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Article: THE PEPPERONI PIZZA PUZZLE U.S. IS SERVING UP FRESH CONFUSION ON SCHOOL MENUS.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- May 28, 1992
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Byline: Malcolm Gladwell Washington Post
This week, for the first time, the federal Department of Agriculture will propose letting Susie and Johnny buy fresh pepperoni pizza at their school cafeterias shipped in from a local pizzeria. They cannot do this now.
They can buy cheese pizza in their school lunchroom from a local pizzeria. They can purchase pepperoni pizza that was bought frozen and reheated in the cafeteria. But they never have been able to buy meat-topped pizza slices from Pizza Hut or Dominos or even the pizza joint down the road.
This may not seem like a big deal. But it is: 808 million slices of pizza totaling some 267 million ...