You know these shows where they come on and tell you of the horrors of everything you do? They test the water and tell you what is in it or that the company that cleans your carpets is using chemicals that will kill you? They are supposed to be consumer watchdogs and some of the things they uncover are scary and it is good that they tell you about those things, sometimes they are just out of ideas and the things they are telling us to worry about are ridiculous! For example this morning they went to an elementary school classroom and rooted through all the kid’s lunches and told of the horrors! When I was in elementary school, lunch was the highlight of the day! If you had a good lunch or even a bad lunch everything would be OK if you had a sugary snack to finish it off with. Tuna sandwich, meh, ding-dong, score! If you had some food you just could not eat you could use the snack as a bargaining chip to trade up to something better. Now the consumer watchdogs want to get rid of anything good in kids lunch so everyone suffers. PBJ, an apple, and a juice box should not cause school-wide hysteria. Look, I don’t think we should be eating a ton of sugar but give school kids a break, they shouldn’t have to eat kale at every meal either. A little common sense says a lunch with a sugary snack in it will not ruin the kid, in my day we ate a lot of sugar and we even rode bicycles without helmets and we turned out OK!