Say cheese, grilled-cheese sandwich. A school district in San Antonio has installed a system of cameras that takes a picture of what kids are eating and not eating for lunch.
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Paid for by a $2 million research grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, researchers on this pilot project will use the before and after shots of children's trays to determine what kids like to eat and how to create healthier lunches from that information.
The system reportedly is hooked up to food-recognition software capable of identifying the items from their shape, volume, color, density and texture. Methinks it's going to get inundated with a lot of tater-tots shots.
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.