Forbidden From Serving Tasty Food in the Name of Equality
In the story “Harrison Bergeron,” equality is imposed by handicapping those who excel in any way. For example, those who are graceful are fitted with weights to make them awkward, those who are smart have their thoughts scrambled by loud radio signals, et cetera. The socialist utopia Sweden demonstrates how mandated equality works in real life:
Annica Eriksson, a lunch lady at [a] school in Falun, was told that her cooking is just too good.
Pupils at the school have become accustomed to feasting on newly baked bread and an assortment of 15 vegetables at lunchtime, but now the good times are over.
The municipality has ordered Eriksson to bring it down a notch since other schools do not receive the same calibre of food – and that is “unfair”.
In addition to being an affront to culinary justice, Eriksson’s excellent cooking violates the sacred bureaucratic principle of uniformity.
“A menu has been developed… It is about making a collective effort on quality, to improve school meals overall and to try and ensure everyone does the same,” Katarina Lindberg, head of the unit responsible for the school diet scheme, told the local Falukuriren newspaper. …
From now on, the school’s vegetable buffet will be halved in size and Eriksson’s handmade loafs will be replaced with store-bought bread.
A happy ending — from the moonbat point of view.
On a tip from Smorfia48.
Kafka is validated (once again).
More testicles mean more iron!
Socialism…always sinking to the lowest common denominator. Hire a chef from Africa to make mud pies.
Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater. This lady sounds like she really takes (well, took anyway) pride in her job, and was a real gem for the students. It’s a shame that such a treasure gets lost in the name of “equality”.
At least it looks like the parents and students are fighting back!
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A great Polish restaurant named “Theresa’s” closed in the East village of NY a few years ago – yet another on the long list of reasons to move.
Maybe this Swedish lady could step in and open “Katarina’s” God knows, they need it in NY!
Wine bars, everywhere you look.. that’s what moved into Theresa’s too..
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Did someone in Sweden receive a call from Moose..?
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Socialism: We all must suffer equally.
They even used the word “collective”. They are becoming more bold in stating their objective.
Unions really can’t stand exceptionalism – it just raises the bar for everybody else.
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You’re surprised?
Liberalism isn’t about equal opportunity. It’s about equal misery. When everyone is equally miserable, then the liberals are happy. They don’t care how deplorable conditions are, as long as everyone has exactly the same situation.
That’s why we MUST defeat liberalism NOW. And…I suspect it’s going to happen really soon. The Conservatives have had enough and the libs are about to get a really hard spanking really soon.
Dumbing down the cafeteria – and they do the same with the teachers thru the unions.
Yep. That’s ‘progressive’ all right. They puff their chests out in self righteous smugness as they stupidly institute mediocrity on the land.
Are they afraid that students and teachers from OTHER schools will eat their lunches there and cause the other schools to lose the business? Sounds anti-free market to me.
Thank you Moonbattery. I’d never heard of Harrison Bergeron (or the phrases crab mentality or Dog in the Manger – links) until today, and had nearly forgotten about Tall Poppy Syndrome.
Among other things, I never learned about them in the public schools I once attended.