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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBoulder, CO to stop selling ice cream at pools and parks
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) -- Boulder residents will no longer be able to cool off with an ice cream cone by the pool because the city has discontinued the sweet treat as a vending option at all Parks and Recreation facilities. The city dropped ice cream cones, bars and sandwiches in an effort to cut down on sugary, unhealthy snacks, The Daily Camera reported. City-run facilities can only sell treats that satisfy a series of nutritional standards, meaning chips and other junk food also left snack stands this year.
The change hasn't been welcomed by everyone. Andrew Gafford, 8, said he has always spent his summers enjoying a Neapolitan ice cream sandwich at the pool. "I'll get over it, but then it brings back a lot of memories of me getting ice cream sandwiches," Andrew said. "Like this one time, when I was eating one very slowly, so it melted all over me. It makes me feel sad to say."
In a letter to the editor, which he wrote with the editorial guidance of an adult and his 6-year-old brother Thomas, Andrew said new restrictions take away teachable moments. "Boulder can't tell the parents what to do," he said, "because the parents are doing a good job of helping us grow up and telling us the rules. I say leave it up to the moms, the grandparents, the great-grandparents."
Boulder District Services Manager Alison Rhodes said the aim is to give kids healthy choices, but that all facilities allow outside food to be brought in - including ice cream.
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I scream.
You scream.
We all scream.
For ice cream!
Spoilsports.
Straw Man
(6,622 posts)Because ice cream travels so well, y'know ...
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(688 posts)JHB
(37,152 posts)...and whether there's a convenient place for an ice cream truck to plant itself.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)So glad I'm not a kid today. No fun whatsoever. Good grief not even a cupcake is allowed at schools.
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(688 posts)After all...it's for the children.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)They can't even teach kids about moderation. They are saying none. Idiots!!
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)I would not read too much into it.
marybourg
(12,584 posts)but cupcakes and other treats in school are a relatively recent development. When I went to school in the 1940's and '50's the only food in school was a reasonably healthy institutional-style lunch prepared in the school kitchen and served in the lunchroom to those children who didn't go home for lunch to a reasonably healthy meal prepared at home by their moms.
There were no birthday treats in school, no selling of food to raise money, no sweet treats to be bought in the cafeteria and certainly no vending machines. And - looking back at my 5th grade class picture, little to no obesity. Sweet treats, if there were any such in our lives, were provided at home after school and on special occasions, at our parents' option.
Yeah, life was really rough in the old days.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)That's what I love about DU....perspective and reality of things.
JanMichael
(24,872 posts)The food (I was in a public school K-12) was prepared by the cafeteria staff not like today where it is usually prepackaged garbage. The food wasn't great by any means (but filling and not too much sugar) but there was always one vegetable (usually green beans or cabbage), some fruit (most likely canned but still fruit), some starch (bread, potato, etc), a meat (I wasn't a vegetarian back then), sometimes casseroles, and a milk, water(in a glass) or OJ. We occasionally had those apple crumble deserts and sometimes pudding. It was decent institutional grub.
But cupcakes? The Lunch Lady would have kicked our asses if we asked for a cupcake.
We did do a paper drive but no constant selling of crap or begging for donations. I think in HS we had a vending machine for sodas but it was usually broken (maybe on purpose?).
And yes it was sooooo tough...
Kingofalldems
(38,419 posts)to head for McDonald's.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)machines. I remember one girl who brought a grocery bag of popcorn with fudge topping to school and we all loved it...might have been 4th grade.
We had no pop at home except during special summer days like July 4th. Mom did bake desserts each day, but we were a large family and cleaned them up pretty quickly. She also made 3 full meals/day with a hearty breakfast. She almost never had a meal with sandwiches unless we had homemade soup to go with it. We did have whole milk with thick cream, but we were also active, which I think is a big difference to today.
I agree, life was rough in those days.
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)at noon to go to the store.
mainer
(12,017 posts)carrot sticks?
Ice cream isn't the worst of their junk food problems. At least it includes protein and calcium. I'd much rather serve my kids ice cream than a whole host of fried foods.
TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)rurallib
(62,373 posts)fruit smoothies perhaps?
EllieBC
(2,988 posts)Kids can have plenty of fruit and still have a treat at the pool.
mainer
(12,017 posts)And consuming gelato never seemed to hurt the Italians.
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)I can see why kids would want a cold treat on a hot summer day.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Fat doesn't make you fat, sugar does.
Ex Lurker
(3,811 posts)The highlight of my day was when I could go sit under the A/C for 15 minutes and eat a banana fudgesicle. I would daydream about it.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)Seems they are as elusive as Bigfoot.
scscholar
(2,902 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)Bucky
(53,936 posts)Anyway, it ain't the ice cream fattening the kids up. It's the overly salted corn chips. Also, the lack of exercise, but presumedly the kids going to the swimming pool has that angle covered.
B2G
(9,766 posts)And my kids did before all of this nonsense started.
WTF is childhood turning into?
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)The article says, people can still bring in their own ice cream.
So, big efffin' deal.
It's probably cheaper that way, too.
malthaussen
(17,175 posts)-- Mal
Buns_of_Fire
(17,148 posts)is the vending machine that sells Tofu Yummies and frozen carrot sticks! Now THEM'S good eatin'!
We must Slurp Shame these little rugrats so they'll grow up to be properly repressed adults, just like us.
jmowreader
(50,528 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)that noticed that and thought, huh?
PufPuf23
(8,751 posts)the topic and the interview was with an 8 year old.
Silver_Witch
(1,820 posts)My grandson frequently talks about things we did two, three or four years ago. Those are memories! Children have feelings, thoughts and yes memories.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)He said, very solemnly, "This is the worst birthday I've ever had."
REP
(21,691 posts)Poor mommy won't have any more memories of her child covered in melted ice cream.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Nevernose
(13,081 posts)Nothing else to look at.
I bet this started with someone who doesn't like fat people seeing a fat kid eating ice cream at the park.
DonRedwood
(4,359 posts)That puts an ice cream sandwich at 10% of a 10 year old boy's minimum calories of 1600--girls need 1400 minimum... Not horrible. But a Drumstick gets awfully close to that 20% mark--and there are more that go much higher.
Since they already have frozen treat machines I'd bet they'll be getting filled up with frozen fruit juice treats, frozen yogurt and maybe even chocolate covered bananas.
When your job is to provide a safe place for kids where the goal is teaching activity and exercise, maybe it's ok to not have nestle advertising treats so calorie-filled they are over ten percent of an ADULT's calorie intake.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This is so ridiculous it's almost laughable.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)Why is every outing an opportunity to market junk to my kids? I don't see a problem with taking away a marketing opportunity for food corporations. People can bring their own snacks.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)then don't let them eat it.
rug
(82,333 posts)JanMichael
(24,872 posts)messy liitle monsters getting their grubby sugar sticky paws over everything is not cool.
but for health reasons? since they drop or smear onto their faces and hands and clothes 80% of most cones that sounds dubious. thry do not consume all that much.
Warpy
(111,124 posts)issuing fatwas against things like an ice cream at a park on a hot day because they don't like sugar. It's always for our own good, too, haven't you noticed? as they completely wreck enjoyment and suck all the oxygen out of the air.
An ice cream in the park won't hurt anyone, not even a kid.
meow2u3
(24,757 posts)I'm also sick of those puritan spoilsports set out to ruin people's fun because of their hangups. Just because they don't like tasty treats doesn't mean they can shove their so-called healthy lifestyle down the throats of an entire city.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)witness the people in perpetual temper tantrum mode over adults smoking legal marijuana or looking at naked people on cable tv or the intertubes.
why do you want to kill the joy of the puritan killjoys, puritan killjoy?
philosslayer
(3,076 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Eating junk food is seen as some kind of sin and people think they have to completely eliminate all sugary and fattening food out of their diet. Then they can't keep the highly restrictive diet full of tasteless food up, quit, and hate themselves and think they are bad people. This is why a lot of us who struggle with out weight end up in cycles of self-hating depression.
Warpy
(111,124 posts)because we're programmed to keep our fat stores up. Diets have to get more and more Spartan in order to maintain ideal weight once one has starved down to it.
If it were a simple matter of calories in/calories out, no one would be fat.
However, deficiency diets have even more failure built in since there are so many foods people are surrounded by that they're forbidden to eat. Eventually they do crack and binge like crazy, hate themselves for it, and go on an even more ridiculous deficiency diet.
Silver_Witch
(1,820 posts)I like the way an 8 year old with the help of his sicx year old brother is smarter than Boulder officials. There is hope for the world!
rainy
(6,088 posts)to our children. The US Kids eat horribly. School lunches and breakfasts are pure CRAP. Parents throw their hands up and give up in this crap consuming country. It's shameful how and what we feed our kids and adults shouldn't be complacent. Other civilized educated smart countries don't feed their kids this junk.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)They're pretty much regulated by the federal government under Michelle Obama's healthy eating initiative, so I doubt they're crap.
Of course, many kids throw them in the trash rather than eating them.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)mainer
(12,017 posts)Oh those poor, unhealthy Italians. Eating ice cream for pleasure. Along with the wine, olive oil, and pasta, it's clearly hurting them.
Just reading posts
(688 posts)There is a cool trip offered by the adventure travel company I use that goes from Venice to Budapest.
Hmmmm.......
mainer
(12,017 posts)On the island of Elba!
Hope you get to go on your trip from Venice to Budapest. Sounds spectacular.
Just reading posts
(688 posts)I'm seriously considering it. I've done a couple of trips with G Adventures, and they both went really well.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Fuck this authoritarian crap.