A bit off-topic, tobut something that is really nagging at the me at the moment is all the positive publicity earmarked to the "school dinners in Denmark" campaign.
Are these people thick? The only thing keeping Danish kids from being as obese as British kids is that they are forced to eat something healthy for lunch, ie Rye Bread. This really is the Nanny State gone mad.
Did any of these people study the British School dinners system or watch "Jamie's School Dinners"? 5 year old kids living on Turkey Twizzlers and 6 chips (believe it or not, when my Dad worked at the local junior and infants school, the canteen staff told him they were ordered to count out the oven chips for each plate!). As someone brought up on the British schools dinner system, I remember a lot of people I went to school with managed to spend the whole week eating nothing else but chips and sausage or the occasional burger for a bit of variety.
Okay, when introduced in Britain in the 1950s it was a fantastic idea with good motives of a healthy diet, but like all great ideas it ultimately becomes something to run as cheaply as possible and sod the consequences. I just about caught the end of the good stuff in the early 1980s, but then came a school canteen menu with reheated mush and it all fell apart.
Denmark is the one country in the world that does not need school dinners - the daily "madpakke" of ryebread and toppings is one of the healthiest things kids could ever eat and I predict that however noble the motives seem now, just look to Britain for the reality of where it'll go.
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