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Civics 101

The Politics of School Lunch

Civics 101

NHPR

Education, History, Supreme Court, American History, Elections, Democracy, Society & Culture, Government, Civics, Politics, Social Studies

4.62.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

How we decided to feed kids in America's schools.

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0:00.0

All right, it's meatloaf for fish sticks.

0:05.0

Teddy, it's been meatloaf or fish sticks every Friday since school was invented.

0:11.0

Nick... school was invented.

0:18.0

Nick, do you remember lunch in public school? I don't think there's anything I remember better

0:21.0

about public school than the lunch we had.

0:23.7

Just for the record, you should know that meatloaf also grows by several other eggs.

0:29.2

Pepper steak, Swiss steak, and Salisbury steak.

0:37.0

One thing that stands out to me was a dish called American Chop Sui, which was basically

0:45.3

macaroni and a pasta sauce.

0:47.3

Yep.

0:49.3

I remember a few things.

0:50.8

I remember in elementary school there were always like everyday

0:54.8

potato sticks like thin pieces of potato chips basically and I always I was like

1:00.2

why can't we just have full potato chips?

1:03.6

And on certain days, I think it was probably Fridays.

1:06.5

There was Ilio's pizza.

1:08.7

Oh yeah, we always had Friday pizza.

1:10.2

It was always rectangular.

1:11.3

Yeah, rectangle pizza. It was never fully cooked on the bottom.

1:15.0

And then every once in a while there were mashed potatoes and they were served with an ice cream

1:18.8

scoop with gravy and they were probably out of a box, but I am who I am, so I ate them.

1:23.4

The smell of school lunch is something I can't forget.

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