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I am so lucky to live in Britain our school foods is really good. In Britain it got a huge amount of choice. Bloody hell Americans that's all I have to say
@@goododays1812 They could be just putting in unfiltered tap water into the battled water. You can't trust these goal driven corporations run by people with no empathy or morals. The plastic they use is pretty nasty so if you filled those plastic bottles with tap water, you just have the same but a bit worse. Best thing is to get a filter and distiller and clean the water yourself. There are some water bottles that have the filters integrated into the water but I'm not sure how trustworthy they are.
I worked at a Domino's. It says whole wheat crust on the box. I asked a coworker if dominos had a wheat crust available. He said they are supposed to as well as a cheese lower in fat, but they just serve the kids regular pizza to cut down on cost yet they take all the profits and lie to the schools with mislabeled boxes claiming while wheat. This should be exposed and removed from school lunches
I remember a lunch lady at my school was so tired of serving kids disgusting food that she snuck in her homemade Mac and cheese into the cafeteria. Best food I ever had, she bought pounds of cheese and macaroni and seasoning with HER money just so we had one good lunch. She risked her job and income to give kids one good meal.
@@kytesav Being beaten up daily is better than being dead, but you don't hear people saying how happy they are about that, do you? Shit is still shit, even if there is worse piles of it.
My mom took a job as a school lunch worker and completely overhauled the program. What she saw was awful that was being served. Shes been promoted to head of the cafeteria and makes it a point to cook near everything from scratch from real ingredients. She says the work can be really hard and challenging for a whole K-12 school but she doesn't want to serve unhealthy crap to growing kids.
Its always possible to change and for the good. You just need the people to understand and be motivated. I wish news outlets shared news like this, and then maybe more lunch ladies would improve their cafeteria. Even if they don't have the supplies they can help find donations or lobby for better. A whole kitchen working like your mom would be game changing for literally hundred of kids in that school. I say this but as I have this information and the chance to share it to local lunch ladies, or travel further to spread the work, I don't do it. As they might here me but not have the energy, time, or worry to do it. Same goes with many problems in the world. Crazy.
I remember arguing with my mom as a kid that pizza and fries were vegetables, and I find it hilarious that multimillion dollar companies used the exact same arguments as a 9 year old.
There was a kid in my school who'd bring in a pot of beef stew for lunch and sell it. When he started out in the beginning he sold some of the stew and made like $15. Word spread around and about a month later he was making $80-$100 each time. The funny thing was he didn't do it for the money but instead did it so every kid could eat a good meal without having to worry about the price or quality All the money he made would go back into making the stew and left over money he'd save for college. The kid sold a cup of it for a $1 and alot of kids said it was an amazing price for the amount you got and the quality of the food. It unfortunately was stopped by school administrators when the school was losing money because no one was buying the school lunches. Even then he continued selling it after school and their was always a line.
As a french student I used to think our lunches were bad because it was less appealing than what we would normally eat at home, but apparently it's considered like an unachievable standard for America.
Those French meals are considered gourmet here in America, and are generally expensive enough that most people can't even afford them on a regular basis. They're considered special occasion meals.
As a Swede with free school lunch (my mom has worked as a lunchlady / schoolcook) the school lunch is sometimes mocked but compared to this stuff in the video it's basically a homecooked meal
Although the food in Russian schools when I worked as an English teacher wasn't necessarily the most flavorful, it was still freshly made and healthy. Our school lunches in America were so bad that we would have competitions to see who could squeeze the most grease out of a cheesetick or pizza
It's funny to think about when I was a kid's. My mom would send me these home cooked meals and I was so jealous of my friends that were given money to buy pizzas and burgers and other crap. You know we just didn't have any money. It's unbelievable to see how much my parents actually care. the things we don't appreciate when they happen
I'm honestly confused how the FDA not got involved in this, if the parents knew their children got food like this I'm pretty sure there's a massive lawsuit for child endangerment and food poisoning
You can actually make really good food with former egg layers, you boil them. You make things like soup and chicken casseroles. But it means that the people who are making food need to know how to cook which most of them don’t.
@@nathanjustus6659 braises, stews, bakes, etc. All just how it's handled tbh. Them saying they can't find ppl that can cook is nonsense given how over saturated the cooking industry is. Heck even the kids in home ec/cooking class/cooking club could probably do it if they were paying the rag-a-muffins.
Back in 2010 when I was in high school, sometimes the lunch was so disgusting that everyone was forced to buy chips, cookies, and other unhealthy snacks. The stuff they serve in public schools is one step above dog chow, and this has been going on for decades. Parents, DO NOT let your kids eat the garbage they serve at schools.
this is exactly how it is at my school now! one day they literally served us cold chicken and uncooked noodles. i don’t have time to make my own lunch so i eat a bunch of junk at lunch time and so does pretty much everyone else. i wish we had good lunches at school because i hate having to eat shit during lunch
Yup i have health problems as an adult. Growing up eating the crap served at schools then come home eating hamburger helper every night for dinner because we were extremely poor. And now as an adult im still poor i eat one meal a day and it is usually processed bullshit because I cant afford a normal diet as an adult either. Thanks American government 👍🏻
There’s a website where it shows pictures of school lunches and prison food and it’s indistinguishable from each other, in fact some prison food looked better than school food.
- ATTENTION - When I was a child I had several stomach problems (that no doctor could explain). In 6th grade I stopped eating lunch. Because I noticed when I ate the school food I had extreme stomach cramps and diarrhea. But when I ate food from home my belly issues was ok. Long story short.... I explained this to my mom and doctor. They all agreed that I should not eat the school food. When I did eat at school, I only ate the food I brought from home. I hope this helps someone.
I get mad whenever people are like, ‘what are these lunch ladies feeding us?’. It is NOT THE LUNCH LADIES. My grandma is a lunch lady, and she herself is discusted by what they are feeding the children.
that’s not always the situation, my school has very mean lunch ladies that don’t care and have repeatedly gave us expired milk, chips, bagged cookies, rotten oranges etc. , so it may not be always how your grandma is…
How are people supposed to know that though? It's not like it's common knowledge for children to know that the lunch ladies aren't preparing their foods lol
As a student in America it’s truly awful…last year during my lunch they gave us dry hard noodle patties. The noodles were cooked but they sat under the heat things for so long they dried to the shape of the scoop. My friends and I played HOCKEY with the patty. That says a lot. I was once sent to the nurses office and the hospital for fainting and having high sodium levels. Not from home food because we were eating healthy. It was the schools food.
I’m going to high school next year and I’m hoping that it isn’t undercooked. My middle school had problems with that and got countless reports about parasites in the food. I found a worm curled up in a chicken nugget.
Once when we came back from winter break (this was when I was in 6 grade) the milk was completely SPOILED and it was so bad that even though all the boxes were closed and not spilling if you grabbed a box of milk and sniffed your hand feeling something wet it smelled worse than a gas station bathroom and many kids had gotten that spoiled milk and were talking about it I don't believe anyone drank it because it smelled absolutely HORRENDOUS but the school legit had no hesitation giving SPOILED milk that smelled so badly and would definitely get you sick to all the students which wtf
It’s absolutely disgusting and horrifying how little they care. The fatter you are, the more cancer you have, the more money they make. They do this on purpose.
The US is not a country, it's a business. A prison so big most people don't realize they're in one. A country where both parents have to work in order to provide the bare minimum to their family is not a country, it's a labor camp. The US is made to get the most labor out of people while giving them very little in return. While parents are working their life off, their kids are kept in "education centers" (schools) where they are conditioned from a very young age to be accustomed to the terrible life they'll have to live. They barely teach anything useful to the kids, and they give them fake food so that they won't notice how they're being exploited and poisoned when they grow up. But of course, there's always people who notice how bad everything is, so what do they do about it? They introduce the concept of "true" freedom to them so that they'll conform with just achieving that "freedom" while still being part of the mechanism.
I thought these US kids were being dramatic and entitled whenever they'd complain about their cafeteria food. I didn't know it was actually THIS horrifying. I'm from a third world country and our shittiest lunch food is waaaaaaay better that any of the food they got there. Sweet Jesus...
I gave up on being a teacher because behavior in schools has gotten so outrageous. Now I'm watching this and remembering the study done with prisoners in the UK that lived on an ultra processed diet. They changed the meal possibilities and diet for a few months and the hostility and issues with the prisoners went way down. Once the program was over and the old processed food came back, violence escalated. Methinks there's a connection with crap behavior from students these days and the crap food they're forced to eat. "You are what you eat" has some major truth to it: you eat better, you are better as a person. How can kids concentrate in class and care about school when it's clear the school doesn't care about their well being at all. I've never seen anything like what's on some of those plates, and I ate largely school food. They look like science experiments gone wrong.
Slop like this wouldn't be served to inmates because of the potential to riot! My dad was a CO, and there's no way they would have been given garbage to eat - they'd claim they were being treated badly (think Geneva Convention). They would riot over peanut butter! In NYC, they got the option to eat kosher if they wanted! That said, the bad behavior of students i think is more akin to not being in two parent households and not being taught respect or how to be civil with others in society. When I was a kid one did not DARE think to attack a teacher or anyone else in authority! Of course we might get put down by them first! The our parents would have had it in for us at home. No one is getting disciplined.
Honestly my school is a horrible thing with behavior. They care more about “oh but we must go into this order” even if it’s by definition legally sexual assault. Instead of just punishing bad behavior.
@@SharkOSix I hate how schools lost the ability of discipline, you never had to abuse a kid to make them act right you has to discomfort them. Schools forgot how, in my elementary school if you made someone upset or uncomfortable you would be made uncomfortable too.
When I went to school my mother prepared all of my meals. All of my classmates' moms did. Being forced to eat whatever slop your government decides for you sounds horrifying.
“Spinach” tastes like moss.The pizza looks like someone put milk onto cardboard. The milk tastes like flu medicine not to mention the bits of ice in it that’s probably imported from North Korea. The meat is horse meat. They microwave the pizzas. By the last class, the food is cold. The rice is sulfur that is somehow undercooked and overcooked. Someone got explosive diarrhea from the peas. Half the food doesn’t even look edible.There are worms in every 17 apples. Someone reported this to osha. There is a burnt broccoli smell every day.
Fun fact! The packages of food that they serve in schools are the same foods they serve in homeless shelters, jails, and some medical facilities. They ARE literally giving you jail food.
No wonder schools and students can't respect each other Everyone's fed with food poisoning! And don't give me that "Ooh schools get their food from charity buckets" We have Costco and Walmart!
@@Hypno_majestic I definitely couldn't afford that when I was growing up. I depended on the school lunch program and the summer lunch program my district did. Most of the kids in the area were from impoverished families. That's what makes this such a problem, a lot of kids are dependent on that meal.
I go to an international school, and our meals are amazing, we have literal bbq rice, Japanese bento boxes, lasagna that is actually delicious and so much more, I’m so grateful for being able to experience good food in school.
@@saltytearsofsoap8997yeah, but the problem is every child regardless of the parents money shall get a decent meal. Of course, you will get that with the amount of money your parents pay to have you there 💀
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@@amentco8445 we just have the govt-corporate collusion driving down the number of doctors, muddying the pricing structure with many unnecessary regulations, and creating perverse incentives to make healthcare lower quality everywhere.
@@johncalabro8710 The obesity problem and associated health issues give money to the people at the top, who couldn't give anything about quality of life if it doesn't concern their own.
as an american kid, i have NEVER ate school food. from my very first day of Elementary school my parents would make breakfast every morning and my auntie worked in the school where i was a student so my parents would pay her to bring me food when she gets hers. i am honestly so happy i never had to deal with this and since i’ve watched this video i will make sure my kids will never eat school lunch either.
@@MrGhoshkoushiki im in college now and my parents still brings me dinner almost every night ( i dont ask for it but i guess its just a routine now to feed me 😅 AND IM NOT GONNA COMPLAIN ! )
"we can't afford to feed our students one meal a day" also schools " we just spent millions on a new football field" also parents "we can't afford to feed our own kids" Jesus how hard is a ham sandwich?
It’s not just schools you see parents who are driving BMW cars and they’re feeding their kids slop because they can’t afford decent food. Heck, they’re feeding themselves slop.
The fact that my school is charging me to eat whatever garbage they give me is crazy. I don’t eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It’s all really disgusting. I have a feeding aversion disorder as well as anxiety, and disgusting looking food makes it even worse. I basically survive off of supplements. I am seriously considering stopping boarding school. After all, I want to be with my family, and I don’t want my mother to have to pay for this disgusting stuff.
It’s honestly even more frustrating that it’s not even a priority to the government, they just let children consume garbage. I haven’t ate school lunch much I had the opportunity to bring lunch from home, I only remember having it once or twice as a child. It was horrible, I’m sincerely disappointed in the government. I doubt we’ll see any change to the school “food” in the near future 😔
@@rosarium. dude, hate to break it to ya, but fucking noone uses "bioengineered chemicals", cause even if the tech exists, we're still nowhere near far enough into genetics for that to cost less than just doing it the old fashioned way, and automating it with robots.
I went to an "American School" in Europe. It was a school for the kids of rich, spoiled and snobby families. The food looked a lot better than what is served here, with some days of the week reserved for kebabs and even for pita and hummus for some time. Every time I consumed something from my school's cafeteria, I got sick with a gnarly stomach ache. After eating a benign croissant and getting sent to the nurse's office, I told my parents and they made me food to take to school. There was even a supermarket next to the school and I would buy chips from there instead of the overpriced disgusting pretentious chips. Not even the rich kids are safe.
My high school son would buy a hot lunch at school and would soon be in the nurses office after puking in class. This was a weekly occurrence. He didnt have lockers in his school so he couldn't bring his lunch in. I told him only to buy the packaged items like chips, cookies and canned drinks. There were no fresh fruits or vegetables. He hasn't puked in school since. It's not nutritional, but it satiated him until he could get home
Sounds like you're better off sending him off to school with a "farm boy breakfast". Make steak and eggs maybe homemade biscuits with butter. Then he could skip entirely. Not to mention no longer eating the chips and cookies which are not good for him .
Biscuits n' gravy, with a good cream-based gravy with some sausage mixed in, will carry you pretty far in the day. Pork chop, scrambled eggs, and refried beans is equally effective, I've found. You can do fantastically on 2 meals a day.
Not having a locker is not a reason not to bring a lunch. If you're afraid of theft, buy him a small lock to put on his backpack so people can't open it.
I have a suggestion! Has ur son ever tried the set up of a big purse like binder? They are cheap at Walmart and you can easy get a Fanny pack and use that to put food in and connect it to the binder, just make sure it’s food that is frozen the night prior or packaged, I do this in school now and it works a absolute treat.
@@MyVanir ok at this point seriously what are they meant to do? They can’t give better food to ur standards and they can’t have a excuse to not bring their own. Seriously stop.
My high school used to have a private company supply food with real ingredients and fresh made food. In my sophomore year, they changed over to the slop being described here from big suppliers. It went from “home” to “prison” real fast.
I would also like to point out the fact that this food is served to people in hospitals.... Ultra processed food for the sick sounds like a GREAT idea! Food products have taken over our diet; whole foods everyone wholefoods!
Ultra processed food is food. McDonalds is food. It's delicious food that you shouldn't eat every day, but it's still delicious food. It's the same way for most school lunches provided ny the lunch ladies. Hell, my wonder bread meat and cheese sandwiches and ramen taste far worse than most of the school food which smells delicious.
I took my 4 year old son through the breakfast line one day because he was late and he was served a chocolate fudge pop tart, cinnamon toast crunch cereal, and some kind of sugary fake strawberry dessert that was full of red dye. No meat, no eggs, no fruits or vegetables. I truly believe those in charge of major policies in this country are trying to ruin it. Needless to say that was his last breakfast at school. They try to hide this stuff too- they don't list what is being served for breakfast anywhere on the school system website. I live in West Virginia and people really have a hard time understanding why 8 year old kids weigh over 100 pounds when stuff like this is going on. I can personally think of 5 different people off the top of my head that I know who are under 30 years old, and weigh between 300-400 pounds. Answer is right in front of you, it starts with those in charge feeding us absolute garbage and conditioning us to think it's normal.
@@richerDiLefto just the pop tart alone has 66% of the DRV of sugar for a 2,000 calorie diet. Add in the other stuff plus juice and I'd say you're approaching 200%. For a kid, for one meal. Absolutely criminal what our government defines as "nutrition".
@@richerDiLefto I gave up eating pop tarts even now and then because the sugar content was giving me headaches and those are UK pop tarts which have on average, lower sugar and salt than in America. I dont want to think what the American version would have done. I still eat cake. I buy a medium cake and it lasts me a month. A small slice now and then. My Mom was from the Silent Generation and she advocated, eating whatever you wanted but in moderation and she was never overweight a day in her life. It wasn't the sugar that was making kids fat, it was the AMOUNT of sugar and fat that you were eating that was doing it. Also, most likely, she was still eating REAL food, not processed junk. I admit to eating ready meals in Autumn and Winter but the portion sizes are not even a quarter of the size of these KIDS meals they serve in American schools. I eat more salads and cold meals in Summer simply because I dont feel like eating heavy stuff when the temp goes up. Again, portion control, is what allowed me to lose my post Cancer weight(the drugs made me gain like crazy) but im older. I cannot imagine what that sort of thing does to a child's body which hasn't finished growing and developing yet.
god wait until you see what my school serves for breakfast, they sometimes give us good food like breakfast burritos, and if we are lucky, warm cinnamon rolls but most of the time its a corn dog or legit a fruit bar. like those ones that are like- have fake fruit filling in them with like grain stuff around the filling, and they give us just that bar and some milk. and then we have to wait until about 12 to eat
I went to a tiny little private school. Mom always made leftovers for my lunches. I used to complain, but I realize now that I'm older that they were the best possible meals for me.
@@bandjolynthe private school I had, had a full service kitchen. We had volunteer chefs that came in so the food menu changed. However most of the food was Mexican and fried food. From breakfast to end of class there was hot food, cold salads and fruit bowls.
@@erikm8707I also went to private school in California and man I don’t remember ever eating a fresh cooked chicken or fish. It was always the frozen with crumbs type. Never ever just whole chicken without those crumbs. Same as the soups always had starch in them and were just gross. We had salads though but vegetables in salads were worse than what salads in McDonald’s used to be. And we only had white rice as a side. No brown rice no quinoa nothing like that. So I can imagine how it is in public schools
When my Grandmother was growing up in Maryland around the 1950's, she told me that food was almost gourmet, actually cooked and made by the lunch ladies and not reheated. You would receive better meals at home than she would at school, and because her family didn't have enough to supply her and her brother everyday with the amount required, the lunch ladies would let them serve out trays for her share. Just 30 years later, in the 1980's in Illinois, my father reported there being soggy pizza squares among other meals that led him to just bring his own lunch.
As a Norwegian growing up at an American school, I decided to bring my whole table a lunch. A good old fashioned Norwegian meal that actually should be served at school, I got detention for a month bc of it. I saw it as an absolute win.
^ This would be OK in most American schools, you just have to ask your teacher how to bring it in. A parent would probably have to bring it in around lunch time. This is for allergy and food safety reasons.
as a french student, i once ate a steak that was green in the middle. (and no it was not a veggi steak) 5 girls in my class where sick and sent to the hospital but the school denies it being the food 🤡
Are you a French student living in the states, or in France ? I am an American living in France. The wife and I are seriously considering staying, and raising our son here, because of how crazy it is in the states these days. I know the school lunches here are more nutritious, and higher quality. The E.U. has banned many substances that are still allowed in U.S. food. If that happened to you in a French school, it was most likely an anomaly.
I'm from Slovakia and I will never complain about school lunches here after seeing this. Here the school lunch food is cooked from scratch in school kitchen by lunch ladies who are actual cooks and it is a full lunch that consists of soup, main course, drink (water, milk or some lemonade) and a fruit or a snack bar. And it looks million times better and I bet it is also way healthier than this ultra-processed reheated junk "food" in American schools.
It's amazing what get's improved when a society/government is more focused on proper nutrition and care for children, rather than on how much money they can save while still providing the minimum required care... Pretty sure if American policy makers actually put the money forwards to have HEALTHY meals in their schools instead of cutting funds eternally, things would be MUCH better over all. Sad! Glad I was born and raised in Canada... For all its faults, that sort of nastiness would never make it here. We have junk foods, but its like, in vending machines not in standard service to the children as meals.
I am from Czechia and the lunches look the same as yours(at least in schools that i went to). Basically at our school we can choose from 3 main courses( one is with meat, other is without meat and third is salad)+ we got served some kind of soup, piece of fruit and something to drink. Sometimes the food is somewhat not good, but in the contrast with the states we got served delicaties( idk how to spell that).
My elementary school was struggling with lunch cuts a bit into the early 2000s when I was in elementary school. At first I didn’t get a lunch because I wasn’t “poor enough” to get even reduced lunches (even if my lunches were reduced I wouldn’t be able to afford it), then they decided giving the kids who couldn’t afford food one PPJ sandwich with nothing to drink. As bad as 2010 was for school lunch I never noticed the portions got smaller because I never ate the food before. American school kids hated hard on Michelle Obama but thanks to her I got two meals at school until I graduated. (Although now my body is used to surviving on smaller portions now and it’s a huge struggle to gain weight). America cares when there’s money to be made, and five year old me wasn’t making them money so I either went hungry or ate one PPJ sandwich for the entire school day.
I know that in my middle school in Serbia, there was a small bakery in the school, which is normal everywhere, where you bought your breakfast. But when I was in Hungary for high school, there weren't any baked goods but you could buy almost any kind of chip. The rebellion i felt eating those snacks went away pretty quickly and i missed the bakery. It also didn't help that whenever I talked with my brother, he would gloast how good and cheap the bakery in his school was, which made me extreamly jelous and homesick.
Man when I went to school, I remember freshman year of high school when we were served dinner rolls. They were some of the hardest things that you could serve to someone outside of just giving them rocks. One kid threw one at the wall and it shattered. Honestly one of the funniest things ive ever seen
Bro, the school lunch in Hong Kong is terrible. The white sauce is basically rotten fish flavoured glue. Good thing I'm leaving this school soon. But we will have a graduation party on 12th
School lunch in Portugal: a bowl of soup, a main dish made up of rice/potato/pasta with fish or meat and veggies, a side salad usually with lettuce, tomato, carrot and sweet corn, kids season it themselves with olive oil and vinegar to their liking, a bread roll and a dessert which is usually a piece of fruit and sometimes a sweet treat like chocolate mousse or pudding. It's free for low-income and 1,46€/day for others. The menu is made by dietitians to guarantee it's balanced and, in a lot of schools, the lunch ladies are actual cooks who make it there (not all schools have enough space for this, but a lot of them do).
My school lunch in America in 2016: Untoasted deli sandwich with bread, ham/turkey deli slices, cheddar cheese slices, pickles, with optional ketchup, mustard, mayo, ranch, and pickled banana pepper. Comes with chips (Doritos) and a fruit (Banana) and a milk (Chocolate). $0.40 since I was on low-income. $3.50 for others. Yes of course we made South Park Chef jokes about that $3.50 🤣🤣🤣
@@MK_ULTRA420 ours was awesome it was public with 1600 students ours was the same at $0.40 reduced and $3.50 full but it was basically a from scratch buffet we are a semi city/farmland of over 150k in population due to the churches farmers and whatnot i cant believe how bad it is in minor to major cities so we basically paid 3.50 for a full plate buffet free salad/rolls also free lunches was a ham cheese sandwich plain skim or strawberry skim milk fresh celery and peanut butter and an apple or orange
My school literally served us rotten milk(which I unfortunately had in my mouth for a few god forsaken seconds) and haven't stopped doing so. I've complained to school counselors and nothing has been done about the rotten milk. It's such a problem that I stopped getting school lunch and in fact began bringing home lunch. I can not tell you how much better I feel just in general not eating whatever crap they serve us😭😭
@@lyssgoddess In my school the milk was moldy with bug termites and spiders and the only people that were absent were the milk drinkers and ones that eat school food. Coincidence?
I'm also from Germany, grüß dich 😁 Aber haben wir hier nicht ein sehr ähnliches Problem? Ich sehe viel zu junge Kinder in Bus und Bahn morgens schon Red Bull trinken. Da bleibt einem auch die Spucke weg.
I know as an American more specifically minnesotan it makes me mad as well school lunch is so bad, the worst part is some food has no flavor, and/or is absolutely filled with grease, one other thing fruit is not served fresh, it is sever at the buffet frozen put in a a food well to thaw, and because of that when it completely thaws out the fruit is left in pool of it own juice.
I remember eating day-old Bosco sticks in 8th grade and they were so hard and dry they tasted like plastic. Our meals were generic square pizzas, old nacho chips, and Pop-Tarts. If you had Mentos or gum, you were a king. By the end graduation, our collective IQs could maybe power a battery. We really were just one large experiment back then.
I lived in a really small town in New Mexico and instead of taking the bus I would drive to school everyday on my tiny 50cc dirt bike and park it a small ways away from the school. I hated school food so I would drive for lunch to my towns only restaurant and eat. I now realize I was a crazy 10 year old kid in a town that should have had a cop around. 😂
When I raised my daughters I sent them to school with a lunch that I prepared every day, and I would include a post-it note with a quote from people like Mark Twain, Malcolm X, Marcus Aurelius, ect. So each day all of their friends would gather around to see what I cooked for them and what the quote of the day was.
A problem I also have is that in my school districts, the food the elementary kids get is the same exact portion as the highschoolers. The portion size is decent for little kids, but is virtually a SNACK for highscholers because the portion size doesn’t change.
@Spid4rsw3bzI like the logic and it would be true but MOST kids don’t get fed at home or have practice or work after school and don’t have time to eat.
@Spid4rsw3bz ??? yes you should??? teens who are nearly grown adults should not be served portions that of a child, especially considering that's all they'll be able to get over the span of 7hrs
@user-wm9xv9vv6b can I give you a tip. Find a local culinary college. Petition them to come in as actual chefs. Draw up a plan that proves hiring a kitchen staff is cost effective by using culinary students as paid interns. Then get the parents on board, followed by putting pressure on the school board.
@@StarlightLuvsInumaki wow you make good videos and I read your whole channel description you are professional for a 10 yr old, even better than me!!! And I’m 13, you have a great future kid.
You guys really should invite officials and politicians to your Schools for some press media event and then force them to eat school food in front of cameras.
I live in England and all the chefs at the schools I've been to have ACTUALLY been chefs and actually COOKED and created the food that they gave us. Common school meals here include sausages and mashed potatoes, curries, fish and chips, pasta, roast dinners etc. They would always prepare it fresh on the day from scratch. Even making their own pastry for yorkshire puddings, tarts and pies.
Cinnamon toast, Milk and Packaged serial for breakfast every day. Crappy pizza, A fish Burger, and potatoes for lunch every day, maybe they alternate 4 out of 7 days with a special item which is always the freshest. It was the same for us we just had more powerful people making contracts with food industries for better trades.
It was worse over COVID. They have out free lunches. One time I decided to give it a try and received the saddest piece of foil wrapped pizza I've ever seen. It even tasted like the very concept of depression. Didn't finish it. Regretted my choice. Went back to the ramen I always made at home and then brought to school the next day.
I work as a janitor at a middle school currently in college. Everytime I go into the lunch room when the kids are eating and I smell the smell of the food. I just get nauseated and hardcore PTSD. I am just thinking “bro why tf are we feeding this shit to kids, especially middle schoolers who are going through puberty and need to be at their healthiest.” I legit almost throw up everytime. How I ate that garbage for 3 years is something I have go travel back and ask my old self.
I have the answer to why you ate that food. You were a typical slave (aka student) who eats whatever is served to him. And I have a question: Have you seen any toxic substances or feces added to school meals?
As a former cafeteria worker I can testify the district sent us boxes of food labeled not for human consumption more then once. Claiming it just wasnt in the budget for better options.
@@muffincake-lp7uk "not for human consumption" = at a risk of containing diseases, food waste and food where a problem was detected but rather than throw the whole batch they sell it to schools
can't find trained cooks, that bit always reeked of bs too. Many cooks are working for min wage as is, despite being over qualified or overskilled for their paygrade. Isn't seasonal farm overstock significantly cheaper than that mystery meat bs they send in?
And that's when I would pick up the phone and call the health department, and the local news. People just never feel like it's their responsibility to do or say anything, but it is. It's all of our responsibility's to say something if we see something that's just plain wrong. It's like everyone just goes through their lives thinking that someone else should be doing what needs to be done. This is exactly why nothing gets done! This is exactly why so much is broken, and terrible crap can happen for literally decades before the right person that has the integrity to act comes along, sees a problem or an injustice, and says something about it. Absolutely ridiculous!
Make sure to let the team know I'm very grateful for the work you're all doing. The information may be freely available but the average person doesn't have the time to digest the information. Keep it up
Damn, this video made me appreciate lunches I had back in school! I’m from Russia, and in school we not only have lunch, but breakfast too. For breakfast it’s usually different kind of porridges, russian pancakes or cheese pancakes called syrniki (made with curd/cottage cheese) with jam or sometimes chocolate sauce etc. And for lunch it’s always 2-course meal consisting of some kind of soup (borscht, fish soup, cabbage soup, crème-soup with little crackers) and main course being all different kind of stuff: russian dumplings, mashed potatoes with cutlets, braised cabbage with sausages, buckwheat with beef, I can’t even remember all of that. And they would also sometimes give us little buns with jam/cabbage and eggs filling. And for the drinks it would usually be black tea, but sometimes it was cocoa drink or chicory with milk (it kinda tastes like coffee but contains no caffeine so it’s okay for kids). And for all the time I was in school I got all this for free, bc my family has 3 kids, so we’re legally eligible for free school meals. I honestly cannot imagine me or my future kids eat something like shown in this video.
But but....Russia bad! It’s embarrassing that America is suppose to be the successor to Rome yet can’t even feed it’s youth good food while Russia after the USSR collapse seemed to have no issue
@@1CE. The barbarians considered Roman food to be meager and subpar compared to theirs. They called the Romans "grain-eaters" as an insult. It's called Bread and Circus, not Meat and Circus.
@@MK_ULTRA420 That only came true as a result of the welfare state Before then Roman’s tended their own land but with slave labor and the massive profit margins wheat makes by comparison to other crops bread became the dominant food. You see as soon as Rome fell people started eating berries and fish again
@@1CE. Yes, and America has a worse welfare state. People started eating fish and berries again after the fall of Rome because a bunch of people died and their land was up for grabs.
I'm lucky that I switched to online school before the school food started to become completely toxic, I feel so bad for all of the kids who went to physical school 3 months ago, when this video was posted.
This is one of those instances that being cheap in the short term, ends up being very expensive in the long term. When you play cheap with the nutrition of children it has very costly ramifications when they grow Up
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 Easier said than done if you live in a city where money is tight and growing your own food is probably not an option.... (Especially if you're in an area where high crime, and low incomes make distribution of actually good food look like money sink with no return worth the risk to the corporations that run the grocery stores...)
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 you can elect government. Government isnt the issue, its private individuals, for profit cafeterias etc. Here the government says "dont feed your students unhealthy crap" and the schools are "ok" so the government gives subsidies for food and its free for students.
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 there are thousands of kids so poor that their free/discounted school lunch is essential. Their families literally do not have enough money to give them food. Maybe instead of putting the responsibility on the parents, the government should just make the lunches more nutritious like what every other developed country does. Even some developing countries have better school lunches.
I once experienced a food fight and burgers hit like a literal rock. It literally was burnt and extremely pink. The fries were like bullets, just burnt to a crisp. Edit! Holy guacamole that's a lot of likes! Thanks for 180+!
I recall in my senior year of high school, they added the option of a sub sandwich line, where an order card was used to select which meats, cheese and toppings you wanted. While it wasn't the best, it was miles beyond the normal mystery meat burgers, watery mac & "cheese" and those weird square pizzas with the cubed pepperoni bits. Once that was introduced, virtually no one went for the regular options. This just shows that if given a choice, kids would generally choose the best available. Given the smaller budgets, you think they'd train cooks (not chefs necessarily) to make simple fare like chicken w/rice, stews and bean salads for example, foods which can be purchased in bulk cheaply.
Heck that seems like a good option for high-school vocational training.... Teach kids how to prepare and cook meals for themselves and their fellow students.... A Culinary Arts program if you will, which of course would give them plenty of job options if not some practical skills that would help them out at home at the very least.... Wonder why more schools don't have those...
@@ComedyLoverGirl Wasn't illegal when I was in Highschool.... Though that was a couple decades ago, thus why I suggested the expansion of similar programs into other schools as a possible option.... (Granted it was an elective at my school....)
My last couple years in high school, I had moved schools, and the school I graduated from, the lunch lady spent her mornings buying food from the grocery store. The school gave her the money. She'd go all out, burgers and fries, chili fries, chili dogs, spaghetti and meatballs, genuine nachos... it was so much better than my previous school
I moved to the US in the early 2000s and was subjected to middle school lunches. The quality has not improved in 20 years. That tells you how much people actually care about children here.
@@ChatBloom freedom is excellent. How is your diet? Full of processed crap, when decent food is available at about the same cost? Here’s one, with freedom goes responsibility.
honestly for my entire 7th grade year i just let myself starve the food was so shitty at my school, it looked and felt like i was eating flavored plastic mixed with the contents of your average septic tank. I'm glad this is finally getting out and i hope this makes a change for not just me and my generation, but the next one and so on, this is horrible, thank you for talking about this problem with school.
@@Slurpified i kinda got used to the overwhelming hunger and it went away after an hour anyways, the first few days it sucked but by the end of the year i was fine with it
Bring home food or buy snacks after school for lunch. Starving takes a big toll on metabolism depending on how many hours school is and how many breaks you get. It can lead to gastric and digestion problems as well.
I was a lunch lady. When I started working the kids loved lunch. And then around 2010-11 it changed just like he described. Tasteless, cheap food. The teachers stopped getting food in there. The kids hated it. None of us liked it either. It was truly disgusting. We were buying the absolute cheapest crap the government had to offer. (Pink slim) was now hamburger 🤮 and they were raising the price of lunch at the same time we were getting the cheap food. We were told lunch is a money maker for the school. I was at the high school and we were encouraged to try and get them to buy the ala carte stuff because it made the most money. It was a mess.
I'll remember that my HS Freshman, year Lunch was better it's was 2009 it's differently did has changed over time to the .point that the salads was starting to get better then the regular lunch we get to choices our customize salads with tops
I was drinking pepsi and carbonated soda, enjoying ice cream and soy milk, not realizing the dire consequences that awaited me as a growing teenage boy 😢
I graduated high school in 2021, and lemme tell you as the local free lunch kid, I would try and trade as much as a could away. The only thing consistently edible was the single roll and the milk carton, everything else was a toss shoot and could be made anywhere from okay to fucking war crime. For as much as a hear the horror stories of kids having little more than mall fast food courts for cafeterias, their allotment of grease seems more appetizing. God knows how many of us ended up with eating disorders because of those lunches, too. I've had problems with food during summer breaks and post graduation with bouts of binging or eating very little for weeks. The lunches weren't big enough to fill you or was just so bad no one would have trade and you'd have to eat it. It just fucks completely with your mental concept of appetite.
My Highschool had the nerve to dismiss deliveries that students try to make. So they either send their parents to drop it off or starve throughout the rest of the day!
Elementary school lunches were absolutely horrible for me. I forgot my lunch a lot, so I was forced to eat the crap served at the cafeteria, and one time I realized that the milk that I WAS DRINKING was expired. When I got to middle school, it was a little better, but it would qualify as fast food level. I hope that my high school can be better...
Omg same they used to give me stuff for breakfast such as delicious cinnamon rolls, waffles, pancakes, yogurt, bagels, and for lunch they gave us veggie sandwiches and chicken also the drink options were white milk, chocolate milk, and strawberry milk. That was when I was in kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade. Now I’m in 4th grade but it’s summer break so I’m going to 5th grade in September. FOR BREAKFAST THEY GAVE US MOLDY BANANA BREAD AND EXPIRED MILK! My school is from K-8 and it’s my little brother’s first year in this school! And they giving the whole school, including kindergarten, HORRIBLE FOOD! When I was in kindergarten the food was delicious! It’s my brother’s and multiple other kindergarten students’ first year in this school, and the school’s giving us horrible food! And they gave us a “burrito” with a cold tortilla, raw spinach, and SLIGHTLY BOILED UNSEASONED BASICALLY RAW CHICKEN! I didn’t have much to eat that day so that was all I could eat and afterwards I felt like I could barf! Hope you have good food in high school! Even though I saw a video of a guy trying high school food. It looked like a buffet but according to him the food was not good but okay.
I remember taking packed lunch in secondary school because the school meals were nasty looking. One sandwich(wholemeal bread) usually ham or cheese, fun sized candy bar(which I had to hide coz the teachers would confiscate it) and an apple. That was lunch and that was enough in your teens. When you got home, you'd have dinner.
@@syedayasmin They're just getting you ready for that prison diet. Sidenote not even convicts deserve to eat the slop served in prisons and schools. And yes I did some research, not extensive research, but research all the same that suggests prisons and schools serve the same slop. Feel free to correct me on this people.
I'm very thankful that I went to a middle school that made its food from scratch. It was the only period in my school days that I always got lunch from the cafeteria. So it's definitely possible, and it's sad that more and more schools seem to be resorting to worse ways to feed kids.
from the UK and my primary school food was amazing. varied too. 2 different meal options every day for 2 weeks, repeated. then we had a seperate "menu" for christmas-y time although personally I didn't like it as much as the regular stuff. now as an adult I don't even come close to eating as good as I did whilst at school; it's kinda sad. and you're probably thinking I went to some posh private school that a rich mommy and daddy paid for me to go to. but nope. free education and free school meals. seeing the american system, it just confuses me. such a rich and developed country yet it's such an awful place to be.
@@LiterallyAllNamesAreTaken To be fair we had quite a few students that qualified for reduced price or free lunch, and they were able to eat the same food the rest of us did. It was a Catholic school, so the tuition everyone else was able to pay for went towards the tuitions and lunches of those that couldn't pay. The US isn't a bad place to live, but there certainly a lot of disparity. You have a huge contrast between well-run schools that serve their students excellent food, and those that are poorly run and serve the kind of food you see in this video.
@@parallelpinkparakeet no, america is an AWFUL place to live. you all have been conditioned into thinking “hey, some places and things are okay, that’s good enough for me” but that’s unacceptable. there should be ZERO schools serving this to kids. and education should be free, you shouldn’t have to pay for such a basic necessity. ESPECIALLY when the system is such trash. you’re taught only what the government wants you to know so that the country can stay divided as that’s what weakens you. just look at how terrible so many americans are with geography, there’s no way that’s not on purpose. on top if that, you’re not even safe when you go to school because guns continue to be unregulated and unrestricted. and that’s just talking about schools, we won’t talk about racism or the terrible and expensive healthcare or the fact women are losing body autonomy and LGBT youth are still needing to fight for their lives.
In my old school-those people had the audacity to charge us money for a a lunch right out of a dumpster. When we threw away the food,the lunch lady’s and people there would complain and say we were ungrateful.
I'm from Germany... Our school meals were just like the regular meals you would have at home, too. Standard good german food like ~A slice of well done Meat and cooked Potatos with fresh Parsley sprinkeld on them, also Peas, Carrots and a peppery sauce to round it together. And then an Apple for desert or some pickled beet root~ and to drink we got some milk (local farm) or simple tea. You could even choose from different meals in advance.
@@stsk1061We had them at the daycare were u went after primary school ( thats pretty normal in ex Gdr Germany) was the same as for the kindergarden kids. In middle school it was a bit different, a bigger company made all of the meals, they were still good, but our break was so short ( 25 Minutes). Unless u were able to run to the Cafeteria eating there would have taken to long due to waiting hours. So instead we just went to get take out or had food from home, wich was cheaper. 😅
@@stsk1061I had school till 3 pm since middle school and later till 4- 5 pm. Depends on the type of school, wegave something called Langtagsschule. It just sucks, when u have 10 hours of school and then u have to take the train home, when u r doing your Alevel. Thats why a lot of kids lived in dormitorys from grade 11 onward.
same here in Vietnam, just a bit less fancier but is still better than whatever amercian kids are eating. We have Pho, noodles, soup, ... kindergartens and elementary schools have the best foods with low price too, they don't hire a cafeteria but cook by themselves so for a lunch everyday in a whole month costs something like 2 average meals, and thats the highest it can get
One day in elementary I wanted to see what would happen if I left my homemade lunch at home since a character in a kids book did the same thing one time, I left my lunchbox on the couch and had to eat school lunch and I literally felt like I was going to throw up after. I can’t believe my fellow students eat the same thing every since day, I never stopped eating the food my mom made for me after that
I was both a regular and a sub teacher for years. One day while subbing, I hadn't brought any lunch. I thought I'd risk it and try the school lunch that teachers had access to. It was cheap and ready so I got a small tray of a few items along with some chicken sticks. Now keep in mind I am a health food nut, cook from scratch, and cook gourmet recipes, and even eat kosher for health reasons. So my tongue was used to quality and health just as it is now. Well, I bit into that chicken stick and my whole body reacted! It was involuntary, my tongue just gagged and the whole blob of minced chicken came hurtling right back out of my mouth and onto the tray! I didn't swallow an ounce of it, or I literally would have vomited! I threw all of that away. I washed my mouth out and ate some fruit that was available just to get the taste out of my mouth! And it hit me that this is what they are feeding the kids all over schools in the country! This was a wealthy area in north San Diego county, CA, in the San Marcos school district which covers a wide area. Never again! Also, keep in mind the WEF plan with Klaus Schwab and feeding humanity BUGS! Watch your food.
Dont want to be offensive, but you americans realy cant run a country propper, only when you are in war, you actually act half way desent. Sorry that you have to eat this bs
At this point, bugs (or probably processed bug protein) would be much tastier and healthier than cantine slob. Bugs should be one of many choices and should never be pushed. I'm as against Schwab's totalitarian tendencies and ridiculous economic plans as much as the next guy, but in principle there's nothing wrong with having the choice of multiple food sources. As long as they're not unhealthy (too heavily processed, manipulated, incomplete nutritional value, full of insecticides, etc).
I’m so thankful that I was raised with homemade lunches, and grew up knowing how to make my own. While not being American, the school lunches where I’m from still suck and contain almost zero nutritional value. I’m very proud of myself, honestly; making an omelette and salad for myself everyday. I think others should be encouraged and try to make their own lunches more often, if possible.
Yeah, I agree that it's a sad state of affairs. I remember being in school in Japan and granted, the school food wasn't as good as home food, but it was still good. Part of it is that they have shorter breaks more often so they can teach horticulture during the year. There would always be a small portion of the lunch that came from what the students grew on site. American school food left a lot to be desired back in the late 70s & 80s. What they served in daycares & schools when my son went was at the point I didn't want him to have it. I'm sure it's gone downhill since I yanked him out 15 years ago. I think if we had gardeners donating excess to local schools, the food would improve in flavor, nutrition, etc.
Dang, I remember when I went to school, I got this cheeseburger from the cafeteria line. They had them wrapped in tinfoil, so we didn't know what we were getting or what it looked like inside the foil. So I grabbed the burger, sat down, and it was perfectly split in half. One side was completely burnt, and the other side was frozen. Needless to say, I walked into the kitchen and asked a friendly cafeteria lady how this happened. We laughed because even she didn't know. She felt bad, and gave me a slice of pizza hut pizza since all of the cheap food was gone. So, it wasn't a complete loss.
You know what's weird. Every single day at school, after I ate lunch I would go throw it up, before lunch was even over. I never knew why. I wasn't bullied or depressed or anything. I sat at a popular table. I just HAD to throw up. Never happened at home. The only other time it happened was after I ate at my first job.. McDonald's 😅 (My appendix ruptured when I was 4, which I almost died from. Was in the hospital for weeks. It took me over 20 years to realize why. It was bc I was fed McDonald's 3 times a day..) moral of the story.. you literally ARE what you eat. DON'T EAT THAT GARBAGE. ITS ENGINEERED TO DESTROY YOU.
In most of the cases it is not the parents fault actually, they are too damn busy working to bring in the money to maintain the finances and they just expect other organisations (schools) to do their jobs for what they haave paid their hard earned money.
@@gakorothyt9768 If you can't feed your own child then don't make one in the first place, these parents are delusional to think that other organizations are gonna feed the kids healthy food lol.
@@pixytorres7117but you don’t know everyone’s circumstances. Most children that are born aren’t planned. I know we don’t like to say it but majority of children were accidents.
Many of the parents can’t afford food. Poverty is a huge issue for a lot of the US and politicians turn a blind eye. Keep thinking people can get by on low minimum wages and still care for kids. Oh don’t have kids they say. Yet take away abortion options and affordable birth control. Telling people don’t have sex is stupid. When has that worked even for children?!? It hasn’t. So yeah. Blame the low wage workers trying to care for their kids the best they can with the resources they have. Good job 👏 not
I remember my school lunches being JUST like this. Absolutely disgusting. By the time i reached high school i had given up with cafeteria food so i started buying snacks from the concession in our gym everyday. Id always get a bag of nacho cheese doritos, a king sized snickers bar & a coca cola. Man,...im craving that now and i haven't had that snack combo in nearly 20 years lol. It sure beat the crap they served in the cafeteria and it was cheaper too.
Here in Germany we are also served 4 course meals in primary school, and it was absolutely delicious. I still remember the taste of the chocolate pudding they gave us, it was heavenly and no matter how hard i tried i haven't found one as good as that ever again 😔
I’ve always been extremely picky about what I eat for lunch. If I’m missing my lunch, I don’t eat at all. The only thing I ever bought from the cafeteria was bags of chips and cookies. This video made me grateful that my parents have always packed me a lunch- if they didn’t, who knows what I’d be like now. Looking back, a lot of the lunch meals I’ve seen in the past aren’t that bad. I’m still in school, but it was still nasty. It’s really awful that kids who can’t get access to any food are being served heavily processed food that shouldn’t even be considered edible. If this is our future, I don’t think there’s much of one.
Thankfully my school never had bad food, but I'd still usually have either a pack lunch like yourself, or I'd make it myself before leaving for school if my mum was extra busy. Usually we'd prep stuff anyhow, like a giant bowl of tuna salad, or have ample lunch meats, cheese, and bread, and one sandwich was enough.
This makes me feel glad that I went to private school after the 8th grade! My high school had the kind of food they serve at universities. Even the public schools I went to in the 1990s before high school had pretty good meals. My parents paid $5.25 per meal for my lunches back then.
This makes me so glad I was in a wealthy public school so the food was actually good, they also did it because a lot of kids couldn't afford food so the rich kids would buy them a good lunch, and especially so for poor athletes. I'm also glad my dad backed me a good big lunch I could easily share with friends. I really a friend of mine immigrated here and she was wary of the food so her mom would make her food and we'd share food and culture with each other, she taught me some of her language and I taught her to draw.
Now I'm glad my parents made us take our own lunch to school. Peanutbutter & honey on whole wheat, two fig newtons, celery sticks and an apple. In retrospect its a lot of sugar but it kept us healthy in the 60s.
I went to a Catholic school also and we didn’t even have the Cafeteria-style serving. We were seated in a pre-arranged table with mates from the same year. Usually 8 per table. Food was brought to us in platters and service utensils. We blessed the food and then helped ourselves. Up to about 8th grade a teacher sat on every table and helped us and teach us how to serve ourselves from platters. Even the drinks were served in jugs. One with water and one with juice. The kitchen was run by a staff strictly overseen by the parents association with pre-approved menus. Food was good, those platters and plates went back totally empty, and we used full metal cutlery, and metallic or glass cups.
@@caroleigh3461 mass and religion classes would kill it for me. especially since i highly doubt the religion class teaches about all religions in an unbiased way but rather shoves christian filth down peoples throats telling them its the one true religion and if you arent christian youll burn in hell for eternity.
@@svartrbrisingr6141 i didn’t mind mass because it was a nice break in the day, and we had shortened classes. the religion classes at my school were literally the easiest classes you could take, and they start off with telling us that we don’t need to believe it, but they’re just teaching it. they also allow and welcome questions. also, my senior year i took a world religions class that delved into other religions and described, in great detail, the beauty’s each of them possess. my catholic school was very inclusive to say the least, and we had people attend from many other religions
yeah, because your countries a fucking utopia. I’m so sick of Europeans bragging about how better their country is. Let’s watch a video about Germany and I can come in and say wow I’m glad America doesn’t have your problem. I’ve been seeing comments like this for years
Exactly! Then they wonder why American children are becoming overweight so young, and why they have a hard time in school with concentration & retention. Well, you serve the kids slop like this, then take away or reduce recess and gym time, so they can have more time to spend hour after hour sitting on terribly designed hard plastic chairs to “learn”, it’s not very surprising that the end result is an increasing number of children who have to be on ADHD/ADD meds, depression, anger issues, and lower test scores and overall performance.
My best friend's cousin went to Germany to study medicine and said Germans are medical oddities lol...he said it's common to see Germans having pints of beer for breakfast, lunch and dinner along with bratwursts and other processed meats, loafs of bread and butter and smoke like chimneys, yet many are healthy and not obese at all lol
@@seblo8462 I'm guessing they have a lack of hyper-processed vegetable oil, fructose corn-syrup, and red-40 in what they consume. Even if not healthy, it's not "military surplus" bad.
Obviously the visual component of food matters, you don't always want it to look like a blob of goo. But the nutritional component is more important. Replacing all of it with hypher-palataple junk/fast food may be a quick fix that the students and teachers would like, but schools need to start prioritizing health over convenience.
Last year (7th grade) i had brought my own seasoning because the food was so uncooked and unseasonably unseasoned it wasn't even funny. And one time i had got expired milk TWICE IN ONE DAY and they just said " oh its been in the freezer/fridge so it lasts longer not to mention the milk was given in a powder in plastic bags and they didnt care while kids were getting sick. 3rd example was during breakfast where we had these really bad and cold waffles and one 8th grader opend her bag which had a cockroach and when it ran off the teachers said crisis advertised keep in mind the waffles were shipped like that which ment that it was in there for weeks on end any no one cared. The school was Youngsville middle
I remember Soviet school lunch. Usually it was a cabbage red soup like borscht with meat pieces and sour cream, then mashed potatoes with a meatball (it was half meat, half bread, soaked in milk, but tasty and crispy) and a slice of pickle. As a dessert we had kompot, which is the boiled juice from assorted fruits, or kisel, which is a sort of boiled fruits juice, but with gelatine.
as a kid who grew up in Russia in 90s, i remember watching american school movies and being completely jealous of their school lunches, which looked so cool and tasty in comparison with porridge and soup we were used to.. but now i realise that they have serious problems with quality of these unhealthy lunches
As a Polish student I used to complain about amount of the salads, that we got for lunch, I’m so happy we got these now… If anybody is curious, we were paying really cheap price for full two course meal: soup (randommly placed on some tables, you could eat as much as you wanted) and a second dish (one portion) and a kompot We would also sometimes get an additional lunch item, such as pack of raw carrots, raw pepper, or milk These portions were smaller than my usual meals and not really the tastiests, but - They were cooked in the schol cafeteria - Looked and tasted just like a typical polish meal (maybe a little less tasty) - Always a raw salad, or a raw fruit And we never got any processed junk food as a main dish sometimes I miss the timewhen I was passing by a school cafeteria smelling today's food being cooked
@S1SHARK (damn that's sad, I love kompot) maybe you should try preparing one by yourself? the recipe isn't really that hard - you just need to boil some fruits in the water with sugar and lemon juice, and it all takes about 20 min
I'm slovak and at my school we get good lunches. It's soup, second dish (it's sweet on wednesday, otherwise it's salty) a glass of water, sometimes a salad or a fruit. Also just like you said it's made right there in the kitchen, and compared to US school lunches, it seems like a five star dish.
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Which is worse? Bottled water/drinks or unfiltered tap water?
I am so lucky to live in Britain our school foods is really good. In Britain it got a huge amount of choice. Bloody hell Americans that's all I have to say
Not fit for man or beast.
@@goododays1812 They could be just putting in unfiltered tap water into the battled water. You can't trust these goal driven corporations run by people with no empathy or morals. The plastic they use is pretty nasty so if you filled those plastic bottles with tap water, you just have the same but a bit worse. Best thing is to get a filter and distiller and clean the water yourself. There are some water bottles that have the filters integrated into the water but I'm not sure how trustworthy they are.
I worked at a Domino's. It says whole wheat crust on the box. I asked a coworker if dominos had a wheat crust available. He said they are supposed to as well as a cheese lower in fat, but they just serve the kids regular pizza to cut down on cost yet they take all the profits and lie to the schools with mislabeled boxes claiming while wheat. This should be exposed and removed from school lunches
I remember a lunch lady at my school was so tired of serving kids disgusting food that she snuck in her homemade Mac and cheese into the cafeteria. Best food I ever had, she bought pounds of cheese and macaroni and seasoning with HER money just so we had one good lunch. She risked her job and income to give kids one good meal.
Ok, but that's still the "not for human consumption" american 'cheese', it's still awful for you.
@@MyVanirit's better for you than slop. Also have you ever even had American school food?
@@MyVanir its better then nothing
@@MyVanir americans school food is worse than what the homeless eat in my country.
@@kytesav Being beaten up daily is better than being dead, but you don't hear people saying how happy they are about that, do you?
Shit is still shit, even if there is worse piles of it.
My mom took a job as a school lunch worker and completely overhauled the program. What she saw was awful that was being served. Shes been promoted to head of the cafeteria and makes it a point to cook near everything from scratch from real ingredients. She says the work can be really hard and challenging for a whole K-12 school but she doesn't want to serve unhealthy crap to growing kids.
Its always possible to change and for the good. You just need the people to understand and be motivated. I wish news outlets shared news like this, and then maybe more lunch ladies would improve their cafeteria. Even if they don't have the supplies they can help find donations or lobby for better. A whole kitchen working like your mom would be game changing for literally hundred of kids in that school. I say this but as I have this information and the chance to share it to local lunch ladies, or travel further to spread the work, I don't do it. As they might here me but not have the energy, time, or worry to do it. Same goes with many problems in the world. Crazy.
ur mom is an angel
Based mom
Where does she get the money to be able to buy all the ingredients
Your mom is the real hero. I wish I went to that school!
I remember arguing with my mom as a kid that pizza and fries were vegetables, and I find it hilarious that multimillion dollar companies used the exact same arguments as a 9 year old.
It would be, if they weren't getting away with that logic.
Well, technically potatoes are vegetables, but I suspect that even your mother wouldn't have been impressed with that technicality
i was smarter than that as a 9 year old cmon dude 😭
I grew up in rich noble family so did not have not worry about this
@@sturm2186That's non-sequitur but congrats for never needing to develop reading comprehension skills, I guess.
There was a kid in my school who'd bring in a pot of beef stew for lunch and sell it. When he started out in the beginning he sold some of the stew and made like $15. Word spread around and about a month later he was making $80-$100 each time. The funny thing was he didn't do it for the money but instead did it so every kid could eat a good meal without having to worry about the price or quality All the money he made would go back into making the stew and left over money he'd save for college. The kid sold a cup of it for a $1 and alot of kids said it was an amazing price for the amount you got and the quality of the food. It unfortunately was stopped by school administrators when the school was losing money because no one was buying the school lunches. Even then he continued selling it after school and their was always a line.
Based
chad kid
Did everyone clap as well?
@@ggamerhero8702 not as much as the kids in the bathroom stalls every Friday afternoon
God bless him
As a french student I used to think our lunches were bad because it was less appealing than what we would normally eat at home, but apparently it's considered like an unachievable standard for America.
Bien sûr frero, les cantines françaises c'est le ritz comparé aux usa.
Those French meals are considered gourmet here in America, and are generally expensive enough that most people can't even afford them on a regular basis.
They're considered special occasion meals.
As a Swede with free school lunch (my mom has worked as a lunchlady / schoolcook) the school lunch is sometimes mocked but compared to this stuff in the video it's basically a homecooked meal
Although the food in Russian schools when I worked as an English teacher wasn't necessarily the most flavorful, it was still freshly made and healthy. Our school lunches in America were so bad that we would have competitions to see who could squeeze the most grease out of a cheesetick or pizza
Oui
It's funny to think about when I was a kid's. My mom would send me these home cooked meals and I was so jealous of my friends that were given money to buy pizzas and burgers and other crap. You know we just didn't have any money. It's unbelievable to see how much my parents actually care. the things we don't appreciate when they happen
Just another example of how boomers were right and millennials, Gen Z and Gen Y are complete morons for blaming all their problems on boomers.
That's how I grew up as well.
This is why I say kids really have no idea what they want.
@@silverhawkscape2677 Nah this always applies to adult as well...
@@Richardrald true but adults at least have a better clue than kids most of the time.
The craziest part of it all is most of these schools have the audacity to charge you for these school lunches
While you pay taxes for it too
At my school atleast in California is free, but it doesn't make it any better.
School lunch for one kid here in WA is nearly $100 a month.
i remember lunch costing $2.50 every day
Fortunately, it wasn’t half bad, but that’s bullshit
@@tacticallemon7518 in what state your school is ? (Because I study in a Texas high school and here you don’t have to pay for the lunch)
I'm honestly confused how the FDA not got involved in this, if the parents knew their children got food like this I'm pretty sure there's a massive lawsuit for child endangerment and food poisoning
BECAUSE THE SYSTEM WILL NOT FIX ITSELF WHEN IT IS RUNNING EXACTLY HOW THEY DESIGNED IT. WAKE THE PHOK UP!!!
@@maddog7999 so basically, Joker?
@@Zhurk1397 ya know when Alfred said, “some men, just want to watch the world burn”? yeah. he was referring to ME.
A kid broke his tooth on “chicken” today HE ALREADY LOST ALL HISS TEETH
@@SPACEMAN98 as a chicken enjoyer myself, this is deeply disturbing
When McDonald's declined to buy that food. Tou no something is seriously wrong ☠️
That food exists that is below their already flexible-at-best standards to begin with is scary enough.
You can actually make really good food with former egg layers, you boil them. You make things like soup and chicken casseroles. But it means that the people who are making food need to know how to cook which most of them don’t.
That's saying a lot because McDonalds be doing weird shit to their food too. But at least it tastes good
Haha yup
@@nathanjustus6659 braises, stews, bakes, etc. All just how it's handled tbh.
Them saying they can't find ppl that can cook is nonsense given how over saturated the cooking industry is. Heck even the kids in home ec/cooking class/cooking club could probably do it if they were paying the rag-a-muffins.
Back in 2010 when I was in high school, sometimes the lunch was so disgusting that everyone was forced to buy chips, cookies, and other unhealthy snacks. The stuff they serve in public schools is one step above dog chow, and this has been going on for decades. Parents, DO NOT let your kids eat the garbage they serve at schools.
this is exactly how it is at my school now! one day they literally served us cold chicken and uncooked noodles. i don’t have time to make my own lunch so i eat a bunch of junk at lunch time and so does pretty much everyone else. i wish we had good lunches at school because i hate having to eat shit during lunch
not everyone has a choice to have home lunches though :( sadly the less-fortunate kids have to eat those terrible lunches
I couldn't eat school lunch as it actually made me sick as a dog for an hour afterwards
id never feed it to my cat
Yup i have health problems as an adult. Growing up eating the crap served at schools then come home eating hamburger helper every night for dinner because we were extremely poor. And now as an adult im still poor i eat one meal a day and it is usually processed bullshit because I cant afford a normal diet as an adult either. Thanks American government 👍🏻
Kids are taught to respect authority when the kids aren’t even respected enough to eat better than inmates in prison
FACTS
well school is prison. All inmates attended public school.
I do t respect Authority
@@newyorkfan16 not really. U go to learn unless you're going to a ghetto school
There’s a website where it shows pictures of school lunches and prison food and it’s indistinguishable from each other, in fact some prison food looked better than school food.
- ATTENTION -
When I was a child I had several stomach problems (that no doctor could explain). In 6th grade I stopped eating lunch. Because I noticed when I ate the school food I had extreme stomach cramps and diarrhea. But when I ate food from home my belly issues was ok.
Long story short....
I explained this to my mom and doctor. They all agreed that I should not eat the school food. When I did eat at school, I only ate the food I brought from home.
I hope this helps someone.
Jesus the f.d.a needs to get involved. I hope this never happens to anyone else.
@@Raymesisnerd666 same
Help someone how, you didnt mention any reason or explanation for the problems except "it happened"
I started bring my own lunch since 5th grade
It was normal in my day to bring food from home. It is healthier, tastier. I only ate school lunch if I forgot to bring my lunch bag.
As someone who went through the American public school system, I saw a school lunch in Japan once and it almost made me cry.
Because they forgot to cook the fish?
@@get8bit That wasn't funny, like at all.
@@DylonsBBGorlfr
@@DylonsBBGorl Who's joking?
@@get8bitahahaha, salty Americans trying to deflect the blame off their country constantly. Pathetic
I get mad whenever people are like, ‘what are these lunch ladies feeding us?’. It is NOT THE LUNCH LADIES. My grandma is a lunch lady, and she herself is discusted by what they are feeding the children.
that’s not always the situation, my school has very mean lunch ladies that don’t care and have repeatedly gave us expired milk, chips, bagged cookies, rotten oranges etc. , so it may not be always how your grandma is…
How are people supposed to know that though? It's not like it's common knowledge for children to know that the lunch ladies aren't preparing their foods lol
Also there's integrity issues when someone is happy to serve this food poisoning out knowing full well it's off.
@@DylonsBBGorlThat is exactly why we shouldn't make up such conclusions. Research first, then critic.
Then don't work as a lunch lady. Simple as that. Or accept that you'rea hypocritical fool and should be held accountable in the grand scheme.
As a student in America it’s truly awful…last year during my lunch they gave us dry hard noodle patties. The noodles were cooked but they sat under the heat things for so long they dried to the shape of the scoop. My friends and I played HOCKEY with the patty. That says a lot. I was once sent to the nurses office and the hospital for fainting and having high sodium levels. Not from home food because we were eating healthy. It was the schools food.
Thank you for sharing, this is truly appalling. Sorry you went through that.
I’m going to high school next year and I’m hoping that it isn’t undercooked. My middle school had problems with that and got countless reports about parasites in the food. I found a worm curled up in a chicken nugget.
Will never forget the time my cafeteria served neon lime green chicken. No exaggeration. I saw it with my own two eyes. And this was only a year ago
Once when we came back from winter break (this was when I was in 6 grade) the milk was completely SPOILED and it was so bad that even though all the boxes were closed and not spilling if you grabbed a box of milk and sniffed your hand feeling something wet it smelled worse than a gas station bathroom and many kids had gotten that spoiled milk and were talking about it I don't believe anyone drank it because it smelled absolutely HORRENDOUS but the school legit had no hesitation giving SPOILED milk that smelled so badly and would definitely get you sick to all the students which wtf
bro one time this girl found a BUG in her food. and it was ALIVE. i swear when i heard her scream it was a war cry
It’s absolutely disgusting and horrifying how little they care. The fatter you are, the more cancer you have, the more money they make. They do this on purpose.
The US is not a country, it's a business. A prison so big most people don't realize they're in one. A country where both parents have to work in order to provide the bare minimum to their family is not a country, it's a labor camp. The US is made to get the most labor out of people while giving them very little in return. While parents are working their life off, their kids are kept in "education centers" (schools) where they are conditioned from a very young age to be accustomed to the terrible life they'll have to live. They barely teach anything useful to the kids, and they give them fake food so that they won't notice how they're being exploited and poisoned when they grow up. But of course, there's always people who notice how bad everything is, so what do they do about it? They introduce the concept of "true" freedom to them so that they'll conform with just achieving that "freedom" while still being part of the mechanism.
@@eeveeofalltrades4780I mean yeah but like that's almost HOW EVERY COUNTRY WORKS except health care and lunches and some freedom 😂
We are all slaves to the economy
I thought these US kids were being dramatic and entitled whenever they'd complain about their cafeteria food. I didn't know it was actually THIS horrifying. I'm from a third world country and our shittiest lunch food is waaaaaaay better that any of the food they got there. Sweet Jesus...
I gave up on being a teacher because behavior in schools has gotten so outrageous. Now I'm watching this and remembering the study done with prisoners in the UK that lived on an ultra processed diet. They changed the meal possibilities and diet for a few months and the hostility and issues with the prisoners went way down. Once the program was over and the old processed food came back, violence escalated.
Methinks there's a connection with crap behavior from students these days and the crap food they're forced to eat. "You are what you eat" has some major truth to it: you eat better, you are better as a person. How can kids concentrate in class and care about school when it's clear the school doesn't care about their well being at all. I've never seen anything like what's on some of those plates, and I ate largely school food. They look like science experiments gone wrong.
Slop like this wouldn't be served to inmates because of the potential to riot! My dad was a CO, and there's no way they would have been given garbage to eat - they'd claim they were being treated badly (think Geneva Convention). They would riot over peanut butter! In NYC, they got the option to eat kosher if they wanted!
That said, the bad behavior of students i think is more akin to not being in two parent households and not being taught respect or how to be civil with others in society. When I was a kid one did not DARE think to attack a teacher or anyone else in authority! Of course we might get put down by them first! The our parents would have had it in for us at home. No one is getting disciplined.
@@MegaMagicdog Food also has some sort of influence there is reason why people say "you'll eat better you're going to to feel better".
@@MegaMagicdog I know. The nerve of these students. I was always polite with the teachers yet everyone in my class was being as crazy as ever!
Honestly my school is a horrible thing with behavior. They care more about “oh but we must go into this order” even if it’s by definition legally sexual assault. Instead of just punishing bad behavior.
@@SharkOSix I hate how schools lost the ability of discipline, you never had to abuse a kid to make them act right you has to discomfort them. Schools forgot how, in my elementary school if you made someone upset or uncomfortable you would be made uncomfortable too.
When I went to school my mother prepared all of my meals. All of my classmates' moms did. Being forced to eat whatever slop your government decides for you sounds horrifying.
its not exactly the government
Same here. Although our schools don't serve fast food, it's often nonetheless disgusting, like porridge that sticks to the plate when upside down.
@@Sasha-zw9ss My high school’s food all taste like cardboard especially those chickens Imao
More government is never the solution.
“Spinach” tastes like moss.The pizza looks like someone put milk onto cardboard. The milk tastes like flu medicine not to mention the bits of ice in it that’s probably imported from North Korea. The meat is horse meat. They microwave the pizzas. By the last class, the food is cold. The rice is sulfur that is somehow undercooked and overcooked. Someone got explosive diarrhea from the peas. Half the food doesn’t even look edible.There are worms in every 17 apples. Someone reported this to osha. There is a burnt broccoli smell every day.
Fun fact! The packages of food that they serve in schools are the same foods they serve in homeless shelters, jails, and some medical facilities. They ARE literally giving you jail food.
Prepping you for your dystopian future.
No wonder schools and students can't respect each other
Everyone's fed with food poisoning! And don't give me that "Ooh schools get their food from charity buckets"
We have Costco and Walmart!
Wrong. It’s worse
This is why always bring lunch from home then from schools
@@Hypno_majestic I definitely couldn't afford that when I was growing up. I depended on the school lunch program and the summer lunch program my district did. Most of the kids in the area were from impoverished families.
That's what makes this such a problem, a lot of kids are dependent on that meal.
I go to an international school, and our meals are amazing, we have literal bbq rice, Japanese bento boxes, lasagna that is actually delicious and so much more, I’m so grateful for being able to experience good food in school.
Those are like expensive
@@Cristopherdreamer yeah, my parents put all their money on me and my brother-
@@saltytearsofsoap8997yeah, but the problem is every child regardless of the parents money shall get a decent meal. Of course, you will get that with the amount of money your parents pay to have you there 💀
@@saltytearsofsoap8997same-
@@saltytearsofsoap8997 bro is so spoiled
As an American, I find this extremely embarrassing… along with our medical system
Still don't have socialized euthanasia so we have a leg up.
CONTROL THE YOUTH ---> CONTROL THE FUTURE. CONTROL THE FOOD ---> CONTROL THE POPULACE... research operation mockingbird + sinclair soldiers ===> spread the message to awaken the collective consciousness
@@amentco8445 we just have the govt-corporate collusion driving down the number of doctors, muddying the pricing structure with many unnecessary regulations, and creating perverse incentives to make healthcare lower quality everywhere.
The diet affects the health system. So fix the diet and health cost would go down
@@johncalabro8710 The obesity problem and associated health issues give money to the people at the top, who couldn't give anything about quality of life if it doesn't concern their own.
as an american kid, i have NEVER ate school food. from my very first day of Elementary school my parents would make breakfast every morning and my auntie worked in the school where i was a student so my parents would pay her to bring me food when she gets hers.
i am honestly so happy i never had to deal with this and since i’ve watched this video i will make sure my kids will never eat school lunch either.
Lucky to have a family that did that for you.
Also never ate lunch at primary school ,still had to pay for it though.
my parents still cooks lunch for me in highschool...
@@MrGhoshkoushiki im in college now and my parents still brings me dinner almost every night ( i dont ask for it but i guess its just a routine now to feed me 😅 AND IM NOT GONNA COMPLAIN ! )
"we can't afford to feed our students one meal a day" also schools " we just spent millions on a new football field" also parents "we can't afford to feed our own kids" Jesus how hard is a ham sandwich?
It’s not just schools you see parents who are driving BMW cars and they’re feeding their kids slop because they can’t afford decent food. Heck, they’re feeding themselves slop.
Unfortunately, school sports are income, college scouts attend games, and players that get scholarships put the school on the map.
@@eddardgreybeard True but the school doesn’t get the income. Although they get it indirectly I guess because they attract students.
Your laziness freedomm
@@nathanjustus6659 And they can't afford to "pay rent"
The fact that my school is charging me to eat whatever garbage they give me is crazy. I don’t eat breakfast, lunch, or dinner. It’s all really disgusting. I have a feeding aversion disorder as well as anxiety, and disgusting looking food makes it even worse. I basically survive off of supplements. I am seriously considering stopping boarding school. After all, I want to be with my family, and I don’t want my mother to have to pay for this disgusting stuff.
Jesus Christ man boarding schools are still around?!?! I’m deeply sorry about that boarding schools got so much money but it all goes to the head
@@Uhwatchdogsforthewiiu I’m out of boarding school now! Back in normal public school.
@@Theuncletoeticklingtoddler I’m glad food still probably hasn’t changed one but has it?
@@Uhwatchdogsforthewiiu nope. Still garbage.
It’s honestly even more frustrating that it’s not even a priority to the government, they just let children consume garbage. I haven’t ate school lunch much I had the opportunity to bring lunch from home, I only remember having it once or twice as a child. It was horrible, I’m sincerely disappointed in the government. I doubt we’ll see any change to the school “food” in the near future 😔
Plus even in majority of American snack foods they allow bioengineered chemicals that cause harm to your body 😓
im so glad my mom makes my own lunch bc the lunch actually looks fucking disgusting.
@@rosarium. dude, hate to break it to ya, but fucking noone uses "bioengineered chemicals", cause even if the tech exists, we're still nowhere near far enough into genetics for that to cost less than just doing it the old fashioned way, and automating it with robots.
America truly hates their own children.
I went to an "American School" in Europe. It was a school for the kids of rich, spoiled and snobby families. The food looked a lot better than what is served here, with some days of the week reserved for kebabs and even for pita and hummus for some time. Every time I consumed something from my school's cafeteria, I got sick with a gnarly stomach ache. After eating a benign croissant and getting sent to the nurse's office, I told my parents and they made me food to take to school. There was even a supermarket next to the school and I would buy chips from there instead of the overpriced disgusting pretentious chips. Not even the rich kids are safe.
My high school son would buy a hot lunch at school and would soon be in the nurses office after puking in class. This was a weekly occurrence. He didnt have lockers in his school so he couldn't bring his lunch in. I told him only to buy the packaged items like chips, cookies and canned drinks. There were no fresh fruits or vegetables. He hasn't puked in school since. It's not nutritional, but it satiated him until he could get home
Sounds like you're better off sending him off to school with a "farm boy breakfast". Make steak and eggs maybe homemade biscuits with butter. Then he could skip entirely. Not to mention no longer eating the chips and cookies which are not good for him .
Biscuits n' gravy, with a good cream-based gravy with some sausage mixed in, will carry you pretty far in the day.
Pork chop, scrambled eggs, and refried beans is equally effective, I've found.
You can do fantastically on 2 meals a day.
Not having a locker is not a reason not to bring a lunch. If you're afraid of theft, buy him a small lock to put on his backpack so people can't open it.
I have a suggestion! Has ur son ever tried the set up of a big purse like binder? They are cheap at Walmart and you can easy get a Fanny pack and use that to put food in and connect it to the binder, just make sure it’s food that is frozen the night prior or packaged, I do this in school now and it works a absolute treat.
@@MyVanir ok at this point seriously what are they meant to do? They can’t give better food to ur standards and they can’t have a excuse to not bring their own. Seriously stop.
My high school used to have a private company supply food with real ingredients and fresh made food. In my sophomore year, they changed over to the slop being described here from big suppliers. It went from “home” to “prison” real fast.
Man money sure does talk a lot
I was mad as a kid for having to bring my lame ass lunch but now that Im older, i realized my parents actually cared about me
I would also like to point out the fact that this food is served to people in hospitals.... Ultra processed food for the sick sounds like a GREAT idea! Food products have taken over our diet; whole foods everyone wholefoods!
They wanted repeat business, they got it.
its also heartbreaking that this stuff gets fed to recovering ed patients, like wth hows that supposed to help their condition??!
It’s a silent killer. They feed this to people in hospice. How can a sick person bounce back from this 🤔
Ultra processed food is food. McDonalds is food. It's delicious food that you shouldn't eat every day, but it's still delicious food. It's the same way for most school lunches provided ny the lunch ladies.
Hell, my wonder bread meat and cheese sandwiches and ramen taste far worse than most of the school food which smells delicious.
@@EpicRainbowLollipop erectile dysfunction patients?
I took my 4 year old son through the breakfast line one day because he was late and he was served a chocolate fudge pop tart, cinnamon toast crunch cereal, and some kind of sugary fake strawberry dessert that was full of red dye. No meat, no eggs, no fruits or vegetables. I truly believe those in charge of major policies in this country are trying to ruin it. Needless to say that was his last breakfast at school. They try to hide this stuff too- they don't list what is being served for breakfast anywhere on the school system website. I live in West Virginia and people really have a hard time understanding why 8 year old kids weigh over 100 pounds when stuff like this is going on. I can personally think of 5 different people off the top of my head that I know who are under 30 years old, and weigh between 300-400 pounds. Answer is right in front of you, it starts with those in charge feeding us absolute garbage and conditioning us to think it's normal.
Gosh, talk about sugar overload! That would’ve been excessive for an adult.
@@richerDiLefto just the pop tart alone has 66% of the DRV of sugar for a 2,000 calorie diet. Add in the other stuff plus juice and I'd say you're approaching 200%. For a kid, for one meal. Absolutely criminal what our government defines as "nutrition".
@@richerDiLefto I gave up eating pop tarts even now and then because the sugar content was giving me headaches and those are UK pop tarts which have on average, lower sugar and salt than in America. I dont want to think what the American version would have done. I still eat cake. I buy a medium cake and it lasts me a month. A small slice now and then. My Mom was from the Silent Generation and she advocated, eating whatever you wanted but in moderation and she was never overweight a day in her life. It wasn't the sugar that was making kids fat, it was the AMOUNT of sugar and fat that you were eating that was doing it. Also, most likely, she was still eating REAL food, not processed junk. I admit to eating ready meals in Autumn and Winter but the portion sizes are not even a quarter of the size of these KIDS meals they serve in American schools. I eat more salads and cold meals in Summer simply because I dont feel like eating heavy stuff when the temp goes up. Again, portion control, is what allowed me to lose my post Cancer weight(the drugs made me gain like crazy) but im older. I cannot imagine what that sort of thing does to a child's body which hasn't finished growing and developing yet.
god wait until you see what my school serves for breakfast, they sometimes give us good food like breakfast burritos, and if we are lucky, warm cinnamon rolls but most of the time its a corn dog or legit a fruit bar. like those ones that are like- have fake fruit filling in them with like grain stuff around the filling, and they give us just that bar and some milk. and then we have to wait until about 12 to eat
@@YvonneHall-g2wever thought about eating breakfast at home and packing a lunch?
I went to a tiny little private school. Mom always made leftovers for my lunches. I used to complain, but I realize now that I'm older that they were the best possible meals for me.
A private school is going to have good food for its students. This only applies to public schools.
@@erikm8707 You'd be surprised. We got plastic pizza and fast food.
@@bandjolynthe private school I had, had a full service kitchen.
We had volunteer chefs that came in so the food menu changed. However most of the food was Mexican and fried food. From breakfast to end of class there was hot food, cold salads and fruit bowls.
Was in the public cattle house. I truly believe we were eating the equivalent to dog food
@@erikm8707I also went to private school in California and man I don’t remember ever eating a fresh cooked chicken or fish. It was always the frozen with crumbs type. Never ever just whole chicken without those crumbs. Same as the soups always had starch in them and were just gross. We had salads though but vegetables in salads were worse than what salads in McDonald’s used to be. And we only had white rice as a side. No brown rice no quinoa nothing like that. So I can imagine how it is in public schools
When my Grandmother was growing up in Maryland around the 1950's, she told me that food was almost gourmet, actually cooked and made by the lunch ladies and not reheated. You would receive better meals at home than she would at school, and because her family didn't have enough to supply her and her brother everyday with the amount required, the lunch ladies would let them serve out trays for her share. Just 30 years later, in the 1980's in Illinois, my father reported there being soggy pizza squares among other meals that led him to just bring his own lunch.
As a Norwegian growing up at an American school, I decided to bring my whole table a lunch. A good old fashioned Norwegian meal that actually should be served at school, I got detention for a month bc of it. I saw it as an absolute win.
Bull testicle?
I’ll take something that never happened for 500, Alex
@@Niko.. Norwegian parents and family...
^ This would be OK in most American schools, you just have to ask your teacher how to bring it in. A parent would probably have to bring it in around lunch time. This is for allergy and food safety reasons.
my school says not to share food, but I would gladly give other kids some of my food than make them eat that stuff they call stuff you can eat
as a french student, i once ate a steak that was green in the middle. (and no it was not a veggi steak) 5 girls in my class where sick and sent to the hospital but the school denies it being the food 🤡
Well ofc they are, deny everything.
L school🤡
stupid ass school🤡
Are you a French student living in the states, or in France ? I am an American living in France. The wife and I are seriously considering staying, and raising our son here, because of how crazy it is in the states these days. I know the school lunches here are more nutritious, and higher quality. The E.U. has banned many substances that are still allowed in U.S. food. If that happened to you in a French school, it was most likely an anomaly.
Schools deny everything that we think is right
I'm from Slovakia and I will never complain about school lunches here after seeing this. Here the school lunch food is cooked from scratch in school kitchen by lunch ladies who are actual cooks and it is a full lunch that consists of soup, main course, drink (water, milk or some lemonade) and a fruit or a snack bar. And it looks million times better and I bet it is also way healthier than this ultra-processed reheated junk "food" in American schools.
It's amazing what get's improved when a society/government is more focused on proper nutrition and care for children, rather than on how much money they can save while still providing the minimum required care... Pretty sure if American policy makers actually put the money forwards to have HEALTHY meals in their schools instead of cutting funds eternally, things would be MUCH better over all. Sad!
Glad I was born and raised in Canada... For all its faults, that sort of nastiness would never make it here. We have junk foods, but its like, in vending machines not in standard service to the children as meals.
Yeah similar in poland. They reheat most meat tho, but it's at some point fresh.
the same thing here in brazil, atleast in my school, we have actual food which is rice, beans, salad, meat and fruits
I am from Czechia and the lunches look the same as yours(at least in schools that i went to). Basically at our school we can choose from 3 main courses( one is with meat, other is without meat and third is salad)+ we got served some kind of soup, piece of fruit and something to drink. Sometimes the food is somewhat not good, but in the contrast with the states we got served delicaties( idk how to spell that).
My elementary school was struggling with lunch cuts a bit into the early 2000s when I was in elementary school. At first I didn’t get a lunch because I wasn’t “poor enough” to get even reduced lunches (even if my lunches were reduced I wouldn’t be able to afford it), then they decided giving the kids who couldn’t afford food one PPJ sandwich with nothing to drink.
As bad as 2010 was for school lunch I never noticed the portions got smaller because I never ate the food before. American school kids hated hard on Michelle Obama but thanks to her I got two meals at school until I graduated. (Although now my body is used to surviving on smaller portions now and it’s a huge struggle to gain weight). America cares when there’s money to be made, and five year old me wasn’t making them money so I either went hungry or ate one PPJ sandwich for the entire school day.
I know that in my middle school in Serbia, there was a small bakery in the school, which is normal everywhere, where you bought your breakfast. But when I was in Hungary for high school, there weren't any baked goods but you could buy almost any kind of chip. The rebellion i felt eating those snacks went away pretty quickly and i missed the bakery. It also didn't help that whenever I talked with my brother, he would gloast how good and cheap the bakery in his school was, which made me extreamly jelous and homesick.
Man when I went to school, I remember freshman year of high school when we were served dinner rolls. They were some of the hardest things that you could serve to someone outside of just giving them rocks. One kid threw one at the wall and it shattered. Honestly one of the funniest things ive ever seen
@certifiedbasementdweller that's what I was wondering.
School lunches were absolutely amazing for me around 2007
Bro, the school lunch in Hong Kong is terrible. The white sauce is basically rotten fish flavoured glue. Good thing I'm leaving this school soon. But we will have a graduation party on 12th
idk if ur talking about the roll, or the wall shattering 🤣
@goober13_reality shattered
School lunch in Portugal: a bowl of soup, a main dish made up of rice/potato/pasta with fish or meat and veggies, a side salad usually with lettuce, tomato, carrot and sweet corn, kids season it themselves with olive oil and vinegar to their liking, a bread roll and a dessert which is usually a piece of fruit and sometimes a sweet treat like chocolate mousse or pudding. It's free for low-income and 1,46€/day for others. The menu is made by dietitians to guarantee it's balanced and, in a lot of schools, the lunch ladies are actual cooks who make it there (not all schools have enough space for this, but a lot of them do).
My school lunch in America in 2016: Untoasted deli sandwich with bread, ham/turkey deli slices, cheddar cheese slices, pickles, with optional ketchup, mustard, mayo, ranch, and pickled banana pepper. Comes with chips (Doritos) and a fruit (Banana) and a milk (Chocolate).
$0.40 since I was on low-income. $3.50 for others. Yes of course we made South Park Chef jokes about that $3.50 🤣🤣🤣
Nearly the same in Italy but more expensive.
@@MK_ULTRA420 ours was awesome it was public with 1600 students ours was the same at $0.40 reduced and $3.50 full but it was basically a from scratch buffet we are a semi city/farmland of over 150k in population due to the churches farmers and whatnot i cant believe how bad it is in minor to major cities so we basically paid 3.50 for a full plate buffet free salad/rolls
also free lunches was a ham cheese sandwich plain skim or strawberry skim milk fresh celery and peanut butter and an apple or orange
Lucky
in the uk it is like the usa except we dont get the lunchabke or whatever or dominoes we just eat bread or slop
My school literally served us rotten milk(which I unfortunately had in my mouth for a few god forsaken seconds) and haven't stopped doing so. I've complained to school counselors and nothing has been done about the rotten milk. It's such a problem that I stopped getting school lunch and in fact began bringing home lunch. I can not tell you how much better I feel just in general not eating whatever crap they serve us😭😭
Spoiled milk is always in the lunches. And it most likely will always. Except for vanilla milk?
If that isnt a human rights violation i dont fuckin know what is
Sometimes the Chocolate milk is ok? 😢❤
Bring food my dear don’t go hungry ❤❤❤
@@lyssgoddess In my school the milk was moldy with bug termites and spiders and the only people that were absent were the milk drinkers and ones that eat school food. Coincidence?
@@lyssgoddess VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY RARELY
And they made fun of Jamie Oliver for trying to make people understand that school food was garbage.
I am an ecotrophologist in germany. It's difficult to not shake from anger when i see what the kids have to endure food wise...
I'm also from Germany, grüß dich 😁
Aber haben wir hier nicht ein sehr ähnliches Problem?
Ich sehe viel zu junge Kinder in Bus und Bahn morgens schon Red Bull trinken. Da bleibt einem auch die Spucke weg.
I know as an American more specifically minnesotan it makes me mad as well school lunch is so bad, the worst part is some food has no flavor, and/or is absolutely filled with grease, one other thing fruit is not served fresh, it is sever at the buffet frozen put in a a food well to thaw, and because of that when it completely thaws out the fruit is left in pool of it own juice.
I remember eating day-old Bosco sticks in 8th grade and they were so hard and dry they tasted like plastic. Our meals were generic square pizzas, old nacho chips, and Pop-Tarts. If you had Mentos or gum, you were a king. By the end graduation, our collective IQs could maybe power a battery. We really were just one large experiment back then.
“Back then” you mean in 1995 😂
@@300zxss Hey it was a nostalgic time for me lol
I lived in a really small town in New Mexico and instead of taking the bus I would drive to school everyday on my tiny 50cc dirt bike and park it a small ways away from the school. I hated school food so I would drive for lunch to my towns only restaurant and eat. I now realize I was a crazy 10 year old kid in a town that should have had a cop around. 😂
@@300zxss 1995 was 28 years ago.
@@lawrencetrujillo7365 That sounds genuinely badass lol
When I raised my daughters I sent them to school with a lunch that I prepared every day, and I would include a post-it note with a quote from people like Mark Twain, Malcolm X, Marcus Aurelius, ect. So each day all of their friends would gather around to see what I cooked for them and what the quote of the day was.
That’s so sweet!!!
etc.
Good, teach them how to cook too!
@@littleminx79 Wise Men Speak Because They Have Something To Say; Fools Because They Have To Say Something - Plato
@@littleminx79 This might come as a shock to you but some parents actually care about their children
Its disgusting that schools are feeding their students what is practically vomit and throw up
A problem I also have is that in my school districts, the food the elementary kids get is the same exact portion as the highschoolers. The portion size is decent for little kids, but is virtually a SNACK for highscholers because the portion size doesn’t change.
@Spid4rsw3bzI like the logic and it would be true but MOST kids don’t get fed at home or have practice or work after school and don’t have time to eat.
@Spid4rsw3bz ??? yes you should??? teens who are nearly grown adults should not be served portions that of a child, especially considering that's all they'll be able to get over the span of 7hrs
@Spid4rsw3bz10 year olds should be eating about 1200 cals a day.....how many calories do you think a 16 year should be eating?
As a food service cook, I am appalled with the food I saw! It is actually very easy and not as expensive to cook actual meals for students!
I am a young teenager and will be thirteen this year, when I am president this will no longer be an issue. I will fix this and it is an outrage!
@@RoccoYarnelll dont give up on this dream
@user-wm9xv9vv6b can I give you a tip.
Find a local culinary college. Petition them to come in as actual chefs. Draw up a plan that proves hiring a kitchen staff is cost effective by using culinary students as paid interns. Then get the parents on board, followed by putting pressure on the school board.
I’ve never been so thankful to have went to a school where the lunch ladies actually cooked our food. Fast food wasn’t allowed on campus.
Same-
Wait- is it me or do we have the same first and la- nvm
same, i actually saw them baking the pizza right there
@@StarlightLuvsInumaki E.M.!!
@@StarlightLuvsInumaki wow you make good videos and I read your whole channel description you are professional for a 10 yr old, even better than me!!! And I’m 13, you have a great future kid.
@@craftysteve176 Oml- Tysm!
You guys really should invite officials and politicians to your Schools for some press media event and then force them to eat school food in front of cameras.
It must be hard to be a parent trying to raise a healthy intelligent and happy child in America.
A lot of parents are home schooling their kids now, more than ever!
Homeschooling or private Christian schools are the best bet in America currently.
flame guy why specifically christian schools compared to any other private school?
@@harlomints7727 no woke, postmodern nonsense.
By making their own lunch?
I live in England and all the chefs at the schools I've been to have ACTUALLY been chefs and actually COOKED and created the food that they gave us. Common school meals here include sausages and mashed potatoes, curries, fish and chips, pasta, roast dinners etc. They would always prepare it fresh on the day from scratch. Even making their own pastry for yorkshire puddings, tarts and pies.
Amazing
Exactly I was so sad be coming packlunch because of how good the school food is
Because of this I suddenly want to become british
Awww man. At least I can pronounce my T’s!
Cinnamon toast, Milk and Packaged serial for breakfast every day.
Crappy pizza, A fish Burger, and potatoes for lunch every day, maybe they alternate 4 out of 7 days with a special item which is always the freshest.
It was the same for us we just had more powerful people making contracts with food industries for better trades.
It was worse over COVID. They have out free lunches. One time I decided to give it a try and received the saddest piece of foil wrapped pizza I've ever seen. It even tasted like the very concept of depression. Didn't finish it. Regretted my choice. Went back to the ramen I always made at home and then brought to school the next day.
Nah the concept of depression is accurate😭🤣
@@teawith_milkplease8448im Glad I live in germany…
You tasted "Depression." LOL, good one! 😆
I suspect there are a lot of consumers of depression-topped pizza, whether they intentionally ordered it or not.
The saddest piece of foil wrapped pizza 😭 accurate 😭
I work as a janitor at a middle school currently in college. Everytime I go into the lunch room when the kids are eating and I smell the smell of the food. I just get nauseated and hardcore PTSD. I am just thinking “bro why tf are we feeding this shit to kids, especially middle schoolers who are going through puberty and need to be at their healthiest.” I legit almost throw up everytime. How I ate that garbage for 3 years is something I have go travel back and ask my old self.
I have the answer to why you ate that food. You were a typical slave (aka student) who eats whatever is served to him.
And I have a question: Have you seen any toxic substances or feces added to school meals?
As a former cafeteria worker I can testify the district sent us boxes of food labeled not for human consumption more then once.
Claiming it just wasnt in the budget for better options.
Ah I assume it was for Alien consumption, cause that sounds very unearthly and not animal friendly?
@@muffincake-lp7uk "not for human consumption" = at a risk of containing diseases, food waste and food where a problem was detected but rather than throw the whole batch they sell it to schools
Excuse my French BUT WHAT THE FUUUUU
can't find trained cooks, that bit always reeked of bs too. Many cooks are working for min wage as is, despite being over qualified or overskilled for their paygrade.
Isn't seasonal farm overstock significantly cheaper than that mystery meat bs they send in?
And that's when I would pick up the phone and call the health department, and the local news. People just never feel like it's their responsibility to do or say anything, but it is. It's all of our responsibility's to say something if we see something that's just plain wrong. It's like everyone just goes through their lives thinking that someone else should be doing what needs to be done. This is exactly why nothing gets done! This is exactly why so much is broken, and terrible crap can happen for literally decades before the right person that has the integrity to act comes along, sees a problem or an injustice, and says something about it. Absolutely ridiculous!
Make sure to let the team know I'm very grateful for the work you're all doing. The information may be freely available but the average person doesn't have the time to digest the information. Keep it up
Damn, this video made me appreciate lunches I had back in school! I’m from Russia, and in school we not only have lunch, but breakfast too. For breakfast it’s usually different kind of porridges, russian pancakes or cheese pancakes called syrniki (made with curd/cottage cheese) with jam or sometimes chocolate sauce etc. And for lunch it’s always 2-course meal consisting of some kind of soup (borscht, fish soup, cabbage soup, crème-soup with little crackers) and main course being all different kind of stuff: russian dumplings, mashed potatoes with cutlets, braised cabbage with sausages, buckwheat with beef, I can’t even remember all of that. And they would also sometimes give us little buns with jam/cabbage and eggs filling. And for the drinks it would usually be black tea, but sometimes it was cocoa drink or chicory with milk (it kinda tastes like coffee but contains no caffeine so it’s okay for kids). And for all the time I was in school I got all this for free, bc my family has 3 kids, so we’re legally eligible for free school meals. I honestly cannot imagine me or my future kids eat something like shown in this video.
But but....Russia bad!
It’s embarrassing that America is suppose to be the successor to Rome yet can’t even feed it’s youth good food while Russia after the USSR collapse seemed to have no issue
Russians were some of the healthiest people I knew in college. Now, I know why.
@@1CE. The barbarians considered Roman food to be meager and subpar compared to theirs. They called the Romans "grain-eaters" as an insult.
It's called Bread and Circus, not Meat and Circus.
@@MK_ULTRA420 That only came true as a result of the welfare state
Before then Roman’s tended their own land but with slave labor and the massive profit margins wheat makes by comparison to other crops bread became the dominant food. You see as soon as Rome fell people started eating berries and fish again
@@1CE. Yes, and America has a worse welfare state. People started eating fish and berries again after the fall of Rome because a bunch of people died and their land was up for grabs.
I'm lucky that I switched to online school before the school food started to become completely toxic, I feel so bad for all of the kids who went to physical school 3 months ago, when this video was posted.
This is one of those instances that being cheap in the short term, ends up being very expensive in the long term.
When you play cheap with the nutrition of children it has very costly ramifications when they grow Up
That's why you need to take care of your kids and not let government/corporations decide what to feed your kids.
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 Easier said than done if you live in a city where money is tight and growing your own food is probably not an option.... (Especially if you're in an area where high crime, and low incomes make distribution of actually good food look like money sink with no return worth the risk to the corporations that run the grocery stores...)
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 you can elect government. Government isnt the issue, its private individuals, for profit cafeterias etc. Here the government says "dont feed your students unhealthy crap" and the schools are "ok" so the government gives subsidies for food and its free for students.
@@themonsterunderyourbed9408 there are thousands of kids so poor that their free/discounted school lunch is essential. Their families literally do not have enough money to give them food. Maybe instead of putting the responsibility on the parents, the government should just make the lunches more nutritious like what every other developed country does. Even some developing countries have better school lunches.
@@Kizamo city dwellers deserve slop ngl
I once experienced a food fight and burgers hit like a literal rock. It literally was burnt and extremely pink. The fries were like bullets, just burnt to a crisp.
Edit! Holy guacamole that's a lot of likes! Thanks for 180+!
And man kids are brutal. Especially 1st graders.
My school had scrambled eggs swimming in cloudy liquid they smelled horrible and served them almost every week
@@band-aid-enthusiast I think those were alien eggs
How can it be burnt and pink?
@@khadim_almasih bro it’s school lunch 💀 anything is possible 💀💀
I recall in my senior year of high school, they added the option of a sub sandwich line, where an order card was used to select which meats, cheese and toppings you wanted. While it wasn't the best, it was miles beyond the normal mystery meat burgers, watery mac & "cheese" and those weird square pizzas with the cubed pepperoni bits. Once that was introduced, virtually no one went for the regular options. This just shows that if given a choice, kids would generally choose the best available. Given the smaller budgets, you think they'd train cooks (not chefs necessarily) to make simple fare like chicken w/rice, stews and bean salads for example, foods which can be purchased in bulk cheaply.
Heck that seems like a good option for high-school vocational training.... Teach kids how to prepare and cook meals for themselves and their fellow students.... A Culinary Arts program if you will, which of course would give them plenty of job options if not some practical skills that would help them out at home at the very least.... Wonder why more schools don't have those...
Oh man, toasted subs were the bomb! Pretty much the only thing I ate at school were those, mmm, now Imma go make a sub.
@Minnion maybe something to do with legality?
@@ComedyLoverGirl Wasn't illegal when I was in Highschool.... Though that was a couple decades ago, thus why I suggested the expansion of similar programs into other schools as a possible option.... (Granted it was an elective at my school....)
My last couple years in high school, I had moved schools, and the school I graduated from, the lunch lady spent her mornings buying food from the grocery store. The school gave her the money. She'd go all out, burgers and fries, chili fries, chili dogs, spaghetti and meatballs, genuine nachos... it was so much better than my previous school
I’m incredibly thankful for my mom always making me my own lunch so I didn’t have to eat that crap they had at school. Love you mom❤️.
My school doesn't have a cafeteria
I'm Canadian btw
@@clock_thehost where do u eat
i was never that lucky
@@natalialives well for schools without cafeterias they eat in the classroom
I moved to the US in the early 2000s and was subjected to middle school lunches. The quality has not improved in 20 years. That tells you how much people actually care about children here.
Freedommm
Wait for the next global conflict then they will care about their future soldiers
@@ChatBloom freedom is excellent. How is your diet? Full of processed crap, when decent food is available at about the same cost? Here’s one, with freedom goes responsibility.
Or did your parents not care about you?
@@nathanjustus6659 Your freedom to eat fast food that you enjoy?
honestly for my entire 7th grade year i just let myself starve the food was so shitty at my school, it looked and felt like i was eating flavored plastic mixed with the contents of your average septic tank. I'm glad this is finally getting out and i hope this makes a change for not just me and my generation, but the next one and so on, this is horrible, thank you for talking about this problem with school.
I swear I got like PTSD from starving in school. Was terrible.
@@Slurpified i kinda got used to the overwhelming hunger and it went away after an hour anyways, the first few days it sucked but by the end of the year i was fine with it
at my middle school the food is ok, it depends on the menu item
@@zav1351 Shit thats all I looked forward to everyday was lunch. Could barely focus in class lol.
Bring home food or buy snacks after school for lunch. Starving takes a big toll on metabolism depending on how many hours school is and how many breaks you get. It can lead to gastric and digestion problems as well.
My sisters school SERIOUSLY gave the students a hotdog with chicken or something like that in it for a “special lunch” 😭
I was a lunch lady. When I started working the kids loved lunch. And then around 2010-11 it changed just like he described. Tasteless, cheap food. The teachers stopped getting food in there. The kids hated it. None of us liked it either. It was truly disgusting. We were buying the absolute cheapest crap the government had to offer. (Pink slim) was now hamburger 🤮 and they were raising the price of lunch at the same time we were getting the cheap food. We were told lunch is a money maker for the school. I was at the high school and we were encouraged to try and get them to buy the ala carte stuff because it made the most money. It was a mess.
I'll remember that my HS Freshman, year Lunch was better it's was 2009 it's differently did has changed over time to the .point that the salads was starting to get better then the regular lunch we get to choices our customize salads with tops
@@samueldystany yea the goods back in the old days were so good lol, now they all taste like doodoo!
What else did the government get involved in? Everything!?
I was drinking pepsi and carbonated soda, enjoying ice cream and soy milk, not realizing the dire consequences that awaited me as a growing teenage boy 😢
are u fat now?
Raw eggs aren’t good though.
@droppeddogs salmonella.
I graduated high school in 2021, and lemme tell you as the local free lunch kid, I would try and trade as much as a could away. The only thing consistently edible was the single roll and the milk carton, everything else was a toss shoot and could be made anywhere from okay to fucking war crime. For as much as a hear the horror stories of kids having little more than mall fast food courts for cafeterias, their allotment of grease seems more appetizing.
God knows how many of us ended up with eating disorders because of those lunches, too. I've had problems with food during summer breaks and post graduation with bouts of binging or eating very little for weeks. The lunches weren't big enough to fill you or was just so bad no one would have trade and you'd have to eat it. It just fucks completely with your mental concept of appetite.
My Highschool had the nerve to dismiss deliveries that students try to make. So they either send their parents to drop it off or starve throughout the rest of the day!
As Mr Krabs once put it: Without all your smoke and mirrors, no one would stomach this garbage!
Elementary school lunches were absolutely horrible for me. I forgot my lunch a lot, so I was forced to eat the crap served at the cafeteria, and one time I realized that the milk that I WAS DRINKING was expired. When I got to middle school, it was a little better, but it would qualify as fast food level. I hope that my high school can be better...
Omg same they used to give me stuff for breakfast such as delicious cinnamon rolls, waffles, pancakes, yogurt, bagels, and for lunch they gave us veggie sandwiches and chicken also the drink options were white milk, chocolate milk, and strawberry milk. That was when I was in kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade. Now I’m in 4th grade but it’s summer break so I’m going to 5th grade in September. FOR BREAKFAST THEY GAVE US MOLDY BANANA BREAD AND EXPIRED MILK! My school is from K-8 and it’s my little brother’s first year in this school! And they giving the whole school, including kindergarten, HORRIBLE FOOD! When I was in kindergarten the food was delicious! It’s my brother’s and multiple other kindergarten students’ first year in this school, and the school’s giving us horrible food! And they gave us a “burrito” with a cold tortilla, raw spinach, and SLIGHTLY BOILED UNSEASONED BASICALLY RAW CHICKEN! I didn’t have much to eat that day so that was all I could eat and afterwards I felt like I could barf! Hope you have good food in high school! Even though I saw a video of a guy trying high school food. It looked like a buffet but according to him the food was not good but okay.
I remember taking packed lunch in secondary school because the school meals were nasty looking. One sandwich(wholemeal bread) usually ham or cheese, fun sized candy bar(which I had to hide coz the teachers would confiscate it) and an apple. That was lunch and that was enough in your teens. When you got home, you'd have dinner.
@@syedayasmin They're just getting you ready for that prison diet. Sidenote not even convicts deserve to eat the slop served in prisons and schools. And yes I did some research, not extensive research, but research all the same that suggests prisons and schools serve the same slop. Feel free to correct me on this people.
Fr I’m in 7th grade now it’s somewhat better than elementary but still
spoiler: it's not
I'm very thankful that I went to a middle school that made its food from scratch. It was the only period in my school days that I always got lunch from the cafeteria. So it's definitely possible, and it's sad that more and more schools seem to be resorting to worse ways to feed kids.
Same
from the UK and my primary school food was amazing. varied too. 2 different meal options every day for 2 weeks, repeated. then we had a seperate "menu" for christmas-y time although personally I didn't like it as much as the regular stuff. now as an adult I don't even come close to eating as good as I did whilst at school; it's kinda sad. and you're probably thinking I went to some posh private school that a rich mommy and daddy paid for me to go to. but nope. free education and free school meals. seeing the american system, it just confuses me. such a rich and developed country yet it's such an awful place to be.
@@LiterallyAllNamesAreTaken To be fair we had quite a few students that qualified for reduced price or free lunch, and they were able to eat the same food the rest of us did. It was a Catholic school, so the tuition everyone else was able to pay for went towards the tuitions and lunches of those that couldn't pay. The US isn't a bad place to live, but there certainly a lot of disparity. You have a huge contrast between well-run schools that serve their students excellent food, and those that are poorly run and serve the kind of food you see in this video.
@@parallelpinkparakeet no, america is an AWFUL place to live. you all have been conditioned into thinking “hey, some places and things are okay, that’s good enough for me” but that’s unacceptable. there should be ZERO schools serving this to kids. and education should be free, you shouldn’t have to pay for such a basic necessity. ESPECIALLY when the system is such trash. you’re taught only what the government wants you to know so that the country can stay divided as that’s what weakens you. just look at how terrible so many americans are with geography, there’s no way that’s not on purpose. on top if that, you’re not even safe when you go to school because guns continue to be unregulated and unrestricted. and that’s just talking about schools, we won’t talk about racism or the terrible and expensive healthcare or the fact women are losing body autonomy and LGBT youth are still needing to fight for their lives.
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In my old school-those people had the audacity to charge us money for a a lunch right out of a dumpster.
When we threw away the food,the lunch lady’s and people there would complain and say we were ungrateful.
I'm from Germany... Our school meals were just like the regular meals you would have at home, too. Standard good german food like ~A slice of well done Meat and cooked Potatos with fresh Parsley sprinkeld on them, also Peas, Carrots and a peppery sauce to round it together. And then an Apple for desert or some pickled beet root~ and to drink we got some milk (local farm) or simple tea. You could even choose from different meals in advance.
We never even had meals at school because you got off at 1pm.
@@stsk1061We had them at the daycare were u went after primary school ( thats pretty normal in ex Gdr Germany) was the same as for the kindergarden kids. In middle school it was a bit different, a bigger company made all of the meals, they were still good, but our break was so short ( 25 Minutes). Unless u were able to run to the Cafeteria eating there would have taken to long due to waiting hours. So instead we just went to get take out or had food from home, wich was cheaper. 😅
@@stsk1061I had school till 3 pm since middle school and later till 4- 5 pm. Depends on the type of school, wegave something called Langtagsschule. It just sucks, when u have 10 hours of school and then u have to take the train home, when u r doing your Alevel. Thats why a lot of kids lived in dormitorys from grade 11 onward.
@@stsk1061we get off at 4 >.
same here in Vietnam, just a bit less fancier but is still better than whatever amercian kids are eating. We have Pho, noodles, soup, ... kindergartens and elementary schools have the best foods with low price too, they don't hire a cafeteria but cook by themselves so for a lunch everyday in a whole month costs something like 2 average meals, and thats the highest it can get
And I used to hate the fact that my school didn’t allow unhealthy junk food, now I’m acc mad thankful for that
One day in elementary I wanted to see what would happen if I left my homemade lunch at home since a character in a kids book did the same thing one time, I left my lunchbox on the couch and had to eat school lunch and I literally felt like I was going to throw up after. I can’t believe my fellow students eat the same thing every since day, I never stopped eating the food my mom made for me after that
When you compare Americas school lunches to those around the world, it is absolutely enraging what they are doing to our kids.
I was both a regular and a sub teacher for years. One day while subbing, I hadn't brought any lunch. I thought I'd risk it and try the school lunch that teachers had access to. It was cheap and ready so I got a small tray of a few items along with some chicken sticks. Now keep in mind I am a health food nut, cook from scratch, and cook gourmet recipes, and even eat kosher for health reasons. So my tongue was used to quality and health just as it is now. Well, I bit into that chicken stick and my whole body reacted! It was involuntary, my tongue just gagged and the whole blob of minced chicken came hurtling right back out of my mouth and onto the tray! I didn't swallow an ounce of it, or I literally would have vomited! I threw all of that away. I washed my mouth out and ate some fruit that was available just to get the taste out of my mouth! And it hit me that this is what they are feeding the kids all over schools in the country! This was a wealthy area in north San Diego county, CA, in the San Marcos school district which covers a wide area. Never again! Also, keep in mind the WEF plan with Klaus Schwab and feeding humanity BUGS! Watch your food.
The way u worded this made it sound so dramatic I love it.
@@sven6663 it’s completely accurate to how school lunch tastes like though
@@marikuma88uh.
Dont want to be offensive, but you americans realy cant run a country propper, only when you are in war, you actually act half way desent.
Sorry that you have to eat this bs
At this point, bugs (or probably processed bug protein) would be much tastier and healthier than cantine slob. Bugs should be one of many choices and should never be pushed. I'm as against Schwab's totalitarian tendencies and ridiculous economic plans as much as the next guy, but in principle there's nothing wrong with having the choice of multiple food sources. As long as they're not unhealthy (too heavily processed, manipulated, incomplete nutritional value, full of insecticides, etc).
I’m so thankful that I was raised with homemade lunches, and grew up knowing how to make my own. While not being American, the school lunches where I’m from still suck and contain almost zero nutritional value. I’m very proud of myself, honestly; making an omelette and salad for myself everyday. I think others should be encouraged and try to make their own lunches more often, if possible.
Yeah, I agree that it's a sad state of affairs. I remember being in school in Japan and granted, the school food wasn't as good as home food, but it was still good. Part of it is that they have shorter breaks more often so they can teach horticulture during the year. There would always be a small portion of the lunch that came from what the students grew on site. American school food left a lot to be desired back in the late 70s & 80s. What they served in daycares & schools when my son went was at the point I didn't want him to have it. I'm sure it's gone downhill since I yanked him out 15 years ago. I think if we had gardeners donating excess to local schools, the food would improve in flavor, nutrition, etc.
Dang, I remember when I went to school, I got this cheeseburger from the cafeteria line. They had them wrapped in tinfoil, so we didn't know what we were getting or what it looked like inside the foil. So I grabbed the burger, sat down, and it was perfectly split in half. One side was completely burnt, and the other side was frozen. Needless to say, I walked into the kitchen and asked a friendly cafeteria lady how this happened. We laughed because even she didn't know. She felt bad, and gave me a slice of pizza hut pizza since all of the cheap food was gone. So, it wasn't a complete loss.
You know what's weird.
Every single day at school, after I ate lunch I would go throw it up, before lunch was even over. I never knew why. I wasn't bullied or depressed or anything. I sat at a popular table. I just HAD to throw up.
Never happened at home.
The only other time it happened was after I ate at my first job.. McDonald's 😅
(My appendix ruptured when I was 4, which I almost died from. Was in the hospital for weeks. It took me over 20 years to realize why. It was bc I was fed McDonald's 3 times a day..)
moral of the story.. you literally ARE what you eat.
DON'T EAT THAT GARBAGE. ITS ENGINEERED TO DESTROY YOU.
Also, for some reason, everytime he highlighted an ingredient, he didn't even pick any of the worst ones.
The USA has it rough damn. People arent even aware if that what they eat is even good in the long run.
@@astraha. Yep, that’s America for ya
-Why did we rebel against the British again?-
@@PunishedKrab
-ah yes, wait who were the birtish again?-
How the fuck did your parents let a four yr eat McDonald's three times a day?
My heart goes out to those kids that have parents that don't care for their children's
In most of the cases it is not the parents fault actually, they are too damn busy working to bring in the money to maintain the finances and they just expect other organisations (schools) to do their jobs for what they haave paid their hard earned money.
@@gakorothyt9768 If you can't feed your own child then don't make one in the first place, these parents are delusional to think that other organizations are gonna feed the kids healthy food lol.
children
@@pixytorres7117but you don’t know everyone’s circumstances. Most children that are born aren’t planned. I know we don’t like to say it but majority of children were accidents.
Many of the parents can’t afford food. Poverty is a huge issue for a lot of the US and politicians turn a blind eye. Keep thinking people can get by on low minimum wages and still care for kids. Oh don’t have kids they say. Yet take away abortion options and affordable birth control. Telling people don’t have sex is stupid. When has that worked even for children?!? It hasn’t. So yeah. Blame the low wage workers trying to care for their kids the best they can with the resources they have. Good job 👏 not
The lack of care that officials have for the school lunch system is actually dystopian.
I remember my school lunches being JUST like this. Absolutely disgusting. By the time i reached high school i had given up with cafeteria food so i started buying snacks from the concession in our gym everyday. Id always get a bag of nacho cheese doritos, a king sized snickers bar & a coca cola. Man,...im craving that now and i haven't had that snack combo in nearly 20 years lol. It sure beat the crap they served in the cafeteria and it was cheaper too.
Here in Germany we are also served 4 course meals in primary school, and it was absolutely delicious. I still remember the taste of the chocolate pudding they gave us, it was heavenly and no matter how hard i tried i haven't found one as good as that ever again 😔
Fr i live in the uk tho and the cakes and apple crumble heavenly
@@octopus8978 wdym the school food here is shit too
ive never even seen anything chocolate flavored at my american schools except the greenish pinkish schokomilch
@@birdlover-gf3tn me chilling in Italy where there is no school lunch
@@birdlover-gf3tn my school canteen is from hell im was thinking of my primary school lunch when i didnt get pakced lunch
I’ve always been extremely picky about what I eat for lunch. If I’m missing my lunch, I don’t eat at all. The only thing I ever bought from the cafeteria was bags of chips and cookies. This video made me grateful that my parents have always packed me a lunch- if they didn’t, who knows what I’d be like now. Looking back, a lot of the lunch meals I’ve seen in the past aren’t that bad. I’m still in school, but it was still nasty. It’s really awful that kids who can’t get access to any food are being served heavily processed food that shouldn’t even be considered edible. If this is our future, I don’t think there’s much of one.
Big Pharma is laughing all the way to the Bank! These kids will be their Customers for Life with all their future Medical problems.
so real
Thankfully my school never had bad food, but I'd still usually have either a pack lunch like yourself, or I'd make it myself before leaving for school if my mum was extra busy. Usually we'd prep stuff anyhow, like a giant bowl of tuna salad, or have ample lunch meats, cheese, and bread, and one sandwich was enough.
My school find was both free and tasted good rip to those who didn’t but some schools get more funding than others
This makes me feel glad that I went to private school after the 8th grade! My high school had the kind of food they serve at universities. Even the public schools I went to in the 1990s before high school had pretty good meals. My parents paid $5.25 per meal for my lunches back then.
Same man. My school was semi private. But $5 a meal. Thornton Academy, Maine.
This makes me so glad I was in a wealthy public school so the food was actually good, they also did it because a lot of kids couldn't afford food so the rich kids would buy them a good lunch, and especially so for poor athletes. I'm also glad my dad backed me a good big lunch I could easily share with friends. I really a friend of mine immigrated here and she was wary of the food so her mom would make her food and we'd share food and culture with each other, she taught me some of her language and I taught her to draw.
Now I'm glad my parents made us take our own lunch to school. Peanutbutter & honey on whole wheat, two fig newtons, celery sticks and an apple. In retrospect its a lot of sugar but it kept us healthy in the 60s.
I’m so glad my school actually cares about us and feeds us actual food.
i wish mine did man
Same
Because you go to a private school
I went to a Catholic school also and we didn’t even have the Cafeteria-style serving. We were seated in a pre-arranged table with mates from the same year. Usually 8 per table. Food was brought to us in platters and service utensils. We blessed the food and then helped ourselves. Up to about 8th grade a teacher sat on every table and helped us and teach us how to serve ourselves from platters. Even the drinks were served in jugs. One with water and one with juice. The kitchen was run by a staff strictly overseen by the parents association with pre-approved menus. Food was good, those platters and plates went back totally empty, and we used full metal cutlery, and metallic or glass cups.
Well funded!
yah, except you had to go to catholic school. so its still a loss
@@svartrbrisingr6141catholic school is not bad 😭 only difference i ever noticed was a religion class, mass once a month, and a uniform
@@caroleigh3461 mass and religion classes would kill it for me. especially since i highly doubt the religion class teaches about all religions in an unbiased way but rather shoves christian filth down peoples throats telling them its the one true religion and if you arent christian youll burn in hell for eternity.
@@svartrbrisingr6141 i didn’t mind mass because it was a nice break in the day, and we had shortened classes. the religion classes at my school were literally the easiest classes you could take, and they start off with telling us that we don’t need to believe it, but they’re just teaching it. they also allow and welcome questions. also, my senior year i took a world religions class that delved into other religions and described, in great detail, the beauty’s each of them possess. my catholic school was very inclusive to say the least, and we had people attend from many other religions
i feel privileged having caring parents through school who made me home cooked meals now ❤
As a German, seeing this makes me more obese by the second. Glad I didnt have to deal with this scam
yeah, because your countries a fucking utopia. I’m so sick of Europeans bragging about how better their country is. Let’s watch a video about Germany and I can come in and say wow I’m glad America doesn’t have your problem. I’ve been seeing comments like this for years
Are you forklift ceritfied?
Exactly! Then they wonder why American children are becoming overweight so young, and why they have a hard time in school with concentration & retention. Well, you serve the kids slop like this, then take away or reduce recess and gym time, so they can have more time to spend hour after hour sitting on terribly designed hard plastic chairs to “learn”, it’s not very surprising that the end result is an increasing number of children who have to be on ADHD/ADD meds, depression, anger issues, and lower test scores and overall performance.
My best friend's cousin went to Germany to study medicine and said Germans are medical oddities lol...he said it's common to see Germans having pints of beer for breakfast, lunch and dinner along with bratwursts and other processed meats, loafs of bread and butter and smoke like chimneys, yet many are healthy and not obese at all lol
@@seblo8462 I'm guessing they have a lack of hyper-processed vegetable oil, fructose corn-syrup, and red-40 in what they consume. Even if not healthy, it's not "military surplus" bad.
Canadian here. I was literally never at a school that had a cafeteria until high school. Everyone brought food from home. What a novel concept.
what did the schools do if kids couldn't afford to bring food from home?
I was lucky my mom had time to cook for me, so I go home for lunch everyday and watch sailor moon while waiting for my lunch lol
Obviously the visual component of food matters, you don't always want it to look like a blob of goo. But the nutritional component is more important. Replacing all of it with hypher-palataple junk/fast food may be a quick fix that the students and teachers would like, but schools need to start prioritizing health over convenience.
Can you say soylent green?
They don't even teach nutrition, why would they practice it?
@@pkarms8621 Honestly some fortified protein shakes would be better.
@@Crabbadabba and that's saying a lot
You can make the lunches as nutritious as you please. If the kids won't eat it, it isn't going to help.
Last year (7th grade) i had brought my own seasoning because the food was so uncooked and unseasonably unseasoned it wasn't even funny. And one time i had got expired milk TWICE IN ONE DAY and they just said " oh its been in the freezer/fridge so it lasts longer not to mention the milk was given in a powder in plastic bags and they didnt care while kids were getting sick. 3rd example was during breakfast where we had these really bad and cold waffles and one 8th grader opend her bag which had a cockroach and when it ran off the teachers said crisis advertised keep in mind the waffles were shipped like that which ment that it was in there for weeks on end any no one cared.
The school was Youngsville middle
I’m so glad RUclips recommends me these types of videos. Now I make my own healthy lunches for school.
I remember Soviet school lunch.
Usually it was a cabbage red soup like borscht with meat pieces and sour cream, then mashed potatoes with a meatball (it was half meat, half bread, soaked in milk, but tasty and crispy) and a slice of pickle. As a dessert we had kompot, which is the boiled juice from assorted fruits, or kisel, which is a sort of boiled fruits juice, but with gelatine.
You had dessert? Man america lunch food is garbage 😢
There's no gelatin in кисель though, just a little bit of starch to thicken it out. You are mistaking kisel with jello, mate.
as a kid who grew up in Russia in 90s, i remember watching american school movies and being completely jealous of their school lunches, which looked so cool and tasty in comparison with porridge and soup we were used to.. but now i realise that they have serious problems with quality of these unhealthy lunches
As a Polish student I used to complain about amount of the salads, that we got for lunch, I’m so happy we got these now…
If anybody is curious, we were paying really cheap price for full two course meal: soup (randommly placed on some tables, you could eat as much as you wanted) and a second dish (one portion) and a kompot
We would also sometimes get an additional lunch item, such as pack of raw carrots, raw pepper, or milk
These portions were smaller than my usual meals and not really the tastiests, but
- They were cooked in the schol cafeteria
- Looked and tasted just like a typical polish meal (maybe a little less tasty)
- Always a raw salad, or a raw fruit
And we never got any processed junk food as a main dish
sometimes I miss the timewhen I was passing by a school cafeteria smelling today's food being cooked
@S1SHARK (damn that's sad, I love kompot) maybe you should try preparing one by yourself? the recipe isn't really that hard - you just need to boil some fruits in the water with sugar and lemon juice, and it all takes about 20 min
@S1SHARK ahh :(
I'm slovak and at my school we get good lunches. It's soup, second dish (it's sweet on wednesday, otherwise it's salty) a glass of water, sometimes a salad or a fruit. Also just like you said it's made right there in the kitchen, and compared to US school lunches, it seems like a five star dish.