A Food Revolution

Remember what you ate in elementary school for lunch? The days when you could eat anything and not gain a pound? I’ll admit I was a fat little kid and probably because I bought pizza and grilled cheese every day with a side of chocolate milk. Not to mention fresh made chocolate chip cookies I could never resist. Yum.

Jamie Oliver has been making a big splash with his new show “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” on ABC.

The premise: Jamie takes over the kitchen at one elementary school in Huntington West Virginia, a place the CDC recently named the most unhealthy place in America, and tries to teach the school how to feed the kids better food. On the first episode the lunch ladies were completely opposed to Jamie’s meal ideas because they claimed unless they serve processed and frozen foods there was no way to produce enough food to feed all of the kids. Jamie claimed that kids want to eat healthy, but after preparing marinated chicken legs and fresh salad the kids basically threw his idea into the garbage.

I think this show is a great wake-up call for parents to see what schools really are feeding their kids. The question is will they care? At home the kids are basically getting the same types of fried foods so for Jamie to really start a revolution he should probably be starting with the parents instead of the school administration. In my opinion the people who are going to watch this show are people who are already keyed into the issues, not people who need the most help.

Maybe you agree more with Ricky Gervais, a fellow British comedian who has been slamming Jamie’s revolution all over Late-Night television. Gervais recently went on the David Letterman show and said the following. Although I think he’s mostly full of BS, I had to post the video because it’s hilarious! You can read more about what Gervais said here.

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