The School Cafeteria Strikes Back … With Cheese!

By Alex in Food & Drink on Apr 18, 2010 at 1:09 am

Whatever you do, don’t piss off the cafeteria staff. Here’s what students at Atlantic City High School learned the hard way:

School administrators have found an effective way to crack down on students who engage in food fights: Let them eat cheese. And nothing else.

Students at Atlantic City High School were served plain cheese sandwiches for two days this week as punishment for a cellphone-coordinated food fight that broke out recently.

One parent likened the American cheese between two dry slices of plain white bread to "a prison meal."

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Tags: cafeteria, cheese, food fight, punishment, sandwich, school

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mattijs
Apr 18th, 2010 at 2:27 am
Just so you know, this is what I have most days of the week. That and a glass of milk. It’s considered a perfectly normal lunch in the Netherlands

It’s a lot healthier than burgers, fries, egg-rolls, sloppy joes, pizzas, and various cookies and candy bars combined with sugar loaded soda That’s if they don’t drive over to Micky D’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, Jack in the Box, Domino’s or some other fast food joint
Amberae
Apr 18th, 2010 at 4:18 am
the school doesn’t want to change their menu unless it’s out of revenge. How dumb.
laurabumblebee
Apr 18th, 2010 at 5:37 am
This made me laugh: “I know it’s food they were throwing around, but some people are allergic to cheese,” said senior James Blake. “I can see if they served peanut butter and jelly. But just cheese? It’s ridiculous.”

The policy has been on the books for a long time soI can understand why the school did it. Being punished for something is SUPPOSED to be uncomfortable. If you’re going to be an idiot and participate in a coordinated food fight, you have to be willing to face the consequences.

And that list of normal menu options made me want to go eat a cheese sandwich. They’re whining because they’re not being allowed to eat utter crap for lunch. Ugh.
felixthecat
Apr 18th, 2010 at 8:45 am
I knew someone who ate a whole wheel of cheese, and died of an intestinal blockage because of it. How many students will suffer the same fate?
D Bozko
Apr 18th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Did every student participate in the food fight? Still a cheese sandwich doesn’t seem like much of a punishment.
ted
Apr 18th, 2010 at 10:32 am
Why not just feed them broccoli, brussel sprouts, and turnips?
K!P
Apr 18th, 2010 at 11:03 am
maybe american chease is not so edible or something, because that sounds like a normal lunch to me
cathy
Apr 18th, 2010 at 11:46 am
I graduated from Atlantic City High School back in 2003. They never did anything this drastic while I was there.

They sold bottled drinks at the snack bar. People were flinging these said bottles filled and open in the hallways getting people wet, so they started pouring the drinks into big cups, that solved that problem. Thats about the worst thing I’ve seen them do.
Lea
Apr 18th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
K!P, you got it. American cheese is awful.

But this hardly seems like a punishment to me. I can see a good lawyer saying this doesn’t fulfill the requirements for a “healthy” lunch though.

Crazy idea: pack your own lunch!
Lea
Apr 18th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
note: “American cheese”. we all know those plastic wrapped square pieces of yucky…plastic…
Frau
Apr 18th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
A prison meal? I don’t think so.
Prison meals are extravagant when you compare them to a cheese sandwich.
A typical meal consists of a meat, two veggies, a salad and a starch. Sometimes you get fruit and vegetable in place of the two veggies.
The way the meal turns out depends on who is preparing it.
If the parents do not like the actions – they are free to make brown bag lunches for their kids.
High five to the cafeteria staff of Atlantic High School.
emmakate
Apr 18th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
It’s because high school students are selfish and don’t care about the poor janitors that have to clean it up. When I was in high school, I felt so bad for the janitors whenever the seniors would do their pranks and mess up the whole school. So you eat just a cheese sandwich for lunch for 2 days! Get over it! I wouldn’t doubt it if half of them needed to lose weight anyway
WordyGrrl
Apr 18th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Eh, forget those fancy cheese sandwiches and serve them “prison loaf” instead! It’s basically all the leftovers blended together, mixed with cornmeal and baked into a bread-like loaf.

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