Nerd News: No More Cupcakes for Christmas in Chicago Grade School?
The self-appointed killjoys known as the nanny-minded food police are now launching a campaign against cupcakes at Chicago-area schools during Christmas.
Yes, yes, we should all be eating more healthy things, blah blah blah. But these are KIDS, and this is CHRISTMAS. One or two festive cupcakes during a school party will not destroy a kid's health forever. (Of course, a kid shouldn't eat nothing but cupcakes, but that's not the point here.)
Some members of the school food police apparently won't be happy until they're force-feeding carrots and celery sticks to schoolkids everyday.
Besides, when I personally go to a holiday party, I want lots of pretty sweets. I do NOT want trays of vegetables. What kind of Scrooge-like host gives vegetables to party guests during Christmas? No, I want cakes and cookies and puddings and all that great stuff, along with punch and pastries and mulled cider and gingerbread and eggnog and on and on and on. The whole point to holiday parties is that you eat things you don't usually eat because the time and the treats are special and fun.
As for Mad Minerva and the encroaching food police with its statist overreach? Yeah, you can have my holiday cupcakes . . . when you pry them out of my cold, dead hand!!
For good measure in cupcake rebellion, check out these lovely cupcake blogs: "Cupcake Blog" and "Cupcakes Take the Cake."
BRING ON THE CUPCAKES!
I, now suitably infuriated and ranting about the right to eat cupcakes, might go ahead and do something productive with my culinary rage -- like make these adorable snowman cupcakes (video clip too). The assertion of one's own will to choose and decide for oneself has never been so cute -- and delicious! *giggle*
UPDATE: Take a look at this hilarious video satire of the cupcake ban! The addition of little pieces of politician interviews is a great detail. Save the cupcakes!