{"id":948,"date":"2006-04-10T10:55:28","date_gmt":"2006-04-10T18:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/bake_sale_on_steroids.html"},"modified":"2006-04-10T10:55:28","modified_gmt":"2006-04-10T18:55:28","slug":"bake_sale_on_st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/bake_sale_on_st.html","title":{"rendered":"Bake Sale On Steroids"},"content":{"rendered":"

So much for providing healthier food for schoolchildren<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Blatantly defying nutritional guidelines imposed by the city educrats, a Bronx high school is selling belly bombers and other banned junk food to students, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n

The “supermarket” in the basement of Walton High School peddles a smorgasbord of fatty alternatives to cafeteria food — including ice cream, beef patties, gyros, frozen White Castle hamburgers and canned ravioli, students and teachers revealed.<\/p>\n

The store, which aims to raise money for school clubs and provide job training for special education students, has a microwave to heat up the forbidden food. It also sells banned sodas to wash down the treats.<\/p>\n

“It’s street food. The only thing that is healthy is milk,” said Juan Finch, a Walton freshman who has downed his fair share of the market’s White Castle burgers. “Students get angry when the store is closed.”<\/p>\n

On most school days, a line of students — as well as security guards and teachers — snakes down the hallway outside the supermarket, according to students who told The News they’d rather starve than eat cafeteria food.<\/p>\n

“This is regular food, things we eat at home,” said Jarleen Sambou, a Walton senior who routinely buys instant soup, soda and spaghetti in a can from the supermarket.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Many large high schools run on-campus stores, selling snacks and notebooks to kids as a way to raise money for school clubs.<\/p>\n

But in the last few years, principals have adjusted store menus to comply with a healthful-food-only rule. In many cases, sales plummeted.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So much for providing healthier food for schoolchildren: Blatantly defying nutritional guidelines imposed by the city educrats, a Bronx high school is selling belly bombers and other banned junk food to students, the Daily News has learned. The “supermarket” in the basement of Walton High School peddles a smorgasbord of fatty alternatives to cafeteria food […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}