Exotic Meat Leaves Bad Taste

POTTER – Potter-Dix students got a taste of exotic meat in a meal last week. In a letter to parents Wednesday, School Superintendent Mike Williams said kangaroo meat was mixed in with the beef used to prepare students’ chili at the Potter site.

Upon discovering the addition of the exotic meat, Williams discusses the addition with head cook Kevin Frei, who said he added the kangaroo meat because of it’s nutritional value as a very lean meat. Frei also provided nutritional information on the meat.

School officials do not believe kangaroo meat is unhealthy or dangerous and it meets USDA standards in order for companies to sell it, but Williams says it will not be a part of the Potter-Dix meal program.

“On behalf of Potter-Dix Public Schools, I apologize for the anxiety and any harm that this has caused individual students and/or families,” Williams said. “We will make sure that something like this never occurs again.”

Williams gave parents three points in his thinking:

If a family wants to eat exotic foods, they can do so on their own time - not at school.

If we were to have food or ingredients that are out of the ordinary, they should be listed on the menu to that the students and families are aware what they would be served.

We will no way be serving food of this nature again. Period.

The release did not reveal the source of the meat.