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vending machines, student lunch, school lunch, student health

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The high school where I teach houses many vending machines. A vending machine resides in every comer of the school known to me, and I think there are some machines in areas that I don't frequent. It's a big school, after all. Kids can buy candy, hot and spicy chips that tum their tongues red, Pop-Tarts, Pepsi (not Coke, though) and a variety of other so-called foods, none of which have nutritional value. Kids without much money have discovered a machine with a large pastry called a "Big Texas" (as in "I got me my Big Texas") for 65 cents. For those who want "healthy," there are machines selling water (used to be free, but now sold in plastic bottles by Coca-Cola) and "juice" - a drink which is at least 10% juice if you read the label, which I did with a group of freshmen one day, extracting the plastic bottle from the recycling bin near the whiteboard where I was standing authoritatively.

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