Jackson Jambalaya

Who teaches food safety in Ridgeland? Apparently no one since it has the highest number.

Thanks for the info KF. It's nice to know that I can login to this blog and actually get news that is useful. And, bet the farm, I will not be eating in any of these slop-houses.

Embarrassing to see a vaunted private school on this list. Not surprising to see Churches Chicken and McDonalds and most of the Chinese places. Shuckers? Say it ain't so.

A Couda is slang for Barracuda.

HOW IS ST ANDREWS KITCHEN GOING TO GET INTO AN IVY LEAGUE SCHOOL NOW!!!! A C?!?!?!?

Beagle Bagel in Madison gets a C? That is pretty good, because I assumed they would get an F. That place is simply unclean. Nasty.

A C is the new F in these reports and has been for awhile. That's as low as it goes.

@ Hair in my Soup. Obviously reading comprehension isn't one of your strong suits. MOST of the Chinese places? Not counting Kroger Sushi (which is Japanese as are Nagoya and Hibachi but I digress), that is a far cry from MOST. Hell it is not even ANY! Considering you took Koude and made it Couda ought to disqualify you from posting period. According to Wikipedia, Koude is Dutch for 'cold.' This place is a frozen yogurt place. It's called Google, use it once in a while.

KF, which subway in Pearl? There are two of them... well... three if you include the one in the WalMart.

$16,480 annually for tuition (more next year) and they can't pass a Mississippi Department of Health inspection? LOL

Koude is a frozen yogurt place in Clinton. Ironic that a place selling bacteria cultures was cited by the Health Dept.

Sure hope none of those St. Andrew's seniors are applying to get into Cornell's hospitality management program. Might be a hard landing.

16 Grand a year??? Holy Cow. SA had 15 National Merit finalists, semifinalists, or N. Achievement awards with that freight? Madison Central had 22. Northwest Rankin had 9. Of course, the cars in the parking lot are much higher status. Our future lawyers and trust fund slackers. Have a nice lunch.

What did Clay County schools have with the $20k per year they spend on students?

SA had 15 national merit finalists? Pretty good percentage based on the number of students. Comparing them to MC with their 22 and NWR with their 9.....and again....factoring in the number of students....is kinda laughable. Horrible comparison.

Yes on prop 42....lol.

12:46, you're right, it is laughable. Considering that MC and NWR have to take anyone in their district, while SA has rigorous entrance exams. SA should have more national merit finalists. The last thing SA can do is look down on the public schools.

PP is correct. St. Andrews is underachieving.

Does SA have entrance exams?....other than the exam of your bank balance and ability to pay tuition......to be able to attend? I'm not sure how they are looking down on public schools by driving a "higher status" vehicle....but ok.

Congrats to all national merit semi finalists and finalists regardless of their vehicle status or school they attend.

Time to get back to these nasty restaurants many of us won't be going to any longer.

I agree they are probably underachieving when compared to other private schools with that kind of tuition.

You fail to grasp that a public school on the same road produces more NM achievers than a private school touting its academic prowess. Puhleeze. You attack public schools and greed tells you to "cut them public schools." Years back, SA advertised its number of NM scholars, until the public schools began to produce more. Look at public colleges and Rhodes- the US Military Academy, an engineering focused school, has produced 91. But Dartmouth 62, Brown 54; Cornell 30, while UVA has 50. The public school hater rich boys can pay all they want for a segregated (racially and economically) education, but the private schools in Mississippi are status symbols and for segregation. While SA has some fine kids, it's a waste of money, and they shelter the kids from the real world. Unless of course, your reality is Mummy's trust fund or a red brick gated community and Range Rovers headed DUI up to the Grove. BTW, you do know that the public schools have to take all? You want to compare Stuyvesant High to Bedford-Stuyvesant? Or sniff that Stuyvesant the public produces more than Dalton, but "Dalton has a higher percentage!" That's laughable, sweetie. Stuyvesant had 48%. 119. Dalton, at 60K a year, also had 15 (but against much higher standards). Again, Dalton, among billionaires, 15. Madison Central 22. Please stick to private school athletics and academics. You'll feel like a big fish in that small (but oh so "exclusive") pond.

Not sure how we ended up taking about private school tuition on a thread about bad restaurants, but whatever...

Can anyone explain to me why you would send your kid to JA or JP, with a five figure tuition per kid, only for said kids to end up at Ole Miss? That seems to be the worst investment of private dollars I can imagine, given than almost anyone can get into the University of Mississippi at Oxford.

SA changed their food service from Valley Services to an outfit called Flik about two years ago. It may be time to reassess that.

It seems a lot of public school grads on this thread never got as far in math to learn about ratios, percentages, fractions - SA has always had the highest percentage of NM finalists in the state (meaning adjusted for size). Also, something like 31 of the 32 MS students who have ever been awarded Presidential Scholarships have been from SA.

Let me put it in terms the knuckle-draggers and mouth breathers here can relate too - you just can't expect a 3A school to beat a 6A school - the size difference is too much to overcome.

And Dalton charges $60 while SA charges $16K? And the colleges the grads get into are similar? Sounds like quite a bargain in MS.

Wow. I eat at bb madison, Papito's, and cap'n d. Lucky I'm still alive!

I live in Madison and can't seem to remember cap'n d (sic). Can 10:56 help?

If I sign up for a family-tour of St. Andrews does it include lunch in the cafeteria? What if I'm a commoner?

The beagle bagel Madison location was cited for a bulk ice machine malfunction. It has since been replaced. Please accept our apologies, and rest assured none of that ice was used for drinks or customer consumption

8:37; Are you certain? Apology accepted, but don't overdo it with the assurances. Nevertheless, malfunctionated ice ain't no problem.