Well, it WAS tongue in cheek. The cafeteria manager is within her rights to decide which buns to serve when. Those who want to subscribe to mystic voodoo symbols as a sort of sympathetic magic routine, or cultural pain-killer, of course are free to do so, but sometimes a bun is just a bin, nothing more.

Burmese latkis, on the other hand, are properly made with the crushed leaves of the bodhi tree, preferably the original tree itself, and thus are not just innocent elective symbols -- they might have some SMF (spiritually modified food) in them which could conceivably bring about the wrong kind of enlightenment in innocent children!!

As concerned parents it is out duty to raise a ruction about this risk, holler and moan in letters to editors and possibly picket the schools themselves for slipping these SMFs into our children. What if they picked up some nasty foreign philosophy from eating them?




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