Brickbat: Dining Alone

Robyn Mackenzie / Dreamstime.com

When a 10-year-old girl brought a tuna panino to her school in Milan, Italy, staff removed her from the cafeteria and forced her to eat lunch by herself in a classroom. School district rules bar students from bringing food to school. "If you permit everyone to bring their own food, how can you be sure that something won't happen?" said a spokeswoman for the school system.

Comments

[The Hyperbole ((Very Tall))]

"Lunch is an educational moment. They need to learn to sit together, to have proper, safe and organic food, and that they can't just have potato chips and chocolate. They are in school and that means community,

Is it presumptuous for me to have a strong hatred of this woman after reading only four sentences?

[straffinrun]

What if one of them is a life sentence?

[The Hyperbole ((Very Tall))]

"Prison is an educational moment. she needs to learn to sit with others, to have proper, safe and organic food, and that she can't just have potato chips and chocolate. She is in prison and that means community."

That sounds a lot better, thx

[straffinrun]

Uncanny.

*Slips file into Panino*

[UnCivilServant]

*Slips file into Panino*

Darnit, it's an unrecognized format.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Community is the word we give to the cultural battles we wage through our children together.

[Vapourwear]

No.

[straffinrun]

If you are in school, there are rules, otherwise everything collapses. Then they will start to claim the rights over what they're studying

I don't have any fight with any man who does what he's told...

[Adans smith]

Morning, sounds like the school wants to make sure all the kids buy lunch there. Follow the money.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Parents pay for the lunches according to their wealth...

Children eat according to their needs.

[pan fried wylie]

SpokesWOMAN? Cistalianheteroshitlord.

[sloopyinTEXAS]

She sounds like a spokesman for Big Meatball and Big Pasta.

Just kidding. She sounds like a commie asshole.

[Fruit Sushi 2 Go]

ehh... those concepts aren't mutually exclusive

[Fruit Sushi 2 Go]

ehh... those concepts aren't mutually exclusive

[Swiss Servator]

Big Squirrel agrees with you.

[Radioactive]

No one needs an assault panino,,, or high capacity hoagies!!!

[pan fried wylie]

Cappriotti's hardest hit.

[Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair]

tunafish in wholegrain bread with sliced organic tomatoes

A former girlfriend oscillated between amused and annoyed when I said "tunafish" -- I wouldn't say salmon fish or trout fish, would I? My only conclusion was that "tunafish" was in a can, while "tuna" was filets or the intact fish.

True story!

[Just a thought not a sermon]

Did she insist you refer to cuttlefish as "cuttle"?

[Scarecrow & WoodChipper Repair]

Doesn't apply. "Tuna" is a real noun, unlike "cuttle".

[pan fried wylie]

cuttlemollusc almost has a ring to it....

[Princess Trigger]

I went to my favorite local deli and ordered a phillie sandwich.
They were out of sub rolls and offered it to me on a ciabatta roll.
I really wanted a philly so I accepted it.
Not bad.

That's my sandwich story.

[Libertarian]

"If you permit everyone to bring their own food, how can you be sure that something won't happen?"

Everything makes sense to me now! Hillary started out as a lunch lady.

[SugarFree]

Cooked tuna? That child's mother is a monster.

[Libertarian]

Exactly what purpose does Europe serve if we can't look to it for food snobbery?

[OneOut]

The lady is right though.

If you allow hoi polloi to decide for themseves what to eat soon they may think they should have a say in what their children are taught.

We cant have that can we ? That would throw a monkey wrench into some people's plans.

[Rich]

"If you permit everyone to bring their own food, how can you be sure that something won't happen?" said a spokeswoman for the school system.

FTFH

Also: Oh, FFS!

[Jake Stone]

"How can you be sure something won't happen"

DAFUQ?