‘KKK Chicken Tenders’: Mass. School Sorry for School Menu Typo
- Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:16am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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METHUEN, Mass. (The Blaze/AP) — School officials in a Massachusetts town are apologizing for sending home a lunch menu that listed KKK Chicken Tenders as an option.
About 6,500 students in four Methuen (muh-THOO’-in) schools went home with new menus Tuesday, a day after the original one mistakenly listed chicken seemingly in the style of the Ku Klux Klan.
Superintendent Judith Scannell tells The Eagle-Tribune the menu was supposed to list KK Chicken Tenders, with the KK standing for a creatively spelled “Krispy, Krunchy,“ but an employee mistakenly hit the ”K” key one too many times.
Scannell apologized if anyone was offended. The food service director got one complaint.
“I’m not an educator, but if my son asked me what it meant, I would try to explain it to him,” City Councilor Sean Fountain told the Eagle-Tribune. “I think it’s being blown more out of proportion than what really happened. I really don’t think it was intended to be a negative issue or racial issue.”
A student pointed out to WCVB-TV that it there would’ve been no issue if officials just spelled the words correctly, with the letter C.
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Comments (92)
teddyc73
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:43am“I think it’s being blown more out of proportion..” What? Blown out of proportion. No, that never happens in the U.S. The American people always use sanity and common sense.
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:35amIn a nation whose PRIMARY distraction and public illusion “IS” racism it seems a bit of a stretch to me, that this was ‘overlooked’.
Report Post »libtardian-refugee
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:27amFor the rest of history KKK will be racist? I’m sure that in the late sixties Chevrolet were a bunch of Nazis for calling some of their cars SS
Report Post »USAF2003
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 12:44pmGood it should be blown out of proportion. I’m sure these same ppl would blow out of proportion a kid bringing a bible to school. I hope they get what they’ve been giving.
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 3:55pmWhat the big deal?
Report Post »Serve it with NAZI tots and a little Jihadist Jello or some black panther pudding for dessert.
Yummy!
Jinglebob
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 4:59pmPoor kids, they will be set back for years. The cook staff should have a letter in their file. Jesse Jackson should hold a media event. A special inspection team from Washington should be sent out. Obama should call this racist. A ham sandwitch made by mom from home would have been better.
Report Post »JohnnyMidknight
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 5:32pm@ 3monkeysmomma
Actually the pasta is the NAZI… it is SS Buttered Pasta for Super Soggy. I can’t imagine a School Cafeteria serving pasta al dente.
Report Post »BarackStalin
Posted on March 1, 2012 at 3:06pmSomebody need to be jailed for a hate crime.
Report Post »LARR
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:38amWait a sec…three degrees of separation…fried chicken, KKK, blacks
Has to be intentional racial slur…..
Report Post »ocky Marshall
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:02amHmmm, or it was 100% white meat.
Report Post »Watchyer6
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:35amKrispy, Krunchy, Krappy Chicken Tenders.
Report Post »edcoil
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:41amI have three children in school. One in college, one in high school and one in middle school here in California. I get weekly emails from the schools on their weekly newsletters and if I had to guess, I’d say there is a typo or misspelling in everyone, every level, every week. I even just stop returning them pointing out the mistakes.
Report Post »GodWillPrevail
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 1:54pmSorry but this had to be on purpose.
I mean this is a school surly they do not teach children to spell crispy krispy.
Unfortunate those here seem to not know spelling it should have been debunked in the article. They had to change spelling, something no school should ever do, to try to cover up a racist employee.
Report Post »lynnissmart
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:35amHa, ha, ha, ha……someone did this on purpose…..ha, ha, ha!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:33am.
Report Post »What color was the person that that made the menu?…….
9111315
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:56amTrue, we need to know before we call spellin and proofin a ***** in their armor.
Report Post »midwesthippie
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 10:23am…menu writer can work for the blaze…and thanks for teaching us to pronounce methuen.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:25amThe problem is using Ebonics to spell crispy and crunchy, in a school no less. Half those kids don’t ever realize using a k is incorrect. In a sense KKK does have some relation to this problem.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:22ama typo? sorry but that is not a typo…maybe a nervous finger or something, the shakes, eh? LOL
Report Post »BernieKittyCat
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:20amI worked at Kinko’s way back and we had a card program for frequent customers. To avoid fraud we had little stamps made up with a “k”. I was the only one to ask, “What happens when they get three stamps and have a ”kkk” card in their wallet?” The program was discontinued.
Report Post »love the kids
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:05amGood thing the person who wrote this didn’t work for ESPN
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:05amKhicken? Bwahahahaha, what a bunch of lying buffoons! Either somebody hit ENTER before proofreading, which I must confess that I do all too often too. Or, somebody inserted that intentionally. Now, it’s become like any other screw up. The cover up is worse than the offense. Krispy Krunchy Khicken, it’s all that I can do to stay in my chair while laughing this hard.
Report Post »MOLLYPITCHER
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:48amThis is probably beside the point, but if the Gov’t is so worried about healthy lunches, why are they serving chicken tenders with what is probably NOT a whole grain dinner roll, with not only pasta but BUTTERED pasta. Sounds like a meal to make kids fat if I ever heard one. They would be better off with that turkey sandwich.
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:53amThey have to hide the taste of the sterilization drugs they put into it.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:09amBLANCO5, you have got to be onto something there considering those in the 0bama admin who discussed putting sterilization drugs in various water supplies. Hillary loves Margaret Sanger and so many of these busy bodies want to emulate her.
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:45amIt looks like a Key has a secretarial job in a Massachusetts school district.
Probably one of Mr. Beck’s “spies” feeding him secret information that he constantly fantasizes about.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:08amI bet this was a coherent thought when it left your brain, but it got lost somewhere between your fingers and the keyboard…
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:13amMARYBETHELIZABETHDUMB@$$, go back and watch the video again. It was a local news broadcast spurred by the outraged parents. Glenn nor any of his so called spies (apparently code for journalist who write something the right uses) had anything to do with. In one way this is funny, yet in another way it is sick. And, it all came out of the ultramarine blue state of Massachusetts.
Report Post »marybethelizabeth
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:49amI still think it was a Key who who wrote the menu out of habit.
Report Post »BenInNY
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 12:24pmI’ll bite: what the heck is a “key” in this context?
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:43amWhat the heck is with school lunches and chicken nuggets?
Report Post »SoundStride
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:42amThe Black panther steak looks good next Wednesday.
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:42amI just felt a very large ground tremor. Hmmmm, must be a stampede of certain Ron Paul supporters moving to Methuen and enrolling their kids in that school as we write.
Yum Yum! KKK tenders… the lunch of champions for Ron Paul!
Tomorrow’s menu? Neo-Nazi NUGGETS!!
Report Post »blanco5
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:54amRon Paul 2012
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:16amBLANCO5, Ron Paul 2012, for Secretary of the Treasury…only…and with plenty of adult supervision.
Report Post »friedwatermellon
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:41amWho gives 2 craps if someone was offended.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 1:04pmI think we should stop spelling and saying KKK. From now on it’s “the K word”. Somebody might die if we say the whole thing…or worse, get offended.
Report Post »SoundStride
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:40amDamn now I want to go to China and get a big bucket of O.F.C (Obama Fried Chicken) but which side do I get the eel anus of the fried dog placenta, I can never decide.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:38amAnd they couldn’t call them “Crispy, Crunchy” Chicken Tenders? You know, use correct spelling. In that case, such a typo as this would result in a menu item of “CCC Chicken Tenders”, which just sounds like the typist (or the chickens) may be suffering from hypothermia and not so much from racism.
Dirty chicken racists.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:25amCCC would be a reference to a Bader-Meinhof allied Belgian terrorist gang from the ’80s…hmmm, actually I can see them using that after all.
Report Post »It’s hard for me to believe that to be a complete three letter typo. You just gotta know they are hiding something now.
DallyWama
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:36amtrolololol
Btw that is a horrible meal offered by a government run school.
High carb 1980′s meal plans failed for a reason.
Report Post »iblvingd
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 3:20pmWhere’s the vegetables? And they confiscated that pre-schoolers lunch?
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:34amWhy apologize? Laugh at the gaffe and move on.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:28amLike ESPN laughed at the gaffe?
Report Post »tzion
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 11:10amIf you start laughing people will think it was intentional when it isn’t. I still don‘t see why you’d write Krispy Krunchy in a school menu. Why can’t we just spell it correctly to begin with? The whole incident could have been avoided.
Report Post »Jenny Lind
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:32amLike a very old song asked, “Is This All There Is”? Why on planet earth is this even in the news?
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:32amThree things. It’s revealing, stupid, yet funny.
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:28amSo one complaint is enough to dismiss religion but not enough to concern ourselves over this obvious message?
Report Post »00gabooga
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:26amWell, they are white meat tenders.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:39amO_o
Buahahaha!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:26am‘Scannell apologized if anyone was offended.” I find it offensive that anyone could be offended by this.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:10amThen we apologize for our apology…
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 9:38amI find your apology highly offensive Trainer.
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 12:57pmI’m sorry…
No! Wait!
I’m NOT sorry, damn it…
No, I am…or should I be? Sorry? Or not?
Report Post »lgccac
Posted on February 29, 2012 at 8:23amThat’s funny there, I don’t care who you are.
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