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Article: National School Lunch Program is being forced to update its menus. (Originated from Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- October 26, 1994
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It's 11:40 a.m. at Roosevelt Elementary School in Colorado Springs, Colo. Lunch time.
The gym, which doubles as a lunchroom, is a scene of controlled chaos. A line of students snakes around the room's perimeter, and one by one, first- and second-graders choose their lunch, pick up a carton of milk and head to a table, precariously balancing their flimsy white foam trays.
Students Chanet Elder and Son-Uniquee Livsey, already seated with matching lunches _ corn dogs, orange segments and lettuce salad with ranch dressing _ argue over the yukkiest and yummiest school food.
``Corn bread _ yuk!'' says Son-Uniquee, chomping on her corn dog, which she thinks is one of the ...