Chris Christie during a town hall at Village Inn restaurant on Jan. 18, 2016, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Let me tell you this, I don't care," Christie said Monday when 11-year-old Jacob Royal, who traveled from Nebraska to hear Christie speak, asked the New Jersey governor what he would do to make the lunches better. “They were fine when Mrs. Bush was the first lady, but now that Mrs. Obama is the first lady, they have gone down.” 
 
 Michelle Obama has been a vocal proponent of more nutritious school lunches as a way to curb childhood obesity. Royal said he misses pizza and “crispitos,” a kind of crispy taco, and doesn’t like all “the gluten-free stuff.” Now, he packs his own lunch. Chris Christie promised to do away with First Lady Michelle Obama’s healthy school lunch initiative to a boy who bemoaned that the pizza and crispitos once served at his school cafeteria have gone away under the Obama administration. "The first lady has no business being involved in this,” Christie told Royal during a town hall at a Village Inn, a restaurant chain that Christie said is a favorite of his to frequent when he comes to Iowa. “Using the government to mandate her point of view on what people should be eating every day is none of her business, it just isn’t,” Christie said of Mrs. Obama. “I think that this intervention into our school system is just another example of how the Obamas believe that they’ve got a better answer for everything than you do.” 
 
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 If he is elected president, Christie told 11-year-old Jacob Royal on Monday while campaigning here in Iowa, he can go back to eating “whatever you want to eat" at school. Christie said it is "a really good goal to get kids to eat better." According to the Centers for Disease Control, childhood obesity has more than doubled in the past 30 years. Following the town hall, Royal told reporters he was satisfied with the governor’s answer: “I think it is good that he will fix it.” 
 
 Recalling the days when crispitos were part of the regular fare at school, Royal said he thought his favorite lunch foods would “probably” come back if Christie were president. It makes us better, makes us living longer, better quality of life, all the rest of it.
– Chris Christie may have just become the Republican frontrunner among kids, though he likely irked Michelle Obama in the process. While campaigning in Iowa on Monday, the New Jersey governor fielded a complaint from an 11-year-old boy who said pizza and crispitos, a kind of crispy taco, have vanished from his school cafeteria in recent years, reports USA Today. If Christie is elected president, kids can eat "whatever you want to eat" at school, the governor responded, per ABC News. "I want people to eat healthier … but in the end, it's your choice," he added. "I don't care what you're eating for lunch every day. I really don't." "The first lady has no business being involved in this," he added. "Using the government to mandate her point of view on what people should be eating every day is none of her business." However, CBS News uncovered a quote from a 2011 interview in which Christie said he supported Obama's clean eating initiative. "I think it's a really good goal to encourage kids to eat better," Christie told the Telegraph. "I don't want the government deciding what you can and what you can't eat," but "Mrs. Obama being out there encouraging people in a positive way to eat well and to exercise and to be healthy, I don't have a problem with that."