I remember being in public school in Missouri,and we had to eat 3 bites of everything before we could leave the cafeteria, and the food was uniformly terrible -- the worst was beans and cornbread (I almost puke thinking about them). What this meant in fact was that students used every device known to man to hide the food. Many a day I went away from the cafeteria with wet pockets filled with goopy food.

yours, Peter T.