A school in a seaside town known for ice cream and chips has banished "beige" food in a bid to help pupils eat more healthily. Skegness Grammar School has ditched sausage rolls and pizza in favour of "nutritious" alternatives, such as smashed pea and feta pitta bread and waffles with fruit.
I bet they sell like hot cakes (which are probably banned too!).
Head teacher Lorraine Walker said: "There was a lot of beige food on offer, and we wanted to support our students to get a balanced diet."
Lady, if your sausage rolls are beige instead of golden brown, they are undercooked!
Not everyone agrees with the move, however. Chloe, a year nine student, said: "They've changed it to healthier, but it's not as good quality. Everyone's talking about it in lessons, that they don't like it."
But there’s always one little suck-up in every classroom:
Tom, a year 13 student, said he found the food "very nutritious" and "tasty". He had noticed a positive effect on his peers since the change. Some pupils did "miss" the old menu, he added. "But they know it is for the greater good."
Tom has a future ahead of him as a politician!
Mark and Sarah Wheatley, both 60, said the most important thing was to have a balanced diet.Sarah added: "Some are quite fussy. And if they're not eating that, then they're not eating nothing, are they?"
I guess they didn’t attend a school that taught them about double-negatives, even if the lunch was delicious….
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