brown-bagging

[Laurence Horn]

At 7:49 PM -0400 4/12/11, victor steinbok wrote:
>OED entries for "brown-bag" (n. and v.), "brown-bagging" (n. and adj.)
>and "brown-bagger" are somewhat limited. For one, there is a vast
>difference between brown-bagging booze and brown-bagging lunch. In
>fact, "brown-bag lunch" has acquired a fairly recent association with
>lunch-time seminars. One interesting aspect is that conference
>"brown-bag lunches" often have a distinction with school brown-bag
>lunches in that the former is supplied to the participants by the
>organizers (sometimes free, sometimes buy-in).
>
>Whatever the case, today we get an interesting report (well,
>technically, not today) that draws a new parallel between brown-bagged
>booze and brown-bag lunches:

One salient difference is that the former tends to be kept in the
brown bags while the latter are systematically extracted from them.

LH

>http://goo.gl/9Ptsi
>>  Chicago School Bans Students Packing Lunch to 'Protect' Against
>>Unhealthful Food Choices
>>
>>  I would have bet anything that the story below would come out of
>>San Francisco, but I would have been incorrect. Via The Faculty
>>Lounge, I see that at least one public school in Chicago has
>>decided that parents are so lousy at packing nutritious lunches for
>>their kids that it has made eating the food served in the school
>>cafeteria mandatory. That is to say, even if you want to bring a
>>brown-bag lunch, you are not allowed to do so.
>>  According to the Chicago Tribune, Elsa Carmona, principal of
>>Little Village Academy, says the policy is intended to protect
>>students from their own unhealthful food choices. Carmona created
>>the policy six years ago after watching students drink soda and eat
>>chips for lunch. Lunch policies in Chicago public schools are
>>reportedly left to the judgment of each school principal.
>
>VS-)
>
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