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This program ensures that low-income children continue to receive nutritious meals when school is not in session.
What is the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)? This summer, USDA plans to serve more than 200 million free meals to children 18 years and under at approved SFSP sites.
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This provides delivery dates for State warehouse agencies.
What is an Allocation Delivery Schedule?
100
This action song is frequently played at sporting events.
What is The Chicken Song? Rob will now demonstrate.
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In Latin this vegetable is referred to as the "large pearl"
What is the onion? Onions, with their circular layers, represented eternity and were found in the eyes of King Ramses IV who died in 1160 B.C.
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This CDE employee began working at the PDC in October 2000 as a permanent intermittent warehouse worker and was later promoted to material stores supervisor. He also played baseball until he was 35 years old.
Who is Juan Gutierrez, the Warehouse Manager II at the Pomona Distribution Center?
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This tool describes the items expected to be available for schools and institutions participating in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP), the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), and other Child Nutrition Programs.
What is the USDA Foods Product Information Sheet (USDA Foods Facts Sheet)? This sheet includes valuable information including but not limited to product description, nutrition facts, and culinary tips and recipes.
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Co-ops can stored USDA brown box foods at the State Distribution Centers beyond 30 days from the date the Agency requested the product on the Annual Survey. An additional fee is assessed for foods maintained at the distribution centers.
What is Extended Storage?
200
The annoying 1970’s song “Escape” by Rupert Holmes is better known by this title.
What is The Pina Colada Song?
200
This sauce is made from dissolved anchovies (including the bones) that have been soaked in vinegar. Is it a) Worcestershire sauce, b) Soy Sauce, c) Black Bean Sauce
What is a) Worcestershire sauce?
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Both Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger were succeeded as Governor of California by this man.
Who is Edmund G. Brown Jr. (Jerry Brown)?
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About 7.1 million children participated in the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) in its first year. As of 2016, the program has reached this many millions of children nationwide: a) 26.6 million children b) 31.8 million children c) 30.4 million children
What is c) 30.4 million children?
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This is Web-based system for administering the federal and state nutrition programs, including the National School Lunch and Breakfast, Food Distribution, Special Milk, Child and Adult Care Food, Summer Food Service, and Seamless Summer Feeding Option Programs.
What is CNIPS?
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This popular Jimmy Buffet song is also the name of his chain of bar and grills.
What is Cheeseburger in Paradise?
300
This is the only food that will never rot, it is said that it can last 3000 years. Is it a)ketchup, b) honey, or c)peanuts
What is b) honey?
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This person worked at the Department of Food and Agriculture, Department of Corrections, and Department of Personnel Administration before joining the NSD in May 2004.
Who is Sandip Kaur, the Director of the NSD?
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This Act of 2010 authorizes funding for federal school meal and child nutrition programs and increases access to healthy food for low-income children. The distribution centers changed what USDA Foods are ordered considerably as a result of this Act.
What is the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010? The legislation allowed USDA, for the first time in over 30 years, the opportunity to make real reforms to the school lunch and breakfast programs by improving the critical nutrition and hunger safety net for millions of children.
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This is used to create multi-temp zones in your trailer to protect temperature sensitive cargo and is the ideal solution for transporting frozen, refrigerated and/or dry products.
What is a Refrigerated Trailer Bulkhead?
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This title of this Beatles song can also be found in New York’s Central Park.
What is Strawberry Fields (Forever)?
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What vegetable is sometimes used to ward off vampires, mosquitos, and ticks.
What is Garlic? Folklorists suggest it is because vampires have a heightened sense of smell and the garlic’s strong smell was overpowering.
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On July 1, 2017 the CDE went through a major re-alignment and the NSD began reporting to this Deputy Superintendent over the Systems Support Branch.
Who is Nick Schweizer?
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Founded in 1862, this President signed into law an act of Congress establishing the United States Department of Agriculture.
Who is Abraham Lincoln? In what would be his final annual message to the Congress; Lincoln called USDA "The People's Department." At that time, about half of all Americans lived on farms, compared with about 2 percent today.
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In our day, it is widely used on a wide variety of manufactured products as a standard means of dating. It is also used by parts of the military and as an astrological measurement.
What is a Julian Date? The Julian Calendar is basically a continuous count of days starting January 1, 4713 BC. The purpose of the system is to make it easy to compute an integer (whole number) difference between one calendar date and another calendar date.
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This dance move was popular in the 1950’s.
What is The Mashed Potato?
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This pea is really a bean. Is it a) Green peas, b) Crowder peas) c) Black-eyed peas
What is Black-eyed peas? In the American South, eating black-eyed peas n New Year’s Day is considered good luck: the peas symbolize coins.
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This person is an American politician and the former 26th California State Superintendent of Public Instruction, having been elected to the post in November 2002 with 61% of the vote.
Who is Jack T. O'Connell ?