Do school lunches really need an overhaul?

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  This is The Indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Waylon Wong, and I'm joined today by producer Julia Ritchie.

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  Hello.

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  I came to talk about something most of us have had, but not always enjoyed.

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  School lunches.

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  You know what I did enjoy?

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  In middle school, getting the nachos, basically just corn tortilla chips with like reheated cheese whiz.

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  That is basically my midweek meal still.

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  So yes.

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  Delicious.

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  It's a classic.

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  We recently covered the federal government's new inverted food pyramid on the show.

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  Among other changes, it places meat and dairy alongside fruits and veggies.

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  Public schools are supposed to follow these dietary guidelines in the meals they serve students.

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  And school lunches are part of the Trump administration's broader Make America Healthy Again agenda.

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  U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Fox News that officials want to raise standards for school lunches.

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  A lot of our schools don't even have an oven anymore.

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  You know, back when I was growing up, the lunch ladies were back there cooking

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  the meals on the stoves and then serving it.

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  So how do we completely and fundamentally change the system to go back to where we 're serving that healthy,

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