# Should we restrict junk being sold in schools? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 16, 2003, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-restrict-junk-being-sold-in-schools/201997 "2003-09-16T20:17:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Isabelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5a626/32.png) [@Isabelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isabelle)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2003, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-restrict-junk-being-sold-in-schools/201997/41 "2003-09-19T19:49:34Z")
Should be some what restricted…children are not of an age to exercise correct judgment over such things… Free market is no good…why not use the same argument to sell the cigarettes or drugs?..because it harms kids… Likewise, excess offers of junk food harm them…it’s a school board issue, since not all areas are Created equal… ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2003, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-restrict-junk-being-sold-in-schools/201997/42 "2003-09-20T00:56:38Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by DrDeth_ > **Oh God yes! I remember that as a “special treat” they woudl have “hot dog day”. How can one screw up a hot dog you would think? Well, by the condiments. Instead of a choice between mustard, ketchup, mayo or relish- they mixed all of those up together and you had a choice of “plain” or “with sickening glop”. (here, we need an “ecch” smilie)** My worst memory of school lunch was from 6th grade. It was pizza day, but someone had decided that the definition of “pizza” included large chunks of diced vegetables. (However nutritious celery might be, it has no business on pizza.) I filed out to the lunch line with the rest of my class, returned to my seat, looked at the sorry excuse for a meal on my tray, and decided not to eat it… but the hag of a substitute teacher–who, as far as I could tell, was not my mother–actually punished me for not eating my “lunch”. > [@](#): > > **Note that a standard replacement for Coke is “juice boxes”- many of whom with their “5% real fruit juice!” are the same “sugar water” that 7Up is.** Even 100% real fruit juice is basically sugar water with trace vitamins. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-restrict-junk-being-sold-in-schools/201997.md?page=2)