See, I don't know Jamie Oliver from Adam, so I am coming into this blind.

He just said "I cannot believe the government allow this." Wrong. The government doesn't allow this. The government mandates this.

OK, this is actually vaguely useful. He went into a first grade classroom and tested the kids and found that practically none of them could identify any fresh vegetables, so the teacher decided to have a vegetable unit to teach the kids what the different vegetables are. And he did not call anything "disgusting" or "outrageous" or tell anybody "You are killing your children!" throughout that entire segment.

I think Jamie is just working with one cafeteria to be able to put a face on it. It seems clear to me that he knows it's the federal guidelines that are at fault, and not the people working in the cafeterias.

I think Jamie is just working with one cafeteria to be able to put a face on it. It seems clear to me that he knows it's the federal guidelines that are at fault, and not the people working in the cafeterias.

But it's totally framed as "Can Jamie change Huntington?" not "What needs to change at the federal level to change Huntington?"

I have dried beans like woah.

They make excellent packing material. Just make sure to put them in Ziplocs, since their own bags are so thin, but otherwise, they're great for filler.

The British show really was about teaching lunch ladies how to cook from ingredients, but I think he had to get the local government on board. It wasn't all national like here.

Yeah Jesse, I think some may be too old. I should just toss those, right?

Or make beanbags! Uses up fabric, too! (Of course, then you'd have beanbags.)

what are the federal regs messing up Huntington?

Maybe he's hoping that if he takes it to the citizen level, a call for changes to the federal level will be made.

I think he has good intentions, even if he's a bit naive about the budget and time limitations for school lunch programs. And I think he only chose Huntington because it showed up as statistically the most overweight city in the country. Either way, he's helping to educate some of the citizens there about what eating so much processed means.

But it might be getting people to ask their local cafs to do the same. Pushback.

Honestly, the only time my mother eats in the caf is the once in a while when the caf ladies say fuck the guidelines and make enchiladas. It doesn't happen often, but it's a big day at the school. I remember them doing that in elementary too.

Oh, and getting the kids to eat the food, and pay for it with the budget, and etc. It was definitely not easy. I haven't watched this show, because I imagined it was like that one, except with more OMG, WTF, and polar bears, due to being a US TV show.