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From the Ted Talk by Jasmine Crowe: What we're getting wrong in the fight to end hunger
Unscramble the Blue Letters
As the bags started to come around, I'm thinking to myself: What on earth are we doing here? Each bag cnioenatd two 20-ounce diet Snapples, a gallon of barbecue sauce, a bag of ktetle pttaoo chips, a box of superhero-shaped vegetable-enriched mraacnoi noodles, a box of belVita breakfast bars, a can of refried beans, a can of sweet peas, a miaurntie can of corn, I can't feogrt about those Ding Dongs and french fried green onions, you know, the kind that go on top of a green bean casserole. And that was it. We made over a hundred of those bags that day, and ppoele indeed stood in line to receive one. But a feenilg came over me; I felt bad and a little angry. It was like, how could I even feel good about the work that I was doing when I knew for a fact that not one meal was to come from the food we had just given to over 100 families? I mean, who wants to have a meal with babcuere sauce and Ding Dongs?
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As the bags started to come around, I'm thinking to myself: What on earth are we doing here? Each bag _________ two 20-ounce diet Snapples, a gallon of barbecue sauce, a bag of ______ ______ chips, a box of superhero-shaped vegetable-enriched ________ noodles, a box of belVita breakfast bars, a can of refried beans, a can of sweet peas, a _________ can of corn, I can't ______ about those Ding Dongs and french fried green onions, you know, the kind that go on top of a green bean casserole. And that was it. We made over a hundred of those bags that day, and ______ indeed stood in line to receive one. But a _______ came over me; I felt bad and a little angry. It was like, how could I even feel good about the work that I was doing when I knew for a fact that not one meal was to come from the food we had just given to over 100 families? I mean, who wants to have a meal with ________ sauce and Ding Dongs?
Solution
- barbecue
- people
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- macaroni
- kettle
- feeling
- miniature
- potato
- contained
Original Text
As the bags started to come around, I'm thinking to myself: What on earth are we doing here? Each bag contained two 20-ounce diet Snapples, a gallon of barbecue sauce, a bag of kettle potato chips, a box of superhero-shaped vegetable-enriched macaroni noodles, a box of belVita breakfast bars, a can of refried beans, a can of sweet peas, a miniature can of corn, I can't forget about those Ding Dongs and french fried green onions, you know, the kind that go on top of a green bean casserole. And that was it. We made over a hundred of those bags that day, and people indeed stood in line to receive one. But a feeling came over me; I felt bad and a little angry. It was like, how could I even feel good about the work that I was doing when I knew for a fact that not one meal was to come from the food we had just given to over 100 families? I mean, who wants to have a meal with barbecue sauce and Ding Dongs?
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