From Denny: A couple of months ago this happened: Can you believe this crazy stunt? A precocious nine-year-old, Martha Payne, decides she is fed up with the poor standard of school lunches so she starts photographing them. Then she put them up on her blog, Never Seconds.
She is quite the observant food critic too. She spots ugly things like hair in her food. Oddly enough, she actually liked this garbage on a plate in this photo. Kids do love mac 'n' cheese and jello, and, to her, these were infrequent treats.
On Martha's blog school kids from other countries sent her photos of their school lunches. They certainly don't look as bare as this plate. Apparently, Scottish kids actually like - and will eat radishes - not so here in America. Radishes are great for your sinuses and good for staving off colds. Since she lives in a cold climate it's good she enjoys them.
This plucky little girl hails from a Scottish coastal town called Lochgilphead which is about 130 miles west of Edinburgh. She caused quite a stir in her area by revealing the awful food truth.
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This is the photo that caused her blog to go viral and the public was some kind of outraged. You should read some of the 147 comments below her posts. That's when the school was so terribly embarrassed that the Scottish Council stepped in to shut down her picture taking. Yeah, there's nothing like the truth and free speech getting as gagged as the school kids who have to eat this boring mess.
The Scottish Council might have shut down her picture taking of local school food offerings but it sure didn't succeed in shutting down her blogging. School kids from all over the world send in photos of what they are being served.
Martha Payne has learned to morph to the next level as a blogger and embrace what's going on in the world outside her school walls. Precocious kids: you can't keep them in the box! :)
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