Thanks to Scott for this: More about gummint food:

Are prisoners better fed than our children?

Are prisoners better fed than children at school? Students and inmates eat identical lunches but jailhouse cuisine is healthier
(Daily Mail (UK)) Few can say they had a good school lunch experience. Stereotypically sloppy and greasy and served up with greying mashed potatoes, canteen dinners are a childhood memory best forgotten. Even prisoners would turn their noses up at some of it, according to the LA-based community blog GOOD.is.

Compare that with this:

Wasted Food, Hungry Kids: Michelle Obama’s Bill in Action
(PJ Media) Reports of predictable nanny state chaos.
In 2010, Michelle Obama went to a lame-duck session of Congress with a request: pass a nutrition bill giving the United States Department of Agriculture broad new powers to regulate school lunches. That bill was passed in late December of that year, and the new regulations have started to go into effect, with the predictable results of wasted food and angry, hungry children.

The cinnamon rolls and chili everyone loved from their childhood are now gone. Bands and other school groups can no longer sell candy bars as a fundraiser. The government is mandating everything from portion size to how many tomatoes have to be on a salad.

Also predictably, it took over a week for the mainstream media to even acknowledge the news in their regular broadcasts, and even then more in a “people are being weird” vein than as a serious news story.  This viral video (fun to watch) may have led to that but also GOT the attention which other actions did not.

I guess I should be surprised that it took two years for the chaos and the consequences to develop.  We did it to ourselves, when decades ago we let the do-gooders lobby Congress to pass laws and start providing yet another form of welfare via the school systems – a dangerously bad form of welfare by their very nature.

Government is bad for you, and nanny government is VERY bad for you.  But I suspect that worse is to come:  we very well may see parents TOTALLY prohibited from sending food to school with their children, and searches of backpacks at the entrances to these institutions expanded to include DingDongs and Almond Joy as well as the usual bombs, guns and knives (especially those plastic ones used to spread cream cheese and butter and especially the evil peanut butter).  And no doubt, Goldilocks will have to eat something other than porridge (all those carbs!  And sugar and butter and whole milk!).  And the wicked witch will have to give Snow White something other than a poisoned apple (bad associations).