There's a lesson here that no one is talking about. That is what meals look like when your health isn't being sold to the highest bidder, and you aren't being poisoned on the daily. Half the crap put in our food in the US is banned and labeled as poison in Europe.
You act like you are being made to eat food that you feel is poisoning you! Grow your own food!! Don't blame this conspiracy theory on the government when you can take care of yourself and not be poisoned Take accountability for yourself. There's a new concept.
Well maybe in Berlin. I never had sausage in a bun in school. That's normal street food. School food is more like meat or fish+potatoes or nudels+salad
As a german, I can say I have never seen this as lunch. Within the schools I've been to people usually either brought their own bread with things on it or if they got something at school it was usually like some meat, with some kind of vegetables and carbs (rice/pasta/potatoes) and then they would get to choose desert either something sweet or fruit. Depending on the school a small side salat or bowl of cold veggies was also included.
as a brit, I never had a school lunch like that. My school offered panini's, Jacket potatoes, pasta pots and tuna melts every day and then had a rotation of curry, lasagne or other pasta dishes, roast dinners, etc. every friday was fish and chips
Italian high school students usually go home for lunch. Lunches are usually served in kindergardens, primary schools and sometimes in middle school. The food is not super delicious (you can't make great tasting food for that many people), but it sure is healthy. As the girl said there are pretty strict guidelines.
They could do this in a Asian lunches episode where they cover places like Japan, South Korea, Philippines, etc. Bet it'd make for another fun episode.
@@Vulcanerd as much as I respect your opinion… they haven’t even touched other Asian countries besides the typical ones you mentioned and it is unfair and disrespectful
In the US, school lunches consisted of a rectangle piece of pepperoni pizza, fries, some kind of canned fruit and a half pint of milk. If we let go of the emphasis on competitive sports we might be able to feed our kids better healthier meals
Just for the record: no Norwegian has ever eaten all of those four sandwiches squeezed together 😂 They're meant to be eaten one by one, not all together 😅🤢
I’m British and I have never had a jacket potato, fish fingers, Beene and biscuits for lunch in any school I attended. When I had school lunch I went for a burger or a pizza with a drink(not tea) and a dessert(usually a chocolate brownie or cake).
We had jacket potatoes in our school and fish fingers sometimes appeared on the menu in primary school. High school we mostly had burgers or pizza but we still had jackets and roast dinners as options too
Leverpostei, brunost, ham and cheese all at once?! Madness. I'd plop the ham and cheese together, maybe. But the two others needs to be eaten on their own. You savages. 😂
Sorry but I am from the UK and I have never seen that served for a school lunch, just saying. I used to work at a secondary school and I know, at least in the school I worked at, that they never served this at lunch
well .. in every German school i went to there was a Kiosk with Snacks like Croissants, tomato-mozarella Sandwitches, pizza slices and stuff like that to buy but it's honestly more common to bring whatever you want from home. Sometimes we went to the Supermarket or whatever foodplace was near to get our food..
@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131Precis, håller med.. Och leverpastej med gurka sen brunost (mesost i Sverige), som är två av mina favoritpålägg på mackor.. De vet inte vad de missar.
Im from EU and what amazes me is how you guys are so amazed by our soups and stews. Those are literally easiest and cheapest foods that can be cooked en-masse. You need 2 100l pots, 2 ppl to chop up some meet and veggies for an hour or two and you get 500 meals easily. Pair it with salad which is also dirt cheap and easy to season / process + good fresh bread and you got yourself a great meal. For dessert u usually dont exactly get a fruit salad as depicted (its not exactly fine dining) restaurant but you get whatever fruit is in season - being apples, oranges, watermelon, strawberries, etc. But you get it whole, just washed.
Norwegian here, the stacked bread is real, but we dont eat everyone at once. Its different toppings to have more variations. You eat one slice of bread with topping at the time. Not everything at once🤢
@@briaunaharris7303 How is that relevant to *our* traditions? Norway used to be relatively poor, and we had a period when people *really* thought bread was healthy, and got a bit obsessed with it, so traditionally people here make sandwiches like that at home, and bring to school, although *definitely* not with toast bread found in US stores... Our breads are a lot like the German ones, very healthy. We eat the slices separately. And since every pupil has their own food package brought from home it varies what's on it depending on what's in the fridge, what people *want* etc. This is also a typical lunch at work in a normal job. On the side people drink a glass of cold milk.
In Italy the food served in school canteens (primary school) varies daily. Pasta, rice, polenta, vegetable soup, fish, white meat, red meat, cooked or raw vegetables, mashed potatoes, pizza, pudding, fruit, fruit salad... Sometimes even fish sticks but baked. Frying is prohibited. I am a cook in a school ;)
@@itzTeTe I don't know if "quality is high", I just know that the menu is based on pediatric/ health recommenations. I confirm that fried food is banned. Then I don't understand your question: if there were more students we'd be allowed to serve them crap?
I am German and I can assure you: This is not what we got for school lunch. There was always some salad and fruit. Plus usually something with potatoes or pasta and a really good piece of meat. Oh, and the pretzel didn't look originally German to me, to be honest
Exactly what I wanted to say. Thats a soggy and discusting Brezl it even isnt one. A real Brezl needs Schweineschmalz and be crispy and dark Brown at the Outside and Fluffy on the Inside.
During my time in school the Bratwurst was often served with Sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. Never in a bun like that. And i can't remember if we ever got a pretzel for lunch in school. Our food often looked more like the spanish one - tho it was never of that quality.
I was Food Services Manager for a small Elementary school and I made 95% of the food from scratch. Introduced the kids to cheddar broccoli soup, homemade pizza, all kinds of veggies & fresh fruit. My biggest complaint about the system - we weren't supposed to give kids second helpings (but I did anyway!) I loved the job & those kiddos!❤❤
How big was your district? Where I grew up, they made food for us (campus of about 500-600 kids). But my kids' school has a lot of prepackaged foods (about 1k per campus). I always felt their school lunch program was a rip-off.
You should do Portugal. Like Spain, we also have very strict laws about school lunches. Every day schools have to offer soup, a main dish of meat, fish or a vegan alternative, salad and fruit. Occasionally kids are offered pizza, but only like once a month. There's also bread and water is the only drink available. In most schools, lunches are prepared on site, in the school kitchens by a cook and several helpers.
I'm not Norwegian and it was obvious to me that you don't eat them like that. I think it just proves on how much Americans think big is better. They kept saying how much bread there was as if the bread isn't part of the sandwich
as a Norwegian i'm not gonna lie,i died a little on the inside when they asked if brun ost was sliced peanut butter. also you dont eat all the sandwiches in one bite!!..if it wasn't obvius my Norwegian soul is crying right now.
The German bread rolls aren’t that soft. They have a crispy crust outside and they are soft inside but another type of soft than these hot dog buns. And there are definitely other school lunches being more healthy. At the time when I was at highschool there wasn’t school lunch but meanwhile an Italian restaurant from the town provides the school lunch.
One thing people don’t seem to realize is that in Spain, for example, lunch is usually a large meal because they don’t have supper until 9:00. Supper is also usually a smaller meal.
@@PUTDEVICE I'm French and to me this is confusing. A sandwich for us is two pieces of bread and something in between. If you have just one piece of bread with something on top of it, it's called a "tartine"...
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia here in Sweden it's called a smörgås if it's an open face sandwich or tartine. one with double bread is a sandwich. like your tartine is an open face sandwich. like the Danes' smörrebröd.
We're in the uk and my child's food options today were roast beef, veg, roast poatoes and gravy or sweet potato and chickpea roast with veg etc with banana cake and a fruit pot for lunch. They go to a standard british primary school and the meal in the video is not at all a common British school meal at all.
In France, school lunch is pretty similar to the ones from Spain and Italy showed here. We have a salad or apetizer, a main meal with fish or meat and vegetables/puree, a piece of bread, a piece of cheese or a yoghurt, and a fruit. Many kids eat at school (that was my case) but some go home when they have a parent to eat with. We didn't know we were so lucky to have a full and balanced meal.
12:40 Next time maybe with German ingredients! Nobody here would serve a bratwurst in a bun like that and no baker in our country would bake a “pretzel” like that! (I wouldn't even call it a pretzel!) I generally have the feeling that 90% of all the ingredients here are American and everything should just look like the food from Europe, but that's not a good comparison!
@@101088Albert Soy español y eso no sé donde se come. La comida de los colegios es buena, por lo que he visto. Pero "eso" de español tiene poco como menú.
@JesusSanchez-ij5de estás en todos los lados repitiendo lo mismo. Una crema de verduras, una carne en salsa con verduras y fruta es un ejemplo de un menú de lo más normal en mi colegio y platos que se hacen en cualquier casa en España. Quizá tu casa es lo peculiar.
In Portugal the school lunch is very healthy, there’s a vegetarian option and a meat or fish dish everyday, similar to Spain and Italy. Also soup is mandatory and there’s always fruit and usually another option for dessert. Even on a budget our kids eat good food at school. Greetings to all the lovely Americans in the video, I love their candid reactions.😄
My kids don't have this on their school menu in the UK they have a week 1, week 2 and week 3 menu and it rotates continuously, BBQ Chicken Pizza with baked wedges and sweetcorn, Beef Spaghetti Bolognaise with a side of peas, Roast chicken, Roast potatoes with seasonal green vegetables and gravy, Chicken Fajita wrap with steamed carrots, Creamy pesto chicken pasta, sticky glazed chicken with baked wedges, beef chilli with rice and carrots, sausage, mash and gravy with peas, beef lasagne, chicken tikka masala and every Friday is fish and chips and all deserts are fresh fruit, yoghurt or jelly on most days except for fridays when it's cake day. There is also vegetarian options and if you're vegan basically you can sod off and your parents can send you in with a packed lunch. Jacket potato (baked potato to Americans) is an option but its usually a veggie option and the kids can choose if they want the veggie meal or the meat meal regardless if they are vegetarian or not. School lunches have changed drastically since I was at school, they must follow a guideline for healthy options now and to be fair when I was in school it wasn't even that unhealthy apart from all the cakes.
I've been a teacher in English schools all my adult life and have never seen chocolate digestives, or any other biscuits as a dessert option. Also, that combination of food was just plain wrong - you wouldn't get fish fingers with a plain jacket potato.
You honestly just described most school lunches in Florida..I don't know where ppl are getting such horrible American school lunches but in Florida they were pretty good too very good.. Pizza day of course everyone favorite.. I still haven't had any pizza that taste like it and it's still my favorite... I'm 51 and wish I could buy it somewhere.. We had very well balanced meals at school and breakfast at school if you wanted.. we have free and reduced lunch and breakfast depending on parents income.. others pay full price but over half likely got cheap or free as they were lenient in the income level and you didn't have to be completely poor to qualify for reduced price. We honestly had really good food I even love stopping in a hospital cafeteria and buying lunch or dinner to take home as it's the closest thing I can get to what our school lunches tasted like. We did get a small desert each day but it would be jello or pudding maybe a cookie a small fudge ball or small piece of cake but it wasn't elaborate size it was just a few bites size. We had fresh or canned fruits depending on season. Fresh veggies as topping for hamburger or a small side salad a lot but not every day. ALWAYS had a veggie of some sort ,a fruit ,a meat and a starch, and small desert.
Ok, just for information, in Italy cantines are just for kindergarten and elementary schools. Middle and high school rarely gave any lunch service because in most schools lessons stop at 14.30 max. Also, Fruits in school are not chopped in a bowl. Usually they are an apple. Or an orange.
well, not necessarily. I had lunch at school until I was 15 yo (doing 8 h a day at school we had a lot of free time from friday to monday) Also macedonia (sliced fruits in a bowl with some sugar and lemon juice) was quite common, expecially for all those kinds of fruits that need a knife to be peeled. You don't want your unsupervised kids cutting themselfs with a knife am I right?
@@meow762 dunno, in my experience it was a banana, an orange a pear or an apple. Sometimes we got ice cream, yogurt and pudding. But, my school decided to give childs fruits as a midmorning snack instead of a dessert, so maybe that is why!
The open faced sandwiches (Norway) aren't supposed to be eaten stacked all at once like a big American sandwich. They have the paper separating them (or are supposed to anyway. I didn't see any in this video other than what they're wrapped in) because you eat them separately. I had to laugh when someone pointed out how much bread it is. I've told my husband that people here (I live in Norway) seem obsessed with bread since they have it so much during the day 😂
I remember those days. If we could have bought a plate of rolls, we would've. Lol torture all morning until lunch period! Lol But we didn't have choices then. And I don't remember a whole lot of fried foods then either.
Same here!! We had good home cooked food back then!! When my daughter was in elementary school I was shocked to find that all the meals were packed cold meals from a central kitchen it was awful. My favorite from school when I was a kid was ham and beans cornbread, mashed potatoes with sauerkraut and hotdogs oh and they made homemade peanut butter bars❤❤❤
In the UK if they're giving you fish fingers then they usually come with chips(fries) and peas. And the dessert is usually a piece of cake with custard or something similar.
My child is in school in Spain. Its broadly accurate except for the vegetables which would never be served plainly steamed like that. It would be either in a stew with beans or stir fried or as a rice dish.
i think some of them preferred it together rather then separate. Just because they are trying a Norwegian dish does not mean they have to eat it the way every Norwegian does. I am also pretty sure people in Norway eat how they want too.
@@MelMeltalks31 If they do it on their free time, sure, be abominable. But when they have to rate something? Please eat it accordingly then, it doesn’t become even fair. I don’t get why they have to have to call it a sandwich.. it’s like they’re making it into something it’s not. Just, think of a dish that your culture has, that you grew up on.. rated unfairly because it was done wrong. How would you feel? Also, never in my life have I seen someone eat brown cheese and liver pate together in Norway.. nor is a sandwich really common to make here, it’s not preferred because it takes more bread in my opinion.
My god how bad are US school lunches if bakes beans and fish fingers are "tasting like real food" and scoring as high as 7.5?? In the UK this is very basic, almost poverty food.
They're terrible. We're trying to change it but parents just keep giving their kids garbage (not all) and that's what the kids crave and there's not enough funding...there are a lot of reasons but I won't do a political Tedtalk. Gordon Ramsay is trying to make a real difference.❤
In France, we have : a first course, a main course, cheese or yogurts and dessert plus bread and water on the side. The meals are not repetitive, there is a few extra special meal through the year , like Christmas, Chinese New Year, some international food days…Every meal have to be approved by a nutritionist, with vegetables,fruit,crabs,protein and dairy. Fish at least once a week, nowadays some school offer a vegetarian day with vegan protein. In the preschool I worked ( but I think it’s mandatory in every preschool) the kids had a small piece of bread and a fruit at around 10am if they wanted. If the kids stays after school hours they get a snack , it might be biscuits, viennoiseries or fruits (depending of what they had for lunch, and the calories intake) . There’s often organic ingredients in those meals. The french government is well aware that for some children, the school meal will be the only (healthy) food they will have for the day. The costs depends of the household income, in my city the poorest family is symbolically paying a few cents pers meal and the richest 3€ ( still very cheap)
What you put on the plate is NOT what German schools provide for lunches... they get a lot of potatos, pasta, meat, fish, vegetables, salad, fruit etc (the Spanish plate looked like German school lunches)... my two kids (now 19 and 12) have NEVER been given hotdogs and Brezels for school lunch. Brezels are eatten for breakfast or as an afternoon snack or bread based supper. You just took stereotypical stuff you perceive as "typical German food" and threw it on a plate!!.... even in the flim clip with the German school girl you saw a salad bar!! Etc This was a ridiculous.. not representative school lunch experience. I assume those meals were "made in America" which means they taste NOTHING like European meals. Because our food is different in that there is way less salt, sugar, additives and preservatives added to these foods.
I feel like theres a lot of variation, if your school has a full lunch room you're getting something between the british, spanish and italian school lunches, if there's a small cafeteria you're getting something like the lunch they showed with more sandwhiches, snackfoods and bakery items as well as a few hot dishes that can be made with minimal kitchen equipment. My school started out with a small parent run cafeteria and expanded to a full lunch room while I was a student there
In Tübingen there are always vegetarian/vegan options, always potatoes, always vegetables and twice a week Fish.... They just looked for "lunch" videos on tiktok, but there was no research xD. All food is always seasonal, we get Wild meat when in season, we get asparagus dishes, berry dishes in spring, etc. I have eaten much healthier in german school cafeterias than ever before at home in Mexico.
At my ex' school near cologne they only served soup 4 days a week 5 if you didn't want to eat fish on Fridays. But yeah... I started to cringe when I saw they put the poor Bratwurst inside a hotdog bun and no salad, not even the fruits shown in the video were on the plate. Absolutaly not acceptable.
That's no German shool-lunch. Seems this school only has a small shop but not a kitchen with real cooked food at all. In reality many schools serve cooked food similar to this from Spain or France. Not just bread and unhealthy stuff. But yes, french fries and Curry Wurst are very popular. It differs a lot.
I'm 33 years old and live in Sweden. I work as a bricklayer/plaster and get around 31 000 Swedish kronor (2733 Euro) /a month after taxes and pay 6000 Swedish kronor (529 Euro) for my apartment and then i get a parkingplace with electricity, electricity in my apartment, wifi (250/250), 25 tv-channels, free water (for example drinking-water from the tap and hot water in the shower). With that said...and with all the benefits we in Sweden have with whealtfare..like free education, parental leave, 5 weeks vacation (by law) and more and more....i can't really complain 👏
Sorry but they just ate 4 separate sandwiches that are ment to be eaten separately as a big sandwich. As a Norwegian myself it was a bit desturbing to se them combine dessert-like cheese with savoury liver pateé. Its just 😑 wrong… other than that fun to watch their reactions
Im in the UK and that is not what my school lunch is like, ours is basically pizza, chicken and chips or a panini but sometimes on special occasions they do curry, rice or nachos
Nah, when they just ate all the slices of bread together at once??? I almost barfed thinking about all those flavours and textures together... (this is coming from a norwegian)
Yeah, no!!!!! Leverpostei and brunost together is wrong on all the levels. Like sure the cheese and the ham, but not with two breadslices. Its not a sandwich.
Definitely NOT an average Italian school lunch. Perhaps in private schools. Yes we do eat healthier than the US does, but do not expect salmon fillets at school, that's just ridiculous 😂
Lunch in Spain (and I guess Italy and France) is not the same as the US or northen Europe thinks a lunch is. Here It's no just a snack between breakfast and dinner , is the main eating of the day. That's why is more complete.
When eating the spanish lunch one says "How do you feed people like this? " With TAXES. The same taxes that also go to Universal Healthcare, good roads and free University. Well invested taxes. There's no mystery. My daughter has that kind of lunch in her public school (although she chose the vegetarian option)
Also the idea that there does not have to be a millionaire who makes a huge profit on everything... It's fine to cover costs when it comes to school lunches. There does not have to be any profit.
Well, I live in Valencia, Spain, and you have reason...partially. I pay €166/month for my two children's school meals (€83/child). In this case, taxes go to low income families, whose children have the same menu for 50% or 0% of the official price. But, indeed, well invested taxes overall.
As a non-American I find it really sad that these kids and young adults obviously crave good healthy food and can't get it. It's easy to believe that Americans eat crap because they like crap, but this video really shows that isn't the case at all.
American here, that's exactly how it is. Food that will fill you up but is not necessarily good for you is the norm around here because that's what's affordable to most. We only really see the unhealthy options as normal or desirable because that's what we've been bottle-fed since we were babies. Honestly it's just this issue with money that businesses have done hella capitalizing on
American here! We have a lot of healthy food here. However , the school food sucks. We have so many farmers markets and places to get healthy foods. The issue is that we have so much food that the healthy food isn’t presented as much to younger kids in school to cut costs which isn’t right.
@@nataliewalters2759 But other places have a lot of food too so I don't quite understand. There are plenty of options where I live, and there are definitely people who choose less healthy options too.
it just depends where you live. Some American school systems are making good lunches. Some partner with local growers. Some schools even have gardens and the kids get to learn how to grow food.
We have healthy food here in the U.S., but school lunches are generally not healthy. The kids in the video are reacting to the fact that these are school lunches. Do they get healthy food at home? They probably do. I'm always amazed at the assumptions and generalizations that are made about Americans.
As a frenchmen, at first, I was so was ready to once again make fun of our friends accross the pond. But honestly, I mostly feel sorry and pity for them : they are so used to eat crap that they are amazed by some normal food. Next step, they will discover that you don't have to pay enormous amount of money to get basic healthcare ... I really hope for them that this next generation can break the old mentals shackles (exceptionalism, red scare, over individualism...) and join the rest of the world by having a minimal welfare state.
The fact that as a german i knew they would screw up the bread choice 😂 you need a Brötchen for the sausage, not a hotdog bun. And why does the brezel looks so beige? 👀
I can pretty much guarantee that if the ingredients had actually been sources in Europe too, everything wouldhave tasted even better and probably blown their minds even more, the stuff they are allowed to use in the production of food in the US is baffling too me!
We typically eat those sandwiches separately in Norway 😅 One has regular cheese on top of it. Looks like they added a smiley made out of paprika. Another one has brown cheese on it, which is caramelized goat cheese. There's one with liver paté on it, which I never developed a taste for. And the last one has a slice of ham and pieces of cucumber on it. Those are all very basic school lunch sandwiches here. I always envied the kids who brought grilled cheese or pizza as their school lunch, or got enough allowance to be able to buy something more fancy in the school cafeteria every day, but in hindsight, our classic school lunches are all pretty healthy and many of us had to prepare them ourselves from middle school and beyond, which I think is a good thing.
omg please don't smoosh the (norwegian) sandwiches together and eat all four at the same time! 😱 they are four individual sandwiches 😂 also; we don't eat white bread every day, and definitely not for school! 😱
When I worked at a high school in France for a year, I would eat at the cantine regularly. It was cheap and a pretty good, balanced meal that didn’t leave me hungry like after school lunches back in the US
I think the Italian luch was most balanced meal of all. Spain came second. Fish is a way better choice of protein than beef ( red meat). Also, Italian one had carbohydrates too which was missing in Spain. I feel, every school lunch should be taking care of providing a balanced nourishing meal.
MATPAKKE ! IS ! NOT ! A ! DISH ! it's literally just the word for lunchbox in Norway (literal translation: food package). You bring your matpakke to school and eat during lunch. AND YOU EAT ALL THE BREAD SLICES SEPERATELY
Nonononono you dont eat all the bread together😭😭 amazed y’all had all the different spreads but please I’m crying in Norwegian. Happy they liked it tho😭🩷🩷
Omg same 😂 and I am American/Danish and I was like "NOOOOOOOOOO" You. Eat. Them. Separately!!! Odin have mercy 😂😂😂 and that was ham, more specifically "Sandwich Skinke" and not baloney. I've had enough baloney in my life to know and taste a huge difference 😂 and omg that "Burn Ost"... which reminds me, I need to get some. It ends up tasting like caramel because of the boiling process.
In Spain, lunch is the main meal of the day. We make a light supper, or at least lightest than the lunch. Is very important, and there are laws for it, that meals at school are from fresh products and with a large variety of vegetables, meats, fish, legumes, pasta, bread, olive oil and so... A lot of schools send the monthly menu to the parents to see the calories and what kind of meal they eat everyday so you can make a supplement supper in its case.
Love the comedor service. Students and parents complain, but that is just like a sport, for the pricepoint it is great. Oldest son starting instituto in september, so no school lunch.
While italian school lunches are tasty and healthy, this is likely combination. And I've almost never seen a soft bread roll there. I also went to school in the UK for a couple of years and we hardly ever got baked beans, and if we did, it was always accompanied by some veggies and protein.
When I heard the girl saying “Imagine going from a place that gives you really good school lunch, and moving to America” about the Spanish food…It reminded me of my two poor sons. When we moved from Spain to the USA they were in Middle and High School. I had to cook every day a complete lunch, so they could eat properly when they came back around 3:00pm. They were always disgusted about the food they got at the Cafeteria, so sad that American children have to endure this!
Of course not all American lunches are bad. I'm actually surprised when I heard that. Because those lunches in the video are bland compared to the kind of foods my school had. And this is coming from someone who went to a small-ish school in South Carolina. I think it's because I'm from the south, and we're big on "good ole southern cooking".
I'm Norwegian, and let me tell you...that's not matpakke-bread 😳You'd never be able to mush 4 slices together like that here 😂However, from what i've seen and heard online, America doesn't reeeeally have actual "proper" bread (by Norwegian standards) in stores, so you had to go with what you got i guess. 🤷♀
Eating the Norweigan lunch all together is a BIG nono... each slice of bread is supposed to be eaten separately. Danish school lunch is very similar but would probably be rye bread instead of wheat.
There's a lesson here that no one is talking about. That is what meals look like when your health isn't being sold to the highest bidder, and you aren't being poisoned on the daily. Half the crap put in our food in the US is banned and labeled as poison in Europe.
The yellow food dye in Kraft that got them into trouble in the uk for it being linked to adhd and other mental health issues
my father wouldn't let us eat it.
YES! Agree
Its a conspiracy theory on a global scale v
You act like you are being made to eat food that you feel is poisoning you! Grow your own food!! Don't blame this conspiracy theory on the government when you can take care of yourself and not be poisoned Take accountability for yourself. There's a new concept.
Crying in German, because you did us, Italy and Norway dirty with those weird bread and bun choices. And those 'prezels' looked sus as hell.
Yeah, we usually use sourdough bread in Norway, and always one slice of bread at a time
@@SpiderSplash_ ^Fake Norwegian. We do in fact stack four slices of bread all with completely different toppings into one huge bread tower.
@@drSvensen
Sure, they might be *stacked* four high, but you *eat* them separately...
@@Luredreier Are you German? How did you not understand that it was a joke?
@@drSvensenHow could you think that it IS a joke? Are you Danish?
As a german i have to say, that they chosed the worst school lunch possible. Most schools i know have similar meals like italy or spain.
Well maybe in Berlin.
I never had sausage in a bun in school. That's normal street food.
School food is more like meat or fish+potatoes or nudels+salad
As a german, I can say I have never seen this as lunch.
Within the schools I've been to people usually either brought their own bread with things on it or if they got something at school it was usually like some meat, with some kind of vegetables and carbs (rice/pasta/potatoes) and then they would get to choose desert either something sweet or fruit. Depending on the school a small side salat or bowl of cold veggies was also included.
Yes!!!
as a brit, I never had a school lunch like that. My school offered panini's, Jacket potatoes, pasta pots and tuna melts every day and then had a rotation of curry, lasagne or other pasta dishes, roast dinners, etc. every friday was fish and chips
What was given to them was what we had in the 80's 😆
Yeah it’s all mixed together which isn’t correct..
What is a jacket potato???
@@-Gacha-Nerd- another word for a baked potato
@@rtsharlotte oh. Thank you 😊
Italian high school students usually go home for lunch. Lunches are usually served in kindergardens, primary schools and sometimes in middle school. The food is not super delicious (you can't make great tasting food for that many people), but it sure is healthy. As the girl said there are pretty strict guidelines.
ah the days of going home for lunch, home was a few blocks away.
Idea for next time do Japanese bento boxes.
They could do this in a Asian lunches episode where they cover places like Japan, South Korea, Philippines, etc. Bet it'd make for another fun episode.
Or natto... LOL
@@Vulcanerd as much as I respect your opinion… they haven’t even touched other Asian countries besides the typical ones you mentioned and it is unfair and disrespectful
I love you chicken 🐔
My face went 😱 when they ate all the slices of bread smashed together! We eat them separately in Norway. 😂
Word 😂 fy faen så ekkelt å de fikk det til å se ut 😂😮
Saaaaaame 😂 They didn't even point out the liver paste.
In the US, school lunches consisted of a rectangle piece of pepperoni pizza, fries, some kind of canned fruit and a half pint of milk. If we let go of the emphasis on competitive sports we might be able to feed our kids better healthier meals
Just for the record: no Norwegian has ever eaten all of those four sandwiches squeezed together 😂 They're meant to be eaten one by one, not all together 😅🤢
I was just writing this.
(I am from Denmark, but guess, we are similar) …
Also, that is not how it is packaged together?!
@@lfreuja92 No wouldn't in Sweden either, just the thought of mixing Leverpastej with anything but cucumber makes me barf 😂
I’m British and I have never had a jacket potato, fish fingers, Beene and biscuits for lunch in any school I attended. When I had school lunch I went for a burger or a pizza with a drink(not tea) and a dessert(usually a chocolate brownie or cake).
That pretty much sounds like a U.S. school lunch.
We had jacket potatoes in our school and fish fingers sometimes appeared on the menu in primary school. High school we mostly had burgers or pizza but we still had jackets and roast dinners as options too
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I had jamaican food at mine, and then we had bbq chicken wraps
I thought - beans for lunch? 😂
In Italy pasta isn't usually put together with the other "courses".
That one girl was right. Schools get massive football stadiums but can’t have good fruit at lunch
Leverpostei, brunost, ham and cheese all at once?! Madness. I'd plop the ham and cheese together, maybe. But the two others needs to be eaten on their own. You savages. 😂
As a Norwegian, I audibly gasped when seeing them eating all the sandwiches in one. That’s crazy.
They are just dumb...at least 80% of them....
They eat big there but not that healthy
Sorry but I am from the UK and I have never seen that served for a school lunch, just saying. I used to work at a secondary school and I know, at least in the school I worked at, that they never served this at lunch
Same as a brit I never saw that at all
Stop tha 🧢 😂😂😂😂
My primary school years, were at the start and high of the Jamie Oliver health school meal’s revolution.
When I was younger I had a teacher day so was off school. Mum worked at a school as dinner lady so got everything on lunch menu. Best day ever
I’m from the UK, West London and we were served this in primary school.
well .. in every German school i went to there was a Kiosk with Snacks like Croissants, tomato-mozarella Sandwitches, pizza slices and stuff like that to buy but it's honestly more common to bring whatever you want from home. Sometimes we went to the Supermarket or whatever foodplace was near to get our food..
Well, the fact that these children are surprised by things like a vegetable soup or grilled fish really is saying something...
I’m Norwegian… and it physically hurt to see them eat those 4 open faced sandwiches together…..
Skinke og gulost.
Greit.
Men....
Brunost og leverpostei....🥪
Fytty katta ! 😝
@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131Precis, håller med.. Och leverpastej med gurka sen brunost (mesost i Sverige), som är två av mina favoritpålägg på mackor.. De vet inte vad de missar.
As a norwegian seeing them squishing the bread toghether actually hurts
Same. I was shouting at them 🥲
Im from EU and what amazes me is how you guys are so amazed by our soups and stews. Those are literally easiest and cheapest foods that can be cooked en-masse. You need 2 100l pots, 2 ppl to chop up some meet and veggies for an hour or two and you get 500 meals easily. Pair it with salad which is also dirt cheap and easy to season / process + good fresh bread and you got yourself a great meal.
For dessert u usually dont exactly get a fruit salad as depicted (its not exactly fine dining) restaurant but you get whatever fruit is in season - being apples, oranges, watermelon, strawberries, etc. But you get it whole, just washed.
Norwegian here, the stacked bread is real, but we dont eat everyone at once. Its different toppings to have more variations. You eat one slice of bread with topping at the time. Not everything at once🤢
Europeans when they realize every school in every state is different from each other we don’t do the same thing like y’all do over there
@@briaunaharris7303 lol, I was talking about how we eat our lunch here, how it's meant to be eaten, not how US kids eat.
@@briaunaharris7303
How is that relevant to *our* traditions?
Norway used to be relatively poor, and we had a period when people *really* thought bread was healthy, and got a bit obsessed with it, so traditionally people here make sandwiches like that at home, and bring to school, although *definitely* not with toast bread found in US stores...
Our breads are a lot like the German ones, very healthy.
We eat the slices separately.
And since every pupil has their own food package brought from home it varies what's on it depending on what's in the fridge, what people *want* etc.
This is also a typical lunch at work in a normal job.
On the side people drink a glass of cold milk.
Mellomleggspapir...
Mmmmmh !
😋🤪
In Italy the food served in school canteens (primary school) varies daily. Pasta, rice, polenta, vegetable soup, fish, white meat, red meat, cooked or raw vegetables, mashed potatoes, pizza, pudding, fruit, fruit salad...
Sometimes even fish sticks but baked. Frying is prohibited. I am a cook in a school ;)
Question, is the food quality so high because the child population is so low?
@@itzTeTeno
@@itzTeTe No
@@itzTeTe I don't know if "quality is high", I just know that the menu is based on pediatric/ health recommenations. I confirm that fried food is banned. Then I don't understand your question: if there were more students we'd be allowed to serve them crap?
I am German and I can assure you: This is not what we got for school lunch. There was always some salad and fruit. Plus usually something with potatoes or pasta and a really good piece of meat. Oh, and the pretzel didn't look originally German to me, to be honest
Also the pasta was a really poor imitation.
In the tiktok she showed that there was salad and apples, i didn't get why they would leave them out
No German would call this a pretzel... Also the bun of the Bratwurst would never be served with a Bratwurst. To me that looks like a hotdog bun.
Exactly what I wanted to say. Thats a soggy and discusting Brezl it even isnt one. A real Brezl needs Schweineschmalz and be crispy and dark Brown at the Outside and Fluffy on the Inside.
You think you got done dirty? Look at that American "bread" they used in ours (Norway).
During my time in school the Bratwurst was often served with Sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. Never in a bun like that. And i can't remember if we ever got a pretzel for lunch in school. Our food often looked more like the spanish one - tho it was never of that quality.
I was Food Services Manager for a small Elementary school and I made 95% of the food from scratch. Introduced the kids to cheddar broccoli soup, homemade pizza, all kinds of veggies & fresh fruit. My biggest complaint about the system - we weren't supposed to give kids second helpings (but I did anyway!) I loved the job & those kiddos!❤❤
How big was your district? Where I grew up, they made food for us (campus of about 500-600 kids).
But my kids' school has a lot of prepackaged foods (about 1k per campus). I always felt their school lunch program was a rip-off.
You should do Portugal. Like Spain, we also have very strict laws about school lunches. Every day schools have to offer soup, a main dish of meat, fish or a vegan alternative, salad and fruit. Occasionally kids are offered pizza, but only like once a month. There's also bread and water is the only drink available. In most schools, lunches are prepared on site, in the school kitchens by a cook and several helpers.
❤that’s the way it used to be here in the 60’s and 70’s real food!! Unlike what the kids get nowadays
As a Norwegian I'm was SCREAMING at these kids.... You eat each piece separate, not as a huge sandwich... omg guys -.-
Frrr
I'm not Norwegian and it was obvious to me that you don't eat them like that. I think it just proves on how much Americans think big is better. They kept saying how much bread there was as if the bread isn't part of the sandwich
As a dane i agree
@@rtsharlotte Silly Americans, don't they know that we have the bigger alphabet? ÆØÅ!
Not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier these kids...🙄
as a Norwegian i'm not gonna lie,i died a little on the inside when they asked if brun ost was sliced peanut butter. also you dont eat all the sandwiches in one bite!!..if it wasn't obvius my Norwegian soul is crying right now.
That is NOT a typical German school lunch!! 😂 Cantines would serve nice dishes, at least from my experience.
The norwigan one is madnes 4 on topp of eachother i am crying😭
@@johannessoleng9471 Don't cry Johannes, after all you know these are Americans. ;))
@@johannessoleng9471 idk - maybe trying it the way the Americans ate them? Something different? It honestly only ego, that's hindering you.
The German bread rolls aren’t that soft. They have a crispy crust outside and they are soft inside but another type of soft than these hot dog buns. And there are definitely other school lunches being more healthy. At the time when I was at highschool there wasn’t school lunch but meanwhile an Italian restaurant from the town provides the school lunch.
One thing people don’t seem to realize is that in Spain, for example, lunch is usually a large meal because they don’t have supper until 9:00. Supper is also usually a smaller meal.
Don't worry, we have merienda in the middle of the evening to get us going xD
The paper is used to separate the layers of bread for the Norwegian one. You eat each slice individually, not mashed together.
it's an american thing. you rarely see them eating open face sandwiches
@@PUTDEVICE This is true!
@@PUTDEVICE I'm French and to me this is confusing. A sandwich for us is two pieces of bread and something in between. If you have just one piece of bread with something on top of it, it's called a "tartine"...
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia here in Sweden it's called a smörgås if it's an open face sandwich or tartine. one with double bread is a sandwich. like your tartine is an open face sandwich. like the Danes' smörrebröd.
@@PUTDEVICE Nice to know that other languages also have two different words depending on whether or not there are one or two slices of bread. 😄
We're in the uk and my child's food options today were roast beef, veg, roast poatoes and gravy or sweet potato and chickpea roast with veg etc with banana cake and a fruit pot for lunch.
They go to a standard british primary school and the meal in the video is not at all a common British school meal at all.
In France, school lunch is pretty similar to the ones from Spain and Italy showed here. We have a salad or apetizer, a main meal with fish or meat and vegetables/puree, a piece of bread, a piece of cheese or a yoghurt, and a fruit. Many kids eat at school (that was my case) but some go home when they have a parent to eat with. We didn't know we were so lucky to have a full and balanced meal.
12:40 Next time maybe with German ingredients! Nobody here would serve a bratwurst in a bun like that and no baker in our country would bake a “pretzel” like that! (I wouldn't even call it a pretzel!) I generally have the feeling that 90% of all the ingredients here are American and everything should just look like the food from Europe, but that's not a good comparison!
Spain here, the Spanish dish is pretty accurate. My kids both eat at school and love it everyday.
@@101088Albert Soy español y eso no sé donde se come. La comida de los colegios es buena, por lo que he visto. Pero "eso" de español tiene poco como menú.
@JesusSanchez-ij5de estás en todos los lados repitiendo lo mismo. Una crema de verduras, una carne en salsa con verduras y fruta es un ejemplo de un menú de lo más normal en mi colegio y platos que se hacen en cualquier casa en España. Quizá tu casa es lo peculiar.
In Portugal the school lunch is very healthy, there’s a vegetarian option and a meat or fish dish everyday, similar to Spain and Italy. Also soup is mandatory and there’s always fruit and usually another option for dessert.
Even on a budget our kids eat good food at school.
Greetings to all the lovely Americans in the video, I love their candid reactions.😄
My kids don't have this on their school menu in the UK they have a week 1, week 2 and week 3 menu and it rotates continuously, BBQ Chicken Pizza with baked wedges and sweetcorn, Beef Spaghetti Bolognaise with a side of peas, Roast chicken, Roast potatoes with seasonal green vegetables and gravy, Chicken Fajita wrap with steamed carrots, Creamy pesto chicken pasta, sticky glazed chicken with baked wedges, beef chilli with rice and carrots, sausage, mash and gravy with peas, beef lasagne, chicken tikka masala and every Friday is fish and chips and all deserts are fresh fruit, yoghurt or jelly on most days except for fridays when it's cake day. There is also vegetarian options and if you're vegan basically you can sod off and your parents can send you in with a packed lunch. Jacket potato (baked potato to Americans) is an option but its usually a veggie option and the kids can choose if they want the veggie meal or the meat meal regardless if they are vegetarian or not. School lunches have changed drastically since I was at school, they must follow a guideline for healthy options now and to be fair when I was in school it wasn't even that unhealthy apart from all the cakes.
I've been a teacher in English schools all my adult life and have never seen chocolate digestives, or any other biscuits as a dessert option.
Also, that combination of food was just plain wrong - you wouldn't get fish fingers with a plain jacket potato.
That sounds so so good 😊
You honestly just described most school lunches in Florida..I don't know where ppl are getting such horrible American school lunches but in Florida they were pretty good too very good..
Pizza day of course everyone favorite.. I still haven't had any pizza that taste like it and it's still my favorite... I'm 51 and wish I could buy it somewhere..
We had very well balanced meals at school and breakfast at school if you wanted.. we have free and reduced lunch and breakfast depending on parents income.. others pay full price but over half likely got cheap or free as they were lenient in the income level and you didn't have to be completely poor to qualify for reduced price.
We honestly had really good food I even love stopping in a hospital cafeteria and buying lunch or dinner to take home as it's the closest thing I can get to what our school lunches tasted like.
We did get a small desert each day but it would be jello or pudding maybe a cookie a small fudge ball or small piece of cake but it wasn't elaborate size it was just a few bites size.
We had fresh or canned fruits depending on season.
Fresh veggies as topping for hamburger or a small side salad a lot but not every day. ALWAYS had a veggie of some sort ,a fruit ,a meat and a starch, and small desert.
as a norwegian i almost cried when they ate all the sandwiches / "skivene" as one, i am kinda traumatised
Ok, just for information, in Italy cantines are just for kindergarten and elementary schools. Middle and high school rarely gave any lunch service because in most schools lessons stop at 14.30 max.
Also, Fruits in school are not chopped in a bowl. Usually they are an apple. Or an orange.
well, not necessarily. I had lunch at school until I was 15 yo (doing 8 h a day at school we had a lot of free time from friday to monday)
Also macedonia (sliced fruits in a bowl with some sugar and lemon juice) was quite common, expecially for all those kinds of fruits that need a knife to be peeled. You don't want your unsupervised kids cutting themselfs with a knife am I right?
@@Alek4275 you had a better experience than me then!
agreed with the first part of the comment! i almost always got macedonia though, sometimes a clementine or tangerine instead.
@@meow762 dunno, in my experience it was a banana, an orange a pear or an apple. Sometimes we got ice cream, yogurt and pudding. But, my school decided to give childs fruits as a midmorning snack instead of a dessert, so maybe that is why!
@@Himbros woah i never got those other sweets! did they actually taste good? :0
The open faced sandwiches (Norway) aren't supposed to be eaten stacked all at once like a big American sandwich. They have the paper separating them (or are supposed to anyway. I didn't see any in this video other than what they're wrapped in) because you eat them separately. I had to laugh when someone pointed out how much bread it is. I've told my husband that people here (I live in Norway) seem obsessed with bread since they have it so much during the day 😂
Why didn´t they correct the tasters?!? Holy! Now my mission is to try everything at once... (Also from Norway;))
I'm in my 60s, and my public school in Dallas prepared food like Spain in the 70's. You could smell the rollls baking all morning.
I remember those days. If we could have bought a plate of rolls, we would've. Lol torture all morning until lunch period! Lol
But we didn't have choices then. And I don't remember a whole lot of fried foods then either.
I'm right there with you. Those rolls were so delicious. The smell was heavenly.
Same here!! We had good home cooked food back then!! When my daughter was in elementary school I was shocked to find that all the meals were packed cold meals from a central kitchen it was awful. My favorite from school when I was a kid was ham and beans cornbread, mashed potatoes with sauerkraut and hotdogs oh and they made homemade peanut butter bars❤❤❤
07:30 The whole of Norway screaming Nooo 😱
(I actually did this)
I'm from the UK, and trust me when I say, that looks nothing like what we were served for lunch.
In the UK if they're giving you fish fingers then they usually come with chips(fries) and peas. And the dessert is usually a piece of cake with custard or something similar.
Whoever did the research on this should be fired 😂
As a norwegian i wanted to stop them so bad when they started eating the whole thing like that😭
Same 😅 It looked gross. One at a time please 😜 I can't understand how they could like the mix...
My child is in school in Spain. Its broadly accurate except for the vegetables which would never be served plainly steamed like that. It would be either in a stew with beans or stir fried or as a rice dish.
As an Italian person, we don't have school lunch, actually most of schools don't have a "cafeteria"
For the Norwegian one, why would they eat all of those different pieces together!? That's not the point... you eat each separate😅
i think some of them preferred it together rather then separate. Just because they are trying a Norwegian dish does not mean they have to eat it the way every Norwegian does. I am also pretty sure people in Norway eat how they want too.
@@MelMeltalks31just stop talking when u dont know anything about it.
@@MelMeltalks31 If they do it on their free time, sure, be abominable. But when they have to rate something? Please eat it accordingly then, it doesn’t become even fair. I don’t get why they have to have to call it a sandwich.. it’s like they’re making it into something it’s not. Just, think of a dish that your culture has, that you grew up on.. rated unfairly because it was done wrong. How would you feel?
Also, never in my life have I seen someone eat brown cheese and liver pate together in Norway.. nor is a sandwich really common to make here, it’s not preferred because it takes more bread in my opinion.
My god how bad are US school lunches if bakes beans and fish fingers are "tasting like real food" and scoring as high as 7.5?? In the UK this is very basic, almost poverty food.
They're terrible. We're trying to change it but parents just keep giving their kids garbage (not all) and that's what the kids crave and there's not enough funding...there are a lot of reasons but I won't do a political Tedtalk. Gordon Ramsay is trying to make a real difference.❤
@kellygreen-xk6vw if the chilli jam guy is trying to make a difference i but definitely run away from the uk
I agree, greenknitter. When I went to school in England in the 90s, our lunches were MUCH better.
The food is pretty bad
NOOOOOOO!!!!!! WTF?!?!?!??! You eat one BRØDSKIVE at a time. Not everyone together! This is madness! PURE MADNESS!!
Madness? This is Americaaaaah😜!
Yo wtf are they doing to the Norwegian matpakke 😭😭😭 you’re not suppose to eat them all in one wtfff 😂😂
In France, we have : a first course, a main course, cheese or yogurts and dessert plus bread and water on the side. The meals are not repetitive, there is a few extra special meal through the year , like Christmas, Chinese New Year, some international food days…Every meal have to be approved by a nutritionist, with vegetables,fruit,crabs,protein and dairy. Fish at least once a week, nowadays some school offer a vegetarian day with vegan protein. In the preschool I worked ( but I think it’s mandatory in every preschool) the kids had a small piece of bread and a fruit at around 10am if they wanted. If the kids stays after school hours they get a snack , it might be biscuits, viennoiseries or fruits (depending of what they had for lunch, and the calories intake) . There’s often organic ingredients in those meals. The french government is well aware that for some children, the school meal will be the only (healthy) food they will have for the day. The costs depends of the household income, in my city the poorest family is symbolically paying a few cents pers meal and the richest 3€ ( still very cheap)
I AM HORRIFIED by how they ate the Norwegian lunch😭 it’s supposed to be appart like some of them did🤦♂️
European school lunches with American bread ? No way .
american bread is chemical filth. it should be burned but not put on the table.
Yes, the bread was weird. Every country had some kind of wheat bread. Not the healthiest option.
What you put on the plate is NOT what German schools provide for lunches... they get a lot of potatos, pasta, meat, fish, vegetables, salad, fruit etc (the Spanish plate looked like German school lunches)... my two kids (now 19 and 12) have NEVER been given hotdogs and Brezels for school lunch. Brezels are eatten for breakfast or as an afternoon snack or bread based supper.
You just took stereotypical stuff you perceive as "typical German food" and threw it on a plate!!.... even in the flim clip with the German school girl you saw a salad bar!! Etc
This was a ridiculous.. not representative school lunch experience.
I assume those meals were "made in America" which means they taste NOTHING like European meals. Because our food is different in that there is way less salt, sugar, additives and preservatives added to these foods.
I feel like theres a lot of variation, if your school has a full lunch room you're getting something between the british, spanish and italian school lunches, if there's a small cafeteria you're getting something like the lunch they showed with more sandwhiches, snackfoods and bakery items as well as a few hot dishes that can be made with minimal kitchen equipment.
My school started out with a small parent run cafeteria and expanded to a full lunch room while I was a student there
In Tübingen there are always vegetarian/vegan options, always potatoes, always vegetables and twice a week Fish.... They just looked for "lunch" videos on tiktok, but there was no research xD. All food is always seasonal, we get Wild meat when in season, we get asparagus dishes, berry dishes in spring, etc.
I have eaten much healthier in german school cafeterias than ever before at home in Mexico.
At my ex' school near cologne they only served soup 4 days a week 5 if you didn't want to eat fish on Fridays. But yeah... I started to cringe when I saw they put the poor Bratwurst inside a hotdog bun and no salad, not even the fruits shown in the video were on the plate. Absolutaly not acceptable.
omg the they they ate the lunch from Norway makes me so mad, ITS NOT A SANDWICH ITS INDIVIDUAL SLICES OF BREAD WITH TOPPINGS
Stay mad I would do the same thing
That's no German shool-lunch. Seems this school only has a small shop but not a kitchen with real cooked food at all. In reality many schools serve cooked food similar to this from Spain or France. Not just bread and unhealthy stuff. But yes, french fries and Curry Wurst are very popular. It differs a lot.
I'm 33 years old and live in Sweden. I work as a bricklayer/plaster and get around 31 000 Swedish kronor (2733 Euro) /a month after taxes and pay 6000 Swedish kronor (529 Euro) for my apartment and then i get a parkingplace with electricity, electricity in my apartment, wifi (250/250), 25 tv-channels, free water (for example drinking-water from the tap and hot water in the shower).
With that said...and with all the benefits we in Sweden have with whealtfare..like free education, parental leave, 5 weeks vacation (by law) and more and more....i can't really complain 👏
Sorry but they just ate 4 separate sandwiches that are ment to be eaten separately as a big sandwich. As a Norwegian myself it was a bit desturbing to se them combine dessert-like cheese with savoury liver pateé. Its just 😑 wrong… other than that fun to watch their reactions
Im in the UK and that is not what my school lunch is like, ours is basically pizza, chicken and chips or a panini but sometimes on special occasions they do curry, rice or nachos
Nah, when they just ate all the slices of bread together at once??? I almost barfed thinking about all those flavours and textures together... (this is coming from a norwegian)
SAME, NO ONE DOES THAT?
Jeg tenkte det samme når de klemte alt brødet og pålegget sammen....urk....
Yeah, no!!!!! Leverpostei and brunost together is wrong on all the levels. Like sure the cheese and the ham, but not with two breadslices. Its not a sandwich.
@@GeirTheNorwegian ja det var jo en grunn til at det var plastikk rundt
Definitely NOT an average Italian school lunch. Perhaps in private schools. Yes we do eat healthier than the US does, but do not expect salmon fillets at school, that's just ridiculous 😂
My favorite observation? ‘We don’t have fruit and vegetables, but we have a football field’. Classic.
I prefer my fruits&veggies
Lunch in Spain (and I guess Italy and France) is not the same as the US or northen Europe thinks a lunch is.
Here It's no just a snack between breakfast and dinner , is the main eating of the day. That's why is more complete.
The same in Portugal. A very complete meal and as far as public schools go very cheap and healthy menu.👍🏻
When eating the spanish lunch one says "How do you feed people like this? "
With TAXES. The same taxes that also go to Universal Healthcare, good roads and free University. Well invested taxes. There's no mystery. My daughter has that kind of lunch in her public school (although she chose the vegetarian option)
Also the idea that there does not have to be a millionaire who makes a huge profit on everything...
It's fine to cover costs when it comes to school lunches. There does not have to be any profit.
Well, I live in Valencia, Spain, and you have reason...partially. I pay €166/month for my two children's school meals (€83/child). In this case, taxes go to low income families, whose children have the same menu for 50% or 0% of the official price. But, indeed, well invested taxes overall.
HIGH taxes!
As a non-American I find it really sad that these kids and young adults obviously crave good healthy food and can't get it. It's easy to believe that Americans eat crap because they like crap, but this video really shows that isn't the case at all.
American here, that's exactly how it is. Food that will fill you up but is not necessarily good for you is the norm around here because that's what's affordable to most. We only really see the unhealthy options as normal or desirable because that's what we've been bottle-fed since we were babies. Honestly it's just this issue with money that businesses have done hella capitalizing on
American here! We have a lot of healthy food here. However , the school food sucks. We have so many farmers markets and places to get healthy foods. The issue is that we have so much food that the healthy food isn’t presented as much to younger kids in school to cut costs which isn’t right.
@@nataliewalters2759 But other places have a lot of food too so I don't quite understand. There are plenty of options where I live, and there are definitely people who choose less healthy options too.
it just depends where you live. Some American school systems are making good lunches. Some partner with local growers. Some schools even have gardens and the kids get to learn how to grow food.
We have healthy food here in the U.S., but school lunches are generally not healthy. The kids in the video are reacting to the fact that these are school lunches. Do they get healthy food at home? They probably do. I'm always amazed at the assumptions and generalizations that are made about Americans.
As a frenchmen, at first, I was so was ready to once again make fun of our friends accross the pond.
But honestly, I mostly feel sorry and pity for them : they are so used to eat crap that they are amazed by some normal food.
Next step, they will discover that you don't have to pay enormous amount of money to get basic healthcare ...
I really hope for them that this next generation can break the old mentals shackles (exceptionalism, red scare, over individualism...) and join the rest of the world by having a minimal welfare state.
Totally agree. They are so deprived, it's criminal.
The fact that as a german i knew they would screw up the bread choice 😂 you need a Brötchen for the sausage, not a hotdog bun. And why does the brezel looks so beige? 👀
they obviously have to source the stuff in the US
‘Steer me away from London’ why do Americans never say England and literally think London is a country
Americans (and I am one) should be ashamed at the total lack of quality and nutrition of school lunches.
As a german this is not what I ate back at school. This is not what a typical German school lunch looks like at all.... I'm shocked!
I thought germans go home for lunch, at least in primary school.
I can pretty much guarantee that if the ingredients had actually been sources in Europe too, everything wouldhave tasted even better and probably blown their minds even more, the stuff they are allowed to use in the production of food in the US is baffling too me!
They would find European non-sugary food odd.
Especially the Norwegian sandwiches. Imagine using American bread instead of Scandinavian bread...
@@CornedBee I can't, it's unfathomable 😂
Yes! They ban chemicals that are in American foods. We should ban them, too.
Nobody in the uk calls them Cod Fingers, it’s Fish Fingers. Also never been served any of that in the UK when I was in school
We typically eat those sandwiches separately in Norway 😅
One has regular cheese on top of it. Looks like they added a smiley made out of paprika.
Another one has brown cheese on it, which is caramelized goat cheese.
There's one with liver paté on it, which I never developed a taste for.
And the last one has a slice of ham and pieces of cucumber on it.
Those are all very basic school lunch sandwiches here. I always envied the kids who brought grilled cheese or pizza as their school lunch, or got enough allowance to be able to buy something more fancy in the school cafeteria every day, but in hindsight, our classic school lunches are all pretty healthy and many of us had to prepare them ourselves from middle school and beyond, which I think is a good thing.
For lunch in the UK we wouldn’t have that for lunch at school lol where the f did they get that idea from?
omg please don't smoosh the (norwegian) sandwiches together and eat all four at the same time! 😱 they are four individual sandwiches 😂 also; we don't eat white bread every day, and definitely not for school! 😱
I always squish my sandwiches. I don't know why. LOL
When I worked at a high school in France for a year, I would eat at the cantine regularly. It was cheap and a pretty good, balanced meal that didn’t leave me hungry like after school lunches back in the US
I think the Italian luch was most balanced meal of all. Spain came second. Fish is a way better choice of protein than beef ( red meat). Also, Italian one had carbohydrates too which was missing in Spain. I feel, every school lunch should be taking care of providing a balanced nourishing meal.
In Spain me eat bread with our meal almost everyday.
MATPAKKE ! IS ! NOT ! A ! DISH !
it's literally just the word for lunchbox in Norway (literal translation: food package). You bring your matpakke to school and eat during lunch. AND YOU EAT ALL THE BREAD SLICES SEPERATELY
Nonononono you dont eat all the bread together😭😭 amazed y’all had all the different spreads but please I’m crying in Norwegian. Happy they liked it tho😭🩷🩷
Maybe they just showed you a new way to try it lol
I wanted to see their reaction to that they ate liver! haha
They did the Norwegian matpakke diiiirty💀
You eat one slice of bread at the time...
Why? Is there a law in Norway that you have to eat food a certain way?😂 Give me a break, you eat however you want.
Not them eating 4 different norwegian sandwitches at the same time....
It’s pure horror .w.
Omg same 😂 and I am American/Danish and I was like "NOOOOOOOOOO" You. Eat. Them. Separately!!! Odin have mercy 😂😂😂 and that was ham, more specifically "Sandwich Skinke" and not baloney. I've had enough baloney in my life to know and taste a huge difference 😂 and omg that "Burn Ost"... which reminds me, I need to get some. It ends up tasting like caramel because of the boiling process.
@@Torniization oisann, en Oleanna danske jo
Told ya Countries outside the USA care about the health of their citzens.They not serving their kids crap.
In Spain, lunch is the main meal of the day. We make a light supper, or at least lightest than the lunch. Is very important, and there are laws for it, that meals at school are from fresh products and with a large variety of vegetables, meats, fish, legumes, pasta, bread, olive oil and so... A lot of schools send the monthly menu to the parents to see the calories and what kind of meal they eat everyday so you can make a supplement supper in its case.
Love the comedor service. Students and parents complain, but that is just like a sport, for the pricepoint it is great. Oldest son starting instituto in september, so no school lunch.
Squishing the bread together in layers like that is not the way to eat ”matpakke” in Norway. Brown cheese and liver pate in the same bite ? 🤢
Wait till they find out the lunches are either free or less than 6 euros
While italian school lunches are tasty and healthy, this is likely combination. And I've almost never seen a soft bread roll there.
I also went to school in the UK for a couple of years and we hardly ever got baked beans, and if we did, it was always accompanied by some veggies and protein.
In my school we used to have little bread buns, very similar to what you could see in Pompeii. But little and soft, with crunchy crust
When I heard the girl saying “Imagine going from a place that gives you really good school lunch, and moving to America” about the Spanish food…It reminded me of my two poor sons. When we moved from Spain to the USA they were in Middle and High School. I had to cook every day a complete lunch, so they could eat properly when they came back around 3:00pm. They were always disgusted about the food they got at the Cafeteria, so sad that American children have to endure this!
So true! It's indeed very sad.
Of course not all American lunches are bad. I'm actually surprised when I heard that. Because those lunches in the video are bland compared to the kind of foods my school had. And this is coming from someone who went to a small-ish school in South Carolina. I think it's because I'm from the south, and we're big on "good ole southern cooking".
The girl summed it up perfectly - it’s all in what you prioritize - healthy good food for children yet spend tons of money on a football field.
I am mad you chose the wrong bread. 😂 Thats American bread. 😅 Europeans would never.
Which bread? There were multiple types of bread shown in the video.
My german soul is hurting 😭
I'm Norwegian, and let me tell you...that's not matpakke-bread 😳You'd never be able to mush 4 slices together like that here 😂However, from what i've seen and heard online, America doesn't reeeeally have actual "proper" bread (by Norwegian standards) in stores, so you had to go with what you got i guess. 🤷♀
They never seen proper german bread either 🤷♀️
America doesnt have any proper food at all, not only bread
American bread are considered cake over here, not allowed to be sold as bread because there’s too much sugar in it.
Eating the Norweigan lunch all together is a BIG nono... each slice of bread is supposed to be eaten separately. Danish school lunch is very similar but would probably be rye bread instead of wheat.
“I’ve never had grilled fish”
BLOWN AWAY
Ok I live in Spain and that's actually what we have as lunch like literally yesterday I had this bruh 😭😭
That's great
Noo, most of you ate the norwigen wrong. You’re not supposed to mix them. you’re supposed to eat them separately❤.
I am crying y did he say “why are the cookies not on the plate?” 💀 well does he want he’s cookies in beans?? 😭💀
Norway here
This is not the way we pack lunch
Very funny to watch
My 9yo was shouting «what are you doing?!» when they put them all together 😂