The Trump administration reportedly said it had determined this funding ‘no longer effectuates agency priorities and that termination of the award is appropriate’
To add to your comment, coming from the Northwest, food service in schools struggles so hard that they sometimes accidentally create cultural icons. “Cheese Zombies” and tomato soup were a staple of my childhood, and many in Washington are familiar with them, because they became extremely popular with children. Many in California are familiar with a similar recipe of the same name. They both came from schools trying to work within the constraints of the food they had available to them.
One type of cheese zombie was invented in Yakima, Washington, by employees of the Grandview School District in the early 1960s. The employees were under the direction of Dorothy L. Finch, the lunch program supervisor. Finch and her employees invented the cheese zombie while trying to come up with ways to use surplus Velveeta cheese. The Yakima cheese zombie consists of a layer of cheese baked between two layers of bread dough and then sliced into squares, giving them the appearance of sandwiches. The cheese zombie was so named because one of the cooks said the first batch looked like a zombie.
A similar dish with the same name was also invented in California around the same time by cooks at a California high school.
A second type of cheese zombie was invented in Concord, California, in 1963 by Decla Phillips and Helen Ballock, bakers employed at Mount Diablo High School. The Concord cheese zombie was also created by layering cheese, in this case American cheese, between two layers of bread dough. A key difference between the Concord and Yakima cheese zombies is that the Concord version is cut into circles and crimped with a special tool before baking, which helps to contain the cheese within the bun. The pair were possibly inspired by Ballock’s husband’s recipe for Pirozhki.
Also, thank you for your service to children by working hard to make the budgets work for food services in schools.
To add to your comment, coming from the Northwest, food service in schools struggles so hard that they sometimes accidentally create cultural icons. “Cheese Zombies” and tomato soup were a staple of my childhood, and many in Washington are familiar with them, because they became extremely popular with children. Many in California are familiar with a similar recipe of the same name. They both came from schools trying to work within the constraints of the food they had available to them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_zombie
A similar dish with the same name was also invented in California around the same time by cooks at a California high school.
Also, thank you for your service to children by working hard to make the budgets work for food services in schools.