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School Lunches Around the World - USA
When President Harry Truman signed the National School Lunch Act into law in 1946, he probably didn't imagine that American schools would one day be serving chicken fingers, frozen French fries and soggy pizza.

While nutrition activists are trying to get healthier foods into our schools, we wondered what school lunch looks like in other countries—places where ketchup has never been considered a vegetable.