School Menus

Last weekend, I took a fast and furious trip back to rural Georgia where I like to spend my time skimming through the paper for any former classmates who are now getting married, having babies, or going to jail. Lo and behold, I found the Pike County Elementary and Middle School menu! Let me just say that the following is, word-for-word, what I found in the paper. It may also be considered mild child abuse. (Please note this was printed in a weekly publication that goes out on Wednesdays, so the menu options are listed as Thursday-Wednesday. I just didn't want to confuse you. Weeks work the same way in the south as they do every where else. Food does not.)

Thursday
Breakfast: Pop tarts or breads, cheese grits
Lunch: Fish and hush puppies or ham sandwich, fries, slaw, juice bars

Friday
Breakfast: Croissant with cheese, sausage
Lunch: Tacos or pizza, salad, corn, beans, cake


Monday
Breakfast: Pizza (My response: Is this a college dorm?)
Lunch: Burrito with re-fried beans, Spanish rice or chicken sandwich, or burrito with green beans, potatoes, cookies.
(Are the green beans in the burrito?)

Tuesday
Breakfast: Chicken biscuit
Lunch: Fajitas or hot dog, slaw and chips, or salad and rice, beans, Jell-O

Wednesday
Breakfast: Pancakes, sausage
Lunch: Beef ravioli with vegetable dippers, green beans, or chicken, Texas toast, or tuna salad, vegetable dippers (again), slaw, cinnamon rolls

CINNAMON ROLLS! Those jags wouldn't let us have any Cokes but installed a Fruitopia machine, and now the breakfast options for kids consist of old pizza, fried chicken biscuits, Pop Tarts and "breads"?