Hehe, wee blue cartons of milk, been searching google images but gone, there was always the dilemma (for me) wether to get 2 x plain ones or 1 chocolate!
Hehe, wee blue cartons of milk, been searching google images but gone, there was always the dilemma (for me) wether to get 2 x plain ones or 1 chocolate!
I sympathize. With me it was spag bol or scotch eggs.... which were always on the menu on the same day!:(
Aww well done to her. Nice to hear of a 9 year old doing something constructive with their time.
I was wondering what the (31 seconds) in her last post for example and timings in her other posts was all about, I didn't click that it was always after countries or American states.
Went back to the first time she used it:
"Dad timed me to find Chicago on the globe and it took me 48 seconds but it was not fair as I was looking for it spelt SHicargo".
Because it's a page view counter she has, not actual unique visitors. All anyone has to do is keep refreshing the page to keep the counts rising. Considering it's a blog for young kids, you can bet they'll be doing it.
The story went global. Google News is showing 1130 news articles about the ban. It's also now listed on Wikipedia's Streisand Effect page.
It can easily get 2 million views due to all the hubbub about it.
That picture does look unappetizing. Whatever happened to traditional school meals such as corned beef with cabbage & mashed potato followed by custard & pineapple upside down, served on a proper plate?
I've always found the mix of food on Martha's tray to be a tad bizarre, I was wondering if it was all her choice or what the 'dinner ladies' were offering. For example, I wouldn't have thought the ideal side to a Chicken Fajita was peas and sweetcorn. The peppers and radish served with the Maccaroni Cheese would have seemed more 'normal', and likewise, I'd have thought the mixed veg would be better with that particular meal. It's not just those two. Most of them just look like a combination of items thrown together onto a tray. So just wondering if it's a case of staff not really planning what they are doing and just throwing any old thing onto the tray, or if its purely the result of a girl just choosing the things she likes and other option were actually available?! I can't remember all of the other things that stood out but I think I remmeber a shepherds pie with cucumber?!
I've always found the mix of food on Martha's tray to be a tad bizarre, I was wondering if it was all her choice or what the 'dinner ladies' were offering. For example, I wouldn't have thought the ideal side to a Chicken Fajita was peas and sweetcorn. The peppers and radish served with the Maccaroni Cheese would have seemed more 'normal', and likewise, I'd have thought the mixed veg would be better with that particular meal. It's not just those two. Most of them just look like a combination of items thrown together onto a tray. So just wondering if it's a case of staff not really planning what they are doing and just throwing any old thing onto the tray, or if its purely the result of a girl just choosing the things she likes and other option were actually available?! I can't remember all of the other things that stood out but I think I remmeber a shepherds pie with cucumber?!
I think its just the salad they offer with the meal, I have noticed however that she says when she doesn't finish her meal she isn't allowed fruit, I don't think thats right.
But my friends little boy gets school meals, and they always have baked beans with them for some reason!
I probably am being a bit harsh.
I don't really object to what she herself is doing.... but I really dislike the hoo-ha and hyperbole surrounding this e.g. the contrived fury at her 'human rights being breached' (which I have heard!) etc etc.
No, you are not being harsh. I agree with you, especially the contrived fury part.
I'm also sick of reading 'little Martha' like she's a toddler. She'll probably be all over the print press now and telly (This Morning etc.).
I have noticed however that she says when she doesn't finish her meal she isn't allowed fruit, I don't think thats righ.
Yeah, one dinner was pork and it was black round the edges and she didn't fancy eating it, so couldn't have any fruit afterwards.
Reminds me of the famous "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?" from Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2).
They were taking the piss out of that archaic 'post war' way of thinking back in 1979, can't believe that school staff are still strictly enforcing this 'punishment' today.
Same happened to a friend of mines kid, he took in a packed lunch, sarnies, crisps and yoghurt, he didn't like the sarny and only ate half, they took the yoghurt and crisps away from him and only gave ithem back at the end of the day.
Mate and his wife rightfully caused a big fuss about that.
Yeah, one dinner was pork and it was black round the edges and she didn't fancy eating it, so couldn't have any fruit afterwards.
Reminds me of the famous "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?" from Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2).
They were taking the piss out of that archaic 'post war' way of thinking back in 1979, can't believe that school staff are still strictly enforcing this 'punishment' today.
Same happened to a friend of mines kid, he took in a packed lunch, sarnies, crisps and yoghurt, he didn't like the sarny and only ate half, they took the yoghurt and crisps away from him and only gave ithem back at the end of the day.
Mate and his wife rightfully caused a big fuss about that.
Yep, I don't blame them, I don't see how anyone other than parents have a right to what your kids can eat.
Some of the meals on her blog look perfectly nice.
That's where the media have been partly responsible for overhyping the story with what appears to me to be the wrong emphasis, and is probably what led to the Council making a stupid and harsh decision.
Even the latest 'success' story on the DM website mentions Martha's "blog of her terrible school dinners" and her "pictures of her miserable school dinners". As I understand it the blog was set up as part of a writing project. It was the case that those first few pictures that were posted looked very limp and unsatisfying but in the duration of her blog there have been many 8/10 and 9/10 dinners on the food-o-meter and even a 10/10. She's rated a number of dinners high on the health stakes as well. She (or her father?!) have made some critical observations but it's just a blog chronicling her dinners. She's seemed very happy with the vast majority of offerings. It's the media that are overplaying it and turning her into some sort of crusader against the evil dinnerladies serving up disgusting slop.
The story went global. Google News is showing 1130 news articles about the ban. It's also now listed on Wikipedia's Streisand Effect page.
It can easily get 2 million views due to all the hubbub about it.
An article about it is only going to contribute to her hits if there is a physical link to the blog.
I'm not saying kids repeatedly refreshing the page (or even people viewing more than one page on a visit) is the soul reason for the number of page views, but it will be a significant percentage.
I think the first few were a bit naff but on the whole looks nicer than the slop I had in primary school.
They are reasonable. What bothers me is the heavy reliance on pasta, rice, bread and potatoes - often two at a time, I don't remember my school food being like that. I remember them having lots of meat/fish and vegetables with some form of potatoes. I know why they are doing it though, those ingredients are cheap.
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Hehe, wee blue cartons of milk, been searching google images but gone, there was always the dilemma (for me) wether to get 2 x plain ones or 1 chocolate!
I sympathize. With me it was spag bol or scotch eggs.... which were always on the menu on the same day!:(
Aww well done to her. Nice to hear of a 9 year old doing something constructive with their time.
There was also the minging food days, like mince! I think thats why I still don't like mince, and I left primary school 16 years ago!
Mince!!!! Hahaha I remember that. Just a tray of mince!
We also had stuff (wrongly) called goulash.... which was just mince with onions and tomato purée in.:D
Went back to the first time she used it:
"Dad timed me to find Chicago on the globe and it took me 48 seconds but it was not fair as I was looking for it spelt SHicargo".
We had "mashed potato" with ours which was grey lumps, again I never liked mash until after I left primary.
I can't actually remember much about our meals, but it was things like chips, toasties, waffles etc, I can mainly remember the bad stuff about it!
I liked the primary school dinners anyway. The secondary ones were no where near as good.
What's the thinking behind banning cameras? Your yearbooks must suck.
The story went global. Google News is showing 1130 news articles about the ban. It's also now listed on Wikipedia's Streisand Effect page.
It can easily get 2 million views due to all the hubbub about it.
Whatever happened to brown-bagging it?
I had trays like that in primary school from 1989-1996
I think its just the salad they offer with the meal, I have noticed however that she says when she doesn't finish her meal she isn't allowed fruit, I don't think thats right.
But my friends little boy gets school meals, and they always have baked beans with them for some reason!
No, you are not being harsh. I agree with you, especially the contrived fury part.
I'm also sick of reading 'little Martha' like she's a toddler. She'll probably be all over the print press now and telly (This Morning etc.).
Reminds me of the famous "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?" from Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2).
They were taking the piss out of that archaic 'post war' way of thinking back in 1979, can't believe that school staff are still strictly enforcing this 'punishment' today.
Same happened to a friend of mines kid, he took in a packed lunch, sarnies, crisps and yoghurt, he didn't like the sarny and only ate half, they took the yoghurt and crisps away from him and only gave ithem back at the end of the day.
Mate and his wife rightfully caused a big fuss about that.
Yep, I don't blame them, I don't see how anyone other than parents have a right to what your kids can eat.
That's where the media have been partly responsible for overhyping the story with what appears to me to be the wrong emphasis, and is probably what led to the Council making a stupid and harsh decision.
Even the latest 'success' story on the DM website mentions Martha's "blog of her terrible school dinners" and her "pictures of her miserable school dinners". As I understand it the blog was set up as part of a writing project. It was the case that those first few pictures that were posted looked very limp and unsatisfying but in the duration of her blog there have been many 8/10 and 9/10 dinners on the food-o-meter and even a 10/10. She's rated a number of dinners high on the health stakes as well. She (or her father?!) have made some critical observations but it's just a blog chronicling her dinners. She's seemed very happy with the vast majority of offerings. It's the media that are overplaying it and turning her into some sort of crusader against the evil dinnerladies serving up disgusting slop.
I'm not saying kids repeatedly refreshing the page (or even people viewing more than one page on a visit) is the soul reason for the number of page views, but it will be a significant percentage.
I think the first few were a bit naff but on the whole looks nicer than the slop I had in primary school.