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Also too, here is how wonderful Chartwells is:

"Chartwells is part of a huge, publicly traded international food services conglomerate based in the United Kingdom, the Compass Group, that reports annual sales of $9.3 billion. Chartwells provides the food each day for 2.5 million kids in more than 500 school districts across the U.S. "

Nice little article about a kickback procurement scandal: <a href="http://grist.org/article/fo..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://grist.org/article/food-are-kickbacks-from-...">http://grist.org/article/fo...

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They call it a "luncheon."

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I don't go that far back, but I remember Foodhenge.

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Or the supermodel food pyramid: Tic-Tacs, rice cakes, and cigarettes.

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I spell it with a colon.

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You see, the kids are too dumb today to memorize lists of groups, so just make a brightly colored poster with pictures of suitable food-like material.

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The fundamentalists do put up the occasional billboard shrieking "Porn Destroys Lives".

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I'm in.

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My guess is that it's worst in prosperous northern suburbs. *coughColumbinecough*

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Hairnets? This is Missouri we're talking about here.

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They are fuckwad idiots because like so many Americans they grew up eating an exclusive diet of Kraft mini toaster pizzas, pop tarts, and Coke. If it weren't for the communists putting fluoride in the water, they'd have holes in their teeth to go with the holes in their hearts.

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the meat grinder group, the peanut butter group, the chip group and beer

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Bread? Check. Cheese? Check. Put some ketchup on that cheese and you got the vegetable <i>and</i> the fruit. All 4 food groups.

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Which is not, by any means, the most deprived district in the St. Louis area.

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well played, sir and/or madam

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Yes, its very important we know exactly WHICH part of the "state" of Missouri this took place in. I'd hate to confuse one incredibly shitty area of it with another incredibly shitty area of it.

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