It’s always a large slice of pizza with loads of oil, bland sauce, and decent tasting cheese that can slide off with a slight tug. For the veggies I’d normally get cucumbers and tajin (best part of lunch) and for fruit it’s either apples or “pears and peaches” But that’s just me, and I live in texas
As a Korean, I was convinced after reading the comments from US. If Korean schools served lunch like in the U.S., the principal would be sued for child abuse.
It honestly depends on the state. Just take the grilled cheese but use fake chese stail bread and instead if tomato soup there whould be 2 packets of ketchup.😅 if it was served in any other cuntry the intire school staff whould be executed for trying to poison students
As a retired teacher from the Uk, I can assure that the state schools do NOT provide a meal that is anything like what you showed. What you showed was edible...
I'm Japanese and I never saw such a meal...especially sashimi! But it's true that school lunch meal is served by the students, even by the first graders.
Well that in the video was an omelet with vegetables that they called "fritatta" along with rice and beans. I've never had a proper "fritatta" in school, that's for sure, but It was always rice and beans + some kind of meat and salad, sometimes it woud be bread or crackers/biscuits/ some sort of cake along with chocolate milk. I've studied on a public school in São Paulo, so i guess it wasnt that far from the video, actually.
I really like that idea that in Japan they get the kids to help make the lunch, thus teaching them various recipe's that they can use when they leave home. Plus it creates more community among the children themselves.
Also something different is that (apparently) schools are mostly kept clean by the students who rotate the duty and thus are taught to keep the place clean and think about others.
The first couple years of school in Japan is focused on socializing the children, teaching them how to get along, share, etc. The schools usually have them do the cleaning and cooking/serving the school lunches, all to teach them important life skills. I live in the US, we definitely could learn a few things from that.
I’ve never heard of anyone at school ever making the lunch. I’ve gone to various elementary schools in Japan (what they’re showing in the video) and the students only serve the food when there turn comes. You do have time in the day to clean the school though. Janitors and things like prom aren’t a thing in Japanese schools. I think is sad but a beneficial thing for all the students.
I'm Brazilian and the school food here is usually very healthy, the school menu varies a lot, but they usually serve rice, beans, salad and some protein, it can be chicken or meat, sometimes soup, juice with biscuits, rarely a snack different type of hamburger or hot dog, but most of the time it's a healthy meal.
however there is an eventual "pudin" (that one who has a skin when its cold) or rice pudin once in while, specially in "festa junina" and other events where they would serve something less like whole meal and more likea snack, but yeah, its pretty complete, all the food groups in one plate and often come fruit as dessert.
Mano, não sei em qual escola você estudou, mas nas que eu estudei nunca vieram refeições completas. O mais próximo disso era sopa, nos outros dias eram ou lanches, cereal com leite ou só arroz e feijão e pronto.
As a Brazilian I would say most of schools don't have meals like that, but, when I saw the comments, I realize that every country don't have meals like that hahaha
@Lazy Bundy then what do you get? Like some of our pizzas aren’t even real pizza, they’re just microwaved and don’t have much flavor and the cheese sometimes isn’t melted right. Plus pizza isn’t all that great
Not in finland... Bunch of veggies that not many people enjoy like beets and such, and a sprinkle of ham on pea soup. That would be a nightmare for a picky eater. All incredibly strong vegtable flavors. Ukraines looks awesome though.
I can't believe I forgot you get CHARGED for water. It's either that sh*tty pint of milk (2%, whole, or chocolate...... GOD I miss the days when they had vanilla) or that yeeyee brand of soy milk (for those who could prove they had a dietary restriction).
@@eee-th8yk we got different food everday. Sometimes garlic buttered pasta or bad school pizza. and those horrible cardboard trays that are so thin that the olive juice was dripping from it. With those horrible Milk or OJ containers. That Southern CA elementry school for you
@@eee-th8yk in my school in Florida, we had monster energy drinks, but it was in a vending machine hidden away in an out building, and it was only there for a year.
I cant complain about our school lunches growing up, it was actually good, but it definitely didn't look as good as the example in this video, I suspect the producers are Americans and didn't want to lose to the other countries. I'm from the US BTW.
I live in an upper middle class area, (I'm middle class), like 20% are low income and they get a low quality lunch that no one eats. I had hot lunch for a week and it was awful. Something HORRIBLE was done to the broccoli.
@@adriankingston4338 I know, I'm saying this is what politicians show in their fancy charts when they're being told to report on the state of public schools. That school lunches are nutritious, the infrastructure is maintained, and the budget is well distributed.
I Mean im italian and when i was going to School i had like 2 times a week pasta 2 times soup and 1 time broth, then Always Salad or a vegetable and then like meat (once a week we had pizza 😏) It wont blou up you mind by any Means at the and of the day was cafetery food but It was fresh every day and It was decent i feel lucky to live in Europe
Do a comparison between school lunch from the 50s , 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s , the zeros and today. There was such a profound shift in what was available in decades past versus what the kids are shoveled today.
Right. We never eat grilled cheese and tomato soup at school at least. Its usually a breaded chicken patty sandwich, some type of veggie like collards, an apple and a milk carton. It all depends on region tho.
@@jeffreychen7494 school frozen pizza was the best thing it doesn't taste like cardboard. now frozen pizza in general taste depends on the quality of the pizza. there are many different companies that make them.
Here in the U.S. Florida we have boiled cheeseburgers with stale fries, a rotten apple and a carton of milk. Or chicken sandwiches that don’t even have real chicken in it.
In Texas we have fake pizza where the cheese slides off and it's a square or over cooked steak fingers with mash potatoes with stale fries and a stale rolls
Ah yes, I remember pizza days...whenever students got pizza, they would also get a handful of extra napkins so they could pat all the extra grease. You wouls soak at least 3 napkins like that.
I worked in a Japanese Elementary School between 2021 and 2022 and the teachers actually ate the same lunch as the kids. All the food was really tasty! Also, during the lunch period, one of the older students would go on the intercom and explain what the lunch was for that day, what ingredients were used to make it, where the ingredients came from (usually local farms), and why these foods are healthy for you. I really enjoyed eating the Japanese School Lunch!
No this is what you call someone looking up what ppl eat for lunch on Sunday and putting it on a tray to ppl who don't travel or have no clue about any of these cultureswill be amazed lol This is bullshit from 75% I know especially Trinidad I'm Trini that is not school lunch it is holidays and Sunday ppl would not be making that daily... & Friends from all over this is crap...
No not really in France we do eat 4 courses but we eat a variety of foods such as fish beef,pork...etc. bit we also have vegetarian or vegan days as well as national food days in which we have traditional foods from a randomly chosen country. And it seems like a private school only thing but it really isn't
Most of the food here is accurate, I’m from Pakistan and that food is pretty accurate. I think the American one is inaccurate and if it is, I’m sorry but suck it America, Biryani is delicious.
No in japan we get full course meals such as curry or sometimes sushi but the god and the food that will bid for millions of dollars the yakisoba bread :p
In America we get leftover pizza and the grilled cheese is rubber bro the only things that are good in my opinion is the Mac and cheese and the lasagna witch I haven’t had in about 2 years miss is lol.
@@Vince-A-N-O what do you mean if you're poor lmao? Unless you're going to a rich school your meal is gonna be garbage or at the minimum not look like restaurant food like in the video. Only food I ate from school was french fries and that's hard to get wrong.
Well, my Mom was in the cafeteria system for years, starting as a substitute lunch lady and after many years she worked her way up to the manager of the high school cafeteria and finally she was hired as the cafeteria director over all schools in our town. This is how it works: the government gives "commodity" foods for free to schools, which are like things like package mac and cheese, hamburgers, hotdogs, things like that. The school has a certain budget amount that they can spend as well, and they can't go over. Mom had to perfectly balance the meals and meet government nutrition guidelines, which would constantly change. I was in the kitchen there with all the ladies throughout my entire school life, and let me tell you something. They work very hard to make breakfast, lunch, and cleaning up after all the kids. They would make the cakes my hand, rolls, soups, salads, and basically everything else all by hand. If you don't like the school lunches, blame the government. Most kids waste half of their lunch and then walk over to the snack bar to buy Cheetos. That's why American kids are obese - not because of the school lunches, but because of how they eat elsewhere. I never ate away from school for lunch, because I knew how hard my Mom worked to make that for all the kids. Respect your lunch ladies, they helped me pay for a computer in college and are some of the sweetest ladies.
As a person that has been in American school for 7 years, our lunches are just a little over prison food quality. Edit: actually, it is probably worse.
@Pristine Artifact Government schools in India are usually the only ones who provide free food for students, the state where I come from (kerala) its rice porridge. Usuallly the quality is mediocre and students consume it cause they arent in a state to afford any other lunch. Some private schools, mainly rich ones may have canteen and may rarely provide free food or else students can buy food from the cantene, the quality is far better than government provided food, GENERALLY. But, most students in India bring their own food, and this depends on their household, it can be anything.
@Pristine Artifact in South Korea they have these lunch trays like the one shown in the video, they give you rice, soup, kimchi, two sides and a desert, sometimes lemonade in a small cup or ice cream in the summer
I come from Mumbai, India, Growing up in a convent school, we never really got served any food. Everyone had to bring their own tiffins. Unfortunately, there were sometimes when a small minority of kids didn't bring any or had straight up a single piece of sliced bread in their tiffins. This is exactly why I believe there should be meals served in school, funded/provided by the government.
I’m from the south, and here, in private schools, we have canteens and in government schools, we have free lunch, but let’s say I’d rather bring my own lunch than eat that as it’s not as healthy as the amount of dal and stuff will be so low.
When I was in school in the US, we never had tomato soup! We would have the grilled cheese sandwich that was frozen and heated up, with goldfish crackers, chocolate milk, and if you wanted, some fruit and vegetables from the salad bar, which many kids did not eat
@@joyshekhardutta9765 nope like In my school we only take easy lunches like sandwiches But have heavy things like the one shown in this video for dinner
a more accurate meal for the us would have been a stale burger, fruit cup , mac and cheese that doesn’t move when you turn it upside down, and a frozen milk that your obligated to get for some reason.
I am filipina-peruvian. I lived in korea for 2 years. Lunch in korea is served in school and they dont stick to one food as it showed. P.S. I really liked when they served chicken or curry and naan
The french one is not accurate. Salmon isn't common because it's very expensive. We indeed have bread but no baguettes and no jam. However, the entrées we have are way better, as well as the cheese, and the dessert of course. And I went in public schools so nothing special.
These look like gourmet meals for rich kids. This video is very inaccurate and not realistic. The slop that I ate in school looked nothing like these meals.
Here in India, certain schools run by the Central Government in poor & rural areas serve free afternoon lunch consisting of rice, lentils & vegetables to the students under the Mid Day Meal scheme to attract the attendance of poor students whose families have to stuggle hard to barely make for their 2 meals a day.
@@justarandompersonwithaspec5104 In which state bro..the ones I've seen are mostly truly shit..often maggot infested and with small stones in it from the grinding mill..Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar Jharkhand, MP all are like this. Orissa and Bengal still have some quality as the villages are not that distressed..but still nowhere near adequate and not in all villages. I dunno about south india or the north east though..and maharashtra himachal those places.
Yep Australians don’t eat Tim tams for lunch unless they’re lucky. Just normal lunchbox food, and that sausage roll looks whack, wtf even is that (I’m pretty sure they took the name too literally)
@@eugenekrabs9243 Do sausage rolls look different in Australia? That's generally what the look like here in the US, so that's probably where they got their wires crossed
@@Amy_the_Lizard don’t know about Australia but in the UK sausage rolls look nothing like that. Look up Greggs sausage roll if u want to see what they look like.
@@JoshArdissonne Depends on when and where. I grew up in the 70's and our school lunches were awesome. Pork chops on a bed of mashed potatoes and gravy and homemade peanut butter cookies. We also had fried pierogies with fried onions and sour cream, and homemade chocolate chip cookies. The entrees were always home cooked food. That was in rural Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
@@zobelobe2362 That sucks. I guess we were lucky back then. All the lunch ladies were our moms, so they did the cooking and it was like home cooked food.
Our cafeteria in the US gives expired milk, frozen, rock solid broccoli, a horrendous stale piece of bread with yogurt on top they call pizza, and month old pasta even though 99.9% of the dish is cheese. For “dessert,” they gave us juice containers they found in the back of the fridge frozen shut “before heading back to class.” Not to mention that whenever we try to have fun and talk, the lunch monitors turn of the lights to the point where we are engulfed in darkness, claiming that we are being to loud even though we are barely talking at all. They like to call out kids and embarrass them in front of the entire cafeteria. And when I have to go to the bathroom, we have to raise our hand and get approval from the lunch monitor, even if we want to stand up. But when I raise my hand to go to the restroom, the lunch monitor looks me in the eye, and turns away and talks to her friends. When she finally comes over and I tell that I have to go to the bathroom, she just scoffs, tells me that I am being dramatic and that “you don’t have to go you can hold it.” Meanwhile, I am just holding it in and tempted to just walk out. If you have made it this far into my comment, then let me give some advice. Lesson of the day kids, never buy school lunch. (Oh, and they sell water in tiny bottles half the size of a regular small one for double the price. That’s right, we have to pay for lunch. And if you don’t have money, then oh well, you starve.
@@stupiddumdum6294 me? Or the person in the video i went to a public school but the menus change and the grilled cheese sucks anyways and they give trash pizza and just trash burgers all bad food
As a US citizen i can confirm to you that we NEVER got a brownie for dessert before going back to class. My school would give us a sugar cookie ONE day a year. I think they're talking about private school lunches.
I went to a public school in the Philly suburbs. We regularly had brownies, and my favorites (being a sweets-loving kid) were the ones that even had a bit of frosting on them. Not like we needed more sugar. We had our choice of soup in high school, and grilled cheese was a regular menu item.
Back in the 70’s for me, I brought my lunch. Pretty sparse (2 slices of meat on bread, goldfish or potato sticks), which because I had some sort of job since I was in 7th grade, I supplemented with food from the cafeteria. My parents gave me 75 cents a week to buy something to drink.
In my school that is in the US they give us many options. The options change everyday, so I'm gonna use one for example. There could be Cheeseburgers, Spaghetti, PB&J, Ham and Cheese Sub, and Cereal. You will choose whatever you like, make your way to the checkout line, and then you will see a lot of options. (Right side) Freshly chopped peaches, blueberries, fresh broccoli, apples, and bananas. (Left side) Freshly chopped pears, apples, bananas, a mix of peach and pears, strawberry sauce, and celery. Choose your fruit or vegetable, and proceed to go towards the checkout. (Don't take too long or people are allowed to cut you!!) You enter your lunch number, which is no money. (School covers it!!) Then you go over to the silverware table. There are sauces there, too. Mostly just ketchup, ranch, mayonnaise, mustard, and fat free ranch. (I know it's weird having 2 ranches but it's whatever.) You choose either a spoon/fork (whatever you need), a straw, and a napkin. If they don't have the silverware selection container, you'll see a plastic box filled with packages that contain a spork, napkin, and a straw. So take whatever's there and go to your assigned seats in the cafeteria. But the crazy part is.. THIS IS A PUBLIC SCHOOL!
Even the ones they serve in private schools don't pass Jollof rice, chicken and coleslaw 😂😂😂. And besides, the meal varies so it's not only rice they give in a week (though it may seem like it 🥲).
Same. I’m from the US and sometimes when I pass my cafe early morning, I can see them taking the frozen pizzas from BOXES. And I’m like, why do I eat this ?
When I went to school In Australia, we didn’t have a “cafeteria”, it’s called a “tuck shop”, we eat outside and either bring a packed lunch from home or buy something from tuck shop which was usually fried/unhealthy junk which was depicted here pretty well. Sausage rolls and deep fried processed chicken was pretty standard tuck shop food.
Long time never heard this word "tuck shop". I am from Singapore and growing up it was called the same! Sadly now-a-days it's called a "canteen", I feel the name is a bit Americanized.
I'm in Canada and we generally bring our own food too, or if you live close enough you went home for lunch. Some very low-income children are fed breakfast and/or a morning snack, but that's generally targeted for specific catchments based on average income levels.
Same for New Zealand! Generally tuckshops weren't available until you were a bit older, like once you reach intermediate, and it's generally pretty average bakery stuff like meat pies or maybe a sweet slice. I think its ideal we bring lunch from home, so the parents can know what kind of nutrition their kid is getting, and obviously there being option if a students family isnt capable of feeding them.
Uhhh “multigrain bread” “creamy tomato soup”? Yeah any kid from America can tell u how crap and watery the soup was and how dry and crumbly the bread was. America public school meals suck because there’s no investment in education or welfare
@@connorbrown8743 My school actually had a very customizable menu. There were things like pizza delivered in from a local pizzeria, chips, pre made sandwiches/salads and even cookies baked from a local bakery.
@@L-Archange What is the economic situation in your area? I live in a upper middle class area in the US, (I'm middle class, there are families with million dollar mansions), anyway we pay high taxes and our food is still crap.
This food every where else: 🥗😍🥙🍱The food in Germany and Austria: 🍔🍟🌭🍕(They serve soup with pancakes inside, Schnitzel (fried meat with a bread-crust), Fries, Burgers with a Schnitzel pattie ) 😭
I went to school in Hawaii (Kalani High) and our school lunches were DEFINITELY not made from “fresh local ingredients”. They would literally feed us 1 stale slice of pizza or the weakest hamburger known to mankind with a carton of milk on a paper plate. But what can we expect for $1 lunch, in Belgium school lunch is served on actual dishes and cost at least 7 Euros.
When I was growing up in the 60's in Hawaii lunch was WAY different- I remember beef stew ,rice, a malasada, salad and juice or milk and 2 from your class a week had to help out in the kitchens for lunch, then after school if I didn't have JPO, I go to local Asian store and buy l red licorice ropes, crack seed, lemon peel and cherry slush- those were the Hana Battah days
Most Belgian schools dont even offer lunch. 90% Just bring sandwiches from home or leave school to buy something from a local bakery. Source: went to a 'rich/prestegious' school in central Antwerp
Preach brother, (McKinley High alumni) we got lunches that haven't changed since the 60"s. I remember "roasted chicken" lunches that were still bleeding if you stuck your plastic fork in them. At least with public school lunches, there's was nothing healthy or organic about them.
Honestly lunch in the UK depends on how much effort a school puts in. The school my mom worked at had really good quality food but where I went was shite.
Well, In India we used to get home prepared food for lunch. Our school did not have a cafeteria. We used to eat with with our friends in the same desk which was used for studying. Sharing food with one another was natural for all of us. The only unwritten rule was to avoid getting wet food which was hard to manage. We even got a vendor for selling food. It was always junk food or street food.
There are cafeteria in some schools but they should not be the place to buy and eat you gotta bring up ur own lunch the cafeteria is used by adults in school functions
Since my country, Czechia, was left out: our children get three courses - soup, a main dish (where they can pick from two or three options the week prior) and a dessert (which is often yoghurt or fruit), they also have unlimited access to tea or fruit juice and milk. The rules about the balance and healthiness of the food is pretty strict by law. Many people still remember not so tasty school lunches where only one meal (soup, main dish and dessert still) was avaiable and you were forced to eat it (yes, they wouldn't allow you to leave the dinning hall before finishing at least most of your food), but our school lunches made LEAPS in the past two decades or so.
I assure you, we don’t get “creamy tomato soup” or “brownies”. We get soggy pizza, expired milk, and maybe some burnt chicken nuggets if we’re lucky. Edit- Rip my notifications ayy
I’m telling you, that USA meal is 0% accurate. On a good day we usually get a grilled cheese that isn’t cheese placed on bread. And if we’re lucky the fruit won’t come from a can
Yeah no at my school the “ grilled cheese” is just a piece of bread and a single slice of cheese on top of a somehow soggy slice, and everything else contained enough grease to shorten your lifespan by 5 years and guaranteed you die from a heart attack by the end of school year, and the apples still contained the sheet of wax from the grocery store
at my school we get fruit cups and the grilled cheese is some brand that honestly looks really gross because of the way the sandwich was processed theres lile cheese on the outside that looks and feels like crust and the only fresh veggies/fruit that they serve are carrots and an apple the rest is canned green beans/peas or corn and then fruit cups i honestly dont get why they dont serve uncrustibles like get the taco ones without nut butter
In my school we get what they showed but the grilled cheese and tomato soup. Those 2 are just hot bread and cheese, a water and tomato kool-aid mix and of your lucky they will serve you a tomato soup with it
@@CCP-Lies Lol yup! In my high school, fresh-baked desserts were sold separately from lunch, and usually were between $3-5. Lunches were usually a main dish, with a side salad, a fruit, and a choice of whole milk or chocolate milk. Sometimes we'd get a free chocolate chip cookie, maybe about once a week.
As someone who lives in America. We DO NOT HAVE THE BLESSING TO EAT GRILLED CHEESE AND SOUP. WE DONT EVEN HAVE PLATES!! The average is mystery meat, rotten milk and an apple on a flimsy styrofoam tray 😭
@@battleaxel In my old middle school, it used to have some flavor but then my school replaced it with this really weird looking and some tasteless cheese substitute.
Yeah, you get milk in a bag, greasy ’pizzas’ or bouncy chicken nuggets, and the apples or oranges are either bruised or grainy. But the raisin box is right.
Americans would need 3 more of those plates and have a burger, fries, a shake, another fries, sausage on a bun, and it goes on. It's like a damn meat market over here
@@jericosunio9673 it’s a piece of stale bread with cheese, we rarely have meat in school lunches, on the rare occasions, it tastes like it’s from the dollar store
It is so nteresting to read comments and to know about lunchs and culture from native people! Thank you for this video in this case. I'm from Russia, we had mash potato and meat cutlet with strange brown drink called "coffee" (I'm sure it was not). Happy chilhood!
I’m Japanese and I’ve never gotten what this video presented as “lunch” in Japan LOL. They would serve more veggies and even if there’s fish it is almost always cooked..
raw fish for school lunch? I've never had that. what kind of terrible school serves children perishable food? they easily cause food poisoning though. did they even research it? Japanese school lunches that I've got for, were curry rice and karaage chickens, or stew etc. but definitely not this. I felt my inner Gordon Ramsay was screaming when they showed us that salmon. this is fuckin RAW!
Yeah exactly it's like only one piece of cheese the bread is always burnt. And where did the brownie come from we never have any brownie only one or even twice I would see them.
@@savannahholbrook1634 school chocochip or butter cookies were fire imo, we also had ice slushes and used to have ice cream machines, special days back in grade school milk ice pops. Now all i see is chicken or ham n cheese, questionable broccoli or carrots, and some odd fruit
Where we live in Malaysia we don't have free lunches, the food quality in schools are contract based so if you get good contractors you'll have good school lunches. My sister went to a school in the state capital so budget wise it was alright. One year they got a mediocre contractor so the food was bland and terrible. One year they got a really good contractor and my sister got to buy onigiris, chicken katsu, sushis, waffles along with the usual local dishes of fried chicken, curry puffs, soups, tomyum soup, fried noodles, coconut rice, chicken rice, plain rice etc on rotation. Pretty fattening stuff with little veggies but nothing super processed or frozen( except for the obligatory nuggets and sausages which tastes like ass anyway) . Most are prepared fresh daily.
An example of Turkish school lunch: Turkish bean stew, rice/bulghur pilaf, mevsim salad or choban salad or yoghurt/cacık, some Turkish dessert or pudding or a random fruit. It may include Turkish soups too.
I mostly remember eating a square slice of pepperoni pizza, canned corn, canned peaches and a milk for school lunch in America. They also had pizzabobs which was a grilled cheese with pizza sauce and pepperoni in it, and then some canned vegetables and canned fruit. Never any soup or anything that looked great. The dessert was usually fruit.
In the U.S. we get stale, soggy, and sometimes even expired food served with disgusting sad tasting fruit or veg (that usually no one eats), they serve the same size portions in Highschool as they do kindergartners and on top of that the lunches are like 3+ dollars a lunch which is really expensive if you eat it everyday, don’t get me wrong sometimes the food is pretty good (like the pasta or spicy chicken patty) but most of the time it’s just bad
School lunch in the United States varies wildly, in some states and counties kids will get a restaurant-quality meal and in others, they get basically prison food. In my experience, I've had both but most kids just bring a sandwich or something from home. In some US high schools, there are different trucks or stands on campus you can buy food from with a school money card that parents pay for each month. Also in places like southern California schools provide free fruits and vegetables from local farms.
They pretty much stopped caring my junior year and we got chicken sandwiches or nuggets almost everyday + one other eww option Edit: actually hasn't changed, school district does food assistance and its usually franken ham and cheese sandwich, broccoli or carrots, an apple or animal crackers etc, fruit juice and milk
Where do they get restaurant quality ? I’ve worked in schools in 5 states and it has always been similar garbage unless the parents sent it. Worked in a couple private schools in upper income communities.....a restaurant catered the lunches there, but still it was Mac n cheese or pasta with meatballs, or grilled cheese......restaurant quality is a very subjective term.
the meals were basically inedible! the milk was always chunky, my noodles were hard and cold, and the fruit cups they gave us were frozen solid. that’s why I took my lunch most of the time 💀
In most cases, it resembled prison fare. Health is not treated like wealth here unlike elsewhere. Hell, we do not even have school gardens students take care of and feed themselves like they do in France for example.
thank u for the clip👍 In addition, korean school food is better than the example😅. and the left round side is for rice, right is for soup. upper middle is for meat, fish, etc(protein)! We bring more amount protein on the dish than bachan(diverse side dishes. kimchi, salad, vege, egg roll, mushrooms..)
Lunches in France aren’t like that at all, not even in the richest parts of Paris ... We do have an entree, cheese or any dairy as well as a dessert. We dont have marzipan at all tho that’s very weird 🤣
Pity because it was between France and Italy for my favorite lunch .But your French one still sounds good even without the marzipan which did sound a bit weird.
@@Financial_Digest it used to be true for a certain category of frenchies. ,but nowadays, the norm is to staying at your workplace, or in the vicinity for the lunchtime.The covid changed many aspects of our ancestral ways of living.
To be honest, real Japanese school lunches look so much better than what they showed in the video. We get soup, rice/bread, main protein, vegetables and milk everyday in separate plates and bowls.
In my primary school in England we got really bad food. It was nowhere near what was in the video. A few times I would get Broccoli pasta and then a piece of brown fruit for dessert.
I’m Indian. Literally me and my classmates eat each other’s lunches because all of the lunches are delicious af. Also mango is something which will literally give you happy jitters during hot day at beach. It’s wicked good!
American school lunches were nutritionally lacking, but damn were they good! The best days were pizza or burgers (we called them crater burgers.) The peanut butter brownies and pizza soup were to die for. However, being in the band, we went to competitions all over the area. We went to one high school in New Jersey where something miraculous happened. Mothers of students were not at all happy with what was being fed their children, so they made a deal with the district to take over the cafeteria. From that point forward, moms were cooking lunch. Eight-thirty at night, dressed in half my band outfit, and after carrying a heavy drum, I actually sat down to a home-cooked meal. Lasagna with a meatball on the side, garlic bread, a salad with balsamic, and a brownie. $8! I'll never forget that. It was fantastic!
The British one is accurate. You will always find those in the school canteens. Especially, beans and jacket potatoes. The jaffa cake biscuits were in the vending machine in my school.
@@ioankibble9885 he made a big fuss about kids food and got them to make everything more healthy and got rid of loads of peoples favourite foods R.I.P original recipe turkey twizzlers and then all other foods started to have to follow the rules then so everything became a little more shit
I want to try Thai, China, Japan, Italy, Pakistan, French, Ethopia, India, Iseral, niegria, England, Mexico, Austrailia, Finland, Norway, and South Korea
the person who made this hasn't been to a school cafeteria in years and it shows. Even before covid lunches were trash. I would send my kid with food solely for that reason. also, I'm Guatemalan and lunch is more like beans soup and rice
I love how students cook food and serve it in Japan. It would be so nice if students were taught how to do it themselves at schools. This way they can help out more at home.
Japanese and other Asian schools pretty much teach children to cook and clean as it hones basic homekeeping skills. I remember there are no janitors while I was still at school, at the end of the class day, we had to sweep, mop, rearrange the chairs, take out the trash and sanitize the bathrooms. Some of those in the west accuse us of child labor but I think cooking and cleaning skills are important inside and outside of school.
Eh no. That’s inaccurate, whilst some schools may do it, it’s not generally done there like that. In Japan they most definitely have home-economics classes, and cleaning routines for the school grounds, but that is apart from the lunch times.
as a kid grown in Pakistan we never brought aloo ghost, but mostly ate sandwiches, fried samosas, fries , parathas with jam, chips and at times ice cream and candy.
In India, private school lunches are usually homemade ones. The most common lunches are Paratha, poori, sometimes potato stuffed grilled sandwiches if you're mum is feeling fancy. We also took Maggi noodles when we were in primary classes. For government school, meal is sanctioned by mid-day meal programme. It's a gov launched lunch programme which gives rice, lentil soup and some kind of vegetable dish.
After reading all the comments I am feeling lucky for the first time that in India here we have to bring our own lunch grom home And you can have whatever you want except non veg in lunch boxes
Never had biscuits for dessert in Wales We had: Curry and rice Chicken/ beef lunch with mash, some veg and gravy Pasta Mystery pie Every Friday was chip day Mini chocolate topped ring donuts (infants had 2 while juniors had 3) Apple crumble often drowned in custard Custard Sprinkle cake Strawberry mousse Choc ices Drink was usually water
0:46 Even in Japan, raw fish is never served in school lunches because of the risk of food poisoning. Most of the dishes are baked, steamed or fried. Also, dishes are normally separated and no side dishes are placed directly on top of rice (except for special dishes such as curry). In addition, the unfamiliar shape of the seaweed salad and raw cucumber slices? I don't think they did their research properly... Btw for the person interested in Japanese school lunches, I recommend the J-drama called "おいしい給食(The School Meals Time!)"
3:24 In Brazilian schools they don't eat eggs, they eat pasta with sausage, or rice and beans, salad and shredded meat and on special dates they have hotdogs with cashew or passion fruit juice.
Same with the uk, in high school the cheese in everything is like hardened rotten milk, the bread is Rick solid on the crusts, pasta is unevenly cooked making it cold in some parts, and everything is overpriced and greasy
I’m in England and we don’t get chocolate biscuits, we get things like jelly, yoghurt, cake or fruit.. well, in my school. The actual food was accurate though.
I don't know about the rest of the world and other parts of the US, but when I went to high school, lunch was a cardboard pizza, soggy fries, watery green beans, and a carton of milk.... and it costs $3. And this was 2014. And after that one time, I always brought my lunch.
As a high school student in the US
There is no tomato soup or a brownie for dessert, all we had is microwaved hamburgers with hard cold fries
It is worse than that for me. It gives me digestive issues too
we dont get fries or brownies-
Aw lucky, you guys get cold fries. We get frozen, wet (not soggy, but wet) fries
You at least had burgers and fries
@@pvssology like the food they give me is edible
I have never seen a US school lunch look like that. I would say 90% of the time it’s a cold rectangle of pizza most of the kids peel the cheese off of
This is sad
Even when we had grilled cheese and tomato soup, it was NOT on "crispy whole wheat" And "creamy tomato soup"
It’s always a large slice of pizza with loads of oil, bland sauce, and decent tasting cheese that can slide off with a slight tug. For the veggies I’d normally get cucumbers and tajin (best part of lunch) and for fruit it’s either apples or “pears and peaches”
But that’s just me, and I live in texas
Japan too, the school lunch is totally different from what the video has shown. Dont know where the sources came from
Facts😭
Taught at Korean primary schools for 8 years. Had the school lunch every day. Healthiest diet I've ever had.
That's good!
Plus they actually make it in the canteen/kitchen
Healthy meals😋😋😋🥦🫐🍎🍏🥗
Was it bussin?
That American one is a lie, they don't put that much effort into the lunches
As a Korean, I was convinced after reading the comments from US. If Korean schools served lunch like in the U.S., the principal would be sued for child abuse.
솔까 예시로 나온 우리나라 급식 왤케 맛없어보이냐 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 솔까 저거보단 맛있게 나오는데
@@힝-o8oㄹㅇ 하필 개맛없는메뉴가 예시로...ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 우린 버터플라이 새우구이나 랍스터도 나오는데... 볶음우동이 짱임
@@힝-o8o ㄹㅇㅋㅋ 요즘 저정도 메뉴면 그저 그런 맛없는 급식 아니냐
Bro if you saw some of our lunches here the principal would be executed
It honestly depends on the state. Just take the grilled cheese but use fake chese stail bread and instead if tomato soup there whould be 2 packets of ketchup.😅 if it was served in any other cuntry the intire school staff whould be executed for trying to poison students
As a US citizen I can assure you that we never got no “creamy tomato soup” or a “brownie for dessert before heading back to class”
Exactly
i did
We got card board pizza in the 90s.
@@rocklesson86 we got cardboard pizza and bouncy “scrambled eggs” in the 2010s too- apparently nothing changed in 20 years 😂
@@isabellp.5730 well then.
alternative title: what school lunches should look around the world
Except for australia. Why is there a sausage in pastry. Wtf
@@lovinglifewitheli sausage rolls are awesome tho
@@lovinglifewitheli I mean they are good tho
Except for South Korea.
@@lovinglifewitheli did u just say Australia...it was Austria...bruh
As a retired teacher from the Uk, I can assure that the state schools do NOT provide a meal that is anything like what you showed. What you showed was edible...
What school you worked at???
Edible?? I’m so concerned
speak on it
Yeah it just sort of sloppee everywhere
Ok just to clarify this is not all schools in the uk the primary and secondary school I go to serve decent meals
I'm Japanese and I never saw such a meal...especially sashimi!
But it's true that school lunch meal is served by the students, even by the first graders.
地方に行ったらあるかも。地元の特産物の味忘れへんどいてね的な、僕のところ神戸牛のステーキ出てきた
@@ryuria9561 ステーキ！？羨ましいです…！
たしかに学校によって、給食に地域性が出るのはありえそうですね。
@@ryuria9561 食中毒などの危険性を考えて、刺身などのナマモノは99.9％給食に取り入れないと思う。
@@oirarnoknutgib 確かにそうですね
そもそもワンプレートじゃない
As a brazilian i can tell yall
I never had what they showed for lunch
Some of the schools here dont even have teachers or proper restrooms
Eu nunca nem se quer vi esse prato na minha vida.
Well that in the video was an omelet with vegetables that they called "fritatta" along with rice and beans. I've never had a proper "fritatta" in school, that's for sure, but It was always rice and beans + some kind of meat and salad, sometimes it woud be bread or crackers/biscuits/ some sort of cake along with chocolate milk. I've studied on a public school in São Paulo, so i guess it wasnt that far from the video, actually.
@@GO-fl6cr Né isso, e eu esperando um arroz e feijão.
Tinha vezes que a escola nem tinha comida, porque os políticos da cidade desviaram tudo.
This is not real life me and you know that👌💪😍
That USA lunch is the biggest cap of all. Literally we get fed 2 dollar food meals.
Exactly that food looks like heaven mean while we’re getting fed meatballs that bounce if we’re lucky
American lunch is empty calories and usually garbage.
School lunch in the UK costs £2.20 each so it's about the same. The quality is terrible, the meat is fatty and stringy and the veg is bland
2 dollars! We only get food for 7 sek, about 0,7 usd!
@@jairz269 damn you Swedes are getting screwed
I really like that idea that in Japan they get the kids to help make the lunch, thus teaching them various recipe's that they can use when they leave home. Plus it creates more community among the children themselves.
Also something different is that (apparently) schools are mostly kept clean by the students who rotate the duty and thus are taught to keep the place clean and think about others.
The first couple years of school in Japan is focused on socializing the children, teaching them how to get along, share, etc. The schools usually have them do the cleaning and cooking/serving the school lunches, all to teach them important life skills. I live in the US, we definitely could learn a few things from that.
Hawaii does the same thing
I’ve never heard of anyone at school ever making the lunch. I’ve gone to various elementary schools in Japan (what they’re showing in the video) and the students only serve the food when there turn comes. You do have time in the day to clean the school though. Janitors and things like prom aren’t a thing in Japanese schools. I think is sad but a beneficial thing for all the students.
Also the school food is always delicious but we never got sashimi though 😂
I'm Brazilian and the school food here is usually very healthy, the school menu varies a lot, but they usually serve rice, beans, salad and some protein, it can be chicken or meat, sometimes soup, juice with biscuits, rarely a snack different type of hamburger or hot dog, but most of the time it's a healthy meal.
however there is an eventual "pudin" (that one who has a skin when its cold) or rice pudin once in while, specially in "festa junina" and other events where they would serve something less like whole meal and more likea snack, but yeah, its pretty complete, all the food groups in one plate and often come fruit as dessert.
Mano, não sei em qual escola você estudou, mas nas que eu estudei nunca vieram refeições completas. O mais próximo disso era sopa, nos outros dias eram ou lanches, cereal com leite ou só arroz e feijão e pronto.
lucky
As a Brazilian I would say most of schools don't have meals like that, but, when I saw the comments, I realize that every country don't have meals like that hahaha
Only japan actually. Japan has the closest meals to what this video showed
@@potatopotatobuy239 Not just Japan, France too.
I’m pretty sure Korea also has food like that
@Lazy Bundy then what do you get? Like some of our pizzas aren’t even real pizza, they’re just microwaved and don’t have much flavor and the cheese sometimes isn’t melted right. Plus pizza isn’t all that great
@Lazy Bundy pizza? You mean cardboard molten plastic and red circle fiberglass?
Japan’s school lunches does not looked like that. That’s a poke plate. That’s what they serve in cafe’s.
Yeah the Korean one was closer to Japanese school lunch at my school because it was served in sections like that
@@keira9107 yees that’s what I’m thinking.
That's right! They actually section their food and receive more than just thr tiny portion this video shows.
Chinese lunches don't look like what they showed either, I gagged just looking at that dry looking meat T_T.
Japanese lunches are much bigger than that. I survived off the serving of rice lol
Alternative title:
What kids wished their school food looked like around the world.
CORRECTION: This is what the kid's parents and guardians think their school lunch is.
Exaaactly bro BROWNIES??
No only in America our food is fine at school lmao
@@tatererer9747 My school lunch is non-existent. My school doesn't have school lunch. We bring our own.
Not in finland... Bunch of veggies that not many people enjoy like beets and such, and a sprinkle of ham on pea soup.
That would be a nightmare for a picky eater. All incredibly strong vegtable flavors.
Ukraines looks awesome though.
In the u.s we get a slice of processed pizza, for 2.00 $, water for 1.00, and we get a brown apple plus a piece of lettuce
They should give better main lunches like actual meat and not pizza.
You guys can get WATER?! Our school literally locks up the vending machines and tells us to bring our own water bottles or just use the water fountain
LOL!😂
I can't believe I forgot you get CHARGED for water. It's either that sh*tty pint of milk (2%, whole, or chocolate...... GOD I miss the days when they had vanilla) or that yeeyee brand of soy milk (for those who could prove they had a dietary restriction).
Making us Americans look generous here. It's heated up frozen pizza, lays potato chips and a Gatorade, lmao.
gatorade? wtf. we aint nothing
@@eee-th8yk we got different food everday. Sometimes garlic buttered pasta or bad school pizza. and those horrible cardboard trays that are so thin that the olive juice was dripping from it. With those horrible Milk or OJ containers. That Southern CA elementry school for you
gatorade?we had expired milk😂😂
@@eee-th8yk in my school in Florida, we had monster energy drinks, but it was in a vending machine hidden away in an out building, and it was only there for a year.
Lays? Lucky! Haha we always got the off brand shit
35 years as a teacher in USA and during my lunch duty I NEVER saw such a detailed meal! Way off!
This.
USA we get half hot half cold cheese sandwich, frozen pizza count as vegetable, soggy ass veggie which no one eats
In the USA my school gave me yogurt a bag of cheez its and goopy milk👍
I cant complain about our school lunches growing up, it was actually good, but it definitely didn't look as good as the example in this video,
I suspect the producers are Americans and didn't want to lose to the other countries. I'm from the US BTW.
when i went to school there was no brownie but there was some fake grilled chesse
This is what politicians think they're serving in public schools.
I live in an upper middle class area, (I'm middle class), like 20% are low income and they get a low quality lunch that no one eats. I had hot lunch for a week and it was awful. Something HORRIBLE was done to the broccoli.
@@NerdJoshua Sad
Mate they dont seve this stuff in "public" schools its all private mate.
@@adriankingston4338 I know, I'm saying this is what politicians show in their fancy charts when they're being told to report on the state of public schools. That school lunches are nutritious, the infrastructure is maintained, and the budget is well distributed.
I Mean im italian and when i was going to School i had like 2 times a week pasta 2 times soup and 1 time broth, then Always Salad or a vegetable and then like meat (once a week we had pizza 😏) It wont blou up you mind by any Means at the and of the day was cafetery food but It was fresh every day and It was decent i feel lucky to live in Europe
Do a comparison between school lunch from the 50s , 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s , the zeros and today. There was such a profound shift in what was available in decades past versus what the kids are shoveled today.
America serves frozen meals that are just heated up in the microwave. So much for healthy food 😍
Are frozen pizza supposed to taste like cardboard? I have never tasted frozen pizza before but I’m pretty sure they don’t taste that bad.
Ato
Right. We never eat grilled cheese and tomato soup at school at least. Its usually a breaded chicken patty sandwich, some type of veggie like collards, an apple and a milk carton. It all depends on region tho.
@@jeffreychen7494 school frozen pizza was the best thing it doesn't taste like cardboard. now frozen pizza in general taste depends on the quality of the pizza. there are many different companies that make them.
@@mackenzieossege176 Ikr
Here in the U.S. Florida we have boiled cheeseburgers with stale fries, a rotten apple and a carton of milk. Or chicken sandwiches that don’t even have real chicken in it.
yoo wtf thats not just a panhandle thing where i am
Boiled cheeseburgers wth
U GOT FAKE CHICKEN LUCKY WE GOT PINK CHICKEN
In Texas we have fake pizza where the cheese slides off and it's a square or over cooked steak fingers with mash potatoes with stale fries and a stale rolls
also, in washington, we got bouncy pizza, mashed potatoes that taste like popcorn, and overpriced shitty cookies
I remember my American lunch being soggy "pizza"or chicken nuggets that bounced higher than a basket ball...
Ah yes, I remember pizza days...whenever students got pizza, they would also get a handful of extra napkins so they could pat all the extra grease. You wouls soak at least 3 napkins like that.
Not American but wondering if you guys actually get milk to go with that? I found it weird when I saw that on the video
@@marv6826 Yes, we actually got small cartons of milk with lunch
@@marv6826 Yep. Problem is, the milk usually defrosts en route to the school. As a result, it always tastes off.
@@yaone8871 oh wow that’s so odd for me, thank for replying!
I worked in a Japanese Elementary School between 2021 and 2022 and the teachers actually ate the same lunch as the kids. All the food was really tasty!
Also, during the lunch period, one of the older students would go on the intercom and explain what the lunch was for that day, what ingredients were used to make it, where the ingredients came from (usually local farms), and why these foods are healthy for you.
I really enjoyed eating the Japanese School Lunch!
Sounds like a great way to teach kids to be conscious about what they eat and where their food comes from.
"What *private* school lunches look like around the world."
nah fam this is better than private
No this is what you call someone looking up what ppl eat for lunch on Sunday and putting it on a tray to ppl who don't travel or have no clue about any of these cultureswill be amazed lol This is bullshit from 75% I know especially Trinidad I'm Trini that is not school lunch it is holidays and Sunday ppl would not be making that daily... & Friends from all over this is crap...
No not really in France we do eat 4 courses but we eat a variety of foods such as fish beef,pork...etc. bit we also have vegetarian or vegan days as well as national food days in which we have traditional foods from a randomly chosen country. And it seems like a private school only thing but it really isn't
@@jotarokujojoestar9559 Private schools will forever have the biggest edge over shitty public schools.
@@jotarokujojoestar9559 not the English private, American private
“Lunches we would like to have around the world”
Most of the food here is accurate, I’m from Pakistan and that food is pretty accurate. I think the American one is inaccurate and if it is, I’m sorry but suck it America, Biryani is delicious.
emphasize on word "would"
No in japan we get full course meals such as curry or sometimes sushi but the god and the food that will bid for millions of dollars the yakisoba bread :p
In America we get leftover pizza and the grilled cheese is rubber bro the only things that are good in my opinion is the Mac and cheese and the lasagna witch I haven’t had in about 2 years miss is lol.
True XD
This is the most unrealistic display of school lunch I’ve ever seen.
You got that right...
Definitely not accurate.... If you are poor.
True
True 😔
@@Vince-A-N-O what do you mean if you're poor lmao? Unless you're going to a rich school your meal is gonna be garbage or at the minimum not look like restaurant food like in the video.
Only food I ate from school was french fries and that's hard to get wrong.
Well, my Mom was in the cafeteria system for years, starting as a substitute lunch lady and after many years she worked her way up to the manager of the high school cafeteria and finally she was hired as the cafeteria director over all schools in our town. This is how it works: the government gives "commodity" foods for free to schools, which are like things like package mac and cheese, hamburgers, hotdogs, things like that. The school has a certain budget amount that they can spend as well, and they can't go over. Mom had to perfectly balance the meals and meet government nutrition guidelines, which would constantly change. I was in the kitchen there with all the ladies throughout my entire school life, and let me tell you something. They work very hard to make breakfast, lunch, and cleaning up after all the kids. They would make the cakes my hand, rolls, soups, salads, and basically everything else all by hand. If you don't like the school lunches, blame the government. Most kids waste half of their lunch and then walk over to the snack bar to buy Cheetos. That's why American kids are obese - not because of the school lunches, but because of how they eat elsewhere. I never ate away from school for lunch, because I knew how hard my Mom worked to make that for all the kids. Respect your lunch ladies, they helped me pay for a computer in college and are some of the sweetest ladies.
As a person that has been in American school for 7 years, our lunches are just a little over prison food quality.
Edit: actually, it is probably worse.
i would say even worse!
A little over you are kidding are school lunches are even more than a little worse than prison food
@@raya-wh5bz probably not
nah they are worse
@@cameron9149 y e s they are worse lol my “burger” was frozen and my “cookie” was moldy :)
If this was the case, all students would have a 100 percent attendance ngl.
Agree
They should have shown mid-day meal food.
@Pristine Artifact Government schools in India are usually the only ones who provide free food for students, the state where I come from (kerala) its rice porridge. Usuallly the quality is mediocre and students consume it cause they arent in a state to afford any other lunch. Some private schools, mainly rich ones may have canteen and may rarely provide free food or else students can buy food from the cantene, the quality is far better than government provided food, GENERALLY. But, most students in India bring their own food, and this depends on their household, it can be anything.
@Pristine Artifact in South Korea they have these lunch trays like the one shown in the video, they give you rice, soup, kimchi, two sides and a desert, sometimes lemonade in a small cup or ice cream in the summer
@Pristine Artifact ik, the one my granny makes in Korea tho, its absolutely bangin
“A gooey grilled cheese” my hamburger was literally frozen at school
True
7 or so years ago I was given spoiled milk, how fun.
They usee to frequently hand out rotten and expired milk. We has to conplain to get one that wasnt.
I got re heated grilled cheese
Lol we had offbrand pb&j uncrustables
I come from Mumbai, India, Growing up in a convent school, we never really got served any food. Everyone had to bring their own tiffins. Unfortunately, there were sometimes when a small minority of kids didn't bring any or had straight up a single piece of sliced bread in their tiffins. This is exactly why I believe there should be meals served in school, funded/provided by the government.
I’m from the south, and here, in private schools, we have canteens and in government schools, we have free lunch, but let’s say I’d rather bring my own lunch than eat that as it’s not as healthy as the amount of dal and stuff will be so low.
When I was in school in the US, we never had tomato soup! We would have the grilled cheese sandwich that was frozen and heated up, with goldfish crackers, chocolate milk, and if you wanted, some fruit and vegetables from the salad bar, which many kids did not eat
I wish i had fruits in my school lunch
you got goldfish crackers? lucky, we got regular salted crackers :(
You got chocolate milk!? Did you go to private school
@@rubypufferfish5372 in my public school we had chocolate milk that always tasted watered down. It sucked
we got warm milk (not in a pleasant way in a out of the refrigerator for hours way )
As a Pakistani, i can assure you that i was equally surprised by "Pakistani School Lunch" part as anyone else. It was ridiculously false
Just curious, Do kids usually take heavy non veg curries like nihari in school for lunch?
@@joyshekhardutta9765 nope like In my school we only take easy lunches like sandwiches
But have heavy things like the one shown in this video for dinner
@@black_crystal3946 ok...was a bit taken aback when they showed a naan and curry in there!
@@joyshekhardutta9765 nope we take fast foods like burgers and sandwhiches for lunch.
I WAS LIKE WHAAAAAAT??🤯 Nobody tales Qorma to school.
a more accurate meal for the us would have been a stale burger, fruit cup , mac and cheese that doesn’t move when you turn it upside down, and a frozen milk that your obligated to get for some reason.
this comment is so underrated
Don't forget if you live in massachusetts stale rectangle pizza that 9/10 has ink on it
The dole fruit cups. Drink them first, then eat
@@geoffsaintima2216 they put ink in your pizza!?
@@mothastrud yeah most of the time the bread was purple
I am filipina-peruvian. I lived in korea for 2 years. Lunch in korea is served in school and they dont stick to one food as it showed.
P.S. I really liked when they served chicken or curry and naan
I'm French and I've NEVER seen those sweets in my entire life
Trop XD
They said marzipan aka pâte d’amande. Surely you’ve already seen that, it’s just there are different shapes and colours.
you’ve never heard of marzipan?
@Shyla Minhas In some places, not always, the entrée or cheese course may be skipped.
@@Hodoss seen it, eaten it but definitely not in school meals 😂😂😂 in a fancy boulangerie or in a box from the supermarket maybe
I feel like it really just depends on the school, cause all of these look like more lunches for more elite school districts
The french one is not accurate. Salmon isn't common because it's very expensive. We indeed have bread but no baguettes and no jam. However, the entrées we have are way better, as well as the cheese, and the dessert of course. And I went in public schools so nothing special.
These look like gourmet meals for rich kids. This video is very inaccurate and not realistic. The slop that I ate in school looked nothing like these meals.
@@Jon-6969 Food is a big deal in France, we pay our meal 5$ and it's subsidized. our meals look better, usually, than what they shown.
@@poum_pvp We pay three dollars for lunch, yet we get worse food than people who rely on $1.25 per day.
Students in Japan don’t help cook, however they do help serve and clean up
Any questions you can check out ‘the making of a Japanese school lunch -Life Where I’m From’
Same in korea👍
Mayday
Perfection
Do they do that every day?
We had to do it for like a week maybe once here in Sweden
日本でこんな給食見たことない
Here in India, certain schools run by the Central Government in poor & rural areas serve free afternoon lunch consisting of rice, lentils & vegetables to the students under the Mid Day Meal scheme to attract the attendance of poor students whose families have to stuggle hard to barely make for their 2 meals a day.
Yes but what they showed was completely lie
Which is not food..its shit
@@subhajyotibanerjee279 woah mid-day meal food is good ok
@@Itsme-do5cq didn't they showed what students bring from home?? Like there is a stuffed paratha with pickles....
@@justarandompersonwithaspec5104 In which state bro..the ones I've seen are mostly truly shit..often maggot infested and with small stones in it from the grinding mill..Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar Jharkhand, MP all are like this. Orissa and Bengal still have some quality as the villages are not that distressed..but still nowhere near adequate and not in all villages. I dunno about south india or the north east though..and maharashtra himachal those places.
*Food Insider:* "So this is what kids eat for lunch"
*Us, calling absolute bullshit:*
....
Yep Australians don’t eat Tim tams for lunch unless they’re lucky. Just normal lunchbox food, and that sausage roll looks whack, wtf even is that (I’m pretty sure they took the name too literally)
@@eugenekrabs9243 Do sausage rolls look different in Australia? That's generally what the look like here in the US, so that's probably where they got their wires crossed
@@Amy_the_Lizard don’t know about Australia but in the UK sausage rolls look nothing like that. Look up Greggs sausage roll if u want to see what they look like.
@@sarahwates3747 You're right, they look nothing like the sausage rolls in the video, or the ones we have here. Looks a lot better actually
Were is my brownie?
umm that American lunch looks wayyyy better than what we got at my school!!
@@JoshArdissonne very true
@@JoshArdissonne Depends on when and where. I grew up in the 70's and our school lunches were awesome. Pork chops on a bed of mashed potatoes and gravy and homemade peanut butter cookies. We also had fried pierogies with fried onions and sour cream, and homemade chocolate chip cookies. The entrees were always home cooked food. That was in rural Pennsylvania, where I grew up.
frr my school lunch dont look like that
@@catherinelw9365 that sounds good but the time I'm growing up is rn and food doesn't look like that
@@zobelobe2362 That sucks. I guess we were lucky back then. All the lunch ladies were our moms, so they did the cooking and it was like home cooked food.
Our cafeteria in the US gives expired milk, frozen, rock solid broccoli, a horrendous stale piece of bread with yogurt on top they call pizza, and month old pasta even though 99.9% of the dish is cheese. For “dessert,” they gave us juice containers they found in the back of the fridge frozen shut “before heading back to class.” Not to mention that whenever we try to have fun and talk, the lunch monitors turn of the lights to the point where we are engulfed in darkness, claiming that we are being to loud even though we are barely talking at all. They like to call out kids and embarrass them in front of the entire cafeteria. And when I have to go to the bathroom, we have to raise our hand and get approval from the lunch monitor, even if we want to stand up. But when I raise my hand to go to the restroom, the lunch monitor looks me in the eye, and turns away and talks to her friends. When she finally comes over and I tell that I have to go to the bathroom, she just scoffs, tells me that I am being dramatic and that “you don’t have to go you can hold it.” Meanwhile, I am just holding it in and tempted to just walk out. If you have made it this far into my comment, then let me give some advice. Lesson of the day kids, never buy school lunch. (Oh, and they sell water in tiny bottles half the size of a regular small one for double the price. That’s right, we have to pay for lunch. And if you don’t have money, then oh well, you starve.
Yes, exactly.
@@celiasjoblom1795 I highly doubt you read the whole thing lol but if you did then good job lol
Food Insider: American School lunch looks delicious.
Me an American: Well thats a lie.
Exactly! This is such a mis portrayal of American school lunches
yes im in 7th grade and the lunches literally no joke taste like plastic
They do give like grilled cheese and tomato soup BUT NOT THE BROWNIE💀
@@orangenade3707 It seems someone went to a private school.
@@stupiddumdum6294 me? Or the person in the video i went to a public school but the menus change and the grilled cheese sucks anyways and they give trash pizza and just trash burgers all bad food
As a US citizen i can confirm to you that we NEVER got a brownie for dessert before going back to class. My school would give us a sugar cookie ONE day a year. I think they're talking about private school lunches.
I went to a public school in the Philly suburbs. We regularly had brownies, and my favorites (being a sweets-loving kid) were the ones that even had a bit of frosting on them. Not like we needed more sugar. We had our choice of soup in high school, and grilled cheese was a regular menu item.
Back in the 70’s for me, I brought my lunch. Pretty sparse (2 slices of meat on bread, goldfish or potato sticks), which because I had some sort of job since I was in 7th grade, I supplemented with food from the cafeteria. My parents gave me 75 cents a week to buy something to drink.
As a student who attended private school that also isn’t true
I went to a private school the food still sucked.
Y’all are lucky you get dessert in da mainland. We get absolutely NO dessert in the cafeteria
is this how the upper class live
Yes my verified youtuber
That's what I'm going to say
Yep and im not
Patterrz this ain't a nuzlocke channel
@@monkeyninja150 lol
In my school that is in the US they give us many options. The options change everyday, so I'm gonna use one for example. There could be Cheeseburgers, Spaghetti, PB&J, Ham and Cheese Sub, and Cereal. You will choose whatever you like, make your way to the checkout line, and then you will see a lot of options. (Right side) Freshly chopped peaches, blueberries, fresh broccoli, apples, and bananas. (Left side) Freshly chopped pears, apples, bananas, a mix of peach and pears, strawberry sauce, and celery. Choose your fruit or vegetable, and proceed to go towards the checkout. (Don't take too long or people are allowed to cut you!!) You enter your lunch number, which is no money. (School covers it!!) Then you go over to the silverware table. There are sauces there, too. Mostly just ketchup, ranch, mayonnaise, mustard, and fat free ranch. (I know it's weird having 2 ranches but it's whatever.) You choose either a spoon/fork (whatever you need), a straw, and a napkin. If they don't have the silverware selection container, you'll see a plastic box filled with packages that contain a spork, napkin, and a straw. So take whatever's there and go to your assigned seats in the cafeteria.
But the crazy part is..
THIS IS A PUBLIC SCHOOL!
In Australia we actually have the option for Sushi, Samwich (brown bread), Pizza, Paster, Curry, Burritos, Wraps.
Yet it taste like shit
“is there anything we missed” yeah like 170 other countries
LMAOOO
😂😂😂
Yes
Lol... so true😆
They should do a part two.
As a Nigerian loving in Nigeria, I can assure you this is not what school lunches look like here.... I've never had broccoli in my life😂😂😂
Exactly, we take our food from home, this video is mostly fake except for Japanese and south Korean lunches.
Even the ones they serve in private schools don't pass Jollof rice, chicken and coleslaw 😂😂😂.
And besides, the meal varies so it's not only rice they give in a week (though it may seem like it 🥲).
I said the same thing. I was so shocked to see this. 😂😂😂
Imagine seeing broccoli.....😂😂😂
I'm insulted that y'all think American school lunches look *THAT* good.
Truth as anthor person meaning me living in Mississippi USA . Our school lunches were absolutely disgusting
Same. I’m from the US and sometimes when I pass my cafe early morning, I can see them taking the frozen pizzas from BOXES. And I’m like, why do I eat this ?
they do your just not in the right state
I'm insulted u guys got lunch
@@theproski3294 pizza?I wish I grew up like that but we ain't even have free lunch
To be honest, Finland,Australia, England and Hawaii’s meals look so good!
When I went to school In Australia, we didn’t have a “cafeteria”, it’s called a “tuck shop”, we eat outside and either bring a packed lunch from home or buy something from tuck shop which was usually fried/unhealthy junk which was depicted here pretty well. Sausage rolls and deep fried processed chicken was pretty standard tuck shop food.
Ay! We call the tuck shops here in South Africa too. I'm so glad they didn't pull this stupid nonsense with us. (Hint: we bring our own food.)
Long time never heard this word "tuck shop". I am from Singapore and growing up it was called the same! Sadly now-a-days it's called a "canteen", I feel the name is a bit Americanized.
I'm in Canada and we generally bring our own food too, or if you live close enough you went home for lunch. Some very low-income children are fed breakfast and/or a morning snack, but that's generally targeted for specific catchments based on average income levels.
Same for New Zealand! Generally tuckshops weren't available until you were a bit older, like once you reach intermediate, and it's generally pretty average bakery stuff like meat pies or maybe a sweet slice. I think its ideal we bring lunch from home, so the parents can know what kind of nutrition their kid is getting, and obviously there being option if a students family isnt capable of feeding them.
In UK my school called ur morning break tuck break cos that's when you got a snack like a biscuit or chocolate
School meals in the UK: 3 micro-waved fish fingers and then starve to death.
Yeah.
😂😂😂fish fingers lol here in America we stay fish stick but I like fish fingers wayyyy better might have to steal that
In my school the food actually tastes good
The fish fingers texture just feels like fried mash potatoes but only the outside is crispy then inside is just soaked and sometimes gooey?
what they showed is actually accurate....
Uhhh “multigrain bread” “creamy tomato soup”? Yeah any kid from America can tell u how crap and watery the soup was and how dry and crumbly the bread was. America public school meals suck because there’s no investment in education or welfare
And that's if you dont get a "pizza"
You get soup?
@@connorbrown8743 My school actually had a very customizable menu. There were things like pizza delivered in from a local pizzeria, chips, pre made sandwiches/salads and even cookies baked from a local bakery.
Your not lyin tho o-o
@@L-Archange What is the economic situation in your area? I live in a upper middle class area in the US, (I'm middle class, there are families with million dollar mansions), anyway we pay high taxes and our food is still crap.
This food every where else: 🥗😍🥙🍱The food in Germany and Austria: 🍔🍟🌭🍕(They serve soup with pancakes inside, Schnitzel (fried meat with a bread-crust), Fries, Burgers with a Schnitzel pattie ) 😭
The food in America:💀🤮🤢😢😭😔
I went to school in Hawaii (Kalani High) and our school lunches were DEFINITELY not made from “fresh local ingredients”. They would literally feed us 1 stale slice of pizza or the weakest hamburger known to mankind with a carton of milk on a paper plate. But what can we expect for $1 lunch, in Belgium school lunch is served on actual dishes and cost at least 7 Euros.
But even with 7€ you can't make something like in this video.
When I was growing up in the 60's in Hawaii lunch was WAY different- I remember beef stew ,rice, a malasada, salad and juice or milk and 2 from your class a week had to help out in the kitchens for lunch, then after school if I didn't have JPO, I go to local Asian store and buy l red licorice ropes, crack seed, lemon peel and cherry slush- those were the Hana Battah days
Most Belgian schools dont even offer lunch. 90% Just bring sandwiches from home or leave school to buy something from a local bakery. Source: went to a 'rich/prestegious' school in central Antwerp
Preach brother, (McKinley High alumni) we got lunches that haven't changed since the 60"s. I remember "roasted chicken" lunches that were still bleeding if you stuck your plastic fork in them. At least with public school lunches, there's was nothing healthy or organic about them.
Honestly lunch in the UK depends on how much effort a school puts in. The school my mom worked at had really good quality food but where I went was shite.
This, my school lunches in secondary school through the 90's was 80% chips lol.
if your from the uk why are you spelling Mom and not Mum like we do in the uk?..
@@1209c oooh he got exposed
Exactly
@@namnamfoods5313 that is a point but I’m sure they have a reasonable explanation for this treason. Or Liz will be after em
Well, In India we used to get home prepared food for lunch. Our school did not have a cafeteria. We used to eat with with our friends in the same desk which was used for studying. Sharing food with one another was natural for all of us. The only unwritten rule was to avoid getting wet food which was hard to manage.
We even got a vendor for selling food. It was always junk food or street food.
Yess true
There are cafeteria in some schools but they should not be the place to buy and eat you gotta bring up ur own lunch the cafeteria is used by adults in school functions
We have cafteria and we get free food from there. All the schools I know have free food majority also have indore cafeteria
Government schools have mid day meals free of charge tho
@@BeanOnTheFlipside government schools definitely don't feed what was shown in the video.
Since my country, Czechia, was left out: our children get three courses - soup, a main dish (where they can pick from two or three options the week prior) and a dessert (which is often yoghurt or fruit), they also have unlimited access to tea or fruit juice and milk. The rules about the balance and healthiness of the food is pretty strict by law. Many people still remember not so tasty school lunches where only one meal (soup, main dish and dessert still) was avaiable and you were forced to eat it (yes, they wouldn't allow you to leave the dinning hall before finishing at least most of your food), but our school lunches made LEAPS in the past two decades or so.
I assure you, we don’t get “creamy tomato soup” or “brownies”. We get soggy pizza, expired milk, and maybe some burnt chicken nuggets if we’re lucky.
Edit- Rip my notifications ayy
I didn’t get expired milk. My milk was frozen. Literal ice.
@@gromy4671 oh my-
Burnt chicken nugget is what I call my cat
@@Sidralovescrows I n t e r e s t I n g
@@gromy4671 Dude. Same.
I’m telling you, that USA meal is 0% accurate. On a good day we usually get a grilled cheese that isn’t cheese placed on bread. And if we’re lucky the fruit won’t come from a can
Yeah no at my school the “ grilled cheese” is just a piece of bread and a single slice of cheese on top of a somehow soggy slice, and everything else contained enough grease to shorten your lifespan by 5 years and guaranteed you die from a heart attack by the end of school year, and the apples still contained the sheet of wax from the grocery store
we had ice cream once like once out of 900 days of my school smh
at my school we get fruit cups and the grilled cheese is some brand that honestly looks really gross because of the way the sandwich was processed theres lile cheese on the outside that looks and feels like crust and the only fresh veggies/fruit that they serve are carrots and an apple the rest is canned green beans/peas or corn and then fruit cups i honestly dont get why they dont serve uncrustibles like get the taco ones without nut butter
At my school our grilled cheese was as hard as a rock, like we would literally hit them on our trays to prove to each other how hard they were
In my school we get what they showed but the grilled cheese and tomato soup. Those 2 are just hot bread and cheese, a water and tomato kool-aid mix and of your lucky they will serve you a tomato soup with it
You forgot the part where my grilled cheese comes in a bag, tastes like plastic, tomato soup is a luxury, milk is warm, and the brownies were $5
Huh brownies for 5$
@@CCP-Lies Lol yup! In my high school, fresh-baked desserts were sold separately from lunch, and usually were between $3-5. Lunches were usually a main dish, with a side salad, a fruit, and a choice of whole milk or chocolate milk. Sometimes we'd get a free chocolate chip cookie, maybe about once a week.
Don't. Forget the grape juice in a box that tasted like prison hooch
y'all even got tomato soup? 😔
Wait y'all get brownies and tomato soup
As someone who lives in America. We DO NOT HAVE THE BLESSING TO EAT GRILLED CHEESE AND SOUP. WE DONT EVEN HAVE PLATES!! The average is mystery meat, rotten milk and an apple on a flimsy styrofoam tray 😭
REALLLL
I HATE SCHOOL LUNCHHHHH 😢
American school lunch in reality: flavorless mac and cheese with near expired chocolate milk with half-frozen mystery meat burger
it was more than flavorless, it was crusty and i think they just microwaved a frozen block of it
@@battleaxel In my old middle school, it used to have some flavor but then my school replaced it with this really weird looking and some tasteless cheese substitute.
You cant forget the cold pizza 😭
And the unrefrigerated cup of "strawberries" that has started fermenting
@@johndwyer8993 I actually had warm pizza today that was semi-decent
The Korean lunch is actually pretty accurate! The american one though on the other hand...
Ikr u get cardboard with cheese and maybe vegetable scrap soup
Yeah, you get milk in a bag, greasy ’pizzas’ or bouncy chicken nuggets, and the apples or oranges are either bruised or grainy. But the raisin box is right.
Americans would need 3 more of those plates and have a burger, fries, a shake, another fries, sausage on a bun, and it goes on. It's like a damn meat market over here
@@jericosunio9673 it’s a piece of stale bread with cheese, we rarely have meat in school lunches, on the rare occasions, it tastes like it’s from the dollar store
@@jericosunio9673 uhh no this are for kids
Correct Title: "What we think school lunch looks like around the world"
More like “what we wish school lunches look like around the world” :,)
korea really does serve that food though
India actually gets school lunch like that. I used to get Parathas for 3/5 days of the week lol.
My school lunch looks like that in America, but I do go to a private school
the thailand one was completely false lol
It is so nteresting to read comments and to know about lunchs and culture from native people! Thank you for this video in this case. I'm from Russia, we had mash potato and meat cutlet with strange brown drink called "coffee" (I'm sure it was not). Happy chilhood!
In France the school lunches are nothing like it shows, it’s more like dry beef with hard and cold potatoes and an expired store bought sauce.
T'as fréquenté quel genre d'école 🤧
ahh c tlm vrai comme par exemple la derniere fois ils ont voulu servir mexicains on avait des tortillas mous mdrr
genre on a de la confiture lol
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Sauf pour la confiture et la pâte d'amande, c'est ce que j'avais à mon école avec des féculents et des gâteaux, des fruits et des laitages en plus.
I’m Japanese and I’ve never gotten what this video presented as “lunch” in Japan LOL. They would serve more veggies and even if there’s fish it is almost always cooked..
Thank you. Plus, it would be separated, except if it's in a lunch box of course.
Expecting a katsu but we got raw fish in the video instead
raw fish for school lunch? I've never had that. what kind of terrible school serves children perishable food? they easily cause food poisoning though. did they even research it? Japanese school lunches that I've got for, were curry rice and karaage chickens, or stew etc. but definitely not this.
I felt my inner Gordon Ramsay was screaming when they showed us that salmon. this is fuckin RAW!
Yep, they stereotyped everyone. “It’s Japanese, they must eat raw fish”
Yeah this video is super inaccurate we got fed worse than prisoners here in America.
america: here’s a piece of cardboard with a side of old baby carrots
It is the same in every country(maybe not in Asia, never been there), schools cut the most corners in the food department.
Yeah exactly it's like only one piece of cheese the bread is always burnt. And where did the brownie come from we never have any brownie only one or even twice I would see them.
@@savannahholbrook1634 and you probably have to pay for it or once or twice a school year get a dry and teeth breaking sugar cookie
@@savannahholbrook1634 school chocochip or butter cookies were fire imo, we also had ice slushes and used to have ice cream machines, special days back in grade school milk ice pops.
Now all i see is chicken or ham n cheese, questionable broccoli or carrots, and some odd fruit
Where we live in Malaysia we don't have free lunches, the food quality in schools are contract based so if you get good contractors you'll have good school lunches. My sister went to a school in the state capital so budget wise it was alright. One year they got a mediocre contractor so the food was bland and terrible. One year they got a really good contractor and my sister got to buy onigiris, chicken katsu, sushis, waffles along with the usual local dishes of fried chicken, curry puffs, soups, tomyum soup, fried noodles, coconut rice, chicken rice, plain rice etc on rotation. Pretty fattening stuff with little veggies but nothing super processed or frozen( except for the obligatory nuggets and sausages which tastes like ass anyway) . Most are prepared fresh daily.
An example of Turkish school lunch: Turkish bean stew, rice/bulghur pilaf, mevsim salad or choban salad or yoghurt/cacık, some Turkish dessert or pudding or a random fruit. It may include Turkish soups too.
I mostly remember eating a square slice of pepperoni pizza, canned corn, canned peaches and a milk for school lunch in America. They also had pizzabobs which was a grilled cheese with pizza sauce and pepperoni in it, and then some canned vegetables and canned fruit. Never any soup or anything that looked great. The dessert was usually fruit.
In Romania we are only given a little bread and maybe sometimes some milk but that one has become spoiled most of the time
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@Vortexy u don’t got thanksgiving break?
@Vortexy oh ok
In the U.S. we get stale, soggy, and sometimes even expired food served with disgusting sad tasting fruit or veg (that usually no one eats), they serve the same size portions in Highschool as they do kindergartners and on top of that the lunches are like 3+ dollars a lunch which is really expensive if you eat it everyday, don’t get me wrong sometimes the food is pretty good (like the pasta or spicy chicken patty) but most of the time it’s just bad
School lunch in the United States varies wildly, in some states and counties kids will get a restaurant-quality meal and in others, they get basically prison food. In my experience, I've had both but most kids just bring a sandwich or something from home. In some US high schools, there are different trucks or stands on campus you can buy food from with a school money card that parents pay for each month. Also in places like southern California schools provide free fruits and vegetables from local farms.
I got a stomach ache everyday...stopped getting lunch in high school.
They pretty much stopped caring my junior year and we got chicken sandwiches or nuggets almost everyday + one other eww option
Edit: actually hasn't changed, school district does food assistance and its usually franken ham and cheese sandwich, broccoli or carrots, an apple or animal crackers etc, fruit juice and milk
There were some things good at my school, hot dog with potato smiles good
Where do they get restaurant quality ? I’ve worked in schools in 5 states and it has always been similar garbage unless the parents sent it.
Worked in a couple private schools in upper income communities.....a restaurant catered the lunches there, but still it was Mac n cheese or pasta with meatballs, or grilled cheese......restaurant quality is a very subjective term.
@@lilbiscuit5825 Where did u go because they fed us prison food our childhoods
Never once has a public school lunch looked even half edible in the US, let alone like a damn hipster restaurant made it.
the meals were basically inedible! the milk was always chunky, my noodles were hard and cold, and the fruit cups they gave us were frozen solid. that’s why I took my lunch most of the time 💀
@long furby smort
Those square school pizzas are better than any Neopolitan pizza. Fact.
@@Banjo56 Fact
In most cases, it resembled prison fare. Health is not treated like wealth here unlike elsewhere. Hell, we do not even have school gardens students take care of and feed themselves like they do in France for example.
thank u for the clip👍
In addition, korean school food is better than the example😅. and the left round side is for rice, right is for soup. upper middle is for meat, fish, etc(protein)! We bring more amount protein on the dish than bachan(diverse side dishes. kimchi, salad, vege, egg roll, mushrooms..)
Lunches in France aren’t like that at all, not even in the richest parts of Paris ... We do have an entree, cheese or any dairy as well as a dessert. We dont have marzipan at all tho that’s very weird 🤣
Pity because it was between France and Italy for my favorite lunch .But your French one still sounds good even without the marzipan which did sound a bit weird.
Seconded! This channel is specialized in approximations.Another clickbait like 5 minutes craft.
@@Financial_Digest it used to be true for a certain category of frenchies. ,but nowadays, the norm is to staying at your workplace, or in the vicinity for the lunchtime.The covid changed many aspects of our ancestral ways of living.
@@Financial_Digest That's different everywhere. Some do some don't no matter what country you live in . Logistics ! !
@@Financial_Digest No it's not I work in 3 different primary schools and the vast majority of the children eat lunch at school
this is the so inaccurate... it think they just got meals from the best schools in the country and put it here not ordinary food
But my standard school In korea serves the same food iin this video
korea and japan actually serve good food
To be honest, real Japanese school lunches look so much better than what they showed in the video. We get soup, rice/bread, main protein, vegetables and milk everyday in separate plates and bowls.
In my primary school in England we got really bad food. It was nowhere near what was in the video. A few times I would get Broccoli pasta and then a piece of brown fruit for dessert.
Norway’s is accurate I go to an average school and u just bring what u wanna bring
I’m Indian. Literally me and my classmates eat each other’s lunches because all of the lunches are delicious af. Also mango is something which will literally give you happy jitters during hot day at beach. It’s wicked good!
Same but I'm Pakistani I ate my bff lunch lol
@Oscar Cantu ikr we be living the life
But we do get Paratha from home lol
@Oscar Cantu it depends on where u live since each state has its own education standards and each district varies in funding
In India almost all kids eat each other's lunches and have their favourite aunty who cooks the best
American school lunches were nutritionally lacking, but damn were they good! The best days were pizza or burgers (we called them crater burgers.) The peanut butter brownies and pizza soup were to die for.
However, being in the band, we went to competitions all over the area. We went to one high school in New Jersey where something miraculous happened. Mothers of students were not at all happy with what was being fed their children, so they made a deal with the district to take over the cafeteria. From that point forward, moms were cooking lunch. Eight-thirty at night, dressed in half my band outfit, and after carrying a heavy drum, I actually sat down to a home-cooked meal. Lasagna with a meatball on the side, garlic bread, a salad with balsamic, and a brownie. $8! I'll never forget that. It was fantastic!
As a UK citizen, I can promise you we never got 'baked cod fingers'
I did back in the 80's and 90's. I don't what changed to bring in stuff like turkey twislers in the noughties.
Fish fingers on a Friday were very common though
Yeah but that was more of a primary tginf
@@36OZ same for secondary and college Fridays are fish and chips day.
The British one is accurate. You will always find those in the school canteens. Especially, beans and jacket potatoes. The jaffa cake biscuits were in the vending machine in my school.
I never once had tomato soup with a “crispy grilled cheese, raisins and a brownie” before heading back to class! WTF?
I did when I was a kid. Different schools had different school lunches.
i def had tomato soup and grilled cheese in school. cookies instead of brownies tho and only on holidays.
I would love to know what school in the UK was giving out jaffa cakes man
My school had them, but only once in like year 2 or somsthing
@@Inkedalic3 boss! School by the sound of things I'm guessing this was pre Jamie Oliver??
mine did every other Friday!
@@j.ksimmonsplaysmysticmine6656 what did he do
@@ioankibble9885 he made a big fuss about kids food and got them to make everything more healthy and got rid of loads of peoples favourite foods R.I.P original recipe turkey twizzlers and then all other foods started to have to follow the rules then so everything became a little more shit
I want to try Thai, China, Japan, Italy, Pakistan, French, Ethopia, India, Iseral, niegria, England, Mexico, Austrailia, Finland, Norway, and South Korea
the person who made this hasn't been to a school cafeteria in years and it shows. Even before covid lunches were trash. I would send my kid with food solely for that reason. also, I'm Guatemalan and lunch is more like beans soup and rice
the lunch of public schools in brazil is acctualy biscuit and water.
I love how students cook food and serve it in Japan. It would be so nice if students were taught how to do it themselves at schools. This way they can help out more at home.
Japanese and other Asian schools pretty much teach children to cook and clean as it hones basic homekeeping skills.
I remember there are no janitors while I was still at school, at the end of the class day, we had to sweep, mop, rearrange the chairs, take out the trash and sanitize the bathrooms.
Some of those in the west accuse us of child labor but I think cooking and cleaning skills are important inside and outside of school.
@@ValerioRhys I think it’s a womderful thing, not a child labour but teaching children basic life skills and respect for work.
@@ValerioRhys "child labour" ???? what??? i can't believe some people actually think that
They serve it but they don't cook it? Where did that come from. The lunch shown in this video would also never be served in Japan.
Eh no. That’s inaccurate, whilst some schools may do it, it’s not generally done there like that. In Japan they most definitely have home-economics classes, and cleaning routines for the school grounds, but that is apart from the lunch times.
as a kid grown in Pakistan we never brought aloo ghost, but mostly ate sandwiches, fried samosas, fries , parathas with jam, chips and at times ice cream and candy.
Exactly like when in the world did someone bring aloo gosht?
Chips burger was the most popular, now shawarma
Here in america we get a tiny amount of cheese and salami in a whole wheat bread sandwich
That sounds good
@Vend I can totally relate!
I am Israeli and I’ve never heard of anyone eating hummus with pita and a hard boiled egg at school.. we would usually just bring a sandwich from home
I'm from japan- and school lunch doesnt look like that, it's actually more delicious and better
Keep bragging and we'll send another missle
@@y_e_s_L lmfao 😂😂
@@y_e_s_L BAHAHHAHAHAHAAH
@@y_e_s_L u just took a big shot 😂😂
No raw fish is served for school lunch.
In India, private school lunches are usually homemade ones. The most common lunches are Paratha, poori, sometimes potato stuffed grilled sandwiches if you're mum is feeling fancy. We also took Maggi noodles when we were in primary classes.
For government school, meal is sanctioned by mid-day meal programme. It's a gov launched lunch programme which gives rice, lentil soup and some kind of vegetable dish.
"lentil soup"?? It's dal ffs.
@@linxuser897 Yes I know it's dal but I'm writing in English not Hindi. And many people might not understand the term "dal".
@@linxuser897 "lentil soup" could mean either daal or sambhar...
@@cyrusp100 no they are actually different
@@astitvapandey9145 Yes I know daal and sambhar are different. But in English they can both be called "lentil soup".
After reading all the comments I am feeling lucky for the first time that in India here we have to bring our own lunch grom home
And you can have whatever you want except non veg in lunch boxes
Really? You couldn't take non veg? We could take it.
@@sneharaveendran6383 can't, you can take egg but you'll be scrutinised by your classmates and meat is just forbidden lol
Even in anganwadi program yo u are gueantwed to have a big ass plate filled with variants of dishes all week
@@priyachoudhary9896 that's too sad....ours is army school...they have no issues.
Meat is not forbidden everywhere in India. In Kerala, kids generally have non veg food in school lunches especially fish.
Never had biscuits for dessert in Wales
We had:
Curry and rice
Chicken/ beef lunch with mash, some veg and gravy
Pasta
Mystery pie
Every Friday was chip day
Mini chocolate topped ring donuts (infants had 2 while juniors had 3)
Apple crumble often drowned in custard
Custard
Sprinkle cake
Strawberry mousse
Choc ices
Drink was usually water
Damn, you were lucky. In the US we hardly ever got dessert.
In India we bring breakfast from home and then share with eachother so there are many many choices to eat lol
Yeah i love this . Also we can share food with our classmates if they bring a special food so its all worth it
Ikr 😂😂
When someone opens a box of something with Paneer or Chicken in it.
@@BeanOnTheFlipside non veg is banned in my school :(
@@rasgulla6488 I'm vegetarian so im banned from non veg for life :(
Alternate title: what Americans think the rest of the worlds lunches are like
uh no because the "us school lunch" isn't accurate at all.
@@za.monolit it's sarcasm if you don't get it
@@shmtb1416 that's not what sarcasm means
@@griffinterras9659 look what I meant to say is that its a joke
so you're telling me...america...bad?????
0:46 Even in Japan, raw fish is never served in school lunches because of the risk of food poisoning. Most of the dishes are baked, steamed or fried. Also, dishes are normally separated and no side dishes are placed directly on top of rice (except for special dishes such as curry). In addition, the unfamiliar shape of the seaweed salad and raw cucumber slices? I don't think they did their research properly...
Btw for the person interested in Japanese school lunches, I recommend the J-drama called "おいしい給食(The School Meals Time!)"
_いただきますー_
I'm In The USA
#9 USA I'm In
No yeah, japanese students dont eat meals that look like that, I was kinda shocked on how wrong this could be
Japan??? Who?
3:24 In Brazilian schools they don't eat eggs, they eat pasta with sausage, or rice and beans, salad and shredded meat and on special dates they have hotdogs with cashew or passion fruit juice.
wait, we were supposed to have grilled cheeses and NOT mystery meat?
Mystery meat?I've never had that ,well we are from different countries
Honestly I'm not sure it's meat
@@wingedgirl7035 that's concerning 😂
@@animochi2899 Well I'm still alive for now😅
@@wingedgirl7035 🤣are u though
everyone who sees the American lunch
*Stop the cap*
depends on the school, i got that in my high school but not middle school in a different state
Cuz it is
Same with the uk, in high school the cheese in everything is like hardened rotten milk, the bread is Rick solid on the crusts, pasta is unevenly cooked making it cold in some parts, and everything is overpriced and greasy
@@8pmSharpish TRUE
I’m in England and we don’t get chocolate biscuits, we get things like jelly, yoghurt, cake or fruit.. well, in my school. The actual food was accurate though.
@@thebusybeanhomecafe4035 i meant like- the actual food itself like the lunch not the dessert
@@thebusybeanhomecafe4035 oh, okay. srry if i was being stupid lol, i just need tone indicators n stuff
@@harryeastick4077 LMFAO
@@harryeastick4077 well they kind of are, they have chocolate on the inside and that orange stuff on the inside
@@harryeastick4077 eh, in my school we didn’t have those, i had well, the food mentioned in my comment
I don't know about the rest of the world and other parts of the US, but when I went to high school, lunch was a cardboard pizza, soggy fries, watery green beans, and a carton of milk.... and it costs $3. And this was 2014. And after that one time, I always brought my lunch.