{"id":17237,"date":"2012-10-07T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T16:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17237"},"modified":"2012-10-07T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T16:37:16","slug":"swedish-lunch-lady-ordered-to-discontinue-food-that-is-too-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/swedish-lunch-lady-ordered-to-discontinue-food-that-is-too-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish lunch lady ordered to discontinue food that is &#8220;too good&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone wants the best for their kids, but heaven help you if you provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/43656\/20121006\/\" target=\"_blank\">higher quality food<\/a> than kids at other schools get:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Annika Eriksson, a lunch lady at school in Falun, was told that her cooking is just too good.<\/p>\n<p>Pupils at the school have become accustomed to feasting on newly baked bread and an assortment of 15 vegetables at lunchtime, but now the good times are over.<\/p>\n<p>The municipality has ordered Eriksson to bring it down a notch since other schools do not receive the same calibre of food &mdash; and that is &#8220;unfair&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the food on offer at the school doesn&#8217;t comply with the directives of a local healthy diet scheme which was initiated in 2011, according to the municipality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A menu has been developed&#8230; It is about making a collective effort on quality, to improve school meals overall and to try and ensure everyone does the same,&#8221; Katarina Lindberg, head of the unit responsible for the school diet scheme, told the local <em>Falukuriren<\/em> newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>However, Lindberg was not aware of Eriksson&#8217;s extraordinary culinary efforts and how the decision to force her to cut back had prompted outrage among students and parents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, Toronto is rapidly catching up to Swedish standards in this regard: we have an active &#8220;parents group&#8221; that protests against school fundraising efforts because not all schools can raise the same level of donations, so they want equality imposed: either all funds raised should be shared with every school or no fundraising should be allowed at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone wants the best for their kids, but heaven help you if you provide higher quality food than kids at other schools get: Annika Eriksson, a lunch lady at school in Falun, was told that her cooking is just too good. Pupils at the school have become accustomed to feasting on newly baked bread and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,62,74,66],"tags":[374,198,283],"class_list":["post-17237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-europe","category-food","category-health-science","tag-children","tag-equalrights","tag-sweden"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4u1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17238,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17237\/revisions\/17238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}