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in addition to the school lunch in the cafeteria.
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As many of you probably remember, in the school cafeteria,
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you had sort of the official lunch of the day
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but then there were often other snacks or beverages,
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or just one component of the lunch like one hamburger,
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or just French fries that you could buy separately.
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Those are all competitive foods
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because they compete with the full school lunch.
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These competitive foods started coming into schools in the late 1960s.
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In 1970 the USDA were concerned that
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some of these competitive foods
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were being sold by people other than the school lunch program,