"Lunchables set up an entire generation to be obsessed with charcuterie when they got old" ... I was not prepared for such a spot on observation in this video.
i didn't even know crap like this existed before lunchly, for kids! horrible "food" and preparing those tastebuds for highly processed foods instead of fresh, maybe less palpable stuff. Just prepare a sandwich with some good bread, slice of real cheese, some slices of tomatoes, voila - 10 times better. Or a bowl of salad with some tasty extras. man, i can't believe what i'm seeing.
Where’s the classic food wars intro? You know, the “from calorie count to portion sizes, we want to know all the differences between Lunchables/Lunchers in the UK 🇬🇧 and the US 🇺🇸 ! This is Food Wars.” Stuff?
I think they’re getting a bit bored of doing these videos to be totally honest, they’re running out of things to compare but the videos are a big money maker for the channel because they get a lot of views
I absolutely agree that jumbo tubes are the only option when it comes to dunkers. I have been known to have a box and completely avoid the cheese so a bag of just jumbo tubes would be amazing
I remember in the early 2000s in the UK, they did more a "meal" version of the Lunchable that included some small chocolate miniatures of something like Daim aswell as a Capri Sun
At this point I see the series as a vehicle for jokes and facilitating the magic that is the Joe/Harry dynamic 😅 ProZD did a pretty solid video of evaluating the American ones a while back. No shade love you both Joe and Harry ❤
I remember in the mid 2000's there used to be a pizza and treatza one that had chocolate sauce and sprinkles with the usual pizza stuff. Only had it once but I remember liking it
The pizza Lunchables reaction was correct. When they came out in the mid 90's I was the first kid at my school to bring them for lunch and thought I was Billy Bada$$. Turns out I was really Davy Dumba$$. They were terrible and the main reason I stopped eating Lunchables altogether.
Dairylea Dunkers with the Jumbo Tubes are legit still a staple of my diet as a 35 year old woman. If they made those tubes as a packet of crisps I’d be sooo fat. 😂
Real ones know that jumbo tubes are the way to go. The breadsticks are tasteless, the Ritz are undunkable and don’t talk to me about the nacho version. I am a 46 year old man BTW 😂
Oho lentil chips sour cream and onion usually available in B&M or Home Bargains and taste identical! I have tried a few and these come closest. Get them and a big tub of dairylea and thank me later.
Capri Sun, Hi-C, or Sips Iced Tea were my drinks of choice back in the 90s. I never had Lunchables. always a sammy and chips. Hillshire Farms Small Plates are the grown-up version of Lunchables and they taste great.
I have never really understood the point either. Do kids really find building a cracker ‘sandwich’ that exciting? And then seeing that teenage version where it’s literally just the bits for a sandwich in a box?! 😂 Hey, why not spend twice as much money buying some plastic-wrapped bread, cheese and water so you can hand your teenager a box and say, “Make your lunch yourself.” Who does that?
As someone who was a kid that liked these I think part of the appeal came from how well they were marketed. Tons of commercials on all of the tv channels for kids that made them seem fun possibly because around the same time there were a couple of toys that let you make food like the easy bake oven and some that you made bug shaped gummies to gross out your friends. It also helped that there used to be way more variety in the types of food and they were definitely less healthy so it was that feeling of getting away with eating junk food for lunch. As for those “teen” centered ones Im certain the majority of those go to older elementary kids wanting to feel like teens not actual high schoolers lol.
I'm so glad my parents would call these a waste of money growing up. Totally true, none of these looked good but even they were good they look miniscule for the price.
As a kid I was usually just had the cafeteria food but once for my birthday in fourth grade I got to bring a lunchable. That sounds lame but it was one they don’t have anymore with a mini burger, tiny chocolates, and a tiny cola can so I was pretty hyped! In hindsight there’s no way that was healthy or tasty but hey it made tiny me happy with the novelty to the point where that cute little soda can still comes up in my memories on occasion.
Real OGs remember the burger and hot dog lunchables. I ate so many of those growing up. They were my prime time lunchables. When they released those again, I bought a whole bunch and ate them for lunch at work everyday. My coworkers were actually jealous!
Or didn’t depending on the years you were in school. Late 90s if you didn’t have lunchables you weren’t living lmao my sisters used to go crazy for these.
i begged for lunchables but i think i was actually given one once in my life (probably to shut me up) bc they were junk food & it wasn't very good in the end...! still in the uk it used to come with daim chocolates & a capri sun.
I remember eating pizza lunchables in the UK in the early 2000s, we still have the pizza ones though but its now "lunchables street food pizza" you can get them at asda for anyone wanting to try them still
@@CJBrookes That’s the name used when they can’t legally call it “cheese” because it doesn’t meet the criteria. Same as those plastic “cheese” slices that go on cheap burgers.
@@CJBrookes It's really pathetic... cheese is already not good for you. You'd be amazed how much saturated fat you consume with just a couple slices. They go a step further and pump it with fillers, making it EVEN WORSE.
As mexican my parents would say no to lunchables except for my younger sister she would say its cause she was young and can get whatever but as the oldest i have to eat whatever is at home. My sister also liked the canned raviolis. Looking back at it im happy i never got to partake in american classics. Also my school lunch was free but wasnt a fan of the food so i would sometimes pack something myself.
Fun fact you are actually supposed to warm up the pizza lunch able pretty sure it used to have introductions on the back but they might have removed it
I’m pretty sure they were always intended to be eaten cold but might’ve included alternate directions for some way to microwave it at some point. Idk if there’s ever been a lunchable that was supposed to be cooked even if it looked like food that should be cooked
1 minute in, i want a lunchable, 2 minutes in, driving to the local gas station, 4 minutes in, arrive at kwik trip, grab lunchable, 8 minutes in, returning to my bed with the goods
When I was a little kid, whenever I got the pizza lunchables, I would usually microwave it so the cheese melts and has a better texture and it’s hot like real pizza. There’s no way that I would ever eat it cold right out of the box like that.
Fun fact, I stopped eating Lunchables when I was a kid and have no idea how far back it goes but Lunchables were found to contain really high amounts of lead and other heavy metals with some packs being higher and lower depending on what is in the pack. If I remember the turkey and cheese crackers had the highest amount with the pizza taking up number 4 or 5.
You're thinking of baby food in 2021. There's no reports or articles or tv segments I could find online that repeated anything similar to what you just said.
@@picardsolo2471 There was a consumer report article on it that was touched on by many major news outlets. I found a couple that denounced the findings saying things about "yeah but that's close to the limit in CA", and other stuff downplaying it. Personally 0 lead and heavy metals is what you shoot for with food. Also NPR wrote a report about how the USDA pushed to have them removed from school lunches at the same time, around April of this year. Either way, if I am wrong I am wrong I still wouldn't give any of that garbage to kids. It's cheaper and fresher to get stuff from a deli and make a sandwich than to get overly processed turkey and crackers for close to the same price as a half lb of the relative meat.
Idk where you are looking but you are apparently not doing it right, it took me 10 seconds to find the report amidst the results talking about the report but ok then.
The Tesco meal deal in the UK is a bargain. to buy the equivalent in the US (at a 7-eleven, one of the few stores to offer packaged sandwiches) it would cost approx. $4.00 for the sandwich, $1.00 for a small bag of chips (store brand), and at least $2.00 for a beverage, which probably wouldn't be as healthy as a smoothie.
Nothing will beat the mini hot dogs and burger lunchables we used to have in the uk, a mini hotdog/burger patty, bread, cheese and a sachet of ketchup and it had such a weird texture but it tasted so good 😂
Dairylea Lunchables were better back in the day. Who remembers the double cheese ones? One stack of standard cheese and one of orange-coloured herby cheese. Those were the dog's and a staple of my post-school snacking for years.
I Love Lunchables even as a kid. My parents would buy Lunchables on certain occasions if I was going on a field trip or whatnot. It wasn't a primary thing that was always in my lunches cos my parents were health nuts about what went into my lunch.
In Canada there’s Lunchables and also Lunch Mates, which is the same thing basically. We get hot dog, burgers, bologna, Kielbassa, and summer sausage. The hot dogs and burgers are slightly terrifying though. They have a film on them
I was a veggie when these came out as a child and remember being glad as it looked so plastic and tasteless, I think my parents were glad too. I made my own veggie version and it was so dry. They look so expensive for a dry meal you can make yourself for so much less money and so easy. There weren’t massive in the UK when I was a child, it was all about Sunny D which I wasn’t allowed as it was so bad back then.
Australian here - don’t think we have anything like these here, at least not that I remember. Some things I remember being popular in lunch boxes were roll ups, LCM bars and the individual Nutella trays
@@Mammutidae that could be it, I’m in a small town with neither a Woolies or Coles - my local supermarket is currently a Drakes, might have to look when I go there after work
My daughter bit a piece of the cheese in one of these once and left it on the floor. We found it the next day and the piece was like an actually piece of plastic. Rock solid.
Lunchables were my childhood, particularly the Dairy Lea Dunkers. Glad to see Cheese Strings got an honourable mention as well as Laughing Cow, but Baby Bell’s should also get a shout out in the cheese snack department. Another honourable mention should’ve been Attack a Snacks which are essentially Lunchables but with wraps instead of crackers. Though they are a different brand to Dairy Lea, not sure which one though.
A friend of mine found stuff with Red 40 imported into the UK, ate it all the time and ended up getting a stomach ulser. Might not have been the Red 40 but we all like to think that was the reason.
I think they’ve also gotten smaller because some kids are getting less time to eat now. A lot of elementary schools only have 20mins set aside for lunch time. So lunch has become more of a “snack” since they probably spend half of that time distracted with friends and trying to open their lunch
Wish lunchables would have been popular in the 90s when I was going to school. Then again, I doubt my parents would have bought them; I usually just wound up buying whatever the school lunch was. Also really wish water bottle were a bigger thing then as well cause I was always thirsty at lunch, often drinking like 3 or 4 milks and a juice (I’d buy a milk and juice and some friends would give me their milks).
This reminds of Le Snak I have in Australia that is a cracker and cream cheese combination - I used to love Le Snak as a kid. Dont know why they used the french in the name of kids snacks in Australia in the 90s like Petit Miam (the slogan was its french for "yum") which was a kid marketed yoghurt snack.
You know how much these things had a hold on us Millennials that stores have Adult Lunchables with Manchego cheese Genoa Salami and Crackers and different varieties. Essentially a charcuterie board.
As an asian living in asia, i just can't believe that this is considered a meal. it doesn't look like a meal, and the calorie count seems too low (although I guess for very young kids perhaps it's enough?). to me the lunchables looks like snacks. except the uploaded one because it has an actual bread. Also all the additional sweet snacks and drinks that come with it. omg.
I've just realised why Harry keeps experimenting with facial hair. It's trying to emulate Joe! We're looking at the Friends episode where Chandler grows peach-fuzz to be more like Richard! Ah, bless ... 😏
I remember when these started hitting the grade school cafeteria circuit. Between these and Dunkaroos, a lot of kids in my elementary school made bank.
If my memory serves me right, the UK lunchables were cheesestring based and not dairylea. Because the pizza had a cheesestring for the cheese and there was also a kind of wrap option that had a cheesestring as well… 🤔
@@aimzee8159 you are one hundred percent right. I’ve been meaning to correct the comment. It was snacksters that cheesestrings did I think. I’m not surprised I got it wrong, I avoided dairylea like the plague as a kid. Hate the stuff! Haha
The UK literally used to have the pizza ones and they were so good! And hot dog ones! The only way i used to get them was when i went to work with my nan during the summer holidays because nan would always buy whatever i wanted 😂
Always thought daiylea was pure British but it turns out kraft cheese brought them early 60s but since 1950 was originally British who started the classic triangles so their is still hope haha later mondelez worked or joined kraft and did some other things but you can still taste the pure clean fresh milk that originally dairylea brought to the table.
I feel like putting together your lunch was a cute novelty the first time I tried a given lunchable, and some... uh, flavors were less appealing than others... I feel like I didn't hate the pizza, but looking back now, I don't know why I wouldn't have hated it. All of the ingredients are offensive, it was more just the idea that it's kind of pizza. Compared to a peanut butter sandwich, it was... different.
@@charlotsart I guess maybe it's because I don't live in NY but I don't think of pizza as street food at all. I think of sitting cozy in a restaurant or at home.
I had a babysitter that used to make me cook them in the microwave when she was watching me. It was traumatic… but why’d they get rid of the desert pizza?!?! That was the best!
@adamcolclasure4892 Yeah, good thing that China has cooking oil literally fished out of the gutter and rice made from plastic instead of ham cheese and crackers.
2:59 (b4 I turned on my captions) having “Sara Lee” as a well known nationwide company in the US, I thought he was trolling or mocking with UK’s own version, “Dara Lee” 😂😂
Pizza lunchables were awesome way back in the day, taste nothing like real pizza, but was it's own weird thing that I suppose was an acquired taste. Mainly because my stupid school (K-8th) didn't have a five day a week lunch program, only 3 days could you get some kind of school lunch. So as someone that hated homemade sandwiches," I mean they are fine made fresh, but sitting for hours in a lunch box/bag made them lose most of their luster and even when freshly made I wasn't exactly excited to eat a tuna, bologna, or pb&j sandwich, but yeah as someone that hated homemade sandwiches as a kid lunchables were a godsend.
If you had Lunchables when I was growing up, you were considered the popular kid. And your parents had money I grew up during the early to mid 2000s. 😅😅😅😅
I find it very weird how american's grow up eating this lmao. Im from Australia and school lunch for me was always a fruit, muesli bar/nutri grain bar/ milo bar and either leftovers from dinner the night before or a sandwich with cold chicken or ham inside. I think pretty nutritional, the bar was the most fat and sugar with the sandwich and fruit being pretty fair i think.
Yeah, I'm Australian, too, and I can't say I recall seeing these "meal" sized ones. The little snack things of a few crackers and cheese, sure, but not one of these bigger-scale ones. And yeah, my school lunches were similar. Sandwich, iced coffee popper (I drank coffee even as a kid) and something I'm forgetting, probably a muesli bar or something.
"Lunchables set up an entire generation to be obsessed with charcuterie when they got old" ... I was not prepared for such a spot on observation in this video.
"Lunchables set up an entire generation to be obsesses with tasteless garbage food when they get old"
Of course we’re all getting these in our recommended after the lunchly controversy LMAO 😆
i didn't even know crap like this existed before lunchly, for kids! horrible "food" and preparing those tastebuds for highly processed foods instead of fresh, maybe less palpable stuff. Just prepare a sandwich with some good bread, slice of real cheese, some slices of tomatoes, voila - 10 times better. Or a bowl of salad with some tasty extras. man, i can't believe what i'm seeing.
UA-cam has one hell of a sense of humor
Spot on. This ain't my first time, chief.
Real
I lIkE mY cHeEsE dRiPpY bRuH
I'm in the thick of it with the algorithm
“Just put the mold in the lunchly bruh”😭
Where’s the classic food wars intro? You know, the “from calorie count to portion sizes, we want to know all the differences between Lunchables/Lunchers in the UK 🇬🇧 and the US 🇺🇸 ! This is Food Wars.” Stuff?
Getting lazy
I think they’re getting a bit bored of doing these videos to be totally honest, they’re running out of things to compare but the videos are a big money maker for the channel because they get a lot of views
its bad for viewer retention.
@@hbsauce2 they look really over it bless them
@@hbsauce2i mean i hope they get something new
for their sakes
I feel like were missing the
"From Calorie count to Portion sizes, we gonna compared Lunchables / Lunchers from the UK & The US. This is Food Wars"
Exactly! Felt sort of off kilter without the intro
True at least they did it with walkers/lays. But it does feel odd without it
The concept of lunchables is wild to me. Nobody would have a pre packaged meal in school here, unless its like a snack sausage
I'm from Spain and same! This would probably be considered borderline child abuse (I'm obviously exaggerating)
Thats why you europeans are shrinking 💪🇺🇸
As an American I always looked down at people sent to school with these things
Probably because it was easier. I know many American families are overworked. So probably saves time
@@fierdrages6523dont the schools have catering or something?
I absolutely agree that jumbo tubes are the only option when it comes to dunkers. I have been known to have a box and completely avoid the cheese so a bag of just jumbo tubes would be amazing
Who is here from the lunchies drama?
Lunchly*
@@GabeplayzVR I just noticed I wrote that.
@@ballooncoast848 😂
If Lunchly and lunchables were under 2 dollars I'd buy them all the time, not worth it at all 😂😂😂
@@jakobjensen6543 where are u from bcuz they are 2 dollars unless u get the deluxe version
I remember in the early 2000s in the UK, they did more a "meal" version of the Lunchable that included some small chocolate miniatures of something like Daim aswell as a Capri Sun
Chocolate fingers was one if i remember right.
Does anyone in the UK remember the hot dog luchables? I remember loving them as a kid.
@@JDaxter I feel like I remember but I can't picture it.
@@JDaxterHad them in the US. They were My top 3 at the time.
@@HA05GERI only ever remember the mini choc fingers
Used to eat a lot of Lunchables at college to hold me over when I had a long class before dinner, and they worked well.
I would get a packet of Pizza Hut breadsticks. If I was really hungry, some combos too.
I eat fruit and make sandwiches......lmao
At this point I see the series as a vehicle for jokes and facilitating the magic that is the Joe/Harry dynamic 😅
ProZD did a pretty solid video of evaluating the American ones a while back.
No shade love you both Joe and Harry ❤
I’m in my 30s and I’ve bought lunchables on my breaks on nightshifts occasionally.
Dont
Don't
I remember in the mid 2000's there used to be a pizza and treatza one that had chocolate sauce and sprinkles with the usual pizza stuff. Only had it once but I remember liking it
Was probs a kids cuisine
@@mariautech5786 Nah it was a lunchable
I found it again recently at a FoodMaxx!
The pizza Lunchables reaction was correct. When they came out in the mid 90's I was the first kid at my school to bring them for lunch and thought I was Billy Bada$$. Turns out I was really Davy Dumba$$. They were terrible and the main reason I stopped eating Lunchables altogether.
That fact that UA-cam is recommending these Lunchables videos after the whole Lunchly drama is so damn funny to me. 😂
Dairylea Dunkers with the Jumbo Tubes are legit still a staple of my diet as a 35 year old woman. If they made those tubes as a packet of crisps I’d be sooo fat. 😂
Real ones know that jumbo tubes are the way to go. The breadsticks are tasteless, the Ritz are undunkable and don’t talk to me about the nacho version. I am a 46 year old man BTW 😂
Oho lentil chips sour cream and onion usually available in B&M or Home Bargains and taste identical! I have tried a few and these come closest. Get them and a big tub of dairylea and thank me later.
Oh same, I get them as a treat a little too often xD
Same 😂 i bought some the other day for my toddler to try and she hated them so guess theyre mine now
44 year old man and I still buy all 4 varieties haha!
This kinda aged well
tf do you mean by aged well
@@PumpyGTbecause of lunchly
@@bryanflores3091I like my cheese drippy bruh😎😎😎😎
Capri Sun, Hi-C, or Sips Iced Tea were my drinks of choice back in the 90s. I never had Lunchables. always a sammy and chips. Hillshire Farms Small Plates are the grown-up version of Lunchables and they taste great.
The nacho Lunchables were what started me on mixing my cheese and salsa into one container, the chips were slightly larger I think, but not much.
What’s better than watching food wars love you guys so much food wars literally keeps me going you guys are the best💙
I do not understand these products. They make no sense. Just put some cheese, ham and crackers in some Tupperware.
same reason for any food product exists. convenience. easier to hand a kid one of these than to portion out a child sized snack everyday
I have never really understood the point either. Do kids really find building a cracker ‘sandwich’ that exciting? And then seeing that teenage version where it’s literally just the bits for a sandwich in a box?! 😂 Hey, why not spend twice as much money buying some plastic-wrapped bread, cheese and water so you can hand your teenager a box and say, “Make your lunch yourself.” Who does that?
It's Charcuterie for kids.
As someone who was a kid that liked these I think part of the appeal came from how well they were marketed. Tons of commercials on all of the tv channels for kids that made them seem fun possibly because around the same time there were a couple of toys that let you make food like the easy bake oven and some that you made bug shaped gummies to gross out your friends. It also helped that there used to be way more variety in the types of food and they were definitely less healthy so it was that feeling of getting away with eating junk food for lunch. As for those “teen” centered ones Im certain the majority of those go to older elementary kids wanting to feel like teens not actual high schoolers lol.
@@JoJoZaka If portioning packaged ready to eat foods is too hard for you, maybe don't become a parent...?
I'm so glad my parents would call these a waste of money growing up. Totally true, none of these looked good but even they were good they look miniscule for the price.
We also had a hot dog version here in the UK. It was like cocktail sausage sized hot dogs.
US had those in the 2000s along with burgers and tacos. 😀 They got discontinued unfortunately.
They were so mich better then the crappy cracker and cheese ones
As a kid I was usually just had the cafeteria food but once for my birthday in fourth grade I got to bring a lunchable. That sounds lame but it was one they don’t have anymore with a mini burger, tiny chocolates, and a tiny cola can so I was pretty hyped! In hindsight there’s no way that was healthy or tasty but hey it made tiny me happy with the novelty to the point where that cute little soda can still comes up in my memories on occasion.
Real OGs remember the burger and hot dog lunchables. I ate so many of those growing up. They were my prime time lunchables. When they released those again, I bought a whole bunch and ate them for lunch at work everyday. My coworkers were actually jealous!
The UK cheese is Dairylea because that's the brand 😂
wow, what an injection of pure nostalgia
Joe's never had a lunchable? Ok we get it, you had parents that loved you 😂
Or didn’t depending on the years you were in school. Late 90s if you didn’t have lunchables you weren’t living lmao my sisters used to go crazy for these.
i begged for lunchables but i think i was actually given one once in my life (probably to shut me up) bc they were junk food & it wasn't very good in the end...! still in the uk it used to come with daim chocolates & a capri sun.
@@jtpadilla1 oh don't get me wrong I loved them too! (Born '91) But let's be real, they were absolute crap and we should *not* have been eating them 😂
Ha, my mum wouldn't buy that stuff for us because it was too expensive!
@mhenderson7673 I got them occasionally but I was a brown bag lunch kid.
I remember eating pizza lunchables in the UK in the early 2000s, we still have the pizza ones though but its now "lunchables street food pizza" you can get them at asda for anyone wanting to try them still
No one going to address that the cheese is listed as “Cheese food” on the back of the UK pack? No particular type of cheese, just “cheese food”. 😂
@@CJBrookes That’s the name used when they can’t legally call it “cheese” because it doesn’t meet the criteria. Same as those plastic “cheese” slices that go on cheap burgers.
@@blackthorn5709 oh. 100%. I just find it hilarious and a strong reason not to eat them. 🤣
I just love eating a “sweetened dairy product”, a sandwich with some “cheese product” and “chocolate flavored drink” for my lunch
It's normal cheese
It just has a preservative in it@@CJBrookes
@@CJBrookes It's really pathetic... cheese is already not good for you. You'd be amazed how much saturated fat you consume with just a couple slices. They go a step further and pump it with fillers, making it EVEN WORSE.
"Maybe don't do that." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm totally speechless, watching this makes me want to appreciate more of my life born in an Asian country.
Lol true
lmao i just said the same thing. like how is this a meal?????
Sorry but your food i rice everyday for every meal I believe
@@brandonaston301 We can cook rice in more ways than the number of dishes you can think of
I think it's same with all non-english speaking countries. Like really, parents feed this sh*t to kids?!
As mexican my parents would say no to lunchables except for my younger sister she would say its cause she was young and can get whatever but as the oldest i have to eat whatever is at home. My sister also liked the canned raviolis. Looking back at it im happy i never got to partake in american classics. Also my school lunch was free but wasnt a fan of the food so i would sometimes pack something myself.
Seriously! just when Lunchly released
Do a fast video comparing US vs Canada fast food chain. there are differences!
They have done loads.
What like Maple Syrup on everything?
Fun fact you are actually supposed to warm up the pizza lunch able pretty sure it used to have introductions on the back but they might have removed it
I’m pretty sure they were always intended to be eaten cold but might’ve included alternate directions for some way to microwave it at some point. Idk if there’s ever been a lunchable that was supposed to be cooked even if it looked like food that should be cooked
not exactly a wine-wroth snack or meal, but if you have to then try with a simple fresh Chilean Sauvignon Blanc
1 minute in, i want a lunchable, 2 minutes in, driving to the local gas station, 4 minutes in, arrive at kwik trip, grab lunchable, 8 minutes in, returning to my bed with the goods
My best moment was the fact I also bought a cheese stick, its like I knew what was to come 😢
20 minutes in, ive almost finished my lunchable and they start ruining it for me
@@aaronbarkus6458pls get the smoked cheese stick from kwik trip next time it’s god tier
When I was a little kid, whenever I got the pizza lunchables, I would usually microwave it so the cheese melts and has a better texture and it’s hot like real pizza. There’s no way that I would ever eat it cold right out of the box like that.
The timing of this video release is SPECTACULAR Lol
Fun fact, I stopped eating Lunchables when I was a kid and have no idea how far back it goes but Lunchables were found to contain really high amounts of lead and other heavy metals with some packs being higher and lower depending on what is in the pack. If I remember the turkey and cheese crackers had the highest amount with the pizza taking up number 4 or 5.
You're thinking of baby food in 2021. There's no reports or articles or tv segments I could find online that repeated anything similar to what you just said.
@@picardsolo2471 There was a consumer report article on it that was touched on by many major news outlets. I found a couple that denounced the findings saying things about "yeah but that's close to the limit in CA", and other stuff downplaying it. Personally 0 lead and heavy metals is what you shoot for with food. Also NPR wrote a report about how the USDA pushed to have them removed from school lunches at the same time, around April of this year. Either way, if I am wrong I am wrong I still wouldn't give any of that garbage to kids. It's cheaper and fresher to get stuff from a deli and make a sandwich than to get overly processed turkey and crackers for close to the same price as a half lb of the relative meat.
@@swhaw consumer reports isn't turning anything up.
Idk where you are looking but you are apparently not doing it right, it took me 10 seconds to find the report amidst the results talking about the report but ok then.
@@swhaw going to need a link
The Tesco meal deal in the UK is a bargain. to buy the equivalent in the US (at a 7-eleven, one of the few stores to offer packaged sandwiches) it would cost approx. $4.00 for the sandwich, $1.00 for a small bag of chips (store brand), and at least $2.00 for a beverage, which probably wouldn't be as healthy as a smoothie.
We always rep the tescos meal deal (tbf, tho, i tend to stick around the sainsbury's meal deal as its a tad bit cheaper)
Nothing will beat the mini hot dogs and burger lunchables we used to have in the uk, a mini hotdog/burger patty, bread, cheese and a sachet of ketchup and it had such a weird texture but it tasted so good 😂
i like my cheese drippy bruh
Dairylea Lunchables were better back in the day. Who remembers the double cheese ones? One stack of standard cheese and one of orange-coloured herby cheese. Those were the dog's and a staple of my post-school snacking for years.
Can't believe im early to these type of videos, they usually get recommended to me months later after they get posted
The hotdog and hamburger with the soda was my go to Lunchables
I Love Lunchables even as a kid. My parents would buy Lunchables on certain occasions if I was going on a field trip or whatnot. It wasn't a primary thing that was always in my lunches cos my parents were health nuts about what went into my lunch.
In Canada there’s Lunchables and also Lunch Mates, which is the same thing basically. We get hot dog, burgers, bologna, Kielbassa, and summer sausage. The hot dogs and burgers are slightly terrifying though. They have a film on them
I was a veggie when these came out as a child and remember being glad as it looked so plastic and tasteless, I think my parents were glad too. I made my own veggie version and it was so dry. They look so expensive for a dry meal you can make yourself for so much less money and so easy. There weren’t massive in the UK when I was a child, it was all about Sunny D which I wasn’t allowed as it was so bad back then.
They have pizza lunchables in the UK at Asda but it's not as good, no pepperoni and they just give you string cheese XD
Why not just create MRE pouches for kids?
Agree 😂😂😂
MRE for kids would be a lot better some how
Australian here - don’t think we have anything like these here, at least not that I remember. Some things I remember being popular in lunch boxes were roll ups, LCM bars and the individual Nutella trays
Oh there's tonnes of things like these in the fridge section at Woolies they just sorta class them up a bit
@@Mammutidae that could be it, I’m in a small town with neither a Woolies or Coles - my local supermarket is currently a Drakes, might have to look when I go there after work
6:00 daryleey actually had a street food variety and i only remember there being a Pizza one i used to always put it in the toaster
My daughter bit a piece of the cheese in one of these once and left it on the floor. We found it the next day and the piece was like an actually piece of plastic. Rock solid.
Lunchables were my childhood, particularly the Dairy Lea Dunkers. Glad to see Cheese Strings got an honourable mention as well as Laughing Cow, but Baby Bell’s should also get a shout out in the cheese snack department.
Another honourable mention should’ve been Attack a Snacks which are essentially Lunchables but with wraps instead of crackers. Though they are a different brand to Dairy Lea, not sure which one though.
Attack a snack was cheese string brand
A friend of mine found stuff with Red 40 imported into the UK, ate it all the time and ended up getting a stomach ulser. Might not have been the Red 40 but we all like to think that was the reason.
I think they’ve also gotten smaller because some kids are getting less time to eat now. A lot of elementary schools only have 20mins set aside for lunch time. So lunch has become more of a “snack” since they probably spend half of that time distracted with friends and trying to open their lunch
You know what you’re doing youtube😂😂
I don’t care if its UK Or American, As long as its not lunchly and can hold me back when i have no lunch. its fine
Yeah LA lunchable prices are like 3.99$ for the regular cracker stackers or pizza no drink no clue where you got 2$ from
Wish lunchables would have been popular in the 90s when I was going to school. Then again, I doubt my parents would have bought them; I usually just wound up buying whatever the school lunch was. Also really wish water bottle were a bigger thing then as well cause I was always thirsty at lunch, often drinking like 3 or 4 milks and a juice (I’d buy a milk and juice and some friends would give me their milks).
This reminds of Le Snak I have in Australia that is a cracker and cream cheese combination - I used to love Le Snak as a kid. Dont know why they used the french in the name of kids snacks in Australia in the 90s like Petit Miam (the slogan was its french for "yum") which was a kid marketed yoghurt snack.
You know how much these things had a hold on us Millennials that stores have Adult Lunchables with Manchego cheese Genoa Salami and Crackers and different varieties. Essentially a charcuterie board.
Personally I would say Laughing Cow has the more iconic cheese triangles, Joe
As an asian living in asia, i just can't believe that this is considered a meal. it doesn't look like a meal, and the calorie count seems too low (although I guess for very young kids perhaps it's enough?). to me the lunchables looks like snacks. except the uploaded one because it has an actual bread. Also all the additional sweet snacks and drinks that come with it. omg.
Thay are snacks thay are called lunchbles because you can have them as part of your packed lunch
Asking for holes in your Swiss cheese is basically asking for less food XD
I've just realised why Harry keeps experimenting with facial hair.
It's trying to emulate Joe!
We're looking at the Friends episode where Chandler grows peach-fuzz to be more like Richard!
Ah, bless ...
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On the next Foods Wars, US vs UK Spam... Harry shows up with a full fu manchu.
I remember when these started hitting the grade school cafeteria circuit. Between these and Dunkaroos, a lot of kids in my elementary school made bank.
Out of all the episodes this is the one that I expect joe to have the most heartburn from
If my memory serves me right, the UK lunchables were cheesestring based and not dairylea. Because the pizza had a cheesestring for the cheese and there was also a kind of wrap option that had a cheesestring as well… 🤔
The wrap one was a different brand, but the pizza one did come with a like square shaped cheese string but I think it was dairylea
@@aimzee8159 you are one hundred percent right. I’ve been meaning to correct the comment. It was snacksters that cheesestrings did I think. I’m not surprised I got it wrong, I avoided dairylea like the plague as a kid. Hate the stuff! Haha
Hey, isn't the cheese meant to have mold in it?
The UK literally used to have the pizza ones and they were so good! And hot dog ones! The only way i used to get them was when i went to work with my nan during the summer holidays because nan would always buy whatever i wanted 😂
It’s MRE’s for kids.
Million dollar marketing idea right there, you’re welcome.
I noticed the meat and cheese in the lunchables are smaller than they used to be. 2 slices is the same size as what used to be one slice
Now we need lunchables vs lunchly 😂
Always thought daiylea was pure British but it turns out kraft cheese brought them early 60s but since 1950 was originally British who started the classic triangles so their is still hope haha later mondelez worked or joined kraft and did some other things but you can still taste the pure clean fresh milk that originally dairylea brought to the table.
UK lunchables in the late 90’s/noughties were the best. Especially the hotdog and pizza ones
I feel like putting together your lunch was a cute novelty the first time I tried a given lunchable, and some... uh, flavors were less appealing than others... I feel like I didn't hate the pizza, but looking back now, I don't know why I wouldn't have hated it. All of the ingredients are offensive, it was more just the idea that it's kind of pizza. Compared to a peanut butter sandwich, it was... different.
Who the hell wants cold ass chicken nuggets for lunch? I’m American and I’m appalled.
We did have pizza lunchables in the UK for a while it was part of a street food range
Pizza is street food?
@@PixelatedH2O yes new York style slices is street food and Italian pizza al taglio is.
@@charlotsart I guess maybe it's because I don't live in NY but I don't think of pizza as street food at all. I think of sitting cozy in a restaurant or at home.
Loved it when it had a capri sun and that random choclate swiss roll in UK
Can confirm. Dunker tubes are amazing.
The vanilla sandwich cookies in lunchables hit hard. I wish i could buy them separately.
I had a babysitter that used to make me cook them in the microwave when she was watching me. It was traumatic… but why’d they get rid of the desert pizza?!?! That was the best!
Not had the jumbo tubes for ages but they're so good!
Is that supposed to be edible food? Glad we don’t have them in Finland
We don't have them in Asia either thankfully, to many questionable chemicals.
@adamcolclasure4892 Yeah, good thing that China has cooking oil literally fished out of the gutter and rice made from plastic instead of ham cheese and crackers.
2:59 (b4 I turned on my captions) having “Sara Lee” as a well known nationwide company in the US, I thought he was trolling or mocking with UK’s own version, “Dara Lee” 😂😂
I got to love lunchables when I was an au pair in the USA but I haven’t had them since then because they’re not available in Germany
I've been trying to think if we have ANYTHING like this at all in Germany. Can't think of anything
UK had both Pizza and Hotdog Lunchables in the past. Sucks that they got discontinued.
Pizza lunchables were awesome way back in the day, taste nothing like real pizza, but was it's own weird thing that I suppose was an acquired taste. Mainly because my stupid school (K-8th) didn't have a five day a week lunch program, only 3 days could you get some kind of school lunch. So as someone that hated homemade sandwiches," I mean they are fine made fresh, but sitting for hours in a lunch box/bag made them lose most of their luster and even when freshly made I wasn't exactly excited to eat a tuna, bologna, or pb&j sandwich, but yeah as someone that hated homemade sandwiches as a kid lunchables were a godsend.
If you had Lunchables when I was growing up, you were considered the popular kid. And your parents had money I grew up during the early to mid 2000s. 😅😅😅😅
New content with Harry and Joe? I'm in!
Bring back the double cheese version!
I miss the taco lunchables.
But I like the deep dish pizza Uploaded. I still get that one today.
I've eaten lunchables as a kid before. Although I didn't really care about lunchables and I've never eaten a lunchable for years now.
Who used to have these all the time at Lunchtime in Primary School?
We need a video on attack a snack in the UK it's my nostalgia
Ksi trying to banish this video 📹
I find it very weird how american's grow up eating this lmao. Im from Australia and school lunch for me was always a fruit, muesli bar/nutri grain bar/ milo bar and either leftovers from dinner the night before or a sandwich with cold chicken or ham inside. I think pretty nutritional, the bar was the most fat and sugar with the sandwich and fruit being pretty fair i think.
Yeah, I'm Australian, too, and I can't say I recall seeing these "meal" sized ones. The little snack things of a few crackers and cheese, sure, but not one of these bigger-scale ones. And yeah, my school lunches were similar. Sandwich, iced coffee popper (I drank coffee even as a kid) and something I'm forgetting, probably a muesli bar or something.