TV Dinners

This is what we call - interesting timing.

The school my son goes to here in Toronto, is holding a rather self-serving event called staff appreciation lunch, where parents bring in food for the teachers.

First of - what the fug?

I don't really have a problem with parents wanting to do something nice for their kid's teacher, as this does allow for a good time to suck up for Junior's need for better grades in Senior Kindergarten. Still... this appears to be a school event: Like please feed us. we're poor teachers and can't afford our own food.

Anyhow... the whole exercise was just a way to segue into the topic of the day. 

This past Tuesday, nine schools in Japan were hit with what appears to be food poisoning, brought on by the ingestion of a school lunch.

So far, over 1,000 students and teachers at nine elementary and junior high schools in Iwamizawa-shi (City of Iwamizawa) in Hokkaido, Japan have been hit and hit hard, causing the closure of the institutions since Monday.

According to reports, Salmonella bacteria has been detected in fecal samples from five stricken children with the number of people with symptoms including nausea and fever rising to 1,048 on Tuesday, including 998 pupils and 50 teachers and workers.

The pupils started exhibiting the symptoms on Friday after eating lunch the previous day which was cooked in the school kitchens for some 3,100 students.

So... do the teacher's at my son's school really want to be fed by the parents?

Somewhere wondering what the heck they ate in Hokkaido,
Andrew Joseph
Today's blog title is barfed by ZZ Top: SAUCEISNOTTOOBLUE