The first lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, has been receiving lashes via Twitter about unappealing school lunches. They posted sarcastic hashtags #ThanksMichelleObama as a remark for unappealing school lunches across the state.
Alongside unsavory photos of unsavory looking school meals, the hashtag has been on the top trends last Friday. Michelle Obama has become a symbol of healthier school meals as she pushed and fought for standards which were implemented in 2012 requiring healthier options such as fruits and vegetables served in school canteens.
Whole grains were served as junk foods and sodas were removed from their menu. This move is her advocacy to combat childhood obesity. Much of the schools have implemented the new policy successfully while others have problems with the food ending in trash bins.
One student named Hunter Whitney of Wisconsin tweeted, "The apple is definitely made up for the mystery mush #ThanksMichelleObama." The photo he uploaded were retweeted more than 170 times. The photo consists of a soupy Spanish rice gone wrong and an apple. The 17-year old senior at the Richland Center High School in Wisconsin said in an interview with The Associated Press that his school serves lunches went downhill in his four years of schooling where he described the Spanish rice as something which you couldn't feel the individual grains of rice but rather a solid mush.
The White House, however, has not yet released an immediate response on the issue. Yet a spokesperson from the Agriculture Department said that most of the meals are not as bad as the photos have depicted. To combat critics, some kids posted photos of more appetizing lunches with happy smiles.
The House of Representatives have proposed a waiver that schools can opt out of the program but the First Lady seem not happy about it. "I'm going to fight until the bitter end to make sure that every kid in this country continues to have the best nutrition that they can have in our schools, because these kids, all of these kids, are worth it," she said last summer.