and we we're talking about the great godly Jamie oliver (don't like him, won't go into it!)and his program for school dinners.

anyway we got onto the point that schools are budgeted to spend 35 pence per child on school meals, thats a two course lunch for 35p, how stupid are the goverment what the fuck can you buy for 35p on its own these days let alone 2 meals a day. i'm not a political person at all but this really has sickened me. Education is probably the most important thing to fund behind healthcare and yet they keep pulling stupid stunts like these.

anyway thats my rant over, just wanted to ger that off my chest

I know, and its a fucking liberty when people like me with 2 school age daughters stump up something like 4 times that for their school meal..Cunce!What's your beef with Oliver,tho mate?At least the mockney sainsbury muppet did a good expose on this Turkey Twizzling swindle,going on under our very noses

What is 35p in US dollars? When I attended US high school, my lunch cost $2 for the week, or 40 cents a day. That bought a hoagie, chips (or crisps), and a milk. Then again the food was piss-poor quality.

Boatraceface wrote: What's your beef with Oliver,tho mate?

I don't like Jamie Oliver for a few reasons,

A: I think he makes a Mockery of the chef industry doing stunts like this No.15 restaurant which he is now turning into a chain. All well and good doing your bit getting deprived children off the streets and into work Etc, BUT when they're on training allowances of about £65 a week, hes pulling in the big bucks by charging £7.50 for Heinz beans on toast. £7.50 for beans on toast as a starter? plus he will have been payed a nice tidy sum by channel 4 and sainsburys no doubt to sponsor the project.

Some company, i think it was the Haydens Restaurant guide did a survey of the most expensive places to eat in London, behind Le Gavroche guess who was 2nd at an average cost of £85 per person per meal not including wine....yep you guessed it our man Jamie, thats more expensive than the real big boys like gordon ramsay, marcus wearing. it think hes. got some bloody nerve.

B: when he started out he was just an middle of the range Chef in the River Cafe in london where some tv company were filming a show at the restaurant and they liked his 'cheeky chappyness' so offered him a role, so because hes had limited experience in the work enviroment when he now is on tv doing his 'reality tv program bit' hes f'ing and blinding really hammering people down probably because hes watched it on Hells Kitchen and thought 'yeah pukka, that show i should be, pukka,pukka'. but thats not the way you can be if your trying to nurture people into the job.

I don't like hells kitchen as a show because the hotel and catering industry gets a bad rap as it is for long hours, unsociable working hours, a lot of aggresivness from chefs etc, hells kitchen just adds fuel to the fire how many young people will watch that show and think fuck that i ain't going into that industry its gonna be murder.

so thats a just a few reasons i don't like jamie oliver and the overall main one is i just think the Vespa riding mockney is a general Twat who is just after praise and attention, not the whole i'm doing it for the love of the job.

but at the end of the day money talks

I think that the lunch meal in swedish schools can't cost more than 5 swedish crones a day. Thats c:a €50 cents, or around £35p, or round $60 cents.

And my kids says that the food isn't very good. I beleive them.

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote:

Boatraceface wrote: What's your beef with Oliver,tho mate?

I don't like Jamie Oliver for a few reasons,

A: I think he makes a Mockery of the chef industry doing stunts like this No.15 restaurant which he is now turning into a chain. All well and good doing your bit getting deprived children off the streets and into work Etc, BUT when they're on training allowances of about £65 a week, hes pulling in the big bucks by charging £7.50 for Heinz beans on toast. £7.50 for beans on toast as a starter? plus he will have been payed a nice tidy sum by channel 4 and sainsburys no doubt to sponsor the project.

Some company, i think it was the Haydens Restaurant guide did a survey of the most expensive places to eat in London, behind Le Gavroche guess who was 2nd at an average cost of £85 per person per meal not including wine....yep you guessed it our man Jamie, thats more expensive than the real big boys like gordon ramsay, marcus wearing. it think hes. got some bloody nerve.

B: when he started out he was just an middle of the range Chef in the River Cafe in london where some tv company were filming a show at the restaurant and they liked his 'cheeky chappyness' so offered him a role, so because hes had limited experience in the work enviroment when he now is on tv doing his 'reality tv program bit' hes f'ing and blinding really hammering people down probably because hes watched it on Hells Kitchen and thought 'yeah pukka, that show i should be, pukka,pukka'. but thats not the way you can be if your trying to nurture people into the job.

I don't like hells kitchen as a show because the hotel and catering industry gets a bad rap as it is for long hours, unsociable working hours, a lot of aggresivness from chefs etc, hells kitchen just adds fuel to the fire how many young people will watch that show and think fuck that i ain't going into that industry its gonna be murder.

so thats a just a few reasons i don't like jamie oliver and the overall main one is i just think the Vespa riding mockney is a general Twat who is just after praise and attention, not the whole i'm doing it for the love of the job.

but at the end of the day money talks

proper chefs wouldn't take him seriously.

he's a cook

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote:

but at the end of the day money talks

Bullshit walks!!

So the question on my tounge is..If school dinners are budgeted at 35p a day per child..WHY do I pay £1.50 per day,per child,for my girls dinners? thats a lot of overheads,and no doubt multiple cons along the ways..Rip off bloody Bastards

thirty five pence, THIRTY FIVE PENCE??,my mam used to feed a family of five on that for a WEEK. and food at school,we used to dream of getting food at school,every day my mam used to put a rock in my butty bag and a hand full of dirt to mix with water to make mud. and we was lucky,and you tell the kids today that and they wont belive you they wont.

mike powell wrote: thirty five pence, THIRTY FIVE PENCE??,my mam used to feed a family of five on that for a WEEK. and food at school,we used to dream of getting food at school,every day my mam used to put a rock in my butty bag and a hand full of dirt to mix with water to make mud. and we was lucky,and you tell the kids today that and they wont belive you they wont.

Fat cat show off

Boatraceface wrote:

mike powell wrote: thirty five pence, THIRTY FIVE PENCE??,my mam used to feed a family of five on that for a WEEK. and food at school,we used to dream of getting food at school,every day my mam used to put a rock in my butty bag and a hand full of dirt to mix with water to make mud. and we was lucky,and you tell the kids today that and they wont belive you they wont.

Fat cat show off

at least you had dirt. i grew up in the rocky mountains: all we had was the yellow snow on the playground to eat.

but seriously: when i was a kid, the FDA or dept. of education or someone decided that all children needed a vegetable with their school lunch. so the reagan administration declared ketchup a vegetable.

AgentWood wrote:

Boatraceface wrote:

mike powell wrote: thirty five pence, THIRTY FIVE PENCE??,my mam used to feed a family of five on that for a WEEK. and food at school,we used to dream of getting food at school,every day my mam used to put a rock in my butty bag and a hand full of dirt to mix with water to make mud. and we was lucky,and you tell the kids today that and they wont belive you they wont.

Fat cat show off

at least you had dirt. i grew up in the rocky mountains: all we had was the yellow snow on the playground to eat.

but seriously: when i was a kid, the FDA or dept. of education or someone decided that all children needed a vegetable with their school lunch. so the reagan administration declared ketchup a vegetable.

I still don't think all children are getting their veggies. The only veggies I had with my lunch in high school were lettuce and tomato, and maybe the potato chips on the side counted as well.

All I can remember of school dinners was as a very small child (in the 'infants') bursting into tears because the dinner lady wouldn't let me leave till I'd eaten the utterly vile reconstituted-powder-made 'mashed potato'.

I also remember the staple diet of most of the kids at secondary school consisted of packets of custard cream biscuits, which they bought from the local shop with their supposed school dinner money. If they were really health conscious they bought chips from the chip shop instead (now I remember it, that's what I did. Oh dear)

However repellant Oliver's Sainsbury ads are, I think he does deserve credit for trying to actually do something about kids eating habits. That TV series did at least show just how much work is actually required to do that. Its all very well to say kids won't choose healthy food, but they need to have their palates re-educated, and isn't education what school is supposed to be about?

john kershaw wrote:

patrick stewart appreciation society wrote:

Boatraceface wrote: What's your beef with Oliver,tho mate?

I don't like Jamie Oliver for a few reasons,

A: I think he makes a Mockery of the chef industry doing stunts like this No.15 restaurant which he is now turning into a chain. All well and good doing your bit getting deprived children off the streets and into work Etc, BUT when they're on training allowances of about £65 a week, hes pulling in the big bucks by charging £7.50 for Heinz beans on toast. £7.50 for beans on toast as a starter? plus he will have been payed a nice tidy sum by channel 4 and sainsburys no doubt to sponsor the project.

Some company, i think it was the Haydens Restaurant guide did a survey of the most expensive places to eat in London, behind Le Gavroche guess who was 2nd at an average cost of £85 per person per meal not including wine....yep you guessed it our man Jamie, thats more expensive than the real big boys like gordon ramsay, marcus wearing. it think hes. got some bloody nerve.

B: when he started out he was just an middle of the range Chef in the River Cafe in london where some tv company were filming a show at the restaurant and they liked his 'cheeky chappyness' so offered him a role, so because hes had limited experience in the work enviroment when he now is on tv doing his 'reality tv program bit' hes f'ing and blinding really hammering people down probably because hes watched it on Hells Kitchen and thought 'yeah pukka, that show i should be, pukka,pukka'. but thats not the way you can be if your trying to nurture people into the job.

I don't like hells kitchen as a show because the hotel and catering industry gets a bad rap as it is for long hours, unsociable working hours, a lot of aggresivness from chefs etc, hells kitchen just adds fuel to the fire how many young people will watch that show and think fuck that i ain't going into that industry its gonna be murder.

so thats a just a few reasons i don't like jamie oliver and the overall main one is i just think the Vespa riding mockney is a general Twat who is just after praise and attention, not the whole i'm doing it for the love of the job.

but at the end of the day money talks

proper chefs wouldn't take him seriously.

he's a cook

We don't.

School Dinners were nectar