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Obama Discusses School Lunch and Mangoes With 11-Year-Old Reporter
Eleven-year-old Damon Weaver loves mangoes and French fries, and if he had his way they would be part of every school lunch. That’s what the student reporter from Florida told President Obama during an interview on Thursday. Weaver interviewed Vice President Biden during the 2008 presidential campaign and has been vigilantly seeking an interview with the President ever since. He finally got his wish this week, and school lunch was on the agenda for the 10-minute Q and A, which was posted on YouTube. Here’s what the president said:
Weaver: Do you have the power to make school lunches better?
President Obama: I remember when I used to get school lunches, sometimes they didn’t taste so good, I’ve got to admit. We are actually seeing if we can work to at least make school lunches healthier. Because a lot of school lunches, there’s a lot of french fries, pizzas, tater tots. All kinds of stuff that isn’t a well-balanced meal. And so what we want to do is make sure there are more fruits and more vegetables in the schools. Now, kids may not end up liking that, but it’s actually better for them. It’ll be healthier for them, and those are some of the changes we’re trying to make.
Weaver: I suggest that we have french fries and mangoes every day for lunch
President Obama: See, if you were planning the lunch program, it’d probably taste good to you, but it might not make you big and strong like you need to be. We want to make sure food tastes good in school lunches, but that they’re also healthy for you too.
Weaver: I love mangoes
President Obama: You love mangoes? I love mangoes too, but I’m not sure we can get mangoes in every school. Cus they only grow in hot temperatures, and there are a lot of schools up north where they don’t have mango trees.
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