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When I think about school lunch, I think about the smell of rectangular pizza getting warmed

up in an industrial oven. I think about Tater tots. I think about those little cartons

of reduced fat milk. But Helena Bottomiller-Evitch, she's a reporter over at Politico. She thinks

about a vast, under-appreciated supply chain. The scale of school meals exceeds the largest

restaurant chains.

It's a wild world. School meals is a wild world. There's a whole separate food system set

up. I mean, you can get like reduced fat Doritos. That you can get in first schools

that we can't buy. There's like low sodium whole grain rich dominoes that you can get

for schools that we can't buy. The pizza? Yeah. There's a whole other like market that

serves schools.

This market, it's been set up to accommodate Washington. Because Washington has made a lot

of rules for this program. For example, if you're going to look at just like grains,

right? So like the grains that schools serve, the bread, the pasta, we have a requirement

that 50% of grains in schools are whole grain rich. Whole grain rich means more than half

of the mixture of grains is whole grain mixed with refined grain. That sounds like a good

goal. But that's one example of, as a school, you have to figure out, am I at least at

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