No this isn’t another new flavour from Pot Noodles (to follow doner kebab) but the fare that might be offered to secondary school children for lunch under yet more government guidelines.
The School Food Trust, which was set up after Jamie Oliver’s celebrated assault on Turkey Twizzlers, is imposing 14 ‘nutrient-based’ standards on school lunches which include iron, present in the above delights but not much else.
What’s more schools will have a spanking new piece of computer software (which probably won’t work of course) to make sure that those few pupils who don’t leg it to the local chip shop imitate legendary spinach fan Popeye.
Now Mr Blatherskite is partial to dish of calf’s liver (his own version of Fegato Veneziana puts the rubbish on sale around St Mark’s Square to shame) and spinach. But he wouldn’t have welcomed overcooked pig’s or lamb’s liver and the green leaf in his youth.
Most schools already try hard to offer their pupils healthy food.
Leave it to them for God’s sake.