No Wiggles, Jumps Or Bumps - Three Garfield pupils described their school cafeteria food last week as stuffed with "worms, grasshoppers and rocks." Thin smiles then stretched wider and wider on their faces until something popped and loud laughter spilled from their little mouths. "Honest!" they insisted and resumed gobbling of plate lunches that did not wiggle, jump or weigh heavily upon their trays. But if a Middletown elementary school student is asked "How's the food?" quickly, before he has time to conjure up a few unpalatable, unseen combinations, a prompt "All right, I guess" will be the reply. That is an extraordinary testimonial from one of the world's most hard-to-please group of eaters...

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