Who hasn’t had their share of cold pizza for breakfast? But for high school students across Florida, their 9:30 a.m. meal is no makeshift breakfast from last night’s leftovers–it’s lunch time, the Huffington Post reports. At least 60 schools in Florida have received waivers from the Florida Department of Education to bypass a federal mandate requiring schools to serve lunch between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.–so they can offer the midday meal as early as 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. And the cafeteria doesn’t serve breakfast food for “lunch” at the early hour–offerings are the same as if students were eating in the middle of the day: burgers, fries, taco salads, barbecue subs, pepperoni and cheese sandwiches…
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