Salt “Black Markets” Emerge in Indiana School System as Students Seek to Avoid Bland Michelle Obama Lunches

Late last year, a very popular meme emerged related to public school students taking pictures of their meager and clearly unhealthy school lunch options and posting them on social media. I covered one example in the post: This is What School Lunch Looks Like in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Here’s a picture:

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Not only are the portions criminally small, but apparently they are also so bland that students in an Indiana school district have developed a black market in salt and pepper in order to make the lunch edibles. You gotta hand it to these kids. Well done.

From Reason:

Kids in a school district in Indiana have created a black market in salt packets, which they trade and sell to help mitigate the disgusting taste of the so-called healthy lunches mandated under federal guidelines.

These guidelines were championed by First Lady Michelle Obama. Like so many other clumsy government attempts to make people healthier by forbidding the consumption of things they like, the initiative is a costly failure.

“Perhaps the most colorful example in my district is that students have been caught bringing–and even selling–salt, pepper, and sugar in school to add taste to perceived bland and tasteless cafeteria food,” said John S. Payne, the president of Blackford County School Board of Trustees in Hartford City, Indiana.

“This ‘contraband’ economy is just one example of many that reinforce the call for flexibility [with the rules],” he said.

This just goes to show that the human imagination and spirit always finds some way around bureaucratic idiocy.

For related articles, see:

This is What School Lunch Looks Like in Chickasha, Oklahoma

Kitchen Manager at Colorado School Fired for Buying Lunch for a Poor Student

Lunches Seized and Tossed in Trash at Salt Lake City Elementary School for Kids with Unpaid Balances

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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3 thoughts on “Salt “Black Markets” Emerge in Indiana School System as Students Seek to Avoid Bland Michelle Obama Lunches”

  1. What are parents doing about it? Oh, that’s correct….. nothing! Same thing with Common Core. Parents complain, but do nothing.

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  2. You are wrong Michael. They are doing exactly what they are supposed to do, abdicate power and responsibility to the state.

    “Relax Michael. Let Good Ole’ Uncle Sam, take care of those little leaches. You keep spending that paycheck on the newest flavor of electronic Soma, which flavor would you like Apple or Samsung? Billy’s teacher told us that he was acting a little rambunctious in class today. Don’t worry Dr. Sam will see him tomorrow during study hall to adjust his Aderall before the kids take their lunch break, brought to you this week by Tyson.

    And Michael if you disagree with the way we are raising your children, please feel free to contact you congress person’s office. Remember disrupting a school board meeting is an act of Educational Terrorism, Class E Misdemeanor which is grounds for the Office of Happy Patriotic Families to find a more civic minded residence for your children during your stay at one of the Repatriation Hostels. The media will not report your story, they are forbidden to.

    Michael remember our shared sacrifices will guarantee domestic tranquility and shareholder profit maximization.

    By the way you are overdue for your virility vaccination.”

    Now go back and imagine Hal from 2001 Space Odyssey. Or play it through Google Speak.

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  3. Why are we feeding kids? Parents should be responsible for feeding THEIR children! Now some schools feed breakfast? Where does it end?! And kids are dumber now than ever. System is not working folks!

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