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A mother is outraged after school officials told her 4-year-old daughter that
her home-packed lunch was not healthy enough to eat. What was so unhealthy about her lunch?
Trace Gallagher reported that a lunch inspector at the school told the girl she couldn’t eat
her turkey sandwich, banana, potato chips and apple juice. Instead, providing the girl with a
USDA-approved lunch with the following guidelines: one serving of meat, one serving of grains,
and two servings of fruit or vegetables.
When the girl returned home from school, her unopened lunch contained a note from the school
saying that her lunch didn’t meet the guidelines and a $1.25 bill for the replacement lunch.
The mom was outraged and anonymously wrote to the local newspaper and called a state representative.
The North Carolina representative called the school which apologized, because in fact the lunch
did meet all the USDA requirements.
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It was due to budget cuts. The regular lunch inspector job was eliminated. The job is now done by a hobo, whose other responsibilities include smoking the cigarette butts left outside by the students.