The cynic in me gloats over this report in the LA Times, hat tip Kevin Drum, on how poorly the newly healthy lunch menus has been greeted in the LA schools.
I wonder if USDA will pull the award: "This year, L.A. Unified, which serves 650,000 meals daily, has received
awards for improving its school lunches, including one last week from
the U.S. Department of Agriculture and another from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine."
To be fair, some of the innovations are working well; as I've always said, it's hard if not impossible to do things right the first time. One of the key faults is that the food which was acceptable in their tests turned unacceptable when prepared by the regular kitchens. As Megan McArdle would say: scalability, and repeatability could when you're basing decisions on pilot tests.
[Update: McArdle picks up the story and discusses reasons why pilot tests aren't necessarily predictive.]
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