CLEVELAND – Another one bites the dust – which is all students will be biting when Michelle Obama’s school food campaign is complete.

Credit: Chronicle-Telegram

The “pink cookie” voted the has been a staple in the Elyria, Ohio school district for decades. Until now.

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The Chronicle-Telegram reports:

Students no longer will eat the traditional Elyria pink cookie — the soft, buttery-sweet confection found only in school cafeterias across the city.

The federal government saw to that. Its edict calling for school districts to provide more fruits and vegetables, lean proteins and whole grains to students along with fewer calories, fat and cholesterol has resulted in the loss of the pink cookie.

“We can’t have them in the cafeteria for sale, period,” Scott Teaman, food services director with Sodexo Inc., the district’s contracted food provider, tells the paper. “The guidelines for snacks are very strict, and there is no wiggle room.”

Teaman said the recipe could have been changed to better meet nutritional standards, but it just wouldn’t be the same, according to 10TV.

The cookie is so good it’s reportedly gained a “cult following” and was voted “best cafeteria cookie” in Cleveland in 2009.

But even all that couldn’t save it from the long arm of Michelle Obama’s food police.

“It’s a tradition,” district spokeswoman Amy Higgins tells Fox News. “It’s not only a tradition it’s one that tastes really, really good. You’d be surprised by how many people are upset about the pink cookie going away. Anyone who’s gone to Elyria schools in the last 40 years knows the pink cookie.”

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The reported ingredients – butter, sour cream, powered sugar, Crisco and granulated sugar – are enough to give any federal regulator heart palpitations.

“You can’t change the recipe of the pink cookie,” Elyria mayor Holly Brinda tells Fox. “It’s like eating diet potato chips. It’s not right.”

Until school districts start standing up to Michelle Obama and her lunch rules, more school traditions will likely fall victim to Washington bureaucrats.