In France, we don't eat the same for lunch and dinner. It's an old rule... So the parents look at the school menu each day to cook for dinner. We (the mothers) did that everyday at the school door when my children were little and we suggest others mums ideas of recipes for dinner. (I am a grand-mother now)
Paco Ramirez Oh my, I eat the cheap school lunch which is greasy and undercooked pizza, a dry chicken patty or hamburger Andre cold ham or turkey sandwiches don't taste any better, and my family doesn't have "a dinner time" we have a dining table but we don't really eat on it or do anything with it which is why I never eat dinner, there are so many problems with American school lunch and I don't eat dinner and rarely eat breakfast in the morning so basically all I have is school lunch, that's my go to source of nutrition right there on Weekdays.
$2.50 a day. Hear that, US schools? You're charging us as much as them, and they're paying a professional chef to oversee the kitchen, and the food quality is infinitely better.
For hell's sake, they have a chef from riviera, they get ratatouille, muscles AND EVEN SNAILS! My middle school pizza costs $2 a slice and the taste is the epitome of "cardboard." Seeing this is really discouraging.
Screwg oogle My school gets good food. Or, I am allowed to bring in my own lunch. Not everybody's school cafeteria is bad. Atleast not in the northeast region? I personally think it's a good system. I get an entire period to eat, and then go back to my classes satisfied.
Here in America, It's plastic mac n cheese with salads that use the worst quality of lettuce, expired milk and an apple that has many wormhole in them. All served on styrofoam trays and cheap, easily breakable plastic forks. Also the school I go to, refuses to give us knives because knives are "weapons." Whenever we had Salisbury steak (a week old frozen hamburger with powdery gravy) it was so hard to cut the "meat" with a fork.
Oscar Morales i swear, they treat us like we are highly dangerous prison inmates trying to break out, like seriously, plastic knives are now « dangerous » and « weapons » dude what are we going to do with plastic knives? We are not in a mental asylum. Also I hear that they actually spend more money on prison food than school lunch. Thankfully most students here can afford to pack their own lunch.
When I was in high school just over six years ago, anyone who bought the school lunch got a REALLY undercooked totino's pizza, maybe a flat soda, and a severely bruised apple or orange
Plastic utensils and plates are the rule, even metal cutlery is seen as a weapon. It's common to read about a student who brought a knife to cut meat and was arrested. They have armed police in schools too.
America is so choked full of serial killers and kid murderers that bringing a butter knife to school triggers officials into thinking that the kid is gonna commit mass murder or something like that... Hey that's just America
I work in foodservice in the US, I know this is not true for every establishment, but we have very strict protocol on food and food prep safety. Floors, walls, ceilings, and food prep surfaces all have a separate brush, rag, sanitizer bottle, and mop buckets for each step of disinfection. The dishwasher temps, ph, and free chlorine PPM are checked every 15 minutes, and every internal temperature is checked in each and every meatball of hamburger patty. If you don’t fallow protocol in our facility, you are fired on the spot. It’s almost like Gordon Ramsay is my boss, but he isn’t.
my school pizza was actually sounds better than that. It was deep fried rectangular bread with tomato sauce and cheese on top of it. And with pepperoni if you wanted a pepperoni pizza. I mean, it wasn't healthy, but at least it was filling
What's amazing to me is that this seems like a respectable job. The social status of cafeteria workers is so low in the US. I actually wouldn't mind working there in that job setting.
Yeah, and that's why they all seem to take their jobs so seriously. Shame that school lunch is garbage here in the US. But we all no health is a small priority here.
I agree it looks much more respectable in France and the people there act more serious about their job. BUT, you don't need other people's respect to have pride in your work or at least do a good job. If you don't like your job get a different one, or else do your job with care. Also, sorry if american cafeteria workers have their shit together. I'm just going off of the assumption that they don't care like the people in this vid do.
Helpful Bill hi there. I am a former cafeteria worker for the archdiocese in Louisiana. I too thought that it would have been a respectable job and a possible good career choice.... what I found was spiteful co workers, no one was happy with their job, from the supervisors on down.....much physical work and a struggle to get a raise. Also benefits in health insurance decreasing. A shame.
@@lisaswint6630 I’m sorry that you went through that. We Americans really need to take a long, hard look at our values, compare them with our goals and with what’s actually happening, and see how they don’t meet up and figure out how to fix them!!!!! 😔
@@Teletessa nope lmao, forks/spoons & plates are seen as weapons so we use plastic sporks etc & styrofoam trays. We only have like 25 minutes to eat, which is mostly you standing in line waiting for your bad food💀
@@yeet-vm7ql that's crazyyy, we have a 2 hour long break! It's also super weird knowing guns are legal in America but they think forks are like the weapons of hell lmao
@@Teletessa nope, not at all. It can come on styrofoam plates or cardboard trays, everything is super processed asf, like we dont even get anything good. Due to budget cuts and an act in 2012, schools find it hard to give us anything healthy that fits the standards of being whole grain low sodium low fat n shit. Compared to the lunch I see in this video, it's like night and day! They're way more appetizing then the chicken sandwich (just chicken and a bun) and the weird ass sweet potato fried that can vary from soggy to burnt. Oh and our lunches are like what, an hour or less long.
and yet people make fun of europe, i live in a poorer country(Portugal), and all my life i had lunch consisting of soup, main dish, side dish , and desert for about 1.25 euros a lunch, and if your household income is low, you dont have to pay, its hard for me to bealive that a country like America cant even support their own children, maybe its not like that everywere.
It's simply a system that the school board (and government) had let to go out of control. I'm sure back in the day American schools had decent prepared lunches for children before the advent of fast food and frozen foods. It's only in the past few decades that things started to slide downhill, schools started taking shortcuts and the quality of food started deteriorating. And once you reduce funding for school lunch programs, what do you get? Crap.
Being a school chef is a very respectable profession in France. My public high school's chef was quite famous and served us meals such as braised rabbit, squid ink pasta and things like that, always with an appetizer, cheese, fruit or a dessert, and unlimited bread. The teachers ate the same food, plus a glass of wine, lol. I spent my middle school years in the US and got made fun so bad because my mom usually packed leftovers or a slice of quiche and salad for my lunch. I can still see those kids eating their Lunchables or fruit roll ups pinching their noses and telling me I was yucky.
I realize kids make fun of people who have it better cause of jealousy. My husband told me his mom went to department stores to get his clothes and he would have a nice polo shirts or cool tee shirts. Yet the kids with walmart plane white shirts made fun of him all the time for it. *shakes head*
When I went to France when I was in highschool for a student exchanged program it was during spring break and they had a croissant with ham and cheese, delicious chicken and vegetables and then apple pie you can choose between deserts and even cheeses and bread honestly that was the best experience
What? In America, my school has about 20 minutes to eat, most of that time being spent on a lunch line. Soggy, microwaved and slimy food. Most of the time I don’t even eat, or I just eat a bag of chips
As someone who has lived in paris and went to a public high school there i can definitely say that this is true French ppl really do care about their food ofc some days are better then others but most of the time it's good we even have an entree and dessert
Hear is the thing: If American schools were given the budget and the training, our health would be so much better. The schools don't give the lunch ladies proper supplies, they give them crap.
+Keenan Cain their budgets are fine..didn't you hear how much they spend/student..what was it under 3 dollars? It's a matter of apathy and tradition of crap canned crap.
+Keenan Cain it's a definitely overlooked thing. In Canada public schools do not have a cafeteria until highschool. There most of it is even worse quality than fast food. Aside from the shitty salads they would have of usually half wilted lettuce.
+Keenan Cain America spends more on the school system than any other country in the world. The problem is incompetence, and mediocrity, and content with mediocrity + clout (local food contractors make $$$ off of feeding the country's children). The whole country is corrupt; that's why the school system is fucked.
+Jamiesyme999 OMG, that's so true. Even though I've been out of high school for 30 years, we took our own lunches because the cafeteria food was absolute garbage. There was never anything fresh, just the same crappy hamburgers and French fries everyday. :-(
I went to public school in France in the early 90s. Even back then, it was true. The French, when they can, eat to live. That is a cultural trait shaped over centuries.
Its honestly disgusting and sad comparing how much better they feed the kids in Europe. They make American school lunch look like the shit that they feed inmates in prison
If it seems disgusting and sad its because the majority of public schools here in the US serve cheap pre made foods that are kept frozen until it's reheated for the day's lunch. The American school system sucks in so many ways, that's the ugly truth.
Gerald Soria Right,instead of trying to kill everything,can we all just act like adults.You are right,they spend way to much on the military government.
And as Americans who have a job, we have pretty much no choice but to “gobble our food.” When I worked a job at a big grocery chain, we got a measly 15 minute break. It’s not good for you to eat so fast but at that job I had no choice. I’m an Amazon DSP driver now. We have to take our unpaid 30 minute lunch break by 1:30 PM or else it’s an automatic write up. My DSP is the last one to leave the warehouse and on most days I don’t get to my route before noon. The earliest I’ve ever gotten to a route is 11:30 AM.
Annie Faucher they are gourmet. If you have a chef that prepared your food fresh and from scratch with quality ingredients AT YOUR SCHOOL ( and public school that is) that’s called gourmet. Quit being in denial American school eat like swine.
Wow, those kids don't realize how good they have it. Us kids who don't qualify for free/reduced lunches are struggling for food everyday and end up eating cheese sandwiches daily. How countries differ amazes me. Kids in the Middle East don't even get food while these kids get gourmet French dishes not to mention they are THREE!!
And those lunches are payed for by regular tax money. NO EXTRA MONEY REQUIRED. That means that they don't have to pay $7 for a chicken sandwich, an orange slice and a milk bottle.
By the way they are really rich countries in the middle east. Much of them can provide food to pupils. Most of the time,it will be even healthier than what the us kids get.
nicktune1219 BULLSHIT ALERT. Tax pays for your meals? I live in France and I have to pay 4 euros (4.60dollars) per meal, what are you talking about free
ANtoine Nat tu peux avoir des aides pour ça Les gens sont souvent extrêmement mal renseignés Et ça dépend de ta région et ton emplacement également Mon frère paie 1.80 à peu près mais d'autres ne paient rien
'Public School', Has a 5 star meal. I go to a Private school where they say they can't afford Juice yet they just built a massive extension to a building... -_-
+FritoSalad And it's the left who is abandoning the kids. They are in bed with the teachers' union, comprised of people who vote. The kids do not have votes, so they get screwed.
Look Behind You. And the waste that goes on in private schools is appalling. I guess it is below their Christian charity to have donated food that was going unused to a food bank.
French food is only a brand and have nothing to do with quality. It's a way better than american beacuse american food is the worst junk on Earth. I am polish and I can''t find good quality bread,fresh vegetables,different kind of sausages and meet in the western Europe. In polish market you can find differnt kind of sausages.In France you must go to the butcher,but even there you won't find so many kinds like in polish shop. In the wstern Europe there is a porblem with fresh vegetables,good quality butter,real mayonaise,real mustard, real milk,good apples,natural eggs aqnd other things. In Poland there are points everywhere where you can do general.comprehensive shopping with good quality food. In western Europe this is a problem. French cousine is famous,but there are very good polish cousine,and other cousines. So that's very unfair to underrate some countries beacuse they have a brand and are famous in the world,considerating a fact that esatern food is still a way more natural than western. It's changing beacuse of European's Union directives. French are agnry beacuse of US domination.The same way East Europeans are angry beacuse of German or French domination in Europe(concern's,licences,technology and laws).
So true, I'm french and I remember it was exactly like this. But mainly, the lunch part was a time to share, to be with your friends, to talk. And at home it was the same, dinner was family time, no TV, everybody ate at the same time, we would share what we had done for the day etc.. I have relatives from the US and when I went there I was so shoked by the way everybody ate.. None of them ate at the same time, there was no "family time" everybody ate "when they were hungry" (as they claimed). And all "fast food" like pizza, burgers, fries.. And in front of the TV.. I guess it's cultural differences but it's so shoking for me.
When i was a kid in the 70's here in the US, we did have family time, where the TV was turned off and the family ate dinner together, unfortunatly by the 80's both parents would have to work to make a living, and home video game systems came out, and families started drifting apart, now the family will sit at the dinner table, and message each other on their cell phones and tablets
I wish my family took food more seriously. I am American and while we don't typically buy fast food, but my brothers usually eat processed things (Frozen pizza, processed snacks, sugary soda). We all just eat, as you said, "while we are hungry". I absolutely hate the way that we handle and think of food as in America. I simply cannot go a day without having to eat something processed because I have nothing else to eat. When I go shopping I look for local meats, but all I find is meat from thousands of miles away in shiny packaging from corn-fed cattle. Its sad. I wish I could be fortunate enough to live in France.
As a French pupil, I remember some moments when my friends and I were complaining about the food as children an young teens like :"Oh No ! No more fishes and veggies " but now as a grown up I realize how lucky we are here. Cause it's true that at every lunches we have an "entrée" a warm main dish, cheese, and yogurts or desserts. Everything is good and healthy. We have on average one hour to eat and if we want more, we go at the end of the line to get more. And its not that expensive.
i never even ate lunch in US schools because the quality/healthiness of the food was so poor... they served fries every single day with whatever the main course was which usually pizza/chicken nuggets... one time my friend found a metal nail inside of his mac and cheese...not sure why he didn't sue
@GamingTV I ain't think she was being THAT serious. But I have gotten extreme stomach because of school food. One time in 5th grade all the milks were expired and it was like jello. And they had no extra so no one got milk that day for breakfast or lunch
Wouldn't call it gourmet...would call it decent, and the children are getting a great start in life physically, mentally and socially by being exposed to a variety of decent foods. I grew up with Japanese food, which is also very healthy and has a lot of variety, and feel that a healthy variety of well-prepared food is an essential standard for growing bodies, no matter what age.
The translation is terrible though, he said ''...doesn't mean we can fucking mess them around / take this fucking piss out of them'' 😂 that's a somewhat accurate translation
Here in the netherlands, we bring bring a sandwich (unlike in france we eat cold-cold-hot not cold-hot-cold) and we got a small place where you can buy a baguette(?) with stuff on it for $1,50-$2,-
Jonathan Sl .... I eat my cereals and I don't know anybody that doesn't take cold cereals with juice in the morning... And what do the 5 hot hot hot hot cold hot thing stand for?
wow that's so freaking crazy! here in the u.s. we have nothing close to that.... we get mystery meat and canned vegetables with sometimes even hair in them. escargot!? and all those other culinary meals some I have never heard of wow they are lucky. lol
+Jeremy Seinfeld You want to pay 60% of your salary in taxes? I rather sand my kid to school with his own lunch, than have my money taken by the government who will decide what to do with it.
AStrangeYume In France Francois Holnde socialist government imposed a 75% tax on millionaires and they all left the country now they have an economic crisis with 15% unemployment.
+latengocomoburro FYI, the 75% tax was abandonned. Only a few people left the country. Unemployment in France is around 10%, not 15%. And why are you even mentioning Bernie Sanders? In the video, we learn that a school meal in the US is twice as expensive as one in France and nowhere near as healthy. We're not talking about taxes, we're talking about not giving shitty food to kids.
I don't know why, but the last couple of days I've been watching videos about school lunches from over the world, and one thing I noticed in common is that other countries see their food as another way to introduce children to their culture. I think if the school lunch program was structured quite differently in American public schools, it could become a way to introduce kids to the many different cultures that coexist here. So many of my friends and I have strong memories of bringing food from our culture to school for lunch and getting relentlessly teased by other students, but if they were exposed to those foods from an early age, it could foster acceptance and understanding. Not to mention it would make for better tasting and more varied food.
Indeed haha ! Let's say it's a bit less polite than the translation "throw anything at their face". Google translate gives me: "get (or fuck maybe ?) off their mouths", don't know if that gives the same feeling though...
Maria Bardo I'm sad you say that and I hope you realize America is the best country on the earth because in other countries you don't have the same opportunity and freedoms but if that's what you want to do you can do that
Everyone's experience is different. For me, freedom is a mirage in the United States. I was born and raised in the US and I have seen the changes throughout the years. At least in other countries, what you see is what you get, while in the US everything is pretend and sugar coating. That has been my experience.
All we get is slimey crap pizzas with smooshed fake strawberries, bland apple sauce, bread, and concentrated fruit juice that tastes like melted liquified plastic.
MY APPLE JUICE AT BREAKFAST IS PRETTY MUCH SEWER WATER AND THEY MAKE IT UNLIVIBLY COLD TO COVER THE TASTE ONE DAY WE GOT NEW JUICE BOXES AND ON GOD THEY WERE THE BEAT I DRANK 5 OF THEM
Can confirm, it's not only in this random school in Paris, spent a year of highschool in some smaller french town down south, food was consistently varied and delicious.
I'm french and this always seemed normal to me (although the first one is definitely a little more on the high end side). We also have sometimes pizza slices as entrees or hamburger and fries as main course but they were always honestly always very good. The desserts were also great and typically french like ile flottante or crème brûlée. And of course we always had a couple of baguette slices! When I saw on the internet that Americans got nothing but tiny ass bagels and a carton of milk I was so shocked 😰
My grandsons (5 and 13) are both in a French School. School starts on 6 September, 2021so I checked on their different school website, the menu is published until 22 October (then Autumn vacation starts). Primary school every day: 1 starter, one main course with either fresh poultry, meat or fish, 1 vegetarian dish, one cheese different every day, and for dessert yoghurt, seasonal fruit, or fruit salad. Once in a while, the children get French fries, cakes. Secondary school every day: choice between 3 starters, 3 main courses - 2 with poultry, meat or fish, and 1 vegetarian- then a choice of 2 trimmings, French fries only once in while, a cheese, and for dessert 2 choices.
Ok, I have to intervene, here. What you have seen at 4:32 is not "escargot". We call them "bulots" in France, and they call them "whelks" in English. It's seafood. They are snails, but from the sea, if you like.
The problem with American school lunch is that a lot of schools have contracts with companies which supply the lunch for the school... and they need to worry about money not about a balanced diet.
good food is not only for the students, i'm french and I used to volunteer for a shelter for homeless people. There was a chef who made dinner every night for 1,5euros/person, it was very very good and healthy.
Actually, FLOTUS suggested that each school be outfitted with a chef. This is somewhat navie. Lots of people are making money off public schools. And I'm sure the people who supply public schools with overprice crap would lobby against fresh nutritious food being served to students.
Meanwhile in Fairfax County VA the Hot Dogs can erase pencil marks, the green bean cups has more water than green bean , the cookies can dent tables, milk has a yellow tint & the cheese can turn into butter.
“They clean every bottle , everything.” My school’s lunch lady doesn’t know my name and licks her hands, and once I caught her nibbling some tater tots.
It's not even fair! France: Bon Appiette your five-star meal is ready. America: all we get at my school is cold spaghetti, watery chocolate milk, and only 20 minutes
@@jamwither9847 So much for "richest country" in the world. They don't have money for this but plenty of them for the rich and the dirty wars they fight.
What horseshit. The US has had free and reduced price school lunch since the 60's. These days many school districts outright have the taxpayers footing the entire bill for ALL the school lunches by making them "free" for EVERY STUDENT. How is that "every man for themselves?" You liberals wackos get all the crap you want and still claim some paranoid "oppression and capitalist control" fantasy as reality.
French kids "Oh hoh hoh hooohhhh, it loooks as zough zey 'ave made my sauce too watery. It needs more buttere. And zis wine, it is only aged 100 years." American kids: "Hey, wanna have my mess." "Eww, no, you puked that!" "Well it was the same before."
When kids are young and still growing and developing, is the time to give them the best fuel. School cafeteria food should have a positive connotations, not a negative one.
In my school in Paris; St Michel de Picpus (that was 20+ years ago), we had 3 canteens, the regular like this one, a pizza shack and a burger shack.The last two were novelties in the French system and the first year, kids stormed them.For about a week, because after that, they all got back to the regular canteen.
At my house, we seat, we eat, we talk, we communicate. A meal is a social event, a family event. Well, I used to be french and I used to be a chef. When I cook for holiday, it's like building a painting from scratch. In the end it must look good, smell good, and taste good.
@@oriondezine5879 The police siding with the people protesting ? By doing what ? Beating the shit out of them ? Beating journalists covering the events and breaking their cameras ? Shooting protesters in the head with flash balls ? The police will always side with the government, it doesn't have anything to do with who's in charge.
yes. Chefs are very welll considered in France. It is a hard job which requires a lot of knowledge and competence. Some are stars who get admiration and can often be seen on TV.
I remember the canteen back at school in France had 4 main counters- your salad or entree, a massive cheese selection, puddings and fruit, and then the mains. Where you got your cutlery there was also a massive pile of sliced baguette, and a another tub of pasta or rice. You could just take as much extra as you wanted. In winter they added a huge urn of (slightly watery) soup. I wouldn't say the food was gourmet but you never went hungry.
I used to be so jealous of American kids. I wanted to be American so bad. I was like they are so lucky they can eat pizza and hamburger at school, they can have soda... Now I'm reading the comments and I understand how lucky I was.
my grandma is french so she’s always making some really good foods! sadly i only see her from time to time. i’m hoping i can have her teach me some recipes so i can make delicious foods like these for lunch rather than eating plastic pizza...
14 years ago... but now THis is normal four/five course meals in french schools from the youngest to the secondary school teens. Sometimes from a town central kitchen or from a real cook at school or from a real restaurant nearby. It is sometimes bad (if you do not like something) but you can usualy choose your starters, main courses and deserts between two or three types. Welcome to French school cantine 😇😇😇
+Alex B Castillejob True; the United States does have troops stationed in a number of unnecessary regions. Plus, we have a surplus of individuals who frankly do not belong in prison at all, yet a ridiculous number of dollars go towards providing them. However, I would also argue that our social security and medicare programs are quite a lot larger than they should be-- for that matter, they may be better off privatized altogether.
You have decent cooks, but you don't have the funding or resources. You cook food regardless of how many students are expected to pay for their lunch, coupled with the cheaper system of getting pre-made, frozen food, it's understandable that simply bringing in chefs won't work. They'll try to do their best with what they have, but the whole system needs to change.
And they all look very healthy. The food looks much healthier than a small American meal and much more filling. I would eat that. I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t eat that.
Sabrina Mercier-Ullhorn C'est ce que j'ai écrit. Cependant, non, l'Académie Française ne dit pas "Qu'il faut dire " mais préconise justement l'utilisation d' "Au temps", sans interdire l'utilisation d' "autant". Les deux graphies sont acceptées.
Mdr! C’est vraiment la meilleure. Je voulais écrire « au temps pour moi », mais je me suis fait prendre à mon propre jeu (homonymes quand tu nous tiens!). En effet, les deux sont acceptés, toutefois « au temps » est à privilégier. Je vous l’écrivais au cas où vous ne le saviez pas (bien que j'aie échoué lamentablement).
I live in the Netherlands where there isn't much of a food culture like in France. We were supposed to eat the maggoty whole wheat bread that we took to school in our lunchbox every day. The only foods that you could buy in schools were snickers/cola's from vending machines. And some schools had culinary stuff like fried junkfood. So that's what people would eat if they didn't bring their bread or threw it in the trash because it didn't taste good. These French lunches make us look like a bunch of dark age barbarians.
Even if we get low funding in America, its the fact that the school's and the Administrators don't want to invest in the cafeterias, and would prefer investing in other programs or give themselves a bonus with the left over money.
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"just because they don't have the right to vote dosn't mean we can throw anything in their face"
I loved that. It should be put in Bartlett's Quotations.
Dixon Smith the kids
@@dixonsmith5785 the children
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The children in France will never know the struggles of a plastic spork.
I feel you. My friends take those things and stab me in the back with them. Only if they allowed silverware.
at our school the mac and cheese is like plastic... we think they leave the seran wrap on when they microwave it...
3forte ah ah ah no we don't know that!
"The children in France will never know the struggles of a plastic spork." ====> THANKS GOD !!!
3forte plastic knifes are oh my god I would rip it instead
French school: escargot
American school: *ES CARDBOARD*
AKA my old elementary school pizza
ARE YOU A HOMOSEXUAL?
Some lunches make cardboard a better option to eat
this would have been significantly funnier if you hadn't written that in bold and all caps
*OK*
"You don't want your child to have fish for lunch and fish for dinner."
Oh the horrors.
😂😂
In France, we don't eat the same for lunch and dinner. It's an old rule...
So the parents look at the school menu each day to cook for dinner. We (the mothers) did that everyday at the school door when my children were little and we suggest others mums ideas of recipes for dinner. (I am a grand-mother now)
Fish is good for you but small children should watch how much do to Mercury
Paco Ramirez first world problems
Paco Ramirez Oh my, I eat the cheap school lunch which is greasy and undercooked pizza, a dry chicken patty or hamburger Andre cold ham or turkey sandwiches don't taste any better, and my family doesn't have "a dinner time" we have a dining table but we don't really eat on it or do anything with it which is why I never eat dinner, there are so many problems with American school lunch and I don't eat dinner and rarely eat breakfast in the morning so basically all I have is school lunch, that's my go to source of nutrition right there on Weekdays.
$2.50 a day. Hear that, US schools? You're charging us as much as them, and they're paying a professional chef to oversee the kitchen, and the food quality is infinitely better.
For hell's sake, they have a chef from riviera, they get ratatouille, muscles AND EVEN SNAILS! My middle school pizza costs $2 a slice and the taste is the epitome of "cardboard." Seeing this is really discouraging.
because france's government isn't ruled by greedy corporations
RIGHT,we have a terrible education system.
Actually my school lunches are shitty and still come up to $7 per lunch. It is absolutely ridiculous.
Screwg oogle My school gets good food. Or, I am allowed to bring in my own lunch. Not everybody's school cafeteria is bad. Atleast not in the northeast region? I personally think it's a good system. I get an entire period to eat, and then go back to my classes satisfied.
Here in America, It's plastic mac n cheese with salads that use the worst quality of lettuce, expired milk and an apple that has many wormhole in them. All served on styrofoam trays and cheap, easily breakable plastic forks. Also the school I go to, refuses to give us knives because knives are "weapons." Whenever we had Salisbury steak (a week old frozen hamburger with powdery gravy) it was so hard to cut the "meat" with a fork.
Oscar Morales i swear, they treat us like we are highly dangerous prison inmates trying to break out, like seriously, plastic knives are now « dangerous » and « weapons » dude what are we going to do with plastic knives? We are not in a mental asylum. Also I hear that they actually spend more money on prison food than school lunch. Thankfully most students here can afford to pack their own lunch.
When I was in high school just over six years ago, anyone who bought the school lunch got a REALLY undercooked totino's pizza, maybe a flat soda, and a severely bruised apple or orange
That's why I secretly stashed a metal fork for myself.
I prefer the whole wheat carots that they serve
BTW my last name is Morales too
We get warmed up pizza, and 10 minutes to eat. Where's our 5 corse meal?? Come on America pick it up.
+MrTrollingUnicorn Says the one who can't even spell...
MrTrollingUnicorn What do you mean?
Oh, my bad. Sorry dude... 😅
We get 30 minutes for lunch, but most of the time, we just get like 2 cheesesticks and an apple. Literally is all we get
it has too many calories good luck
THEY HAVE ACTUAL SILVERWARE AT SCHOOL
yes it's metal an actual plate with actual glass and 3 corse meal
Of course, never seen anything else in Europe. Please don't tell me you use plastic for everything.
Yeah I was actually quite chocked a couple years back when I went to Canada to see how many places had paper plates and plastic cutlery.
Plastic utensils and plates are the rule, even metal cutlery is seen as a weapon. It's common to read about a student who brought a knife to cut meat and was arrested. They have armed police in schools too.
America is so choked full of serial killers and kid murderers that bringing a butter knife to school triggers officials into thinking that the kid is gonna commit mass murder or something like that... Hey that's just America
"Gourmet". . . more like, "Real Food".
For america this is gourmet. Heck Im suprised there getting real cutlery and plates.
raccoon raccoonmusic
I thought those portions were huge!
Agreed and as well as true !!
@@ashlynnheller8400 true
Yep because school food here in America is practically trash
This is a public school just a imagine the private ones.
There is no difference. The meals are the same quality.
Ok thanks
same
Not really same. Little private school have same meal, but the really expensives ones have really better meals
France- "A high tech ultra-hygenic facility"
America- "occasionally we may wash our hands and mop the floor".
The fact this comment is a week old and this video is 8 years old pleases me
I work in foodservice in the US, I know this is not true for every establishment, but we have very strict protocol on food and food prep safety. Floors, walls, ceilings, and food prep surfaces all have a separate brush, rag, sanitizer bottle, and mop buckets for each step of disinfection. The dishwasher temps, ph, and free chlorine PPM are checked every 15 minutes, and every internal temperature is checked in each and every meatball of hamburger patty. If you don’t fallow protocol in our facility, you are fired on the spot. It’s almost like Gordon Ramsay is my boss, but he isn’t.
@@johnanders8861 Being fired is harsh but I'm glad to know that the facility you work in is clean and up to protocol.
@@johnanders8861 do you work at mcdonalds
And if you complain enough in America the FDA just changes rules to make the bad conditions acceptable 🙃
they have actual plates and silverware, i get a small paper plate with a spork
Same. We also get little plastic knives that don't do jack shit
Wu Xiao Yu you get plastic knives? we only get the spork,straw,and small napkin pack.....if we are lucky they actually would have forks on some days.
saul martinez you get a SPORK!? Lucky I get a plastic spoon no fork..no that's too..dangerous
They're eating fancy...
@@joybrown4466 At my school we just get a plastic forks & spoon
I live in America, we get like 4 chicken nuggets and an 8oz milk.
Enjoy your meals
CheeseGlace bone app the teeth
dreamcast I'm ded
we also get these fried chicken patties that are greasy as fk
yeah dats true that we get those prom and things but the education isnt dat great
They will never know the taste of old card board with a tomato on it.
Sord33 oh good times
Or burnt ass sweet potato fries
Sord33 💀
lmfao, broken dreams right there.
my school pizza was actually sounds better than that. It was deep fried rectangular bread with tomato sauce and cheese on top of it. And with pepperoni if you wanted a pepperoni pizza. I mean, it wasn't healthy, but at least it was filling
What's amazing to me is that this seems like a respectable job. The social status of cafeteria workers is so low in the US. I actually wouldn't mind working there in that job setting.
Yeah, and that's why they all seem to take their jobs so seriously. Shame that school lunch is garbage here in the US. But we all no health is a small priority here.
I agree it looks much more respectable in France and the people there act more serious about their job. BUT, you don't need other people's respect to have pride in your work or at least do a good job. If you don't like your job get a different one, or else do your job with care.
Also, sorry if american cafeteria workers have their shit together. I'm just going off of the assumption that they don't care like the people in this vid do.
Helpful Bill hi there. I am a former cafeteria worker for the archdiocese in Louisiana. I too thought that it would have been a respectable job and a possible good career choice.... what I found was spiteful co workers, no one was happy with their job, from the supervisors on down.....much physical work and a struggle to get a raise. Also benefits in health insurance decreasing. A shame.
@@detectivedonaldkimball Educate yourself: www.ted.com/talks/jarrett_krosoczka_why_lunch_ladies_are_heroes
@@lisaswint6630 I’m sorry that you went through that. We Americans really need to take a long, hard look at our values, compare them with our goals and with what’s actually happening, and see how they don’t meet up and figure out how to fix them!!!!! 😔
All we get are chicken nugget that smells weird and the smallest carton of milk ever.
Not even whole milk
Our "vanilla milk" tastes like medicine
I remember in kindergarten my breakfast school milk somehow had chunks of ice in it.
+Vincent Tan at my school it does that it just gets really cold
mines now have chunk of ice to in fact some time u get ice milk
They have plates and silverware?! Real cooks?! MOM WAKE UP WE HAVE TO MOVE TO FRANCE
Americans don't have that ?
@@Teletessa nope lmao, forks/spoons & plates are seen as weapons so we use plastic sporks etc & styrofoam trays. We only have like 25 minutes to eat, which is mostly you standing in line waiting for your bad food💀
@@yeet-vm7ql that's crazyyy, we have a 2 hour long break! It's also super weird knowing guns are legal in America but they think forks are like the weapons of hell lmao
yeet how tf is silverware or plates a weapon 😭😭😂
@@Teletessa nope, not at all. It can come on styrofoam plates or cardboard trays, everything is super processed asf, like we dont even get anything good. Due to budget cuts and an act in 2012, schools find it hard to give us anything healthy that fits the standards of being whole grain low sodium low fat n shit. Compared to the lunch I see in this video, it's like night and day! They're way more appetizing then the chicken sandwich (just chicken and a bun) and the weird ass sweet potato fried that can vary from soggy to burnt. Oh and our lunches are like what, an hour or less long.
That's it. I'm moving to France. Who's with me?
I'll throw away my passport and claim I'm 16
Broadway24 buy me a ticket! I'm comin too
Je!
Arcinator lel What
I'm coming too! Wait for me
and yet people make fun of europe, i live in a poorer country(Portugal), and all my life i had lunch consisting of soup, main dish, side dish , and desert for about 1.25 euros a lunch, and if your household income is low, you dont have to pay, its hard for me to bealive that a country like America cant even support their own children, maybe its not like that everywere.
It's simply a system that the school board (and government) had let to go out of control. I'm sure back in the day American schools had decent prepared lunches for children before the advent of fast food and frozen foods. It's only in the past few decades that things started to slide downhill, schools started taking shortcuts and the quality of food started deteriorating.
And once you reduce funding for school lunch programs, what do you get? Crap.
LordDavid04 It's all about corporate greed over here.
yea the school lunches ( among other things) are just terrible.
Being a school chef is a very respectable profession in France. My public high school's chef was quite famous and served us meals such as braised rabbit, squid ink pasta and things like that, always with an appetizer, cheese, fruit or a dessert, and unlimited bread. The teachers ate the same food, plus a glass of wine, lol.
I spent my middle school years in the US and got made fun so bad because my mom usually packed leftovers or a slice of quiche and salad for my lunch. I can still see those kids eating their Lunchables or fruit roll ups pinching their noses and telling me I was yucky.
@random person on the internet don't associate us with the karen kids, that is a dick move.
I realize kids make fun of people who have it better cause of jealousy. My husband told me his mom went to department stores to get his clothes and he would have a nice polo shirts or cool tee shirts. Yet the kids with walmart plane white shirts made fun of him all the time for it. *shakes head*
I also went to middle school in the US and was shocked to see what people had for lunch there!
So jealous of your French school lunches 😢
No no no no no no no
damn it. why does feel like some other country always does things better than the U.S.
Because, most of the time, they do?
most of the time they don't. and feel lucky to be American
+Tony Blair lol I'm Canadian
Melody Kostek Tindall well , feel lucky anyway because you're just the US with another name and with colder weather
+Tony Blair You're a moron.
When I went to France when I was in highschool for a student exchanged program it was during spring break and they had a croissant with ham and cheese, delicious chicken and vegetables and then apple pie you can choose between deserts and even cheeses and bread honestly that was the best experience
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What? In America, my school has about 20 minutes to eat, most of that time being spent on a lunch line. Soggy, microwaved and slimy food. Most of the time I don’t even eat, or I just eat
a bag of chips
It seems sad ... In France in every school each student has 2 hours to eat his meal (except college student - only 1 hour)
What's wrong with your mom ? Making you wait bag lunch ?
In my school, I don't eat the food because it's so unhealthy. Now, I take an orange from my classmate's lunchbox and eat that.
@@aminabch1912 holy shit. two hours?
My school is 30 mins, would be 40 but the stupid lunch line. BESH THE FOOD IS TINY AND IS DUSGUSTANG SHET
As someone who has lived in paris and went to a public high school there i can definitely say that this is true French ppl really do care about their food ofc some days are better then others but most of the time it's good we even have an entree and dessert
Dea Felicia Arifi always finish with dessert
I have cardboard for lunch
We get “bosco sticks” two pieces of Olive Garden bread with cheese in the middle
Wah kakak pernah sekolah di Prancis?
Hear is the thing: If American schools were given the budget and the training, our health would be so much better. The schools don't give the lunch ladies proper supplies, they give them crap.
+Keenan Cain their budgets are fine..didn't you hear how much they spend/student..what was it under 3 dollars? It's a matter of apathy and tradition of crap canned crap.
+Keenan Cain Good, healthy food doesn't have to be expensive.
+Keenan Cain it's a definitely overlooked thing. In Canada public schools do not have a cafeteria until highschool. There most of it is even worse quality than fast food. Aside from the shitty salads they would have of usually half wilted lettuce.
+Keenan Cain America spends more on the school system than any other country in the world. The problem is incompetence, and mediocrity, and content with mediocrity + clout (local food contractors make $$$ off of feeding the country's children). The whole country is corrupt; that's why the school system is fucked.
+Jamiesyme999 OMG, that's so true. Even though I've been out of high school for 30 years, we took our own lunches because the cafeteria food was absolute garbage. There was never anything fresh, just the same crappy hamburgers and French fries everyday. :-(
I went to public school in France in the early 90s. Even back then, it was true. The French, when they can, eat to live. That is a cultural trait shaped over centuries.
Everything we ate in French schools in the 80-90s came from giant cans. Looks like France made some progress.
@@thewirah1 No they went back to the school lunch of the 70's, 60, 50, etc... minus the glass of wine sadly
At our school we get pizza every Friday and yet they say they're trying to get us to eat healthier
+Arctis & counting French fries as vegetables
when I was a kid I loved pizza day lunches. I love pizza. haha
That pizza, isn't even fresh, it's frozen pizza...that comes in a box....like everything else
+Arctis that's high fructose corn syrup ketchup as a vegetable....lmao
***** More like the Evil Way
Its honestly disgusting and sad comparing how much better they feed the kids in Europe. They make American school lunch look like the shit that they feed inmates in prison
If it seems disgusting and sad its because the majority of public schools here in the US serve cheap pre made foods that are kept frozen until it's reheated for the day's lunch. The American school system sucks in so many ways, that's the ugly truth.
Nik Morales funny thing is inmates are fed even healthier than students
really wish they cut back the 50% military budget and distribute it equally across education, transportation, etc.
Inmates are fed better than students and the military, and they still eat shit.
Gerald Soria Right,instead of trying to kill everything,can we all just act like adults.You are right,they spend way to much on the military government.
Lunch in France: 5 star restaurant
Lunch in United States: Worse than prison food.
"Grade D Circus Animal Meat" - The Simpsons
I just don't understand why you tolerate being fed on trays....as if you were prisoners.
Ya I knew something was up
SandboxArrow what school did you go to, lmao?
Noob Nooby my dad went to federal prison and he ate better meals than what my high school was providing
"Americans gobble up their food" um school lunches taste like cardboard and ass we don't even eat it
Shadow Of The Night Not to mention even if we do eat it, they barely give us enough time :P
People ask why we accumulate so much trash, just give us good lunches and we won’t be throwing them away...
Unless it's tater tots ........then it's every man for himself... friends be damned
I almost chocked on my sunflower seeds reading this
And as Americans who have a job, we have pretty much no choice but to “gobble our food.” When I worked a job at a big grocery chain, we got a measly 15 minute break. It’s not good for you to eat so fast but at that job I had no choice. I’m an Amazon DSP driver now. We have to take our unpaid 30 minute lunch break by 1:30 PM or else it’s an automatic write up. My DSP is the last one to leave the warehouse and on most days I don’t get to my route before noon. The earliest I’ve ever gotten to a route is 11:30 AM.
I don't think that school lunches in France are "gourmet", it's just in the US school lunches are TERRIBLE
Annie Faucher they are gourmet. If you have a chef that prepared your food fresh and from scratch with quality ingredients AT YOUR SCHOOL ( and public school that is) that’s called gourmet. Quit being in denial American school eat like swine.
We’re also told to gobble our food in like 15 minutes.
Annie Faucher agree
In Croatia we also have just 15 minutes to get out of school, go buy food somewhere and then eat it.
"The french we know are proud of there cuisine"
"The America we know are proud of our Mc Donalds burgers"
And obesity
more like in America we eat on 50 Cent and get crappy pizza with hair on it
yup
We don't get pizza
We don't get pizza, we get bread
Bread ? Lol...
In Sweden do we get REAL FOOD.
Wow, those kids don't realize how good they have it. Us kids who don't qualify for free/reduced lunches are struggling for food everyday and end up eating cheese sandwiches daily. How countries differ amazes me. Kids in the Middle East don't even get food while these kids get gourmet French dishes not to mention they are THREE!!
Its has not To be considered good ,it's normal
And those lunches are payed for by regular tax money. NO EXTRA MONEY REQUIRED. That means that they don't have to pay $7 for a chicken sandwich, an orange slice and a milk bottle.
By the way they are really rich countries in the middle east. Much of them can provide food to pupils. Most of the time,it will be even healthier than what the us kids get.
nicktune1219 BULLSHIT ALERT. Tax pays for your meals? I live in France and I have to pay 4 euros (4.60dollars) per meal, what are you talking about free
ANtoine Nat tu peux avoir des aides pour ça
Les gens sont souvent extrêmement mal renseignés
Et ça dépend de ta région et ton emplacement également
Mon frère paie 1.80 à peu près mais d'autres ne paient rien
'Public School', Has a 5 star meal. I go to a Private school where they say they can't afford Juice yet they just built a massive extension to a building... -_-
+FritoSalad And it's the left who is abandoning the kids. They are in bed with the teachers' union, comprised of people who vote. The kids do not have votes, so they get screwed.
Look Behind You. And the waste that goes on in private schools is appalling. I guess it is below their Christian charity to have donated food that was going unused to a food bank.
"Can't"
thats private school mate 😅
Or that super expensive sports stadium.
The food is beautiful in France.
Ain't that the truth
French food is only a brand and have nothing to do with quality.
It's a way better than american beacuse american food is the worst junk on Earth.
I am polish and I can''t find good quality bread,fresh vegetables,different kind of sausages and meet in the western Europe.
In polish market you can find differnt kind of sausages.In France you must go to the butcher,but even there you won't
find so many kinds like in polish shop.
In the wstern Europe there is a porblem with fresh vegetables,good quality butter,real mayonaise,real mustard,
real milk,good apples,natural eggs aqnd other things.
In Poland there are points everywhere where you can do general.comprehensive shopping with good quality food.
In western Europe this is a problem.
French cousine is famous,but there are very good polish cousine,and other cousines.
So that's very unfair to underrate some countries beacuse they have a brand and are famous in the world,considerating a fact that esatern food is still a way more natural than western.
It's changing beacuse of European's Union directives.
French are agnry beacuse of US domination.The same way East Europeans are angry beacuse of
German or French domination in Europe(concern's,licences,technology and laws).
Needs not to mix everything
astraldreamer84, That is very interesting information. Thank you for sharing.
This is like this in all EU.
So true, I'm french and I remember it was exactly like this. But mainly, the lunch part was a time to share, to be with your friends, to talk.
And at home it was the same, dinner was family time, no TV, everybody ate at the same time, we would share what we had done for the day etc..
I have relatives from the US and when I went there I was so shoked by the way everybody ate.. None of them ate at the same time, there was no "family time" everybody ate "when they were hungry" (as they claimed). And all "fast food" like pizza, burgers, fries.. And in front of the TV..
I guess it's cultural differences but it's so shoking for me.
Bienvenue au club français 😂😂
that’s so crazy
claris182 certainly not in America
When i was a kid in the 70's here in the US, we did have family time, where the TV was turned off and the family ate dinner together, unfortunatly by the 80's both parents would have to work to make a living, and home video game systems came out, and families started drifting apart, now the family will sit at the dinner table, and message each other on their cell phones and tablets
I wish my family took food more seriously. I am American and while we don't typically buy fast food, but my brothers usually eat processed things (Frozen pizza, processed snacks, sugary soda). We all just eat, as you said, "while we are hungry". I absolutely hate the way that we handle and think of food as in America. I simply cannot go a day without having to eat something processed because I have nothing else to eat. When I go shopping I look for local meats, but all I find is meat from thousands of miles away in shiny packaging from corn-fed cattle. Its sad. I wish I could be fortunate enough to live in France.
As a French pupil, I remember some moments when my friends and I were complaining about the food as children an young teens like :"Oh No ! No more fishes and veggies " but now as a grown up I realize how lucky we are here. Cause it's true that at every lunches we have an "entrée" a warm main dish, cheese, and yogurts or desserts. Everything is good and healthy. We have on average one hour to eat and if we want more, we go at the end of the line to get more. And its not that expensive.
So jealous 😢
bruh i saw this in french class and everyone was SHOOK
"On ne jeu pas à la table, on mange!!" Oh the memories of hearing mothers talk to their little parisien babies at restaurants.
Robyn where?
@@emiliob7428 it could be heard all over the world. French people are everywhere
In America it's chicken nuggets and hamburgers all dayyyyy bruuhhhhhh
+Nickolas Lemy no jam not kidding... At least in my school
+Nickolas Lemy no as long it's edible they give it too us, wait do you not live in America?
+Nickolas Lemy oh hi, greetings from USA, Texas yeah I know some states are slower :/
+Nickolas Lemy yup
you mean shitburgers and mcchicken diabetes?
at 4:28 it is not escargot (snail) it is bulot (whelk). It is a shellfish
good correction
To be fair, a whelk is a type of sea snail
i never even ate lunch in US schools because the quality/healthiness of the food was so poor... they served fries every single day with whatever the main course was which usually pizza/chicken nuggets... one time my friend found a metal nail inside of his mac and cheese...not sure why he didn't sue
Gray Au dude... it’s a metal fucking nail, you think you’re tough as shit
@@kuwor2371 😂💀😂
That's why I always brought my own lunch to eat. Sometimes I would have steak and grilled shrimp and everyone around would get super jealous
@GamingTV I ain't think she was being THAT serious. But I have gotten extreme stomach because of school food. One time in 5th grade all the milks were expired and it was like jello. And they had no extra so no one got milk that day for breakfast or lunch
Whole grain nuggets and fries that are not healthy and water milk
Wouldn't call it gourmet...would call it decent, and the children are getting a great start in life physically, mentally and socially by being exposed to a variety of decent foods. I grew up with Japanese food, which is also very healthy and has a lot of variety, and feel that a healthy variety of well-prepared food is an essential standard for growing bodies, no matter what age.
lightawake well it’s better than the dog shit that’s being served in the US.
“Just because they can’t vote doesn’t mean we can throw anything in their face”
HEAR THAT AMERICA!?
The translation is terrible though, he said ''...doesn't mean we can fucking mess them around / take this fucking piss out of them'' 😂 that's a somewhat accurate translation
America: Just throw anything they will starve if they don't eat
I live in Sweden and we also have school lunch like this. Its great
Here in America, we get our lunch out of a small plastic box.
Here in the netherlands, we bring bring a sandwich (unlike in france we eat cold-cold-hot not cold-hot-cold) and we got a small place where you can buy a baguette(?) with stuff on it for $1,50-$2,-
Jonathan Sl .... I eat my cereals and I don't know anybody that doesn't take cold cereals with juice in the morning... And what do the 5 hot hot hot hot cold hot thing stand for?
Sasha Hird I'm in 9th grade in Sweden but I also lived in France and the food in France was much better
Sasha lukcy
wow that's so freaking crazy! here in the u.s. we have nothing close to that.... we get mystery meat and canned vegetables with sometimes even hair in them. escargot!? and all those other culinary meals some I have never heard of wow they are lucky. lol
+Jeremy Seinfeld Yes we eat sea snails :)
+Jeremy Seinfeld You want to pay 60% of your salary in taxes? I rather sand my kid to school with his own lunch, than have my money taken by the government who will decide what to do with it.
+latengocomoburro 60%... yeah, sure.
AStrangeYume In France Francois Holnde socialist government imposed a 75% tax on millionaires and they all left the country now they have an economic crisis with 15% unemployment.
+latengocomoburro FYI, the 75% tax was abandonned. Only a few people left the country. Unemployment in France is around 10%, not 15%. And why are you even mentioning Bernie Sanders? In the video, we learn that a school meal in the US is twice as expensive as one in France and nowhere near as healthy. We're not talking about taxes, we're talking about not giving shitty food to kids.
I don't know why, but the last couple of days I've been watching videos about school lunches from over the world, and one thing I noticed in common is that other countries see their food as another way to introduce children to their culture. I think if the school lunch program was structured quite differently in American public schools, it could become a way to introduce kids to the many different cultures that coexist here. So many of my friends and I have strong memories of bringing food from our culture to school for lunch and getting relentlessly teased by other students, but if they were exposed to those foods from an early age, it could foster acceptance and understanding. Not to mention it would make for better tasting and more varied food.
Agreed.
3:01 if you're French, this sentence is hilarious
Pour quoi
Ouais !
Luc Groshens Il y a la traduction
Indeed haha ! Let's say it's a bit less polite than the translation "throw anything at their face". Google translate gives me: "get (or fuck maybe ?) off their mouths", don't know if that gives the same feeling though...
@@ester3329 Justement la traduction elle put la merde
If I have a chance, I will not raise my child in the US. There are many countries, France included that offers better education.
Maria Bardo of course there is,have you seen the U.S. Education system,it is full of standardized test,packets,and other bullshit.
Maria Bardo I'm sad you say that and I hope you realize America is the best country on the earth because in other countries you don't have the same opportunity and freedoms but if that's what you want to do you can do that
Everyone's experience is different. For me, freedom is a mirage in the United States. I was born and raised in the US and I have seen the changes throughout the years. At least in other countries, what you see is what you get, while in the US everything is pretend and sugar coating. That has been my experience.
James Bond Bro the US is not the same as it used to be, don't talk about opportunity and freedom please if you're American
James Bond Best country?
It isn't even rated the country with the most freedom.
That's New Zealand
"When good Americans die they go to Paris"
Oscar Wilde
Beautiful quote, thank you.
............ Why does America school lunches suck...... I WANNA MOVE!!!!!!
Not the snails though.
ME TOO!!!!
You can blame Michelle Obama.
They used to serve Ice Cream at my school until you know Michelle Obama
come to jordan.. we have thyme sandwiches... kill me
All we get is slimey crap pizzas with smooshed fake strawberries, bland apple sauce, bread, and concentrated fruit juice that tastes like melted liquified plastic.
Sound like my school
Mason A.D. Sounds like my elementary school. My middle school and high school are better. No more hairs on the food.
They feed 150 kids we feed 2,000
MY APPLE JUICE AT BREAKFAST IS PRETTY MUCH SEWER WATER AND THEY MAKE IT UNLIVIBLY COLD TO COVER THE TASTE ONE DAY WE GOT NEW JUICE BOXES AND ON GOD THEY WERE THE BEAT I DRANK 5 OF THEM
nicoleago my elementary has over 1’000 students
OMG this is super impressive. The strict hygiene, the gourmet menu, the kids using proper tableware...
The PASSION that chef has.. I love that he kept that even though he went to cook for kids
the fact that they have workers who help the kids eat their food is amazing
Can confirm, it's not only in this random school in Paris, spent a year of highschool in some smaller french town down south, food was consistently varied and delicious.
I'm french and this always seemed normal to me (although the first one is definitely a little more on the high end side). We also have sometimes pizza slices as entrees or hamburger and fries as main course but they were always honestly always very good. The desserts were also great and typically french like ile flottante or crème brûlée. And of course we always had a couple of baguette slices! When I saw on the internet that Americans got nothing but tiny ass bagels and a carton of milk I was so shocked 😰
So jealous of your French school lunches 😢
They get ordervers and I get an apple, lactaid and cold food
The proper term is "hors-d'oeuvres".
Thanks Einstein
Mad Mia My comment wasn't insulting or negative... Wouldn't you want to know how to properly spell a word ?
Chill mate it was supposed to be in a joking manner 😞
Mad Mia Well, it's the internet. I never underestimate people's will to stay ignorant and/or act ilke assholes. ^^
My grandsons (5 and 13) are both in a French School. School starts on 6 September, 2021so I checked on their different school website, the menu is published until 22 October (then Autumn vacation starts). Primary school every day: 1 starter, one main course with either fresh poultry, meat or fish, 1 vegetarian dish, one cheese different every day, and for dessert yoghurt, seasonal fruit, or fruit salad. Once in a while, the children get French fries, cakes. Secondary school every day: choice between 3 starters, 3 main courses - 2 with poultry, meat or fish, and 1 vegetarian- then a choice of 2 trimmings, French fries only once in while, a cheese, and for dessert 2 choices.
this makes me really proud of my country !!!!!! bravo à ces chefs français qui montrent le bon exemple !!! magnifique!
Ok, I have to intervene, here. What you have seen at 4:32 is not "escargot". We call them "bulots" in France, and they call them "whelks" in English. It's seafood. They are snails, but from the sea, if you like.
The problem with American school lunch is that a lot of schools have contracts with companies which supply the lunch for the school... and they need to worry about money not about a balanced diet.
good food is not only for the students, i'm french and I used to volunteer for a shelter for homeless people. There was a chef who made dinner every night for 1,5euros/person, it was very very good and healthy.
I grew up in France and I can tell you that the lunches served at school were and are still very good. French kids and pupils are indeed very lucky.
So jealous of your French school lunches 😢
They’ll never know the struggles of USA public schools
Wonder what Mrs. Obama will think about this?
He doesn't give a shit, he eats gourmet organic food, while we eat prison frozen, canned food
Actually, FLOTUS suggested that each school be outfitted with a chef. This is somewhat navie. Lots of people are making money off public schools. And I'm sure the people who supply public schools with overprice crap would lobby against fresh nutritious food being served to students.
+IblewuponyourfaceIII Hey did you know Mrs means a woman?
how do you know, Mrs. Obama isn't a man?
France pays higher taxes for free gourmet lunch while in America we pay the lowest taxes possible so that means schools have $0.90 to spend per a meal
Meanwhile in Fairfax County VA the Hot Dogs can erase pencil marks, the green bean cups has more water than green bean , the cookies can dent tables, milk has a yellow tint & the cheese can turn into butter.
“They clean every bottle , everything.”
My school’s lunch lady doesn’t know my name and licks her hands, and once I caught her nibbling some tater tots.
Heck no..
Dat Dood I used to find hair in my foods in elementary school
Looks like I'm going to die
Oh, once a lunch lady killed a cockroach on our food trays..and said' "oh sorry" and then gave my friend that tray.
😅😅😅😅😅😅
It's not even fair!
France: Bon Appiette your five-star meal is ready.
America: all we get at my school is cold spaghetti, watery chocolate milk, and only 20 minutes
Genny Benny vids my school: frozen crap and almost inedible cardboard like pizza and expired milk and bugs and hair on the food
French schools have good food! The US should learn from France.
@Oscar Hankert its obama Barak Obama
they have no money
Robolad Animations no his last name is care
@@jamwither9847 So much for "richest country" in the world.
They don't have money for this but plenty of them for the rich and the dirty wars they fight.
Learning from other countries is not compatible with American exceptionalism.
France values social programs like this. The US is ‘every man for themselves’.
What horseshit. The US has had free and reduced price school lunch since the 60's. These days many school districts outright have the taxpayers footing the entire bill for ALL the school lunches by making them "free" for EVERY STUDENT. How is that "every man for themselves?" You liberals wackos get all the crap you want and still claim some paranoid "oppression and capitalist control" fantasy as reality.
Funny you think the problem is the government doing a poor job educating and feeding our kids and your solution is give the government more money.
Well crap... When I was in school we were lucky if the pizza wasn't burnt or still half frozen
Or both!
French kids
"Oh hoh hoh hooohhhh, it loooks as zough zey 'ave made my sauce too watery. It needs more buttere. And zis wine, it is only aged 100 years."
American kids:
"Hey, wanna have my mess."
"Eww, no, you puked that!"
"Well it was the same before."
Your attempt at a French accent is terrible. French kids don't sound like sterotypical French men.
Bart Simpson: I'll trade you my lunch (It's a playing card with some peanut butter smeared on it).
I snorted on my tea
Holden Cross
That's the shittiest joke I've heard of.
Wait, you're telling me their 'budget' french lunch is fresh fish and real beef? Wow this man is amazing.
Come to America and enjoy our pantry cheeseburgers!
No wonder why their are so many obese people in your country !
American food is good in America. Don't eat it elsewhere because it tastes like a frozen pizza that's been in the freezer for 11 years
When kids are young and still growing and developing, is the time to give them the best fuel. School cafeteria food should have a positive connotations, not a negative one.
these procedures should not be special, they should be mandatory in schools
In my school in Paris; St Michel de Picpus (that was 20+ years ago), we had 3 canteens, the regular like this one, a pizza shack and a burger shack.The last two were novelties in the French system and the first year, kids stormed them.For about a week, because after that, they all got back to the regular canteen.
I wish America had more pride in their food food.
Too bad that other people bash on the Americans about them being fat
***** As a British person, I must simply agree with you.
+CBSBASS And if we french havent SAVED your ass you would still be british by now ...
Kevin Kouassi I wasn't really talking to you, so there's no need for being hostile.
+Kevin Kouassi Have some couth, brother... you get hostile when you're hungry.
Wow, three-star meals in school? Snails? Heaven... and real plates and fine cutlery? Vive la France!
That s actually not snails but whelks
At my house, we seat, we eat, we talk, we communicate. A meal is a social event, a family event. Well, I used to be french and I used to be a chef. When I cook for holiday, it's like building a painting from scratch. In the end it must look good, smell good, and taste good.
I'm moving to France their school food is delicious and their president is mentally stable
@@captaingainzproductions1876 ORANGE FAN MAD
@FritoSalad Well, the orange one married a wife 45 years younger than him, what kind of double standard is that ?
Lol is that why the police are siding with people protesting against him? Go ahead and move.
@@oriondezine5879 The police siding with the people protesting ? By doing what ? Beating the shit out of them ? Beating journalists covering the events and breaking their cameras ? Shooting protesters in the head with flash balls ? The police will always side with the government, it doesn't have anything to do with who's in charge.
Macron and his 27% approval rating?
Took a trip to France a stayed with a host family for a few days, the school lunches were better than many US restaurants. Its insane.
Wow.. imagine how much better it would be if schools in America attempted something similar to this. Hand made, no shortcuts. I would be simply amazed
These people take pride in their work. It's beautiful ❤️
yes. Chefs are very welll considered in France. It is a hard job which requires a lot of knowledge and competence. Some are stars who get admiration and can often be seen on TV.
I remember the canteen back at school in France had 4 main counters- your salad or entree, a massive cheese selection, puddings and fruit, and then the mains. Where you got your cutlery there was also a massive pile of sliced baguette, and a another tub of pasta or rice. You could just take as much extra as you wanted. In winter they added a huge urn of (slightly watery) soup. I wouldn't say the food was gourmet but you never went hungry.
How do i move to france
plane
STURASH all you need is a passport, money and be at least 18 to move. Good luck :)
STURASH I need to pass my French class
You want to move to France because schools serve real food there. You are probably an adult which means that you won't be eating it anyway.
I used to be so jealous of American kids. I wanted to be American so bad. I was like they are so lucky they can eat pizza and hamburger at school, they can have soda... Now I'm reading the comments and I understand how lucky I was.
Laura Smith Duhh 😡😡😡 We have the worst lunches here!!!! We have no soda now
Just milk xDDDD
Archduke Of Austria-Hungary at my school the pizza has a weird white paste as a substitute for cheese
my grandma is french so she’s always making some really good foods! sadly i only see her from time to time. i’m hoping i can have her teach me some recipes so i can make delicious foods like these for lunch rather than eating plastic pizza...
man im jelous
i wish my lunch was that fresh
***** hey im a teenager
who cares about taxes xD
TheIcefang Propaganda for the young. No more.
Pizza and corn on Fridays, who's with me?! Gotta wash that down with some chocolate milk too! Lol
My schools pizza is just cardboard with a shit ton of cheese no sause
@FritoSalad and this is why they don't take us serious because y'all always exaggerate
14 years ago... but now THis is normal four/five course meals in french schools from the youngest to the secondary school teens. Sometimes from a town central kitchen or from a real cook at school or from a real restaurant nearby. It is sometimes bad (if you do not like something) but you can usualy choose your starters, main courses and deserts between two or three types. Welcome to French school cantine 😇😇😇
We need chefs in USA school. Our food is nasty and not healthy. If we have chefs. We will never be hungry and always enjoy food.
+Allixar Still nowhere near as costly as the US military ;)
+Alex B Castillejob
True; the United States does have troops stationed in a number of unnecessary regions. Plus, we have a surplus of individuals who frankly do not belong in prison at all, yet a ridiculous number of dollars go towards providing them. However, I would also argue that our social security and medicare programs are quite a lot larger than they should be-- for that matter, they may be better off privatized altogether.
You have decent cooks, but you don't have the funding or resources. You cook food regardless of how many students are expected to pay for their lunch, coupled with the cheaper system of getting pre-made, frozen food, it's understandable that simply bringing in chefs won't work. They'll try to do their best with what they have, but the whole system needs to change.
I'd like to see this lunch program in Romania too......with fresh and healthy food for my students!
me too
noi avem cantina da mancarea e nasoala
And they all look very healthy. The food looks much healthier than a small American meal and much more filling. I would eat that. I don’t know anyone who wouldn’t eat that.
4:28 this isn't escargot, this is bigorneau, periwinkle or winkle, I'm not certain how you call them in english, seafood.
Exactly : it's whelk (bulot)! Le bigorneau est bien plus petit.
Autant pour moi ! :)
Il faut dire « autant pour moi » selon l'Académie.
Sabrina Mercier-Ullhorn C'est ce que j'ai écrit. Cependant, non, l'Académie Française ne dit pas "Qu'il faut dire " mais préconise justement l'utilisation d' "Au temps", sans interdire l'utilisation d' "autant". Les deux graphies sont acceptées.
Mdr! C’est vraiment la meilleure. Je voulais écrire « au temps pour moi », mais je me suis fait prendre à mon propre jeu (homonymes quand tu nous tiens!). En effet, les deux sont acceptés, toutefois « au temps » est à privilégier. Je vous l’écrivais au cas où vous ne le saviez pas (bien que j'aie échoué lamentablement).
I wish the school in USA and Australia should do like that.
I live in the Netherlands where there isn't much of a food culture like in France. We were supposed to eat the maggoty whole wheat bread that we took to school in our lunchbox every day. The only foods that you could buy in schools were snickers/cola's from vending machines. And some schools had culinary stuff like fried junkfood. So that's what people would eat if they didn't bring their bread or threw it in the trash because it didn't taste good. These French lunches make us look like a bunch of dark age barbarians.
Even if we get low funding in America, its the fact that the school's and the Administrators don't want to invest in the cafeterias, and would prefer investing in other programs or give themselves a bonus with the left over money.