Jamie’s School Dinners made me laugh. We didn’t see it when it was first on, but we’re watching the re-run episodes back to back. Just like the West Wing, only wiv a mockney.

Anyway, at the first school where he took all the junk off the menu, the numbers of kids using the canteen fell because they couldn’t have their chips and pizzas. Fair enough: the thinking was that if healthy food was the only option, hungry kids would eat it eventually. But the ones who were old enough to be allowed off site at dinner time went off to the local chippy instead. That was no surprise but what made me chortle was the black market economy that emerged: the big kids were making a tidy profit by charging the littlies for fetching them their junk food and handing it to them through the railings :->

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