What level of fuck up are we looking at here now?
School lunch provider turns to Australia for help
With its main food manufacturer, Libelle, in liquidation, the School Lunch Collective this week turned to Australia to ensure it had enough meals.
Meanwhile, the government insists the collective will continue to supply the 466 schools covered by its contract on time and in full.
Wednesday’s menu for most schools covered by the collective was individually packaged meals from Australia – mostly beef lasagne but three-cheese macaroni for some.
Kaitao Intermediate staff described the lasagne as four sheets of pasta with a little bit of sauce and told RNZ the meal did not go down well with the school’s pupils.
Jesus wept, on top of all the vast problems with this corporate slop including food kids don’t want, food that isn’t Halal safe, vegetarian food with meat in it, burnt plastic in the food, food so hot it burns children, one of the providers going into liquidation which David Seymour described as ‘very good’???
AND NOW
AND NOW
We are having to fly the food in from Australia!
REMEMBER as fas as the ZB Troll Farm is concerned, the parents should be feeding these kids, not the state and they laugh and howl with glee when hearing all te fuck ups from this corporate slop because deep down in places they doin;t like to admit, redneck ZB Trolls become sexually excited when hearing about hungry children are suffering.
That is who the right wing are now. That is what they have become.
This corporate slop ACT are feeding our children has become a cluster fuck of incompetence because ultimately ACT don’t want to be feeding these kids in the first place.
You can choose to be on the side of redneck ZB Troll cruelty or you can be disgusted by them.
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Air miles now, on top of inedible slops-really good value…
Seymour still has not met the Minister despite Ms Willis trying to fudge it that he had.
The Epsom twerp needs to be pursued on this to expose him further-he can’t organise feeding the kids, which was working fine before his disruption-so how credible is he on anything?
Lazy parents need to stop expecting the government to feed their children and start taking responsibility themselves. It is not the role of the state to raise their kids or put food in their lunchboxes. I fully agree with our amazing Prime Minister when he said, “Make a Marmite sandwich and put an apple in a bag.” It’s not hard, just basic personal responsibility. If you cannot be bothered to do that, you have no one to blame but yourself.
If parents refuse to do their job, then children who receive free school lunches should give something back. One hour of productive work in a school factory after school would teach them discipline, responsibility, and the value of hard work. Nothing in life is free, and it is about time we start teaching that lesson early.
Great ideas, Zelda. Perhaps we could also re-establish work houses for the poor? They were very popular in Victorian England, I believe.
Dearie me. The best things in life are free.My loveliest childhood memory is hearing my mother sing. Swiping neighbour’s flowers and taking them to teacher is free. Walking in the moonlight is free. St Andrew’s on the Terrace lunchtime concerts are free, as are books from the public library. Walking past a boy giggling hoping that he’s looking at you is free. Friends are free. Granddads come free.
You’ll stunt your growth Zelda if you put a monetary value on everything, loose all your hair. Next it’ll be taxing window glass for letting in the sun.
Yes, yes, no welfare for gentiles, only your people, we’ve heard it all before Zelda.
Zelda – some parents/families who are in poverty can’t even afford to purchase the food for breakfast or dinner. So I disagree with your comment referring to them as lazy parents. Luxon’s comment about making a marmite sandwich and putting an apple in their bags is all well and good coming from an individual and individuals like him who may well have had marmite sandwiches and an apple for lunch because they were also having breakfast before school and dinner in the evening.
When you say “one hour productive work in a school factory after school will teach them discipline, responsibility and the value of work” are you advocating for hard labour or something similar to the dreadful situation in Glorivale rather than having kids being able to actually learn their school lessons because they have a good school provided lunch in their stomachs?
Nothing like a cleaning out a factory chimney for a kid eh!
As I’ve pointed out on many occasions the left side of politics is so out of date they think we still have children going up chimneys.
As I’ve pointed out on many occasions the right side of politics and Zelda are so out of date they think we still have children going up chimneys.
Silly Bob! We know that children don’t go up chimneys any more. But that’s only because children are too expensive with their $3 meals, not because we think it’s a bad thing in itself.
We have machines that that sweep chimneys now. That’s how the market rumbles – replace an expensive resource with a cheap one and it goes straight to the bottom line.
And the right are reduced to troll bots for cheer leaders
Zelda, what you forget is that in Mr Luxons time as a child it was still possible to maintain your family on the wages and salary paid at the time.
Rents and Mortgages weren’t at 75% of the minimum wage and families such as mine could live quite well off a single income. When you have families that say they cannot live off $100k then the problem is obvious. How can you expect a family to live off $50k.
Now I know you will say these families should not exist. That is obviously what you and the likes of Luxon believe but you forget that these bottom feeders are the ones who generate the countries income that drips upwards against the laws of physics and decency.
You and your wonderful PM are just parasites, no better than those you dislike so intensely.
Uncle Tom Cobbly. Zelda also forgot to mention that 8 June 2023 Herr Luxon also addressed an audience in Christchurch saying, “ I encourage all of you to go out there and have more babies…”, this being his answer to our ageing population not replicating itself in sufficient numbers.
If having babies and supporting families on a couple of incomes was as simple as Marmite Man implies that it is, there may be more babies being born, but being born to satisfy the needs of the State is a no-go area which Luxon, father of two, should butt right out of. It’s been tried before. Didn’t work out that well.
You only say these things because your mother didn’t know who your father was Zelda.
Fuck me where the fuck have you come from pre 1850 era shit right. there .These are young children you are wanting to starve and then turn them into slave labour so you and Luxon can make free money .Jesus wept and may he strike you down .
Great thoughts, Zelda, good on you! Perhaps we should also re-establish workhouses for the poor? I hear they were very popular in Victorian England.
I hear you but many parents are either too lazy / selfish / negligent (or unable)? to feed their kids properly so why should those particular kids suffer?
In my opinion all kids should be fed a nutritious meal at school to promote good health and a sense of equality between them . . and what is the point of spending all that money on teachers and buildings etc when a lot of kids are too hungry etc to learn?
Zelda – I agree with you on this. And I think, as well as school children, we should make pensioners do the same. How many billions of dollars of tax payers money a year are wasted on the over 65 as pension payments? It makes me so angry – these people do absolutely nothing productive at all. Very large numbers unproductive and ungrateful people in NZ who should be made to give something back. I think anyone who receives a pension should do at least 3 to 4 hours of work a week – and no excuses either. It’s time we got NZ back on track.
And it would be much healthier for them to get out of those musty retirement homes and doing some physical activity – the council always needs help with keeping the streets clean and litter free. Get out there granny – show’s some gratitude!
Zelda lazy landlords need to stop expecting the government to feed them. The woefully pathetic PM reinstated the landlord rebate stated it would freeze or make rents cheaper. That has not happened so your woefully PM should immediately such a policy and put those funds into feeding the children. Such ill discipline by this horrid government requires them to be voted out and their parties disbanded. In fact they all need whipping like the 39 lashes Jesus received. Then and only then can they receive a marmite sandwich except your pathetic PM because he’s rich and sorted.
I’m desperately trying to not respond to your vile and evil idiocy @ zelda.
U$A aircraft carriers in every nz port? That was one of yours, right?
How about a trade off ? You continue living in israel and we’ll not miss you at all. How about that?
“I’m desperately trying to not respond to your vile and evil idiocy @ zelda.”
It’s hard I know, but don’t feed the trolls.
I reckon there is an answer for the lot of them. Castration. Serve it all up at Bellamy’s
Maybe down the coal pit?
Zelda, even if what you say is true (it isn’t), the deeply ironic and amusing fact remains that your political hero and favourite twerker, has absolutely fucked this up.
Clearly he can’t even organise a sandwich.
The neoliberal myth of superior economic management by the Right is now firmly established as absolute bullshit.
Shame on us for believing that crap in the first place. Disgust on those who still spout this trickle-down, privatisation, foreign ownership theft.
“Shame on us for believing that crap in the first place. ”
For the record, I and many others never believed it.
“Nothing in life is free”
Except capital gain on your housing portfolio, unearned income from investments, windfall profits from price gouging by monopolists and cartels, etc. It’s the wealthy who get free stuff, but of course they always deserve it.
Make NZ school lunches great again, vote Labour!
FO Zelda, perhaps if your class hadn’t taken ownership of everything then paid piss poor wages these parents could provide lunches. But they can’t because you have already eaten them.
People,
Zelda is simply a coprophiliac, it gets its jollies from scooping up steaming piles of excrement from its own hole in the ground and posting it here, or into public environments.
Replying to it only gives it a thrill.
Have you ever had to have weet bix for dinner?,
and had to go to school with no shoes?
From your comments I wager the answer would be no.
I think it’s called CER. We export the workers to pack those lunches in Australia, and if it’s Aussie apples being snuck in over here, and their aeroplanes flying in food all on my tax dollars, then they’re no more economic relatives than that befuddled victim Prince Harry’s are.
The kids are to busy playing sport and socialising at lunchtime to bother with ANY lunch. Would not matter if it’s a Labour lunch or Seymour’s slop.
I agree Marco the children are being used by the left for political reasons.The Teachers Union is donkey deep in this issue as are other left wing groups.
I’m advocating an apple and a simple sandwich.
Who gives a fuck what you’re advocating. Of course it’s political, you must be a moron. Provide evidence the Teachers Union is involved or shut the fuck up and crawl back in your hole!
Candidly Bob, you seem to be a bit of a simple sandwich yourself – two slices of (assuredly) white bread with nothing much in between
Gosh AB that’s mean but I agree white bread, can’t stand that stuff with seeds in.
Yep, definitely a sandwich short of a picnic.
So this CoC can’t even support it’s own local businesses and employment now.
Let’s export Seymour to Australia.
Martyn – I wonder how that would keep each meal under $3?
It has all become a dog’s breakfast. But, maybe, a dog’s breakfast would be more palatable than a schoolkid’s lunch.
Erica Stanford, being Seymour’s boss on this issue, appears very weak and is doing a Luxon instead of stepping in and sorting this out. Clearly, Seymour is actually her boss, being the ACT leader and actual Prime Minister, from a policy and public perspective. A coalition bereft of their own ideas and directed by the Atlas Network. Look at the similarities in policy of all these new right wing Governments around the world- gut the public service, reduce tax for the wealthy while increasing stealth taxes and user pays for the plebs, and a transfer of wealth to the rich through privatisation.
Yes as she is his senior she should step up and can the new system and return to old suppliers ASAP .That will never happen though because it is national policy that kids should be seen and not heard or fed .
The ‘school lunch’ fiasco is a diversionary tactic in my opinion.
Anything that sees AU come to the rescue will help high, low-end kiwi criminals evade scrutiny. Australia is our PRIMARY INDUSTRY COMPETITORS. OUR PRIMARY INDUSTRY IS AGRICULTURE. Not shit sandwiches for whiny little shits being taught how to be the very best non complaining minions to corrupt australian banking practices now deeply embedded into our hearts and minds, dumbasses.
As long as local NZ business that might be connected to the Māori community (and used to do the lunch program) are cut out from doing the work I think the coalition will be very happy to send ‘NZ taxpayer dollars’ overseas instead.
It’s at school that children’s dietary habits and expectations are established. This is why they should be getting healthy lunches, whether their parents can afford it or not.
‘It is not the role of the state to raise their kids or put food in their lunchboxes. ‘
Zelda IT IS the role of the state to care for the health and well being of ALL citizens. including the children that one day will be the nurses, doctors, drivers, workers, teachers and future taxpayers.
It is important that they be well fed, healthy, adequately housed and paid so they can make the ‘contribution’ that you are so keen on.
The alternative is a surly, sickly, criminal underclass that continues to be a drain on our health system, overcrowds our prisons and makes our society more dangerous and insecure.
I worked as a teacher. Yesterday I had a blood test administered by an ex-pupil of mine who told me how education had rescued her, and her siblings, from deplorable family conditions.
Not only I, but all teachers, could give you examples of young workers today who have rescued themselves from degradation through education and training and are more useful members of society than self centered scum like Luxon ever will be.
Zelda, when you are older and even more demented than now(if that be possible) and you are again lying, bed-ridden in your own excrement, these are the cheerful young people that will tenderly and gently clean your stinking carcass(ignoring your screamed insults when you see their skin colour), they will help you shower and feed you properly, see you get the correct dosages of medicine, put you on the toilet and lift you off and listen patiently while you babble on about God.
All this because they are genuine in their love of humanity that they learned as healthy, happy, well fed students.
(Mind you, if Seymour et al have their way the Health and welfare system will be so comprehensively rooted that old crazies like yourself will just be dumped in the nearest open space for the scavengers to start working on).
Thanks Stevie, for injecting some sanity into this discussion. The zeldas and Btfs of this world don’t know they are born.
Maybe Seymour will have her euthanaised .
How are they gonna spin this one. Let’s hope these terrible school lunches are the straw that breaks CoC for NZers.
Have you read Zeldas spin, she is hilarious !
The eftwing masturbation over the so called school lunch failure is hilarious. Truth that a kid drops his lunch on the floor and the media report an explosion. Then the teachers line up kids for the camera to dump lunches into buckets…we don’t like them.
Someone has to say it: fuck off to all the parents of those entitled kids. If you can’t teach your kids some gratitude, then make one yourself.
The eftwing masturbation over the so called school lunch failure is hilarious. Truth that a kid drops his lunch on the floor and the media report an explosion. Then the teachers line up kids for the camera to dump lunches into buckets…we don’t like them.
Someone has to say it: fuck off to all the parents of those entitled kids. If you can’t teach your kids some gratitude, then make one yourself.
Your ightwing masturbation is hilarious even if you had to say it twice. Use both hands whilst typing next time and wipe your keyboard down.
Oh the irony of you mentioning masturbation, say again, again
Just goes to show any business here in New Zealand is overprice fucked. Supermarkets overpriced fucked, the economy overpriced fucked. You get the idea ?
Seymour has had 2 jobs that have had measurable output in his miserable life.
One is the school lunches and that is a disaster.
The second is getting more money for Pharmacy. They continue to be useless because they have bowed to political pressure. Take the increased funds for diabetic monitors and pumps.
Excellent work, you can get the monitors that tell you what you need but you need to wait 5 years for the matching pumps because we don’t have the clinicians required to implement the scheme.
So he’s failed on that as well.
In a nutshell he couldn’t find a tail on his donkey.
Just stop school lunches is the obvious solution.
Just stop Bob the knob posting is the obvious solution.
Agree stop Seymour’s fuck up and reinstate the previous govts successful lunch program.
Any tariffs involved?
The simple fact is you can not provide a balanced healthy school lunch for $3 .Just ask any mum when she is doing the shopping each week if there are two teens in the family .And if you open your minds 1 piece of fruit is $1 now at the super market so if they are to have the recomended serve of 5 a day that would be $5 per kid per day .1 piece for lunch is $1 for a start then there is 50 cents for the tray on a good day plus transport and the cost of dumping the used trays in the land fill .Thats all before they make the pig swill .My grand kids had mac n cheese the other day which they said tasted ok but the imitation mashed potato was unidentifiable but it did not taste or look like mash .
Seymour and his class of business show us how not to deliver. He knows fuck all about business, nor how real people live. The prick needs to spend some time on the bones of his arse and learn some humility.