Saturday, October 23, 2004

How France keeps children out of McDonald's

The Times

By Adam Sage

School dinners can turn a canteen into a restaurant.
BRYCE, a lanky 17-year-old with short, spiky hair finished his plate of bull stew and polenta, looked up and smiled.
“That was good,” he said. “I reckon this must be one of the best restaurants in town.”
Sitting next to him at a long, formica table yesterday, his teenage classmates nodded in approval. They are pupils at the Lycée de L’Empéri in Salon de Provence, near Marseille, where they enjoy what are widely described as the finest school dinners in France.
“The food here is really exceptional,” said Germaine Roche, a philosophy teacher, who was tucking into a leek soufflé. “It’s a pleasure.”

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