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School Lunches: Food for Thought

Savor

iHeartPodcasts

Arts, Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Food

4.31.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In the U.S., the National School Lunch Program helps feed over half of the nation’s students, creating a baseline for how (and what) millions of kids eat. Anney and Lauren serve up the history socialized school lunch programs.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:02.6

Guaranteed Human.

0:13.6

Hello and welcome to Savor, production of IHeart Radio.

0:15.9

I'm Annie Reese.

0:16.5

And I'm Lauren Vogelbaum.

0:17.6

And today we have an episode for you about school lunches primarily in the United States.

0:24.9

Yes.

0:25.9

We do.

0:28.0

Well, was there any particular reason this was on your mind, Lauren?

0:31.5

It's been on the list for a long time, partially because, yeah, we were talking, oh, gosh, a while

0:40.0

ago now about how interesting, like, the content of school lunches around the United States

0:46.9

and around the world really is. And, you know, like, what goes into that? Like, what cultural

0:52.1

and financial and other institutional considerations go

0:56.9

into something seemingly as simple as lunch for kids. And yeah, so I figured, I don't know,

1:05.0

why not make Annie really miserable for a couple of days.

1:13.4

It was a headache-inducing episode.

1:16.0

It's history-heavy, for sure.

1:22.8

History-heavy, a lot of government documents and legal terms.

1:26.0

Ooh, tried my best.

1:26.4

Yeah. And I think, you know, I think we've got a pretty comprehensive general history of the whole thing.

1:34.4

Yeah, yeah.

1:35.9

And right, and this is not an episode about like the exact nutrition involved, because that is a shifting and weird topic. Um, and, you know,

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