I don't eat a lot of fast food.  Aside from the fact that I try to watch my slim, girlish figure, I'm just not crazy about most of their food.  Their boasts of all-white-meat chicken and prime USDA beef never convinced me.  You ever eat a McDonald's burger or chicken nugget and had your teeth crunch down on something hard?  I have.  Hence, the avoidance of fast food.

Apparently, I should be comfortable with fast food - since, chances are, it's safer than your average school lunch:

In the past three years, the government has provided the nation's schools with millions of pounds of beef and chicken that wouldn't meet the quality or safety standards of many fast-food restaurants, from Jack in the Box and other burger places to chicken chains such as KFC, a USA TODAY investigation found.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the meat it buys for the National School Lunch Program "meets or exceeds standards in commercial products."

That isn't always the case. McDonald's, Burger King, and Costco, for instance, are far more rigorous in checking for bacteria and dangerous pathogens. They test the ground beef they buy five to 10 times more often than the USDA tests beef made for schools during a typical production day.

And the limits Jack in the Box and other big retailers set for certain bacteria in their burgers are up to 10 times more stringent than what the USDA sets for school beef.

For chicken, the USDA has supplied schools with thousands of tons of meat from old birds that might otherwise go to compost or pet food. Called "spent hens" because they're past their egg-laying prime, the chickens don't pass muster with Colonel Sanders — KFC won't buy them — and they don't pass the soup test, either. The Campbell Soup Company says it stopped using them a decade ago based on "quality considerations."

Kids in public school may be eating pet food.  This is why my daughter will not be going to public school.  The best line of the article, by the way:

President Obama noted earlier this year that, for many children, school lunches are "their most nutritious meal — sometimes their only meal — of the day."

Yummy, nutritious pet-food.

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1 But its made with real chicken and beef and processed grain product!

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 09, 2009 08:26 PM (GC5S2)

2 Let's say it together, class (or lack of class since this is a moronblog): Capitalism beats Socialism!

Posted by: doubleplusundead at December 09, 2009 09:45 PM (PAy8X)

3 Ember, slim girlish figure aside (*sigh*) you're doing yourself a disservice if you don't have a Hardee's Thickburger at least once.  Padma approves!

Posted by: MikeD at December 10, 2009 11:00 AM (FkL60)

4

man I miss Jack in the Box!

mmmmm deep fried tacos.....

Posted by: mrfixit at December 10, 2009 11:07 AM (V89AT)

5

There isn't a Hardee's in Lafayette, MikeD!

Or a Jack In The Box.  Thanks, Fixit.  Now I'm craving it.

Posted by: Ember at December 10, 2009 12:07 PM (LdRAG)

6 Is there a Carl's Junior? It's the same thing as Hardees (owned by the same company).  Get you a Western Bacon Cheeseburger.  You will thank me later.

Posted by: MikeD at December 10, 2009 12:41 PM (FkL60)

7 Jack in the Box are sprouting up like weeds here.  I haven't eaten at one since I was a kid, and don't know if I will in light of

Posted by: Alice H at December 10, 2009 01:22 PM (qJHYy)

8 Ronald had it coming to him...he was stickin his big mac in jack's gf Wendy'a hot and juicy...

Posted by: mrfixit at December 10, 2009 04:30 PM (V89AT)

9

wendy'a = wendy's

 

damn keyboard

Posted by: mrfixit at December 10, 2009 04:31 PM (V89AT)

10

No Carl's Jr., either.  We have Wendy's, McD's, Burger King, and Checkers.  And an Arby's, but it's the most disgusting Arby's I've ever seen, and that's saying quite a lot.

Posted by: Ember at December 10, 2009 06:14 PM (LdRAG)

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