Federal Plan to Limit Potatoes on School Menus Whips Up Supporters; 'Gateway Vegetable'

Federal Plan to Limit Potatoes on School Menus Whips Up Supporters; 'Gateway Vegetable'

PORTLAND, Maine—Around here, you can find "Maine Potato Candy"—mashed potatoes rolled in coconut and dipped in chocolate—and potato donuts. A popular county fair offers wrestling matches in a vat of potatoes. In a state where spuds are the top agricultural product, locals can't get enough of them, even at schools.

"We've got to have potatoes—our children are used to potatoes," says Louise Bray, food-service director for Caribou, Maine, public schools. She regularly serves hash browns for breakfast, plus mashed potatoes, "Maine fries," a baked potato bar and potato puffs for lunch.

But now the federal government wants to all but toss tubers out of school.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is proposing to eliminate the "white potato"—defined as any variety but the sweet potato—from federally subsidized school breakfasts and to limit them sharply at lunch.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704810504576305250845743700.html

them's fighting words. I hope they don't do this.

I love me some baked new potatoes

too bad Glenn Beck lost his show, I'm sure he'd have plenty to say about this.

people like Glenn Beck will talk about the Sweet Potato's tie to the south and more specifically black Americans. This might very well turn into fodder for people who want to spread the lie that President Obama hates white Americans.

The first settlers brought them in their canoes. Now, Obama's from Hawai'i, and he's unAmerican, and so therefore are sweet potatoes. It's obvious!

Actually, potatoes are pretty nutritious if you don't load them up with fats.

That sounds... revolting.

are serving that shit to our kids. What ever happened to mashed potatoes with a small pat of butter?

Oh nevermind. This is from the Murdoch Street Journal. Almost as bad as world nut daily.

:shakes-head:

...and into the fermentation vat.

Wyborowa is made from rye. Vodka from 'tatoes is fairly uncommon.

Jus gonna give em everything?

plus mashed potatoes, "Maine fries," a baked potato bar and potato puffs for lunch.

My buddy was a diabetic and he practically had this glycemic information memorized.

But compared to the crap most people eat for breakfast, a baked potato is pretty healthy.