Oops! First Lady Michelle Obama’s attempt to turn the 135th Annual Easter Egg Roll into another one of her “Let’s Move” events backfired when the kids in attendance announced that they liked spaghetti and meatballs more than peas and broccoli.
Her first mistake was choosing (or allowing someone in her office to choose) the children’s book “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” by Judi Barrett for the reading part of the event. “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs,” for those of you not familiar with it, is all about very unhealthy foods, such as pancakes and hamburgers, falling from the sky.
So naturally when she finished the reading and asked the kids in attendance what foods they hoped would fall from the sky, many of them asked for sugar-laden foods like ice cream and candy. That was clearly not the answer Mrs. Obama – who last month announced that she hopes for an America in which kids beg for fruits and vegetables – was looking for, as she promptly suggested that they should be excited about “peas” and other of her favorite foods.
“Let’s just say it’s eat your vegetables,” FLOTUS said. “That’s the moral of the story.”
Actually, that’s not the moral. The book is about a fantasy world where yummy, unhealthy foods fall from the sky. There is no moral.
Unfortunately, this isn’t the only time the First Lady will be ramming her healthy agenda down the throats of America’s youth this week. She will be hosting children from schools in D.C., Florida, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Vermont as they plant a garden on the South Lawn as part of the ‘Let’s Move’ program on Thursday.
She chose children from these schools because they have “made exceptional improvements to school lunches through implementation of the “Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act,” according to the press release.
And to think all these kids really wanted were their chocolate bunnies and Peeps.
