1.   The boys of St Birinus School at Didcot in Oxfordshire have become accustomed to the occasional vegetarian fare ending up on their school menu.

2.   Along with pizza and tacos, pancakes, hot dogs, sloppy Joes and hamburgers appear on school lunch menus from Denver to Forest Hills.

3.   Education officials were about to give the all-clear for beef to be served on school menus again, but their letters were withdrawn.

4.   It is not shifting student tastes but soy industry lobbying and a sustained push by activists that are putting pressure on school menus.

5.   Not only that, the new policy calls for removing irradiated and genetically altered foods from the school menu.

6.   Offended Pennsylvania parents complained that the school lunch menus featured pepperoni stromboli and that elementary school students had physical education only once a week.

7.   Once, when she tried to introduce perch to school menus, she was questioned in Parliament.

8.   Parents of allergic children comb school menus and inspect cupboards for suspect ingredients, even shadowing their children at lunch or on field trips.

9.   She can even call up the school lunch menu with her remote control.

10.   The advantage to connecting fast food to school menus is that the children like it already.