Tuesday, September 25, 2012

If you don't eat your meat ...

... you can't have your pudding.  How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?
Students and teachers at one Kansas school put out a parody music video called ‘We are Hungry,’ in which kids complain they can’t stomach the school lunch anti-obesity efforts of The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act.
Philosopher Kings in action.



They really have no idea that they're acting exactly like the petty fascist princelings they used to protest againt, do they?

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

What will be worse is the artificially vcreated forth coming bacon shortage thanks to eco creeps bio fuels policy. No bacon is time to revolt.

Anonymous said...

Give me bacon or give me liberty

Dave H said...

Give me liberty and I'll get my own bacon, thank you.

Bob said...
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Bob said...

And it's strange, but if you've read James Herriott's books, you know that parents would encourage their kids to eat up all the Yorkshire Pudding (a doughy pastry) before they could eat any meat. Of course, once the kids ate the inexpensive Yorkshire Pud up, there was little room left for the expensive meat. Dessert wasn't typically pudding, either, but more likely a pie.

So it's possible that "eat yer pudding or yer don't get any meat" was intended for US audiences, who understand pudding to be a dessert. If it had been intended just for UK audiences, it might have been written as if you don't eat your pudding you can't have any meat!

Borepatch said...

"Pudding" = "dessert" in the Queen's English.

The Czar of Muscovy said...

Or in FLOTUS' case: "How can you have any soy wafer if you don't eat your fruit cup?"

Ken O said...

Soylent Pudding?

Anonymous said...

Bob...The pudding as borepatch observed is dessert, so how do you like your spotted dick and custard?

Old NFO said...

This is ALL just getting ridiculous... sigh

Jake (formerly Riposte3) said...

"Pudding" = "dessert" in the Queen's English.

But only for certain values of "pudding".

Bob said...

From Wikipedia:

The Yorkshire pudding is a staple of the British Sunday lunch and in some cases is eaten as a separate course prior to the main meat dish. This was the traditional method of eating the pudding and is still common in parts of Yorkshire today. Because the rich gravy from the roast meat drippings was used up with the first course, the main meat and vegetable course was often served with a parsley or white sauce.

It is often claimed that the purpose of the dish was to provide a cheap way to fill the diners, thus stretching a lesser amount of the more expensive ingredients as the Yorkshire pudding was traditionally served first.