<p>Its a big jump from high school cafeteria to fancy-pants gourmet. I just wish my pay improved, said Caryn Schenewerk, a staffer for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). </p>
<p>A fruit and cheese side dish with two small wedges of brie and cheddar, six grapes, two saltines and one strawberry cost $4.95, for example. </p>
<p>Zoosermom- I didn’t get it either until I read the article- I wasn’t sure if it was supposed to be cheap or expensive. </p>
<p>Cheese is very expensive- and add out of season fruit and you get $5. I think my H pays $6 or $7 for a hamburger at his factory cafeteria and that beef isn’t even organic grass fed! :rolleyes:
( plus half the time he eats there he gets sick )</p>
<p>Boy, you ‘pubs sure are a grumpy lot, aren’t you? Is there anything a Dem did that you wouldn’t sneer at? Imagine - fresh food and recycling - what next? Human sacrifice? Bar the doors, Maud, they’re comin’ for our young’uns!!</p>
<p>[fish vs. beef actually is environmentally superior U-U-D - look it up.]</p>
<p>Actually, I’m a conservative who enjoys Pelosi-style food. Living in Sarasota, we’re a bit more like SF than Birmingham (I do enjoy grits, though. ;)) I just say “fromage” with a Southern accent. :)</p>
<p>Kluge, where have you been? Don’t we have some con law to debate?</p>
If you have evidence to the contrary please quote it. Maybe it is or maybe it isn’t. There’s fuel for the boat, pollution from the boat, death to non-targeted fish, processing waste, packaging, transport, refrigeration, etc. It may not be less env friendly than beef but it doesn’t seem like the most env friendly thing in the world either.</p>
<p>U-U-D, consumption of pretty much anything has an impact on the environment. But beef is a secondary food source to begin with. We fertilize the soil to grow corn or grain, harvest the feed - all of which consumes energy, then then truck it over to the feedlot and feed it to the cattle – then we eat the cattle. So there’s a lot of consumption of resources (and generation of pollution) just to get the cow ready for slaughter. There are issues with fish, too - largely from over-harvesting them - but in terms of overall environmental impact nothing comes near beef. I eat beef anyway - so shoot me. But don’t kid myself about the (true) cost of doing so.</p>
<p>P2N - it’s interesting. Our discussions about the evolution of the societal context of constitutional rights, and of technological changes which affect how those rights interact with real life in a changing world, has actually given me some food for thought and a couple of ideas on how to approach a confrontation clause issue I’ve been briefing for a state court of appeals case I’m working on. Who knows where it might all lead?</p>
<p>Having worked/interned on the Hill for over a year, I wish these changes had taken place while I was working. </p>
<p>On a more humorous note, if you visit The Capitolist, an anonymous D.C. Hill staffers website (you can Google it), the rants about the new changes to the cafeteria run almost daily. :)</p>
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