Portland School District Bans Selling Coke…the Soft Drink
- Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:10pm by
Mytheos Holt
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If you thought Michael Bloomberg’s attempt to crack down on soda was bad, wait til you get a load of this story from Fox Nation.
The Portland, Maine school district has apparently decided, for no apparent reason, that the iconic soft drink Coca Cola is an offense against nature. And for that reason, they have moved to ban the sale of the drink at football games.
A chilling image of dangerous contraband
And that’s not all. The school also apparently has banned the sale of potato chips and buttered popcorn, instead instructing its students to eat (wait for it) baked tortilla chips, reduced fat string cheese, and hummus. At a football game.
Screenshots of the school’s policy can be viewed below:
“We’re taking it to another level,” Chanda Turner, Portland’s school health coordinator, told Fox News. “We’re not going to sell soda and it doesn’t matter who it’s to.”
“We are not making any restrictions on personal choice,” she added. “The only thing we are affecting is – what are we as a school system going to sell or provide.”
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Comments (84)
AU Patriot
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 5:23pmEating healthy at football games is unamerican. Proud to live in the south where we still treasure football and good concession stands (in moderation of course)
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:00pmThis is 100% the product of gutless d-baggery on the part of the so-called “leadership” at the school. No one wants to have to stand in front of a whining parent to say, “Look, if you don’t want to eat it, then don’t eat it.”
Or
“Hey, if you don’t want your kid to eat crap, and if you don’t trust him to make good choices, then don’t let him attend the game.”
It’s pretty simple.
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:33pmLiberals like to ruin EVERYTHING for EVERYBODY.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:07pm100% juice, fresh fruits, carbs turn into sugar in the gut. Sugar is sugar people
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 9:57pmI have seen first hand how the liberals operate..After they finish demonizing these products they will tax them hard,double or triple the price,that’s the real agenda here….Do you think they really care about your heath,,..They care about money coming to them.Big tax slush funds to steal from.
Report Post »MCDAVE
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 10:00pmThey will tax these products hard causing industries to fail and the loss of even more jobs
Report Post »Old_Bones
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 2:02amI’m convinced, all this healthy food forced upon us will result in an increase of axe murders.
Report Post »TexasHunter
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 11:08amHow about trying to TAKE EDUCATION AND TEACHING TO A NEW LEVEL! GET OFF THE FOOD POLICE ADMINISTRATION LIBS. This isn’t Moochelle Lolly pop land.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 3:42pmI have no problem with them banning junk food in vending machines in school cafeterias so kids aren’t eating that crap during school, but not at football/basketball games.
Report Post »Idrinktoomuchcoffee
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 5:12pmOk, I kinda get the restrictions in the school cafe, but at football games on a friday night? Most concession stands are run by boosters,(volunteer parents). All of the proceeds go to support the team,since schools are cutting back!!! Those sales & attendance are going into the toilet!!!! People are going to smuggle stuff in, or just eat before the game!! Dont we want our kids active in sports,cheerleading,or just getting out of the house for a social event? Good Job Food Nazi !!!!!
Report Post »Kupo
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 5:03pmWell, personally I’ll take hummus over potato chips and popcorn any day of the week. SOOOO good!
Report Post »Rothbardian_in_the_Cleve
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:57pmIn a related story, the district has also agreed to stop teaching the constitution and history that has not been edited. They will however deliver condoms and teach the joys of anal sex. When the principal was asked about this policy he said, “You’re welcome.”
Report Post »USACommoner
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 5:16pmYep. When you accept money from the government, the government OWNS you. TRUE re-education camps and we allowed them to do it.
Report Post »TDBooth
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 11:27pmThe district does hand out condoms and has “health centers” which are not “required” (or “allowed” because of HIPPA) to hand out birth control to girls of any age. The only “consent” needed is for them to go to the clinic.
Report Post »agsb2
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:54pmCokes or any vending machines don’t belong in school.
Report Post »PASSIONFORCHRIST
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 7:24pmSocialist itch!!! No one has the right to tell your child what to eat, only the parents! I and we Americans pay for the public schools, that is how it is funded you IDIOT!!!!!!!
Report Post »Do The Right Thing
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 11:47pm@AGS: I hope you’re joking. What doesn’t belong in school is big government.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 3:45pm@ ags
I agree with you. In the cafeteria there is no reason we should have crap for kids to eat. But, at night games and after-school activities, there is nothing wrong with the sale of junk food as that is what people eat at these activities.
We’ve become enslaved to big companies who will pay for that sports sign IF we put in their vending machines in the cafeteria. I say screw the sign … we’ll do it the old fashioned way.
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:53pmList it under war on drugs,that way anyone can get it…
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:47pmNo Coke….. Pepsi
http://www.hulu.com/watch/3533
Report Post »NDPINDNT
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 5:35pmNow there you go. They should ban coke in theaters and sell pepsi too. :)
Report Post »Edohiguma
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:46pmWellness Policy Teams. Just another step and we’re at Wellness Police Teams.
Won’t change anything. Kids will just buy the Coke some place else.
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:49pmbyob
Report Post »CWPrequired
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:45pmI’ll bet the school health coordinator Chanda Turner has a real nice figure….NOT! Bet she’s got a trunk on her like queen obama. Do as I say, not as I do.
Report Post »termyt
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:45pmThey can choose to sell whatever they want. I’ve no issue with that. I might be annoyed if I am not even allowed to bring it in on my own, but it’s just the concession stand sales that will suffer.
Report Post »HotFixIt
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:44pmStop worrying about the Cokes and start getting the kids off the phones and games… how about enforcing recess and interactive activities…. maybe a coke as a reward after the activity…. GPS treasure hunts… get creative… something to get them out and about!
Report Post »BryanB
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:41pmHow much Money did the School District waste on promoting this program ?????
Report Post »BHOHG2G
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 6:36pmI’m sure it was a lot. I live near here and I swear that Portland and the state of Oregon lead the nation in wasting money. It’s maddening.
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:17pmIt was in Portland, MAINE. Read the story you idiot!!!
Report Post »eretsim
Posted on August 21, 2012 at 11:01amWhat the… Go easy WHINEdude. Not a panty-bunching scenario. Jeesh
Report Post »Rosalyn
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:35pmI am so tired of liberals, they need to STOP trying to control everything everyone does. They are so opposed to choice unless it involves the killing of a baby. They don‘t think people should be able to chose to drink a coke but they think it’s okay for people to chose to take an innocent life. Their logic is quite disturbing.
Report Post »fancynancy
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:34pmGood Grief. The food police are just annoying. Punish all to force the “baddies fattys” to comply.Sorry, no hate against the overweight – I share that with you. And don’t send me a reply to loose weight and quite complaining. I think people should be able to buy and eat what they want. Schools make money of the pop and snack machines so now the revenue will go down and be prepared for the tax levy to raise money for the district since they lost that “snack” revenue.
Report Post »vaman
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:33pmThe school is totally wrong, but I see their point. Parents, in too many cases, are allowing their adolescent and pre-adolescent children to become morbidly obese. Fat teenagers hobbling about place to place and apparently they, nor their parents are taking appropriate steps to fix the worst health problem in recent American history. It becomes a public problem when fat kids are having heart attacks and diabetes rates are rising. Someone has to pay for all of that “personal choice”.
Report Post »TEIN
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:53pmBack in the late 60′s/early 70′s when I was going to school, there was no pop or snack machines at school and there were obese kids, how did they get that way?? At that time school lunches were made in the school not shipped in pre-made and families ate home prepared meals together as families…it is not the food or drink, but the eating habit….many juices have as many sugar calories as soda, and since the nation has bought into the “low-fat’ to “no fat” diet obese levels are rising….this overreach as well as overreach by Obamacare is about control..wait until the health choice is what side order of bugs do you want with your veggie salad…
Report Post »The Jewish Avenger
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 5:15pmI just want to say up front I respect your opinion. I do feel that you are not looking at it all points of view.
Argumentatively there is no gay gene.
Well supposedly there is no fat gene.
However, if you ask around you will see two kids from the same parents:
One taller, one smaller
One pear shaped one say pencil bodied
and yes, one thin and one fat.
Fat to some is defined as a girl with a muffin top a J-Lo butt or Full Figured
Clearly our concern, for some reason here is full figured are the blame for mass obesity
I can attest that I have seen two people through the years in my family and others be served the same size and in the end, one was fuller than the other….
I watched them work their arse off, join gyms exercise till they collapse and in the end, still be full figured while the other ate like a pig, never got off the couch and actually lost weight.
I say that only to say this:
For the left and anyone who isnt educated properly about obese people and the ACTUAL fall to accuse and label obese people as an overall blame is not only wrong but appaling.
In short, I disagree….
No soda, its the fat kids fault?
What a croc.
More like no soda! Big Brother said so.
Report Post »normalmom
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:30pmWhen are these idiots going to realize not selling the stuff won’t help reduce fat people. They will get their fatty foods other ways. It only takes an occasional special treat for others who don’t buy the fatty foods except for at games. Besides they need to re-evaluate the BMI and make it more accurate, I don’t think really healthy muscular people like being told they are obese when there is no fat on their bodies.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:45pmThey aren’t talking about the byproduct of processing Iron ore are they? That doesn’t make kids fat.
Report Post »DEFCON4
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:30pmHence, The Birth of Black-Maket Consession Stands!!!
Report Post »DEFCON4
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:33pm*Market* oops.
Report Post »MittensKittens
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:29pmThe only thing I can say is, when I was in school, they never had coke machines…what’s the big deal?
Report Post »normalmom
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:34pmThey are refering to at the sports games.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:27pmWashington, Oregon, and California… can go jump in the Ocean!
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:55pmI’d be a lot happier if: 1. California didn’t serve up so much more in taxes than it receives in return benefits to keep the crackers in the red states on their welfare. 2. The tax-exempt status for any and all religious organizations was discontinued forever. More of the world’s problems are due to organized religion…why are they getting any tax benefits???
You want us west-coasters to jump into the ocean? Now you might understand why I have NO SYMPATHY for the farmers who are losing their hind ends in the middle of the country and the idiot South. I, luckily, was born in northern California, where we have plenty of water in the reservoirs despite a shy rainfall this past season. We have have plenty of corn too…downright cheap when I was at the store today. So, to you fools in the middle of the country and the loser South, soon you’ll WISH you were in California, screwed up government and finances aside.
Report Post »jonathanloosle
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:26pmWith all the childhood obesity this sounds like a good start.
http://www.empowernetwork.com/techitmore/blog/long-term-strategies-vs-short-term-strategies/
Report Post »loneindividual
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:24pmmind numbing
Report Post »EarthtoMel
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:24pmI really, really want to go to a football game and have a great big bottle of water and Hummus…..
Report Post »Where is this nonsense going to STOP? If they are getting this anal over food, what are they going to take over next?
NHwinter
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:23pmIf they want to have healthy meals at lunch time, great. But, at a football game? Who the heck wants hummus at a game. I’d bring my own snacks. Is there no moderation with Progressives? Come on, I thought popcorn was good for you. I think cider or hot chocolate and donuts in the Fall would be really nice :)
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:19pmSAVE me from the Liberal mind.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:28pmThe only way to save you from the liberal mind, is to put the liberal mind out of it’s misery. (However you choose to accomplish that
Report Post »rpp
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 4:19pmYet another reminder of why I am so happy that I moved from Oregon this past spring. Good riddance, I say, as I shake the Oregon dust from my shoes.
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on August 20, 2012 at 8:39pmYour reaction was similar to mine when I saw the headline…what could happen next in Oregon? Right at the top of the story it says Portland, MAINE. So next time, don‘t be an idiot and comment before you’ve read the story. Boy are conservatives stupid sometimes (but then again, so are liberals).
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