http://www.zengardner.com/4th-graders-short-docuмentary-school-lunch/

Zachary Maxell was not your ordinary fourth grader. Zachary became disenchanted with the school lunches at his large public elementary school in New York City.

Every morning, he read the mouth-watering descriptions on the city’s online lunch menu to see what delectable cuisine was to be served that day.

Zach looked forward to those lunches that read as if they were coming from one of the city’s finest restaurants, but every day his heart sank when he was handed a tray of pale, lifeless, and ultimately tasteless food that was nothing like the advertisement—not by a long shot.



Irritated, hungry, and determined, Zachary decided to take matters into his own hands and went undercover.

Armed with a concealed video camera and a “healthy dose of rebellious courage,” he embarked on a covert mission to collect video footage of lunch—narrowly escaping encounters with the Lunch Lady that would end with embarrassing marches to the principal’s office.

Six months and 75 school lunches later, Zachary turned his secret footage into a short and funny but very eye-opening docuмentary named “Yuck!,” about New York City’s school lunch program.1

That Italian lunch looks good.