It wouldn’t be uncommon to hear a kid in a school cafeteria complain about something “tasting like dirt.” It would be uncommon for it to be actual dirt.
A delicious dish of baked dirt was accidentally served during a high school community supper in Maine last week. The school admitted the mistake on social media, saying it was an “unfortunate incident.”
Here’s how it happened, “Earlier in the day, students had baked potting soil as part of a science activity, to sterilize it, so they could later test plant growth. The soil had been placed in a baking dish, covered with foil, and set off to the side.”
During the meal, there was some chaos in the kitchen as the servers were working to quickly deliver food to the tables…and the dish was mistakenly grabbed, and brought out.
Three students ate the soil, thinking it was “a dessert item,” and immediately realized that it…tasted like dirt. Mainly because it was. They spit it out, and the dirt was taken away.
The school insisted that this was a coincidence, and not a prank. There’s no indication that anyone was hurt or sickened by the mix-up.
(WMTW)
