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Black History Month school lunch features fried chicken, cornbread and more
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:18 pm
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:18 pm
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The township schools superintendent apologized to parents for a recent high school lunch menu that served fried chicken to celebrate Black History Month.
The Feb. 16 lunch menu at Hopewell Valley Central High School also listed corn bread, sweet potato casserole, sauteed spinach, mac & cheese and peach and apple crisps.
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It's not clear who complained about the menu.
"The decision to include these items without any context or explanation, reinforces racial stereotypes and is not consistent with our district mission and efforts to improve cultural competency among our students and staff," Superintendent Thomas A. Smith wrote in a message to the high school community.
Smith wrote that district's food service vendor, Pomptonian, had apologized to the district and they are meeting with the company "to reinforce our district values."
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"The suggestion was to do something to celebrate soul food," Penna said in an email. The company tries to offer a diverse menu respecting different cultures, she wrote.
"Pomptonian deeply regrets that, out of context, this menu may have been perceived by individuals as insensitive or in poor taste," Penna said. "The director at this location never intended to do anything that would offend anyone and deeply regrets the decision and understands that it could have been taken out of context."
The family-owned company, based in Fairfield and in business over 50 years, says they provide meals to more than 350 schools across the state.
The high school has about 1,200 students, of which 82 percent are white, 10 percent Asian, 3.8 percent black and 3.6 percent Hispanic, records show.
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Man as a student id be pissed if they pulled that menu.
This post was edited on 2/21/17 at 3:19 pm
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:18 pm to tke857
dare i ask what was the drink for the celebration?
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:19 pm to tke857
impossible to make some people happy.
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:19 pm to tke857
we had that menu weekly in school
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:19 pm to tke857
sounds like a good meal . I'd be pissed for missing out too.
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:19 pm to tke857
That's a bomb arse lunch menu
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:20 pm to Topwater Trout
seriously, everybody and every place should just stop mentioning anything about black people
there's know pleasing these people
there's know pleasing these people
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:20 pm to tke857
Seems like this happens literally every February
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:20 pm to tke857
The real mystery is... Did white people culturally appropriate this menu from black people.... or did black people culturally appropriate it from white people?
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:21 pm to tke857
Sounds tasty. That's some black history I can get behind.
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:21 pm to tke857
That is a helluva spread. Could have just left out the celebration title.
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:21 pm to tke857
The last time this happened it was because a school had looked up MLK's favorite meal and it read like this list plus collard greens.
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:21 pm to LSUZombie
now EVERYBODY who likes fried chicken gets fricked because some folks can find a reason to complain about anything.
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:22 pm to tke857
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It's not clear who complained about the menu.
who hates fried chicken?
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:22 pm to Chad504boy
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dare i ask what was the drink for the celebration?
Purple
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:22 pm to Tchoup
Posted on 2/21/17 at 3:23 pm to tke857
That's damn mouth watering. This fricking society of offended people.
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