Give me your tots
I just realized I brought peach-flavored yogurt and a peach in my lunch today.
Duh. That makes me feel kind of dumb. At least one is “dairy” and one counts as “fruit.”
When my class was learning about the food pyramid in grade school, our teacher gave us each a sheet of white glossy square stickers with pictures of different foods on them. He also gave us sheets of paper that had an illustration of a plate on it. Our task in class was to put “well-balanced” meals on the plate based on what we were learning.
For some reason, the local television crew decided to come and interview my class to do a little human interest story (I guess news was slow that day). They interviewed a few of us, and we showed them our little papers with our stickers on them, with the crude drawings of corn, chicken legs, apples, etc.
I eagerly awaited watching the story on the news that night. To my dismay, they showed a shot of the entire class working, with the reporter talking in front of us, then interviewed only one kid.
A few of us were pretty bummed the next day. We had worked really hard on our “balanced” meals, and thought they would show them on tv.
Our teacher was more upset about what was on the kid’s plate that they did show – mashed potatoes, french fries, and tater tots.
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Today’s Idiom: red-letter day – day of happiness, time for rejoicing (holidays are red-letter days on our calendars)
My red-letter day came when I received a job offer before graduation. I felt like I had nothing to worry about anymore.
Themocracy
Perhaps you were anticipating having a peachy day?
Ha ha. 🙂
Your story is cute, but that’s such a bummer that they didn’t show all the little projects!
diane – Aww…. Har de har har. (Or should I say “r dr r”? You’re a Simpons fan, right?) I bet my parents still have those little sheets of paper with my sticker-foods on them!
Ha! Now that’s a starchy lunch. 😉
Mashed, Fried, Mashed’n’Fried don’t constitute a balanced meal? Uh oh. Time to evaluate my eating plan… ha!
tots! i love that movie!
i have a similar memory…a reporter from a local newspaper came to interview our class for some reason that eludes me right now and took pictures to run along side the column. Well the reporter selected two kids form the class, I was not one of them, but he made me move and sat the kid at MY desk. Was I ever slighted. The next day when the picture and story came out, I showed by mom MY desk. Yeah, not bitter at all.
sizzle – All he needs is some ketchup!
Nilsa – Time for me to evaluate too… because when I was typing this up, it started to sound good!
Gina (Mannyed) – WTF? What was so awesome about your desk…? Do tell!
The one kid they interviewed had mashed potatoes, french fries, and tater tots? Well, he had his starch for the month, right? BAHAHAH! LOL!
LOL that’s really funny! Sometimes I find myself with strawberry yogurt and strawberries, or some kind of yogurt and a cheese stick…I am not a good “balanced meal” person!
I have sent goof combinations like that in my kids lunches (the peach/peach yogurt thing not the several different forms of potatoes). They don’t seem to mind but I always feel sort of bad when I realize! It beats the time I sent a milk box that was spoiled though. My daughter came home crying because her milk was lumpy!
Silly media. Anything for their story…
javaqueen14 – It’s no joke! I can only remember it so well because the teacher teased the kid so much! (Light-heartedly or course, he was a good guy).
Bethany – The fact that we even think about the food pyramid puts us one step ahead of some people! 😉
tori – Oh, that is too funny! My mom has a lot of funny stories of packing my dad’s lunch – one day she forgot the meat on his sandwich – he just got two pieces of bread!
Cheryl – Yeah… I think they are still that bad! I see ads for some ridiculous news stories in the paper!