One Bad Apple Spoils The Whole Lunch

What Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez gets wrong about why you got gross apples in school lunches.

By: Daniel Walters

Outlets: RANGE Media

Published: May 19, 2026

Words: 1,225

Last Updated: 1 month, 1 week ago

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Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, the centrist Democrat from Southwest Washington, has taken on bright headlights and salmon-gobbling sea lions. But today, she shared a clip of her in Congress aiming, like William Tell before her, at bad apples. Not metaphorical. Actual apples.

“I think we all remember being presented with a really gross Red Delicious apple in school cafeterias. Maybe you like them. But if you do, you’re wrong,” Gluesenkamp Perez said. “Then …

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