In March 2015, pupils at EMEF Armelindo Artiolli, a public school in Penapolis in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, formed a line to collect lunch. The municipal report identifies the menu as rice, beans, fried fish and salad. Officials were visiting after extending fish, introduced the previous year for younger children, to the primary-school menu.
Brazil's school feeding programme is a major piece of educational infrastructure, but national scale alone cannot show how lunch was served in one school. This record connects a named school, a date, a menu and an actual line. Children approached the same meal in turn and encountered a new dish together. The queue was the point just before public nutrition policy became one child's lunch.