EL PASO, Texas – Mexican met American and it failed miserably.

After changes to the National School Lunch Program, the Socorro Independent School District began searching for meals that were complaint with the restrictions but something students would eat.

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The district decided to serve a “taco dog” – that is, a hot dog in a hard taco shell.

Socorro school district spokesman, Daniel Escobar, tells ABC7 the taco dog met all the “nutritional requirements” and was tested at an area school last year.

It was served Tuesday and after students roundly rejected it and numerous parents complained, taco dogs won’t be served again.

“We would like to thank our parents and students for sharing feedback regarding the meal,” Escobar says, according to NBC9.

The meal also reportedly included an applesauce cup, pork and beans, sweet potato puffs, “holiday cookie” and milk. Low-fat, of course.

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Meanwhile, Algonkina, Virginia school board member Debbie Rose wants Loudoun County Public Schools – a district of some 70,000 students – to explore dropping out of the federal program.

“It’s gross,” she says of the lunches being served, according to Leesburg Today.

“I’m talking about the quality and the quantity,” she says. “They don’t get enough food and, a lot of times, what is being served is being thrown away.”

She cites pizza as an example. To comply, schools are now required to serve whole wheat crust and use low-fat cheese.

“It’s just not good, and the kids don’t want to eat it,” she says, according to the paper.

School officials say that it would be too costly to give up the federal money, which accounts for about $6.5 million.

The Feds have also tied technology grants to the lunch program, so the district would have to forgo another $1.5 million.

“We’ll hold student tasting parties where they can taste various vendors’ pizza, cookies, spaghetti sauce and taco filling,” Becky Domokos-Bays, director of School Nutrition Services, responds. “They’ll evaluate it to see what might be on the menu next time.”

“Hopefully our students will start reporting back that they’re eating all of their meals because they taste very good,” Rose says.