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A tuck shop is a small retailer located either within or close-to the grounds of a school, hospital, apartment complex, [1] or other similar facility. In traditional British usage, tuck shops are associated chiefly with the sale of confectionery , sweets , or snacks and are common at private ('fee-paying') schools .
What makes school lunch so contentious, though, isn’t just the question of what kids eat, but of which kids are doing the eating. As Poppendieck recounts in her book, Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, the original program provided schools with food and, later, cash to subsidize the cost of meals. But by the early 1960s, schools ...
Mimble, Alfred – Husband of Mrs Mimble and the school gardener. Appears in 58 stories and first introduced in Magnet No. 18 Roughing It! (June 13, 1908). Mimble, Mrs Jessie – Runs the school tuckshop. Appears in 565 stories and first introduced in Magnet No. 2 The Taming of Harry (February 22, 1908).
Jamie's School Dinners is a four-episode documentary series that was broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom from 23 February to 16 March 2005. The series was recorded from Spring to Winter of 2004 and featured British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver attempting to improve the quality and nutritional value of school dinners at Kidbrooke School in the Royal Borough of Greenwich.
It should perhaps be noted that any number of summer camps across Canada use the term "tuck shop" to refer to the place where children can "buy" (or receive, with the cost charged to their parents account) candy, cholocate, soft drinks, other food items, camp t-shirts and the like. True, one camp in Algonquin had a tuck shop open once each session.
Free school meals can be universal school meals for all students or limited by income-based criteria, which can vary by country. [14] A study of a free school meal program in the United States found that providing free meals to elementary and middle school children in areas characterized by high food insecurity led to better school discipline among the students. [15]
The program was established as a way to prop up food prices by absorbing farm surpluses, while at the same time providing food to school-age children. [2] It was named after Richard Russell Jr. , signed into law by President Harry S. Truman in 1946, [ 3 ] and entered the federal government into schools' dietary programs on June 4, 1946.
Spaza shop in Joe Slovo Park, Cape Town. Spaza shops, also known as tuck shops, originated in Apartheid-era South Africa when enterprising historically disadvantaged individuals were restricted from owning formal businesses, they began setting up informal, micro-convenience shops from their homes to serve their communities' daily needs in the townships.