Put the taco down and nobody gets hurt.

If not for the quick response from the district office, the headlines in the newspaper may have read, “Local schools closed due to explosive diarrhea.”

Fortunately, that did not happen. Just a mere 30 minutes before serving a nutritious and delicious lunch of soft tacos and refried beans we received a call from the district office with the direction to throw out all the beef and serve chicken patties on a bun instead. No reason was given - just throw it out now.

And as Alfred Lord Tennyson once said, “Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.” Or in our case, serve the chicken patties. Lunch was served along with a many explanations of , “Yes, we know it was supposed to be soft tacos. No, we don’t know why they just told to serve this. We hope to have soft tacos again soon, just eat your lunch already.”

So all the children received a healthy nutritious lunch, there was not a run on toilet paper, and everyone lived to return again to school. Today’s lunch choice - since we served Friday’s lunch on Thursday - will be manager’s choice; which means whatever we can find in the freezer.

Bon appetit.