Anyone for a donkey sandwich?

[compilerbitch]

From BBC news:

"We met some 10-year-old children who could not recognise a bowl of tuna. One pupil called it a donkey," she said.

Comments

[snow-leopard.livejournal.com]

What i don't understand is why its percieved as the SCHOOL'S fault that children regularly failed to recognise common vegetables such as leeks and onions. Surely Thats teh sort of thing children should be picking up at home (assuming they are actually fed real vegetables rather than just processed food).

[dave-t-lurker.livejournal.com]

I'd say that a child that (seriously) calls a bowl of tuna a donkey has rather more pressing educational needs than a cookery lesson.

[foibey.livejournal.com]

I've got plenty of cooking skills I put to absolutely no use if anyone wants them.

[shreena.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I'm a lifelong vegetarian and as such almost certainly wouldn't have been able to identify tuna at that age. I could identify lots of vegetables, though...

[darcydodo]

I can't even imagine learning to cook at school.