Food Theory: DON'T TRUST Your School Lunch!

[@alexandergonzalez1665]

The “fries” that are shaped like smiley faces are god tier when it comes to school food

[@na3rial]

You’re absolutely right

[@amyx231]

Oh yeah! And waffle fries. But those were really really rare

[@Zlife101X]

I made a deal that if I give this kid one smile fry he gives me whatever they serve at lunch for a month

[@ProfessionalBugLover]

i hated them because my school never cooked them properly, tasted like the tator tots but with like no crust and buttery

[@Nerd_Space_Dude]

so true

[@breezybakeoven9346]

I'm a lunch lady (no my names not Brenda!) and I seriously had so much fun reading the comments below on everyone's favorite school lunch foods! Best part about being a lunch lady is serving those cute kids and seeing them get excited about the food. And seeing that a lot of your favorites are my kids favorites too was awesome! I love that Matt talked about the vegetable serving in the pizza's sauce, it always confused me too. I know there's a lot of controversy when it comes to school lunches but we really do try to make things as healthy as we can with, like Matt said, all the rules and regulations, budgets and people pushing decisions in all directions, there really is soooo much more that goes on in those Nutrition Offices than you realize and it's mostly about making the kids happy and healthy with what we have to work with. I've worked summers in test kitchens and it can be tough to get food to hit all the marks. (stepping down from my soapbox) This was a fun episode, loved that it hit so close to home for me!! My favorite foods from school lunch as a kids were the homemade rolls they used to make and the chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy! And back then (when dinosaurs roamed the earth) they still made desserts for us everyday - Yummmmmmmm!!!

[@claireclickplsitsurbestfre4593]

O_O. THEYRE STILL SERVING DESSRTS HERE AT BIRKES!

[@thisnewnamesystemisdumb]

Do they still serve "mexican pizza" (used my old lunch menu's name for it)? That was one of my favs!

[@breezybakeoven9346]

Like the Taco Bell ones?! That would be amazing!! I’ve never served that, we do Walking Tacos that the kids really love.

[@breezybakeoven9346]

Luckeeeeeeee!!!

[@Malohta]

In Jr high, I used to help the custodian clean the cafeteria. When the lunch ladies threw out a heavy bag of trash I'd carry it for them. I remember them giving me a box and said "share with your friends." I looked inside and it must have had a dozen foot-long hot dogs. Take care of the lunch ladies and they'll take care of you.

[@SplinteredLimb]

I considered myself lucky in high school when I learned that the sweet lunch ladies would work with the culinary class to chop fresh vegetables and grill chicken for our boxed salads. These big homemade salads would count as an entree because of the chicken, hard boiled egg, and breadstick that came with it, but would also have all kinds of good stuff in a couple varieties. I would always pick them up and thank the lunch lady that told me about it, because she definitely felt more like a lunch mom to the students.

[@dantependragon9895]

The school district I attended (Elementary to High School) had a setup where they would bring in Pizza Hut pizza on the second week of each month, alternating days, been a few years but Tuesday for Elementary, Wednesday for High School and Thursday for Middle School (if I recall correctly) where we could pay for a slice or bring in $10 for a whole pizza to share. Loved that setup and really miss it.

[@NoMercy13567]

My school used to have a fruit requirement. You could not have your meal unless you had at least 1 fruit (an orange, apple, or banana). They later changed it that you didn’t need anything except the food you wanted (but they would charge you more without telling you). There was a rumor that went around that the janitor would dig through the trash and pull out any fruit that looked like it could be served again. Almost everyone just assumed it was fake, but still didn’t eat the fruit because it was not very fresh. I did an experiment with an apple and really didn’t think anything of it. I made a mark on that apple that looked like it could’ve just been natural, but it was just different enough that I could tell the difference. I was actually disgusted when I found that same apple 2 days later. I never ate anything from that school ever again

[@jailbreakveyron9655]

and no one sued them?

[@Selena-chan]

will things have changed but I am glad I still bite every apple I get at school

[@enriquealvarez6145]

Should have reported that

[@andyfu2124]

And no one else did that and realise it!!?!?

[@franco-golpeador2435]

You did right man, you did right ._.

[@erichrandomstranger1243]

My school has a student's mom as the main cook. So we always got traditional home cooked meals in the selections of food. It's actually very nice. School usually just gets the raw ingredients delivered by a nearby supplier. (This stuff is cheaper in my country)

[@Dude-fm9ib]

Country? Which one

[@unluckyguy1573]

lucky

[@Kammo757]

Except your parents spent their retirement on your private school.

[@erichrandomstranger1243]

@@Kammo757 nope got in with an Athletic Scholarship in Judo and the tuition fee for an entire school year for those without a scholarship is around 859 USD. But due to a government program that supports the education sector it gets deducted to 687 USD for the tuition. This is for the Junior and Senior High School. The middle and pre school rates are obviously lower and the college one's higher. Note: using USD here since it's a more internationally recognized currency. Also again thing's are a lot cheaper here.

[@emilygentry2342]

Same except I went to a hippy school in the middle of no where so it was all vegetarian food.

[@Thisgirlaudrey]

I actually did a survey about school lunches at my school. Most people said the lunches were okay, a few kids hate the lunches, and the kids who think that the soggy fries and the dry spaghetti is to die for.

[@GameBoy-ep7de]

@bcvbb hyui Hot tea, it made my throat much better when I drank a cup earlier.

[@jendowden]

@bcvbb hyui Hot coffee, orange juice and spicy food helped me when I had a cold

[@hhgnggnjngnmnnh5291]

my favorite school lunch was the chicken quesadillas they had every once in a blue moon. also, i feel like you’d enjoy knowing that i’m watching this as part of a college assignment to analyze this video specifically!

[@AtleyCappy]

the best thing we had was thanksgiving dinner lunch. The last day of school before thanksgiving break our lunch ladies make us a whole thanksgiving dinner. Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, rolls, ham, pumpkin pie. They did so much and i’m always thankful for them. They also decorated the lunchroom for every holiday.

[@yourmom8845]

what utopian world is bro living in 😭😭

[@8uphistory]

We did not get all that but we still got extra food on thanksgiving.

[@azariahcenteno2439]

same i got it because i in a magnet school

[@ASHI3TH3P3RSON]

DANG IT YOU LUCKY PERSON

[@Therock20016]

WHAT I DO THAT TOO AT MY SCHOOL

[@kaitlync1754]

My high school had these cookies that were practically the size of your head. They had either chocolate chips or M&Ms in them, and sooo much butter! Weirdest (and in my opinion, best) part of these cookies was that because they were so big and so buttery, they were never totally cooked all the way through. The outside edges were crispy and chewy, but the inside was like safe-to-eat raw cookie dough!

[@nocashnobitcheslol21]

That’s the wrong link

[@maromania7]

Yes! Those Otis spunkmeyer cookies they'd get the dough for in bulk, then slot out and sell. I loved those things, I'd go through the line for one even when I packed a lunch.

[@bobchase6115]

The heck fake KZbin

[@thaliacrafts407]

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[@abigailcerys5399]

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[@sandydandy7863]

As an European, American school lunches scare me. In my country school cafeteria was more like a non official restaurant. You could pick from a meniu what you wanted to eat, from soup to fish to meat and other meats and a full meal+drink was usually around 3-4 euros and that's not talking about the pastries and pizzas( yes, a whole pizza, but it was only one kind) for around 2-3 euros. And you knew what was in the meat, so you were certain that your burger wouldn't come alive once it was on your plate EDIT: I'm from Lithuania and I went to a public school. In my schools there were also programs for parents with very little income where the kids would eat completely for free as well as there was a program where you could pay for the school to provide a meal for your kid and ensure they were eating if you weren't sure if your kid could be responsible with money and would actually eat instead of saving it to buy toys

[@adoroble]

It's similar here in Singapore too, whereby the school canteen (which is what we call it) is essentially a non-official food court, which has several stalls operated by different vendors, which mainly served meals and snacks that regular people would buy and eat normally outside of school anyway, like noodle soup, rice with sides that you pick and choose, a pasta dish, etc.

[@bluesillybeard]

As an American high school student myself, I can confidently say that school lunches here are definitely sus. Seriously, sometimes they give us "pizza" that's literally a piece of bread with cheese on it. I'm serious, that's something they actually do. So many people got mad about it that they had to rename it to "french bread pizza" lol

[@The_Shimp]

They do have things like that in America, but only in certain areas or private schools.

[@Mel_the_Pirate]

You should be scared, at the private elementary/middle school I attended, there was "Mac'n'cheese", but the cheese was so gross that everyone called it "Mac'n'glue". I'd be surprised if they didn't still serve it, 10-12 years later

[@testerwulf3357]

American school in general are super sus..I'm from the US! My high school, I feel had better food on average? There was 3 different lunch lines with 3 different things being served so you gotta choose what you wanted; one was always tacos (or buritos), one always had stuff like pizzas, and the last was the one that changed everyday so you'd sometimes get pasta or brunch or whatever else they decided to serve up that day. It was the only decent part about my school if I'm honest..the school itself is literally falling apart due to mold; yes I mean literally as my classroom in my sophomore year had it's ceiling collapse and the entire room got flooded with water! The carpet was squishy for a long time. That classroom didn't have a window either so to get the mold smell out they put up fans to blow it out into the hall and kept a door open to the outside which just ended up making the hall smell like moldy wet rats; it was so bad you practically couldn't breathe going through it! Our class had to be held in the library for a few months and the rest of that year the ceiling wasn't replaced and I'm unsure if it ever was? Our school had a leak problem to say the least..and it was the only high school in town, over crowded+poorly maintained. America really loves slacking to cut down costs..no free health care, no proper lunch meals, school can get away with all kinds of things and abuse of students, the list goes on.

[@Alwaysgoated-77]

0:00 They had waffles but that wasnt what we all liked the most,we all loved the sausages that came on the side

[@goodlookinghost8364]

Matpat sitting crossed leg, refusing to be lifted by “Sporty Girls” lives in my head rent free 😂

[@GrilledCereal]

FACTS

[@SlinkySmith59]

hahaha

[@olddesiskater7159]

Lol

[@diadradesha8908]

Yes

[@Milothemeerkat]

😅

[@mischivana8452]

I love how two thirds of this video is Mat talking about the history of lunch food and the rest is the actual math for the theory, this is what we come here for. Mat feeds us more than our schools do

[@donaldmccullough38]

None of it is historically accurate, none of the math is applicable or anything beyond anecdotal. These aren't "theories" -- they're rote clickbait meant to pound on the YT algorithm and trick kids, like yourself, into clicking.

[@mischivana8452]

@@donaldmccullough38 dude wth, I’m fifteen and I enjoy watching the theories for fun, I don’t care if they’re accurate or not they’re fun to watch and listen to. I’ve been a fan of Mat for years and have always enjoyed his videos and theories wether they’re true or not

[@AudreyTheArtist321]

Bosco sticks were so amazing. They were so simple yet so precious, everyone was happy on bosco stick day. Its literally just dough sticks filled with cheese which u can dip in sauce, but it just tastes so good compared to other things.

[@vaxique]

i like bosco sticks, BUT I DIDNT GROW UP WITH THEM WHICH MAKES ME SAD AHAUHAUAHXHHAG

[@lavaos]

those are the best days, when theres a cheese item like the Bosco Stick.

[@basicinfo178]

At our school they call them pizza sticks

[@m9216]

MY SCHOOL JUST SERVED THOSE TODAYYY

[@emyelton2498]

That was my high school as well. I always used to look forward to them

[@redpug5042]

here's the thing about school lunch veggies: my school had fairly good food, but the veggies were always terrible. there was incredibly dry broccoli (i love broccoli if it's heated/moist) the apple slices were pre-packaged and always mushy and had a really weird after taste the carrots were fine-ish and were my go-to, but weren't particularly good. If you want people to eat veggies, you need to make them delicious. I don't like peas, but I love carrots and green beans and broccoli and tons of other things and would love if they had something fresh and not dry or mushy.

[@fancy_owo]

In high-school we had a few different "restaurants" where students who volunteered (and got paid) made fresh burritos, pizza, salad, sandwiches, and sub sandwiches. It was so good

[@deepdays9068]

Student economy

[@emileeweir7773]

We had chili every Wednesday at my school (we happened to get extremely lucky and had a local restaurant cater our lunches - the perks of being in a 700 student combined middle and high school). A friend of mine would trade my cornbread for his chili. He loved the cornbread and would often get multiple servings from others, I loved the chili, no food went to waste, and we were both happy. Win-win. He'd also take my potatoes and corn on wing-ding day - not a fan of either, so I didn't mind.

[@heroofjustice2728]

Dude student economy was the best, you learn certain skills and you get to do stuff on your own

[@Phalokratis]

We had similar "cafes"

[@oliviaurquizu8897]

The best thing my school ever served was the “Holiday meal!” This included stuffing that strangely tasted like Rice-a-Roni, mashed potatoes, green beans, and two slices of turkey and the whole thing was covered with turkey gravy! Back when the the Pandemic was bad and they send lunches and breakfast, and when they were delivering the “Holiday meal” I would order extra because it was that good 😋

[@cococj80]

Sounds like a 5 star restaurant

[@idk7677]

Was this for thanksgiving or every holiday?

[@Stanfordscienceman]

Matpat definitely seems like the guy to unironically remember the exact names of 5 school bullies for years

[@airbreather9000]

same

[@kaybadberg534]

Trauma has a tendency to do that to people.

[@canineatnight6026]

And exposing them on the channel

[@TheLovelyLadybug]

I remember mine. One of them works for my dad.

[@DatCrazyOokamii]

666th like

[@retnuh1262]

"Bosco Sticks" was the most popular school lunch at my school. Breadsticks with melty mozzarella inside and dip in marinara sauce. Very similar to MatPat's Cheesy Dippers

[@dja7648]

It was the same at my school. Tho personally I preferred the nachos but those were very rare

[@IzzyakaSpookyGurlQueenal-lh3dh]

YESS BOSCO STICKS

[@Thegoofygobber]

Dude, Bosco Sticks were the absolute best

[@maniacmatt7340]

I remember being in high school when they started claiming the tomato sauce on a slice of pizza was 2 servings of veggies. It was laughable then!

[@IMGOINGTOCRYSJSJJSHA]

Matpat: “Don’t trust your school lunch!” Me: “Never did, never will.”

[@sandychen1381]

Lol

[@neverfoxxy1879]

Same, does anyone?

[@Idkwhattoput151]

I Never did either, you can’t tell me that those mozzarella sticks were trustworthy

[@senoritamazapan]

Same

[@dontreadprofilephoto1728]

Ok dont read my name 😑 😤 ..

[@otptuki]

My old school had this separate stand just for slushy’s and Ice cream, and another stand just for "Wookiee’s" warm chocolate chip cookies that would melt as you eat them. Those two stands were the most popular at the school, and they were the cheaper options, so people would order those instead of a salad, or the actual meals etc. because they only had a dollar for lunch, not three.

[@celest1al_octopus]

our school got rid of our ice cream cuz a kid would throw rock-hard ice cream sandwiches at kids

[@ferbiously]

@@celest1al_octopus did he get bullied because of it

[@isnt_itkingstar]

@@ferbiously you killed me

[@shannonhensley2942]

we had an ice cream machine where you could add flavors to the swirl. you bought the token and tgen give the token to the ice cream guy. after about 2 months there was a student underground that stole and distributed the tokens.

[@itsbombervr8611]

I'm in my senior year, and throughout my entire time at my highschool, "Italian Dunkers" always were the best, the holy grail of school lunches if you will, there were these 4 sticks of flatbread dough stuffed with mozzarella and then browned on the outside and baked, absolutely incredible with ranch, these were very similar to cheesy dippers but our cheese was on the inside

[@nottodayartt5187]

Oh! We had those at my middle school but they were called something else. Just cheese stuffed bread sticks, they weren't that special but they were the best things that were there.

[@michaelluzier7683]

Y’all mean bosco sticks?

[@chevyowner]

yeah bro bosco sticks

[@Cupie.]

I had that exact thing but we called it cheese sticks

[@Rocco049]

@@michaelluzier7683 ​ YEAHHHH BOSCO STICKS ARE THE BEST

[@Munchkin.Of.Pern09]

I never went to a school that served lunches, though there was a program at my middle school where you could sign up for lunches delivered by this third party company (paid service) and they were pretty good. My high school also had a kitchen attached to the cafeteria, but you had to manually order and by any given item. No “everyone lines up with a tray” type of thing. I live in Ontario, Canada.

[@Mel0nMel]

Ya same with me, only lunch was Tuesday pizza day at highschool

[@Abdullahsalakyum]

Ye it's an American thing I think bc I'm also in Ontario

[@DidiTheCoolio]

@@Mel0nMel pizza tuesday😊

[@shiion6711]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGrbiqaLhdSEjNU Japan school lunch

[@G00dTaste]

At my current school we have a cafeteria that serves food, but you have to pay for it ahead of time and you can order anything you want off of a menu

[@sweetscheme]

The funny part of school lunches is every person's dietary requirements is different. For me I required double the food they'd normally serve a single person because I was malnourished and underweight. Where other people around me were fine just eating a salad crouton.

[@flyerumm]

Awh I'm so sorry you were malnourished.. But hopefully the food you have at your school is good and healthy so you can be healthy too! :D

[@护]

word

[@dshoultz6110]

I was malnutrished, and underweight too. A middle school I went to often ran out of lunch, and therefore I'd go hungry, and I didn't have food at home. I would always get mad at my bully, who would beat me up, forcing me to go to back of the lunch line. He would get double portions, and was obese. I hated him for that, and other things. At least I could get free breakfast before school

[@drewzeller3376]

now i realize why i am the way i am, thank you. i have a bmi of 17 or so.. could be why im short and have been growing up. the pale look to my skin, sunkin in eyes, lack of appetite the mood swings and feeling tired all the time. currently work a warehouse job and have lost even more weight, despite the lack of forklifts, working my muscles dragging 80 pounds of punching bag across the store the size of an imax movie theater, i eat usually 3 times a day with no effect to my weight. I have most likely very malnourished for several years now. I gave up on protein powder months ago, no significant weight loss, nor gained. Seriously thought i was just smaller than the average human, which I am, there's a possible explanation for all of it and I've known for awhile, didn't consider it shaping my life to what it currently is, always ate less, never twice the size of someone else's plate, ive been trying to eat equal to a full meal 3 times a day as of late, i burn right through the calories. should probably see a doctor for all this..

[@L1LY4.WCU3]

The most greasy chickfila chicken sandwhich catering (also the fries where SALT AND VINAGAR CHIPS)

[@wradraws]

The best meal my southern schools would give us was the thanksgiving meal: turkey chunks, bread roll, gravy, stuffing, peach cobbler, and the casual veggies and milk. We never got anything like for the rest of the year and it tasted a lot better than the weird baked chicken they would serve.

[@jackvrandgames1224]

that is crazy

[@the_shark4873]

I agree that the Thanksgiving meal was the best since because since I live in (and from) Louisiana the thanks giving meal was good especially the Dirty rice. (Dirty Rice is a meal consisting rice and meat in one dish) which I still love to eat at my middle school.

[@pikachuchujelly7628]

My school served gumbo every Friday, which was the best school meal I ever had. Their vegetable soup was a close second. And of course, every single meal came with the obligatory milk carton and corn on the cob.

[@HaxTheCharizard]

In my research, those "cheesy dipper" breadsticks were called Bosco Sticks in many places. They're still around too, if you're feeling nostalgic and want to see if they are still as "good" as you remember!

[@averysinclair6809]

At my middle school, we have basco sticks, and our school HATES them 😭

[@LunarFlare_]

My entire school loves them

[@turtleharmon9757]

BOSCO STIIIIICKKSSS!

[@hayleygabbard1513]

My school has Bosco sticks and people love them

[@mrfattypancakes]

Spoiler: They're not

[@michaelgrey1503]

I would like to see more of this cafeteria territory encroaching experiment. It actually sounds fascinating.

[@bioticsla]

what a fucking chad move he pulled

[@supersonicgamer7962]

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[@shiion6711]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGrbiqaLhdSEjNU Japan school lunch

[@ImmortalLorient]

Ditto, I really want to know his results. XD

[@kazuma7232]

Why are all the bots here?

[@azarmidokhtnassiri6859]

Honestly, the BEST food from my school was the cheese toasties, we had to rush to the line to get to them before they ran out, and out of all the foods they stocked up quickly, these were absolutely not stocked up at all

[@Xerctiger]

It's pretty funny how far all of this goes, in 2014 my senior project was about the politics and lack of nutrition facts in the lunch room. I wasn't really allowed to interview anyone and was given a 98% on the project with very little effort, it felt like they kinda just pushed me along.

[@lovielove4243]

The pre-packaged warm cinnamon donuts served for breakfast in PALM BEACH GARDENS HIGH SCHOOL were so, SO good. It was crazy moist because it was warmed up in the individual plastic pouches they came in, which was full of air so when you opened the bag it would pop and warm cinnamon steam would slap you in the face and make you call it mommy. Good times.

[@adopted996]

Love the description lmao

[@monroerobbins7551]

That is a VIVID description, lol

[@HomeworkH8]

🤨📸

[@tank3254]

Chicken nugget

[@neilgoodman6130]

_🤨_

[@hrpang]

My school didn't have the "line up with a tray" cafeteria, rather food stalls where someone can take the spot and sell what food they were selling. Kids who couldn't afford a meal everyday were given food coupons instead that they could claim and these things lasted the entire school year. They eventually moved from a coupon to an electronic card to lessen their use of paper. Where is this? Singapore.

[@Iamsifma-132]

I had something similar to cheese stickers, mine were actual cheese sticks we had marinara sauce. Oh yea and chicken sandwich wasn’t so bad.

[@pikadragon6826]

The best thing I ever had in a school lunch was something called “french bread cheese pizza”, or at least that’s what I called it. It was literally just a piece of bread with cheese and some sort of sauce that may have just been grease. Regardless, it was the best thing I’ve ever had in a school lunch and I’m convinced it could act as an appetizer or even a main meal at some restaurant.

[@Pensfan5919]

Probably came from Stouffer's, and considering they make it in Olmsted Falls, it might be something Matpat knows about.

[@pikadragon6826]

Thanks for the info! I’ll have to see if I can find some

[@owenrobbins5677]

the best thing they served was basically the same: breadsticks stuffed with motzerella cheese (they were always kinda soggy until they changed it one year to be like nice hot crispy breadsticks)

[@shiion6711]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGrbiqaLhdSEjNU Japan school lunch

[@nebulaischilling]

facts. Same at my school.

[@yenzoi]

Same

[@yenzoi]

We called them Italian dunkers

[@Skokapus]

same, ours are always tiny and soggy.

[@liquidvoidroots]

The average lunch at my school was a slab of “meat” sometimes between two pieces of “bread”. Sometimes we unironically questioned whether or not we were actually getting real food. It also doesn’t help that our school building looks like a remodeled prison. I’m not joking about that last part, our school actually looks like it was once a prison but got turned into a school.

[@alpscarlett8897]

What fucking country u grow up in

[@yeetionary]

everyone kept saying school is a prison, but explain THIS: a school and a prison aren't seen in the same room. Beat that flat-earthers

[@brianjohnson6053]

What you want prime rib and lobster daily?

[@killcrap1]

In our school the architect used to model for prisons, he modeled the school and everything intentionally making phones more or less impossible to use in certain areas, and the ways things were set up

[@MeganColton-l3y]

My school had spaghetti and a (off brand) mini baguette with apple sauce, that was the best.

[@henry_of_all_trades]

Back in the day, my school had lunch catered by a restaurant down the street. I don't even mean crappy food, it was a FANCY restaurant. They had acai bowls, sushi, and almost every sandwich you could think of. It was amazing.

[@fluffywhompus]

What kinda school you went to

[@Garlic1111]

Dude let me in to this school 😩

[@adorqxa]

My school was like that . Well my high school

[@revolvingworld2676]

That must've been a fancy private school because that sounds implausible

[@adorqxa]

@@revolvingworld2676 I think mine was although can’t remember

[@chloec4127]

My school had a separate “snack line” aka they wouldn’t yell at you if you didn’t get certain things you were supposed to get. They sold baked potatoes in there and for two and a half years when I learned that I had two potatoes a day, so much so I was known as potato girl by the staff and classmates would ask if I legitimately did that.

[@thetwistedsamurai]

I did this too but one day I got the cheesy broccoli baked potatoes, ate like 3-4 bc they had made way too many, and got WICKED bad food poisoning 😭

[@kiwi_studios7778]

Potato Girl? ANIME IS REAL!!!!!! HAHA I DIDN'T LIE TO UNDYNE IN UNDERTALE 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩

[@lancetheking7524]

@@kiwi_studios7778 firstly what anime, secondly what did Undyne the Undying have to do with anything

[@kiwi_studios7778]

@@lancetheking7524 during the pacifist route, you can tell Undyne that Anime is real, and the anime would be Attack on Titan

[@nightcaller92]

My fondest school lunch memories were chicken nugget day, with the mashed potatoes and the little square roll. I'd forgo a fork or a dipping sauce and just combine my nuggets and potatoes, and scrape up whatever I missed of the potatoes with the roll

[@ITSNORITO]

My school served gumbo ONE TIME in my entire time there, and it was the first good thing they ever had. Almost everyone got it, even kids who eat home packed lunches. Everything else was disgusting.

[@Nonsequitoria2010]

I was homeschooled until 1st grade and ate a very clean diet at home due to massive food allergies, so I usually brought my own lunch. Looking at the school lunches grossed me out, honestly. My teacher actually forced me to drink a carton of milk (which I hate, BTW) or she wouldn't let me go to recess - even though I had a serious sensitivity to it! It was one of many reasons I was homeschooled again until 7th grade, and also started my lifelong screaming fit over what school lunches could be.

[@DessertDoggie]

In 2nd grade my teacher was terrible, so was my class. Halfway through the year, I needed to switch classes. Edit: also, go you! I was also very squeamish when it came to school lunch

[@phineas6773]

WTF

[@BlockyRaven]

The best kind of lunches have got to be the ones you make yourself. From the age of 8-9 I was taught how to make my own lunches for school. Now, you’d think that since i was a kid I’d put in unhealthy things only- but that wasn’t what I did. My parents would always look for alternatives, such as fruit instead of candy, or rice cakes instead of chips. Because of that, I was used to packing myself 2 sandwiches, vegetables or fruit, and on occasion a small snack like a babybell or btween. Really grateful to my parents. As for “school lunch” we never really got until middle school, but even then it was your choice and you had to pay. They also offered some really luxurious sandwiches with smoked salmon and more, and it was always fresh. (Edit: my bad I meant junior high instead of middle school.)

[@haylesouth5485]

dang I wish my school had lunches like yours

[@Magnulus76]

As a teen I became a vegetarian and used to eat some wierd stuff of my own creation. Like peanut butter sandwiches with mung bean sprouts. I carried my own lunch because by the 1990's, schools only served junk food.

[@Sikreb]

Bro wrote a whole book about lunchables

[@kidzzzs]

My best lunch was a turkey sandwich and grilled and they were heaven

[@fisherboy2026]

The lunches at my high school are made by students taking culinary arts, so we get different meals everyday. If you want to know I'm from Canada, and yes the students made poutine for one day.

[@JustPineapple]

That sounds.. amazing

[@MrScorpianwarrior]

In my High School in the Midwest US that was an option. Lunches were served en masse as usual but you could optionally (for like $5) go to culinary arts and get a full meal.

[@craigzilla100]

I went to a very small school in rural Indiana growing up. The teachers always told us we were really fortunate with the food quality we had here... I never understood it, but after seeing and tasting the food at my kids schools nowadays (much larger school districts), I can happily say, my teachers were CORRECT. Not everything was amazing, but their chili with peanut butter sandwiches, and chicken noodle dishes certainly come to memory. And real holiday meals for thanksgiving. We had an a la carte line too with sandwich and junk food options.. but yh plant lunches were great!! All for $1.50 per plate. We got double lunches on chili day or course ;)

[@aaronwalsh2573]

My districts "Cheesy Dippers" was cheese stuffed dough filled with mozzarella that was cut into 3 sticks and served with some weird factory made marinara sauce. It was one of our schools most popular items.

[@raspberry4679]

Same that was was the best thing at my school too ,sadly they do not sever it anymore😢

[@iminvalidd]

MINE TOOOO

[@gerwulf4740]

Bosco sticks?

[@PeriluneStar]

Same, except mine was in 2 sticks

[@sparklebaddie]

wait no way, it was the same at my school except they only gave us two of them

[@Nchihgcv6547]

Matt’s story about the science experiment is so absurdly clever it sounds exactly like something he would do

[@Shadowhouse2]

I’m it was sugar day we got any sweet we want like donuts and sweet buns

[@Thelittledevilonyourshoulder]

Ohio

[@sing2praiseGod]

Lucky

[@cantree2574]

of course it would only happen in ohio

[@bestaiminohio615]

@@Thelittledevilonyourshoulder no

[@Malachiiee]

My middle school had “breakfast cookies” basically a big chocolate chip cookie made of oatmeal. It was so good, and I guess they passed it as healthy since it had oats. Definitely was NOT healthy though.

[@FlammaBell]

That is the best kind of cookies 🤌

[@aahangodbole5213]

Tiffin

[@Noir-mw4rd]

Same

[@rawquikh0ney710]

We had those in HHS and it was apple cinnamon ones and yeah they rock, especially if you had milk to dip with

[@LittleFoxBooks]

Pizza crunchers: basically mozzarella sticks that were dipped in marinara with marinara inside.

[@WafiaKhan-w3]

Bosco stick are also my favorite School lunch with marinara sauce❤

[@HereAlex]

My school had these things called “hot lunches” were once (or twice) a year you had to prefill out a sheet for what food you wanted for school (6 separate days not for like a full school year) and these food items came from places like Dominos or Subway The weird thing (to me anyway) is, I wasn’t from like some elite or rich neighborhood, it was just your average US public school

[@maromania7]

At least in my rural area, it was basically just a tax writeoff for the businesses. The places would free advertisement in the gym and yearbook and would get to brag about how "We donate X amount of food to local schools nationwide", the school saves money on food costs.

[@HereAlex]

@@maromania7 did you have to pay for it? Because we had to pay for it but I don’t remember advertising that much besides the day we got the food, and even then it was only on the serving tables if anything I can only imagine the tax write off and public image is the only reason they’d do such a thing and, y’know get the kids to crave their food so their parents buy more outside of school

[@Hannah_Z]

i had that at my jewish day school when i was a kid, but it was weekly! we'd wear stickers at lunchtime to show what we ordered beforehand, and we would often have things like pierogis, or pita with falafel, or bourekas. very fond childhood memories :)

[@sincerecinnamon]

@YouTubе 🅥 check your punctuation. KZbin would check it's punctuation.

[@hirigone]

@@sincerecinnamon Would they though...?

[@shepshepson]

The best food my school had ever given me?: Prepackaged Chips that have literally no way to expire or be cooked wrong, or get infested with insects.

[@shepshepson]

@RedDot ur the only one who's not a bot trying to scam me😒 (I hope)

[@Lemonyvermin]

@@shepshepson nope definitely a bot

[@jyoshi1491]

What about the rock hard prepackaged cookies?

[@Yournansaman]

One time in my primary school, the chips tasted kinda funky, like it was seasoned with expired ketchup (there was none on the chips btw) so it is possible to frick up a chip

[@yesterdaydream]

Prepackaged foods are safe foods to me. Consistency is e v e r y t h i n g

[@Miacidae]

Brings me back lol... We were forced to have one fruit and one vegetable on our tray to be able to buy lunch (k-12) or they wouldn't let us have lunch. Which really sucked for some people because there were days they only offered a single fruit / veg -- which some people were allergic to. And without the thing we were allergic to on our tray, we didn't get lunch, so we usually opted not to eat. Then we were asked why we never bought lunch. "Because I didn't know you were serving something I was allergic to today, you only gave us the menu for main items"

[@HaileyMOrr]

Yikesss

[@WooffzTheCoon]

A good friend of mine is seriously allergic to dairy. Elementary school? No problems. Every student and teacher that she interacted with for over a few minutes knew about it. Then we had to move to a different school for middle school. Middle school REQUIRED that you have a healthy beverage with your food. They served milk and water. Seems fine right? Well one day the water fountain.. thing.. broke. So she skipped the beverage because, the only option was milk. And she was allergic to dairy. She got a detention for “Disobeying lunchroom protocol.”

[@jianweichen5512]

Cheese sticks😂

[@electron2601]

Yeah we had to drink milk. We could choose whole, 2%, chocolate, or coffee milk.

[@thenexttangle8568]

We had to get one fruit/veg on our plate or we would get sent back to get said fruit/veg. Ice cups didn't count. You practically were pushed to get milk unless you were allergic. And the milk was DISGUSTANG. That's probably because they got rid of the sugar.

[@SillyBoy-f1n]

Mine had pizza dumplings of sorts, pretty much dumplings with pizza sauce, cheese, etc. Inside, another school had triple filled chocolate cookies for special occasions.

[@sewerpeople346]

I’m really weirdly interested in finding out the full results of his old science project. That sounds incredibly interesting to know how each table would react especially knowing one table threw food and tried to lift him out of the seat! That sounds super interesting.

[@pastelnut027]

Don’t worry, I’m super interested in hearing about it too.

[@user-kr8yh1lq5j]

Show us ur work

[@amiramir-bp9uq]

"sporty" girls are the worst

[@mushroooom8946]

Me too, I’m curious to see which group was the most relaxed

[@SharkCat-yj8vl]

I'd guess that the 'weebs' or the sort of unpopular people like them would be most chill tbh.

[@OfficerCosgrove]

I remember 10+ years ago my High School literally had a laminated print out by the register that explained how the school lunch met regulatory requirements. If memory serves me right the requirements for 2 servings of fruits and vegetables was met by providing a cup of wilted shredded lettuce, a cup of mandarin oranges, and ketchup packets. No joke, they claimed that the ketchup packet counted as a serving of both a vegetable and a fruit. Suffice to say I had a suspicion as to where this video was going.

[@nenmaster5218]

School’s got Problems, lots of them. A funny-and-sad Video-Essay exploring why was just made by „Some More News“. If youre curious like a Theorist should be, try.

[@nalidhardstyle8551]

I love the story of matpats science fair experiment, him sitting at a bunch of different tables to find out who would be the most hostile to him is so cool

[@41tinman41]

And the fact that he name dropped both the school and the “sporty girls.”

[@MasterBuilderKJ]

Frozen French toast sticks that I can find at my local grocery store is the greatest thing they managed to serve us

[@karabearcomics]

When I was in middle school, I remember a school lunch that was even more of a "serve the leftovers" sort of thing. One day, they served a pizza that they called "chef's choice" and I didn't even try it, because everything screamed that they were just slapping together uneaten food from previous lunches. The crust was the only thing normal about it (I think--maybe that was weird too, for all I know). Instead of tomato sauce, it had Thousand Island dressing. Instead of the standard cheese, it was feta. And instead of pepperoni, it had french fries. And after that day, a week later, my siblings in elementary school at the time reported that they got the same thing, making me seriously wonder if they were just serving the elementary school the uneaten food of the middle school (and did that mean the middle school was getting the high school's unwanted food?).

[@MoffiDog]

Is it just me or does that actually kinda sound good

[@RandomVid954]

Facs

[@chinesesparrows]

sadly this video is mostly a US public school problem

[@PIZZAGOLDXD]

1:21 ill use that thanks for the science project idea.

[@simplyjay3638]

Food Theory: Can soup actually help a cold, and what other alternatives are there?

[@RandomGuy-nt1no]

And if not what foods help you fight of a cold the most

[@ZenitsuKunn]

soup is probably a cultural remedy for colds

[@LilDimSumBoy]

short answer: yes it does

[@jakantor9106]

Nutrition, temperature, and water content. Any food that meets this helps

[@ohshanana2397]

Nah my parents are convinced that steaming your face with a boiled mixture of ginger, onion, lemon, honey, garlic and a bit of hibiscus

[@mesasimonson6612]

I feel bad for other students of the country-I’m always hearing about how school lunches are terrible and gross and unhealthy, but my school has always had top tier, delicious, healthy food at least 80% of the year (and high schoolers are allowed to eat off-campus, so it’s pretty dope) I appreciate that they want us kids to be healthy, but I sincerely miss my elementary school days where they would just have squeeze bottles full of syrup (strawberry? or « maple ») that you could just go ham with and fill a whole tray compartment full of We also had anonymous spenders pay for a Thanksgiving-time lunch, and sometimes an anonymous spender would pay for multiple days of meals-so prec’

[@lauriezoyiopoulos9665]

Same

[@SarahBurga]

Cinnamon roll funnel cake, chicken nuggets, apple juice, pancakes, sweet bread, rice, crispies

[@yadi1105]

I LOVE THIS GUY “the sporty girls threw food at me and they physically tried to lift me out of my seat for the entire hour in an attempt to get me to move BUT SCIENCE MOVES FOR NO ONE!!”

[@izzycurer1260]

The craziest part of this is that his school actually let them have an entire hour. Our school gave us 20 min. That wasn't just to eat, that was also to go to the bathroom, wash your hands, get your food, and then put the tray away afterwards. Not nearly enough time, and most kids were always starving because they didn't get to finish their lunch.

[@16sidedcube]

Ohio

[@randmrose19]

Most definitely the "Thanksgiving Dinner" it was Creamy turkey (turkey in a gravy) on mashed potatoes with sweet corn and a dinner roll. It was a tradition my elementary did the week of Thanksgiving break and you could invite up to 2 people to have lunch with you that day. It was amazing! I was a lunch lady at that school a few years back and there is absolutely nothing special about school lunch. Absolutely nothing is fresh(other than salad bar) everything is frozen then thawed/cooked. And no special holiday treats.🤦‍♀️ it's a shame.

[@unboxing_legend7708]

the christmas dinner i found was far better in secondary school than primary school. u get about the same amount, yet i fell as tho the food was just far better in secondary school.

[@user-gs8rp9ow3f]

OH MY GOD YESSS

[@G0of_Ball]

Oooh that yup it was good

[@marvinbaer2413]

While most of everyone from high school loved pizza Friday when the school ordered domino’s pizza, my favorite was always the general chicken. It was definitely not authentic nor was it the best, but it was the only Asian style food my school offered and so I was always happy to get something close to my favorite food genre.

[@Cr055ed]

My school never ordered domino's, but they did have the general chicken. My God was that one day they had it a year was great.

[@evilshapeshifter1940]

My highschool had pancake Friday instead

[@oceancat9988]

I have never really seen a lunch person serve pancakes but I did have some similar, they would have French toast every other week normally on a Tuesday

[@SangoProductions213]

What an extravagant freaking school. lol.

[@TheRealRickroller]

My school had these things called pizza crunchers where it was like a mozzarella stick with the sauce inside of the stick

[@pearl_b]

I remember in high school, the culinary academy had a cafe where they would serve the stuff they would make in their classes. Lemme tell youuuuu that stuff was amazing, and really inexpensive. I feel really lucky to have had that.

[@annisaurus]

I'm so glad that finnish schools have lunches with real food. Good food. My absolute favourites were: - Baked salmon with mashed potatoes - Perunavelli (runny mashed potatoes) - Creamy spinach soup - Fries and chicken nuggets (god-tier at the time) - Riceporrige (all-time favourite)

[@StrangePers0n]

HUH- JESUS CHRIST THOSE SOUNDS AMAZING

[@silencearts33]

S…… *salmon*!? As a school lunch!?!

[@Dark_Slayer3000]

How does your country affort and manage this??? That's awesome and there has to be a reason they didn't just throw cheap stuff at you guys like USA.

[@DevanK-rg3td]

@That 1 Kid what?? The UN doesn't pass laws

[@Remy_Lu]

Woah! We where lucky if we got green beans without bugs in them (it’s a long story)

[@UntilTheSunRises]

I really liked that besides the district-wide lunch each day, we were also given the option of "cold lunch". They usually had sandwiches, wraps, and salads to choose from. Plus a fruit of some kind and the obligatory carton of milk or bottle of water. It was a lifesaver on days where we were being served something I wouldn't have eaten otherwise

[@morrigankasa570]

True, though my favorite hot lunch was Chicken Quesadillas otherwise for school Cold Lunch I always got Smuckers Uncrustables Strawberry. Though in general I brought a packed lunch.

[@Nora-tj7rv]

My personal favorite was the “ ravioli bites “ idk what they out in those but I loved them

[@alexpettit3265]

Yessss! The cheesy dippers were incredible! We only had them like once a month though. I'm also from Ohio though.

[@runed0s86]

I am sorry for your loss.

[@KfcOwner]

I am deeply sorry

[@roezir]

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[@KfcOwner]

@Gamer Guy i am sorry

[@aldenstarks3438]

we had them in elementary school but i cant remember what we called them

[@MichaelWilliams-xs1cf]

I felt like this did a fantastic job at communicating all the intrests and pressures and their waxing and waining interplay that makes school lunches what they are. kudos to the research, writing, and presentation. This personally affected me 👍🏻

[@stegosagus]

As a Swede: Our school lunches are free, and we’re served complete meals, there are usually two dishes and one vegetarian to choose between, and a few vegetables to choose between. And there is milk, water, bread and butter to take in any quantity you want. American school lunches are weird.

[@_naZKar]

During Covid that was essentially what my school had, but now we’re back to having to pay for it

[@testerwulf3357]

That sounds like a dream..Living in America really sucks when our government won't spare any money for stuff like that, always cutting corners to make stuff cheap and making us pay individually for things we shouldn't have to.

[@silashector]

As a fellow Swede I agree that amarican school lunches are weird

[@kennzfrenzy]

Bro free butter and bread😭😭😭

[@CoolScratcher]

Understatement of the year

[@paperanimatez]

My school also has cheesy dippers but the cheese was inside the bread sticks. The days that they served those things were amazing

[@tanyatics]

Coming from Germany, our food wasn't perfect, but it always felt like a whole, warm meal. What I remember best are: -Fried fish with potatoes or fries, peas and a light sauce -Pasta with Marinara sauce -Veggie "steaks" made of broccoli, nuts and cheese, with something on the side. Which doesn't sound like something kids would like, but they actually tasted great -Bratwurst (of course..) with mashed potatoes and gravy -Stir-fry with chicken, different veggies and rice

[@Roguekai1yt]

SO LUCKY, American school lunch is nowhere near that.

[@Kulepondus]

I am from my dad is from norway and my mom is from germany. So i am Herman and Norwegian, buy i dont know any german beacous i move to norway When i was 2 years old.

[@iamaidansmith7542]

Ours in america is terrible in comparison

[@andrewr2101]

Germany man y’all got better after being the worst

[@goldenfloof5469]

That doesn't actually sound all that different than some of the meals I had in a regular US highschool.

[@orangerain6204]

There was a time in my high school where we had a 'pasta bar' every Tuesday or Wednesday. We get a choice of beef or chicken for meat (or none at all) and a selection of vegetables with some additions like garlic, cooked together in a pan before they're tossed on prepared bow tie noodles and topped with either warmed up alfredo or marinara for the sauce. All of this took place on a convenient stall stationed in a lobby area of the school, away from the cafeteria, and there was a fair length of a line to it every week. I ate that since the first day they started it, but I don't think they do it anymore.

[@Margl_]

At my old school, we had these things which were essentially really thin bits of dough covered with butter and garlic and then burnt to a crisp. They were AMAZING

[@renhereofc]

This made me laugh, not sure if that was intentional

[@GermanConquistador08]

....do you mean Garlic Bread?

[@Margl_]

@@GermanConquistador08 imagine garlic bread but thinner and cooked until it was charcoal

[@braydenpeck2230]

@@Margl_ croutons

[@GermanConquistador08]

@@Margl_ -....that does sound oddly good.

[@jesusisoursavior5861]

I still cant figure out where my school got those chocken patties, i loved them

[@averytherockgod9822]

Pretty much the only good thing my school lunch ever served were like these Jamaican chicken wraps that honestly tasted good af. However when Covid hit in 2020 they got rid of all their good food and ended up replacing it with food so memeaby bad that it caused me and multiple other students to break out in hives despite hving no known allergies.💀

[@imbored01]

You better sue them for causing hives and other illness

[@phineas6773]

There the covid💀

[@josiahlee2098]

Fact: brands that have their snacks in school lunches actually change their recipes to meet school lunch health standards, even though their store bought food is MUCH MUCH UNHEALTHIER

[@sweetstarrider3214]

Truth. I work in a school cafeteria.

[@ocdepartment]

In my school in 3rd grade, my school added “DIY pizza kits” to our separate menu that was separate from the main dish. The kit came with cooked dough squares, tomato sauce, and grated cheese. They unfortunately took this off the menu when I reached 4th grade.

[@bretschnorenberg1298]

Like lucunhables?

[@ocdepartment]

@@bretschnorenberg1298 Sort of, the bread they used for us was more like Pita bread

[@daunteplayz6926]

BRO I HAVE THESE IN MY MIDDLE SCHOOL

[@potatoe972]

You know, I just realized that pizza like this ALWAYS tastes better than normal pizza. Probably the governments fault.

[@ocdepartment]

@@potatoe972 These Pizza kits saved me from possible food poisoning from our school’s normal pizza (Which my brother almost got)

[@fahrenheit419]

I know that this is a year late, but at my elementary school, the cheese quesadillas, cinnamon rolls, birthday cake, orange chicken, and teriyaki chicken were probably the best foods in that school, the steak fingers were overseasoned and tasted like spicy cardboard, the best ones were the Italian dippers! the Italian dippers were just like stuffed crust pizza, ONLY THE CRUST. It also came with marinara sauce, but I never used it.

[@reepicheepsfriend]

Being homeschooled, I never had the joy of experiencing school lunches. Glad to hear I didn't miss much.

[@randy054]

just forgot they exist

[@MozIleto]

"Joy"

[@Travybear1989]

really???? i LOOOOOOOOOVED the school lunch pizzas omg! i sometimes like to buy a bunch of banquet dollar tv dinners with pizza mac n cheese n a brownie and those things are so good like u dont even no! i like the burgers to and hot dogs n mac n cheese but my favorite food is prolly chef boyarde beef raveoli cuz those SLAP like deadass FR u aint live till you have chef boyarde beef ravs and all u gotta add is some sour cream and cheese then you microwave it n it melts and is gooey ghoodness but another food i like is pizza rolls dipped in ranch and i can wipe out 50 of em in one meal because they are AMAZING!

[@LowQualityCarbink]

Also glad i chose to be a packed lunch every day i attended my school

[@stevehoyt810]

Some places are of course better than others, but talking about what is going to be for lunch that day and trading food with each other was always fun. Some lunches we truly looked forward to though. Pizza day or Burrito day were always great days on the school lunch calendar. Sloppy joe days and several others.

[@Teddy_Bear-_-]

Every thanksgiving my elementary school would make this god tier lunch. The turkey, amazing, the mashed potatoes and gravy, immaculate, no chunks, and they made this stuff with fruits and marshmallows. Best lunch of my childhood.

[@theduckygod6711]

Same the chicken noodles=god tier Mashed potatoes with gravy=god tier

[@goneblack3906]

Man all we got was pizza 😢

[@MonkeyBobReacts]

@@theduckygod6711 sameeee

[@GooglyCactus]

Omg, the nostalgia is real

[@Shan-si2kq]

This is the only thing I miss about my Highschool. Christmas and Easter they’d offer a Turkey dinner you would need to order a week in advance… omg it was SO GOOD

[@Wilted.lycoris]

My favorite school lunch was “chicken quesadillas” they were literally just chicken and cheese jammed between two pieces of “tortilla” served with salsa. They also came with chips and shredded cheese. They were pretty good actually

[@MoodyMickey]

You got salsa with yours? Lucky. I agree the chicken cheese quesadilla was good tho...if you were lucky and got chicken meat instead of cartilage

[@paulghignon4092]

Being honest here, I will quite commonly throw some shredded cheese between two tortillas and pop that baby in the microwave. Way better than you'd think

[@Nerium_Oleander13]

Oh my lord

[@fourcatsandagarden]

oo that reminds me we had "walking tacos" (a bag of doritos with meat, cheese, tomato, lettuce and sour cream tossed in). those were pretty good.

[@yeetboiiiii1237]

The best thing my school serves is 100% their pancakes. I don't know what it is about them but they're so good I could eat the whole tray of them. There was a time when the pancake factory burned down and we didn't get pancakes for like a whole month. Very sad times.

[@braydenc932]

"Find that loophole" is my favoite part of this episode, a fan of GT/FT since start of middle school, now a sophomore in college. Still the best!!

[@teragram7836]

We kind of had cheesy dippers! We called them “cheese-stuffed breadsticks” and they were, well, warm breadsticks filled with gooey cheese that you dipped into tomato sauce :)

[@atyz1000]

bosco sticks?

[@funworld1757]

Same

[@IgnatiusBlaze4]

You mean bosco sticks? I think Mat Pat had something else, he said the cheese was put on the breadsticks not in them, lots of schools do bosco sticks, heck some gas stations do like Kwik Star or Caseys.

[@arturitogarrido1389]

bosco sticks!

[@teragram7836]

@@IgnatiusBlaze4 I didn’t know what those were, I had to look them up lol. It’s the same idea except ours were a lot flatter and you separated them from one another on a serrated edge versus individual sticks. Dang, I want to try a bosco stick now tho😂

[@capansonyaiii]

I went to a vocationary school where we had an awesome cooking program. The cooking class made all the food we sold in the Cafeteria. So I knew exactly what was in it. We had a different theme for every day of the week that was from different areas of the world it was awesome. The best things had to be the enchiladas or the hoisen meatballs.

[@MidoriLeaf-sr5fy]

That sounds great and verry useful stuff to learn. This should be normal at every school.

[@Buggy-leo]

I got that top tier lunch: soft Preztals, Bosco sticks, tacos, ice cream (bars, cups, cones, all of it), soda, ect...

[@chocochuuuu]

In elementary and middle school, I absolutely loved the chicken patty sandwiches. The lunches during those years hit different for some reason, they were honestly really good.. until I started highschool. Highschool lunches were absolute trash and I was very disappointed. One thing I feared was getting a carton of spoiled milk or a completely frozen one because those happened often for some reason. The only good foods that we got was when we got little cups of ice cream or some fruity frozen dessert, and that was rare to see. And bosco sticks. They really hit different.

[@thatoneguy9756]

That frozen dessert you're talking about is called SideKicks and they sell them online.

[@chocochuuuu]

@@thatoneguy9756 oh yeah you're right!

[@Sebrado.]

A brownie and hotdog with ketchup

[@LSDdreams808]

My school had some really good chicken sandwiches as well it was my favorite that an there salad with ranch was delicious

[@LSDdreams808]

@@thatoneguy9756 are you talking about those mini ice creams?

[@XeonProductions]

I once did a science experiment at lunch in high school too. A friend of mine brought a laptop to lunch, so we created a script to play ultrasonic frequencies and we wanted to see what if any effect it had on people nearby. It was probably a coincidence, but I think we found one frequency that caused a fight to break out. It definitely seemed to increase aggression at the table of jocks right next to us. Most of the other frequencies we tried just gave us a massive headache.

[@iamgoodatnamingthings8808]

that sounds fun and pretty terrifying at the same time

[@CreeperOnYourHouse]

How many hz?

[@lunar.8490]

v e r y i n t e r e s t i n g . . .

[@blackpowderkun]

Bart Simpson: give me details.

[@jazzingpanda3190]

This sounds awesome but why would you write a script for this lol

[@jobrown3447]

The best school lunch at my elementary school, that we all looked forward to, was Grilled Cheese Pretzel Rolls. It was basically a grilled cheese sandwich made with a Pretzel roll/bun and good ol American cheese slices. We got it like once a month and nobody brought packed lunches on those days.

[@londonknows4494]

We got this else in elementary on Fridays we also got a choose from that and pizza we all most all rain out of pizza

[@Vanguard-14]

me crying about all the cows that went into “school burgers” instead of good burgers

[@fakeAratPrime]

Here in Spain we used to have just pre-coocked "food" that tasted horrible. The whole room was a warzone in wich every kid tried to throw the food under other people's tables (because obviously they wouldn't let you leave if you had even a small chunk of the stuff left). Responsables ended up getting sued so many times (mostly because no-one actually ate enough) they changed the corporation runing the ""kitchen"", but the new dudes didn't do any better. Best we got was 1 to 2 days old dry frozen pizza, with just tomato and cheese, wich sucks even more if we also count that our normal mediterranean diet is great.

[@thelibyanplzcomeback]

People make bad school lunch out to be only an American thing. Not sure if it's worse or better than Spain's tho.

[@fakeAratPrime]

@@thelibyanplzcomeback I don't know, this also happened a while ago, around 10 years or so. (Also I lived in a small town back then, nowhere important)

[@makaylaserniotti1474]

My school was in the middle of the forest, with farmland peppered in. The school district I went to, although public, is one of the best in the state I was raised in and had a HUGE budget for buying raw ingredients and making healthy school lunches. We got handcrafted deli sandwiches, homemade soups, stews, and a robust vegetarian and vegan menu. In the late 2000s and early 2010s. They didn’t mess around.

[@Ihatelifebruh]

Sounds tasty :)

[@luigiproductions7815]

Excuse me, your school is WHERE now?!

[@Tealagon-bi4ty]

My school just serves half-cooked hamburgers, weird-looking chicken nuggets, and those wacky milk cartons. I think they want you to buy from the a la cart menu, which costs A LOT.

[@Sodasgirl]

Lucky

[@Tendee]

@@Tealagon-bi4tyHow much does the a la carte menu cost for a meal?

[@shannong.6689]

The sausage pizza and chicken sandwiches at my school were fantastic. Also, they had a sandwich station available for those who didn't want to hot food options, and all the ingredients available there always tasted very fresh and delicious. I actually opted for the sandwiches 99% of the time, and the lunch lady there ended up memorizing my usual sandwich; regular bread, turkey, cheese, and lettuce. :) She was my favorite lunch lady.

[@krisanthonycruz4257]

Lucky the only best thing was serve is baby size hand meat ball only 3 pieces and vegetables no juice no sweets no pizza:

[@Tedgamer11-Betelgeuse]

My school’s Potato Wedges were literally the best thing I tried in my life!