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Article: The Pepperoni Pizza Pickle; Is It Cheese or Is It Meat? A Lesson in Slicing Up the Exception
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 27, 1992
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This week, for the first time, the U.S. 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 pounds of cheese were sold in
public school cafeterias last year, which amounts to a whole ...