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Explanation: In the early 1970s, the Conservative government of the UK ended free milk for schoolchildren under the lead of their education minister. Kicking off a career of petty harassment towards the impoverished and vulnerable with a startling opening salvo, Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher, would later go on to become a long-serving British Prime Minister on the strength of her small-minded cruelty and hatred of the poor.
HOWEVER
Those British children don’t know what TRUE loss is, unlike French children, who were no longer served wine in schools by order of the French Ministry of Health from 1956 onwards. 😭
Thanks, now I’ve got
Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher!
Stuck in my brain like some kind of children’s rhyme
It was generally Maggie Thatcher the milk snachter as the rhyme.
Source: my mother.
During her diabolically evil reign as the British PM some of the press dubbed her “thatcher thatcher, Milk Snatcher”.
Which is far more polite than she ever deserved.
the children yearn for the wines
Also the vines
But most importantly, mines.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/french-children-wine-at-school/
at that time, it was a common practice to see children consuming wine. Parents usually give a flask of wine mixed with water to their children when they go to school.
Damn I wish my parents were this cool
This some sort of clean water concern?
Yeah, if you don’t hydrate and get enough electrolytes and wine you lose the ability to be a snobby french. Happened to my cousin.
As you’re clearly an expert, is there a cig ration?
3 per day, minimum. Tho ideally you should hit 7.
This daily cig ration increases in an easterly direction. Romanian models receive about 18 per day.
That’s why you should drink Glucozade Port!
I know this argument for the middle ages but not the 1950s! I wasn’t alive in either so what do I know
Having now read the article, there is no mention of illness concern, only “acclimating” the kids to wine
And in the Middle Ages they’d be drinking small beer, which is 0.5-3%.
No, just French.
Maybe they banned the practice to discourage watering wine.
What’s that? An excuse to post one of my favourite videos? Don’t mind if I do!
Part maga for the video might be coming soon.
What a legend
Why even go to school when there ain’t no wine?
Brits obv did it for the milk for a while.
