GREAT FALLS, Mont. – “What’s wrong with pretzels?” wonders David King, sixth-grader at Meadow Lark Elementary.

A lot, according to the federal government.

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Pretzels contain “too many calories from fat and they, with other guideline-breaching favorites, had to be discontinued from the school store,” the Great Falls Tribune reports.

“Sometimes they’re really disappointed because they really like(d) it,” David says of students who liked to buy them.

Chex Mix survived only because smaller bags with only 100 calories were ordered. The packages contain less than one ounce of product, according to the General Mills website.

The Rice Krispie treats changed, too. They can only contain whole-wheat cereal.

The cafeteria food underwent a similar “healthy” revision.

“They’re just trying to make it healthy, and to us it’s not delicious,” student Choloe Virts tells the paper.

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Cinnamon rolls, a one-time student favorite, are gone.

Lunchtime waffles have been reduced to a quarter of their original size to remain in compliance with the rules championed by First Lady Michelle Obama.

Meanwhile, Newton, Iowa schools conducted a “healthy” evaluation of its vending machines and found an intruder: gummy worms!

The Newton Daily News reports:

The gummy worms she spotted in a snack machine at Newton High School seemed to be small oversight in what is largely a vastly improving picture of health and nutrition in the district.

“All of our vending machines seemed to be following guidelines at the high school,” [food service supervisor Cristy] Croson said. “I only saw one thing at the high school that didn’t meet the health-snack standards, and that was some gummy worms.”

The school district is mulling pulling the plug – literally – on vending machines 30 minutes before school hours until 30 minutes after the last bell rings.

An Oklahoma student posted yesterday’s lunch on Twitter: