Pizza Hut's Book It program coming under fire

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: AgentJean

Originally posted by: pontifex


we didn't even have a fast food restaurant in my town until about 96 or 97, let alone the school. I look back at what I ate for lunch in HS and can't believe I did that.

What like Mystery Meat Wednesdays?

lol, no. for about the last 2 years of HS, my lunch consisted of 1-2 chocolate milks, a bag of chips (the small bags), and usually chocolate peanut butter bar things. Sometimes some Mentos were thrown in there too.

 

[AMCRambler]

Susan Linn sounds like an idiot to me. Guess you don't have to be smart to be a Harvard psychologist.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Aikouka
I'll admit that I used to cheat and say that I read books to get my free pizzas . I blame my hatred of reading on school anyway... damnit, I don't care about Laura Ingles Wilder's Farmer Boy or any of those other horrid books I had to read. I still read, yet I find my willingness is much lower than most people and I tend to form quite the queue (right now I have iWoz, Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Dearly Devoted Dexter in said queue).

But this sounds like an argument against positive reinforcement. Sure, it pushes Pizza Hut among other brands, but I guarantee most kids will eat any brand of pizza given to them on a plate, regardless if it's Pizza Hut or not.. although PH is pretty tasty.

I love to read but it has to be on my terms. If you assign a book to me to read, I most likely won't like it as much as if I read it for pleasure. And if its a book i have no interest in reading, that makes it 10x worse.

i'm torn on the whole read for a reward thing because i think people should read because they enjoy it, not just so they can get a free pizza.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: AgentJean

Originally posted by: Genx87
I love these socialists, and that is all this lady is. She is appalled private enterprises are doing something she deems a state job.

btw if she is so worried about Pizza Huts health implications in school. Maybe she should look at her beloved state run school lunch programs. Nothing get worse than school lunch for taste and nutrional value.

Well at my high school back in the day(97-2001) we had PIZZA HUT pizza once a week.
Not to mention all the other crap we had the rest of the week.

I skipped lunch.

I hear a lot of schools now, contract out to nothing but fast food joints.

Presumably she would be against that as well.

And there she would have a point - kids really shouldn't be eating fast food 5 days a week. If they're going to do that, they might as well not offer school lunches at all so the kids have to bring lunches with them. There's no value to a school lunch program that feeds kids nothing but junk food.

 

[Chryso]

Originally posted by: AgentJean
Actually, traditional pizza isn't all that bad for you if you choose your topping wizely , it's the assembely line grease soak crap loaded with extra cheese, all the different types of artery clogging meats you can think of places like Pizza hut.

If you go old school, with just dough, tomato sauce, a little bit of cheese and baked in a coal or wood fire oven, you'll be alright. Real Pizza does not have the grease like the crap Pizza hut calls pizza.

Wait, so the method of generating the heat in the oven determines how healthy it is?
I find that very hard to believe.

 

[paulxcook]

What garbage. I read a lot more books as a child than i would have if Book It weren't around.

 

[pontifex]

Originally posted by: Chryso

Originally posted by: AgentJean
Actually, traditional pizza isn't all that bad for you if you choose your topping wizely , it's the assembely line grease soak crap loaded with extra cheese, all the different types of artery clogging meats you can think of places like Pizza hut.

If you go old school, with just dough, tomato sauce, a little bit of cheese and baked in a coal or wood fire oven, you'll be alright. Real Pizza does not have the grease like the crap Pizza hut calls pizza.

Wait, so the method of generating the heat in the oven determines how healthy it is?
I find that very hard to believe.

i agree, its gotta be the way they prepare the food. i mean, the crust is just full of grease whereas pizza from a pizza shop is fairly dry. it depends on toppings too.

 

[naldo]

Its because they line the pan with hella oil/butter to keep it from sticking, thats why the crust is so greasy (and delicious). The other pizzas they sell dont have the super greasy (and did I mention delicious) crust.

Plus a personal pepperoni pizza only has 640 calories, which isnt too too bad especially considering the average elementary school lunch has somehting like 800.

 

[pontifex]

man, i haven't had pizza hut pizza in years and this thread is making me hungry for it.

 

[Aikouka]

Originally posted by: pontifex
I love to read but it has to be on my terms. If you assign a book to me to read, I most likely won't like it as much as if I read it for pleasure. And if its a book i have no interest in reading, that makes it 10x worse.

i'm torn on the whole read for a reward thing because i think people should read because they enjoy it, not just so they can get a free pizza.

Exactly, for me it's kind of like food... you know, you take a bite of that nasty Brussels sprout and you never want to eat it again... regardless of your personal taste changing. That's kind of like what happened with reading... Mrs. Wilder didn't taste too good and I didn't want to sample too many books after that . I remember having to read this one about a party of some sort and I kinda... didn't read it. Well, there was an oral test on the book and needless to say, I failed .

 

[Amused]

How sad. Corporations are evil, even when they do good things. At least, thats what the socialists would have us, and our children believe.

"Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood" is a leftist, nearly communist organization who never saw a corporation they didn't hate. They are so clearly anti-capitalist it isn't even funny.

And the jist of their campaign? Instead of having parents stand up to their kids, they rather just censor all the evil corporations so their kids face no temptation.

In short: Fsck them. Just another in a long list of leftist anti-capitalist, anti-freedom nanny state organizations.