I Cooked 100 Years of School Lunch

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  • @ryancantcook
    @ryancantcook Рік тому +10421

    Grilled Cheese with a slice of bread on the side is crazy😂

    • @anglowing923
      @anglowing923 Рік тому +112

      OMG HI

    • @TheHipHopUwU
      @TheHipHopUwU Рік тому +195

      Yeah they out here serving hotdogs in hardshell taco shells with some nasty chocolate milk

    • @OfficialJJMechanics
      @OfficialJJMechanics Рік тому +27

      lol

    • @kitkat-wy3qb
      @kitkat-wy3qb Рік тому +32

      ok but like the school lunch ladies did not made it that good on god i know bc they did not have all that time

    • @SausageGamer5
      @SausageGamer5 Рік тому +14

      Sausage

  • @NickDiGiovanni
    @NickDiGiovanni Рік тому +10413

    I would've loved 1910...bringing my own five course lunch to school

    • @supremeboyyt
      @supremeboyyt Рік тому +280

      Omggg 1st I am your biggest fan plss shoutout

    • @justdatguy3
      @justdatguy3 Рік тому +109

      Hi Nick👋

    • @KaitlynGraver
      @KaitlynGraver Рік тому +87

      BRO I LOVE YOUR COOKING CONTENT!

    • @supremeboyyt
      @supremeboyyt Рік тому +54

      I cant bleave I noticed 1st omgggg

    • @Klabbe
      @Klabbe Рік тому +45

      no way, it’s the guy from masterchef

  • @ErinTheApartmentHomesteader
    @ErinTheApartmentHomesteader Рік тому +1739

    Growing up in the 2000's I don't think any of my meals looked like that. I feel like mine were more remenecent of what they showed for like the 60's and 80's. The things I remember most were the square pizza slices, the pb and j crustables, there was always milk that I'd blow into with a straw to get fun bubbles, and the chicken nuggets. Chicken nugget day was undoubtedly the best day for school lunches.

    • @prom7472
      @prom7472 Рік тому +36

      The breaded pork chop was the best imo. I don't think it contained any pork but damn it was salty and good

    • @OfficiallyLydiasLife
      @OfficiallyLydiasLife Рік тому +35

      Yes! I was in school in 2000s We had square pizza & chocolate pudding alot! I do remember having grilled chicken sometimes, but not often. I also remembered the chicken fried steak & mashed potatoes bc It was one of my favorites 😂 I don't remember ever having wraps, although I was in early HS in 2010 so maybe it was different since we had a lot of options unlike elementary school. We also had grilled cheese sandwiches & tomato soup which is what. Made me learn I liked tomato soup 😂

    • @BaldRice
      @BaldRice Рік тому +9

      I legit just commented the exact same thing and even mentioned most of the same food items without seeing your comment lmfao. Yeah theyre trippin. And if they got an early decade this wrong I wonder what else they got wrong lmfao

    • @Super-Saiyan-Blue-Gogeta
      @Super-Saiyan-Blue-Gogeta Рік тому +7

      @@OfficiallyLydiasLife Fairly accurate, my memory's kinda foggy but I definitely remember the pizza & chocolate pudding and sometimes there would be some chicken nuggets I think but I'd never get the calzones they would serve occasionally.

    • @crystal17torres32
      @crystal17torres32 Рік тому +4

      Same! But I remember they switched white rice to brown rice and they would give cookies but it cost extra 🥹

  • @jennymcdonough2095
    @jennymcdonough2095 3 місяці тому +39

    Retired lunchlady here. The program I worked for provided several options to students including a homestyle meal prepared daily from scratch. My favorite was homemade vegetable beef soup and grilled cheese sandwhich. We also made homemade yeast rolls daily.

    • @vramakumar
      @vramakumar 3 місяці тому +4

      Cool! 😮

    • @shaynewheeler9249
      @shaynewheeler9249 3 місяці тому +1

      😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

    • @ohiolooksmaxxer
      @ohiolooksmaxxer 9 днів тому +3

      The only thing you can buy from my school is cookie slushy and water plus the cookie is 75 cents each😢😢😢😢

  • @TeddyStrongBear
    @TeddyStrongBear 11 місяців тому +758

    In the 70s and 80s, none of the public schools served coca-cola or any other carbonated drinks. You had a choice between white or chocolate milk. They also included apple or orange juice during breakfast. Also, cheese pizza with fries or tater-tots were a daily option, the other main dishes were offered on specific days.

    • @holymontezuma1319
      @holymontezuma1319 11 місяців тому +28

      yeah, we didn't have any soda, it was milk, choc, van, or 2%, and optional fruit juice, apple or orange. Some of my favorites was the pizza, square, with a meat sauce and cheese: Chili and cornbread; porcupine balls, a meatball with a generous amount of rice, so it looked like a porcupine: spaghetti; turkey dinner. Overall the only lunch that I did not like was the tuna boat, a tuna hoagie that fished up the lunch wing of the school. They did have options, one being a 3D, it was a triple decker cold cut sandwich which you could get instead of the main meal. This was late 70's, early 80's.

    • @lilsardine5
      @lilsardine5 10 місяців тому +4

      @@holymontezuma1319👴

    • @AngelaMastrodonato
      @AngelaMastrodonato 10 місяців тому +11

      In the 80s-early 90s I remember something similar. I never liked the square pizza everyone else liked and the side dish was almost always tater tots, sometimes swapped with soggy crinkle fries or fake mashed potatoes with fluorescent gravy. The drink was always white or chocolate milk. By high school there were vending machines with soda but that wasn’t included in the school lunch, it was extra.

    • @Anacaona4
      @Anacaona4 10 місяців тому +4

      We had vending machines at the school we could get sodas from. Ironically, they were located in the school gym building. Lol

    • @THEWallyWarbles
      @THEWallyWarbles 10 місяців тому +1

      That's still how it works at my current school

  • @rhondadupras2477
    @rhondadupras2477 Рік тому +454

    My Mom and grandmother cooked in the schools for years 1950s and 1960s and they always got compliments about how good their food was.

  • @ryancantcook
    @ryancantcook Рік тому +1426

    Schools eliminate processed food (proceeds to give processed baloney and cheese)

  • @stephenperry5617
    @stephenperry5617 Місяць тому +35

    Fun fact: 2:37 the reason why it’s not peanut butter and jelly sandwiches it’s because jelly was more expensive than peanut butter so they only use peanut butter because it’s more cheaper

  • @TrickyReveals
    @TrickyReveals Рік тому +424

    In Singapore throughout my school years from the 2000s to 2010s, our cafeteria just has a bunch of mini stalls with different cuisines. We had the choice of chinese, indian, malay, western food. A drink stall, pasty stall, noodle stall. The prices usually ranges from $1.50 to $4 for a meal.

    • @SteamRailPatreonR761VR
      @SteamRailPatreonR761VR Рік тому +19

      Oh wow that is so cool where I lived we had a tuckshop every Friday and It could be soups or pizzas (wood fired) or gourmet food

    • @frostythepanda1227
      @frostythepanda1227 Рік тому +5

      same here in thailand

    • @joyi341
      @joyi341 Рік тому +1

      same here in Indonesia

    • @arrjayarejae
      @arrjayarejae Рік тому +2

      same in malaysia

    • @PanZerV
      @PanZerV Рік тому

      Not in norway

  • @SSJfraz
    @SSJfraz Рік тому +1293

    I like how the 1910 lunch is infinitely healthier than the school lunches of today.

    • @KrissTheRider
      @KrissTheRider Рік тому +60

      dude our lunches look like that its so depresing😮‍💨

    • @snakesbakecookies
      @snakesbakecookies Рік тому +19

      @@KrissTheRider i think thats called a good school

    • @Down_the_Wind
      @Down_the_Wind Рік тому +33

      @@snakesbakecookiesnah, that’s not filling.

    • @snakesbakecookies
      @snakesbakecookies Рік тому +4

      @@Down_the_Wind yeah ig thats fair

    • @Down_the_Wind
      @Down_the_Wind Рік тому +2

      @@snakesbakecookies but I guess it’s better than nothing lol

  • @prideofdurham4776
    @prideofdurham4776 Рік тому +618

    My school meals in the 1960s were superb. A thick stew followed by chocolate sponge in a white sauce were just one of my favourites.

    • @Letrisin
      @Letrisin Рік тому +40

      73 years old dang.

    • @Crownable
      @Crownable Рік тому +26

      my dad is 55 and he was born in ‘60s

    • @bodisimo1019
      @bodisimo1019 Рік тому +5

      7:30 I know that

    • @AbramHorne
      @AbramHorne Рік тому +8

      ​@@LetrisinI think 63 you meant because my mom is 63 and she was born in 1960 same with my dad

    • @Pumpkin-em7zt
      @Pumpkin-em7zt Рік тому +11

      ⁠@@AbramHorneno.. if your parents were born in 1960, how could they go to school in 1960. Common sense..

  • @Daveybaveyleavy
    @Daveybaveyleavy Місяць тому +15

    9:24 SPIDER ON A FRY

  • @Simigema
    @Simigema Рік тому +1302

    all of these looked 10x better than the actual school food
    Edit: pee pee

    • @whatapurrrrfectday
      @whatapurrrrfectday Рік тому +3

      Lol yea

    • @xa-xii9338
      @xa-xii9338 Рік тому +16

      ikr, like there aint no way people had salad in the 1960s as part of there school lunch, most schools still don't have that today ( in North America ).

    • @arandominternetuser9099
      @arandominternetuser9099 Рік тому +5

      The school lunches at my school district were actually insanely good, some more than others, but I overall liked it all. Trust me, I know what good food is too, and I still actually liked the school lunches.

    • @xa-xii9338
      @xa-xii9338 Рік тому +2

      @@arandominternetuser9099 prob had a good school district

    • @arandominternetuser9099
      @arandominternetuser9099 Рік тому +2

      @@xa-xii9338 yeah. IIRC, the district I was in was one of the higher ranked districts in the state, somewhere in the top 50 I think. Most are probably just average or not good though, unfortunately. :(

  • @jaynieschmidt819
    @jaynieschmidt819 Рік тому +317

    Raised in Alabama in the late 40's and early 50's we had wonderful lunches. Fried chicken , okra ,and potatoes . Ham and sweet potatoes everything was really good! I am sure there were some things we didn't care for but overall it was great . This was Elementary school.

  • @kt420ish
    @kt420ish Рік тому +139

    I was in school from the early 90s to the early 2000s. We never got anything from McDonald's lol. The fruit cocktail is accurate. And we also were served something different every day in grade school. And in high school we just went in line and you could buy whatever you wanted. French fries, pizza lasagna, cheeseburger, a cookie, etc.

    • @justjeni83
      @justjeni83 Рік тому +7

      I was in elementary in the 90s. Our school did 'burger' day maybe twice a year. It was from McDonald's. Our parents had to pay for it though and if they didn't you'd have your sad PB&J jealously watching the others

    • @justjeni83
      @justjeni83 Рік тому +3

      Also common from where I grew up... after grade 4, you went home for lunch. Or brought your own. School did not provide.

    • @kt420ish
      @kt420ish Рік тому +1

      @@justjeni83 that is interesting. I'm from the Midwest (northern Illinois). Lunch was provided at every single school I attended. And I moved quite a bit as a kid. It's always fun hearing what others had growing up. As a kid, you think it's the same everywhere. 🤙

    • @kt420ish
      @kt420ish Рік тому

      @nicholastv5543 Lake County. Basically 40 miles north of Chicago and a little east

    • @alysdexia
      @alysdexia Рік тому

      It’s still the early 2000s and 2,000s, as opposed to 20-00s.

  • @Immortanjoe245
    @Immortanjoe245 4 місяці тому +94

    70s and 80s school lunches looked so much better compared 2 what they serve nowadays

    • @JdtjkbeeIjfcHcddfjberyouinfr
      @JdtjkbeeIjfcHcddfjberyouinfr 3 місяці тому +3

      70s 80s and 90s school lunches look delicious and I would actually eat them at school in a 2000s 2010s 2020s

  • @CrabMan2539
    @CrabMan2539 Рік тому +278

    I went to school throughout the 2010s and tbh, what you got is michelin star worthy compared to what we got. Everything had been frozen, burgers warmed with water (not sous vide, just straight in the water) with fake grill marks, chicken patties with cartilage in it and some red spots, burnt pizza with soggy crust and probably more oregano than sauce, soggy fried chicken wing with a flat side, half decent nuggets and oddly good mac and cheese (very rare tho). The worst of it was that my school *constantly* tried to convince us the food was good. They had "ads" for their food depicting people being so lucky to have "such good food". No one was buying it. I'm so glad to be out of high school.

    • @3volution636
      @3volution636 11 місяців тому +7

      Same lol. But this was a thing in my H.S. prior to 2010. Most of the processed stuff was crap. Like the baked chicken nuggets, mozzarella sticks or "chicken teriyaki" 🤮. Stuff basically had little to no flavor. But at least the quesadillas were decent, or the cold food. In some cases my parents got me outside lunch. Usually a chicken parmesan or meatball hero.
      Eventually I started buying my own food in my later H.S. days. And started opting for rotisserie chicken from the Deli. Or pizza and pinwheels from the pizzeria.
      The pizza at my school was the WORST, especially the pizza sticks..... Think of pizza pockets but 10 times worst.... It was literally dough rolled over mozz cheese, AND IT WASN'T EVEN BAKED bro.... it was warmed / pale crap 😡🤬

    • @Liezaac
      @Liezaac 11 місяців тому +8

      Im in school right now and gotta be honest drinking the milk feels like a chore. Id rather drink water but they don't give you water. They also give us this thing called cheesy pull aparts, i wouldn't call it food really.

    • @boozeMSC
      @boozeMSC 11 місяців тому

      Im in school and our food sucks teachers say that is good

    • @_Alopecoid
      @_Alopecoid 11 місяців тому +5

      I lived through the 2010s. In 2010 I was in 1st grade iirc, and the food was delicious. The Chicken sandwiches that they were(note 'were') serving at my elementary school's cafeteria was superb, arguably better tasting than the fastfood equivalent of a chicken sandwich. Same went with chicken nuggets, pizza, and a whole bunch of other stuff at the time. Water was served, pretty good chocolate milk was served, as well as juice. It was until when I got into 2nd, half-way into the grade level, when the food just nose dived in the quality of taste imo. It just tasted awful for me and I just ended up skipping lunch for the rest of the time I was in elementary. It really pissed me off honestly. Whole wheat was being used rather than other better tasting bread, the pizza just tasted awful thanks to the change in how the cheese was made and the bread used (seriously? Whole wheat as pizza bread?), and hell, I don't even know what they did to the chicken, I think they switched to brown meat. The chocolate milk wasn't even safe at all from the changes, it also went from good to bad tasting for whatever reason. Bs after more bs basically. After leaving elementary for middle school, I finally got hands on decent good food, which, surprisingly, was pizza hut because they served it at my school luckily enough. This was short lived though, like 3 months, since I had to move schools because I was moving to a new home. If I still managed to stay in my old hometown, I would've went to the HS it had, which amazingly I got a tour of. They didn't just serve pizza Hut, but they had a literal fast food chain restaurant inside where the indoor basketball courts were. Flipping amazing honestly. But unfortunately, like I said before, I moved schools, and imo it was way worst than my old one. Not just in food served, but also just the quality of learning and engagement there.

    • @annaf3915
      @annaf3915 11 місяців тому +2

      @@Liezaac That sounds awful. At my son's school, the kids only get water and sugar free ice tea. When I was a kid we had a choice of milk that tasted like cardboard, cocoa that tasted like sweetened cardboard and vanilla milk that tasted like sweetened vomit.

  • @bobjones4901
    @bobjones4901 Рік тому +392

    As an immigrant kid from Taiwan in the 1970's, it was a shock going from delicious nutritous bento boxes to cold pizza slices, jello, a bite of mushy salad. I always chose chocolate milk for the only solace I had.

    • @BloonMasterAlch
      @BloonMasterAlch Рік тому +13

      I feel you

    • @Goldenred1000
      @Goldenred1000 Рік тому +6

      I feel you to 😊

    • @jep9092
      @jep9092 Рік тому +17

      Yeah.... America needs bento boxes

    • @GetFuckedTrump
      @GetFuckedTrump Рік тому

      bro taiwan isn't a country and plus china doesn't have bento boxes so stop lying

    • @GetFuckedTrump
      @GetFuckedTrump Рік тому

      no chinese kid has a name of bob jones

  • @MikuJR3
    @MikuJR3 Рік тому +2013

    In fact:1900s people are more healthy than nowadays people. (nvm)

    • @T.S.P_God5
      @T.S.P_God5 Рік тому +148

      1920s and 1930s looks better than my school hot lunch today

    • @Zecrat
      @Zecrat Рік тому +16

      Oh nice fact miku nakano from itsutsuko

    • @baldheadahh1560
      @baldheadahh1560 Рік тому +42

      school lunch today is trash

    • @Znthy10-hu2zd
      @Znthy10-hu2zd Рік тому

      Wtf is this profile piture

    • @lesliep7925
      @lesliep7925 Рік тому +22

      I think it depends where in the US and also if you paid for your own food or it was free :(

  • @selenagold2030
    @selenagold2030 4 місяці тому +8

    When I was in elementary during the mid early 2000s, we actually got big slices of pizza that were triangle shaped. They were delicious. We had the real deal.

    • @boostedcortez3156
      @boostedcortez3156 Місяць тому

      I remember we had this big rectangular looking one as well it was so good

  • @Miamia9845
    @Miamia9845 Рік тому +838

    After watching this, I have come to sincerely appreciate the school lunch system in Japan. Our country regards it as an essential part of our educational nutrition programs. The interesting fact is that it all started under the direction of Douglas MacArthur from the USA.

    • @NerdilyDone
      @NerdilyDone Рік тому +24

      Oh yeah, Douglas MacArthur pretty much ruled Japan after WWII.

    • @phantomfeather518
      @phantomfeather518 Рік тому +42

      The food shown here is way better than what is actually served!
      In the 2010s we did not get fresh food at all. It was all processed and tasted very bad.

    • @RayF6126
      @RayF6126 Рік тому +23

      The US school system was originally planned around farming, hunting, and logging. They were some of the biggest industries on our soil, all that physical work was done outside mostly in the summer and generated it's own food product. It's why we have summers off. Then we switched to a service economy and schools didn't, it means families mostly used to feed their kids, and now factories do.

    • @TheOne-dq3lq
      @TheOne-dq3lq Рік тому +6

      So you can also pack your lunch and eating healthy is a choice. It doesn't matter what is fed to you none of that matters if you don't eat it. Like for example, fast food. I might eat it once or twice a month. If I push it 3 times. I eat at home. I cook at home, it's better for you. Another thing people tend to forget is even if you eat healthy, you need to exercise, not everybody does that. Lifting weights is a great way to exercise.

    • @Juhani96
      @Juhani96 Рік тому +7

      Yeah, me too, from finland. These meals are so unhealthy and poor nutrition. Also very boring. 😐

  • @1cicmd
    @1cicmd Рік тому +257

    I grew up in a small town in South Louisiana in the ‘60s and ‘70s and in those days, the ladies cooked like they did at home. There were a ton of great cooks in our town and we grew up eating a lot of really great food. We had spaghetti and meat sauce, hot dogs with homemade chili, steak and rice & gravy, sausage and potatoes, shepherd’s pie, rice dressing, cornbread dressing, ham, shrimp etouffee, fried chicken, shrimp creole, etc. Of course, all of these dishes were always served with some kind of vegetable, milk, and the best cobblers, cakes, and homemade rolls you ever ate in your life. Were we fat? Most of is weren’t because we PLAYED outside and rode our bikes everywhere. I’m a teacher now and what kids are fed today is a travesty.

    • @Lucia_campos
      @Lucia_campos Рік тому +6

      Hello, Im An Italian Student (Middle 7th) I would Like to specific our school launches are based On Other things, Pizza Hamburgers (meat only) etc..
      I would like to state This is the most strict education in Europe And Most students here Rebel against the Other Teachers (A teacher cried about it).

    • @glochri86
      @glochri86 Рік тому +3

      ​@@Lucia_camposim Italian too an I remind 2010 elementary school meal to be like only vegetable and spaghetti EVERY DAY.
      It was boring af that I really just started to take food from home and it was gooder an coasted less.
      I would have payed the triple only to have the toast with cheese

    • @Lucia_campos
      @Lucia_campos Рік тому

      @@glochri86 Damn. Here its Just Good food

    • @toriamigo
      @toriamigo Рік тому +2

      Sugary drinks and fried food is banned in the schools in my country, we got chicken and rice wraps, salads, sandwiches, soup, rice with curry sauce or gravy, baked potato , lasagne.... no chips or fries etc, only fruit and low sugar cereal bars.

    • @HunterJohnson-yc5zr
      @HunterJohnson-yc5zr Рік тому +1

      I'm from turkey creek Louisiana and I know what you mean we had gumbo in the winter but pork and sausage gravy and jambalaya a lot too we had good lunches.

  • @maxwellyoyo7846
    @maxwellyoyo7846 Рік тому +705

    I love how he compared decades with refrigerators 😂

  • @Sigmamale-alpha
    @Sigmamale-alpha 8 днів тому +5

    14:33 we dont have school lunches

  • @darkcardking
    @darkcardking Рік тому +25

    So I remember going to school in the 90s/2000s. Our lunch programs had options. You could get a cold lunch or a hot lunch. Cold lunch was usually some sort of sandwich, fruit, juice, and milk. Hot lunch was usually some sort of chicken, fruit, juice, and milk. Fridays we had pizza. High school we had the same thing though you could pick your sandwich and we also got fries. For someone like me who was really poor that lunch was the only thing you ate all day. To this day, because of that, I still only eat like once a day.

  • @TheBlaert
    @TheBlaert 5 місяців тому +106

    I went to a small rural primary school in Ireland in the mid 1980's. About 50-60 pupils. Our cook made absolutely everything fresh and from scratch. It was honestly top-level

    • @matacurrei5665
      @matacurrei5665 5 місяців тому +3

      I am intrigued...

    • @samanalmass8939
      @samanalmass8939 4 місяці тому +3

      So lucky bro my average school lunch is 99% rice with a disgusting stew/soup
      Btw 1% was shawarma,chicken shawarma,fries(not crispy but not soggy) and finally the best one FRIED CHICKEN. And yes the 1% is all in sandwich

    • @swathiveerla9482
      @swathiveerla9482 4 місяці тому

      Cool 😎

    • @EverlyBestey
      @EverlyBestey Місяць тому

      ⁠2ccc

    • @brandonlee6626
      @brandonlee6626 22 дні тому

      Bro did not do 2020 bruh

  • @silentmenace416
    @silentmenace416 Рік тому +90

    I went to elementary school up in Alaska in the 2010’s and I can say for sure none of our school lunches were ever made fresh. They were all pre-packaged reheated meals/tray, a cold tray of veggies and a small carton of milk. And they were pretty expensive too, like $5 a pop. It wasn’t until high school did I ever encounter fresh meals

    • @SunkenMold
      @SunkenMold Рік тому +5

      I’m from Florida and had the same experience! It got to the point where my mom just started packing me salads (until I got to 5th in which I started packing my own) and I always liked that a good bit more because I would grill chicken and toss it in the salad

    • @Mrghost54
      @Mrghost54 Рік тому +2

      As a high schooler myself I can say that school lunches are just not worth it they taste terrible and the food is mostly prepackaged or reheated and the salad bar is ok not great but ok and the “fresh sandwich’s” there are fresh on Monday the rest of the week they are used from Monday. And depending on the state some have made school lunch free as of 2020.

    • @skip081961
      @skip081961 5 місяців тому

      Hahaha...Sounds like y'all were getting MRE's or in my day C-Rations.

  • @azuredrownsinfrenchtoast
    @azuredrownsinfrenchtoast 5 місяців тому +46

    how the hell do kids get coke on school lunches 😭

    • @natlilt7201
      @natlilt7201 3 місяці тому +1

      Exactly

    • @Mossberg1909
      @Mossberg1909 Місяць тому

      You don’t?

    • @yuriy5376
      @yuriy5376 Місяць тому

      And then they wonder why there’s so many cokeheads with MBAs in politics and business 😂

    • @Itz_st4ronst4r
      @Itz_st4ronst4r 24 дні тому +1

      Like where is this for my middle school year😭

    • @AryanThind-ph3bl
      @AryanThind-ph3bl 23 дні тому

      Only in USA

  • @kristinhillaker4536
    @kristinhillaker4536 Рік тому +163

    I graduated in 2012 and my school had such a huge selection to pick from. We had a build your own salad or wrap station, jumbo pretzels or Bosco sticks or snack stuff , chicken tenders and fries, pizza and then a line that changed daily. Chicken bowl was everyone’s favorite. $20 lasted me 2 weeks and we had milk, water, Izzy drink or flavored water.

    • @hsuehejjw1731
      @hsuehejjw1731 Рік тому +11

      Rich.

    • @ozboz-roblox363
      @ozboz-roblox363 Рік тому +21

      Damn u obviously went to a private school😂

    • @MillerTX
      @MillerTX Рік тому +6

      Hahah yup. This was public school for me tho in Texas. Ngl some of that cafeteria food in high school was actually really good.

    • @12dbortle
      @12dbortle Рік тому +8

      @@ozboz-roblox363 Nope, my public school had these same options too. 2012 as well for me.

    • @Dillonraycoleman1993
      @Dillonraycoleman1993 Рік тому +2

      Yep my school did the same too

  • @ConfuzzledOwO
    @ConfuzzledOwO Рік тому +29

    School cafeterias always intrigued me with their stories. I grew up in Canada in the early 2000s, we only had a cafeteria at my highschool and only ate from there time to time as a treat cos it was expensive as hell for such a small portion. It was more the norm to bring a lunch bag either you or your parents packed for you. We did have special days throughout the month where you can have your parents sign you up for pizza day, sub day, ice cream day… or a specialty program called kids kitchen where your parents could prepick the food you would get and they would come delivered to the school in brown baggies with your name and student number every wednesday. The meatloaf was the best

    • @Susan-nf3qq
      @Susan-nf3qq Рік тому +1

      That was how it was in Sacramento where I went to high school, elementary school took my own lunch

  • @jesshansen1397
    @jesshansen1397 11 місяців тому +60

    I went to a three room schoolhouse in 1976. my mother packed a lunch for me everyday. Usually, a sandwich, soup, and a can of pudding. I still have good feelings about the effort and love she put in my lunches despite having to work a hard labor job AND take care of me.

    • @Belgorod_Jedi
      @Belgorod_Jedi 10 місяців тому +1

      Your mom is good one. First year I used to be studying in school where even wasn’t a kitchen. So, my mom had to coming to me and fed by home food. Don’t ask me why she wasn’t giving me lunch before school 😂 but anyway, I appreciate that

    • @queenofcheap6310
      @queenofcheap6310 9 місяців тому +1

      I totally agree. My Mum was the same. We were lucky. Life was easy.

    • @shaynewheeler9249
      @shaynewheeler9249 2 дні тому +1

      100 years of food 🥝🥑

  • @TheMinecraftKid24
    @TheMinecraftKid24 День тому +1

    Lucky me in the uk in 2010 the year 8 was born my primary school had burgers pizza and milk and high school there's fish and chips burgers pizza Pepsi max so much good food

  • @OnigiriKyoko
    @OnigiriKyoko Рік тому +281

    I feel like the main problem with the food at my school is that it's never seasoned, so the food is always just very bland. As for fried foods, the food still isn't seasoned and never fried long enough so it's always soggy.

    • @MarzFromMars
      @MarzFromMars Рік тому

      @We_are_what_so_stupid3 same

    • @StephanieJimenez-fn7cq
      @StephanieJimenez-fn7cq Рік тому +7

      My school actually seasons the food

    • @MarzFromMars
      @MarzFromMars Рік тому +6

      @@StephanieJimenez-fn7cq lucky

    • @IsCringe777
      @IsCringe777 Рік тому +7

      here in europe where i am its very normal. france was amazing, and I currently like in the Netherlands and well yeah I don't understand why America doesn't put more money into actually caring for their students @@MarzFromMars

    • @FinlandGuy747
      @FinlandGuy747 Рік тому +3

      As a finn seeing an American complaining of their school's fries😂 We eat healthy here in Finland. And it's FREE.

  • @seanremlinger2277
    @seanremlinger2277 10 місяців тому +146

    Missing some of the classics for the 90s: you had the 'turkey dinner' lunch which was usually reheated from frozen pre-sliced turkey almagamation served with instant mashed potatoes, instant gravy, frozen vegetables maybe a roll with butter pat and cranberry sauce.
    We also had "chinese" style lunch, which consisted of wet instant rice, cold chicken nuggets with expired sweet and sour sauce served with 1/2 of a microwaved egg roll and a bag of baby carrots.
    Then we had "pasta" which was either overcooked spagetti noodles with plain tomato sauce and way too much oregano or "butter noodles" made with margarine or flavored oil and a sprinkling of freeze dried parm all served with a slice of burnt cheesy bread and fruit cocktail.
    Came out to 3 bucks a meal and if you didn't have the money, your only option was the 'sad station' which was making your own Peanut butter sandwich with old and sometimes moldy bread and a dixie cup of water from the fountain.
    Wonderful stuff 😢

    • @303Thatoneguy
      @303Thatoneguy 9 місяців тому +2

      Damn you must’ve went to school in Baghdad Illinois

    • @TheLastProtheanJavik
      @TheLastProtheanJavik 8 місяців тому +2

      Thanks giving school dinner

    • @iranickid
      @iranickid 8 місяців тому +1

      "NOOOO, TURKEY IS BEST, YOU ARE PROBABLY GREEK, YOU ARE NOT TRUE"
      -Turkish Nationalist (who probably was unlucky enough to take a look at what you stated in your comment)

    • @eggyolk8873
      @eggyolk8873 8 місяців тому +1

      I’m not reading that

    • @daramji2
      @daramji2 8 місяців тому

      Sloppy Joes man. that was my 90s

  • @gaelenj.francis2860
    @gaelenj.francis2860 Рік тому +177

    I was in elementary school in the early and mid 2000s. Our lunches consisted of a combination of 60's and 80's lunches. We often had square-shaped pizza and chicken nuggets. Every day, we had milk cartons. Everyone always picked chocolate milk and I've never been able to find the tiny chocolate milk cartons nowadays. Maybe they're only visible to kids 😅

    • @a1681257
      @a1681257 Рік тому +3

      I drink them at the school i teach at haha

    • @joy-to7dx
      @joy-to7dx Рік тому +4

      I was a kid in the 90s our lunch consistent 70,80s and square pizza as well as special day in the 2000s it was subway sandwich.

    • @WeAreAllThings
      @WeAreAllThings Рік тому +1

      Everyone chose strawberry milk over chocolate at mine. Breakfast pizza, Stromboli, spaghetti, bacon egg and cheese biscuits

    • @alienatedpoet1766
      @alienatedpoet1766 Рік тому +1

      Some schools have cut 2% and chocolate milk. But also branding ahs changed. Most milk just has a barely seeable colored stripe now showing what flavor. Sometimes chocolate is brown, sometimes it is purple. I don't get it.

    • @CouchSpud91
      @CouchSpud91 Рік тому +4

      I currently work in a school cafeteria and the little milk cartons are still there (I'm literally the one that gets them in the totes to be served. So. Many. Cartons. Over 300 A DAY.)

  • @andresfgp13
    @andresfgp13 3 місяці тому +1

    i remember my school and high school giving free breakfast for everyone that wanted it, they also were giving lunch but you had to register for it, all of that free.
    i used to get breakfast and it was almost always milk with a sandwich with something, like scrambled egg, jam, cheese and etc, or sometimes they give cereal with milk which was cold as hell, always nice to have that food even when it wasnt always the best.

  • @RayF6126
    @RayF6126 Рік тому +50

    The chipped beef was usually soaked over night and drained, put in with garlic sauce, cream, shredded thin on toast. That was actually a decent breakfast. Sometimes, we added mushrooms, zucchini, lemon juice.

    • @alysdexia
      @alysdexia Рік тому +2

      thin → finely

    • @Mark-op7zt
      @Mark-op7zt Рік тому +3

      I've never had it with garlic sauce or any additional ingredients. I love the stuff. There are different brands of beef that are less salty. I'm surprised anyone their age is just now trying this and they're the first people I've ever heard say they don't like chipped beef and gravy.

    • @SludgeManCometh
      @SludgeManCometh Рік тому +3

      ​@@Mark-op7ztGoing off of the fact that they were also shocked about tomatoes being eaten by themselves, it's safe to assume they haven't got the best taste.

    • @mei.444
      @mei.444 Рік тому

      bro was alive in the 1940s 😭

  • @kaylamuldoon397
    @kaylamuldoon397 Рік тому +65

    I was taught a few cooking recipes by my paternal grandmother. In regards to your chipped beef, she said you soak it in hot water up to 5 to 10 times to get most of the salt out before you make the dish.

    • @chibaification
      @chibaification Рік тому +8

      Was thinking the same, the stuff is basically like salt pork. Heavily salted so you need to remove it by soaking in hot water.

    • @starxlover.
      @starxlover. Рік тому +1

      Ahh it’s kinda like salt fish… you have to soak and rinse like three times

    • @shaynewheeler9249
      @shaynewheeler9249 4 дні тому

      Ww2 food

  • @keiths1101
    @keiths1101 10 місяців тому +78

    Honestly, I love dried beef. And when you make the gravy right, I think its awesome. My dad said in Vietnam they called it Sh** on a shingle. And I am from the 80s but never had any kind of soda in school. Always milk.

    • @StressmanFIN
      @StressmanFIN 8 місяців тому

      I knew I wasn't the only one who thought it looked like S**t on a Shingle. Especially since I saw it on a Tasting History video.

    • @MrJmulk
      @MrJmulk 6 місяців тому

      The shingle was something we all looked forward to on deployment

  • @Wave_kit162
    @Wave_kit162 28 днів тому +2

    7:05 the pizza at my school is a triangle...

  • @mariya2485
    @mariya2485 Рік тому +306

    As a person coming from post-soviet space, our school lunch has always been nutritional. My son now gets a first course (soup with meatballs, borscht, chicken soup etc), a second course of some meat/chicken and a side dish (usually some kind of grain, potatoes or pasta), a salad and a drink (tea or compote) for one dollar. My school meals 20 years ago were similar in composition, just a lot cheaper))))

    • @dimplesskits5575
      @dimplesskits5575 Рік тому +1

      Im in a U.S. highschool and the food is... well food, I'll eat it and somewhat enjoy it but it's almost the exact same thing every day, luckily they started giving us fresh cut kiwis which taste really good, but most of the time it's best to eat at home or skip the food itself.

    • @mariya2485
      @mariya2485 Рік тому +10

      @@dimplesskits5575 It's great that your schools have started to include some healthy stuff, like kiwis)) I guess, this is the difference in general mentality. In my country we tend to homecook a lot, and eating out or ordering food for us is more of an adventure than a meal. We can order pizza or some sort of takeouts once or twice a month, but compared to a full size homecooked meal it's not too healthy, so we don't do it too often)) Besides, it's traditional for us to eat a lot of soups, we have some sort of soup every day during lunch. So the school lunches resemble the general attitude, I guess.

    • @dimplesskits5575
      @dimplesskits5575 Рік тому +1

      @@mariya2485 Woah that sounds really cool, kinda wish more places were like that.

    • @Sara43212
      @Sara43212 Рік тому +1

      I wish I had that food now

    • @PinkPanther918eR
      @PinkPanther918eR Рік тому +1

      Only the evil empire poisions their own. I'm glad you had that Russian decency. ❤

  • @thebigestman
    @thebigestman 10 місяців тому +84

    To me what was shown for the 2010s is a very small scope. Coming out of high school recently I can say that what we got was almost always processed, frozen, breaded, came out of can, in some form of all of that combined and there was the good ol plastic cheese. There was always a wrap or something "healthy" but no one ever got it. For a drink I wish I had water everyday, we were forced to get a carton of milk everyday I would've had to pay an extra 1.50 to get that bottle of water.

    • @londeners3321
      @londeners3321 8 місяців тому +11

      2010’s was horrible food wise, you can thank Michelle Obama for that.

    • @chicagolondongirl2906
      @chicagolondongirl2906 8 місяців тому +1

      Or you could just go to the drinking fountain...

  • @Modi_2002
    @Modi_2002 Рік тому +69

    I'm from Taiwan, and in Taiwan we usually have a catering company contract with the schools to deliver our lunches to each school every day. and we had a lot of lunch every time! (since so many of them had classes late into the night). We usually have a 3 course meal,rice, a meat dish, fruit and soup. It's about 1-2 dollars a meal (less than 1 dollar in some places in the countryside).
    When I was a kid, all I wanted for lunch was a hamburger and fries, but the school thought those were unhealthy, so we basically didn't have those(I was worried that American students wouldn't be able to eat enough for lunch🤣

  • @awilli182
    @awilli182 10 днів тому +2

    The 90's?
    No way!
    I distinctly remember rectangle "pizza".

  • @angelmage99
    @angelmage99 7 місяців тому +131

    Every time I see a video similar to this, it makes me realize how healthy my school was and this is coming from a 90s kid. We never had McDonalds and desserts were maybe twice a month. There was always fruits and veggies and we were expected to eat them, unless there were allergies. Also HIgh School in the 2000's were not as boring at least.

  • @TheFattestOfTheFish
    @TheFattestOfTheFish Рік тому +86

    My school in the 2010's served HIGHLY processed burgers and chicken, with cheese that tasted like plastic on burgers and more, aswell as pizza that tasted like cardboard. This is with fries that were soggier than the ocean, with all of the veggies/fruits that they'd serve tasting mediocre at best (they were DEFINITELY not fresh by a long shot).

    • @twiddlerat9920
      @twiddlerat9920 Рік тому +6

      michelle ruined everything

    • @flakyfan1496
      @flakyfan1496 10 місяців тому

      This is the problem. And who likes fhose wraps or fatty old chicken??

    • @autisticgirlawareness7420
      @autisticgirlawareness7420 9 місяців тому

      @@twiddlerat9920So agreed

    • @lipelieder
      @lipelieder 9 місяців тому

      Lucky my school serves pasta with chicken bones and 5 cents tomato sauce

    • @georgeburns6512
      @georgeburns6512 9 місяців тому

      @@twiddlerat9920I’m with you on that one lol

  • @AlexMint
    @AlexMint Рік тому +223

    I went to high school in the 2010s and the wrap you showed is honestly way better than what we actually got. Lots of questionable food standards, and pizza sauce became a vegetable. They wound up cutting meals to such a degree where everyone just brought in a ton of junk food.

    • @colechurch6785
      @colechurch6785 Рік тому +1

      Wow

    • @ryrysspottedpuppyshow5149
      @ryrysspottedpuppyshow5149 Рік тому +3

      I wasn't alive yet

    • @AlexMint
      @AlexMint Рік тому +7

      @@colechurch6785 Worse, my school had a culinary arts class that helped with the lunches in a full kitchen downstairs. The school decided we didn't need scratch cooking anymore.

    • @spacechimp3199
      @spacechimp3199 Рік тому +3

      Yeah same here in Canada back then

    • @THEESilentMask44
      @THEESilentMask44 Рік тому

      Seeing all these lunches are cool. Especially when you see stuff like a burger, grilled cheese, peanut butter sandwiches, soup and veggies. I was in school from the mid 2000s all the way until my graduation of HS in 2022. School lunch was super lame in my time. And when there was good food like hotdogs, popcorn chicken and mozzarella sticks? They're super rare or only happen once or twice and that's it for the rest of the year.

  • @D4RK_SH4DOW947
    @D4RK_SH4DOW947 3 місяці тому +6

    Bro's hand was literally shivering from fear while drinking vegetable soup 💀💀💀💀

  • @MrJayrock620
    @MrJayrock620 6 місяців тому +26

    I was in high school late 90’s into the early 2000”s. My school was trade oriented and we actually had our commercial cooking and baking classes make the lunches. It was always something different, and they even did catering orders in the afternoon classes.

  • @acd6835
    @acd6835 10 місяців тому +118

    Here in Australia, we didn't have school lunches or school dinners, but a Tuck Shop (Canteen), where you could get your Mum or Dad to write on a brown paper bag what you wanted from a range of items on a menu from pizza, to sausage rolls, to pies, to chips etc, and attach some coins to the bag, to which it would be sent to the Tuck Shop and at Morning Tea or Lunch, your bag would be returned filled with what your parent ordered for you.

    • @jpc6485
      @jpc6485 10 місяців тому

      That must have been a very nice system.

    • @madebybambi
      @madebybambi 10 місяців тому +1

      aaah im now in my last years of secondary college but i remember this so well from my primary days! it's much different now. now the kids can just bring money to the canteen, whereas back when i was just starting primary school we had the orders sent about a 20ish minute drive from our school and back because we didnt have a canteen. Then i moved closer inwards and we had canteen at that school, so the orders were just sent a 2 minute walk away.

    • @mclovin5903
      @mclovin5903 10 місяців тому +2

      ​@@madebybambi I have kids in primary school and now it's a pre-order app 😂

    • @PatriciaRosas-z7g
      @PatriciaRosas-z7g 10 місяців тому

      Interesting

    • @madebybambi
      @madebybambi 9 місяців тому

      theyre making life easier and easier for introverts lmao@@mclovin5903

  • @strawberryforte
    @strawberryforte Рік тому +43

    I went to a private school in Madrid for a few years, and lunch was always a treat. You could either get a hot lunch tray, in which the food was always fresh, or you could go get a sandwich they made themselves, and Fridays always had french fries. They also had a vending machine so you could get your own drink.

    • @christianweatherbroadcasting
      @christianweatherbroadcasting Рік тому +1

      Repent and trust in Jesus. He's the only way. We deserve Hell because we've sinned. Lied, lusted stolen, etc. But God sent his son to die on the cross and rise out of the grave. We can receive forgiveness from Jesus. Repent and put your trust in him.
      John 3:16
      Romans 3:23❤😊❤❤

    • @x.Feathery.Furry.x
      @x.Feathery.Furry.x Рік тому +2

      ​@@christianweatherbroadcastinggurl dude whatever I get it you love and respect Jesus no hate but this video nor the comment is about Jesus - go do your preaching in areas where it's about religion or jesus or Christianity

    • @Michaelcj-m2d
      @Michaelcj-m2d 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@christianweatherbroadcasting Odin is pretty cool as well 😂

    • @zaskarr
      @zaskarr 10 місяців тому

      French fry Friday

  • @TheCrazyChickenProductions
    @TheCrazyChickenProductions Місяць тому +1

    2000’s had the best food (in this video) imo. The grilled chicken looks great, and I don’t know about you people, but the fruits and vegetables are the best part.

  • @Nanette-Book-Lover
    @Nanette-Book-Lover Рік тому +22

    This was AWESOME guys. It shows how lucky I was the 1980s to be raised in small town where our cooks still used homemade recipes.❤

  • @serenshadow89
    @serenshadow89 Рік тому +89

    I was a Midwest/Appalachian kid in the 90s and 00s - I don't think we ever got McDonalds or any fast food for lunch. There would be special pizza days around holiday breaks and at the end of the year but for regular lunches while the fruit cocktail is still on point, everything else was different in Ohio. The mains would usually be super processed and usually from frozen - Salisbury steak, meatloaf, sloppy joes, slice of pizza (it was made to perfectly fit the size of the big rectangle compartment of our lunch trays, lol), hot dog or corn dog, or chicken patty sandwich. Sides would be corn, green beans, or mixed veg (which were frozen so they always tasted like cardboard to me) or what I actually did love - mashed potatoes or parsley potatoes. the sweet side would be fruit cocktail or a solo fruit of some sort, pudding or jello. We'd typically get some sort of bread, usually a small roll, biscuit, or just some simple bread n butter. And we didn't have sodas in schools until the mid 00s, and only in vending machines - so the drink provided with lunch was milk, chocolate milk, some sort of juice, or water. I graduated in 2007 - and where I'm from, even then they were still giving us super processed, flavorless foods that sat at the middle of the health scale, not particularly healthy for growing minds and bodies, but not the absolute worst either.

    • @Kelnx
      @Kelnx Рік тому +3

      I worked in southern Ohio some years ago, not being from there, and they had an employee cafeteria in the place I worked at and had peanut butter sandwiches like they showed in the video, but served it with really thin soupy chili. Always together. I thought that was the oddest thing, but was told that was something common in school lunches in that southern Ohio/Northern WV area. As odd as it sounds, it actually goes well together.

    • @SpiritFairy89
      @SpiritFairy89 Рік тому

      I grew up in the Southern Ohio Appalachian area as well (I graduated in 2007, too 🙂) and our school lunches here were exactly like you described.

    • @wuzzleone
      @wuzzleone Рік тому

      Me too never had McDonald's pizza all the time but not McDonald's 🤦🏿‍♂️

    • @datguy8460
      @datguy8460 Рік тому

      just sounds like a normal school lunch

    • @benjamin.kelley
      @benjamin.kelley Рік тому

      Ooof the Ohio school lunches 🙃 then Michelle Obama took are ice cream in 2012 and that was the final straw.

  • @starrymelissa
    @starrymelissa Рік тому +37

    Fun video ! This is my experience in the late 80s: We had a lot of grilled cheese & tomato soup and something called “ Apple crisp “ quite a lot in school . The little milk carton was always prevalent !

    • @sparks7790
      @sparks7790 Рік тому +3

      coke was never an option in the 80's for me. milk only

  • @palitarerkjirattikal2542
    @palitarerkjirattikal2542 Місяць тому +1

    I think the best one was the 2000 one for me

  • @toshiro6000
    @toshiro6000 Рік тому +37

    Where I'm from 1990, 2000, and 2010 couldn't be farther from the truth... We always had multiple lines from elementary all the way up to high school. There was a sandwich line with multiple options like a burger or a chicken sandwich, a pizza line, and a main line that had something different everyday.

    • @Samevi
      @Samevi Рік тому +2

      Same. My school had a choice of the daily entree, pizza (the most popular choice), burgers and chicken sandwiches (your choice of grilled, breaded or spicy on either a wheat or a white bun). Then you'd move on to the sides which were usually some type of fried potato.
      For some reason, the only drink my school offered for free at lunch time was milk, which really pissed me off as someone with a dairy allergy. I almost never had a drink with my meal because I didn't have money and you had to pay for water bottles. You weren't allowed to bring your own bottles in, either.

    • @amandanapoli5425
      @amandanapoli5425 Рік тому +1

      Probably depends on the school sounds like you went to a nice School

    • @Samevi
      @Samevi Рік тому

      @@amandanapoli5425 It really wasn't. It's in one of the more economically disadvantaged cities in my entire state and the students who go there are considered the most unintelligent in the entire county. But hey, at least the football team is good.

    • @amandanapoli5425
      @amandanapoli5425 Рік тому

      @@Samevi no I stand behind what I say for the simple fact of the nicer schools where I live had everything that you just typed in this paragraph and the schools that I went to gave a slop so you definitely went to a rich School

    • @Bwk-mj4pm
      @Bwk-mj4pm Рік тому

      Yup. Same. This guys duplication from 2000-present is wildly inaccurate

  • @meghanac715
    @meghanac715 Рік тому +53

    This video made me feel grateful for being born in India. Freshly harvested vegetables, greens and fruits & lunch boxes of home-cooked meals.

    • @ChildofYAH
      @ChildofYAH Рік тому +1

      Awesome! That's a blessing! I'm glad I was picky and conscious of my health back in school. It's a shame how unhealthy school lunches are in America, but it'll still be "the best country in the world" to Americans regardless.

    • @conlca4091
      @conlca4091 Рік тому

      I live on a farm and we have these exact things! Unfortunately, things like I have is not common for most kids/people in America. 😔

    • @loisen
      @loisen Рік тому

      It’s amazing how poorer countries have better food available.

    • @Nancy-y8q1n
      @Nancy-y8q1n Рік тому

      The motherland of spices

  • @Smplkxn
    @Smplkxn Рік тому +28

    In my old elementary school, the most common meal was the chicken sandwich, apple slices, carrots, chocolate milk, and them ICONIC SMILEY FRIES!! I get memories of the apples and the carrots tasting like literal plastic because they were served in bags. the sandwich was in the styrofoam box so it got soggy with condensation. I would always love the smiley fries the most, they were kinda half cooked but it was fun to dip them in ketchup and pretend he was bleeding 😅 The milk would always be expired by a week or two and one time it tasted like mold and it had chunks-😭 Ay, it may have been bad but it sure gives me great flashbacks :)

  • @axeldaikinagayaecheverria5099
    @axeldaikinagayaecheverria5099 2 місяці тому +4

    1960 is better and more balanced that my school lunch💀

    • @CheezBoyz2009
      @CheezBoyz2009 2 місяці тому +2

      Bro, what are you eating there? 💀

  • @Its.3ris
    @Its.3ris Рік тому +44

    When I studied at a private school in Brazil, they has the best lunches. Cooked meals every day( meats, rice, etc), almost buffet style. I had a big culture shock when I moved to the states and went to public school. All foods were frozen and heated up. And during those years, I brought my lunch, and sometimes ate the school food

    • @smahler234
      @smahler234 Рік тому

      Hello

    • @Boss-_-123
      @Boss-_-123 Рік тому +4

      Fiz o ensino médio em escola pública,e te falar...a comida era muito boa... principalmente no dia de Strogonoff, pessoal se matava na fila kkkkkkkkkk

    • @Nancy-y8q1n
      @Nancy-y8q1n Рік тому

      No Brazilian steak house

    • @BongerChonger
      @BongerChonger Рік тому

      As a brazilian, i can confirm this

  • @carolinalemos4707
    @carolinalemos4707 9 місяців тому +17

    It’s actually quite insane to see how different American school lunches are from what I’m used to here in Portugal! Here it’s almost unthinkable to serve students hamburgers and French fries 😅 (although I’m sure sometimes the students would prefer it). What I noticed is that in America lunch is seen as a lighter meal (correct me if I’m wrong), dinner being maybe the main meal of the day. Here in Portugal lunch is as important as dinner in terms of servings, so usually school lunches always include a full course meal with soup, rice/ potatoes or pasta with some kind of fish or meat, salad and desert (which is usually some type of gelatin, puddin and always with the option of fruit). You can also have bread but it’s usually optional and used to eat with the soup.

    • @ironwolf56
      @ironwolf56 7 місяців тому

      Well they don't serve hamburgers and fries here either for the most part; that was decades ago. Nowadays it's mostly bland, healthy government food.

    • @truth4004
      @truth4004 6 місяців тому +2

      Yeah lunch is a light meal and dinner is the heavy meal. Breakfast can go either way.

    • @skip081961
      @skip081961 5 місяців тому

      Yes, so try to match up the years to which you are referencing. The era I went to school will be a different experience than other years and eras.

    • @hmmV420
      @hmmV420 4 місяці тому

      @@skip081961my cousins go to elementary and middle school and the commenter actually aligns with my cousins school lunch meals

    • @skip081961
      @skip081961 4 місяці тому

      @@hmmV420 maybe it depends on what region of America you were reared.

  • @homeoftheinepttulpagamer
    @homeoftheinepttulpagamer 10 місяців тому +23

    I grew up in the UK and didn't attend a fancy school but always enjoyed my school dinner in the 1980s. We were all pre allocated a square table which we'd share with about 5 or 6 other people, each of us would walk up the kitchen counter and collect a pot which I'll explain more about in a moment, we'd bring that back to the table and return for a plate.
    An example meal might be this. After collecting the big crock pots we'd get a plate each that would have mince beef and onion pie. We'd take it in turns to be the 'dinner monitor' and that was performed on a rota basis to ensure each person had a chance. the dinner monitor would take the lids off the crock pots and each would contain different steam vegetables, such as potato or mashed potatoes, cabbage, peas, carrot, gravy and so on. They would then serve each person on the table from the pots and ensure everyone had an equal amount. It was cheap because everything was batched cooked but also very tasty and nutritious. For some kids growing up in the 80s this might have been the only meal they had that day. It was also all served on real crockery with metal knives and forks and we had to give thanks to each other before eating.
    Afterwards we'd collect up the dishes and pots and return them to the kitchen counter where we'd exchange them for desert. This would often be a milk shake (tiny glasses which hold about 7oz) and something like a cornflake tart (cornflakes on jelly - jam in the UK, and pastry with custard) or my favourite, a caramel tart.
    Jugs of water were provided on each table and the dinner monitor would pour everyone a drink when they wanted one.
    Now of course it's nothing like that. Kids are served food on plastic trays from a hatch and it's mostly pizza, nuggets and soggy fries. Such a shame really we went down the so called convenience route. we were never hungry but now with their high carb/sugar replacement everyone is getting fat and staying hungry.

  • @Sachidananda-o5q
    @Sachidananda-o5q Місяць тому +1

    Year after year changed but the plate remained same 😅

  • @Cthulhu92
    @Cthulhu92 Рік тому +46

    4:14 Honestly, my grandma made this for me pretty frequently!
    We called it cream dried beef, and we'd put it on flakey Pillsbury grands biscuits, along with adding her own spin with seasonings, along with other things and balancing out the amount of salt in it.
    I LOVED it!
    Haven't had it in a few years, but I'd definitely eat it even now, at 30 years old.
    😂
    Sadly, shes not doing so well and in a nursing home now.
    Also, meatloaf SLAPS! And, always will!

  • @shanel7299
    @shanel7299 Рік тому +47

    This is the one time I appreciate growing up in a small town because we had wonderful lunches until like 2010. Most were on par with home cooked meals in terms of flavor and preparation. I’m talking homemade biscuits and bread, mac and cheese, greens chicken (either baked or fried), burgers sausages scrambled eggs, better quality fruit and vegetables etc. These meals minus a few are so sad 😭

  • @TheDemolitionist1
    @TheDemolitionist1 Рік тому +93

    I vividly remember having Domino's Pizza on Tuesdays and on Friday there was Ellio's pizza's. The meals were always a hit or miss tbh. Also I'm shocked you guys didn't do the classic milk cartons

    • @christianweatherbroadcasting
      @christianweatherbroadcasting Рік тому +6

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      John 3:16
      Romans 3:23❤😊❤❤

    • @mrchief975
      @mrchief975 Рік тому +4

      @@christianweatherbroadcasting thats relevant

    • @Tito_switch
      @Tito_switch Рік тому

      yes fr

  • @thatguy_dirt_in_your_eye
    @thatguy_dirt_in_your_eye Місяць тому +1

    12:33 best lunch option …probably a bit of rice

  • @greeneyedredhead61
    @greeneyedredhead61 11 місяців тому +52

    I grew up in California. I graduated in 1979.
    The 1970's lunch you show looks nothing like I remember. 1. Never got soda. Only white milk.
    But our meals were delicious. Oven cooked spaghetti was my favorite. Salads, and real good apple crisp.
    Sometimes there would be mashed potatoes with hamburger gravy on top or mashed potatoes with turkey and gravy on top. Always with vegetables and some type of fruit. And yes the pizza was real good too.
    Although I must say I don't remember what era had the chipped beef or the chipped creamed beef but that was something I never had in school but my mom did cook it at home and we loved it.

    • @strawberryseason
      @strawberryseason 10 місяців тому +5

      right. I graduated in 1978. We never had pizza, rather we had things like baked chicken on the bone, meatloaf, baked codfish, real mashed potatoes, oven-cooked spaghetti, chili con carne, and other homemade foods.

    • @VentaBonel
      @VentaBonel 10 місяців тому

      Perhaps thats what was intended to be served?

    • @lindanizamoff7981
      @lindanizamoff7981 10 місяців тому +2

      the depression had the chipped beef.My mother,when she was a child, used to walk home every afternoon for her mother to make her lunch ,then walk back to school.She lived several blocks from the school.

    • @lebronshairline4768
      @lebronshairline4768 9 місяців тому

      Cali native here and ur absolutely right

    • @twowildcats2002
      @twowildcats2002 9 місяців тому +1

      Hey, at least you had it better than I did, you had homestyle lunches@@strawberryseason

  • @kingofcitrus
    @kingofcitrus Рік тому +41

    Wow, it’s great to see people are reviewing the lunches from when I was born in the 20s. It’s nice to know people care🥰🥰🥰

    • @LizardDoesStuff
      @LizardDoesStuff Рік тому +10

      You’re in your 100s?

    • @AtkSoloGokuz
      @AtkSoloGokuz Рік тому +3

      If you was born in the 20s you've been at least 100 years old

    • @asadejaz1713
      @asadejaz1713 Рік тому +6

      maybe 2000s is what he means

    • @DimitrisSartzetakis
      @DimitrisSartzetakis Рік тому +3

      @@AtkSoloGokuz if they were born in 1929 (20's) they're 94

    • @AtkSoloGokuz
      @AtkSoloGokuz Рік тому +1

      @@DimitrisSartzetakis I know but if he was born in 1923 he have been 100

  • @devilsrevenge7393
    @devilsrevenge7393 10 місяців тому +14

    That chipped beef and toast is actually my favorite. It's also a field kitchen dish
    It's called "Shit on a shingle"

  • @stacyfamily
    @stacyfamily 7 днів тому +1

    My school has Triangle pizzas

  • @monkeyman1251
    @monkeyman1251 11 місяців тому +32

    I was born in 2002 so I started school in 2008. So back then we had healthy food. Thank God the 1990s didn’t take over the 2000s. Because even though I love McDonald’s. I remembered that my teacher said it’s so unhealthy. That’s why we had to change the lunch menu. And I remembered I just hated that.

    • @theUBERsashimi
      @theUBERsashimi 10 місяців тому +4

      I went to school in the 90s. We weren't getting mcdonalds unless your parents brought it school during your lunch, or checking you out for lunch.
      This video is extremely inaccurate.

    • @monkeyman1251
      @monkeyman1251 10 місяців тому

      Yes I know I agree with you. However though school in the 2000’s and 2010’s were recommending no more McDonald’s in schools.

  • @epongeverte
    @epongeverte Рік тому +47

    My time in school was the 70s/80s, but our lunches looked more like the 60s. I can't remember eating burgers and we never were allowed soft drinks like Coke. We could have water, milk or maybe juice. We ate a lot of pizza, fish sticks, mac & cheese and liver. (I think that I was the only one who actually ate the liver.) lol

    • @EMdnxjx
      @EMdnxjx Рік тому

      Eww liver

    • @goanimatenetwork3550
      @goanimatenetwork3550 Рік тому

      🤮

    • @TheRealSweetcherryo
      @TheRealSweetcherryo Рік тому +1

      Yep...no coke ever at school in the 70's.....we had the Pizza then, but I don't remember hamburgers.....

    • @annaf3915
      @annaf3915 11 місяців тому

      Hehe I like liver too. We never had it for school lunch though.

  • @Hawtranch
    @Hawtranch Рік тому +9

    As someone who went to school 07-20, I’ve never had a wrap, yogurt and a bottle of water. It was always the spicy chicken sandwich (desert dry) with crinkle fries, fruit cocktail or pears and choc milk

  • @deygoloe4360
    @deygoloe4360 3 місяці тому +2

    At my school does pizzas were squares, but they looked weird. They look like they were contaminated.

  • @gwcrispi
    @gwcrispi 10 місяців тому +18

    That creamed chipped beef looks delicious. Had that a lot growing up in the 60's. I didn't realize it at the time but that's poor people food.

  • @TwilightEXEYT
    @TwilightEXEYT Рік тому +116

    My elementary school’s milk was always either frozen (impossible to drink) or expired by like, a week. Same thing with the chocolate milk. Had one of the milks that was expired (expiration date was scratched off bc of my nails), chugged it bc lunch was finishing up, ended up puking all over a math test. Almost never drank milk again (unless it was an ingredient or sum.)

    • @yousefelsheikh462
      @yousefelsheikh462 Рік тому +1

      Damn
      Ya ok?

    • @ascotter
      @ascotter Рік тому +1

      Did we go to the same elementary school because I resonate too hard

    • @tkenn84
      @tkenn84 Рік тому

      Same here

    • @ItzParisHeaven
      @ItzParisHeaven Рік тому +6

      When I was in elementary school, there was a student that’s milk expired 30 years ago 😦 it looked and smelled terrible

    • @Huobaojiqi
      @Huobaojiqi Рік тому

      What f*cking school are you going to that provides expired milk for lunch💀💀💀

  • @soulhunter59
    @soulhunter59 Рік тому +25

    I went to school in Texas in a very wealthy district. Often times we got good quality food yet not always healthy. We didn't just get taco Tuesday. We got enchiladas on that same week. Of course we had frozen pizza as well as "home made pizza." Yeah that's what they called it. Most days we had so much food I couldn't even eat it all.

  • @JrTp3rm
    @JrTp3rm 2 місяці тому +3

    This is not how I remember my school lunch in this decade 13:37

  • @Sg190th
    @Sg190th Рік тому +93

    Pretty accurate for the 2000s. I'm a 90s baby so the carrot was accurate. We still had pizza as well. There was also the frozen popsicle pyramid minute maid thing 😂

    • @avangardismm
      @avangardismm Рік тому +2

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    • @therealloganyt237
      @therealloganyt237 Рік тому

      @@avangardismmNPC

    • @ThomasHawkins-t6o
      @ThomasHawkins-t6o Рік тому

      Do they Not realize that people back in the 80s and 90s and the early 2000s made the lunch from scratch it wasn't just ordered off a food truck and you get it they actually ordered this stuff and made it themselves to wear the people in the video are just dumping food on the food tray from the can

    • @Bwk-mj4pm
      @Bwk-mj4pm Рік тому +6

      No it’s wildly in accurate. School lunch was always, pizza, chicken nuggets, fish sticks…never once was I served grilled chicken

    • @AsukaAki_アスカアキ
      @AsukaAki_アスカアキ Рік тому

      That's my school food but instead of soup it's beans

  • @The8BitNerd
    @The8BitNerd 10 місяців тому +20

    7:04 My school actually served little circular pan pizzas sometimes, and also served pepperoni, which they could get away with because they would put a pork warning above it on a sign.

  • @lieffian
    @lieffian Рік тому +22

    For me, the 90’s and 20’s were nuggets and stuff, once you got to 2003 to 2010, it was all about choice meaning you could grab that burger and fries or go for the school lunch as the kitchen provided both, any processed stuff was brand name rice krispy treats, brownie mix type cookies and cakes and cokes and what not from vending machines if you didn’t want the milk or apple juice

    • @Bwk-mj4pm
      @Bwk-mj4pm Рік тому

      Facts. This cideo couldn’t be further from the truth

  • @maddiee7366
    @maddiee7366 2 місяці тому +1

    It’s been about a year or two since I watched this video. Thank you for making this cause I really feel educated and hungry.

  • @freedbyhisgrace9075
    @freedbyhisgrace9075 10 місяців тому +11

    I was in elementary school in the 60's and our school lunches cost 35 cents and the pizza was fantastic. It was like a deep dish with pizza sauce, ground beef, and American cheese. We also had other really delicious meals like oven fried chicken, or pork chops with gravy and mashed potatoes. And of course, milk and dessert. Todays school lunches don't even rate close to what we had. We sometimes brought our own, or were allowed to go home for lunch.

  • @NR-ou3hr
    @NR-ou3hr Рік тому +18

    As a public highschooler our school lunches are pretty decent and free! I take food from home but whenever I do need to get lunch, there are options for those with dietary restrictions and the food’s pretty healthy depending on what you get. You can also buy additional snacks if you want. (Soda, goldfish, ice cream)
    We have the options of pizza - cheese, bacon, or garlic. As a vegetarian the cheese pizza is something that I always rely on.
    We have many salad options: these will be packaged and complete salads with protein, vegetables, and a small packet of dressing.
    We have tortilla wraps which I’ve heard are pretty good.
    Then of course the other regular stuff like chicken sandwiches.
    We also have the option of a yogurt parfait… just in case you’ve got a small appetite.
    Unfortunately the meat options are not Halal which is weird since there is a huge Muslim population in our school, enough for us to have a day of Eid off. That’s probably my only quip, along with there not really having a lot of vegetarian options since I and my Muslim friends rely on that. (There isn’t even a vegetarian salad!) It’s a step up from elementary for sure! Elementary sucked.

    • @Xiaolingchan
      @Xiaolingchan Рік тому +1

      wow you wrote a lot! dw i’m still here to like your comment :>

    • @NR-ou3hr
      @NR-ou3hr Рік тому +1

      @@Xiaolingchan Haha thank you! Elementary was literal health hazard but ig the high school is good because it’s the only high school in the district! (And more student representation)

  • @michaelsuk6440
    @michaelsuk6440 Рік тому +29

    Pizza first became popular in the 60’s. My grandpa opened a pizza restaurant in our city after buying a recipe from an Italian pizza owner in the Twin Cities. It became one of the longest running restaurants in our city. He sold it to his partner about ten years after opening it. It’s changed hands several times, but is still just as loved as a day one.

    • @then00brathalos
      @then00brathalos Рік тому

      First time learning that something changed hands multiple times with a good ending

    • @batman91500
      @batman91500 Рік тому

      Minnesota represent. Nice.

  • @Save_the_Earth
    @Save_the_Earth 4 місяці тому +1

    For the 1930s I would of been happy if I got a peanut butter Sandwich because I love peanut butter

  • @SleepyPupper
    @SleepyPupper Рік тому +20

    Milk was really important at my school, lunch or not. I vaguely remember every week or so they brought a crate of mini milk cartons we were encouraged to drink for our growth. I always looked forward to mine.

    • @KatieBellino
      @KatieBellino Рік тому +3

      Yes, I was surprised at the Powerade and water options shown in some of these later decades. The "Got Milk?" campaign began in 1993 and we also chose between chocolate or white milk (sometimes strawberry). We never got McDonald's or Powerade.

  • @ĜØÔÑxĤØÜŠĚ
    @ĜØÔÑxĤØÜŠĚ 10 місяців тому +80

    Keep in mind, the quality and effort put into making specifically these lunches in the video, is going to be 100% better than what was actually served / prepared at the time.

    • @jeffschmelzer1592
      @jeffschmelzer1592 9 місяців тому

      Why

    • @ohilikeyourcutg2313
      @ohilikeyourcutg2313 9 місяців тому

      That's what I was thinking lol

    • @ĜØÔÑxĤØÜŠĚ
      @ĜØÔÑxĤØÜŠĚ 9 місяців тому

      @@jeffschmelzer1592 because this is made by, who I'm assuming is an actual chef, and it's only made for one person with modern ingredients.
      When things are mass produced the quality goes down and there is little care put into the product. I'm sure the facilities then were not as well put together, the workers probably didn't care too much as long as the food was made, and the ingredients were of lesser quality.

    • @fourjhin_cookies
      @fourjhin_cookies 9 місяців тому

      I loved my highschool lunches. I'd get the main course for the day, salad, two sides, and a drink. They also had pizza as an option every day but I had that maybe three times my four years there.

    • @ĜØÔÑxĤØÜŠĚ
      @ĜØÔÑxĤØÜŠĚ 9 місяців тому

      @@fourjhin_cookies sometimes they're good, ive been to schools with trash food, and others with actually good food.

  • @Onction1995
    @Onction1995 Рік тому +18

    8:20 MacDonald be like

  • @LexieOld-o5e
    @LexieOld-o5e 3 місяці тому +1

    1930 is so funny 😂

  • @crazyheroilp0114
    @crazyheroilp0114 11 місяців тому +28

    I graduated fairly recently and our meals were split into cold and hot options, for hot we still have a lot of processed foods like chicken nuggets, frozen pizza, frozen burgers and chicken sandwiches, ect.. We did have some wraps and salads that were cold options, but barely anyone picked those. Milk was an option at breakfast but not often at lunch, at least not in HS. Also, according to my siblings, the HS just started doing chickfala sandwiches on Fridays and the occasional food truck day for kids that have less than 3 absences, so not very healthy in that regard. I guess they may have been more nutritional 'cause of Michel Obama's program, but it certainly didn't taste all that great, tho that may be due to being from a larger school district, no idea if rural foods or city districts are any better.

  • @RayF6126
    @RayF6126 Рік тому +7

    I'm so glad I liked to cook even as a kid. I still brought my own meals from home even in the 90's. I was allowed to use the crockpot to make soups, casserole, BBQ chicken at night to bring to school the next day.

  • @Theunchosenone12
    @Theunchosenone12 Рік тому +65

    This was an amazing idea, I guess it didn’t only take 5 ingredients. Nice video

    • @laggingfr
      @laggingfr Рік тому +3

      that line will never get old

  • @Sans28698
    @Sans28698 26 днів тому +1

    1980 I’d gladly have that food ever school day

  • @olgagrechukha3623
    @olgagrechukha3623 Рік тому +8

    My kids get school lunches in UK now and they are basically like proper home meals, very healthy. Governments should be ahead of minding next generations' eating habits and BMI.

  • @lucasmironchuk8343
    @lucasmironchuk8343 Рік тому +5

    for the cream chipped beef being to salty, label on the dried beef says to rinse before use in recipes. this rehydrates it and decreases the salt amount.

  • @RedHeadNdProud
    @RedHeadNdProud 11 місяців тому +17

    I was in high school in the 2010 era. We had a sub bar where you could build a sub like you can at subway, we also had pizza, fries, chicken sandwiches and burgers. The pizza was sooooo greasy, I still distinctly remember my friend getting it and when they picked it up grease dripped off of it and filled one of the sections on the tray.

  • @Goofy-ball
    @Goofy-ball 3 дні тому +1

    3:06 spoon shaky shaky: