AT BISD: FIRST, BAD BARBACOA, NOW SUSPECT SAUSAGE

By Juan Montoya

Just when you think the spoiled barbacoa meat was a one-time deal, out pops another case of questionable foods being served Brownsville Independent School District students.

And given the new generation's propensity for social media, this time the cyber

universe is filled with photos of sausage meat was served to middle school kids in their homerooms at Stell Middle School.

"The meat smelled old and had bits of green in it," tweeted a student.

"It didn't smell good," said another who sent the photos on her Snapshot account.

We are the recipients of several snapshots taken with the students' cell phones. To the untrained eye, the meat does not look appetizing and in fact looks downright suspicious.

A mother of one of the students said that neither her daughter nor her roommates touched the meat and threw it away.

"The kids started taking pictures of the biscuit and the sausage meat and posting it on Snap, Chat and Twitter," she said. "The kids grossed out threw it away. She is scared to even drink milk because it is always at room temperature and not cold."

Last November, the BISD reported that its Food and Nutrition Service staff detected a bad batch of barbacoa meat bought through Region 1 from Valco Foods LLC in McAllen and stopped the purchase of meat processed in Mexico.

The BISD posted information to parents about the bad barbacoa only in January. The announcement followed the suspension of then FNS Director Silverio Capsitran, AT the time, the BISD said that he was under investigation for unspecified reasons. Later, he was found dead in his car from a bullet wound to the head.

The results of the investigation have not yet been released.