{"id":639063,"date":"2023-02-05T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T17:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=639063"},"modified":"2023-02-05T18:05:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T18:05:10","slug":"aramark-apologizes-for-unintentional-insensitivity-after-serving-students-chicken-and-watermelon-on-the-first-day-of-black-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/aramark-apologizes-for-unintentional-insensitivity-after-serving-students-chicken-and-watermelon-on-the-first-day-of-black-history-month","title":{"rendered":"Aramark apologizes for &#8216;unintentional insensitivity&#8217; after serving students chicken and watermelon on the first day of Black History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students at a New York middle school were served chicken and waffles with watermelon on February 1 (not pictured). 400tmax\/Getty Images New York students were served chicken, waffles, and watermelon on the first day of Black History Month. The school apologized for the &#8220;unfortunate situation&#8221; but blamed the food vendor Aramark. Aramark issued an apology and acknowledged that the lunch&#8217;s &#8220;timing was inappropriate.&#8221; Students at a New York middle school were served chicken and waffles with a side of watermelon on the first day of Black History Month, prompting the school and food vendor Aramark to apologize. The school lunch in question was served to students at Nyack Middle School on February 1, a decision that upset some students and parents. As Insider&#8217;s Angelica Cheyenne reported, foods like watermelon have often been rolled into stereotypes against Black Americans . &#8220;They were asking people if they want watermelon and I remember being confused because it&#8217;s not in season,&#8221; Honore Santiago, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School administrators apologized in a letter to parents, but ultimately blamed food vendor Aramark for the contested school lunch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,108,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drinks","category-lifestyle","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}