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    22 hours ago

    It’s cherrypicking, but apart from TV and cartoons who are likely to exaggerate, my impression of US school lunches is from Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, and Jamie looked like they were about to cry.

    I say cherrypicking because it was considered one of the most obese towns in the USA, Huntington, West Virginia, but it’s absolutely dystopic. Soylent Green would be a step up, nutritionally.

    edit: I can’t easily find the scene of the kids eating, but this two minute clip goes over Jamie’s disappointment at the food products being served. “I’d never seen kids being given pizza of any kind for breakfast before.” “Do you really recognise any of those ingredients?”

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        3 hours ago

        ‘Pourable pizza crust’ is a new one for me, I wonder which shapes would be fun. I suppose the stage of food technology at the time ended up forcing the food to be healthier, Max is dealing with ingredients I can name and buy rather than the cyanocobalamin and thiamine mononitrate in modern day rations pizza. Thanks for sharing!

        Always cool to see the BPP social programs mentioned.