Tales From The Lunch Lines: Teens Launch Food Fight On Twitter #thanksmichelleobama
By John Dodge
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Students across the nation have united in a crusade, drawing a line in the lunch room over what they are being served in the school cafeteria.
Using the hashtag #thanksmichelleobama, teenagers are tweeting out pictures of the stuff that gets slapped on their platter.
It began as an effort led by first lady Michelle Obama to serve more-healthful food to American schoolchildren.
It has been made into a mockery by teens--as only teens can do.
Here are some examples of the stuff kids see on the lunch room line.
While the images that are about to be shown are safe for work, the plain truth is that this stuff looks icky.
The best guess from our panel of food experts is that this is a dollop of refried beans:
Yum school lunches #thanksmichelleobama pic.twitter.com/eS27j75Oae
— Jess (@Jess_Sency) November 18, 2014
Could this be red beans and rice? Dog vomit? Bueller? Anybody? Bueller?
That apple is shaped like a rhombus. Did somebody cut out the principal's tongue?
#ThanksMichelleObama pic.twitter.com/OrJrkD0HZf
— Landon Atkinson (@LandonJAtkinson) November 21, 2014
There appears to be more plastic utensils than food here.
This is my lunch. I'm in high school. #ThanksMichelleObama pic.twitter.com/02t4MScBIe
— Maya (@mayawuertz) November 17, 2014
Fiber, buddy, fiber.
As one might imagine, there are lots of people who take umbrage with teens being sarcastic and having little or no understanding of the real struggles around them.
This is kind of a "get off my lawn" tweet. However, she does have a point. Kids can be little s---s.
This is a "throw the lunch lady under the bus" tweet, but she, too, does have a point.
I'm disappointed about #ThanksMichelleObama. She championed improved standards in school food. She is not the lunch lady making the meals.
— Beth Rosen MS RD CDN (she/her) (@BethRosenRD) November 21, 2014
And finally, the whole story, summed up in fewer than 140 characters.
The best part abt #ThanksMichelleObama is, hands down, the humorless scolds complaining abt the joke and the ungrateful kids making it
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) November 21, 2014