Maybe it’s all in the presentation

Yes, kids can be picky about what they put in their mouths. That appears to be why some schools are bailing out of the federal school lunch program, with its more stringent dietary standards. The kids won’t eat it.

OK, but isn’t that giving in too easily on nutritional training?

Maybe the kitchen crews could work harder at adapting healthy foods to juvenile tastes. Just at random we looked online at a Waipahu Elementary School menu for today: pepperoni pizza, garden salad, baby carrots, banana, “Hawaiian-style” sausage, steamed rice, apple juice.

Are those choices really so bad?

Be careful what you ask for; you might get it

Congress has approved laws in the past decade granting automatic American citizenship to people born in four U.S. territories, but not American Samoa, and a Kaimuki man is appealing a federal judge’s finding related to that.

Vaaleama Tovia Fosi and four others are appealing District of Columbia U.S. District Judge Richard Leon’s decision in June that it is up to Congress to grant citizenship for American Samoans, who number more than 55,000. A federal law enacted in 1940 classified American Samoans as “noncitizenship nationals.”

But some American Samoan leaders are satisfied with that because granting U.S. citizenship would mean all of the U.S. Constitution would apply, and that could be used to challenge the territory’s unique communal land-ownership rules, according to Margaret Stock, an immigration attorney in Alaska. It’s a matter of culture and heritage.