3rd WORLD PEOPLE REACT: THE FINNISH SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM | FINLAND REACTION

[@turpasauna]

Many people seem to think all of this just happened. No. It is the result of hard work and will. This attitude is present everywhere in the Finnish society.

[@BorderGuardJaegerFinlandia]

Thank you for your reaction 🙏... Looking at how these things impacts on you guys, make me humbled 😢. We take stuff like this for granted 100% and it is actually a good thing to be reminded, from guys like you that we should not only be satisfied, but also have some darn pride that we are able to have things like we have had for such a long time aswell. Thank you again 🙏

[@lauraa5386]

We have had free school lunch now for 76 years, and nowadays approximatly 850.000 children eat it everyday. The Law was stated 1943 with 5 yrs of transition period so 1948 it really was in fully functioning.between 43-48 students had to bring some ingredients to school or do some work for it. Ive been working in school/ kindergarden kitchen for 23 yrs now and very proud for our system😀

[@0oma0]

@@enkin1 Bulshit. Why spread lies? If you want point out something then study first and rant after. With rolling numbers upside down anyone can biuld up conspiracy theories loking solid, but look closer and reveal then how it really is.

[@jh_fin]

​@@enkin1onko liian matalat verot vai haluaisitko että kaikki maksaa lounaan ja köyhemmät tuo omat eväät tai ovat syömättä

[@penaarja]

75%🤣🤣🤣 no ei vitussa

[@marvahinspace]

@@enkin1 they are free because people who consume them, kids, do not pay for them in any way or form. Pension payment is devided into two, employees (7,5%) and employers (17,5%), the latter would never come to me if we wouldn t have to pay into pension insurance. The highest tax rates from income in finland are just under 60%, average is 42% and it contains all the taxes inc pension.

[@juhajuntunen2557]

@@enkin1 laske siihen vielä 25.5 % alvi päälle niin saat 100.5%. Menikö ihan oikein?

[@SimoExMachina2]

Some people here in Finland love to list their "yucky meals" from school. I have never undestood that, because all the food I have ever eaten in schools has been incredible. It has tasted good and and it has been super healthy and balanced. I do not a single "yucky meal" from school. I love it all. Maybe I was raised right, maybe my family was just poor enough for me to learn to eat what ever food was put in front of me. For me, food is a blessing.

[@Juhani96]

Niimpä, ilmaisesta ateriasta ei kyllä ikinä saisi valittaa, ellei se sitten oikeasti ole epäterveellistä 😅

[@SimoExMachina2]

@@Juhani96 Olet sitten sitä mieltä, että jos saat ilmaista ja terveellistä ruokaa, niin voit silti morkata sitä? Ottaisitko mieluummin paskaa ruokaa, joka tuhoaa terveytesi?

[@Juhani96]

@@SimoExMachina2?? 😂

[@marvahinspace]

I think most of those (yuckie)meals are not made in school, they are made by a company and then they are sent to the schools to reheat. There was a news story in YLE earlier this year how kids enjoy in school made lunches way more than brought in meals. The quality is higher and flavours are better.

[@rosmu1130]

I hated/hate cabbage rolls (kaalikääryleet)... 😅 Maybe because I was quite literally forced to eat it few times in one school as a little kid... Otherwise I always did eat my food without complaining tho, and even those times when we did have cabbage rolls, I then opted to eat something else more, like more salad and maybe eat the rice from the rolls but yeah.. 😅 No need to complain for free food, even if you don't like it. Just say you don't like it and eat what you can, simple. But still, those rolls are something I can't eat even still... 👀

[@petrikarkkainen1586]

As a teacher for over 30 yrs (retired now) I always liked the food served at schools....

[@ilmarias744]

In Finland, the hygiene level requirement for professional kitchens is one of the strictest in the world. Up to half of the cooks' working time may be spent cleaning the kitchen. In Finland, there is a separate authority for the hygiene control of restaurants and kitchens, which carries out inspections and can close the kitchen if its hygiene does not meet the requirements.

[@marcoh92]

not to mention that left over food is given to poor people, at least here where I live ( I do charity work with food at church)

[@Dreamyflowerfields]

I know some people who work in school cafeterias. They cannot even take that leftover food themselves. They have to pay for it or it goes to garbage 🙃 there's so much leftover waste. And many kids are from poor families and school lunch might be their only warm meal in a day.

[@hazeman4755]

As she said in the video, there are basically two ways to make the food: either the school has it's own kitchen where they make the food from start to finish, or the food is made in a central kitchen (often a private company) from where the food is distributed to the schools in the area. This does mean that the food quality varies from school to school, although in theory all schools have the same budget per meal. The municipality usually signs a contract for a few years at a time with a company to make and distribute the food, but since they are private companies, unfortunately they sometimes might skimp with the ingredients to make more profit or simply are just bad at making good recipes, so the food might be so unappetizing that the students don't want to eat it. Just the other day I read in the news about a municipality that will next year ahead of time cancel their contract with a food company, because a big part of the students in the area have started to skip the lunch most days because they think the food is so bad.

[@Dreamyflowerfields]

All those companies care is profit.. If the cook wants to make better food, they can't because it would cost too much 🫠 And some extra cook's don't even know how to cook properly or are unhygienic..

[@pen7759]

Thank you for your commments. All the best to you both and greets from Finland.

[@goodmorning7675]

Learning about other cultures broadens the mind.i like your positive attitude&your enthusiasm.it's refreshing&uplifting.keep it up guys!

[@SK-nw4ig]

Nourished brain absorbs information much better :) It is also an equality thing: everyone has the same opportunity to a healthy, warm meal. Offering food to students has been in the law since WWII.

[@lautturi1000]

When i moved from soviet union i didnt understand how so many kids complained about food, i never did!!

[@ImportantAndUseless]

Thank you! I am going to show this to my child, who sometimes doesn't appreciate the meal she's given in the pre-school. I've tried to tell her she's priviledget to being able to eat good food there. Hopefully she will understand better after seeing this. Thank you again, M51 from Finland.

[@kapstipi]

When i was kid my favorite food in school was barley porridge and soup made from lingonberry juice (served together). :D I was in very little village school and we has our own cook lady who made the best food.

[@Batz-on-paws]

Porridge day at school was THE BEST. That an tortilla days

[@SamiHeiskanen-jl4vt]

This food 90% frpm Finland and our food is cleanest in the word

[@StPaul76]

I used to eat at least once but often twice in school from 7 to 18 years old.. No complaints.. Since was quite a big boy in my teens I often got two servings because I never forgot to smile to the ladies serving the meals.. :D Then I went to FDF and started eating Finnish Army's food.. Sometimes on sundays they'd serve us with tenderloin steaks and cream potatoes.. Tiger cake.. Meat pies for evening snack.. Youghurt.. Emmental cheese.. Fresh coffee.. And out in field the combat rations had quality chocolate, melt high grade cheese.. And my favourite, sardines in tomato.. :D Big Brother has always kept us well fed for sure.. Even now I'm 200lbs, 6ft. and no fat in my body and I'm closing 50 years.. :D

[@vili5000]

School lunch is free to student and without direct fee to the parents. That actually helps children from low income families. This is extremely important factor when thinking of common health, happiness, equality and willingness to keep your child in the education system.

[@millmoormichael6630]

As a teacher here we also have a variety of salad dressings and spices and even more exotic things like sweet chill sauce on big tap distributors 😅 Also a Christmas meal was just served with smoked salmon and all the quite fancy stuff.

[@samil5601]

Finland is a fairly big country with a small population. On top of the resulting distances, there is the overhead of living in the arctic that beds taking into consideration. Hence, all activities need to be planned and organised in efficient manner.

[@Morhgoz]

Also non -public shools are rare in Finlanland, most of them are like after you have been in school for like 9-11 grades...

[@Tohti82]

You guys are "first world country citizen" as you value the origins of the food and the importance of education! Love your videos

[@ellu-7026]

Hello. I started school at 1972 and continuing now as a teacher. I have only positive comments to make. Because it is in law the schoolfood needs to encounter certain nutritional requirements, and it does. Anyone complaining about this high quality food can eat their protein bars.

[@bengtolsson5436]

It looks the same in Sweden.

[@imonoke7903]

When i was in school in finland my favourite break was the lunch break 😋

[@BasicInvest-j9x]

Not only free food, but all is free. I have 2 sons in school and I never buy not eaven a pen. Also, if some kid live far from school, then school taxi wil take them in the morning and back home efter school. Happy to live in Åland/Finland

[@JYRIVIRMA]

Schoolfood tradition is at least 80 yrs old in FIN

[@tomi_9212]

And in an place that train chefs they serve also those foods that the sttudents make

[@miedgha9403]

logique lol

[@Juhani96]

Yep, we eat same food in central kitchen what we send for delivery. Would be dumb to bring food from home to workplace 😅

[@drxxx2699]

Yes, we have the school lunches good. Back in my days there wasn't any vege-alternative or any alternative whatsoever unless you were dead allergic to something and the food wasn't always delicious but at least (most of us) learned to eat all kinds of food.

[@rosmu1130]

5:23 I remember that once in my school, someone was taking salad to their plate but then didn't take it after what they saw.. If I remember correctly, there was some sort of bug or worm.. 😅 One time I had some little rock/sand pieces in salad too, it crunched in the teeth and as I spit it out and looked, there were some little pieces of rock/sand. And I remember once when I took salad, I took a forkful of it in my mouth and it had ice. 😅 😂 I looked my plate more closely and saw lots of ice in the salad. Ohh, also, I remember that one time we had spinach soup... I like it, but one time it was mostly just water. Literally. It was a sad day for me. 🥲 I didn't and still don't like spinach soup with the boiled egg so I was soon pretty hungry that day too. Welp, things and accidents just happen sometimes and that's about it. Can't be too harsh because of those.

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

When I was really little, there were chefs at each school, so the food was really cooked to order, then the system of centralized cooking places came, which was fine in most cases, but the potatoes were terrible (Sweden)

[@pekkakarppinen1608]

Haha, l am now over 60, and l had free or subsidied good food all of my student time. Very thankful for the government. Now l have to work some more years to save their free lunches in the future. 😅

[@psygamarerotu2408]

And in universities they pay for food,but it´s max 5e. buffet style.

[@3M46DN1M]

And yet in Finland they complain how bad school food is, I hate that. Year after year. I liked it and ate with pleasure. I dont know, maybe new generations are too spoiled or something.. greetings from Finland. -85 born.

[@turpasauna]

The food can be bad. My kids have had literally inedible lunches.

[@winha1435]

We had our own kichen back then in small school, it was good food and kitchen ladies where really nice so even if it was not great some times you would still clean your plate as not to be rude. Now days food comes from centrelized grand kitchen and i can tell its not same anymore, not saying its bad but i can see why my kids have some complaints time to time.

[@ellu-7026]

This is not true at all.

[@Oystein985]

And think the price of one meal is only from 0,5€ to1,2€ costing for the school. 😊Being a first world country is not all about money. It's mostly about spending your money in a better way 😊Basically all the ingredients are bought in bulk, so prices are low.

[@sas60che]

I am moving to Finland😀😀

[@miedgha9403]

Faut bien aller à l'ecole pour quelque chose..;moi pour la nourriture 😂 😂

[@gamerbear84]

Once in like 5th or so grade we had these little spinach pancakes and there was a sign that said "X per person", but it was way too low and I was hungry, so I just grabbed a little stack and went to the table. A teacher came around and went "WHAT are you DOING?" and I went "Eating." I got detention of course. lol

[@talouskurssit7028]

Queridos brasileiros. Finlandia foi anteriormente pobre. Aprendimo-nos que alimentacao de criancas e uma coisa muito importante e que nao queremos ter criancas subalimentados em nosso pais. Foi importante para todos que ninquem das criancas vive sem Uma refeicao por dia. Chama-se compaixao .

[@renekuipers4563]

Finland is a good country ...

[@germanyhamburger5552]

Reminds me of my vocational school in Germany, it was organized similarly there, but we didn’t put the food on our plates ourselves. We said what we wanted to eat and then the cooks put it on our plate. It cost about 3€ a day, it was good, you could tell that it was prepared properly. Nowadays there are also special dishes for vegans or Muslims. Actually, in the cafeteria where I was, pork was no longer served because there were a lot of Muslims. It was smarter to simply serve beef or poultry. We didn't care, the food was good, that was all that mattered, a good cafeteria in Germany seem rather rare to me. I think it has improved a bit nowadays, but when I was in middle school it was mediocre.

[@JariMattiK]

this is kinda funny for us but sad at same time how other countries have no food or school system like we have.. When i was a kid i tried to skip the food and my teacher came at me and asked: "Why you dont finish your food???" I said because i dont like this kind of fish, my teacher was like then you sit there all day and think that in african and most countries kids dont even eat for weeks or they dont have a free food in a school etc etc.. Yeah i finished my food very fast then and now i really like that kind of fish called silli. Lol.. Where are you guys from?

[@SusanneEricsson-f9m]

Finland is the best country.

[@jroutasula5250]

Finland we have only 5,500 000 people so it is very important to get everybody with keep conditions high level. The best invest for future is take care children and education. Healty food is big piece of it. We do not have extra, unnecessary people here in Finland.

[@cris-th3rt]

The same in Sweden.

[@gamerbear84]

Kuvatun koulun muodosta tulee kovasti Viheri mieleen, on vaan ollu aika kauan ku siellä kävin. lol

[@robertjonsson5750]

I think all the nordics has free (tax founded) lunch at schools.

[@hazeman4755]

As fire as I know Norway doesn't, which is weird since they are so rich and could easily afford it.

[@hannikulju9990]

Oh I thought we all do have a "Nordic way"

[@Pfaltzgraf]

Believe or not, but a lot of chicken served in lunch cafeterias comes from Brazil….

[@EiriUesugiKun]

Average price for a meal per student in Finland is 2,76 €

[@juhajuntunen2557]

Compared to normal Lunch price (like your company can give to you) 13,50€ so its super cheap

[@susannebrunberg4174]

Maybe today the school lunch is "free" (tax money as usually) but, at least, in private schools you had to pay for lunch. Plus all other feeds

[@BorderGuardJaegerFinlandia]

I must admit that I LOVED all school lunches that we had back in the 1970:s to 1990:s. We got to eat so delicious food and we had so various type of food on a weekly basis. I can still remember when I was 10 years old and we boys held a competition to see who ate the most meatballs. I took the first place, with 32 meatballs 😋😋😁... We told the woman that worked in the Schools restaurant about the competition, so they was also in on it.... Those Swedish meatballs that we got to eat, where the best meatballs ever. We Finns drank milk to every meal and the milk they served was also so delicious, because it wad soooo icy cold and it came out from some kind of big containers, and not from these normal "1 liters Tetra Packs". 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@KaarloKuronen]

Those picky brats dont even eat the free food!!!

[@kebu41]

6:25 I like the haircut

[@LKLM138]

6:28 Damn that dude has a nice hairline

[@jaatynytenkeli]

But, the question remains. Is Finland a "first world" country, or just a third world one?

[@henripesonen4089]

We have our problems still. Everything was fine until 2010 i would say, after that they kinda stopped making food which actually kids liked and its getting worse. Nowadays its basically 50/50 who eats their school lunches.. 🤷 But hey! Its free so you have no right to complain.

[@ellu-7026]

I must disagree: the food is tasty homemade type. Pupils who complain here are supposedly used to eat burgers and pizzas.

Which 3rd world country are you two from?

[@mli4583]

Nathalie and Alexandre are from Brazil.

@mli4583 The US is also a 3rd world country.

[@BorderGuardJaegerFinlandia]

US a 3:d country 😂😂😂👌

[@BorderGuardJaegerFinlandia]

I don't think that Brazil should be seen as a 3:d World Country.... Mayby I'm wrong, but that's where I am at least. Ayrton Senna, Ronaldinho, Romario, Ronaldo and Copa Cabana Is anything else than that 😊

[@Juhani96]

​@@BorderGuardJaegerFinlandiaits large country with lot of potential but still lacking on things like this o:

[@juhaalanko6098]

In Finland, nothing is free. Yes, they are all collected as taxes from the work done by wage earners.

[@Velgar_Grim]

Nothing is "free". Even you coming to being cost the chance of another version of your parents' child from manifesting. Even free samples at market were paid by someone. Every "you get a bucket for free" was paid by someone. The air you breath cost someone else their oxygen! And still no child paid for their lunches. The adults sort of did of course, but in a way much more comparable to someone wasting their time and effort to keep a door open to someone else. They did the work, they spent the time, so why should someone else get a "free" pass through the door? It's almost idiotic to hold on to the thought of these things "costing" something. No man alone has ever moved a mountain, but together we have made wonders happen. If you have to be bothered even the slightest to ease someone else's existence, then it has been a bother well worth it. Does every single person "deserve" to benefit from your work? Of course not. Absolutely no-one is born in this world deserving anything for only being born alone. Still doesn't mean it isn't an absolutely amazing thing that people CAN help each other. And they should. Not everyone can and even this video highlights how these things, all be it "paid by our taxes", are just things of wonder and inspiration to those without them. And all it took was some money taken from those already getting something next to all those pesky "free" things they were able, if not needing to at this moment, get. Everyone could do with a little more money, but that's no reason for being a selfish sheit. And the more money you get the more greedy and jealous of it you become anyway, like seen from even Finnish people.

[@kajauttelija]

Glad that my taxes go to feeding and educating kids ❤

[@juhajuntunen2557]

Old wisdom "There is NOT such thing as free lunch."

[@jaskau2462]

To type down "Nothing is free, paid by those who are paying taxes from their wages" is way off what the reality is here in Finland... For example those who are off from work and yet they are in employee markets in the line to get some sort of a job are paying solid 20% taxes from their unemployee benefits. Not just only those who are getting paid wages for their work. Even though the unemployment benefits are also paid off from the taxes. 'Double Timing' by recycling the funds seems to be working, at in some level.

[@haerinseo]

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[@pekka.korhonen2569]

You shouldn't believe everything.

[@renekuipers4563]

Nex level .Finland .Bravo.

[@HJ-fb9vk]

It's not organic.