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The view from the other side: NeverSeconds.[1]

Each day in 2012-2014, a middle school girl in Scotland took a picture of her school lunch and wrote a review on her blog, including number of hairs and insects. The headmaster of the school told her to stop taking pictures of her lunches. So she published a note, "Goodbye". That got some small publicity. Then the local town council backed up the headmaster. More publicity. Politicians became involved. National press coverage. Coverage in Wired. "Time to fire the dinner ladies" article in a Scottish tabloid. Worldwide press coverage. BBC interviews. Girl wins "Public Campaigner of the Year award". Headmaster in trouble.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeverSeconds

Hah, this is great to read even now. It’s nice that these little bits of the internet are still up 11 years later for me to enjoy.

The blog in question, right when posting seemed to pick up: https://neverseconds.blogspot.com/2012/05/

The comparison school lunch from Finland looks lovely. It's a shame that many school lunches are meals that we wouldn't pick for ourselves.

It's a simple test: would I want that for my lunch? For most of the photos, it's a no.

So this is interesting but I would hardly call it “the other side”. This isn’t a battle between lunch ladies and students.

Even here the girl was not asking for them to stop serving the food. Rather she said they should serve more and also improve it.

> She added: “I'd like them to serve more, and maybe let some people have seconds if they want to ... and not serve stuff that's a wee bit disgusting.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20240418175610/https://www.teleg...

I think this girl has a better understanding of lunch time dynamics than you. It's almost an objective, base point that any food is better than no food, which is why she would advocate for serving more and also improving it. A huge emphasis on improving it.

Wikipedia: "number of hairs"

You: "number of hairs and insects"

Citation, please?

Cmon dude

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