There aren’t any commercials showing cool kids eating lentils and brussels sprouts.
That’s because you’d have to pay them way over union scale to get them to do it :-). I like it, though.
The thing is, except for children whose parents are full-time drunk or drugged out or on the streets, children just aren’t hungry in any meaningful sense, unless they’re anorexic girls or 14-year-old boys training for a marathon - who still won’t eat the Lentil Dish, because there’s other food available.
And for the children who truly are hungry, it’s hard for the community to provide them with really nutritious meals, “whole foods,” because we have to contribute foods that are nonperishable and can be eaten by children with minimal preparation. At least Pop-Tarts are vitamin-fortified, so they won’t get scurvy if they eat them.