In Greenland, my kids always get two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 7, a number 6 with extra dip, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
The UK one is pretty accurate. When I was at primary school in the 90s, my typical lunchbox would contain a sandwich with cheese or some form of processed meat, a packet of crisps, and either a cartoon of juice or a small bottle of fizzy drink (Panda Pop was the prefered brand at the time), and maybe a small yoghurt. If we didn't like our sandwich filling then we'd take the meat out and insert the crisps instead to make the British delicacy that is the crisp sandwich.
As an American from Las Vegas and who lives on the east coast I can confidently say that we love chips (crisps) on sandwiches. If you're used to putting crisps on a sandwich try a crunchy pb+j. Use strawberry jam, smooth peanut butter, the softest bread you can find and good salty chips. Sounds weird but it's just about the only way I'll prepare that sandwich.
In Mexico in my experience, the most common thing kids get for lunch are “tortas”, which are not cakes as Google translate might tell you. They are basically sandwiches, but made with “bolillo” (a kind of bread roll) instead of sliced bread. I would usually get mine filled with refried beans with chorizo or eggs scrambled together with ham or some other sort of meat. Funnily enough, the sold those same octopus wieners (called salchipulpos) at the school’s cafeteria, but they’d pan fry them so that their “legs” would stay open.
As a Brit, the things JJ mentioned do exist, but most lunches are very very similar to Canada. A meat sandwich, a piece of fruit, and usually a pack of crisps or sweets.
Indian here. Frooti is amazing but we didn't have it everyday. And rarely anyone in cities carried those multi box lunch box. So we usually carry two separate boxes in a lunch basket.
"Vollkornbrot" is just whole grain bread, nothing weird about it... and most kids in germany also get some fruit for lunch, mostly sliced apples, grapes, or stuff like that.
i dont think they meant whole grain bread. We have that kind of bread they meant in the video too here in the netherlands, though we call it roggebrood (roggenbrot in german) and its really dense and actually nothing like bread, tastes really savoury. Ive never seen anyone take it to lunch though.
@@mitchystuff I'm German and 'Roggenbrot' is the go-to bread we buy in our family and take with us to school. There are different types of it you can buy here but what is shown in the video would be called "Vollkornbrot", like petrichor said. The standard Roggenbrot would typically not contain whole grains.
It's been awhile since I was a kid but in the US we had the same typical food as you describe in Canada, however there was a great competition over lunchboxes. You tried to have the best metal lunchbox with pictures from your favorite cartoon show on them, doubly impressive if it had a similarly decorated thermos inside. These thermoses were also impressive because they were somewhat fragile in that they had a glass liner for keeping things hot or cold. If you accidentally dropped it you may hear glass rattling around in it. If you had a thermos then your mom would fill it with soup (chicken noodle or alphabet soup) or something fun like spaghetti-os, Ravioli or other canned Chef Boyardee delicious goodness.
And then some of us didn't bother with the lunchboxes until we were already adults and buying collector's lunchboxes (Like my snazzy Detective Pikachu lunchbox that currently contains all the TCG stuff it came with)
As someone from the US, I remember being the cool kid in the cafeteria because I had a Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles lunchbox, that had the faces of all four turtles, and when you hit the lunchbox, the turtles' eyes flash with lights. Kids would always want to sit with me because they wanted to play with my lunchbox. It was fine at first, but I started getting annoying after two years. I was so mad about getting so much attention that I hid it away. I forgot where I put it, and I'm still looking for it cuz of the nostalgia.
i find it mind boggling that school lunch is so tiny in the USA. Here in brazil we usually have a full on plate with rice meat vegetables and beans, not to mention that we can also bring/buy a snack to eat beforehand. Could be because our breakfast is rather small when compared to the US's, but i'm not sure.
This made me really appreciate growing up in Hawaii. Traditional Hawaiian, Filipino, Japanese, Modern Hawaiian, Korean, American. You could go two weeks eating a different cuisine every day. Of course, obesity is a huge problem over here but at least we have some damn awesome food.
It's ok, it's not like the rest of the US doesn't have an obesity problem either 😂 But yes you are right, I've been to Hawaii twice and y'all do have some damn awesome food
My school in Hawaii was kindergarten through 8th grade. For thanksgiving we had a homemade potluck at school and my class (eighth graders) helped the kindergarteners get their plate of food. I used to live on the mainland till then so I wasn’t used to Filipino and Hawaiian cuisine. When I was helping my kindergartener he didn’t want any traditional thanksgiving food, he only wanted the Filipino, Hawaiian foods etc like spam musubi. I thought it was kinda funny and cute seeing that difference. I live on the mainland again and miss Hawaii’s plethora of foods 😭
I went to Hawaii this year and I lived for the food there! I woke up everyday and decided on a different cultural food for that day. Awesome! And I stayed in a residental area so I go to visit some hole in the wall spots.
In India we have a thing called midday meals where we enjoy a proper meal in the afternoon with rice, sambar ( a vegetable stew kind of dish) , pickles and papadam ( a crispy flavorless/ful thingy if you will) . Non Vegetarian foods are generally not seen with the exception of eggs in certain schools. Others make home made meals. And yes we don't eat samosas for lunch. Its more of a evening snack/ breakfast kind of a thing. Cheers 🇮🇳🇨🇦
In Egypt, kids might get a couple Fino bread sandwiches filled with Rumy cheese, mortadella is also eaten in sandwiches and is commonly refered to as “luncheon”, as well as halawa (sesame paste based confectionery)
In the US if your family makes under a certain amount of money the kid kids free lunch. And in Louisiana during the summer those people can go and get lunch at the school
I mean, they're the same thing, basically. Most donut shops have either "long johns" or filled ones that they call eclairs. Regardless of how close they actually are to being eclairs.
As an American, my mom sometimes makes cucumber sandwiches when she has a friend over since her last trip to England. At least the kind she makes, they don’t just have cucumbers, they also have cream cheese in the sandwich too. It’s pretty good; it’s a simple way of balancing mild sweetness and mild savoryness while also having some protein from the cream cheese
@Can Tin I'd mostly agree there (personally cucumber, ham, cheese and pickle is the best cold (so no bacon, fried eggs etc.) sandwich there is), but I have known pure cucumber sandwiches too. The trick is, you need REALLY good quality cucumber to pull it off. I've never seen the right stuff in shops tbh, just the ones my Dad grows in his greenhouse every year (they're also about 3 times the size of supermarket cucumbers and often have actual spines on the skin you need to remove). Absolutely delicious but almost a different product to what you get in shops.
I've never heard of cucumber sandwiches, and it sounds fucking depressing, here in Scotland we usually had sandwitches and margarine and maybe ham and cheese
I’m American but my mom would put cucumbers on my sandwich’s all the time, once she put cucumber, butter and ham on a sourdough sandwich and it was… interesting. She adds cucumber to her own sandwiches still or when she makes tea sandwiches during the summer she adds them
We have insulated containers here in Canada too but they often get lost or you forget a banana in there and it gets nasty and everyone always have a whole bunch of grocery bags
@@commonwealthreport6508 State school [at least in the US Northeast] means a school for dangerous children or special needs children, public school is, presumably, what we call your state school. Our public schools are supposed to be secular, with no religious teaching, and in this area they are. In other parts of the US, however, religious people subvert the public schools to illegally use them for proselytization.
I just can't get over vegimite. I try to like it, but it just tastes like a kidneystone injection pill with bread every time I try and eat it, eventhough I put as much on there as (I wanted to say, bum of a spider, but then you'd think I'd put twice as much vegimite on there as bread, so... ) I put as much on there as there is land borders in Australia and it still tastes like absolute piss... How do I know what piss tastes like you may ask? Oh, I tasted yours alcohol
I love when he says the idea of having indian food for lunch everyday sounds amazing, as this is my reality 😂. I work at a small indian restaurant and get a free curry and buttery garlic naan everyday for lunch, and is basically the only reason I still work there 😂
Indian lunches you mention are absolutely spot on, at least in the place where I am from. I used to go to school with a similar type of tiffin box and lunch bag. :D
In Belgium we put “hagelslag” in our kids sandwiches. It’s chocolate sprinkles. In Flemish (Dutch) translated we called them “mice poop” . We also had “sirop de Liège” on our bread. The thick, gelatinous sirop was made from dates and pears. Very sweet and kids love them.
I've been wanting to try hagelslag for sooooooooooooooo long I'm gonna go to world market one of these days to try both the sprinkles and the shavings 😍
And I used to complain about the food quality provided by the school cafeteria... (Réunion Island, France) A bit out of topic but the school cafeteria we can chose between 2 starter (exemple : corn + fish, salads, sometimes pizzas) + 3 main course (often rice + meet and a side dish (lentils, beens, vegetables...)) + 2 dessert (fruit or yogurt). There's always a vegetarian option. I think it's the same kind of lunches for the whole school system but younger kids have less choice. In "Maternelle" (school for 3 to 5 year olds), they can't choose, it's already served on the table.
Wild, I’m from the us and a common lunch served at school cafeterias is a nearly expired fruit (I have found so much mold on these), some meat that smells god awful (like “hamburgers” that do not taste like beef at all), if there’s a grain it’s some sort of whole wheat bread, sometimes vegetables but they always look rly close to the expiration date, and milk (which is often frozen solid bc of bad freezers). Cooks cannot add any spice to foods not even salt. I’m pretty sure prison food is better, we’re at the point where they get a shipment from the county and heat it up and that’s all the prep. I cannot find words to describe how bad school lunch is. Where I live in the us has a high poverty rate so all lunch is free but I have seen kids who live in the trailer parks refuse to eat bc of how bad it is. Most kids who don’t bring lunch just throw away hot lunch and because of COVID the ability high schoolers had to pick between 2 meals is out the window. My first ever experience with school food was finding hair in my Mac and cheese. The moldly orange incident was fun though. I always pack my lunches now which is like an apple, almond yogurt, tortilla chips, and a half sandwich of some sort like peanut butter. Kids here more commonly have little snack packs or junk food or whatever but that’s just how teenagers are. A lot of kids eat some sort of dairy product like cheese but I’m lowkey allergic to dairy :(.
In high school (Texas, U.S) I would get a spicy chicken sandwich, which was just a fried processed “spicy” chicken patty on a hamburger bun, cold French fries and a apple most days. We never actually ate the apples but were required to take a fruit or vegetable
For lunch we usually have a few options but the “good stuff” (okay food that doesn’t give you food poisoning) runs out so I had to take the bad option, a tiny plastic container filled with spinach and small tomatoes with ranch.. *that’s it.* oh and some small apples and molding ham. You have no idea how much people get food poisoning at my school, I’ve even gotten food poisoning from it.
@@Lex_Quinn yeah for some reason US school lunches suck, for some reason they always have badly served food that are usually moldy and literally give you food poisoning.
Funny you mention bologna as a "lower class food" When I was a kid growing up in Texas (very poor family) in the 1980s, lunch was indeed bologna (not all-beef Osca Meyer; no, cheap Rogelein brand) with American "cheese" (basically a lot of stabilized vegetable oil with yellow food coloring, not in any way real cheese). Apples, oranges, and bananas were common, and occasionally we would get fruit roll-ups or maybe fig Newtons - or Little Debbie snack cakes. Milk was the usual drink option, all carried in a lunchbox with matching thermos (I had a Star Wars lunch box, a Dukes of Hazzard lunch box, and a Muppets lunch box). But I fondly remember my mom sometimes picking wild mustang grapes and boiling them down into juice and sweetening with table sugar - which is about the only real use for them, as they're very heavy with tannins and fibrous. Not really good for pies or jams. In mid-spring we'd often pick wild dewberries (a kind of trailing blackberry) and that would become pie or jam. One thing we did have was fresh eggs and veggies, as my parents always kept a garden and chickens (my mom would sell excess eggs to the local country store to make a little extra money). Our neighbors next door (next door being a quarter-mile away) also had livestock and did some farming, so trading produce was pretty common as well. One particular year we had so much squash that we literally couldn't give it away, and another year it was the same with okra. We also qualified for reduced-price school lunches for a time. I'm pretty much convinced that schoolkids today have much worse school lunch options than we did, because I do not remember the school lunches being particularly low-quality. They weren't great, don't get me wrong, but they weren't terrible. The menu varied from week to week but meatloaf, chicken nuggets, hamburger steak, mini pizza, side salads, mixed veggies, apple crumble, pudding, were all common menu items. And if you didn't like the main entrée, you could always get a hamburger. The drinks were either milk or juice - if you wanted a soda you had to buy that from a vending machine out of your own pocket!
Sounds like you grew up in a good school district. Growing up mine wasn't bad, but you only got the entree offered, no subs like a burger. And we only got milk to drink. If you wanted chocolate you had to pay for it. Lol.
I think the variety of food served as a school lunch really depends on what school district you attend. Growing up I also had the "reduced price lunches" dealio since I was just raised by my father, and we also moved around our city a lot because of his job so I attended several different school districts throughout my schooling career, and for the more poverty stricken sides of town their schools only really had one entree option per day, with maybe an Ala Carte option if you wanted to pay a little extra for a bag of chips or an extra carton of milk. When I started attending high school we had moved out to the suburbs, and the high school out there was absolutely decadent when it came to school lunch, having like six different things to choose from each day. And as an added bonus for being so wealthy, they would even have chick fillet as an Ala carte option on Fridays for like 3.50, although I didn't get to enjoy this since I had already graduated when they made this change.
Also fun fact, the bento with rice and umeboshi is called 日の丸/hinomaru bento which is also a patriotic nickname for the Japanese flag (it translates to the “circle of the sun” in English)
When I studied in Spain, our host mom would pack us “bocadillos”. They were long baguette sandwiches (like a sub) with Iberian ham, chorizo, or salchichón and cheese. They were so simple but she got fresh bread every morning from the bakery down the street, so they were always delicious. I tried to remake it when I got home to the US and it wasn’t anywhere near as good.
You fail to mention that wasn't for lunch though. In Spain most children do not eat at school they go home to eat. They are just sandwiches made from the most common bread which is a 250g baguette usually split into four different sandwiches.
7:54 Vollkornsbrot literally means "whole grain bread" and is popular across northern and north-eastern Europe. In Sweden almost everyone eats the food provided by the school cafeteria, which is served buffet-style. Some of our most distinct and regular foods were found on a separate "bread table": Knäckebröd ("crispbread"): A dry, thin (usually about 1cm wide) rye bread. It's more like a biscuit/cracker than what most people think of as "bread". Fil/Filmjölk: Soured and fermented milk. Reminiscent of yoghurt, but a bit more lean, sour and pungent. We ate it with muesli or cornflakes. Messmör ("whey butter"): A spread made by cooking whey until it caramelises. It has a sweet and unique flavour. Smörgåskaviar/Kaviar ("sandwich caviar"): A popular condiment for sandwiches and boiled eggs which isn't actually caviar, but rather a paste made from about 50% fish roe (usually cod) and 50% other fillers like potato.
In mexico school lunches are also very sandwich-centric, but just a few use that floffy white bread, most of the people use the more traditional "bolillo" bread instead. The filling can be almost everything, from ham, turkey or cheese, to beans, hash, scambled eggs, scrambled eggs with ham, scrambled eggs with turkey, scrambled eggs with beans, scrambled eggs with sausage or even scrambled eggs with beans, sausage, ham, cheese and turkey. In my experience there is also a kind off cafeteria in every public school (called "cooperativa"), in which you can buy burritos, "gorditas" or tacos filled with different stews. I think fruit juice is almost universaly liked by the children, the most popular brands when i was a kid were "boing" (especially a pyramid shaped one), "frutsi" and "pau pau". The "cool kids" usually opened the last two tearing a hole in the bottom instead of just removing the mettalic top. Sorry for my poor english, but i hope i could have made my point.
I'm Canadian and I send burritos and quesadillas to school more often than sandwiches, lol. My son doesn't like sandwiches though and prefers Mexican and Japanese food over most other foods. So sushi and burritos are very common for us.
Its regional Here up north plain white bread is more common than Bolillo for kid lunches, since its easier to use sliced bread Most kids take Tacos to school here, usually quesadillas, or filled with bean and egg tacos, egg and chorizo, egg and ham, etc
@@zero9112 Cuentan las leyendas que los que desayunaba eso son los que hoy en día desayunan una coca con un cigarro. La verdad no sé, pero ya no he visto que vendad los "nutrilunch" así que asumo que no.
In Sweden, kids never bring lunch to school, the school serves them lunch 99% of the time. Although some younger kids bring "mellis/mellanmål" or "in between meals"
visst kändes det konstigt att han nästan bara snackade om att äta mackor som lunch. Hade inte velat att min unge bara skulle äta en macka det känns som man missar mycket av kostcirkeln med bara en macka och läsk.
I think one fun thing about Swedish school lunches are the names. Since they want the kids to eat the healthy food (like fish) they get really creative with the namnes. The more unpopular the dish the more "cool" name they would give it. There was an especially hated fish dish that they put some dried herbs on top of and called "pizzafisk" (pizza fish), it looked like puke. There is also something called "matråd" (food council) in some schools where each class gets to send a representative to a meeting with the kitchen staff. My class had only one wish: no more "pizza fish". We didn't have it again after that. But they brought it back when we left the school under a new name, "dragonfisk" (tarragon fish).
I grew up in Canada, and I ate so many bags of chips or chocolate bars for lunch, cause I was sick of Summer Sausage and bread every day for 10 months of the year,
At my school it was prohibited to bring fast food for lunch but there were two kids who’s dad would get them subway a lot and nobody cared. I think they didn’t want other kids to feel left out
In Mongolia, we were pretty much always served food by the lunch lady, packing lunches wasn't a thing at my school (and I can only assume that was the same for other schools). The food we ate was always served food to us in these small grey bowls - we were usually fed airag (fermented mare's milk, I never really liked it but other kids loved it), or bantan (a Mongolian soup which is mainly broth and flour), rice, or khuushuur (kinda like a flat dumpling). If we had money, we could also buy other foods or snacks in addition to the meals (which were free). Once we finished our lunch, we would wipe the bowl clean and then drink tea in the same bowl. Lunch lasted around 5-10 minutes every day - no recess at my school too, so that was our main official free time, though we would spend plenty time goofing around during class too, so not a bad trade off lol
@@NotASummoner In America, recess/break was always about 10 minutes while lunch was 40-45 minutes. Lower grades/levels (primary/elementary) always had a strict cafeteria of 20-25 minutes with a recess right after while upper grades/levels (ie high school) was one long period where students were essentially free to go wherever they wanted on campus. Either way, 5-10 minutes for your only real break is way too damn short for children.
Indian here. Idli can also be sweet, covered with coconut powder and given as the snack. The curries put in those tins are often the left over from the previous dinner. Curry taste best when it rests for a day. Depending on certain areas, a lot of women are stay-at-home so they can cook fancy things for the kids but in my case, since my mother works and i sometimes cook for my little brother, we cook a thicker curry that can be held inside a bread/roll/sandwich. It has the consistency of a more liquidy ketchup or mayo Kids prefer to get these breads since they can walk around while eating rather than having to sit down and eat their rice/flatbread with curry. We also have dry curry or basically stir fried stuff with masala+spices. We wrapped it in flatbread as lunches. Edit: Ah yes. Also canteen were the ones selling the little Indian snacks like samosa. They mostly sold juices and candies/biscuits/chocolates/chips though. The culture was that snacks were bought while a real meal was to be provided by the parents. There were flatbread sellers at the gates of the school during lunches though. They would have a random selection of stuffs that you could ask him to put in the bread. Some kids' parents were too busy to put a lunch for the children so they just gave them cash.
Right? The meals were very varied but some of my favorites as a kid were: breaded fish, spaghetti bolognese, swedish meatballs with lingonberry, pancakes, pasta with cheese-sauce and kalops(meat stew) with potatoes. A few of my dreaded ones were pea soup, kebob stew and oven pancake
Here in Italy you either come home or eat in the canteen. Usually we eat a first course (pasta / rice / ravioli etc), a second course (meat / fish), bread, vegetables, fruit and water. They try to get you used to eating healthy and tasting new things and it has been the practice for decades. As usual we Italians are obsessed with food😅😁
Man I wish the food culture here in the us for kids was more like that to get them healthy from a young age. Hope you're enjoying life tho my Italian friend
In my country: the Philippines, in school my parents would always pack me rice with chicken or beef adobo which is basically chicken or beef just soaked in what I think is soy sauce
So in Austria the lunch food is very similar to the stuff you get in Germany. Mostly bread with ham in it (yes alot of Vollkornbrot and it tastes good and is healthier than white bread) and fruits (either (sliced) apples or a banana) People also often have a simple water bottle with them. When you get older it gets common that you just buy your food somewhere, I have made the experience that "Schnitzelsemmel" (roll with a Wiener schitzel in the middle) or a "Leberkässemmel" (roll with a meatloaf in the middle) are a very common thing to eat during long school days.
don't apologies for your bread! the whole-grain bread (which is how I would translate it, and it's a general term, not specific for the one he shows, which is also delicious) in Germany and Austria is great. way better than the sweet-as-a-cake and light-as-air bread in north America.
@@shunitg Wattebrot > cotton ball bread. This has to be toasted otherwise it is arkwardly floppy as seen in the video. But my school time is so far away I can't remember what I had back then. Maybe some sort of sandwich and fruit. Also I mostly ate like a "Spatz" sparrow by the amount I took in. Only that we also had cooking classes, were said "bread" were soacked in milk with sugar and the fried in a pan. Was called "Arme Ritter" - pour knights. But also proper meals were prepared then and there. At least a "cafeteria" was not a thing.
When I was in school, there was one kid at my table whose mom made him Steak-um sandwiches once a week. For those unfamiliar, Steak-ums is a very thinly sliced beef type meat that you can pan fry in about a minute (technically a brand but it's basically a genericized term.) They were on a short sub roll and usually had some sort of cheddar cheese and onion, and he'd bring a bottle of steak sauce for dressing. Those sandwiches were considered the highest tier item you could trade for outside of Chicken Wrap day, and commanded top dollar on the lunchroom barter floor.
From Canada, so basically the same as you although we had both hot dog day and pizza day and I’m pretty sure it was every week, or at least the pizza was for sure.
I'm from the US and my school served hot food every day. The main course varied from day to day but both pizza and hot dogs were both very common, along with things like hamburgers, corn dogs, chicken nuggets, etc.
In my country (at least my school) we used to blow the juice packs with air and then step on it. It creates a sound which feels as if someone shot with a gun. Bangladesh
american here when we opened bags of chips [or some other unhealthy shit] as kids we would squeeze the bag until it pops which creates an exploding noise
In Portugal the school canteen gave us the cutlery in paper bags, so often you'd see boys take the empty paper bag, blow air into it, shut the open end by grabing it with their hand, and then hit at it strongly with the other hand. The bag would burst and make a loud noise.
@@red2theelectricboogaloo961 that got to be such problem that our lunch supervisors had to ban it. In reality it was only 1 or 2 bags per period but it was pretty common.
In the Canadian North, they get served food from the school. They use ingredients flown in from rest of Canada or caribou meat from locals. Things like caribou meat poutine. Locals are poor while grocery prices are high so the school provides lunches for some days. I got a chance to go to a Canadian Town up north and talk to the locals.
I also had this tiffin tin, from Ghana BTW but I changed schools and where I went we got food from the cafeteria or dining halls. They served Jollof rice, rice or boiled or fried yams and sweet potatoes with tomato stew or pepper sauce called shito, beans with fried ripe plantain and Kenkey (corn dough dumplings) with ground tomato and peppers, and this may be paired with fruit juices or water. Snacks could include plantain chips, spring rolls or samosas
In Delhi I used to eat an Indian lunch for less than a dollar a day from the High Commission cafeteria. It seemed awesome at first. But, the low-protein, high calorie meals eventually caught up to me and I got pretty damn fat within a few months. Indian lunches every day is less awesome than it seems.
In Toronto we would only have pizza day too, never heard of hot dog day maybe it’s a west coast thing. Also Jamaican beef patties were very common in high school cafeterias
I know you didn't ask for school lunches but in the UK schools across the country used to unknowingly give us horse-meat lasagne, hence why i take packed lunches.
I remember the scandal. Had horse knowingly in France and it was quite good. The Poles make a snack sausage traditionally out of donkey, though mostly pork now. Love JJ's head wobble and, being a Brit, was it two FO months? Inquiring minds...
Wait you had that too? In Germany there was this scandal like in 2013. In nearly every frozen lasagne or stuff with ground meat there was horse-meat in it. But i’m not sure if they sold it in Schools
In Panama we will usually get fried empanadas with meat or cheese filling, also fried corn tortillas that are a lot thicker and smaller than Mexican tortillas usually served with a piece of american cheese and a fried hot dog on the side, fried plantains were also popular and hojaldre wich is a fried bread, we will be lucky to get bollos with cheese on top and those are made with corn and butter and look kind of like a thicker hot dog To conclude, our lunches will always consist of some soggy fried carb with a side of some soggy processed meat
In Kentucky a popular school food item is fried chicken sandwiches (including a spicy variation). Another one is a little rectangle pizza slice, usually corn is served on the side, but many kids would put the corn on the pizza as well as ranch dressing.
I'm from the UK, around when I was at school there was a big turning point in school foods. A TV chef called Jamie Oliver started a campaign to make catered school food more healthy. The food which I had at school was quite varied and moderately healthy. However, some of my friends who are only a few years older than me have fond memories of pizza and chips every day, deep fried everything, and no wasted space on vegetables.
Food reflecting culture is so true! Some guys at work were discussing this. One was an orthodox Jew describing how limited his menu choices were due to religious culture. A Vietnamese guy laughed and said that in his culture "If it moves, you can eat it. If it doesn't move, you can probably eat it."
In America we'd usually have the kind of stuff you talked about for Canada as well, however, our school cafeterias would always serve really good and fairly stereotypical American food, like hamburgers, hotdogs, and usually have pizza served daily.
Finland: Pea Soup, Karelian Pie, Karelian Stew, Rye Bread, A lot of things from blueberries (and cloudberries if you live in the north), sausages, carrot salad and on free time those light green parts of the spruce leaves.
Theres nothing different between Canadian and American school lunches, I thought people knew this. What do you think we're eating, Poutine and pancakes all day?
Idk if this is my country's (Uruguay) thing, or just my mom, but growing up I was never allowed to have sandwiches for lunch, since they are not "lunch food". I was mostly sent milanesa to school, with either rice or mashed potatoes. Milanesa must be one of the most common foods in here, along with anything containing meat.
Great Wolf Hi, I’m Brazilian. Milanesa actually came to us from Italy. But the common Japanese dish Tempura follows the same receipt. Meat, vegetables or fruits (like tomatoes) are dipped in beaten eggs and than in bread crumbs or processed (floor). Finally fried in vegetable oil. It creates a fine crostini. It’s tasty but has carbohydrates.
Germany is very accurate, what I would add is that it's usually also put into plastic boxes and a lot of kids would have a separate, smaller box (or a box with two compartments if you were fancy) to put things like apple or carrot slices in. And yes, German parents ALWAYS cut up the fruit/vegetables before school so the children can just eat them out of the box. Occasionally, children would also have a fruit yoghurt with them and take a spoon from home in a plastic bag just so they could eat the yoghurt lol.
In Italy, we didn't have afternoon school when I was little, at least not where I live (countryside) so we went home for lunch (but we went to school also on Saturdays). Home lunch was usually pasta, unless I went to my grandparents, then it was pasta and then meat and vegetables. Now many schools have afternoon classes and they provide also lunches, but I don't have children in school so all I know is from an administrative perspective. I was a councilor for a while and school lunches were provided by services who had to follow a nutritionist guideline on their menu. Also, usually bringing food from home into canteen is forbidden because of contamination worries. We have a "merenda"= snack midmorning, and that is usually a sandwich or bread with oil and tomatoes, or fruit. This is where a Nutella sandwich would come into sometimes. Never for lunch though.
The Dutch sandwiches are basically the same as German ones. I don’t think any Dutch parent has ever given their child a chips or fries sandwich. Cucumber only in combination with cheese and stuff but that’s too much work for everyday sandwiches.
@@candicehoneycutt4318 ive only ever seen them served in a newspaper a couple times, 99% of the time that i get chips theyre in a polystyrene box, or if its a large chips, then it'll come in greaseproof paper?
Loki Hopkins Yes, and that's partially because newspapers are less available than they used to be. Serving them in newspaper used to be quintessentially English.
@@candicehoneycutt4318 yeah i get that, but i think its more because the paper and polystyrene they use now is cheaper, not because newspapers arent as common. Im not sure how it is in the rest of the uk, but where i live the majority of the population is elderly so there's still a "thriving" newspaper market.
EditRepublic I enjoyed it. Most Irish people are peace loving good guys like my ancestors. I really hate nationalists like this twit talking about black n tans.
Where I come from in India, in my school, kids usually brought light and more easy to pack food such as macaroni, roti, noodles, sandwiches etc. in small tiffin boxes, which we had during our lunch break at 12, and then we'd go home and have a proper Indian lunch at 3.
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In the USA, a friend of mine would tell me about what he ate. He’s lunches usually included a PB&J sandwich/ Ham or turkey sandwich, a lunchable, some sort of candy, and 1-2 juice boxes.
Here in Czechia most kids get sandwiches with ham, cheese and vegetables for snack from home, but then they usually go to the school cafeteria for lunch. The lunch very often consists of cooked cheap beef, pork or chicken (breast) with rice, potatos, potato or bread dumplings and some kind of a brown unindentifyable souce (called by students the UHO: Univerzální hnědá omáčka - Universal brown sauce) made of whatever. An Austrian schnitzel with potato mash or spaghetti “bolognese” are considered the “good” food. Sweet tea is the most common drink. And schoolkids sometimes get battered apples or oranges as a bonus.
Growing up in Israel I didn’t have afternoon classes, but did study 6 days a week. Therefore we didn’t have lunch at school. Most kids did bring a sandwich to eat at around 10AM for a “10 o’clock meal” which was very popular. The sandwiches ranged from pita with hummus or Nutella to sandwiches with (kosher) salami and veggies or cheese. I personally had pitas with smashed avocado and salami, but I was a weird kid.
I actually read an article for one of my college courses last semester about the obentos. I remember they seemed to be a cultural institution in Japan, with magazines and books showing how to make certain styles. The article also talked extensively on what this could say about gender roles in Japan. It was super interesting! The article was called, “Japanese Mothers and Obentos” By Anne Allison in case you were curious!
As a Peruvian, what I remember eating back when I was in elementary (and in Peru) it would usually consistent of the following. Entree - Stuffed Potato or Tamale or Triple (three layered sandwich) or Empanada Snack - Apple, banana, or whatever fruit was cheap and plentiful Drink - Fruit juice, sometimes peach or apple. Again depending on what was available and cheap Desert - (when given) Lucuma ice cream, tres leches, or flan ***I lived in Lima so my lunch did vary from the other places
PeakCartoon I’m also from Peru. In school, I used to eat a chicken sandwich or hot dog ( or whatever was available but had to be in a bread) fruit like banana and mandarina. Yogurt or a juice. And a little snack like cereal or chocolate
In elementary school (in America) I always had pb&j, a fruit cup, a capri sun juice pouch, and some sort of sweet cookie snack like Scooby snacks or mini Oreos. Everyone generally had a similar structure but with varying brands and varieties for each category
This is so random but I could literally smell it when the Super Mario 3 snacks came on screen and same with the Shark Bites lol. Such distinct scents that remind me of my childhood
Slavic cuisine is honest, what we eat normally, we are giving to tourists too. and they love it. Hi from Slovakia and greetings to Croatia. Love your Lignje na žaru 🇸🇰❤🇭🇷 Edit: In lover quality in school cafeterias of course
Idk what others had but I usually got to eat plain rice and hotdogs for lunch in the philippines. The hotdogs would be put on top of the rice in the lunch box and it would turn the rice red/pink. Back when we couldn't afford buying hotdogs regularly, it's just fried fish and rice. One time I asked my mom to pack me some raw vegetables like carrots and cucumbers.
Where the fuck did you eat lunch. I got a black orange, tasteless pizza, and nuggies. And I noticed he got a doughnut. But my school despised salt and sugar.
I'm from Norway. The typical lunch my parents would pack me was an open-faced sandwich with either jam, peanut butter, slices of meat, cheese, or brown cheese (caramelised goat/cow milk). I would also get some veggies and/or fruit, and a yogurt. This was typical for the other kids at my school as well.
In Bangladesh (at least my school): Everyone used to bring different sorts of foods. Some used to bring Meat with Paratha, Some brought meat sandwich (meat fried in the Spicy Indian-Bengali way), some brought some brought Burgers, Biryanis,etc. The cafeteria used to sell Hotdogs, Pizzas,Biryanis,Hyderabadi Biryanis,Burgers,Chowmin,Speghetti,Shezan Mango Juice and Cold Water bottles.
As a swede we had free rather good food in scool, often with a big salladbar and some knäckebröd if you didn't like the food. But on the days we had fieldtrips swedish pancakes was in many childrens lunchboxes, often with some strawberry jam. You could also get a tunnbrörulle. That is flat bread that is rolled up with diftent fillings, like chees and/or ham.
In Poland, we don’t have lunch, just ‘obiad’ or the ‘meal in the middle of the day’. Soup is usually served in the cafeteria and after that some sort of solid dish like a sandwich, salad, or spaghetti, or lasagna if your school is small enough. Then you get dessert. Sometimes all at once. You usually cannot bring your own food.
thats lunch but we have it the same in czechia. we usually bring food for snacks like a candy bar or a banana or something like that. (btw we also have obiad just oběd so thats kinda cool)
@@v.k5417 well actually it kinda is lunch and it isn't. Obiad translates more to "dinner" as its usually a much bigger meal that you usually eat at the kitchen table with your family from the hours of 2pm-4pm. Then around past 6pm (dinner time for America/England) we'd eat a small meal consisting of sandwiches, boiled sausages "hot dogs" and drink hot tea. Shortly after people would go to bed.
7:00 - "Especially Frooti brand mango juice, which the Indian children apparently go nuts for - at least, if this commercial is anything to go by." UA-cam: *inserts a comically-timed Grammarly commercial*
One of the perhaps more unusual things about kids’ lunches in Poland would be that a relatively common component of sandwiches may be pâté (pasztet in Polish), the cheap type that comes in a small metal dish thing (look up pasztet profi and you’ll see what I mean). Another thing is milk bread rolls (bułeczki mleczne) that are packaged in a bag like bread, 10 in a pack. They look like tiny loaves of bread but taste like a very sweet fluffy bread-like substance. It also has a pretty artificial taste, you can almost taste the preservatives (idk if you actually can or what that artificial taste actually is). And that’s what I usually got for lunch, also maybe with a mandarin orange and a bottle of water to drink, not specifically for lunch though. For most of my childhood there was also a program that everyone would get a small carton of milk to make kids healthy I guess? So you could drink that with your lunch.
In Sweden the school gives all the kids a real cooked meal every day, even vegetarian alternatives for those who don't eat meat. I think it is the same in all of Scandinavia.
Your description of German lunch boxes was pretty much accurate. But they're technically not *lunch* boxes. I don't know if this applies to all of Germany, but when I went to school we ate that stuff for breakfast (around 8/9 am), not for lunch.
I had never lunch at school. My class ended at 12:30 (in elementary school) and then at 13:05. I ate it mostly in the second break about 11 It wasn’t really lunch but breakfast also not...
growing up in Croatia, the most popular lunches were sandwiched whit cheese and salami, bologna meat, or mortadella. fruits like banana or mandarin. more often than not a juice is made from syrup at home or water. and sometimes special lunches like Nutella sandwiches, a small packet of crunchy corn puff snack, packed croissant, or some Kinder brand desert
In Greenland, my kids always get two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 7, a number 6 with extra dip, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
Big smoke!
And no pickles
So recent,wow, impressive
I feel like that's a reference to something I've heard from somewhere but can't exactly remember what...
@GreenTeaKitKat Oh GTA right?
JJ: Indian kids eat Indian food
Me: Whoa! 😲
I thought Indian kids ate Malaysian food
I like upma especially semya upma
WOW 🤔🤔
The floor is made of floor
This comment is funny, and I am not joking about finding this funny.
The UK one is pretty accurate. When I was at primary school in the 90s, my typical lunchbox would contain a sandwich with cheese or some form of processed meat, a packet of crisps, and either a cartoon of juice or a small bottle of fizzy drink (Panda Pop was the prefered brand at the time), and maybe a small yoghurt. If we didn't like our sandwich filling then we'd take the meat out and insert the crisps instead to make the British delicacy that is the crisp sandwich.
As an American I have to say this is the most British thing I've read and I love it.
Stop talking funny
As an Australian kid, I'd have just about killed for a crisp sandwich. Those were the bomb back in the sixties and seventies.
As an American from Las Vegas and who lives on the east coast I can confidently say that we love chips (crisps) on sandwiches. If you're used to putting crisps on a sandwich try a crunchy pb+j. Use strawberry jam, smooth peanut butter, the softest bread you can find and good salty chips. Sounds weird but it's just about the only way I'll prepare that sandwich.
If my mum made Sunday dinner, I could have the leftovers for lunch at school the next Monday. It was great
Very accurate about my country, and I hate upama.. And no I didn't had that metal thing but i had a small plastic box
Pretty much the same here too lmao
I'm Indian, but not from there. I love upmavam.
My parents had the tiffin box (that's what they call the big metal thing) growing up
I always only have Maggie!!!!!
Same
JJ: The kids go nuts for it, as seen in this commercial
Me: Immediately gets a beer commercial
For me it was whiskey
@@artistwithouttalent even better xD
I got an add for people shoplifting from servos
I got a grammarly commercial. ;P
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In Mexico in my experience, the most common thing kids get for lunch are “tortas”, which are not cakes as Google translate might tell you. They are basically sandwiches, but made with “bolillo” (a kind of bread roll) instead of sliced bread. I would usually get mine filled with refried beans with chorizo or eggs scrambled together with ham or some other sort of meat. Funnily enough, the sold those same octopus wieners (called salchipulpos) at the school’s cafeteria, but they’d pan fry them so that their “legs” would stay open.
When I was a kid I used to save my lunch money to buy cigarettes from the older kids
tortas is cake in lithuanian
Yeahh
That and fruit or buying things from the tiendita (candy, mostly)
I love tortas I wish I could get them for lunch every day
Chicken salad torta, tuna salad torta, head cheese torta, beans and or cheese torta, mole torta, hot dog torta, milanesa torta, roast chicken torta, stuffed pepper torta, Cuban torta
As a Brit, the things JJ mentioned do exist, but most lunches are very very similar to Canada. A meat sandwich, a piece of fruit, and usually a pack of crisps or sweets.
Someone's my dad would give us the empty bread, buttered. Then he'd give 2 bags of crisps, one to go in the bread and the other to eat
Don’t forget the cheese string
@@thomasalmond6210 Not those bloody things. I was thoroughly repulsed by them as a child for some reason.
it's pretty much identical in the u.s too. not surprising though
@jake jones exactly, we generally eat the same types of foods.
Indian here.
Frooti is amazing but we didn't have it everyday. And rarely anyone in cities carried those multi box lunch box. So we usually carry two separate boxes in a lunch basket.
rahul g I think they banned Frootie?
Maybe just where I grew up.
xX_Sushiskies_Xx it would think it’s just your region because I visited my family in Punjab India and they have frooti there
They have it in the south
@@mintxcreme They changed the design tho
I think the most universal indian lunch food is roti sabzi or Maggi
"Vollkornbrot" is just whole grain bread, nothing weird about it... and most kids in germany also get some fruit for lunch, mostly sliced apples, grapes, or stuff like that.
i dont think they meant whole grain bread. We have that kind of bread they meant in the video too here in the netherlands, though we call it roggebrood (roggenbrot in german) and its really dense and actually nothing like bread, tastes really savoury. Ive never seen anyone take it to lunch though.
@@mitchystuff I'm German and 'Roggenbrot' is the go-to bread we buy in our family and take with us to school. There are different types of it you can buy here but what is shown in the video would be called "Vollkornbrot", like petrichor said. The standard Roggenbrot would typically not contain whole grains.
We don't
@@williamwashburn7665 so you're german? Name seems very very American
@@sirspoonkm. should have clarified that yea I'm American
It's been awhile since I was a kid but in the US we had the same typical food as you describe in Canada, however there was a great competition over lunchboxes. You tried to have the best metal lunchbox with pictures from your favorite cartoon show on them, doubly impressive if it had a similarly decorated thermos inside. These thermoses were also impressive because they were somewhat fragile in that they had a glass liner for keeping things hot or cold. If you accidentally dropped it you may hear glass rattling around in it. If you had a thermos then your mom would fill it with soup (chicken noodle or alphabet soup) or something fun like spaghetti-os, Ravioli or other canned Chef Boyardee delicious goodness.
Ohh... that's how thermoses worked...
And then some of us didn't bother with the lunchboxes until we were already adults and buying collector's lunchboxes (Like my snazzy Detective Pikachu lunchbox that currently contains all the TCG stuff it came with)
I thought I was old, but glass thermoses were phased out by the time I hit school.
As someone from the US, I remember being the cool kid in the cafeteria because I had a Teenage Mutan Ninja Turtles lunchbox, that had the faces of all four turtles, and when you hit the lunchbox, the turtles' eyes flash with lights. Kids would always want to sit with me because they wanted to play with my lunchbox. It was fine at first, but I started getting annoying after two years. I was so mad about getting so much attention that I hid it away. I forgot where I put it, and I'm still looking for it cuz of the nostalgia.
i find it mind boggling that school lunch is so tiny in the USA. Here in brazil we usually have a full on plate with rice meat vegetables and beans, not to mention that we can also bring/buy a snack to eat beforehand. Could be because our breakfast is rather small when compared to the US's, but i'm not sure.
This made me really appreciate growing up in Hawaii. Traditional Hawaiian, Filipino, Japanese, Modern Hawaiian, Korean, American. You could go two weeks eating a different cuisine every day.
Of course, obesity is a huge problem over here but at least we have some damn awesome food.
It's ok, it's not like the rest of the US doesn't have an obesity problem either 😂
But yes you are right, I've been to Hawaii twice and y'all do have some damn awesome food
My school in Hawaii was kindergarten through 8th grade. For thanksgiving we had a homemade potluck at school and my class (eighth graders) helped the kindergarteners get their plate of food. I used to live on the mainland till then so I wasn’t used to Filipino and Hawaiian cuisine. When I was helping my kindergartener he didn’t want any traditional thanksgiving food, he only wanted the Filipino, Hawaiian foods etc like spam musubi. I thought it was kinda funny and cute seeing that difference. I live on the mainland again and miss Hawaii’s plethora of foods 😭
@@lifeofabronovich7792 Hawaii has an even higher obesity rate, many native Hawaiians are obese
@@lifeofabronovich7792 if i had to guess, 40-50% of native hawaiians are obese
I went to Hawaii this year and I lived for the food there! I woke up everyday and decided on a different cultural food for that day. Awesome! And I stayed in a residental area so I go to visit some hole in the wall spots.
Quick note: in south india, we have a dish called "saambar", which is essentially veg curry with lots of pulses. Very common in school lunches.
Yes. Quick tip though. They don't call them "pulses" outside of south Asia. Around the world, they're usually called, Lentils
i think chutney or podi is still even more common than sambhar because sambhar is hard to transport without leaks
In India we have a thing called midday meals where we enjoy a proper meal in the afternoon with rice, sambar ( a vegetable stew kind of dish) , pickles and papadam ( a crispy flavorless/ful thingy if you will) . Non Vegetarian foods are generally not seen with the exception of eggs in certain schools. Others make home made meals.
And yes we don't eat samosas for lunch. Its more of a evening snack/ breakfast kind of a thing.
Cheers
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U mean "थाली"
Are you from south India? Cuz that doesn’t seem like the type of thing you’d see in north India
@@HeadCannon19 yes
@@shushruthsudhirurwa9161 same
True but it's a less common to see midday meals in North India because most of the schools in North India are private schools (specifically in Delhi)
German classic:
Dark bread with cheese or meat
Apple Slices
All hail the Apfelschnitze
Aber nicht geschält sonst gehen die Vitamine verloren
Some places in the US you see that. Areas with heavy German influence obviously.
Bruh true
Tim Fischer that sounds pretty tasty
In Egypt, kids might get a couple Fino bread sandwiches filled with Rumy cheese, mortadella is also eaten in sandwiches and is commonly refered to as “luncheon”, as well as halawa (sesame paste based confectionery)
Interesting. I had no idea about any of this.
don't forget baladi bread. also i used to have some fruits with me at school.
In Romania, the school would always give us a short baguette and a milk packet. They did this for free, so no kid goes without eating
I like that!
In Hungary 🇭🇺 we also had free milk CUPS 🥤 and our parents made sandwiches 🥪 with smoked sausage or patê.
Fun fact: The baguettes are sooo hard that kids fight eachother with them
In the US if your family makes under a certain amount of money the kid kids free lunch. And in Louisiana during the summer those people can go and get lunch at the school
also yogurt,biscuits and apples (at least in my school)
It's crazy how much "long john" dessert looks so much like a cheaper and failed version of the french éclair au Chocolat 🤣
Here in the US, the "long john" is just a donut with or without filling. Not an eclair.
We do enjoy eclairs here in the US, but you can generally only get them at a faux-fancy cafe or bakery.
Shokolot
Lmao
I mean, they're the same thing, basically. Most donut shops have either "long johns" or filled ones that they call eclairs. Regardless of how close they actually are to being eclairs.
As an American, my mom sometimes makes cucumber sandwiches when she has a friend over since her last trip to England. At least the kind she makes, they don’t just have cucumbers, they also have cream cheese in the sandwich too. It’s pretty good; it’s a simple way of balancing mild sweetness and mild savoryness while also having some protein from the cream cheese
think thats called a a cucummber tea sandwich
@Can Tin I'd mostly agree there (personally cucumber, ham, cheese and pickle is the best cold (so no bacon, fried eggs etc.) sandwich there is), but I have known pure cucumber sandwiches too. The trick is, you need REALLY good quality cucumber to pull it off. I've never seen the right stuff in shops tbh, just the ones my Dad grows in his greenhouse every year (they're also about 3 times the size of supermarket cucumbers and often have actual spines on the skin you need to remove). Absolutely delicious but almost a different product to what you get in shops.
As a Brit i totally remember having cucumber, and ham sandwiches, it's basically an entire meal with vegetables, meat, and carbohydrates.
I've never heard of cucumber sandwiches, and it sounds fucking depressing,
here in Scotland we usually had sandwitches and margarine and maybe ham and cheese
Why does all British food remind me of grey skies and Vitamin deficiencies
I’m American but my mom would put cucumbers on my sandwich’s all the time, once she put cucumber, butter and ham on a sourdough sandwich and it was… interesting. She adds cucumber to her own sandwiches still or when she makes tea sandwiches during the summer she adds them
I've had Billy Bear sandwiches at school but a "french fry" sandwich (chip butty) is just something I've made after being out drinking
I feel like an Navajo Taco would kill a British person
In australia, we have a vegemite sandwich, granola bar, juice box and apple, but in a proper insulated container
сука блять we have the same in uk but marmite instead of veggiemite and no insulated container
Went to a state school - had to buy at tuckshop
We have insulated containers here in Canada too but they often get lost or you forget a banana in there and it gets nasty and everyone always have a whole bunch of grocery bags
@@commonwealthreport6508 State school [at least in the US Northeast] means a school for dangerous children or special needs children, public school is, presumably, what we call your state school. Our public schools are supposed to be secular, with no religious teaching, and in this area they are. In other parts of the US, however, religious people subvert the public schools to illegally use them for proselytization.
I just can't get over vegimite. I try to like it, but it just tastes like a kidneystone injection pill with bread every time I try and eat it, eventhough I put as much on there as (I wanted to say, bum of a spider, but then you'd think I'd put twice as much vegimite on there as bread, so... ) I put as much on there as there is land borders in Australia and it still tastes like absolute piss... How do I know what piss tastes like you may ask? Oh, I tasted yours alcohol
I love when he says the idea of having indian food for lunch everyday sounds amazing, as this is my reality 😂. I work at a small indian restaurant and get a free curry and buttery garlic naan everyday for lunch, and is basically the only reason I still work there 😂
Indian lunches you mention are absolutely spot on, at least in the place where I am from. I used to go to school with a similar type of tiffin box and lunch bag. :D
In India : if your mom's a homemaker literally anything -
1.Paratha
2.Noodles
3.Dosa
4.Pasta
5.Pakora
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shikhar dubey And the sandwiches usually have like aloo, mixes of veggies
I like upma especially demand upma
@@YogoYoshi2936 what's upma
@@sothysentuyhor22 you're suppose to say 'not much papi'
@@sothysentuyhor22 😥
In Belgium we put “hagelslag” in our kids sandwiches. It’s chocolate sprinkles. In Flemish (Dutch) translated we called them “mice poop” .
We also had “sirop de Liège” on our bread. The thick, gelatinous sirop was made from dates and pears. Very sweet and kids love them.
I've been wanting to try hagelslag for sooooooooooooooo long I'm gonna go to world market one of these days to try both the sprinkles and the shavings 😍
Also in the Netherlands
@@iloveme4life It's ntohing special though. Just dark chocolate bits.
I'm from the US, I knew a guy who ate a ketchup sandwich for lunch every day.
i shall not dare to question him
Served plain pasta in my school so some kids used ketchup as the tomato sauce
I feel like that has to be an American thing, cuz when I was in kindergarten I had mustard and cheese sandwiches every lunch
carl bro I’m in Canada and my mom tells me she used to do that
Great guy, really commendable.
And I used to complain about the food quality provided by the school cafeteria... (Réunion Island, France)
A bit out of topic but the school cafeteria we can chose between 2 starter (exemple : corn + fish, salads, sometimes pizzas) + 3 main course (often rice + meet and a side dish (lentils, beens, vegetables...)) + 2 dessert (fruit or yogurt). There's always a vegetarian option. I think it's the same kind of lunches for the whole school system but younger kids have less choice. In "Maternelle" (school for 3 to 5 year olds), they can't choose, it's already served on the table.
Meanwhile in the US the meal we had last Wednesday was a cold ham sandwich baked chips(North American kind) cherry tomatoes and an orange
Wild, I’m from the us and a common lunch served at school cafeterias is a nearly expired fruit (I have found so much mold on these), some meat that smells god awful (like “hamburgers” that do not taste like beef at all), if there’s a grain it’s some sort of whole wheat bread, sometimes vegetables but they always look rly close to the expiration date, and milk (which is often frozen solid bc of bad freezers). Cooks cannot add any spice to foods not even salt. I’m pretty sure prison food is better, we’re at the point where they get a shipment from the county and heat it up and that’s all the prep. I cannot find words to describe how bad school lunch is. Where I live in the us has a high poverty rate so all lunch is free but I have seen kids who live in the trailer parks refuse to eat bc of how bad it is. Most kids who don’t bring lunch just throw away hot lunch and because of COVID the ability high schoolers had to pick between 2 meals is out the window. My first ever experience with school food was finding hair in my Mac and cheese. The moldly orange incident was fun though. I always pack my lunches now which is like an apple, almond yogurt, tortilla chips, and a half sandwich of some sort like peanut butter. Kids here more commonly have little snack packs or junk food or whatever but that’s just how teenagers are. A lot of kids eat some sort of dairy product like cheese but I’m lowkey allergic to dairy :(.
In high school (Texas, U.S) I would get a spicy chicken sandwich, which was just a fried processed “spicy” chicken patty on a hamburger bun, cold French fries and a apple most days. We never actually ate the apples but were required to take a fruit or vegetable
For lunch we usually have a few options but the “good stuff” (okay food that doesn’t give you food poisoning) runs out so I had to take the bad option, a tiny plastic container filled with spinach and small tomatoes with ranch.. *that’s it.* oh and some small apples and molding ham. You have no idea how much people get food poisoning at my school, I’ve even gotten food poisoning from it.
@@Lex_Quinn yeah for some reason US school lunches suck, for some reason they always have badly served food that are usually moldy and literally give you food poisoning.
Funny you mention bologna as a "lower class food"
When I was a kid growing up in Texas (very poor family) in the 1980s, lunch was indeed bologna (not all-beef Osca Meyer; no, cheap Rogelein brand) with American "cheese" (basically a lot of stabilized vegetable oil with yellow food coloring, not in any way real cheese). Apples, oranges, and bananas were common, and occasionally we would get fruit roll-ups or maybe fig Newtons - or Little Debbie snack cakes. Milk was the usual drink option, all carried in a lunchbox with matching thermos (I had a Star Wars lunch box, a Dukes of Hazzard lunch box, and a Muppets lunch box). But I fondly remember my mom sometimes picking wild mustang grapes and boiling them down into juice and sweetening with table sugar - which is about the only real use for them, as they're very heavy with tannins and fibrous. Not really good for pies or jams. In mid-spring we'd often pick wild dewberries (a kind of trailing blackberry) and that would become pie or jam.
One thing we did have was fresh eggs and veggies, as my parents always kept a garden and chickens (my mom would sell excess eggs to the local country store to make a little extra money). Our neighbors next door (next door being a quarter-mile away) also had livestock and did some farming, so trading produce was pretty common as well. One particular year we had so much squash that we literally couldn't give it away, and another year it was the same with okra.
We also qualified for reduced-price school lunches for a time. I'm pretty much convinced that schoolkids today have much worse school lunch options than we did, because I do not remember the school lunches being particularly low-quality. They weren't great, don't get me wrong, but they weren't terrible. The menu varied from week to week but meatloaf, chicken nuggets, hamburger steak, mini pizza, side salads, mixed veggies, apple crumble, pudding, were all common menu items. And if you didn't like the main entrée, you could always get a hamburger. The drinks were either milk or juice - if you wanted a soda you had to buy that from a vending machine out of your own pocket!
Hey. big liar.
American cheese is just cheddar cheese mixed with oil to give it a smooth consistency.
Sounds like you grew up in a good school district. Growing up mine wasn't bad, but you only got the entree offered, no subs like a burger. And we only got milk to drink. If you wanted chocolate you had to pay for it. Lol.
I think the variety of food served as a school lunch really depends on what school district you attend. Growing up I also had the "reduced price lunches" dealio since I was just raised by my father, and we also moved around our city a lot because of his job so I attended several different school districts throughout my schooling career, and for the more poverty stricken sides of town their schools only really had one entree option per day, with maybe an Ala Carte option if you wanted to pay a little extra for a bag of chips or an extra carton of milk. When I started attending high school we had moved out to the suburbs, and the high school out there was absolutely decadent when it came to school lunch, having like six different things to choose from each day. And as an added bonus for being so wealthy, they would even have chick fillet as an Ala carte option on Fridays for like 3.50, although I didn't get to enjoy this since I had already graduated when they made this change.
4:51 It's the other way around. The umeboshi-rice meal is supposed to be patriotic because it symbolises the Japanese flag
Oh
isnt that what he said tho
Also fun fact, the bento with rice and umeboshi is called 日の丸/hinomaru bento which is also a patriotic nickname for the Japanese flag (it translates to the “circle of the sun” in English)
It’s the Sun.
When I studied in Spain, our host mom would pack us “bocadillos”. They were long baguette sandwiches (like a sub) with Iberian ham, chorizo, or salchichón and cheese. They were so simple but she got fresh bread every morning from the bakery down the street, so they were always delicious. I tried to remake it when I got home to the US and it wasn’t anywhere near as good.
I miss my señora's bocadillos so much.
Host mom????
You fail to mention that wasn't for lunch though.
In Spain most children do not eat at school they go home to eat.
They are just sandwiches made from the most common bread which is a 250g baguette usually split into four different sandwiches.
7:54 Vollkornsbrot literally means "whole grain bread" and is popular across northern and north-eastern Europe.
In Sweden almost everyone eats the food provided by the school cafeteria, which is served buffet-style.
Some of our most distinct and regular foods were found on a separate "bread table":
Knäckebröd ("crispbread"): A dry, thin (usually about 1cm wide) rye bread. It's more like a biscuit/cracker than what most people think of as "bread".
Fil/Filmjölk: Soured and fermented milk. Reminiscent of yoghurt, but a bit more lean, sour and pungent. We ate it with muesli or cornflakes.
Messmör ("whey butter"): A spread made by cooking whey until it caramelises. It has a sweet and unique flavour.
Smörgåskaviar/Kaviar ("sandwich caviar"): A popular condiment for sandwiches and boiled eggs which isn't actually caviar, but rather a paste made from about 50% fish roe (usually cod) and 50% other fillers like potato.
In mexico school lunches are also very sandwich-centric, but just a few use that floffy white bread, most of the people use the more traditional "bolillo" bread instead. The filling can be almost everything, from ham, turkey or cheese, to beans, hash, scambled eggs, scrambled eggs with ham, scrambled eggs with turkey, scrambled eggs with beans, scrambled eggs with sausage or even scrambled eggs with beans, sausage, ham, cheese and turkey. In my experience there is also a kind off cafeteria in every public school (called "cooperativa"), in which you can buy burritos, "gorditas" or tacos filled with different stews. I think fruit juice is almost universaly liked by the children, the most popular brands when i was a kid were "boing" (especially a pyramid shaped one), "frutsi" and "pau pau". The "cool kids" usually opened the last two tearing a hole in the bottom instead of just removing the mettalic top.
Sorry for my poor english, but i hope i could have made my point.
¿El Choco Milk con un Gansito ya no es popular?
I'm Canadian and I send burritos and quesadillas to school more often than sandwiches, lol. My son doesn't like sandwiches though and prefers Mexican and Japanese food over most other foods. So sushi and burritos are very common for us.
Its regional
Here up north plain white bread is more common than Bolillo for kid lunches, since its easier to use sliced bread
Most kids take Tacos to school here, usually quesadillas, or filled with bean and egg tacos, egg and chorizo, egg and ham, etc
@@zero9112 Cuentan las leyendas que los que desayunaba eso son los que hoy en día desayunan una coca con un cigarro.
La verdad no sé, pero ya no he visto que vendad los "nutrilunch" así que asumo que no.
I am from Egypt and I usually eat molten cheese with chips warped up in Lebanese bread
Y'know, that doesn't sound half bad
What governorate do you come from exactly?
@@mohammadwaled409 الدقهلية
Why does the phrase “molten cheese” sound so epic. It sounds like a larger than life lunch
In Sweden, kids never bring lunch to school, the school serves them lunch 99% of the time. Although some younger kids bring "mellis/mellanmål" or "in between meals"
visst kändes det konstigt att han nästan bara snackade om att äta mackor som lunch. Hade inte velat att min unge bara skulle äta en macka det känns som man missar mycket av kostcirkeln med bara en macka och läsk.
@@ultrahevybeat Ikr, kostcirkeln är helig för svenskar
I think one fun thing about Swedish school lunches are the names. Since they want the kids to eat the healthy food (like fish) they get really creative with the namnes. The more unpopular the dish the more "cool" name they would give it. There was an especially hated fish dish that they put some dried herbs on top of and called "pizzafisk" (pizza fish), it looked like puke.
There is also something called "matråd" (food council) in some schools where each class gets to send a representative to a meeting with the kitchen staff. My class had only one wish: no more "pizza fish". We didn't have it again after that. But they brought it back when we left the school under a new name, "dragonfisk" (tarragon fish).
In New Zealand we are so lazy, sometimes we just pack a bag of chips or order a subway
I grew up in Canada, and I ate so many bags of chips or chocolate bars for lunch, cause I was sick of Summer Sausage and bread every day for 10 months of the year,
At my school it was prohibited to bring fast food for lunch but there were two kids who’s dad would get them subway a lot and nobody cared. I think they didn’t want other kids to feel left out
no joke i once went to school with a cheese burger and 9 chicken mc nuggets
At most schools in Thailand, the students eat lunch prepared by the school. Also in Thailand we call the “tiffen tin” “pin toh”
Same at Malaysia too
Pinto beans
@@mrequinox0921 Well, I called it tingkat.
Ford Pin Toh
in the philippines, its called a baunan or baon but its not just for the metal ones. its in general for either the metal or plastic pack lunch cases
In Mongolia, we were pretty much always served food by the lunch lady, packing lunches wasn't a thing at my school (and I can only assume that was the same for other schools). The food we ate was always served food to us in these small grey bowls - we were usually fed airag (fermented mare's milk, I never really liked it but other kids loved it), or bantan (a Mongolian soup which is mainly broth and flour), rice, or khuushuur (kinda like a flat dumpling). If we had money, we could also buy other foods or snacks in addition to the meals (which were free). Once we finished our lunch, we would wipe the bowl clean and then drink tea in the same bowl. Lunch lasted around 5-10 minutes every day - no recess at my school too, so that was our main official free time, though we would spend plenty time goofing around during class too, so not a bad trade off lol
Woah, that's a lunch speedrun. We always have one hour lunch in Sweden.
@@NotASummoner In America, recess/break was always about 10 minutes while lunch was 40-45 minutes. Lower grades/levels (primary/elementary) always had a strict cafeteria of 20-25 minutes with a recess right after while upper grades/levels (ie high school) was one long period where students were essentially free to go wherever they wanted on campus. Either way, 5-10 minutes for your only real break is way too damn short for children.
Indian here.
Idli can also be sweet, covered with coconut powder and given as the snack.
The curries put in those tins are often the left over from the previous dinner. Curry taste best when it rests for a day.
Depending on certain areas, a lot of women are stay-at-home so they can cook fancy things for the kids but in my case, since my mother works and i sometimes cook for my little brother, we cook a thicker curry that can be held inside a bread/roll/sandwich. It has the consistency of a more liquidy ketchup or mayo
Kids prefer to get these breads since they can walk around while eating rather than having to sit down and eat their rice/flatbread with curry.
We also have dry curry or basically stir fried stuff with masala+spices. We wrapped it in flatbread as lunches.
Edit: Ah yes. Also canteen were the ones selling the little Indian snacks like samosa. They mostly sold juices and candies/biscuits/chocolates/chips though. The culture was that snacks were bought while a real meal was to be provided by the parents. There were flatbread sellers at the gates of the school during lunches though. They would have a random selection of stuffs that you could ask him to put in the bread. Some kids' parents were too busy to put a lunch for the children so they just gave them cash.
WOOAAHHH I love idli (am Indian) and have never had it sweet. Gonna have to try it sometime!
@@princesidon and I have never had salty idli. Always ate the sweet variety.
This seems so foreign to me, since we have free lunches in Sweden. So I've never had to imagine bringing food to school
Goddamnit swedes back at it with their socialism
Right? The meals were very varied but some of my favorites as a kid were: breaded fish, spaghetti bolognese, swedish meatballs with lingonberry, pancakes, pasta with cheese-sauce and kalops(meat stew) with potatoes. A few of my dreaded ones were pea soup, kebob stew and oven pancake
@@GoogelyeyesSaysHej I can get that here in California if I just go to the Ikea cafeteria.
@@themoviedealers the IKEA cafeteria actually resembles a Swedish school restaurant! No desserts or soft drinks in school though.
same in finland lol
Here in Italy you either come home or eat in the canteen. Usually we eat a first course (pasta / rice / ravioli etc), a second course (meat / fish), bread, vegetables, fruit and water. They try to get you used to eating healthy and tasting new things and it has been the practice for decades.
As usual we Italians are obsessed with food😅😁
Man I wish the food culture here in the us for kids was more like that to get them healthy from a young age. Hope you're enjoying life tho my Italian friend
In my country: the Philippines, in school my parents would always pack me rice with chicken or beef adobo which is basically chicken or beef just soaked in what I think is soy sauce
Stay Cheeki Breeki my friend :)
I love adobo
sounds delicious.
Adobo chicken is the fucking bomb
Zak hell yeah brother
So in Austria the lunch food is very similar to the stuff you get in Germany. Mostly bread with ham in it (yes alot of Vollkornbrot and it tastes good and is healthier than white bread) and fruits (either (sliced) apples or a banana) People also often have a simple water bottle with them. When you get older it gets common that you just buy your food somewhere, I have made the experience that "Schnitzelsemmel" (roll with a Wiener schitzel in the middle) or a "Leberkässemmel" (roll with a meatloaf in the middle) are a very common thing to eat during long school days.
don't apologies for your bread! the whole-grain bread (which is how I would translate it, and it's a general term, not specific for the one he shows, which is also delicious) in Germany and Austria is great. way better than the sweet-as-a-cake and light-as-air bread in north America.
@@shunitg Wattebrot > cotton ball bread. This has to be toasted otherwise it is arkwardly floppy as seen in the video. But my school time is so far away I can't remember what I had back then. Maybe some sort of sandwich and fruit. Also I mostly ate like a "Spatz" sparrow by the amount I took in. Only that we also had cooking classes, were said "bread" were soacked in milk with sugar and the fried in a pan. Was called "Arme Ritter" - pour knights. But also proper meals were prepared then and there. At least a "cafeteria" was not a thing.
When I was in school, there was one kid at my table whose mom made him Steak-um sandwiches once a week. For those unfamiliar, Steak-ums is a very thinly sliced beef type meat that you can pan fry in about a minute (technically a brand but it's basically a genericized term.) They were on a short sub roll and usually had some sort of cheddar cheese and onion, and he'd bring a bottle of steak sauce for dressing.
Those sandwiches were considered the highest tier item you could trade for outside of Chicken Wrap day, and commanded top dollar on the lunchroom barter floor.
I'm 29 years old and my dad is damn near retired. We still invite each other over whenever we make Steak-Ums.
I remember once going to the school cafeteria and asking (in my native language, Bengali):
"Uncle, do you have Bitch Lasagna?"
A (wo)man of Culture , I see
@@navyal7237 No one eats Lasagna in Bengal or even knows about it
@@shounakbanerjee8904 pretty sure some have eaten it but I get what you mean .
My comment however , is a meme reference
@Luis Muñoz yes, in india we call elderly people uncle or auntie
From Canada, so basically the same as you although we had both hot dog day and pizza day and I’m pretty sure it was every week, or at least the pizza was for sure.
whaaat, we only had hot lunch day every couple of months
At my school in Michigan (aka the Canada of America) we had pizza as an option every. single. day.
At my school we had hot lunchs once a month
I'm from the US and my school served hot food every day. The main course varied from day to day but both pizza and hot dogs were both very common, along with things like hamburgers, corn dogs, chicken nuggets, etc.
As a swede who visited an indian school once. I can say that their school lunch is absolute bomb (atleast at the school I visited)
In my country (at least my school) we used to blow the juice packs with air and then step on it. It creates a sound which feels as if someone shot with a gun.
Bangladesh
I'm pretty sure schoolchildren do that all over the world. That and with those clip-lock bags.
american here
when we opened bags of chips [or some other unhealthy shit] as kids we would squeeze the bag until it pops which creates an exploding noise
In Portugal the school canteen gave us the cutlery in paper bags, so often you'd see boys take the empty paper bag, blow air into it, shut the open end by grabing it with their hand, and then hit at it strongly with the other hand. The bag would burst and make a loud noise.
@@red2theelectricboogaloo961 that got to be such problem that our lunch supervisors had to ban it.
In reality it was only 1 or 2 bags per period but it was pretty common.
@@saddlepiggy hahahahaha
In the Canadian North, they get served food from the school. They use ingredients flown in from rest of Canada or caribou meat from locals. Things like caribou meat poutine. Locals are poor while grocery prices are high so the school provides lunches for some days. I got a chance to go to a Canadian Town up north and talk to the locals.
I also had this tiffin tin, from Ghana BTW but I changed schools and where I went we got food from the cafeteria or dining halls. They served Jollof rice, rice or boiled or fried yams and sweet potatoes with tomato stew or pepper sauce called shito, beans with fried ripe plantain and Kenkey (corn dough dumplings) with ground tomato and peppers, and this may be paired with fruit juices or water. Snacks could include plantain chips, spring rolls or samosas
In Delhi I used to eat an Indian lunch for less than a dollar a day from the High Commission cafeteria. It seemed awesome at first. But, the low-protein, high calorie meals eventually caught up to me and I got pretty damn fat within a few months.
Indian lunches every day is less awesome than it seems.
In the exotic land of Pennsylvania
We eat peanut butter and Marshmallow fluff sammiches
I was born in Guatemala, (but grew up in Florida), and I remember that those were even my dad's favorite.
same in MA and Long Island (but fluffernutters where I live are more of an elementary school thing)
Where i lived i eated school food
The fluff has moved to the Uk. Now I know what to do with it.
Live in PA, never heard of that. Sounds like I'd throw up if I ate it though.
As someone from the US, was interesting to learn that Canada's version of pizza day is hot dog day. Neat.
We had a pizza day when mcpizza was still a thing
In Toronto we would only have pizza day too, never heard of hot dog day maybe it’s a west coast thing.
Also Jamaican beef patties were very common in high school cafeterias
I know you didn't ask for school lunches but in the UK schools across the country used to unknowingly give us horse-meat lasagne,
hence why i take packed lunches.
I remember the scandal. Had horse knowingly in France and it was quite good. The Poles make a snack sausage traditionally out of donkey, though mostly pork now. Love JJ's head wobble and, being a Brit, was it two FO months? Inquiring minds...
Dont forget about Turkey Twizzlers and how Jamie Oliver essentially had a massive campaign to make school lunches healthier.
Horse is good I wouldn't complain
Wait you had that too? In Germany there was this scandal like in 2013.
In nearly every frozen lasagne or stuff with ground meat there was horse-meat in it.
But i’m not sure if they sold it in Schools
@@TheBreadthatcausedLesMis He came over to the states too.
In Panama we will usually get fried empanadas with meat or cheese filling, also fried corn tortillas that are a lot thicker and smaller than Mexican tortillas usually served with a piece of american cheese and a fried hot dog on the side, fried plantains were also popular and hojaldre wich is a fried bread, we will be lucky to get bollos with cheese on top and those are made with corn and butter and look kind of like a thicker hot dog
To conclude, our lunches will always consist of some soggy fried carb with a side of some soggy processed meat
In Kentucky a popular school food item is fried chicken sandwiches (including a spicy variation). Another one is a little rectangle pizza slice, usually corn is served on the side, but many kids would put the corn on the pizza as well as ranch dressing.
I'm from the UK, around when I was at school there was a big turning point in school foods. A TV chef called Jamie Oliver started a campaign to make catered school food more healthy. The food which I had at school was quite varied and moderately healthy. However, some of my friends who are only a few years older than me have fond memories of pizza and chips every day, deep fried everything, and no wasted space on vegetables.
Food reflecting culture is so true! Some guys at work were discussing this. One was an orthodox Jew describing how limited his menu choices were due to religious culture. A Vietnamese guy laughed and said that in his culture "If it moves, you can eat it. If it doesn't move, you can probably eat it."
In America we'd usually have the kind of stuff you talked about for Canada as well, however, our school cafeterias would always serve really good and fairly stereotypical American food, like hamburgers, hotdogs, and usually have pizza served daily.
Finland: Pea Soup, Karelian Pie, Karelian Stew, Rye Bread, A lot of things from blueberries (and cloudberries if you live in the north), sausages, carrot salad and on free time those light green parts of the spruce leaves.
@@liisayrjola4980 Tarkoitin siis kuusenkerkkää
1000 subs with no vidz not subbing your ugly get a real face not from google
So Canadian lunches are American lunches?
*Conspiracy noises*
my god señor hilter, how's argentina?
Canadian lunches are American due to geography
Theres nothing different between Canadian and American school lunches, I thought people knew this. What do you think we're eating, Poutine and pancakes all day?
6:20 How did you mispronounce uPMa like that lmaooooo
P.S: I also hate upma 🤣🤣🤣🤣
up your what?
Idk if this is my country's (Uruguay) thing, or just my mom, but growing up I was never allowed to have sandwiches for lunch, since they are not "lunch food".
I was mostly sent milanesa to school, with either rice or mashed potatoes. Milanesa must be one of the most common foods in here, along with anything containing meat.
Same in brazil, we have to eat something health like beans, rice, meat and vegetables, otherwise mommy will get mad hahahaha
What's Milanesa ?
@@nishantingle1438 it's a thin cut of beef that's breaded and fried. It's actually really good
@@astradon doesn't sound all that healthy
Great Wolf Hi, I’m Brazilian. Milanesa actually came to us from Italy. But the common Japanese dish Tempura follows the same receipt. Meat, vegetables or fruits (like tomatoes) are dipped in beaten eggs and than in bread crumbs or processed (floor). Finally fried in vegetable oil. It creates a fine crostini. It’s tasty but has carbohydrates.
"Homemade luches that parents give their children to bring to school"
I'm from Finland
Oof
and i from sweden, and estonia i do it to.
Germany is very accurate, what I would add is that it's usually also put into plastic boxes and a lot of kids would have a separate, smaller box (or a box with two compartments if you were fancy) to put things like apple or carrot slices in. And yes, German parents ALWAYS cut up the fruit/vegetables before school so the children can just eat them out of the box. Occasionally, children would also have a fruit yoghurt with them and take a spoon from home in a plastic bag just so they could eat the yoghurt lol.
In Italy, we didn't have afternoon school when I was little, at least not where I live (countryside) so we went home for lunch (but we went to school also on Saturdays). Home lunch was usually pasta, unless I went to my grandparents, then it was pasta and then meat and vegetables. Now many schools have afternoon classes and they provide also lunches, but I don't have children in school so all I know is from an administrative perspective. I was a councilor for a while and school lunches were provided by services who had to follow a nutritionist guideline on their menu. Also, usually bringing food from home into canteen is forbidden because of contamination worries. We have a "merenda"= snack midmorning, and that is usually a sandwich or bread with oil and tomatoes, or fruit. This is where a Nutella sandwich would come into sometimes. Never for lunch though.
"The brits have the weirdest sandwiches."
Im pretty sure its in par with dutch sandwiches.
The Dutch sandwiches are basically the same as German ones. I don’t think any Dutch parent has ever given their child a chips or fries sandwich. Cucumber only in combination with cheese and stuff but that’s too much work for everyday sandwiches.
7:30 me literally drinking frooti watching this
I go to a Catholic school in England so the cafeteria serves Fish and Chips every Friday, it gets pretty boring
You'll appreciate it when you are older. A hot meal for lunch that isn't disgusting is already a win.
Pedro Marcelino Maybe if you served it in a newspaper lmao
@@candicehoneycutt4318 ive only ever seen them served in a newspaper a couple times, 99% of the time that i get chips theyre in a polystyrene box, or if its a large chips, then it'll come in greaseproof paper?
Loki Hopkins Yes, and that's partially because newspapers are less available than they used to be. Serving them in newspaper used to be quintessentially English.
@@candicehoneycutt4318 yeah i get that, but i think its more because the paper and polystyrene they use now is cheaper, not because newspapers arent as common. Im not sure how it is in the rest of the uk, but where i live the majority of the population is elderly so there's still a "thriving" newspaper market.
Hey JJ, another great video. Love from England.
My lunches were sandwich, packet of crisp, biscuit and fruit similar to yours. 🇨🇦🍏🍌🍊🥪🍫
Get milkshaked
EditRepublic I enjoyed it. Most Irish people are peace loving good guys like my ancestors.
I really hate nationalists like this twit talking about black n tans.
Zoe Kirk milkshaked. for standing up to nationalist fanatics? You leftists have really lost the plot.
You can’t debate so move on to violence.
Better than hitting someone with a car or shooting up a place of worship
Where I come from in India, in my school, kids usually brought light and more easy to pack food such as macaroni, roti, noodles, sandwiches etc. in small tiffin boxes, which we had during our lunch break at 12, and then we'd go home and have a proper Indian lunch at 3.
I love Volkornbrot. Btw it is spelled Vollkornbrot. We germans dont joke about that things!
Ich glaube die halben Kommentare von deutschen gehen über das fehlende l in Vollkornbrot...
You could have put a period after the word "joke" :p
@@lurji lol
USA: lunchables, just leftovers, frozen meals, speghettios. I’m done now bye!
or if it's from the school
beef...?
torkey
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hamburgers
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chicken nuggets
Kai Haukaas and... Jucie box,water,pop,milk
Now dessert... cupcake,chocolate anything,Oreos,cookies,mom home made delicious 😋 Cookies
In the USA, a friend of mine would tell me about what he ate. He’s lunches usually included a PB&J sandwich/ Ham or turkey sandwich, a lunchable, some sort of candy, and 1-2 juice boxes.
Here in Czechia most kids get sandwiches with ham, cheese and vegetables for snack from home, but then they usually go to the school cafeteria for lunch. The lunch very often consists of cooked cheap beef, pork or chicken (breast) with rice, potatos, potato or bread dumplings and some kind of a brown unindentifyable souce (called by students the UHO: Univerzální hnědá omáčka - Universal brown sauce) made of whatever. An Austrian schnitzel with potato mash or spaghetti “bolognese” are considered the “good” food. Sweet tea is the most common drink. And schoolkids sometimes get battered apples or oranges as a bonus.
The stuff they serve in the cafeteria sounds pretty good tbh
@@iloveme4life Well, it’s good for the price of like 1,50€ max per meal.
Have you seen the japanese lunch boxes thooo
Oh ok 5min into the vid and i see the truth
Minh Long Isn’t it called a bento?
@@Claro1993 you're saying the same thing in another language, it's like me saying "It's not Portuguese Lunch Box it's Almoço"
Growing up in Israel I didn’t have afternoon classes, but did study 6 days a week. Therefore we didn’t have lunch at school. Most kids did bring a sandwich to eat at around 10AM for a “10 o’clock meal” which was very popular. The sandwiches ranged from pita with hummus or Nutella to sandwiches with (kosher) salami and veggies or cheese. I personally had pitas with smashed avocado and salami, but I was a weird kid.
Since you are half Dutch, I think you missed the perfect opportunity to talk about hagelslag
Man, how can something as simple as chocolate sprinkles on bread be so good is a mystery
He made a video featuring hagelslag some time ago!
@@davidwhite160 so?
We called it Meises here in Indonesia
I love hagelslag. From South Africa 🇿🇦
In Bangladesh (in my school) we had a Pizza Day and a "Hyderabadi Biryani Day."
Wait your bengali? And if you are what district?
I actually read an article for one of my college courses last semester about the obentos. I remember they seemed to be a cultural institution in Japan, with magazines and books showing how to make certain styles. The article also talked extensively on what this could say about gender roles in Japan. It was super interesting!
The article was called, “Japanese Mothers and Obentos” By Anne Allison in case you were curious!
The weirdest thing I remember in the U.S. was my high school serving breakfast pizza. It was just sausage pizza they had before school started.
As a Peruvian, what I remember eating back when I was in elementary (and in Peru) it would usually consistent of the following.
Entree - Stuffed Potato or Tamale or Triple (three layered sandwich) or Empanada
Snack - Apple, banana, or whatever fruit was cheap and plentiful
Drink - Fruit juice, sometimes peach or apple. Again depending on what was available and cheap
Desert - (when given) Lucuma ice cream, tres leches, or flan
***I lived in Lima so my lunch did vary from the other places
PeakCartoon I’m also from Peru. In school, I used to eat a chicken sandwich or hot dog ( or whatever was available but had to be in a bread) fruit like banana and mandarina. Yogurt or a juice. And a little snack like cereal or chocolate
In elementary school (in America) I always had pb&j, a fruit cup, a capri sun juice pouch, and some sort of sweet cookie snack like Scooby snacks or mini Oreos. Everyone generally had a similar structure but with varying brands and varieties for each category
This is so random but I could literally smell it when the Super Mario 3 snacks came on screen and same with the Shark Bites lol. Such distinct scents that remind me of my childhood
Slavic cuisine is honest, what we eat normally, we are giving to tourists too. and they love it. Hi from Slovakia and greetings to Croatia. Love your Lignje na žaru 🇸🇰❤🇭🇷
Edit: In lover quality in school cafeterias of course
true.
Idk what others had but I usually got to eat plain rice and hotdogs for lunch in the philippines. The hotdogs would be put on top of the rice in the lunch box and it would turn the rice red/pink.
Back when we couldn't afford buying hotdogs regularly, it's just fried fish and rice.
One time I asked my mom to pack me some raw vegetables like carrots and cucumbers.
Nutella is not just a European thing in my experience. I have that quite regularly in the USA.
Mucus Patty It’s very common in France when they prepare crêpes, and it’s also present in Italy
Yes, but half of Nutella in the world is eaten in France.
@@luuchoo93 Nutella is literally italian
Antonello Giannuzzi Yeah, that’s true
Same in South Africa
USA: We just throw any food we have in if it's good.
EthanCW I can say it’s true
pretty accurate
*if it's cheap and popular. Mushy chicken patties with stale rolls and crappy pizza.
Where the fuck did you eat lunch. I got a black orange, tasteless pizza, and nuggies. And I noticed he got a doughnut. But my school despised salt and sugar.
True my friend found a bug in her food also they managed to make fruit look bland and old
I'm from Norway. The typical lunch my parents would pack me was an open-faced sandwich with either jam, peanut butter, slices of meat, cheese, or brown cheese (caramelised goat/cow milk). I would also get some veggies and/or fruit, and a yogurt. This was typical for the other kids at my school as well.
As an Arab kid living in America my mom would pack me just a pb sandwich and that was considered a snack and we had Arab food once we got home
Yeah that’s what my mom did too. We’d have an Arabic dish she’d make in the afternoon for us to eat after school
In Bangladesh (at least my school):
Everyone used to bring different sorts of foods. Some used to bring Meat with Paratha, Some brought meat sandwich (meat fried in the Spicy Indian-Bengali way), some brought some brought Burgers, Biryanis,etc.
The cafeteria used to sell Hotdogs, Pizzas,Biryanis,Hyderabadi Biryanis,Burgers,Chowmin,Speghetti,Shezan Mango Juice and Cold Water bottles.
As a swede we had free rather good food in scool, often with a big salladbar and some knäckebröd if you didn't like the food.
But on the days we had fieldtrips swedish pancakes was in many childrens lunchboxes, often with some strawberry jam. You could also get a tunnbrörulle. That is flat bread that is rolled up with diftent fillings, like chees and/or ham.
In Poland, we don’t have lunch, just ‘obiad’ or the ‘meal in the middle of the day’. Soup is usually served in the cafeteria and after that some sort of solid dish like a sandwich, salad, or spaghetti, or lasagna if your school is small enough. Then you get dessert. Sometimes all at once. You usually cannot bring your own food.
that is lunch
thats lunch but we have it the same in czechia. we usually bring food for snacks like a candy bar or a banana or something like that. (btw we also have obiad just oběd so thats kinda cool)
@@v.k5417 well actually it kinda is lunch and it isn't. Obiad translates more to "dinner" as its usually a much bigger meal that you usually eat at the kitchen table with your family from the hours of 2pm-4pm. Then around past 6pm (dinner time for America/England) we'd eat a small meal consisting of sandwiches, boiled sausages "hot dogs" and drink hot tea. Shortly after people would go to bed.
In Mexico we call those long johns "Nitos"...
Don't ask where did that came from
Elías MG I grew up calling them something a bit different haha
Negrito bimbos and a bottle or carton of strawberry yogurt for me
Adoro ese meme
7:00 - "Especially Frooti brand mango juice, which the Indian children apparently go nuts for - at least, if this commercial is anything to go by."
UA-cam: *inserts a comically-timed Grammarly commercial*
I got a LinkedIn one
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As a Brit, this is my first time hearing cucumber sandwiches, crisp sandwiches and chip butties were weird
How did you miss the fact that in France they have like 3 course meals at school!
Isn’t it the same in other countries that offer lunch at school ?
One of the perhaps more unusual things about kids’ lunches in Poland would be that a relatively common component of sandwiches may be pâté (pasztet in Polish), the cheap type that comes in a small metal dish thing (look up pasztet profi and you’ll see what I mean). Another thing is milk bread rolls (bułeczki mleczne) that are packaged in a bag like bread, 10 in a pack. They look like tiny loaves of bread but taste like a very sweet fluffy bread-like substance. It also has a pretty artificial taste, you can almost taste the preservatives (idk if you actually can or what that artificial taste actually is). And that’s what I usually got for lunch, also maybe with a mandarin orange and a bottle of water to drink, not specifically for lunch though. For most of my childhood there was also a program that everyone would get a small carton of milk to make kids healthy I guess? So you could drink that with your lunch.
In Sweden the school gives all the kids a real cooked meal every day, even vegetarian alternatives for those who don't eat meat. I think it is the same in all of Scandinavia.
Your description of German lunch boxes was pretty much accurate. But they're technically not *lunch* boxes. I don't know if this applies to all of Germany, but when I went to school we ate that stuff for breakfast (around 8/9 am), not for lunch.
I had never lunch at school. My class ended at 12:30 (in elementary school) and then at 13:05.
I ate it mostly in the second break about 11
It wasn’t really lunch but breakfast also not...
growing up in Croatia, the most popular lunches were sandwiched whit cheese and salami, bologna meat, or mortadella. fruits like banana or mandarin. more often than not a juice is made from syrup at home or water. and sometimes special lunches like Nutella sandwiches, a small packet of crunchy corn puff snack, packed croissant, or some Kinder brand desert