{"id":1715,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/texas-school-lunches-add-down-home-pulled-pork-bbq-as-food-group\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:58:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:58:18","slug":"texas-school-lunches-add-down-home-pulled-pork-bbq-as-food-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/texas-school-lunches-add-down-home-pulled-pork-bbq-as-food-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas School Lunches Add \u201cDown-Home Pulled Pork BBQ\u201d as Food Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Nico Aldape<\/a><\/h6>\n
Nov. 18, 2016<\/h6>\n

In a move made \u201cin the interests of student physical well-being and health,\u201d the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) has announced it will phase in do<\/delete>w<\/delete><\/insert>w<\/delete>n<\/delete> <\/delete>down-<\/insert>home pulled pork BBQ as a new food group. \u201cBecause no S<\/insert>s<\/delete>outhern state can ever be too S<\/insert>s<\/delete>outhern, especially a state like Texas, we wanted to introduce a food that was both S<\/insert>s<\/delete>outhern and welcoming of<\/delete> to<\/insert> our diverse population,\u201d said SBOE Chair<\/insert>member Thomas Ratliff. \u201cDon’t get me wrong; other S<\/insert>s<\/delete>outhern foods like chitlins and hush puppies are delicious. However, we thought having to constantly explain what food these hok<\/delete>il<\/insert><\/delete>ey-named <\/delete>Southern things actually are would get annoying. Additionally, pulled pork was one of the five popular S<\/insert>s<\/delete>outhern foods that was not<\/insert>n\u2019t<\/delete> either fried or literally just fat.\u201d <\/insert><\/p>\n

The SBOE\u2019s student nutritional guide recommends at least 8 ounces of pulled pork (the equivalent of 2-3 medium–<\/insert> <\/delete>sized Sloppy Joes) a day. The Board‘<\/insert>s initial statement noted that the meat of the pulled pork, the tomato paste present in the healthy slather of BBQ sauce, and the expert blend of herbs made pulled pork \u201cakin to a superfood.\u201d Texas students were mostly pleased with the change. \u201cMaybe if they acknowledge meat as a food group, they\u2019ll acknowledge candy as a fruit group when it\u2019s \u2018made with real juice!\u2019“<\/insert> said San Antonio high school student Lucas Monreal. \u201cI mean they’ve taught us that , half of this state is taught that <\/delete>evolution i<\/insert>wa<\/delete>sn\u2019t real,<\/delete><\/insert> and aand all of us are forced to pretend like a<\/delete>bstinence is the only effective form of birth control, so the Board\u2019s done crazier things! I have so much hope.\u201d<\/insert><\/p>\n

As of release of this story, the SBOE is considering making school prayer a food group as well.<\/insert><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Nico Aldape Nov. 18, 2016 In a move made \u201cin the interests of student physical well-being and health,\u201d the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) has announced it will phase in dowwn down-home pulled pork BBQ as a new food group. \u201cBecause no Ssouthern state can ever be too Ssouthern, especially a state like Texas, we wanted to introduce a food that was both Ssouthern and welcoming of to our diverse population,\u201d said SBOE Chairmember Thomas Ratliff. \u201cDon’t get me wrong; other Ssouthern foods like chitlins and hush puppies are delicious. However, we thought having to constantly explain what food these hokiley-named Southern things actually are would get annoying. Additionally, pulled pork was one of the five popular Ssouthern foods that was notn\u2019t either fried or literally just fat.\u201d The SBOE\u2019s student nutritional guide recommends at least 8 ounces of pulled pork (the equivalent of 2-3 medium– sized Sloppy Joes) a day. The Board‘s initial statement noted that the meat of the pulled pork, the tomato paste present in the healthy slather of BBQ sauce, and the expert blend of herbs made pulled pork \u201cakin to a superfood.\u201d Texas students were mostly pleased with the change. \u201cMaybe if they acknowledge meat as a food group, they\u2019ll acknowledge candy as a fruit group when it\u2019s \u2018made with real juice!\u2019“ said San Antonio high school student Lucas Monreal. \u201cI mean they’ve taught us that , half of this state is taught that evolution iwasn\u2019t real, and aand all of us are forced to pretend like abstinence is the only effective form of birth control, so the Board\u2019s done crazier things! I have so much hope.\u201d As of release of this story, the SBOE is considering making school prayer a food group as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-komono"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2748,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/2748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}