The long arm of the food police, rewarded for their efforts by a compliant legislature have upset the natural order of things when it comes to bake sales and schools. About the time that the very first one room school house was erected somewhere in our colonial past, there was the one table bake sale, put together by the first school committee in order to raise money for chalk or raise chickens or something. They didn’t note all the reasons back then, on account of everyone walking two miles in the snow uphill both ways, but you get the idea. Where do you think the term, “as American as Apple Pie” came from initially, if not from some school bake sale?

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