Recently parents and kids gathered at City Hall to protest the DOE's ban on homemade treats at school bake sales and a New Yorker reporter bore witness to "the noise made by wooden spoons being banged against saucepans." Doing away with brownies from scratch, the regulations limit sales to packaged foods like whole grain Pop-Tarts and reduced fat Doritos, so at the rally kids in foot-tall paper chef's hats chanted “N.Y.C. D.O.E. Read our lips. No more chips,” and “Yay, apple! Boo, Snapple!” Their hand-lettered picket signs read “Joel Klein Get Out of the Pantry” and “Our Schools Are Not Supermarkets.” But the opposition was present too—not the schools chancellor and his cronies but a row of pre-teen boys shouting “We want junk food! We want Doritos!”
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