Good examples indeed. Americans need to catch up with the rest of the world (in the amount of languages learned while still children, rather than learning only 2 maximum . . . and in rare cases 3 by the end of college-age-years.)
I mean it's a korean channel despite its name. Makes sense they all speak korean. English is also the most universal and easy language to learn. They didn't really speak japanese but I'm guessing the japanese girl can. 2 languages isn't THAT impressive. Most asians/hispanics in the US can speak 2.
It is and it isn't. As someone that speaks 2 languanges well (and 2 others on a very basic level) it's really just about where you live and where you parents are from. If you live in an english speaking country, good luck learning a 2nd language early on. UNLESS you have a parent that speaks another language. Learning a language is fairly simple these days imo (difficulty changes depending on the language ofcourse), but you still have to put in the effort. Putting in the effort is REALLY EASY as a child when you are forced into it by a parent of because you want to understand games/movies which are in a different language. It is is still impressive to stay good (enough) at a 2nd, 3rd, etc language though. Becasue if you don't speak/read it for a while you will definitely forget parts. so in that sense I agree with you.
@@mishaa7263 your school offered Korean??? I would’ve loved to take Korean. I went to a very “affluent” high school in New York and the only languages that were offered were French, Spanish, and Latin lol
@@mishaa7263did you had a good time? I’m from México and we had obligatory English, but everything I learn was from movies, video games, trading card games and music. I am trying to study Japanese everyday and it sounds stupid but all those years watching anime are paying off.
Same. I went in the 80s and they basically had Ellio's pizza the days they had pizza. My husband was a 90s kid though and his school had a contract with Papa John's.
Most definitely. 😆 👌🏼 It’s been a minute since I was in grade school, but I will never forget the large, rectangle, cardboard pizzas with fake cheese we would get. And sadly compared to Salisbury Steak or Seafood Patty Surprise Day, that was a treat. 😳 😆
I think they’re only speaking g Korean and English and I think that’s because the Korean girl doesn’t speak Japanese. I’ve seen another UA-cam video with that American girl and I think she speaks Korean, Japanese and mandarin fluently. Also the Japanese girl doesn’t seem to speak much English.
@@Omgariah maybe in a private school lol, definitely did not look like that when i was in school (during the time mrs Obama made school lunches healthier)
American school lunches might as well be prison food most of the time. The example in this video was VERY much an idealized/Korean-prepared, fresh version of an "American school lunch" (probably based off of what Shallen told the producers) because it was missing all the packaged/prepared foods found throughout most American school systems. Paper plates with gross, square, dry, reheated pizza on them, grease-soaked fry trays with room-temp tater tots, fruit cups that no one wants, rubber chicken nuggets made from mystery meat or wood pulp, and some off-brand milk that might as well go straight in the trash. Notice how Shallen didn't say anything about a nutritionist when both Kotoha and Sungji mentioned that was standard in both Japan and Korea? It's a joke.
Lol it is a reflection of America - It's a BIG BUSINESS to allow the few to hoard wealth bro. Nothing about the US is sustainable and nothing about it is democratic. America came up with the Business of education (keep the population uneducated so they don't see what is going on), healthcare (get ppl sick and then sell them meds), and credit cards (underpay workers but allow them to be enslaved under consumerism). America is going to collapse bc it has been lead to it's doom.
I feel like most of the people who are thumbing this comment up hasnt even been to prison or jail. School food is nowhere close to prison/jail food. I thought that too until I spent a night in jail for a misunderstanding. Lol. Maybe it depends on the prison/jail but you only had water or juice concentrate and the water was from your own cell - the oatmeal had nothing added to it and they gave you nothing - the sandwiches had no condiments - the vegetables had no salt - the fruit was near expiration. Its still like school lunch in the sense of the type of food you are served but 10x worse.
Absolutely wild that America doesn't have a nutritionist working at every school. No wonder we're leading the world in obesity. The school lunches from Korea and Japan looked so yummy.
Hi, I'm a current highschool student. Fun fact, we get fed the same amount as the elementary kids. I used to send my mom photos of my meals everyday, and she works in an elementary school so she would send a photo back. The elementary kids got larger portions than us high schoolers. Our meals also consist of a singular main dish (like a burger or small chicken sandwich - all frozen btw), a singular fruit, and a milk carton. I go home starving everyday. It is my fault though, I could make lunches every single day, but I don't because I struggle super badly at waking up. I stay awake super late doing homework for my AP classes and honors classes. 😪
Well that would be a waste of money since every single school in the district serves the same thing. A nutritionist at every school would be ridiculous. And you do realize that parents can pack their children a lunch if the school food is so bad right? My daughter won't touch the school lunch and I pack her a healthy lunch bc it's pretty common sense that the school food is crao. No one needs to paying a nutritionist to be told that.
My middle school had an award winning lunch lady. I grew up on the border, so we had a lot of Mexican food served in the cafeteria. She won a national competition with her enchiladas. I'm glad I gave it a chance (I was previously a picky eater) because it's still a top 10 enchilada for me nearly 30 years later. Packed my lunch from high school on. Our HS cafeteria served mostly chain restaurant foods. Like they had a taco bell and a McDonald's and it just really wasn't healthy in the least. I loved my mom's cooking and figured out what made good cold leftovers because I wasn't going to pay $5/day for what they sold in the main cafeteria. They did have a secondary food line that served fried things. Popcorn chicken and fries with nacho cheese sauce was a terrible thing I did too my body every few weeks in HS. US schools could use a nutritionist for sure.
In the Netherlands most people bring their own food. But the schools are about healthy food. I can't inmagine having that fastfood at school. Kids eat that, but get that outside of school. And parents don't like that. Parents would never allowed that at school. Like those parents in Amerika don't care?
@Lana-un2qk No, the parents I have met over the years don't care about their child. It depends on the mother's situation she either gets a pretty large check from the Gov't to sustain her child or from Family Services (aka the father who was the wife's servant or former boyfriend and left her to after the baby was born) only for him to pay a % to child services. Only the mother, some, don't use that money for their child/children. They use it for themselves. In reverse for single fathers, again, it depends on the father's financial, physical, and mental situation. There are fathers who could care less, then there's fathers who go above and beyond to provide for his child until 17 years of age. In America, it is allowed that the teenager to work a part time from age 15 to 17 years. Depending on the state law. Most parents surely don't care what their child eats, listens to, sleep time, if they are in the house by 10 pm or not; they don't care much if their child has to walk a mile or two to school. Because according to them "We have to teach them independence from a young age. They can walk or melt in the heat they sun. I have to work 8+ hours to maintain me, me, my apartment and my beautiful child" I don't think this mentality in societal norm is going away anytime soon. 🙁
The American school that I went to served frozen pizza and only would give us corn or green beans. We didn't have the option of getting more vegetables or any fruit. This lunch looks 10x better than any school lunch I've ever been served.
It varies from state to state and whether you are attending private or public school. All the pizza I had growing up was cardboard pizza along with slop. That has not changed for the schools in my hometown. But the state that I am currently in right now actually serves decent level school lunches and there are plenty of options to choose from.
We didn't even get vegetables or fruit at my school in California. We had to pay money at the snack bar, like $1 for an apple or banana. They always had the options between chicken sandwich, cheeseburger, pizza, or bean and cheese burrito. And they were all in a plastic package. And then we got orange juice, apple juice or milk. Sometimes they would offer salads and cheese bread sticks.
I recently graduated from a private school in L.A. (9-12th) that was 35,000~ per academic year. Let me tell you about our daily food situation. The lunch was either; A) "Choice Lunch" - Which was this service that brought mediocre food to the school. Think something like HelloFresh but it's prison food. Barely edible frozen bricks of nutrients, reminiscent of something one would eat on a research base, on Mars. Or B) "Poverty Pizza" - Which was the worst pizza to ever be cooked. It was this giant square-cut pizza meant to feed 30 people. Extremely greasy, cardboard thin and virtually no flavor. Aside from greasy that DRIPPED off each slice. This pizza wasn't made within the school or anything, that'd be too silly. It was ordered from a place across town which means; Nicely cold and soggy wet on arrival. I should mention that most kids (High schoolers only) typically ordered food from GrubHub or UberEats. Easily spending hundreds to feed their friend group. Honestly I'm not sure why the school didn't provide real lunch that was wholesome and healthy. At least I was there on scholarship, so it wasn't all doom and gloom. I couldn't imagine spending nearly half a million on K-12 education there... Let alone the 140,000 for just 9-12th either. Plus the school itself was pretty... Okay for the most part. When you don't get tens of millions rolling in from the government each week, things go downhill. Fast. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
I’m not sure if you’ve been out of public school for more that 10 years but now that’s not the case at all. At least not in California source: my mom works in a school cafeteria
Mannn, this show is lying to y'all. American school lunch DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THAT. It's much more of prison lunch; Frozen food/pre-made food and milk...
I definitely think she went to a private school because my lunch you had maybe 3 options for a entree that were already portioned so you just had to grab it then a side or 2 and milk occasionally a juice all self serve
Must be private school or a really expensive school. I go to an expensive university (I’m not rich just stupid) and the food they serve is restaurant level
Interesting how Shallen speaks Korean in this video after some people were ripping her for struggling in the Latin languages video. I think some second languages and sounds are easier or more difficult depending on what your natural accent is to begin with.
What? She lives in Korea, of course she knows how to speak it. As for the other video, people were saying she wasn't confident and didn't even try to say the words and just gave up halfway. No one was saying she's bad at foreign languages as a whole.
@@GuranPurinGo check again. Some people were saying she and native English speakers in general are bad at learning second languages and mocked her. Some of what she was learning she hadn’t been exposed to before. She was put on the spot and knew some people would come for her in the comments all judgmental. Also I could tell they didn’t have the words she was attempting to pronounce up for her to read in the beginning so she was also trying to remember what was said. My short term memory is crap. If you tell me a sentence to repeat I will have forgotten the end half way through no matter the language. As someone who speaks Spanish and had studied some Italian and Portuguese, I think learning Korean would be much harder if your first language is English. Shallen must be very skilled to have learned to speak it.
@@anndeecosita3586 if you're not a complete piece of shit, then you will learn the language of the country you're living in. living in korea, but not knowing even conversational korean is irresponsible and honestly disrespectful if you're not even putting in the effort.
My school lunches were never “slop” I’m convinced this is an older generation thing lol . Cause when I was in HS everything was good, I actually crave school food sometimes
I’m from Dagestan, I’m insanely interested in learning about a new culture and expanding my horizons thanks to such channels. And it was interesting to notice how switching to American breakfast, everything got such bright shades, as if they just increased the brightness. Food is our everything!
I agree the American style lunch looks better than what you typically saw when I was in school. I often brought my own food and if not I did not eat from the cafeteria I either went out to eat (when I was a senior) or I bought a pretzel from the food cart and ate that.
Heh... dear Lady please be my quest in my country Bulgaria to see... and if you want to try the school lunch food here! 😂 It is not poison and nothing disgusting, But because of the Unreal level of corruption the quality and the quantity of the food are on a very low level, and the only word that I can use to describe it is Boring! Joke aside - we both must be thankful that the system offers food for the students and at least one time per day they can eat, and to some level to be guarantee, that nobody starving, something that is not granted all over the World! :)
@@vasiovasio sadly here in the states, even thats not a guarantee if you live in a Red state. If you're starving at home and then you'll probably be starving at school too.
I really liked that everyone knew each other languages! I'm from México and it's fascinating for me to learn about other cultures, I think education in other countries like the ones mentioned in this video is way better than in Mexico and we can see this represented in the way schools take care of these needs for the kids. Here in Mexico, there are also cafeterias but you have to bring your own money to buy anything you want, they sell kind of like very simple "dishes" like pizza, burgers, burritos, nachos and other types of Mexican fast food. Since not everyone can afford to bring money everyday to get buy something at school, it is also very common to bring your own food, you can literally eat anything you want if you take it from your home lol, however, the most common thing to bring are sandwiches and a juice box. You can also eat anywhere, not everyone eats at the cafeteria 'cause it's always packed by the general break (it's around 20 to 30 minutes long), there are plenty of spaces to sit, there are these spaces for kids to play football, basketball, etc and kids would always go and eat while they play or you could also stay in the classroom if you had brought your own food, but it also depends on each school. I really appreciate learning from other countries, love y'all
hi! i am mexican american but born & raised in southern california, and honestly at my high school in the U.S. lunch wasn’t very different from what you described! our school lunch is actually not as good the food in this video 😅 we also have to pay for lunch, unless you qualify for a waiver (or reduced lunch)! at my high school, we had to choose from pizza, very dry chicken burgers, mashed potato/chicken bowls, and other simple meals. howeeever, because the area i live in is predominately hispanic, we would sometimes have (very watery) pozole :) lots of people would skip lunch all-together because they didn’t like the food + felt too embarrassed to bring food from home! in middle/elementary school, they don’t let you skip eating, so bringing sandwiches/snacks is more common. my school was also very big, so the cafeteria was way too small to fit all of us-most of us would sit outside to eat our lunch! part of this was because we didn’t have scheduled lunches as described in the video, although they do have that at certain high schools. also, even though i live by the coast, i have never everrrr been served seafood at lunch! not sure how exactly lunch is at mexican schools (i have lots of relatives over there & visit pretty often, but i’ve never been inside of a mexican school, haha), but seems there are actually a good amount of similarities!
I would say those lunches sound more American and it could be one thing Mexico copied that it should not have considering how amazing Mexican cuisine is
It was the opposite for me I use to eat in elementary but once I got to middle school and highschool they only severe/severed greasy pizza and carrots or the refrozen questionable chicken I stopped eating lunch 6th grade so I wouldn't eat the entire day until I got home
@@Belle261 same. But for me it started at grade K lol😅F that slop that they called "food". Doesnt help that I am a picky eater but man, that 🐂💩didnt help any for sure👎🏽
@@Shipdacheesenot for me. We had a new lunch everyday in denmark, and we Got fish once a week, vegetaren twice and onde halal and one Meat. It was rll noutrishious
To be honest many of the food we Americans eat is not native from the United States. The Immigrants from the 16, 17 , 18, and 19 century brought their food and ingredients from their home countries to the United States. Fast forward over 400 years later the people from the United States made it their own even though it is not originally from the United States
I work at an elementary school in America and last week they served: Monday: burgers w/fries and fruit Tuesday: Teriyaki Chicken w/fried rice + veggies Wednesday: Bean burritos or Chicken nuggets and an apple Thursday: Chicken cheese enchiladas + spanish rice Friday: Lasagna + salad
Like everyone said, the American school lunch definitely looks far better from what I remember 💀 And as someone who grew up in nyc, we did not have other types of cultured foods and definitely no seafood or anything like that. We had pizza fridays (cold, doughy square pizza), thursdays had nuclear yellow chicken nuggets and soggy fries (if we were lucky it was cold curly fries, and tuesdays had ground beef chips and cheese that did not fit into the three states of matter, a non-hot food line which served almost iced vegetarian wraps, and frozen fruit was one of the few decent things you could get. The trays in elementary school were made of styrofoam and in middle/high school we had greasy card board trays. Later on I transferred to private school (I worked hard and got a scholarship that covered almost all of my tuition) and while the lunch there was BETTER it was still no where near what they showed. I know some fancy schools had very expensive lunch, but they were accompanied by snotty rich kids and a tuition that could rival college-level
I grew up in Eastern Ohio. When i was 12, my mom got remarried to an Italian gentlemen. Me, my mom, & my little sister moved into his home, it was in a VERY Italian town. Grades 5-12 were all housed in 1 building,, the classes were VERY small, (my stepbrother 🎓 graduated from a class that had only 18 students 😮) School lunches WERE ALWAYS, EVERY DAY.. HOMEMADE Italian foods, homemade sauce, fresh baked breads, homemade Italian 🍰 desserts
It was nice seeing all those differences, i feel like we are very really lucky in France. We have 4 courses meal (starter, main, cheese and dessert) everyday it's something different and you have the menu for the month in advance. You usually can choose between 2 types of meal
@@carole3708 it’s been a while since I’ve been to school tbh it’s seasonal and very different, salad (carrots cucumber taboulé..:) fruit (melon and watermelon can be served as a starter in school) soup , cheese pastry… you usually have a diététician making sure that everything is well balanced
That sounds awesome! The American lunch much like most comments stated was nothing like the one they showed. I remember a cardboard type pizza or nuggets or "Salisbury steak" (never knew what it actually was) plus fries or tater tots (usually well over done) a vegetable of some kind plus the milk. There was usually an option to buy better pizza, chips and fries if you could get it, though.
i went to a Japanese immersion school and i totally remember eating our lunches in the classroom it was so much handier because we didn't have to walk far and it was relaxed
I went to several different schools here in the US and when I used to live in Arkansas the lunch food would look very rich to me 😂😭 the pizza was amazing and they had different soups everyday and you can choose 3 different main dishes, insane considering it was a regular public school. But when I moved back to California, the lunch was frozen pizza or a small bean and cheese burrito with an apple
It’s very common in private elementary and middle schools in the USA to have students eat in their classroom. Parents pack the lunch for the students. There may be some type of food delivery service with choices that is delivered to the classroom each day also.
My cousin’s private elementary school didn’t have a cafeteria. Kids had to bring their lunch every day except Friday when the school would order pizza.
honestly, i always love to watch these vids bc i always love to see what they do for america. at my school, we usually get some type of food with mystery meat (me and my friends suspect its rat meat bc we saw rats running around the kitchen one time) and a fruit thag always smells like its on the verge of molding, and milk that says its either good for another 6 months or 2 weeks old🥰🥰
love how this video is in half english and half korean cuz they both have to speak to kotaha in korean lol. but school lunches in canada is similar to the usa. we would have sandwiches (ham & cheese, egg salad), i remember in my high school, there's pizza and french fries, also spaghetti. :)
To be honest many of the food we Americans eat is not native from the United States. The Immigrants from the 16, 17 , 18, and 19 century brought their food and ingredients from their home countries to the United States. Fast forward over 400 years later the people from the United States made it their own even though it is not originally from the United States
@@단단-n1o ohhh, so only japanese? and for Kotoha, she's not fluent in English so that's why we see her speak it less. As for the third one, yeah come to Canada if you have time. If there's any events happening in schools that's open to everyone, try and stop by for a visit!
I love how they are switching up speaking each other's languages. They are all so sweet and respectful...however they totally set the American girl up😂we all knew the US lunch was gonna tank against literally any other country's lunch. They could've given her a chicken patty sandwich at least so she had a fighting chance. The other 2 girls were being so nice about it but you know they didn't want to eat it
I'm American and in elementary and middle school, I think it was one line for the featured meal and you only got to pick the sides. I packed my own lunch more often during those years so it's a little hard to remember. When I went to high school in the 2000's there were three lines. 1st line was for making a salad, 2nd line was the featured meal of the day, and third was for ala carte items. I don't remember ever having actual slices of pizza, it was always square shaped.
For Canada, it depends on the level of schooling. In elementary school, or at least when I was in elementary school (almost a decade ago), we ate in the classroom. We would have snack time (10-15 minutes) and then after a couple more classes, we would have lunch (15-20 minutes). Usually, student will pack their own lunches but there was an option to buy meals from the school online and then have the food delivered to your class (the food items include milk (chocolate/white), wraps, pizza, spaghetti, etc). In middle school, you could either eat in a supervised classroom or the cafeteria or you could even go off school grounds (nearby fast food restaurants). The doors that would lead to your lockers would be closed and you wouldn't be able to go to your lockers (unless given permission) until the bells rang that signalled the end of lunch break. In high school, it was like middle school where there was a cafeteria; however, there is much more freedom in where you can hang out to eat your lunch. You can literally eat in the hallway and no one would ask you why you were there. I also agree with what one of the ladies said when she pointed out it usually varies depending on the school, but this is what I experienced.
Just love to see Kotoha back in the videos... Just please bring back Jane and Hyejin... No hate for Sungji or any other Korean members but I wanna see the OG trio once again on this channel... ❤❤❤❤ Love u all guys...
@@단단-n1o To be honest many of the food we Americans eat is not native from the United States. The Immigrants from the 16, 17 , 18, and 19 century brought their food and ingredients from their home countries to the United States. Fast forward over 400 years later the people from the United States made it their own even though it is not originally from the United States
I really admire how the japanese and the american girl are able to speak in korea in what seems to be in a fluent manner, and even if they're not fluent it's super cool that they are able to hold a conversation!! I wonder how long it took for both of them to be able to get to that level because I aspire to get to that level in not only korean, but in the other languages that I am learning :)
I graduated high school last year, from USA. I like how she mentioned that each state in the US and depending on the school it is different what lunch you have. I'm from Georgia and the schools I went to (I moved schools like twice) had like either disposable plastic trays or an actual tray that had to be cleaned. The juice and milk part is true, you will get to choose from those milk options and there's also different juices for my schools. Some days the food will be good, others it wouldn't be. I LOVED my high school's breakfast, after I got off the bus I'd head straight to the cafeteria and I always got the chicken biscuit with apple jelly and apple juice, it was always so hot and wrapped in tinfoil and you could either eat it in class or in the cafeteria before heading to class. To be honest, a lot of people mention how US school lunches are disgusting and just really bad, but that wasn't the case with my schools. There were days where the food would be trash, but other days it is bomb. Some foods are also fresh as hell one day, and not another day. The pizza at my school would be so good, the cheese would be oozing and the pepperoni were good, didn't look microwaved whatsoever, I think they cooked them in some oven. The lunch they had for America in this video was very similar to how my school basic lunch would look like. Desserts and fruits were different everyday though, sometimes we would even get ice cream in cups or the ice cream sandwich. Apples and bananas are the main fruits, but you can get other types too in my school. Don't forget the sauce packets, after you can your ID for lunch or whatever it is, you can get napkins, forks, spoons, and other various sauce packets for your lunch. Like if it was nachos day, theyll have sour cream packets. I feel like it's really different for every state, city, and district. America is so diverse so it really depends on where you live, how the economy is like surrounding that school, how well funded it is, and so forth. But I'd say pizza, the fruits, and vegetables with the juice and/or milk is accurate for majority. You could also bring your own lunches, or opt to not eat. Usually lunch time in US schools, we have free time to even roam around (depends) and chat with people, so some people don't even eat.
I’m from the US, when I was in school, we had only plain white milk, chocolate milk was not an option and both schools , I went to the lunches were cooked by the mothers and grandmothers of the students.
I completely agree, watching this video I was surprised by how accurate this school lunch to my own, but also surprised by how many people did not share the same experience. I graduated 2 years ago and we would have a main cafeteria and lunch carts. Our lunch consisted of a main dish (pizza, chicken sandwich, nachos ect.), a fruit or vegetable, and a drink. There were also items such as brownies, chips, and cookies that’s were of additional charge as well. In addition, like you said, the food wasn’t bad but it also wasn’t good. We also had an open cafeteria (I’m from California) so we could roam the school and eat in classrooms or outside.
Yeah I was really fortune to have great school lunch for basically all of my schooling. Elem school had the worst options for sure but I still ate them because I wasn’t picky hehe. And the monthly calendars helped me figure out which days to pack my own lunch lol. The debit card thing was spot on, but we just had to type in our school id number to pay for lunch each day
From what I know a lot of schools nowadays in the US are trying to be better. I work at the school I went to as a child and the lunches are WAY better, miles above the slop I remember having as a kid. I'm glad the school lunches you had were on the whole good and nutritional, all kids deserve the option of having a healthy balanced lunch.
Even though I am American, I was homeschooled since kindergarten (mom pulled me us out when she found out a kid brought a 🔫 to school) so I'm always learning new things about the American school system through videos like these and the comments underneath. There are times when I wished I attended public school, until I hear things like what they ate and become very glad that I had a mom making my lunch everyday 😅
My American lunch was different we only had white milk and we always had to get fruit and vegetables and we had to eat them to idk if this was just me but we where healthy and yes from time to time we had pizza but it was always very balanced and knowing that some kids didn’t have that makes me more appreciative
About 15 years ago, when I was still in primary school, Romania used to have free-issued lunch meals which were composed of a sweet bread/bun, a small box of whole-milk and if we were lucky, biscuits. For a first-grade, lunch time was the happiest time of our lives haha.
My high school had regular school lunches which were absolutely awful, but also a small area with fast food restaurants with limited menus. There was Popeyes, Chic fil A, and a local pizza chain. I didn't have money for the special stuff so I usually just brought lunch from home. There was kind of a weird social dynamic between kids who could afford to buy lunch every day from the fast food places and the rest of us.
Public schools in Brazil has free lunch in the cafeteria, normally rice and beans with some sort of meat and vegetables (pretty decent, actually), but you can also buy some snacks like pastries or sandwich. In private school, you might have lunch if you're gonna stay for classes after 12pm, but you gotta pay for it (its really cheap); also has cafeteria for pastries. In both you're free to snack during class (cant make a mess or disturb the class), but lunch only in the cafeteria.
I was an English teacher in Japan for 14 years. I mostly worked for private schools (eikaiwa and juku) but some of them had contracts with local public schools for English classes. I'd go to public schools a couple times a week to teach a few classes. If two of the classes fell on either side of the lunch break, they'd usually ask me to eat lunch with one of the classes. It's one of my fondest memories. The kids and teachers were awesome and the food was fantastic. To me it tasted like restaurant quality Japanese food, just without the extra trimmings. I loved the tempura and the oyakudon, but my favorite was the Japanese curry. I love Korean food too. There is a large Korean community in Osaka and my friends and I would go to Korean restaurants almost every week, sometimes every few days. It helped that there was one about a block from my apartment.
I went to school 40 years ago. Our lunch was served on plates with real utensils. We had diner style napkins holders on the tables. We had 2 choices of main dishes and a choice of 3 sides. The food leaned towards bland, but it was well prepared. We had rectangle pizza and it was delicious! The best days ever was pizza day with brownies for dessert. No need to run, our cafeteria never ran out of food. We drank milk and paid 35¢ for it. Lunch was $1.25.
That’s so interesting, I graduated 2 years ago and we didn’t have anything like that, where I went we had pizza as a food everyday just different toppings each day or you could get a plain spicy chicken sandwich and the trays were foam and they would give you your drink with your food and 1 side like an apple or something. Also my schools cafeteria was split so the pizza and sandwich were outside like you would go up to a window like a drive thru or you could go inside and there would be like a window you go across like described in video but it was something different everyday like Mac and cheese or different
lunch now is $3.50 🥲 we have the option of getting a lunchable or uncrustable instead of what the school serves, yet they still charge $3.50 for a $1 lunchable
In my city in the US we didnt get a choice. There was a lunch menu for the month and you couldn’t decide. You got what was on the menu or just not get lunch. In Middle and High school we could buy a slice of Pizza Hut but it was wayyy more expensive than regular lunch.
Same except my ms lunch was the same experience as elementary school. In hs, we had a vegetarian option but that was it. Also in my senior year of high school, we were allowed to eat outside the cafeteria and go out to get food. I ate in my next class classroom (and many others did as well after getting thier food outside). But yeah, we never chose what we wanted, we just got what you get🤷🏻♀️😄
@@justinlew4656 right. At the beginning of the month they posted a menu. Every day was different except for most things would repeat several days throughout the month. Then on that day you just got what was on the menu for that day.
Nope, it was a public school. My school district at least you get a lunch menu for the whole month at the beginning and you don't get a choice. Idk if all of Indiana is like that but my district was in Indiana.@@aminawilliamson2694
The American lunch: yeah, we didn't have pizza like that; it was always the square/rectangular pizza & it was so good! It was always paired with corn as the vegetable & in primary school we only had the white milk; it's been years, so I can't remember everything, but I remember there was always some kind of dessert, too, like you'd have a cookie or brownie or something. And yeah, only the primary & high schools had snack bars; the PS one only had ice cream, whereas the HS one had candy, chips, soda, etc. In high school, we also had what was called the "a la carte" menu; if you didn't like what was being served to everyone else, you could bring some money & buy something else, usually chicken sandwiches that were preheated so they were nice & hot in time for lunch (I'd pair mine, usually the spicy one, with ranch dressing & a strawberry milk; looking back on it, maybe the milk shouldn't have been paired with the spicy chicken & ranch 😂).
In the US, where i live, my school lunches normally consist of cold crusty mashed potatoes, moldy carrots, and 3 mozzarella sticks. The mozzarella sticks are the main course.
I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and for my part of the country in the 1980's, the school district had a central "lunch making" facility and would freeze the meals after they were made and then ship them to the various schools in the district. The school cafeteria had large re-heating ovens they would run the meals through during the lunch time. Menus were published a month in advance and we kids could go over them with our parents and choose if we wanted "school lunch" or to bring our own on days where the school offering was something we didn't like. Since it was all done as pre-orders (and paid in advance by our parents as well) they'd only make the correct amount (plus 10-20 more in case some kid forgot to bring something, they could still get one from the school). As a result, money didn't change hands at school, with the exception of if you chose to get an 8 ounce milk carton for your drink, rather than bringing something from home to go with your lunch. The 5 cent milk was far cheaper than a can of soda (and healthier too), so that was generally the "most popular" option. High school was considered a different school district and operated more like Shallen described instead. We'd get in the line, grab the tray, choose 1 of 2 options for the main dish, choose 2 or 3 side dishes, generally involving some sort of fruit and vegetable (corn and applesauce with cottage cheese were my go-to sides), then grab either a carton of milk, or get a milkshake (the shake was slightly more expensive, but a school meal still cost only about 1/3 as much as if you went off-campus for lunch to a fast food joint, even with the shake), and then you'd pay the cashier at the end of the line each day. Cost was a set amount, so it was rare that you didn't pay the exact amount and need change, so the lines moved pretty quickly. The planned main dish options were still published a month in advance, so you could plan ahead as to whether you'd "brown bag it" or buy the school lunch on any given day. As I recall it, I very very rarely ever brown-bagged it, as the provided options were almost always acceptable to my palate, and the school lunch cost about the same or even a bit less than brown-bagging it anyway, so Mom actuallty encouraged us to get school lunch each day once we got to high school.
Very interesting. I’m American but had a different experience with school lunch. My parents and I think a lot of others paid by the week or two weeks for school lunches that became lunch cards. The teachers would pass them out before we went to lunch then you give it the cashier who stamps it. You could pay cash but that was rare. A lot of kids in elementary school rarely at lunch from the cafeteria because their parents packed their lunch boxes every day. I was about half and half. I had a Snoopy lunch box. I moved for high school and I didn’t like most of the cafeteria options but luckily we had a restaurant in the Votech building run by culinary arts students
I also grew up in Chicago but in the 90's and early 2000's and you described to a T exactly how I remember my school lunches were like. However, I was in a catholic private school so I am not entirely sure if public schools at the same time I was in school had the same lunches as us or not.
I had the exact same experience growing up in California in the 2000s. I found it funny as they kept making restrictions on making school lunches healthier, and the companies that made these frozen things kept finding work arounds. One example is the pizza sauce counts as fruits and veggies so they put on enough to bypass the requirement. School lunches became shit when funding was cut after one of the wars (too many malnourished kids to send to war increased the spending budget). It was super profitable and convenient so they kept the same vendors.
Here in the Philippines specifically in my high school and college university that is FEU which stands for Far Eastern University. Our main university cafeterias are a food court where there are multiple stores lined up with their food so students can choose what food they want to eat. At FEU, they are also strict with eating inside classrooms, as it is forbidden however that still won’t stop students from being sneaky, and most of the time professors are okay with it. My university’s cafeteria usually opens very early in the morning in order for students, as well as faculty members, can buy breakfast and coffee until evening 6 PM. The cafeterias also have a variety of food choices, from desserts, pastries, Filipino food, Western food, Korean food, snacks, and beverages such as coffee, juices, shakes, and many more. However, I can’t speak for all Filipino school life as it can vary from school to school. What are your thoughts on this, mga kababayan?
This concept of strawberry milk seems new. We rarely had a choice of chocolate milk when I was in school; you chose between full fat, low fat, or skim milk. You also had to choose between a burger entree (hoping thatnit was fully cooked) or whatever else they had for the day. I often just went hungry until I got home from school.
Same, no strawberry milk, no choice for chocolate, and no juices. Just, a very small circle or square of pizza and no salad. That was the best they had to offer. The worst... might as well eat paper. During lunch, I'd leave the school and buy food from the corner store instead. That was much better. That, or I'd rarely eat. The cafeteria food was terrible.
wow im impress some of these countries have school lunch prepare for them. In my country we have to buy our lunch at the canteen, the government doesn subsidies free lunch meal to everyone except for the need ones (low-income households).
It's the same in the US. People with low income families get free or reduced price lunch. We need to enter in a unique code (student lunch number) at the register and the system would tell them the price or if it was free. I think full price was like $2.75 or something at my school.
From the low-income school I went to, we had that square pizza, and could choose between chocolate or white milk. We also used metal silverware. 1 piece of fruit, 1 veggie, 1 carb and 1 protein made up our lunches. My school did not provide many options. But we did have a couple vending machines. BUT I'm so glad not all schools are like this!!
I’m surprised that the American member said she’s never heard of eating in the classroom, like it wasn’t an everyday thing where I grew up in the US but it definitely happened a couple times every school year. They’d give us disposable trays on those days so for sustainability reasons it might not be as common 🤷♀️
For us, it was only if it was raining REALLY bad or it was when state mandated tests were going on so they made the younger grades eat in their classroom instead of risking them making noise and bothering the kids who are testing.
I don't think the Japanese girl and the South Korean girl liked the American food lol, but it's school lunch and school lunch in America isn't the best quality. I'm from Los Angeles.
Wow, I never realized how weird my school must have been for others. I'm from America and my high school had something that was at first called Mega Lunch,but was later changed to Power Hour. Lunch was Power Hour. What happens during this time it's one giant hour during the day from 12 to 1 where every student is let out of classes at the same time to get lunch. There is a bell that rings not for class, but to tell you when it's been 30 minutes to remind you how much time you have left to do anything. Yes, could do more than just eat, you can go to clubs that had been set up in classrooms or make up work you missed while sick/just failed. And other classrooms were basically what movies call study hall without it being called study hall. Most of the time you could eat in the classrooms too, because unforunately, we had over 300 students so, when it came to lunch, it was so overcrowed. There was no just the two sections of the cafeteria. There were tables, benches, and unprotected pedestals you could sit on outside and even then, that wasn't enough. Before they banned it, you saw students sitting on the ground with their trays. Because of the overcrowding, I usually went to get food around the 30 min mark that sperated A and B, even though there wasn't an A or B lunch unless there was punishment of the entire school. I did this, because any other time, all of the lines, would be way too long! Sometimes, they curved around into another line or went outside. Expect for when it was the 30 minute mark, because that's usually when people had gotten their food already or about to leave their clubs to go get lunch, making the line either super short ornot existant at all.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
In the Netherlands we don't really do school lunches, we usually bring something from home, but if we have a cafeteria with food there will usually be warm sandwiches, frikandel, and a few options of drinks. My old school was an agricultural school so everything was biological and there weren't many non-vegeterian options, but my new school sells paninis (spicy chicken, pulled pork, salmon, etc), croissants, half and quarter bagguettes with spreads and stuff, as well as just plain cheese sandwiches ^^
As Korea is the location of World Friends , far enough to be the main member and also aspects of the culture , of course food is included 😂, very good video
15:19 was so awkward with the banana thing. Shallen was like, 'Nope, I know what this is going to look like, not doing it', and Kotaha was looking over at Seong-ji like, 'Wow, are you really going for it?' And Seong-ji was like, 'It's chill.'
As an elementary school teacher in Sweden, I am happy and proud that my country provide universal school meals to all pupils in compulsory education, regardless of their ability to pay. Teachers in Sweden also eat with their pupils and get lunch fully subsidised 😀💪
In Canada we have cafeteria food but let’s be honest the kids are usually desperate to leave the school and go to restaurants and convenience stores during lunch time. 😂
During Covid times, kids in my area ate in classrooms so there would be less kids crossing paths. Some teachers enjoyed that more and they still allow it now.
In my high school they would serve a chicken sandwich, popcorn chicken, a Famous Bowl like in KFC, a burger, Philly cheesesteak, orange chicken rice bowl, curly fries, tater tots, salad, bread roll and pizza from Sardellas. As for veggies and fruit they would serve fresh bell peppers, baby carrots, celery, broccoli, apple, orange, and banana and for drinks usually milk either 2% milk or chocolate and also apple juice. My school also has a snack shop they would serve chips, cup ramen, candy, and different drinks I usually like to get the Baked BBQ Lays Chips and a can of Arizona Green Tea and it was a dollar for the tea but the chips perhaps two bucks. Even know the food is good but it wasn't the healthiest option and seeing both Korean and Japanese school lunches I prefer either Japanese or Korean lunches they're more delicious, balanced, and healthy than the average American school lunch. Also the ribbon or tie that Kotoha was wearing has some Japanese school uniform vibes and she looks really cute with that ribbon and I really like the color of it too.
American food sucks. Nothing is original. In my country, our Lunch you can buy is nasi lemak, nasi goreng, laksa, bihun sup, kerepok lekor, kuih-muih and bread
@@boboboy8189 ooo Malaysian food that sounds really good I know Nasi Goreng is from Indonesia but that's a really good friend rice recipe my favorite part is the fried egg on top of the fried rice. I really want to try nasi lemak and laksa they look so good any type of food or dish whether is East Asian, South Asian, or Southeast Asian they excite me more than Western cuisine but I still love Mexican food since I grew up eating it at home.
@@22ninja1 Let me tell you different type of nasi goreng in Malaysia 1) nasi goreng kampung 2) nasi goreng biasa 3) nasi goreng telur mata 4) nasi goreng ayam 5) nasi goreng pattaya 6) nasi goreng kangkong 7) nasi goreng cina 8) nasi goreng tom yum 9) nasi goreng USA 10) nasi goreng cili padi 11) nasi goreng hailam 12) nasi goreng daging hitam 13) nasi goreng big five 14) nasi goreng cendawan Meanwhile in indonesia they only Cook nasi goreng kampung and nasi goreng biasa.
we never got "classic" pizza like that in my schools. that plate would've been a special and cost more. i got so bored of school lunches and the ever changing payment system that i skipped lunch or brought my own.
韓国もアメリカも給食美味しそうですね。日本は、だいたいこんな感じです。私もだいたいそうでした。 I love Japanese school food which I used to have, but I wanna try Korean and American school food! But in my case in japan, i ate pizza at school. And also i never heard that preparing chop sticks at home. 한국 급식 너무 먹고십어요 몇번 먹어봤는데 너무 분위기가 있어요
People always overexaggerate that American school lunches are really bad. I went to a pretty low end public school in TN and the lunches weren't nearly as bad as people in these comments are tryin to make them seem. Did we have some bad days? Yea. But it's not like every lunch on every day was bad. We had the rectangle pizzas in middle school, which aren't as good as like the pizza in this video, but they weren't bad either. Then in high school we had a triangle slice with cheese in the crust which was a definite upgrade. We also had popcorn chicken, chicken fries, hot wings, etc.. Then we'd have days that were just the cheap fake burgers or chicken sandwiches. We only got juice with breakfast and had milk/chocolate milk with lunch tho. We also always got some kind of fruit or vegetable side, just most kids didn't eat them.
In Canada we always ate our homepacked lunches in the classroom. I've never been to a school with a cafeteria. This is very interesting to me and I'm jealous of the asian school lunch options haha. Ours feels too unhealthy in comparison (Even the ones I pack for my kids). In highschool I sat in the hallway by my locker with friends to eat lunch. In K-8 we would have preorder days where we could buy subway, pizza hut, etc. and eat it in the classroom. In highschool they set up a table where we could buy taco in a bag, or pizza slices sometimes.
American here. I went to a lot of different schools because my parents moved a lot. There was one school I went to where we ate in our classrooms, but most of them are in a cafeteria and some you eat outside
that's a pretty hooked up and fancy school lunch for America. The portions are usually smaller and the quality is worse. Pizza is basically cheesebread with a little sauce on it. Maybe that is what lunch at private schools or rich schools look like, but in low-budget, low-income areas school lunch is lacking.
It definitely varies a lot. The lunch they had for America was a bit like my lunches in elementary school (I only went to elementary public school, been homeschooled for the rest of my life so I don't know about middle or high firsthand) but I can never imagine a time in which I had two fruits. Also I don't recall juice, it was mostly milk or water. My friends who've gone to public middle or high school in another state though have told me horror stories. Multiple times milk was expired, and a few kids got food poisoning. It looked downright disgusting at times. So without a doubt it definitely varies. Not to mention that these are probably based off of the lunches these girls grew up with, not what's served in school as of the present day.
Yeah it does. I went to elementary school in the California suburbs and we had a salad bar. But I will say a lot of kids brought lunch boxes and we would trade.Fruit Rollups were like gold 😂😂
25 years ago, we had a lunch line, and the snack line. Lunch lines had typical school fair, badly made inhouse food. the snack shack line sold nachos, bags of chips, bagels, donuts, Cheese fries, Hostess cakes, Sodas, water, and sports drinks. There was also a separate line where you could buy pizza by the slice that was delivered from the local favorite pizza place, still steaming hot. Pretty much none of it was healthy. The only time I ate healthy at my high school was during a biology class when we were studying fungi and the teacher made sauteed garlic mushrooms on sourdough toast, and when I took Foods and nutrition, where we learned how to cook dishes like Beef stew, Crapes, Baked fish, etc.
It's been quite a while since I've had a school lunch but that American school lunch example was WAY better than what is really served 😂 All my stuff was either prepackaged or just heated up in what I assume was a microwave. But I still enjoyed when we had pizza days or taco snack days 😂 and chocolate milk was great!
i remember when i was in Grammar school, it was always cold lunches unless you brought your own food, basically PB&J or some sort of Deli meat sandwhich along with Milk and a fruit cup. High school is when I got more variety, in HS you had to buy lunch but that ranged from $1 salads to $12 hot meals which got you spaghetti, steamed veggies, mashed potatos, Gatorade drinks.
at my school [US] we ate in classrooms all the time! Teachers worked through lunch most times to help students, and if a friend was being helped, their little group tended to be there as well.
In my much younger school days in Tokyo, Japan, students bring prepared cooked lunch to school, then there is a kitchen where cooks help heat up the food students bring to school. The prepares home-brought lunches has to be in aluminium tins and ready to be reheated.
I am completely impressed that everyone speaks multiple languages. You are inspiring and polite women. Good examples for our generations to look up to
Good examples indeed. Americans need to catch up with the rest of the world (in the amount of languages learned while still children, rather than learning only 2 maximum . . . and in rare cases 3 by the end of college-age-years.)
If im not mistaken they all were in Korea for studying..
I mean it's a korean channel despite its name. Makes sense they all speak korean. English is also the most universal and easy language to learn. They didn't really speak japanese but I'm guessing the japanese girl can. 2 languages isn't THAT impressive. Most asians/hispanics in the US can speak 2.
Nah, pizza day at my schools involved square pizza. 😅
It is and it isn't. As someone that speaks 2 languanges well (and 2 others on a very basic level) it's really just about where you live and where you parents are from. If you live in an english speaking country, good luck learning a 2nd language early on. UNLESS you have a parent that speaks another language.
Learning a language is fairly simple these days imo (difficulty changes depending on the language ofcourse), but you still have to put in the effort. Putting in the effort is REALLY EASY as a child when you are forced into it by a parent of because you want to understand games/movies which are in a different language.
It is is still impressive to stay good (enough) at a 2nd, 3rd, etc language though. Becasue if you don't speak/read it for a while you will definitely forget parts. so in that sense I agree with you.
I absolutely LOVE that they know each other's languages!
@@CB750K Korean was the #1 language class in my high school, you were lucky to get in. I ended up taking Spanish
Yes I was amazed to see them communicating in Korean!
@@mishaa7263 your school offered Korean??? I would’ve loved to take Korean. I went to a very “affluent” high school in New York and the only languages that were offered were French, Spanish, and Latin lol
Fr!
@@mishaa7263did you had a good time? I’m from México and we had obligatory English, but everything I learn was from movies, video games, trading card games and music. I am trying to study Japanese everyday and it sounds stupid but all those years watching anime are paying off.
That pizza is x10 better than the pizza for school lunches in USA
Yup, that's not the pizza I had in school..It was those thicker rectangle slice as I remember..
Same. I went in the 80s and they basically had Ellio's pizza the days they had pizza. My husband was a 90s kid though and his school had a contract with Papa John's.
Yeah, where's the frozen french bread pizza??
I think it depends on your school district. Mine had mini dominos pizzas.
Most definitely. 😆 👌🏼
It’s been a minute since I was in grade school, but I will never forget the large, rectangle, cardboard pizzas with fake cheese we would get. And sadly compared to Salisbury Steak or Seafood Patty Surprise Day, that was a treat. 😳 😆
I loved how Japanese girl kept devouring the food while the other two were talking 😆🩵🩵
The other two just kept speaking English.. which she cannot understand.. what else do you do? You eat.💀
ikrrr i would’ve been doing that too 😂
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She was behind eating. They could only eat during lunch break in Japan. She said it herself 😂
@@DaneToTheBoneand you had to eat all your food, no food waste
日本の給食は我ながら本当に誇れる。毎日栄養士がが非常に健康的で様々な種類の温かい給食を作ってくれる。クリスマスはサンタの絵が描いてある可愛いアイシングクッキーが出たり、バレンタインにはチョコのケーキが出たり、毎日本当に楽しみだった。
最近では、物価高騰や予算の削減で可哀想なくらい質素な給食が提供される学校も多いです、、、日本の素晴らしい食育を続けてほしいですよね
日本人って何で自分の話しかしないんだろう😅
@@禅-p5e えぇ…いいじゃん別に…ひにくれてらぁ
일본 도시락 아니였음? 내 일본 도시락 로망 어디감
@@koduckpsyduckお弁当はだいたい高校生からが多いよ
They're all so pretty and respectful. I love how they speak Korean and English.
and japanese!
Me too I love they speak English Japanese and Korean each other.
Which ine would you cum in first? For me the Japanese.
I think they’re only speaking g Korean and English and I think that’s because the Korean girl doesn’t speak Japanese. I’ve seen another UA-cam video with that American girl and I think she speaks Korean, Japanese and mandarin fluently. Also the Japanese girl doesn’t seem to speak much English.
@@n4l4ish3re i think they're speaking Korean.
They def made the American school lunch more healthy than it actually is🤣
Frrr
No actually it does look like that thank you mrs obama
@@Omgariah maybe in a private school lol, definitely did not look like that when i was in school (during the time mrs Obama made school lunches healthier)
Right 🤣
Na at my school we always got a veggie or fruit with our lunch and I went to public school in Cali
American school lunches might as well be prison food most of the time.
The example in this video was VERY much an idealized/Korean-prepared, fresh version of an "American school lunch" (probably based off of what Shallen told the producers) because it was missing all the packaged/prepared foods found throughout most American school systems.
Paper plates with gross, square, dry, reheated pizza on them, grease-soaked fry trays with room-temp tater tots, fruit cups that no one wants, rubber chicken nuggets made from mystery meat or wood pulp, and some off-brand milk that might as well go straight in the trash.
Notice how Shallen didn't say anything about a nutritionist when both Kotoha and Sungji mentioned that was standard in both Japan and Korea?
It's a joke.
@@jsi1091fresh dominos isn’t a combination of words I’ll ever use when describing fast food
agreed, this is a joke like that pizza actually looks GOOD and it definitely was not but it typically was the most edible
@@jsi1091 lucky you to even get fast food and not frozen crap
Lol it is a reflection of America - It's a BIG BUSINESS to allow the few to hoard wealth bro. Nothing about the US is sustainable and nothing about it is democratic. America came up with the Business of education (keep the population uneducated so they don't see what is going on), healthcare (get ppl sick and then sell them meds), and credit cards (underpay workers but allow them to be enslaved under consumerism). America is going to collapse bc it has been lead to it's doom.
I feel like most of the people who are thumbing this comment up hasnt even been to prison or jail. School food is nowhere close to prison/jail food. I thought that too until I spent a night in jail for a misunderstanding. Lol. Maybe it depends on the prison/jail but you only had water or juice concentrate and the water was from your own cell - the oatmeal had nothing added to it and they gave you nothing - the sandwiches had no condiments - the vegetables had no salt - the fruit was near expiration. Its still like school lunch in the sense of the type of food you are served but 10x worse.
Absolutely wild that America doesn't have a nutritionist working at every school. No wonder we're leading the world in obesity.
The school lunches from Korea and Japan looked so yummy.
Yeah, but even our health care professionals are only required to have a basic education in nutrition Hopefully this can improve
My school did. Hell, even most of my jobs did as well. I’m 30
Hi, I'm a current highschool student. Fun fact, we get fed the same amount as the elementary kids. I used to send my mom photos of my meals everyday, and she works in an elementary school so she would send a photo back. The elementary kids got larger portions than us high schoolers. Our meals also consist of a singular main dish (like a burger or small chicken sandwich - all frozen btw), a singular fruit, and a milk carton. I go home starving everyday. It is my fault though, I could make lunches every single day, but I don't because I struggle super badly at waking up. I stay awake super late doing homework for my AP classes and honors classes. 😪
@@gilliganmcneuter4550Dental care in Japan isn’t that great and the dental hygiene products aswell is a known downside
Well that would be a waste of money since every single school in the district serves the same thing. A nutritionist at every school would be ridiculous. And you do realize that parents can pack their children a lunch if the school food is so bad right? My daughter won't touch the school lunch and I pack her a healthy lunch bc it's pretty common sense that the school food is crao. No one needs to paying a nutritionist to be told that.
My middle school had an award winning lunch lady. I grew up on the border, so we had a lot of Mexican food served in the cafeteria. She won a national competition with her enchiladas. I'm glad I gave it a chance (I was previously a picky eater) because it's still a top 10 enchilada for me nearly 30 years later.
Packed my lunch from high school on. Our HS cafeteria served mostly chain restaurant foods. Like they had a taco bell and a McDonald's and it just really wasn't healthy in the least. I loved my mom's cooking and figured out what made good cold leftovers because I wasn't going to pay $5/day for what they sold in the main cafeteria.
They did have a secondary food line that served fried things. Popcorn chicken and fries with nacho cheese sauce was a terrible thing I did too my body every few weeks in HS. US schools could use a nutritionist for sure.
In the Netherlands most people bring their own food. But the schools are about healthy food. I can't inmagine having that fastfood at school. Kids eat that, but get that outside of school. And parents don't like that. Parents would never allowed that at school.
Like those parents in Amerika don't care?
@Lana-un2qk No, the parents I have met over the years don't care about their child. It depends on the mother's situation she either gets a pretty large check from the Gov't to sustain her child or from Family Services (aka the father who was the wife's servant or former boyfriend and left her to after the baby was born) only for him to pay a % to child services. Only the mother, some, don't use that money for their child/children. They use it for themselves. In reverse for single fathers, again, it depends on the father's financial, physical, and mental situation. There are fathers who could care less, then there's fathers who go above and beyond to provide for his child until 17 years of age.
In America, it is allowed that the teenager to work a part time from age 15 to 17 years. Depending on the state law.
Most parents surely don't care what their child eats, listens to, sleep time, if they are in the house by 10 pm or not; they don't care much if their child has to walk a mile or two to school. Because according to them "We have to teach them independence from a young age. They can walk or melt in the heat they sun. I have to work 8+ hours to maintain me, me, my apartment and my beautiful child" I don't think this mentality in societal norm is going away anytime soon. 🙁
The American school that I went to served frozen pizza and only would give us corn or green beans. We didn't have the option of getting more vegetables or any fruit. This lunch looks 10x better than any school lunch I've ever been served.
It varies from state to state and whether you are attending private or public school. All the pizza I had growing up was cardboard pizza along with slop. That has not changed for the schools in my hometown. But the state that I am currently in right now actually serves decent level school lunches and there are plenty of options to choose from.
We didn't even get vegetables or fruit at my school in California. We had to pay money at the snack bar, like $1 for an apple or banana. They always had the options between chicken sandwich, cheeseburger, pizza, or bean and cheese burrito. And they were all in a plastic package. And then we got orange juice, apple juice or milk. Sometimes they would offer salads and cheese bread sticks.
I recently graduated from a private school in L.A. (9-12th) that was 35,000~ per academic year. Let me tell you about our daily food situation. The lunch was either;
A) "Choice Lunch" - Which was this service that brought mediocre food to the school. Think something like HelloFresh but it's prison food. Barely edible frozen bricks of nutrients, reminiscent of something one would eat on a research base, on Mars.
Or
B) "Poverty Pizza" - Which was the worst pizza to ever be cooked. It was this giant square-cut pizza meant to feed 30 people. Extremely greasy, cardboard thin and virtually no flavor. Aside from greasy that DRIPPED off each slice. This pizza wasn't made within the school or anything, that'd be too silly. It was ordered from a place across town which means; Nicely cold and soggy wet on arrival.
I should mention that most kids (High schoolers only) typically ordered food from GrubHub or UberEats. Easily spending hundreds to feed their friend group. Honestly I'm not sure why the school didn't provide real lunch that was wholesome and healthy. At least I was there on scholarship, so it wasn't all doom and gloom. I couldn't imagine spending nearly half a million on K-12 education there... Let alone the 140,000 for just 9-12th either.
Plus the school itself was pretty... Okay for the most part. When you don't get tens of millions rolling in from the government each week, things go downhill. Fast.
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Yes! And on the rare occasion when we did get fruit, it was a Dole fruit cup or a cup of applesauce, lol
I’m not sure if you’ve been out of public school for more that 10 years but now that’s not the case at all. At least not in California
source: my mom works in a school cafeteria
The fact that theirs a blonde haired friend, black haired friend, and a blonde and black haired friend. PERFECT TRIO😂😂
I was just thinking that! ❤
Kotoha is absolutely adorable with her little food dance.
You can tell she just enjoys being in the moment.
@@ZipLovesChip yo its obvious its the girl from the video ..
She even looks so pretty too XD
Caught me completely off guard when the American started talking their language 😭 love it
Mannn, this show is lying to y'all. American school lunch DOES NOT LOOK LIKE THAT. It's much more of prison lunch; Frozen food/pre-made food and milk...
Milk in bags
@@Alex-makiz3ninwe don’t have bagged milk, but we have boxed milk
@@Milkythefawnopening them and putting my mouth on cardboard always gave me the ick /: it just felt weird im so glad ive graduated 😅
I definitely think she went to a private school because my lunch you had maybe 3 options for a entree that were already portioned so you just had to grab it then a side or 2 and milk occasionally a juice all self serve
Must be private school or a really expensive school. I go to an expensive university (I’m not rich just stupid) and the food they serve is restaurant level
Interesting how Shallen speaks Korean in this video after some people were ripping her for struggling in the Latin languages video. I think some second languages and sounds are easier or more difficult depending on what your natural accent is to begin with.
They are now in seoul, south Korea. Of course she need to forced herself to learn about Korean language
What? She lives in Korea, of course she knows how to speak it. As for the other video, people were saying she wasn't confident and didn't even try to say the words and just gave up halfway. No one was saying she's bad at foreign languages as a whole.
@@boboboy8189You sound naive if you think everyone who moves to a country learns to speak the dominant language.
@@GuranPurinGo check again. Some people were saying she and native English speakers in general are bad at learning second languages and mocked her. Some of what she was learning she hadn’t been exposed to before. She was put on the spot and knew some people would come for her in the comments all judgmental. Also I could tell they didn’t have the words she was attempting to pronounce up for her to read in the beginning so she was also trying to remember what was said. My short term memory is crap. If you tell me a sentence to repeat I will have forgotten the end half way through no matter the language. As someone who speaks Spanish and had studied some Italian and Portuguese, I think learning Korean would be much harder if your first language is English. Shallen must be very skilled to have learned to speak it.
@@anndeecosita3586 if you're not a complete piece of shit, then you will learn the language of the country you're living in. living in korea, but not knowing even conversational korean is irresponsible and honestly disrespectful if you're not even putting in the effort.
I was ready for the US school lunch to just be a plate of slop to accurately represent the state of American prison food-esque school lunches. 😂
School lunch is low key good, in Texas at least. 🤷🏾♀️
@@CP-tq7idit isn’t a stereotype. you must have gone to a nice school
@@CP-tq7id not for me
@@CP-tq7id nah bud it's slop
My school lunches were never “slop” I’m convinced this is an older generation thing lol . Cause when I was in HS everything was good, I actually crave school food sometimes
給食が恋しくなりました🥲
毎日栄養バランス満点の美味しいご飯を用意してくれた調理師さんたちに感謝です。
That American school lunch was literally a delicacy. Take me to where they're serving thst 💀🙏🏼
I’m from Dagestan, I’m insanely interested in learning about a new culture and expanding my horizons thanks to such channels. And it was interesting to notice how switching to American breakfast, everything got such bright shades, as if they just increased the brightness. Food is our everything!
What is a typical school lunch in Dagestan?
I agree the American style lunch looks better than what you typically saw when I was in school. I often brought my own food and if not I did not eat from the cafeteria I either went out to eat (when I was a senior) or I bought a pretzel from the food cart and ate that.
Heh... dear Lady please be my quest in my country Bulgaria to see... and if you want to try the school lunch food here! 😂
It is not poison and nothing disgusting, But because of the Unreal level of corruption the quality and the quantity of the food are on a very low level, and the only word that I can use to describe it is Boring!
Joke aside - we both must be thankful that the system offers food for the students and at least one time per day they can eat, and to some level to be guarantee, that nobody starving, something that is not granted all over the World! :)
@@vasiovasio sadly here in the states, even thats not a guarantee if you live in a Red state. If you're starving at home and then you'll probably be starving at school too.
I really liked that everyone knew each other languages!
I'm from México and it's fascinating for me to learn about other cultures, I think education in other countries like the ones mentioned in this video is way better than in Mexico and we can see this represented in the way schools take care of these needs for the kids.
Here in Mexico, there are also cafeterias but you have to bring your own money to buy anything you want, they sell kind of like very simple "dishes" like pizza, burgers, burritos, nachos and other types of Mexican fast food.
Since not everyone can afford to bring money everyday to get buy something at school, it is also very common to bring your own food, you can literally eat anything you want if you take it from your home lol, however, the most common thing to bring are sandwiches and a juice box.
You can also eat anywhere, not everyone eats at the cafeteria 'cause it's always packed by the general break (it's around 20 to 30 minutes long), there are plenty of spaces to sit, there are these spaces for kids to play football, basketball, etc and kids would always go and eat while they play or you could also stay in the classroom if you had brought your own food, but it also depends on each school.
I really appreciate learning from other countries, love y'all
hi! i am mexican american but born & raised in southern california, and honestly at my high school in the U.S. lunch wasn’t very different from what you described! our school lunch is actually not as good the food in this video 😅 we also have to pay for lunch, unless you qualify for a waiver (or reduced lunch)! at my high school, we had to choose from pizza, very dry chicken burgers, mashed potato/chicken bowls, and other simple meals. howeeever, because the area i live in is predominately hispanic, we would sometimes have (very watery) pozole :)
lots of people would skip lunch all-together because they didn’t like the food + felt too embarrassed to bring food from home! in middle/elementary school, they don’t let you skip eating, so bringing sandwiches/snacks is more common. my school was also very big, so the cafeteria was way too small to fit all of us-most of us would sit outside to eat our lunch! part of this was because we didn’t have scheduled lunches as described in the video, although they do have that at certain high schools. also, even though i live by the coast, i have never everrrr been served seafood at lunch!
not sure how exactly lunch is at mexican schools (i have lots of relatives over there & visit pretty often, but i’ve never been inside of a mexican school, haha), but seems there are actually a good amount of similarities!
I would say those lunches sound more American and it could be one thing Mexico copied that it should not have considering how amazing Mexican cuisine is
Our school lunch was horrible here in the U.S. I didn't start eating it until my junior year of high school when they started giving us more options.
The US school lunch is the result of the lowest bidder winning the contract.
@@keithmoh1 Hate to say it but it's like that in almost every country. Even in Europe.
It was the opposite for me I use to eat in elementary but once I got to middle school and highschool they only severe/severed greasy pizza and carrots or the refrozen questionable chicken I stopped eating lunch 6th grade so I wouldn't eat the entire day until I got home
@@Belle261 same. But for me it started at grade K lol😅F that slop that they called "food". Doesnt help that I am a picky eater but man, that 🐂💩didnt help any for sure👎🏽
@@Shipdacheesenot for me. We had a new lunch everyday in denmark, and we Got fish once a week, vegetaren twice and onde halal and one Meat. It was rll noutrishious
BS. The US gives you frozen pizza.
Square frozen pizza of low quality & a bruised apple. But everyone looked forward to pizza day because everything else was worse.
Love this! ❤ Everyone’s so respectful
Not blonde girl. She kept leaving the Japanese girl out of the conversation. Very rude.
Each member from USA has their chance to be the main member once , Christina , Shannon , Sophia and and also Von , now it's Shallen time
To be honest many of the food we Americans eat is not native from the United States. The Immigrants from the 16, 17 , 18, and 19 century brought their food and ingredients from their home countries to the United States. Fast forward over 400 years later the people from the United States made it their own even though it is not originally from the United States
i love Shannon sm 😢
Shallen is what i imagine southern america girl is because i grew up watching 80's and 90's hollywood movie where heroin is always blonde hair girl.
It’s spelled Shalon 😭
日本の田舎出身ですが、小学校と中学校には栄養士がいて、毎日違う種類の美味しい給食が出ました。お昼の時間に合わせて作ってくれるので、いつも出来たての温かい食事が出来たのが今思うとありがたいです。それと毎月「献立表」が配られるので、自分の好きなデザート、おかずが出る日を楽しみにしていました笑(ハーゲンダッツとか) たまに給食が恋しくて学生に戻りたくなります笑
僕もど田舎出身です、僕の小学校はクリスマスにケーキが出ました。そして、毎日色んなデザートが用意されていて楽しかったな
羨ましい。
私も田舎でしたが、たまに多学年同士のイベントでバイキング形式な給食があったり、イベント毎に可愛いデザートやケーキがでて凄く嬉しかったのは忘れられない小学校の思い出です。戻りたいって思う気持ち共感します。
@@弱炭酸水-l9jこれこそ先進国が持つべき姿です。私たち中国の農村はアフリカに及ばないです。羨ましいです。😿
@@v.v-q9f どのようなものを食べられていたんですか？
I work at an elementary school in America and last week they served:
Monday: burgers w/fries and fruit
Tuesday: Teriyaki Chicken w/fried rice + veggies
Wednesday: Bean burritos or Chicken nuggets and an apple
Thursday: Chicken cheese enchiladas + spanish rice
Friday: Lasagna + salad
Where tf you work at? Bet its some private school in some rich area cause thats not even close to normal
@Lunabunny92 nope in a public school where girls heads are shaved to prevent lice
I appreiate you. I was on free reduced lunch and I always looked forward to school because my mom did not cook.
@@TheImperfectReaderright?! It was always 2 slices of bread with unmelted American cheese😅
@@rayalmoon9142If we couldn't afford lunch that's what we'd get at my school because they were required to feed us.
Like everyone said, the American school lunch definitely looks far better from what I remember 💀
And as someone who grew up in nyc, we did not have other types of cultured foods and definitely no seafood or anything like that. We had pizza fridays (cold, doughy square pizza), thursdays had nuclear yellow chicken nuggets and soggy fries (if we were lucky it was cold curly fries, and tuesdays had ground beef chips and cheese that did not fit into the three states of matter, a non-hot food line which served almost iced vegetarian wraps, and frozen fruit was one of the few decent things you could get. The trays in elementary school were made of styrofoam and in middle/high school we had greasy card board trays.
Later on I transferred to private school (I worked hard and got a scholarship that covered almost all of my tuition) and while the lunch there was BETTER it was still no where near what they showed. I know some fancy schools had very expensive lunch, but they were accompanied by snotty rich kids and a tuition that could rival college-level
They would throw up if they ate the rubber burgers that we were served, prisoners literally ate better than we did at school
I grew up in Eastern Ohio. When i was 12, my mom got remarried to an Italian gentlemen. Me, my mom, & my little sister moved into his home, it was in a VERY Italian town. Grades 5-12 were all housed in 1 building,, the classes were VERY small, (my stepbrother 🎓 graduated from a class that had only 18 students 😮) School lunches WERE ALWAYS, EVERY DAY.. HOMEMADE Italian foods, homemade sauce, fresh baked breads, homemade Italian 🍰 desserts
It was nice seeing all those differences, i feel like we are very really lucky in France. We have 4 courses meal (starter, main, cheese and dessert) everyday it's something different and you have the menu for the month in advance. You usually can choose between 2 types of meal
Hello. What is the typical starter in French schools?
@@carole3708 it’s been a while since I’ve been to school tbh it’s seasonal and very different, salad (carrots cucumber taboulé..:) fruit (melon and watermelon can be served as a starter in school) soup , cheese pastry… you usually have a diététician making sure that everything is well balanced
That sounds awesome!
The American lunch much like most comments stated was nothing like the one they showed. I remember a cardboard type pizza or nuggets or "Salisbury steak" (never knew what it actually was) plus fries or tater tots (usually well over done) a vegetable of some kind plus the milk.
There was usually an option to buy better pizza, chips and fries if you could get it, though.
Sounds great.
i went to a Japanese immersion school and i totally remember eating our lunches in the classroom it was so much handier because we didn't have to walk far and it was relaxed
I went to several different schools here in the US and when I used to live in Arkansas the lunch food would look very rich to me 😂😭 the pizza was amazing and they had different soups everyday and you can choose 3 different main dishes, insane considering it was a regular public school. But when I moved back to California, the lunch was frozen pizza or a small bean and cheese burrito with an apple
I love watching people enjoy each others cultures and foods. Thanks for the video!
It’s very common in private elementary and middle schools in the USA to have students eat in their classroom. Parents pack the lunch for the students. There may be some type of food delivery service with choices that is delivered to the classroom each day also.
My cousin’s private elementary school didn’t have a cafeteria. Kids had to bring their lunch every day except Friday when the school would order pizza.
honestly, i always love to watch these vids bc i always love to see what they do for america. at my school, we usually get some type of food with mystery meat (me and my friends suspect its rat meat bc we saw rats running around the kitchen one time) and a fruit thag always smells like its on the verge of molding, and milk that says its either good for another 6 months or 2 weeks old🥰🥰
HELPP THIS IS SO RELATABLE
The milk part is especially relateble
love how this video is in half english and half korean cuz they both have to speak to kotaha in korean lol. but school lunches
in canada is similar to the usa. we would have sandwiches (ham & cheese, egg salad), i remember in my high school, there's
pizza and french fries, also spaghetti. :)
Almost all Japanese are monolingual like me, but Konoha can speak two languages! I’d like to try Canada’s school food!
Same. And now my kids get those same lunches. Full circle 😊
To be honest many of the food we Americans eat is not native from the United States. The Immigrants from the 16, 17 , 18, and 19 century brought their food and ingredients from their home countries to the United States. Fast forward over 400 years later the people from the United States made it their own even though it is not originally from the United States
@@단단-n1o ohhh, so only japanese? and for Kotoha, she's not fluent in English so that's why we see her speak it less. As for the third one, yeah come to Canada if you have time. If there's any events happening in schools that's open to everyone, try and stop by for a visit!
Interesting because I am American and have never been served egg salad in school. I don’t think it’s popular in the places I’ve lived though.
I love how they are switching up speaking each other's languages. They are all so sweet and respectful...however they totally set the American girl up😂we all knew the US lunch was gonna tank against literally any other country's lunch. They could've given her a chicken patty sandwich at least so she had a fighting chance. The other 2 girls were being so nice about it but you know they didn't want to eat it
コメントで刑務所の食事と比べている人がいて笑いました。
ちなみに日本では刑務所でもちゃんとした食事が出ます。
以前、給食よりも豪華で話題になりましたね。
I'm American and in elementary and middle school, I think it was one line for the featured meal and you only got to pick the sides. I packed my own lunch more often during those years so it's a little hard to remember. When I went to high school in the 2000's there were three lines. 1st line was for making a salad, 2nd line was the featured meal of the day, and third was for ala carte items. I don't remember ever having actual slices of pizza, it was always square shaped.
For Canada, it depends on the level of schooling. In elementary school, or at least when I was in elementary school (almost a decade ago), we ate in the classroom. We would have snack time (10-15 minutes) and then after a couple more classes, we would have lunch (15-20 minutes). Usually, student will pack their own lunches but there was an option to buy meals from the school online and then have the food delivered to your class (the food items include milk (chocolate/white), wraps, pizza, spaghetti, etc).
In middle school, you could either eat in a supervised classroom or the cafeteria or you could even go off school grounds (nearby fast food restaurants). The doors that would lead to your lockers would be closed and you wouldn't be able to go to your lockers (unless given permission) until the bells rang that signalled the end of lunch break.
In high school, it was like middle school where there was a cafeteria; however, there is much more freedom in where you can hang out to eat your lunch. You can literally eat in the hallway and no one would ask you why you were there.
I also agree with what one of the ladies said when she pointed out it usually varies depending on the school, but this is what I experienced.
Those pita pit wraps in elementary just hit different LOL
Just love to see Kotoha back in the videos...
Just please bring back Jane and Hyejin...
No hate for Sungji or any other Korean members but I wanna see the OG trio once again on this channel... ❤❤❤❤
Love u all guys...
Me too! I’ll be cheering Konoha up!
@@단단-n1o To be honest many of the food we Americans eat is not native from the United States. The Immigrants from the 16, 17 , 18, and 19 century brought their food and ingredients from their home countries to the United States. Fast forward over 400 years later the people from the United States made it their own even though it is not originally from the United States
I also really want to see how Jane has progressed on her English, as she wanted to learned it for a long time
I really admire how the japanese and the american girl are able to speak in korea in what seems to be in a fluent manner, and even if they're not fluent it's super cool that they are able to hold a conversation!! I wonder how long it took for both of them to be able to get to that level because I aspire to get to that level in not only korean, but in the other languages that I am learning :)
Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
I graduated high school last year, from USA. I like how she mentioned that each state in the US and depending on the school it is different what lunch you have. I'm from Georgia and the schools I went to (I moved schools like twice) had like either disposable plastic trays or an actual tray that had to be cleaned. The juice and milk part is true, you will get to choose from those milk options and there's also different juices for my schools. Some days the food will be good, others it wouldn't be. I LOVED my high school's breakfast, after I got off the bus I'd head straight to the cafeteria and I always got the chicken biscuit with apple jelly and apple juice, it was always so hot and wrapped in tinfoil and you could either eat it in class or in the cafeteria before heading to class. To be honest, a lot of people mention how US school lunches are disgusting and just really bad, but that wasn't the case with my schools. There were days where the food would be trash, but other days it is bomb. Some foods are also fresh as hell one day, and not another day. The pizza at my school would be so good, the cheese would be oozing and the pepperoni were good, didn't look microwaved whatsoever, I think they cooked them in some oven. The lunch they had for America in this video was very similar to how my school basic lunch would look like. Desserts and fruits were different everyday though, sometimes we would even get ice cream in cups or the ice cream sandwich. Apples and bananas are the main fruits, but you can get other types too in my school. Don't forget the sauce packets, after you can your ID for lunch or whatever it is, you can get napkins, forks, spoons, and other various sauce packets for your lunch. Like if it was nachos day, theyll have sour cream packets. I feel like it's really different for every state, city, and district. America is so diverse so it really depends on where you live, how the economy is like surrounding that school, how well funded it is, and so forth. But I'd say pizza, the fruits, and vegetables with the juice and/or milk is accurate for majority. You could also bring your own lunches, or opt to not eat. Usually lunch time in US schools, we have free time to even roam around (depends) and chat with people, so some people don't even eat.
I’m from the US, when I was in school, we had only plain white milk, chocolate milk was not an option and both schools , I went to the lunches were cooked by the mothers and grandmothers of the students.
I completely agree, watching this video I was surprised by how accurate this school lunch to my own, but also surprised by how many people did not share the same experience. I graduated 2 years ago and we would have a main cafeteria and lunch carts. Our lunch consisted of a main dish (pizza, chicken sandwich, nachos ect.), a fruit or vegetable, and a drink. There were also items such as brownies, chips, and cookies that’s were of additional charge as well. In addition, like you said, the food wasn’t bad but it also wasn’t good. We also had an open cafeteria (I’m from California) so we could roam the school and eat in classrooms or outside.
Yeah I was really fortune to have great school lunch for basically all of my schooling. Elem school had the worst options for sure but I still ate them because I wasn’t picky hehe. And the monthly calendars helped me figure out which days to pack my own lunch lol. The debit card thing was spot on, but we just had to type in our school id number to pay for lunch each day
Good to hear about this more recent info on US school lunch. I'm wondering the approximate cost to the student daily or monthly.
From what I know a lot of schools nowadays in the US are trying to be better. I work at the school I went to as a child and the lunches are WAY better, miles above the slop I remember having as a kid. I'm glad the school lunches you had were on the whole good and nutritional, all kids deserve the option of having a healthy balanced lunch.
Just love the change of language during speaking.
Even though I am American, I was homeschooled since kindergarten (mom pulled me us out when she found out a kid brought a 🔫 to school) so I'm always learning new things about the American school system through videos like these and the comments underneath. There are times when I wished I attended public school, until I hear things like what they ate and become very glad that I had a mom making my lunch everyday 😅
What a cool video. I'm always curious when it comes to other cultures and lifestyles. Thank you
My American lunch was different we only had white milk and we always had to get fruit and vegetables and we had to eat them to idk if this was just me but we where healthy and yes from time to time we had pizza but it was always very balanced and knowing that some kids didn’t have that makes me more appreciative
About 15 years ago, when I was still in primary school, Romania used to have free-issued lunch meals which were composed of a sweet bread/bun, a small box of whole-milk and if we were lucky, biscuits. For a first-grade, lunch time was the happiest time of our lives haha.
My high school had regular school lunches which were absolutely awful, but also a small area with fast food restaurants with limited menus. There was Popeyes, Chic fil A, and a local pizza chain. I didn't have money for the special stuff so I usually just brought lunch from home. There was kind of a weird social dynamic between kids who could afford to buy lunch every day from the fast food places and the rest of us.
Gosh I’d feel so sorry for kids if I knew they were eating fast food for every lunch. That’s such a sad thought.
i love how they are all so respectful to each other aaaa
Public schools in Brazil has free lunch in the cafeteria, normally rice and beans with some sort of meat and vegetables (pretty decent, actually), but you can also buy some snacks like pastries or sandwich. In private school, you might have lunch if you're gonna stay for classes after 12pm, but you gotta pay for it (its really cheap); also has cafeteria for pastries. In both you're free to snack during class (cant make a mess or disturb the class), but lunch only in the cafeteria.
I was an English teacher in Japan for 14 years. I mostly worked for private schools (eikaiwa and juku) but some of them had contracts with local public schools for English classes. I'd go to public schools a couple times a week to teach a few classes. If two of the classes fell on either side of the lunch break, they'd usually ask me to eat lunch with one of the classes. It's one of my fondest memories. The kids and teachers were awesome and the food was fantastic. To me it tasted like restaurant quality Japanese food, just without the extra trimmings. I loved the tempura and the oyakudon, but my favorite was the Japanese curry. I love Korean food too. There is a large Korean community in Osaka and my friends and I would go to Korean restaurants almost every week, sometimes every few days. It helped that there was one about a block from my apartment.
i remember when my korean friend in elementary would always give a share of her food🥹 the seaweed soup is so nostalgic!
I went to school 40 years ago. Our lunch was served on plates with real utensils. We had diner style napkins holders on the tables. We had 2 choices of main dishes and a choice of 3 sides. The food leaned towards bland, but it was well prepared. We had rectangle pizza and it was delicious! The best days ever was pizza day with brownies for dessert. No need to run, our cafeteria never ran out of food. We drank milk and paid 35¢ for it. Lunch was $1.25.
That’s so interesting, I graduated 2 years ago and we didn’t have anything like that, where I went we had pizza as a food everyday just different toppings each day or you could get a plain spicy chicken sandwich and the trays were foam and they would give you your drink with your food and 1 side like an apple or something. Also my schools cafeteria was split so the pizza and sandwich were outside like you would go up to a window like a drive thru or you could go inside and there would be like a window you go across like described in video but it was something different everyday like Mac and cheese or different
I feel bad for the present options. The food was tasty when I was a student, but fattening. Like a stoffer's or marie Callender tv dinner
lunch now is $3.50 🥲 we have the option of getting a lunchable or uncrustable instead of what the school serves, yet they still charge $3.50 for a $1 lunchable
I’m America?? What school did you go to 😂😂😂
after I graduated my intermediate school....They had pizza hutt in the cafeteria. I felt so disrespected,
In my city in the US we didnt get a choice. There was a lunch menu for the month and you couldn’t decide. You got what was on the menu or just not get lunch. In Middle and High school we could buy a slice of Pizza Hut but it was wayyy more expensive than regular lunch.
Same except my ms lunch was the same experience as elementary school. In hs, we had a vegetarian option but that was it. Also in my senior year of high school, we were allowed to eat outside the cafeteria and go out to get food. I ate in my next class classroom (and many others did as well after getting thier food outside). But yeah, we never chose what we wanted, we just got what you get🤷🏻♀️😄
But it’s for that day not everyday is the same right?
@@justinlew4656 right. At the beginning of the month they posted a menu. Every day was different except for most things would repeat several days throughout the month. Then on that day you just got what was on the menu for that day.
It must not been a public school
Nope, it was a public school. My school district at least you get a lunch menu for the whole month at the beginning and you don't get a choice. Idk if all of Indiana is like that but my district was in Indiana.@@aminawilliamson2694
The American lunch: yeah, we didn't have pizza like that; it was always the square/rectangular pizza & it was so good! It was always paired with corn as the vegetable & in primary school we only had the white milk; it's been years, so I can't remember everything, but I remember there was always some kind of dessert, too, like you'd have a cookie or brownie or something. And yeah, only the primary & high schools had snack bars; the PS one only had ice cream, whereas the HS one had candy, chips, soda, etc. In high school, we also had what was called the "a la carte" menu; if you didn't like what was being served to everyone else, you could bring some money & buy something else, usually chicken sandwiches that were preheated so they were nice & hot in time for lunch (I'd pair mine, usually the spicy one, with ranch dressing & a strawberry milk; looking back on it, maybe the milk shouldn't have been paired with the spicy chicken & ranch 😂).
In the US, where i live, my school lunches normally consist of cold crusty mashed potatoes, moldy carrots, and 3 mozzarella sticks. The mozzarella sticks are the main course.
I grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and for my part of the country in the 1980's, the school district had a central "lunch making" facility and would freeze the meals after they were made and then ship them to the various schools in the district. The school cafeteria had large re-heating ovens they would run the meals through during the lunch time. Menus were published a month in advance and we kids could go over them with our parents and choose if we wanted "school lunch" or to bring our own on days where the school offering was something we didn't like. Since it was all done as pre-orders (and paid in advance by our parents as well) they'd only make the correct amount (plus 10-20 more in case some kid forgot to bring something, they could still get one from the school). As a result, money didn't change hands at school, with the exception of if you chose to get an 8 ounce milk carton for your drink, rather than bringing something from home to go with your lunch. The 5 cent milk was far cheaper than a can of soda (and healthier too), so that was generally the "most popular" option.
High school was considered a different school district and operated more like Shallen described instead. We'd get in the line, grab the tray, choose 1 of 2 options for the main dish, choose 2 or 3 side dishes, generally involving some sort of fruit and vegetable (corn and applesauce with cottage cheese were my go-to sides), then grab either a carton of milk, or get a milkshake (the shake was slightly more expensive, but a school meal still cost only about 1/3 as much as if you went off-campus for lunch to a fast food joint, even with the shake), and then you'd pay the cashier at the end of the line each day. Cost was a set amount, so it was rare that you didn't pay the exact amount and need change, so the lines moved pretty quickly. The planned main dish options were still published a month in advance, so you could plan ahead as to whether you'd "brown bag it" or buy the school lunch on any given day. As I recall it, I very very rarely ever brown-bagged it, as the provided options were almost always acceptable to my palate, and the school lunch cost about the same or even a bit less than brown-bagging it anyway, so Mom actuallty encouraged us to get school lunch each day once we got to high school.
Very interesting. I’m American but had a different experience with school lunch. My parents and I think a lot of others paid by the week or two weeks for school lunches that became lunch cards. The teachers would pass them out before we went to lunch then you give it the cashier who stamps it. You could pay cash but that was rare. A lot of kids in elementary school rarely at lunch from the cafeteria because their parents packed their lunch boxes every day. I was about half and half. I had a Snoopy lunch box. I moved for high school and I didn’t like most of the cafeteria options but luckily we had a restaurant in the Votech building run by culinary arts students
Interesting. Thank for sharing
I also grew up in Chicago but in the 90's and early 2000's and you described to a T exactly how I remember my school lunches were like. However, I was in a catholic private school so I am not entirely sure if public schools at the same time I was in school had the same lunches as us or not.
I had the exact same experience growing up in California in the 2000s. I found it funny as they kept making restrictions on making school lunches healthier, and the companies that made these frozen things kept finding work arounds. One example is the pizza sauce counts as fruits and veggies so they put on enough to bypass the requirement. School lunches became shit when funding was cut after one of the wars (too many malnourished kids to send to war increased the spending budget). It was super profitable and convenient so they kept the same vendors.
@@NotoriousImmortal I'm in one now and it's still the same but in public school.
Here in the Philippines specifically in my high school and college university that is FEU which stands for Far Eastern University. Our main university cafeterias are a food court where there are multiple stores lined up with their food so students can choose what food they want to eat. At FEU, they are also strict with eating inside classrooms, as it is forbidden however that still won’t stop students from being sneaky, and most of the time professors are okay with it. My university’s cafeteria usually opens very early in the morning in order for students, as well as faculty members, can buy breakfast and coffee until evening 6 PM. The cafeterias also have a variety of food choices, from desserts, pastries, Filipino food, Western food, Korean food, snacks, and beverages such as coffee, juices, shakes, and many more.
However, I can’t speak for all Filipino school life as it can vary from school to school.
What are your thoughts on this, mga kababayan?
Spot on! 👍
Wow that sounds really nice!
This concept of strawberry milk seems new. We rarely had a choice of chocolate milk when I was in school; you chose between full fat, low fat, or skim milk. You also had to choose between a burger entree (hoping thatnit was fully cooked) or whatever else they had for the day. I often just went hungry until I got home from school.
Same, no strawberry milk, no choice for chocolate, and no juices. Just, a very small circle or square of pizza and no salad. That was the best they had to offer. The worst... might as well eat paper. During lunch, I'd leave the school and buy food from the corner store instead. That was much better. That, or I'd rarely eat. The cafeteria food was terrible.
Wow I remember always having a choice in milk flavor when I was in elementary (I'm 26 now)
I remember in the mid 90's when my schools got the choice of strawberry milk. So it was whole, 2%, skim, chocolate or strawberry.
I just love the manners of these women,,
I love how all the girls speak English, Korean and Japanese so that they can have better communication.
Sharon looks so happy eating the pizza 😂💕💕 so cute
Wouldn’t be amazing if this was our nation? Look at this 3 completely different cultures sitting and eating together as friends having a great time
wow im impress some of these countries have school lunch prepare for them. In my country we have to buy our lunch at the canteen, the government doesn subsidies free lunch meal to everyone except for the need ones (low-income households).
It's the same in the US. People with low income families get free or reduced price lunch. We need to enter in a unique code (student lunch number) at the register and the system would tell them the price or if it was free. I think full price was like $2.75 or something at my school.
same here, we have to buy our lunches from the stalls in our canteens. and most of the times the food isn’t very good 😭
From the low-income school I went to, we had that square pizza, and could choose between chocolate or white milk. We also used metal silverware. 1 piece of fruit, 1 veggie, 1 carb and 1 protein made up our lunches. My school did not provide many options. But we did have a couple vending machines. BUT I'm so glad not all schools are like this!!
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I’m surprised that the American member said she’s never heard of eating in the classroom, like it wasn’t an everyday thing where I grew up in the US but it definitely happened a couple times every school year. They’d give us disposable trays on those days so for sustainability reasons it might not be as common 🤷♀️
For us, it was only if it was raining REALLY bad or it was when state mandated tests were going on so they made the younger grades eat in their classroom instead of risking them making noise and bothering the kids who are testing.
I don't think the Japanese girl and the South Korean girl liked the American food lol, but it's school lunch and school lunch in America isn't the best quality. I'm from Los Angeles.
Wow, I never realized how weird my school must have been for others. I'm from America and my high school had something that was at first called Mega Lunch,but was later changed to Power Hour. Lunch was Power Hour. What happens during this time it's one giant hour during the day from 12 to 1 where every student is let out of classes at the same time to get lunch. There is a bell that rings not for class, but to tell you when it's been 30 minutes to remind you how much time you have left to do anything. Yes, could do more than just eat, you can go to clubs that had been set up in classrooms or make up work you missed while sick/just failed. And other classrooms were basically what movies call study hall without it being called study hall. Most of the time you could eat in the classrooms too, because unforunately, we had over 300 students so, when it came to lunch, it was so overcrowed. There was no just the two sections of the cafeteria. There were tables, benches, and unprotected pedestals you could sit on outside and even then, that wasn't enough. Before they banned it, you saw students sitting on the ground with their trays. Because of the overcrowding, I usually went to get food around the 30 min mark that sperated A and B, even though there wasn't an A or B lunch unless there was punishment of the entire school. I did this, because any other time, all of the lines, would be way too long! Sometimes, they curved around into another line or went outside. Expect for when it was the 30 minute mark, because that's usually when people had gotten their food already or about to leave their clubs to go get lunch, making the line either super short ornot existant at all.
What school did you go to ?
@@MariaRodriguez-wx8cn Cooper High School.
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In the Netherlands we don't really do school lunches, we usually bring something from home, but if we have a cafeteria with food there will usually be warm sandwiches, frikandel, and a few options of drinks. My old school was an agricultural school so everything was biological and there weren't many non-vegeterian options, but my new school sells paninis (spicy chicken, pulled pork, salmon, etc), croissants, half and quarter bagguettes with spreads and stuff, as well as just plain cheese sandwiches ^^
As Korea is the location of World Friends , far enough to be the main member and also aspects of the culture , of course food is included 😂, very good video
15:19 was so awkward with the banana thing. Shallen was like, 'Nope, I know what this is going to look like, not doing it', and Kotaha was looking over at Seong-ji like, 'Wow, are you really going for it?' And Seong-ji was like, 'It's chill.'
was looking for this comment. perfect description.
@@Tanju_Ahmed Cheers, hehe ^^
As an elementary school teacher in Sweden, I am happy and proud that my country provide universal school meals to all pupils in compulsory education, regardless of their ability to pay. Teachers in Sweden also eat with their pupils and get lunch fully subsidised 😀💪
Same goes for Finland, atleast the pupils!
In Canada we have cafeteria food but let’s be honest the kids are usually desperate to leave the school and go to restaurants and convenience stores during lunch time. 😂
During Covid times, kids in my area ate in classrooms so there would be less kids crossing paths. Some teachers enjoyed that more and they still allow it now.
In my high school they would serve a chicken sandwich, popcorn chicken, a Famous Bowl like in KFC, a burger, Philly cheesesteak, orange chicken rice bowl, curly fries, tater tots, salad, bread roll and pizza from Sardellas. As for veggies and fruit they would serve fresh bell peppers, baby carrots, celery, broccoli, apple, orange, and banana and for drinks usually milk either 2% milk or chocolate and also apple juice. My school also has a snack shop they would serve chips, cup ramen, candy, and different drinks I usually like to get the Baked BBQ Lays Chips and a can of Arizona Green Tea and it was a dollar for the tea but the chips perhaps two bucks. Even know the food is good but it wasn't the healthiest option and seeing both Korean and Japanese school lunches I prefer either Japanese or Korean lunches they're more delicious, balanced, and healthy than the average American school lunch. Also the ribbon or tie that Kotoha was wearing has some Japanese school uniform vibes and she looks really cute with that ribbon and I really like the color of it too.
American food sucks. Nothing is original. In my country, our Lunch you can buy is nasi lemak, nasi goreng, laksa, bihun sup, kerepok lekor, kuih-muih and bread
@@boboboy8189 ooo Malaysian food that sounds really good I know Nasi Goreng is from Indonesia but that's a really good friend rice recipe my favorite part is the fried egg on top of the fried rice. I really want to try nasi lemak and laksa they look so good any type of food or dish whether is East Asian, South Asian, or Southeast Asian they excite me more than Western cuisine but I still love Mexican food since I grew up eating it at home.
@@22ninja1 Let me tell you different type of nasi goreng in Malaysia
1) nasi goreng kampung
2) nasi goreng biasa
3) nasi goreng telur mata
4) nasi goreng ayam
5) nasi goreng pattaya
6) nasi goreng kangkong
7) nasi goreng cina
8) nasi goreng tom yum
9) nasi goreng USA
10) nasi goreng cili padi
11) nasi goreng hailam
12) nasi goreng daging hitam
13) nasi goreng big five
14) nasi goreng cendawan
Meanwhile in indonesia they only Cook nasi goreng kampung and nasi goreng biasa.
@@boboboy8189 holy crap I didn't know there's that much variation of nasi goreng.
@@22ninja1 only in Malaysia, you won't find except 1 and 2 in indonesia
we never got "classic" pizza like that in my schools. that plate would've been a special and cost more. i got so bored of school lunches and the ever changing payment system that i skipped lunch or brought my own.
We always got rectangular slices of pizza.
@@Davidgon100 i fully remember the SYSCO FOODS slabs of pizza
韓国もアメリカも給食美味しそうですね。日本は、だいたいこんな感じです。私もだいたいそうでした。
I love Japanese school food which I used to have, but I wanna try Korean and American school food!
But in my case in japan, i ate pizza at school. And also i never heard that preparing chop sticks at home.
한국 급식 너무 먹고십어요 몇번 먹어봤는데 너무 분위기가 있어요
I'm sure now with globalization Japanese people have more access to American food.
They were afraid to serve milk instead of apple juice because the milk will either always nearly expired or fully frozen xD
People always overexaggerate that American school lunches are really bad. I went to a pretty low end public school in TN and the lunches weren't nearly as bad as people in these comments are tryin to make them seem. Did we have some bad days? Yea. But it's not like every lunch on every day was bad. We had the rectangle pizzas in middle school, which aren't as good as like the pizza in this video, but they weren't bad either. Then in high school we had a triangle slice with cheese in the crust which was a definite upgrade. We also had popcorn chicken, chicken fries, hot wings, etc.. Then we'd have days that were just the cheap fake burgers or chicken sandwiches. We only got juice with breakfast and had milk/chocolate milk with lunch tho. We also always got some kind of fruit or vegetable side, just most kids didn't eat them.
I loved the comparison. I prefer the healthier meals like Japan ❤
Japan's lunches look infinitely better than what I had in school.
The Japanese girl is half Korean. I saw her in other Korea related videos.
In Canada we always ate our homepacked lunches in the classroom. I've never been to a school with a cafeteria. This is very interesting to me and I'm jealous of the asian school lunch options haha. Ours feels too unhealthy in comparison (Even the ones I pack for my kids). In highschool I sat in the hallway by my locker with friends to eat lunch. In K-8 we would have preorder days where we could buy subway, pizza hut, etc. and eat it in the classroom. In highschool they set up a table where we could buy taco in a bag, or pizza slices sometimes.
American here. I went to a lot of different schools because my parents moved a lot. There was one school I went to where we ate in our classrooms, but most of them are in a cafeteria and some you eat outside
한국도 학교마다 케바케지만, 교통카드처럼 학생증에 급식비 충전해서 찍고 먹는 학교들 많이 있어요! 일본 급식엔 밥 후리카케가 항상 나오는건지 궁금하네요ㅎㅎ
@@ririri-sx1gu Ohh! Thank you for answering me :) I was really curious about that💛
that's a pretty hooked up and fancy school lunch for America. The portions are usually smaller and the quality is worse. Pizza is basically cheesebread with a little sauce on it. Maybe that is what lunch at private schools or rich schools look like, but in low-budget, low-income areas school lunch is lacking.
It definitely varies a lot. The lunch they had for America was a bit like my lunches in elementary school (I only went to elementary public school, been homeschooled for the rest of my life so I don't know about middle or high firsthand) but I can never imagine a time in which I had two fruits. Also I don't recall juice, it was mostly milk or water.
My friends who've gone to public middle or high school in another state though have told me horror stories. Multiple times milk was expired, and a few kids got food poisoning. It looked downright disgusting at times.
So without a doubt it definitely varies. Not to mention that these are probably based off of the lunches these girls grew up with, not what's served in school as of the present day.
Yeah it does. I went to elementary school in the California suburbs and we had a salad bar. But I will say a lot of kids brought lunch boxes and we would trade.Fruit Rollups were like gold 😂😂
日本の給食ってもっと豪華じゃないか？
それな
同じこと思ってる人がいてよかった
Japan is poorer than korea n usa so.....
@@Maojinping-wg3gw アメリカが金持ちすぎるんだよ…
@@Maojinping-wg3gw 一度日本の本物の給食を食べてから言ってほしい！貧しくても食に関しては本当に素晴らしい国だよ！
My high school let us serve ourselves...it was funny seeing kids try and take extra food into there pockets that was pre-packaged
25 years ago, we had a lunch line, and the snack line. Lunch lines had typical school fair, badly made inhouse food. the snack shack line sold nachos, bags of chips, bagels, donuts, Cheese fries, Hostess cakes, Sodas, water, and sports drinks.
There was also a separate line where you could buy pizza by the slice that was delivered from the local favorite pizza place, still steaming hot. Pretty much none of it was healthy.
The only time I ate healthy at my high school was during a biology class when we were studying fungi and the teacher made sauteed garlic mushrooms on sourdough toast, and when I took Foods and nutrition, where we learned how to cook dishes like Beef stew, Crapes, Baked fish, etc.
In my 3 years of high school, my school never had fresh vegetables or fruits. That B.S. lunch is not authentic lol
It's been quite a while since I've had a school lunch but that American school lunch example was WAY better than what is really served 😂 All my stuff was either prepackaged or just heated up in what I assume was a microwave. But I still enjoyed when we had pizza days or taco snack days 😂 and chocolate milk was great!
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i remember when i was in Grammar school, it was always cold lunches unless you brought your own food, basically PB&J or some sort of Deli meat sandwhich along with Milk and a fruit cup.
High school is when I got more variety, in HS you had to buy lunch but that ranged from $1 salads to $12 hot meals which got you spaghetti, steamed veggies, mashed potatos, Gatorade drinks.
at my school [US] we ate in classrooms all the time! Teachers worked through lunch most times to help students, and if a friend was being helped, their little group tended to be there as well.
In my much younger school days in Tokyo, Japan, students bring prepared cooked lunch to school, then there is a kitchen where cooks help heat up the food students bring to school. The prepares home-brought lunches has to be in aluminium tins and ready to be reheated.