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Ewwww, Look At What School Kids Are Eating For Lunch

It's currently one of the hottest trends on twitter. The #ThanksMichelleObama hashtag chronicles some of the interesting and at times, disgusting lunches kids are getting in their school cafeteria's.

It's part of the USDA's (US Department of Agriculture) new healthy eating guidelines headed by the first lady who has made it her mission to tackle obesity in children.

A USDA spokesperson told buzzfeed the students tweets"do not fully reflect the full range of choices students are provided."

Alas, here are some of our favourites:

This is supposed to be a grill cheese sandwich:

Yummy school lunch grilled cheese #ThanksMichelleObama pic.twitter.com/zliTnsPSMS
— lakota™ (@lakotatbh) November 24, 2014

This is just wrong:

"@HouseCracka: This should be a crime. Its a school lunch! #ThanksMichelleObama pic.twitter.com/BXw4VidvgP" 😂😂😂😂
— Ethel's Grandson (@Poppa_Diop) November 24, 2014

This cheese has mold on it:

Moldy food #thanksmichelleobama pic.twitter.com/QcDMO8zb6B
— Genevieve Galligan (@genniegalligan) November 24, 2014

I have no idea what this is supposed to be:

Students post gross school lunch pictures using #ThanksMichelleObama hashtag http://t.co/g5LZQTGEdX pic.twitter.com/D26AoIEOJs
— FOX 29 (@FOX29philly) November 24, 2014

Sadly, This one looks to be the most appetizing so far:

This was lunch today at my sons grade school. Shoppy Joe, green beans, jello w/3 oranges & milk #ThanksMichelleObama pic.twitter.com/ZH5ImNPo3U
— Lori Ann Dicks-Head (@Oldsmobilelady) September 17, 2014

Heard of "where's the beef"? This one has me asking, "Where's the tuna"? I had to look twice before I saw it:

#ThanksMichelleObama for this mystery meat in school lunches #MysteryTunaTuesday @PhatMatt28 @jared_raley_ pic.twitter.com/uk9jemw8ry
— ⚾KyleGrabill⚾ (@KG_2) April 8, 2014

And finally, can someone tell me what this is please?

my school lunch today #ThanksMichelleObama pic.twitter.com/2jeYlJF0wu
— josh russell (@josh_emerson) November 21, 2014

Infamous Catcalling Video Meets Its Match

You must have been living under a rock NOT to have seen (or at least heard about) the infamous catcalling video from a few weeks back that everyone was talking about. In this video, a woman apparently filmed herself walking around New York city for 10 hours. Over that time period, she was "Cat Called" over 100 times.  The video from a group called Hollaback sparked some controversy. I won't go into all of it here but you can check out a great critique of what's wrong with the video HERE.

The video has sparked many spoofs and re-makes. Recently a woman in Mumbai, India attempted to replicate this experiment. The population of Mumbai is almost double that of New York city so you'd think that there would be almost twice the number of cat calls... nope. Apparently, she was not cat called... not even once.

Now, I say 'apparently' because there could be manipulation in both videos. When you only release 2 minutes of what is supposedly 10 hours of footage. It leaves the viewer wondering about what has been edited out. Be very skeptical. Organizations often have a political point to make and will only show you things that prove their political agenda.

But... I wish this Mumbai video had received more news coverage. This was released over a week ago and no mainstream news outlet has run the story as of yet. This could be proof that there is a political agenda in the media too. Or maybe it's because nothing happened. If there's no story to tell, that not very exciting.