A sugary drink might provide an instant energy burst, but meals-in-plates from pots of broth have the power to sustain life".
Pulled pork, ribs and dogs are repeated across the city's menus like a holy trinity, while the title of Glasgow's best burger is hotly contested by outlets such as Meat Hammer (burger meal, eat-in, from £7.95); Buddy's (takeaway burger, from £4); Burger Meats Bun (burger meal, eat-in, £9.50 - £10.50); and the unrelated Bread Meats Bread.
Embarrassed by the "Turkey Twizzlers" row, Labour brought in minimum nutritional standards for school meals in England from 2008, and stopped schools selling confectionery and canned drinks.
Several studies have documented the wide-ranging benefits of school meals in India, from higher school attendance and better child nutrition to remunerative employment for rural women and the erosion of caste barriers.
Children in the first three years of primary education will get free school meals in England from next September.
As with so many visions of the future, however, the meal-in-a-pill turned from an object of fascination to one of ridicule.
But if you look back to these "good old days", the roots of the meal-in-a-pill stem not from the fertile minds of science fiction writers, but from the politics of the day.
We've moved from the meal-in-a-pill future to the pill-in-a-meal, which is to say, not very far at all.
His approach was based on his success in reforming midday meals in UK schools from processed junk food and limp vegetables to freshly made, organic, veggie-filled feasts for the taste buds.
Hot meals bussed in from Bulgaria.
