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Fairfax schools return to serving old hamburgers
Posted by: cc ()
Date: October 05, 2013 08:25PM

Odd headline, but...

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - The Fairfax County public school system has stopped serving all-beef hamburgers in response to complaints from students.

The school system announced in the spring of 2012 that it would switch from additive-filled burgers to 100 percent beef patties.

But students complained that the new burgers didn't look or taste right, and the Washington Post reports that the school system quietly resumed serving its old burgers this fall.

Penny McConnell, the school system's food and nutritional service director, wrote in a note to Real Food for Kids, a Fairfax-based advocacy groups that had advocated the all-beef patties, that "students are our customers and we listen to them and implement their requests if possible."

A school spokesman says the new burger doesn't contain "pink slime," a filler product.

http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/277637/158/Fairfax-schools-return-to-serving-old-hamburgers

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Re: Fairfax schools return to serving old hamburgers
Posted by: Bad Move ()
Date: October 05, 2013 08:28PM

Well, that's sad. Shame they gave in to the short-term wants of their 'customers' at the expense of the long-term consequences to their health.

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Re: Fairfax schools return to serving old hamburgers
Posted by: better than the alternative ()
Date: October 06, 2013 12:04PM

If Tammy Kaufax, David Velkoff, Ilryong Moon, Patty Reed and Ryan McElveen had their way, the kids would eat turfburgers.

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Re: Fairfax schools return to serving old hamburgers
Posted by: Robert Thorn ()
Date: October 06, 2013 02:27PM

it's better than the alternative. has anyone heard about what happened to the missing immigrants?

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Re: Fairfax schools return to serving old hamburgers
Posted by: WO P ()
Date: October 07, 2013 12:01PM

cc Wrote:
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> Odd headline, but...
>
> FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - The Fairfax County public
> school system has stopped serving all-beef
> hamburgers in response to complaints from
> students.
>
> The school system announced in the spring of 2012
> that it would switch from additive-filled burgers
> to 100 percent beef patties.
>
> But students complained that the new burgers
> didn't look or taste right, and the Washington
> Post reports that the school system quietly
> resumed serving its old burgers this fall.
>
> Penny McConnell, the school system's food and
> nutritional service director, wrote in a note to
> Real Food for Kids, a Fairfax-based advocacy
> groups that had advocated the all-beef patties,
> that "students are our customers and we listen to
> them and implement their requests if possible."
>
> A school spokesman says the new burger doesn't
> contain "pink slime," a filler product.
>
> http://www.wusa9.com/news/article/277637/158/Fairf
> ax-schools-return-to-serving-old-hamburgers


Students also don't like math. Can they replace math with Cheetos plz?

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Parent group objects to processed burgers on school menus
Posted by: 100% Beef ()
Date: October 07, 2013 02:59PM

Parent group objects to processed burgers on school menus
Switched back from 100 percent beef patties due to student complaints
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20131007/NEWS/131009391/parent-group-objects-to-processed-burgers-on-school-menus&template=fairfaxTimes

A parent group is criticizing a Fairfax County Public Schools decision to again begin serving a hamburger patty that includes 26 ingredients.

In spring 2012, the school system had made the switch to a 100 percent beef burger in an effort to offer healthier options.

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Ingredients of the Don Lee Farms hamburger patties:

Ground beef (not more than 20% fat), water, texturized vegetable protein product (soy flour, caramel color, zinc oxide, niacinamide, ferrous sulfate, copper gluconate, vitamin A palmitate, calcium pentothenate, thaimine mononitrate {B1}, pyridoxine hydrocholoride {B6}, riboflavin {B2}, cyanocobalamin {B12}), seasoning (hydrolyzed soy protein, dry onion, malodextrin, spice, sugar, salt, torula yeast, yeast extract, natural flavor, caramel color, disodium inosinate), autolyzed yeast, potassium chloride.
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The parent group Real Food For Kids had often cited the burger as an example of the sort of additive-laden products they wanted to see removed from school menus.

President JoAnne Hammermaster said the group had publicly praised FCPS Food and Nutrition Services when it replaced the burger with a 100 percent beef burger.

It takes extensive research for Food and Nutrition Services to identify options that meet federal school lunch requirements and are affordable and feasible to prepare and serve on a massive scale, Hammermaster said, and Real Food For Kids is disappointed to see that research go out the window.

“You go through all of that to find a good product … and then it quietly slips back in,” she said.

While some of the 26 ingredients are things like vitamins, Hammermaster said, the fact that vitamins need to be added back in to the food to meet nutrition requirements are an indication that it is a highly processed product.

Food and Nutrition Services switched back to the old brand of burger patties this year due to complaints from students, said FCPS spokesman John Torre.

“They were surprised by the negative comments received from students,” he said.

The school food service typically holds taste-testing sessions with students before new products are introduced.

Food and Nutrition Services is continuing to search for a different brand of 100 percent beef hamburger patty that will be acceptable to students, Torre said.

Although cost was not cited as a factor, the burger patties currently being served, from Don Lee Farms, are slightly cheaper, at 32 cents per patty. The 100 percent beef ones from Maid Rite were 39 cents per patty.

Hammermaster said Real Food For Kids would rather see the burger disappear from school menus altogether, rather than serving the additive-laden burger.

“We hope that if they make changes like this down the road they communicate with all parents, or at least with us so we know what is happening,” Hammermaster said.

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Re: Fairfax schools return to serving old hamburgers
Posted by: Tough One ()
Date: October 07, 2013 03:48PM

Probably better than the shit we had back in the day though.

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Re: Fairfax schools return to serving old hamburgers
Posted by: He He He ()
Date: October 07, 2013 05:46PM

Way back they were called "charburgers" the soybean meat ones, but they did grow on you and had a "cult like following".. Like a jack in the box taco

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Re: Fairfax schools return to serving old hamburgers
Posted by: ewww56 ()
Date: October 16, 2013 07:52AM

i grew up in ffx for a bit and those burgers were the worst things ever

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Re: Parent group objects to processed burgers on school menus
Posted by: lunch bunch ()
Date: October 16, 2013 08:05AM

100% Beef Wrote:
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> Parent group objects to processed burgers on
> school menus
> Switched back from 100 percent beef patties due to
> student complaints

Probably organized by the 24% that are getting free lunch in FCPS.

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