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Love my state
I'd rather be in CA than a lot of states, but it's such a low bar. The politicians are more annoyingly corrupt; passing laws that sound progressive but really help rich cronies in the know. It keeps people pacified into thinking meaningful progress happens as we slide with the rest of the country into an ultra capitalist nightmare.
I'm beyond hoping people will ever see past the illusion. The learned helplessness is so strong that I'd expect California nationalism behind some feudal lord before recognizing that Cali sucks.
California nationalism
Time for a New republic! We've already got the flag covered
I’d rather be in CA
Some counties are progressive than others.
Let's see how the magat morons try to spin this as being un-american and biased...
Probably the same way the did when Michelle Obama tried the first time.
"it's gunna kill jobs" "it'll trample my right to profit off slowly killing others"
didnt michelle obama already do this? i thought it was all figured out by now.
All she did was get rid of the high sugary stuff mostly.
Lies, she got rid of everything except the high sugary stuff aside from drinks in vending machines.
We lost basically everything with a Scoville unit over 10 in exchange for 35g sugar per serving chocolate milk and aspartame bullcrappary in the vending machines.
Plus the portion sizes dropped anywhere from 10-40% depending on the meal.
I even lost the fresh fruit bar for canned peaches.
It has been almost 2 decades and I still want revenge for my KIA flamin hot funyuns.
At my school, they got rid of any kind of regular soda and regular Gatorade. Diet only and the snacks had to be the healthier kind like Baked Lays. We still had a fruit bar though so you could have something like peaches or a banana but they still had fucking pop tarts in the morning though lol.
Clearly big pop tart got to the food purchaser.
So no more rectangular “pizza?” We used to have brownies that smelled like kelp too.
The rectangular pizza is not actually that processed. It comes from a US Department of Agriculture recipe and you can make it at home using common grocery store ingredients, although the USDA recipe is intended to make 100 servings.
The recipe does call for something called "pourable pizza dough" but there's a recipe for that too and it's basically just very thick pancake batter.
Edit: https://www.tastinghistory.com/recipes/schoollunchcheesepizza
Thanks for that recipe. I think I saw his episode on this when he made it, but never went looking for the recipe. I've been kinda wanting this pizza for a while, and I think I may actually try making it now.
I remember one of the schools I went to as a kid serving a version of this pizza with exactly two pepperoni on it, looking out of the middle of the slab like greasy little eyeballs.
Not sure if you made the recipe already, but I recommend baking it for longer than it calls for, because the "pourable pizza dough" is really watery and will be undercooked otherwise. You should probably bake it for an additional 7–8 minutes more than it says to bake it for before adding toppings, and then keep it in the oven for another extra 2–3 minutes once toppings are added. I get that school pizza does not necessarily taste great anyway, but I think this change improves the flavour a lot.
Finally made it. The flavor is about what I remember, but I remember the crust being thicker than it came out. I wonder if it might benefit from a prove before the par-bake.
Also, I'm already thinking of ways to uplift this recipe, lol. Primary idea is using EVOO in the crust instead of vegetable oil.
Thanks for the tips. I haven't made it yet, mostly because I'm not sure what I'll do with a half sheet of school lunch pizza. I may save it for the next potluck I attend.
i thought the issue was that upf don't have a standard definition... to be clear, for it, but from my last readings there's not real definition. (looks at hella loose organic definitions)
The article addresses this. The legislation addresses it in even more detail.
Does it?
It defines such foods as those that pose the greatest risks to consumers based on scientific evidence of adverse health outcomes, and it directs the state Public Health Department to determine which particular products meet the definition by June 2028.
Why not just say "unhealthy food" rather than pretending that "ultra processed food" means anything useful?
The term ultra processed us pretty controversial unless they explicitly define it in this legislation. A PB & J is considered ultra processed even if you make the peanut butter, the jam, and the bread yourself because those ingredients have been processed heavily from their natural state.
Edit:
It defines such foods as those that pose the greatest risks to consumers based on scientific evidence of adverse health outcomes, and it directs the state Public Health Department to determine which particular products meet the definition by June 2028.
Ah ok that makes sense.
California and Minnesota getting good stuff done while the rest of us are lagging further behind.
I mean, California is also going backwards on LGBTQ+ rights, so it's not all wine and roses there.
The question remains: what counts as "ultra-processed"? America is a country where ketchup counts as vegetable for school meals. Can you imagine them serving normal, freshly cooked and healthy food instead?
Ketchup is not considered a vegetable in America. That is a myth. Some random school official essentially made the equivalent of a shit post (said something stupid in a meeting with no serious intent) and local papers ran with it.
Myth? No serious intent?
Reporting on the proposed directive, Newsweek magazine illustrated its story with a bottle of ketchup captioned "now a vegetable." The proposal was criticized by nutritionists and Democratic politicians who staged photo ops where they dined on nutrition-poor meals that conformed to the new lax standards. Compounding this outrage, the same day that the USDA announced the cost-cutting proposal for school lunches, the White House purchased $209,508 worth of new china and place settings embossed in gold with the presidential seal.
Um... yes??
Did you read the linked article? The regulation doesn't define ketchup as a vegetable. It explains how that was a thing people concocted to attack the proposed nutritional standards as being too lax.
If it really is a myth, it is so fitting for the US that no one i know has ever questioned it.
America is a country where ketchup counts as vegetable for school meals.
Yeah and can you believe that they have litter boxes in classrooms now to appease the trans??
Smh my head.
Another victory for that entity called "Center for Science in the Public Interest" aka food police.
10 year deadline
As an extremely experienced former K12 student^/s^ , I can tell you this promise is worth absolutely jack shit.
My burning fury for the Democratic party pretending to care about its constituency started with Michelle Obama nuking my school lunch.
Although to be fair, a rotting prison meal is still better than the Republican alternative of no food at all.
My burning fury for the Democratic party pretending to care about its constituency started with Michelle Obama nuking my school lunch.
Yeah, how dare they try to make kids eat healthier. Give me a fucking break.
No you misunderstood.
They took the already baseline garbage school food program, threw it in the trash, then replaced it all with sugar injected manure, and then claimed they solved Obesity in schools.
The entire lunch trade economy tanked overnight, and something like 25-35% of students' parents at my school actually opted to stop buying school lunch because of how much the nutritional quality and portion size dropped.
I still remember the mini pancakes breakfast went from 10 pieces to 4, they got rid of the fresh fruit salad that came with it (different mix of fruits each week), and the syrup got replaced with what can only be described as leftover corn syrup from a soda machine. That thing would last you all but 30 minutes before you were hungry again and I would actually not be surprised if it stunted student mental development considering all the research behind the downsides of children not eating breakfast before school.
First time ever I was able to trade oranges, bananas, and mandarins for basically anything because the only fresh fruit that became available was dead sour apples that almost no one liked.
That was also incidentally around the same time they started taking away lunches from students who couldn't pay after crackdowns on cafeteria employees giving out free meals, though I'm not sure if that was a federal after effect or just my state.
Was so bad that kids wanted to do a revote on the mock 2008 election vote to see if Obama would lose after the fallout.
The only thing they fixed (partially) was the screwed up food pyramid with the stupid my plate marketing campaign which they wasted a ton of money printing out fliers and posters to hang on every wall, except no lunchroom was actually able to fulfill the ratio.
Not only did we all make fun of the fact that reaching the ratio in the poster was now impossible, it's still incorrect and might as well be a food pyramid 2.0.
I still have a photo of the chocolate milk with a 35g of sugar per serving lying around somewhere, will edit this if I find it.
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