Bananas could vanish from US school lunch menus

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/11/farm-bill-school-lunches-non-us-foods

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MrNesser@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 91d (1 reply)

Never thought I'd see the day an American would be threatened by a banana

Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 90d

Sometime in the future

Seleni@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 90d (1 reply)

Man, and after all that work we put in destroying those countries’ governments so we could grow those bananas…

Typotyper@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 90d

If you love doing it then its not work

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 90d (2 replies)

Heaven forbid common children could get healthy food! How dare they giving kids HFCS free bananas!

Tiral@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 90d (1 reply)

I'm guessing you've never actually worked in a school? They throw all that shit away. They eat the pizza nuggets, whatever, then toss the vegetables and topically the fruit. We have this thing called the "share table" at my school where you can leave things if other kids are still hungry, it's basically full of fruit and crap no one likes.

But yeah, that while nachelle Obama lunch thing is great on paper, but compete shit in practice. Also it's bogus AF they give the same lunch portions to 40lb kindergartners as 6' 200lb 6th graders.

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 90d

That seems to be an American problem again. Your kids are so used to industrial food, it's horrifying.

Drusas@fedia.io · 7 pts · 90d

This is so much worse than the headline even hints at.

Malyca@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 90d

That's cool I'm not letting this administration give my kid anything anyway

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 90d (4 replies)

“But now, school districts are saying, ‘I can’t get you bananas because they’re not American.’”

SMH

DisasterTransport@startrek.website · 1 pts · 90d (3 replies)

Obviously the solution is to invade Panama and make it a US territory

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 90d (2 replies)

Just grow them in Puerto Rico. But they don't know that it’s part of the US.

DisasterTransport@startrek.website · 1 pts · 90d (1 reply)

Invade Puerto Rico. Got it.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 90d

I wouldn’t put it past them.

lemmyng@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 91d (3 replies)
Individual_Orchid@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 91d (2 replies)

TL;D(idn’t)W(atch)?

What're the coles notes? I'm old, I prefer reading vs watching, especially on YouTube

lemmyng@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 91d (1 reply)

Clip from Donkey Kong Country where DK and Diddy go back into the cave where DK's Banana Hoard usually is stashed, but it's gone because the Kremlings took the bananas. DK shakes his head sadly as the game over music plays.

fleem@piefed.zeromedia.vip · 1 pts · 90d

beautiful