Fruit disguised as fries, carrots masquerading as crisps? Is the future of fast food for schoolchildren... healthy? [Independent.ie]
- Published: 04 October 2011
AT the beginning of September last year, pupils at Mason High School in Cincinnati found something unusual in their canteen.
Alongside the traditional vending machines that had been supplying them with chocolates, crisps and fizzy drinks for most of their formative years, was another machine – painted bright orange – selling nothing but carrots.
Exactly the same size and shape as a conventional snack machine, the fresh produce on its shelves was packaged in small, opaque, crinkly bags similar to the sort of bags crisps come in.
There were a number of different designs – one featured a weird orange alien creature on a green background, another had a black carrot-shaped object travelling through space – but inside all of the bags was the same thing: about three ounces of washed and peeled baby carrots, selling for 50 cents a bag.
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