Peanut butter

[El]

Peanut butter on a hot english breakfast muffin. Mmmm, melty goodness.

Plus I'm VERY partial to these when I can get them:

Are they hard to get where you live (I forget where that is)?

* PMS Elle tries to imagine living in a place where reeses peanut butter cups were difficult to find, and winces.

*Hykeaswell now really gets curious. What are reesses peanut butter cups? *

Heaven in a wrapper   

Oh, I thought that was the definition of really good safe sex.

[renaeden]

See, things in Australia are different. Most kids bring their own lunch to school and there aren't big cafeterias like in the US. We usually have a small canteen or lunch orders.

And kids usually eat outside (at least in WA). When I was at school I hardly ever ordered my lunch, it was a special event when I did.

[Phlexor]

See, things in Australia are different. Most kids bring their own lunch to school and there aren't big cafeterias like in the US. We usually have a small canteen or lunch orders.

And kids usually eat outside (at least in WA). When I was at school I hardly ever ordered my lunch, it was a special event when I did.

Iced Coffee Big M in your lunch order FTW!!! 

['andersom']

Here lots of kids have lunch at home. And the ones that do eat at school bring their own lunch. Most primary schools have not even got a canteen.

Schools are a lot smaller here I guess. And often within short biking or walking distance for most kids.


Culture shock:

We don't have peanutbuttercookies here.

We do eat a lot of peanut sauce, spicey indonesian sause. Based on peanutbutter mainly.

[TheoK]

I like  with peanut butter sauce. Linda and I used to have that on the Asian restaurant in Norrköping. 

[Phlexor]

Here lots of kids have lunch at home. And the ones that do eat at school bring their own lunch. Most primary schools have not even got a canteen.

Schools are a lot smaller here I guess. And often within short biking or walking distance for most kids.


Culture shock:

We don't have peanutbuttercookies here.

We do eat a lot of peanut sauce, spicey indonesian sause. Based on peanutbutter mainly.

Where is 'here'?

['andersom']

Here lots of kids have lunch at home. And the ones that do eat at school bring their own lunch. Most primary schools have not even got a canteen.

Schools are a lot smaller here I guess. And often within short biking or walking distance for most kids.


Culture shock:

We don't have peanutbuttercookies here.

We do eat a lot of peanut sauce, spicey indonesian sause. Based on peanutbutter mainly.

Where is 'here'?

The Netherlands.

[Phlexor]

Here lots of kids have lunch at home. And the ones that do eat at school bring their own lunch. Most primary schools have not even got a canteen.

Schools are a lot smaller here I guess. And often within short biking or walking distance for most kids.


Culture shock:

We don't have peanutbuttercookies here.

We do eat a lot of peanut sauce, spicey indonesian sause. Based on peanutbutter mainly.

Where is 'here'?

The Netherlands.

My family is from there, my Oma and Opa moved out here (Australia) in the 50's.

['andersom']

Here lots of kids have lunch at home. And the ones that do eat at school bring their own lunch. Most primary schools have not even got a canteen.

Schools are a lot smaller here I guess. And often within short biking or walking distance for most kids.


Culture shock:

We don't have peanutbuttercookies here.

We do eat a lot of peanut sauce, spicey indonesian sause. Based on peanutbutter mainly.

Where is 'here'?

The Netherlands.

My family is from there, my Oma and Opa moved out here (Australia) in the 50's.

I've got some relatives in Victoria and Tasmania.
And I have to say, of all other continents, Australia is the most appealing.

[TheoK]

The Netherlands - the 17th Bundesland of Germany.  

[Phlexor]

Here lots of kids have lunch at home. And the ones that do eat at school bring their own lunch. Most primary schools have not even got a canteen.

Schools are a lot smaller here I guess. And often within short biking or walking distance for most kids.


Culture shock:

We don't have peanutbuttercookies here.

We do eat a lot of peanut sauce, spicey indonesian sause. Based on peanutbutter mainly.

Where is 'here'?

The Netherlands.

My family is from there, my Oma and Opa moved out here (Australia) in the 50's.

I've got some relatives in Victoria and Tasmania.
And I have to say, of all other continents, Australia is the most appealing.

Yep, my family is in Victoria and my 1st step dad's family first moved to Tasmania (and they are Dutch too). Seems quite a few came over in the 50's.

[renaeden]

See, things in Australia are different. Most kids bring their own lunch to school and there aren't big cafeterias like in the US. We usually have a small canteen or lunch orders.

And kids usually eat outside (at least in WA). When I was at school I hardly ever ordered my lunch, it was a special event when I did.

Iced Coffee Big M in your lunch order FTW!!! 

I used to love getting a frozen Choc Milk. It would take me all of lunch time to eat it.

[DirtDawg]

So it's just a case of being over reported in the media perhaps?

Add to this the fact that the "politically correct"  nanny world we live in is run by the minority dejour with the squeakiest wheel. We can't possibly endanger any one or offend anyone, except the vast majority.

Hey, how about the option of telling the allergic kid NOT to eat peanuts?

The problem is that some kids are so severely allergic to peanuts that if they breathe peanut, even in that tiny an amount, they go into anaphylactic shock.

At my daughter's former public elementary school, they had peanut-free zones and IIRC, there were eight kids at her school who were severely allergic to peanuts. 

I had to pack a lunch for her anyway because they had some sort of corn in almost every main dish they served.  Even on Domino Pizza Fridays, Domino Pizzas have cornmeal in the pizza crust.  Their chicken nuggets had cornmeal in the breading.  They had a deli sandwich on the menu some days and the roll they typically used was multigrain with corn in it, although I could go in ahead of time and request they use a different roll for her sandwich.  If she wanted to eat in the cafeteria, which she usually wanted to do on macaroni and cheese days, I had to go check out the ingredients in every item first.  I think I put $20 in her lunch account at the beginning of the year and there was still money left at the end of the year.

So, how is that an argument against my position?
You have just made half of my argument for me.

Why the PHuck don't they "corral"  That fucking kid, instead of making life less fulfilling for all the rest of the kids??>?





FFS, this is supposed to be a place where "like-minded people" can learn to survive. Why in creation do we succumbed to the LCD (math reference) in our push towards the future?

[Phlexor]

Well that's it, these kids are going to have to deal with this for the rest of their lives. Get them used to it. Don't give them a false sense of security by making the school yard safe for them.

[DirtDawg]

Well that's it, these kids are going to have to deal with this for the rest of their lives. Get them used to it. Don't give them a false sense of security by making the school yard safe for them.

Exactly my point.