NY bans homemade goods at Bake sales

[Mango]

IN one corner: Reduced Fat Cool Ranch Doritos, Linden’s Chocolate Chip Minis and Stacy’s Cinnamon Sugar Pita Chips. In the other: homemade pumpkin bread, pink cupcakes and spinach tofu empanadas.

Bureaucratically speaking, the Doritos take it, under the recent restrictions on student bake sales in New York City public schools. That is, unless the parents who plan to stage a “bake-in” at City Hall on Thursday can persuade officials to overturn the regulation.
The rule, which school officials say is aimed at tackling obesity, allows PTAs to hold bake sales once a month or weekdays after 6 p.m. Otherwise only fresh fruits and vegetables and any of 27 packaged items that meet city Health Department guidelines on calories, fat and sodium can be sold at schools.
Some parents have accused school officials of promoting processed food.

Taking the Bake Out of Bake Sale - NYTimes.com

I can't believe Pop tarts are on the approved list of foods.

What's next? The federal government telling people they have to have tofu instead of steak if they are receiving a subsidy?

 

[Gidget]

lulz - crazy!!!!!!

 

[poppy]

Could this mean the Girl Scouts will be dealing with bureaucratic resistance come next cookie season?

 

[Em]

Bake sales in my home town changed greatly back in the 1980's. Some high and mighty sanitation inspector got a little carried away and started making food booths at local events where we would serve grilled hamburgers and cookies, be fly proof. Essentially, that meant all food booths were required to have a floor which could be mopped, walls, roof, screened windows. All of this and there had never been one reported case of bad sanitation practices or food poisoning.

Get ready. As I understand it, the new or tweaked version of the Health Care bill will also make all restaurants with more than twenty store locations, post calorie counts on all menu items. I'm not sure what happens if they add a little more cream to freshen the She Crab Soup, thus increasing the calories. Will their be calorie police monitoring all of this craziness? They don't make laws for nothing. I guess that will be another job creation bill, disguised. Attention all people, eating donuts often without routine exercise, will cause you to get fat. Do we really need laws to tell us that? HellOOOOO.

 

[poppy]

Bake sales in my home town changed greatly back in the 1980's. Some high and mighty sanitation inspector got a little carried away and started making food booths at local events where we would serve grilled hamburgers and cookies, be fly proof. Essentially, that meant all food booths were required to have a floor which could be mopped, walls, roof, screened windows. All of this and there had never been one reported case of bad sanitation practices or food poisoning.

Get ready. As I understand it, the new or tweaked version of the Health Care bill will also make all restaurants with more than twenty store locations, post calorie counts on all menu items. I'm not sure what happens if they add a little more cream to freshen the She Crab Soup, thus increasing the calories. Will their be calorie police monitoring all of this craziness? They don't make laws for nothing. I guess that will be another job creation bill, disguised.Attention all people, eating donuts often without routine exercise, will cause you to get fat. Do we really need laws to tell us that? HellOOOOO.

You criticize an imaginary "job creation bill, disguised" in this post, now let's scroll down.

Originally Posted by murray
This bill lacks any incentive to live a healthy lifestyle. For example, an extremely obese person with Diabetes, and other medical problems, will pay the same amount, maybe less if they cannot work due to their obesity, than a healthy person who chooses to eat right, not smoke, not drink, exercises, etc. Seems to me that as Americans get more and more overweight and we as a nation, exercise even less, costs of healthcare will increase accordingly. Obviously, many people choose their lifestyle, and they have no incentive to eat well and exercise regularly. I think if the gov't is going to shake things up with this Health Care law, they should give incentives ($$$) to people who don't have claims, as in the form of a rebate. If I knew that I could get paid to be more healthy, I would do so. Perhaps make it enough of a rebate to cover gym membership or fitness classes, or buy a nice bicycle. In this bill, I see no rewards for those who choose the healthy lifestyle. I was always taught that the best way to enforce a good habit is to reward it.

Your suggestion here from another thread will require some type of "job creation bill, disguised" to make sure these purchases are genuine. The difference here is you want the govt. to give you money for activities you are presently engaged in.

 

[30ashopper]

NY is the quintessential nanny state. It's too bad really, I've always wanted to live there for a period but the tax system is just too punishing. I can't even work for companies there because the state taxes income even when you don't live there.

 

[30A Skunkape]

I love me some FD&C Yellow #6 and maltodextran

Honestly, I am surprised the kids can even have any bake sales with all the en vogue food allergy hysteria.

 

[LuciferSam]

Urban Dictionary: pussification

1. pussification (noun): the state in which a society becomes less and less tough. This noun's originator is the famous comedian George Carlin.
"We are undergoing a pussification of our entire society."

 

[Geo]

I don't think govt should be able to ban bake sales. I do believe govt should be able to require restaurants to post calorie counts. Perhaps I too have become pussified. But I believe the obesity epidemic in the US is caused by what big companies are putting in food to raise margins, not from what PTA members and soccer parents are putting in cupcakes.

 

[LuciferSam]

I don't think govt should be able to ban bake sales. I do believe govt should be able to require restaurants to post calorie counts. Perhaps I too have become pussified. But I believe the obesity epidemic in the US is caused by what big companies are putting in food to raise margins, not from what PTA members and soccer parents are putting in cupcakes.

I agree with accurate labeling too. You should know that a blooming onion is about 2500 calories or some outrageous number and maybe 30 grams of saturated fat. That's not pussification. That's just part of harm reduction for the bold adventurous diner who wants to live on the edge. Then you know you need to drink a 1.5 liter bottle of red wine to unclog those arteries. (might be good to start off with a Prilosec or 2) So yes, information is good, I'll go along with that.