By now you've heard that last week's obesity-inducing chicken nuggets are today's high-health magic food. That's a relief since my car and self gravitate naturally to the drive-thru at McDonald's. (Seriously, when I am on my death bed just give me about 87 cc's of a Coca-Cola/French fry blend, and I'll be up and cleaning the bathrooms within an hour.) So, when I became aware of the little 4-year-old whose homemade, pretty decent lunch was deemed unfit by the local food police, a.k.a. The Lunchroom Rangers, I had to find out what sort of digestive terrorism her mother had the audacity to inflict upon her. A turkey sandwich. Banana. Apple Juice. Potato Chips. Really?
Deputy Ranger #762 clad in his hair net and plastic gloves deemed her lunch nutritionally deficient and gave the little girl a second lunch with the FDA's new brain food, chicken nuggets. If that weren't enough, the little girl was slapped with a fine -- $1.25 for a lunch her mom never intended her to have in the first place.
I don't know about you, but when I imagined the scene in my mind and the absurdity of it all on the part of the school, the first thing I thought of was the 2319 alert in Monster's Inc. Far-fetched? I think not. Coming to a school near you? Possibly.
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