All your blog are belong to us

[David Ayers]

Yay!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18454800

[CraigP]

What a cool idea for a blog.

[Larry Kart]

What does "All your blog are belong to us" mean? Is it a dialect or some slang I'm not familiar with, or is there a typo?

[PHILLYQ]

The best part of the lunch was the icepop!

[A Lark Ascending]

Whilst I can see the value of this in one sense, it disturbs me in another.

Do any of us want the deficiencies of our work exposed on public view like this?

By all means take the evidence and then approach the right people who need to know. The issues can (hopefully!) be addressed in a professional manner.

But exposed for ridicule like this seems to be just another form of happy-slapping.

The kid, of course, is completely innocent in this.

[Big Wheel]

What does "All your blog are belong to us" mean? Is it a dialect or some slang I'm not familiar with, or is there a typo?

Nice to make your acquaintance, Larry. Let's hang out again soon!

Love,

The Year 2001

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us

Whilst I can see the value of this in one sense, it disturbs me in another.

Do any of us want the deficiencies of our work exposed on public view like this?

By all means take the evidence and then approach the right people who need to know. The issues can (hopefully!) be addressed in a professional manner.

But exposed for ridicule like this seems to be just another form of happy-slapping.

The kid, of course, is completely innocent in this.

I did sort of feel the same way when I read the BBC article. In the US at least we like to stereotype school cafeteria workers as Dickensian harridans gleefully dishing out toxic sludge, but in truth it's extremely hard to run a institutional cafeteria with a limited budget and make the food non-disgusting. These people are doing the best they can with what they have to work with, and that their best isn't good enough doesn't mean they don't have feelings.

Edited June 15, 2012 by Big Wheel

[Larry Kart]

Thanks, Big Wheel.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

I did sort of feel the same way when I read the BBC article. In the US at least we like to stereotype school cafeteria workers as Dickensian harridans gleefully dishing out toxic sludge, but in truth it's extremely hard to run a institutional cafeteria with a limited budget and make the food non-disgusting. These people are doing the best they can with what they have to work with, and that their best isn't good enough doesn't mean they don't have feelings.

You're right for now. But maybe you're not old enough to remember when school meals were (for the most part - I hated semolina) pretty good - decent food and enough of it. And I think that, over the last fifty odd years, the price of food hasn't risen as fast as prices generally, so there seems no reason for crap food apart from disproportionate budget cuts.

MG

[A Lark Ascending]

so there seems no reason for crap food apart from disproportionate budget cuts.

MG

The reason for crap food in schools is the primacy of market forces.

20 years ago school meals were regulated to ensure a balanced diet. Catering is now run privately (in my school we are locked into a company who won the tender to build a great new eating area but got X years providing the food in return). Although there are some limitations and 'healthy meal' options are available, kids now get 'choice'. Guess what they choose.

Edited June 15, 2012 by A Lark Ascending

[Big Wheel]

Bev and other UK members: is your memory of the quality of school cafeterias similar to MG's? In my US elementary school in the late 1980s the cafeteria food was almost uniformly awful. Even the less healthy food like pizza, which we looked forward to because it was a respite from everything else, was still pretty bad.

I don't think there was a private company running the kitchen but I'm sure the cafeteria's budget for food procurement was next to nothing.

Edited June 15, 2012 by Big Wheel

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

so there seems no reason for crap food apart from disproportionate budget cuts.

MG

The reason for crap food in schools is the primacy of market forces.

20 years ago school meals were regulated to ensure a balanced diet. Catering is now run privately (in my school we are locked into a company who won the tender to build a great new eating area but got X years providing the food in return). Although there are some limitations and 'healthy meal' options are available, kids now get 'choice'. Guess what they choose.

We always had a choice, too. But I guess in the fifties the beefburger hadn't taken over the world, so no one offered it to us. But a couple of times a week, you could have sausage, mash & beans or peas if you didn't want S&K pie, mash & beans or similar

MG

[A Lark Ascending]

I recall institutional food, overcooked and lacking in colour - and I distinctly recall leaving my veg! But the meals were very much meat (or fish) and two veg.

In the school where I work until the 80s a single meal was taken by monitors to a table of 8 and then dished out.

Sometime in the 80s we went cafeteria but still the menu was very controlled to ensure a balance. That, of course, could not control what kids chose to take; but they could only take chips once a week or fortnight.

I'm not trying to romanticise the olden days - school dinners were pretty dull. Only the stodgy puddings - jam rolly polly, etc - were greeted with much enthusiasm.

Edited June 15, 2012 by A Lark Ascending