What's the most "Student Meal" in your country? r/AskEurope

[@vicithetenoroon]

Hi there I'm Evan Edinger and imma try Europe's most student meals to save money for my new house

[@j.ul1ett]

ahaha yess

[@brianorozco1074]

“Specifically penne pasta with ketchup and a spoon of mayonnaise because I want it creamy😉👍🏼”

[@lewisgriffin9684]

Best comment ever lmao

[@Samisnotamused]

UK here - Can't believe no one mentioned scrambled eggs! They're so easy to make and modify to your liking. Also I cannot believe the ketchup and mayo on pasta is actually a thing, I refuse!

[@poisonrose1705]

I've never seen it either, laziest/cheapest thing I've seen someone do with pasta is just a plate of pasta and cheese. But honestly cheap frozen pizza is the go to I've seen most

[@amaalmohamed4450]

The ketchup on pasta is amazing.I promise y’all

[@kitty121261]

Okay I will admit to the pasta and ketchup but mayo too.... that's just wrong

[@Razooooh]

Ever had a scrambled egg sandwich with ketchup and mayo tho? Bacon and/or cheese is optional ofc

[@shaungold]

Even using free range eggs it's really cheap

[@tillie_brn]

9:49 just a note: in France scholarships are not merit-based, they are given by the State to students who don't have enough money to go through university regardless of their achievements (and on the contrary, if you / your parents have a reasonable income you won't get a scholarship). Seeing as tuition fees for a standard university in France are about 100-200€ a year, scholarships are more about helping students in need with accommodation and food than it is about funding tuition.

[@nahuelma97]

Yeah, that's the approach for most scholarships outside of "sell your organs to pay for university"-land

[@maddy5842]

Wait your term fees are what ???

[@tillie_brn]

@@maddy5842 some schools (typically for engineering or business) are much more expensive and tend to skew more towards the fees you would find in the UK, like 10k a year. But the public university system through which most people go is very cheap and mostly paid for by taxes.

[@melissagonzalez2464]

Yes it's a mistranslation, the person meant a bursary not a scholarship. :) We don't really have scholarships in France.

[@janani1826]

In the uk we have two types. Scholarships are merit based Bursaries are dependent on income.

[@Brigister]

Gotta chime in on the pasta with tuna thing! tuna is usually canned with olive oil in Italy, which makes it taste 100 times better than any other kind of canned tuna. I used to live on pasta with tuna as a student myself. sometimes I'd even toss it in a pan with some garlic/onions and i'm feeling extra funky add some tomato puree to it. chef's kiss. PS: approach any Italian in his 20s and say "tutti sanno che mangio pasta" and wait for them to sing (or yell) "CON TONNOOOO, CON TONNOOOO"

[@evan]

oooo now I wanna import Italian Tuna

[@dragonwings36]

oh dang that tuna actually sounds amazing. Especially if you add the other stuff you mentioned.

[@Victoriasm31]

@@evan You can get tuna in olive oil in Sainsbury's.

[@beatrix1120]

We have that Australia. I always thought it was the default way of canning tuna

[@elizabethk2072]

@@Victoriasm31 and every other supermarket..

[@itisjulia]

As a Swede, I think the "pancakes and pea soup"-person misunderstood what "student meal" means. To me it sounds like a pretty standard meal we'd get in primary and secondary school, and not the type of meal you'd make as a student

[@saragustavsson836]

Student organisations where I studied would have something like a soup kitchen/lunch served cheap for students every Thursday with this exact meal though.

[@suola7948]

That's a common Thursday meal in Finland as well

[@mitchystuff]

as a dutch student who eats pancakes and pea soup regularly, its totally student food. You can make it the day before, doesnt require much work just heating up and the soup itself is already a whole meal. next day you just bake some pancakes with that and youre done, full on meal for 2 to 3 sometimes even 4 days (original term of said pea soup: snert)

[@Znarffi]

Well we have ''Jalostaja Hernekeitto'' which is just peasoup you have to waterdown and boil, so it can be a student meal especially on Thursdays and pancake ''pannukakku'' is pretty easy to make too.

[@conormurphy4328]

It’s fun to see Evan treat pasta like he’s actually Italian and not a quarter of an eights of a third related to somebody who once visited Italy

[@evan]

>:(

[@conormurphy4328]

Heh

[@leonardo.diCATio]

Hey, he's from an Italian state!

[@Caeilia]

As a German I feel like Pasta with Pesto is the go to dish for students. Especially at the end or the month when you spent most of your Bafög money (financial aid for students from the government) at parties.

[@Cera3]

or pasta with fried fleischwurst :D

[@LF-zn6px]

Went to uni in the south of France and can confirm. Pesto with pasta (or gnocchi if you’re feeling fancy) was a staple

[@ebonyofthestars]

Yeah, same

[@jojannekevisscher9923]

As a Dutch person: absolutely same, with chicken and créme fraîche of you're feeling fancy

[@Geckotape]

@@jojannekevisscher9923 That also seems to be my little sisters* go to dish when she cooks. She's dutch too... and currently lives with me before going off to Uni. *Halfsister. My stepdad is a Dutchman, both my parents are German, and I left the Netherlands ten years ago to go back to Germany.

[@Brigister]

"Ajvar" is pronounced "eye-var" not "adj-var" haha it's really popular all over former Yugoslavia and even in Trieste, Italy (because that city's really close to Slovenia), where I studied at university ! love it.

[@flynnmoran3542]

I love "bon-yays" haha

[@kiscsibe11]

You can even get it in Austria in normal grocery stores now, btw!

[@jupiterzombies]

eyyyy fellow conosseur of trieste !! yes ajvar is fucking amazing!! with civa and red onions *chefs kiss*

[@Brigister]

@@jupiterzombies ay yooo whats up my maaan!! civa di Prunk? panino con ajvar e peskavica da Rustiko?

[@eleanormaddocks1834]

Current student in the uk… if it’s cheap, easy and keeps, it’s student food. Everyone I know has their own go to meal, usually involving no more than 4 ingredients. I would say the most common meals are leftover takeaway and anything involving pasta and some form of tomato sauce. At my uni, leftovers seem to be the thing, most people will cook a big a meal and live on that reheated for like a week after. Also, you would be surprised how many people go to uni without any basic cooking skills. I had to teach my friend so many basics so he could feed himself, including how to boil pasta. Twice.

[@SamPhoenix_]

As a brit I am saying Pasta and Ketchup is wrong. And I never experienced it at uni from anyone. Literally a slap of butter on pasta is fine.

[@persephonekore7738]

Butter pasta is something I still have for dinner 😂😂

[@lunaangeleclipse9745]

Yet to see someone have pasta and ketchup. Pasta and cheese, sure, but not ketchup.

[@josephwilliams3548]

Pasta and ketchup + cheese and whatever meat was reduced was me in university and I'll still happily eat that 20 years later.

[@ad3z10]

@@lunaangeleclipse9745 A few housemates at uni did and it'd crush my soul every time.

[@lunaangeleclipse9745]

@@ad3z10 lmao

[@user-es7ui5mc1m]

Mr priviledge German man is deff not the average student here, plenty of us are broke and have no time lmao. Maybe it's because I live relatively close to the Dutch border but I'd agree with the Netherlands: pasta and pesto or wraps are quite common student meals here, so is bread with anything (jam, salami, cheese, whatever you prefer) or frozen pizza and if you're getting something on the go definitely Döner

[@mirabellegoldapfel6256]

Of course it's bread with anything on top in germany, what were they thinking? If you are fancy you use butter and maybe a tomato or a banana as a side- Or you put the cheese AND the salami on your bread. For cooked stuff, noodles with tomato sauce (salt, pepper, oregano) and leftovers with egg and cheese on top. On the go, anything from bakery, cheese buns and raisin buns being the cheapest buns that taste of anything but just bread.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@mirabellegoldapfel6256 I found whole grain buns to be much more interesting than the bland ones. Especially when they pretend to be fancy. A chain here has carrot buns, and they are really great. A bit more expensive then the normal buns, but still cheaper than the cheese ones.

[@alexreid1173]

As a current student in the US, my basic meal is usually either pasta or rice, some sort of frozen vegetables I steamed in the microwave, either pre-made veggie sausage or tofu, and either sweet chili sauce or marinara depending on what I’m having… and then I eat some version of this for almost every meal! Make the pasta and rice on sundays to reduce cooking time

[@ellalalalalalalalalalalalala]

mines pretty similar! ill do soup or steamed veggies, ill have oatmeal /grits for breakfast and salad from cafeteria for lunch

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

That sounds pretty good actually.

[@CherryNutella1776]

British person here- the most common meal i remember seeing was definitely tomato soup and pot noodles. Any meal that took longer than 20 mins to make was seen as a delicacy.

[@gemmagates8765]

You’re judging the ketchup and mayo on pasta thing and then casually own that you had a tomato, mayo and sugar sandwich!! Putting sugar in a sandwich may be one of the most American things ever and you just casually tried to sneak that one past us! Hilarious

[@vikkispence]

I can't believe I've made it this far down the comments before someone's brought this up! (I was going to, if I'd made it to the end before anyone else did.) Sugar in a tomato and mayo sandwich??? Especially given how much sugar goes into the bread in the US too. I can't even begin to imagine how that tastes 🤢

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Salt, I get that, but sugar? tbf, sliced tomatoes on a sandwich isn't even that bad. Just make sure you don't end up with a soggy mess.

[@magicofshootingstar]

Topic: "Student meals" Evan: Speaks about primary school Everyone else: What people eat in uni when they finally need to cook for themself. Also: 1. In most of the countries (I believe) in Europe school lunches before uni are provided at school either for free or for minimal cost. That's why we don't take own lunches at school. 2. As a Finn I would say part of the reason why Finns might cook something semi proper as students is our school. In grade 7 every Finn must take class called "home economy" (or something like that) and the whole year we cook food 2h/week and have 1h/week things like how to budget/iron/do laundry/clean/set table. Also some people, me included, chooses that as an elective class in 8 and 9 grades and get 2h/week cooking/eating/cleaning in those years too. 🙂

[@dannyharding9884]

we have similar classes in the uk for cooking at least in secondary school but don't think it does much

[@JasmineG96]

I'm from Switzerland, When I went to school, it was very common to go home over lunch break to eat what your mom made. Most kids used to eat at home up until the age of 15/16 years old. It was still very common 10 years ago, that you'd have one of your parents at home during the day, and usually the way to school was 30mins max, while lunch break was 1.5h long. We also have one year of "home economy" here, also in 7th grade, and then later as an elective in 9th grade. Uni or the "Gymnasium" are different tho - most people eat food from the cafeteria, where there are several options to chose from, relatively cheap.

[@XxJuultjeexX]

in the Netherlands we went home in primary school and brought our own food in secondary school, meals are never provided by the school here

[@cecilialeitet2794]

I think only Finland and Sweden have the kind of free school lunches you talk about. But I really find them amazing. My kids get everything from hamburgers to fish to meatballs or soups with nice bread included in their school day. We are truly spoiled! (Although, especially for poorer families that might be the kids only hot meal that day, so getting it will be double important. You need food to get through school!)

[@Celna525]

Norwegian here. We brought our own lunch to school.

[@ann1ka_]

8:45 🇫🇮 Yes we all cook this lol. I wouldn't recommend it tho, not as appetizing as it may sound to foreigners. And also I would use minced meat or soy protein granules insted of other cheap meats for it.

[@camilla_and_smithers]

I can’t get over the amazing quality of this video. It’s like you’re in my room! Such a soothing video to watch, so nice to watch to wind down 🥰🥰

[@camilla_and_smithers]

PS I am 31 and still love having ketchup on pasta …. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@bdgza]

11:06 Loving how you added “gently” for the dipping 😊.

[@0spidey1]

Hungarian here. Frozen pizza is great if you have an actual oven and not just a microwave. Cup noodles are fucking amazing but the "good" kind can be a bit expensive. Pancakes (the thin European style, not the thick American ones Evan may think of when he hears the word) are actually pretty cheap and easy to make, just need some eggs, milk, floud and a good pan mainly. Great to make with friends.

[@tina.InTheSkyWithDiamonds]

I'm always amazed by the fact that only Germans seem to know Quark. It's the best! Add onions and herbs: perfect side dish or vegetable dip. Fruit with Quark and maple syrup: perfect breakfast. You can make awesome pastries... Gotta love Quark 🤩😅

[@Rebster]

The Dutch have kwark, I must imagine it is similar?

[@allenwilliams1306]

Until today I had never heard of, or seen, quark, let alone tasted it. I had to look it up. It sounds disgusting. It seems to be a bit like cottage cheese, which is also disgusting.

[@centrifugedestroyer2579]

Finland had quark as well, it's called "rahka", but I've mostly seen it as a sweet desert with added flavours

[@HermanVonPetri]

From the top to the bottom a quark is strange and charming up and down the land.

[@terentule]

Quark is also used a lot in Czech cuisine, it's great! Potatoes with quark, butter and some spices is the best

[@LittleRedIrishRover]

I love how in Europe, you can get cheap foods that are deemed "snacks" or "student meals" and they're still 100x healthier than the "healthy foods" available in the U.S.

[@Eh-kw1sp]

no though?

[@lunalovegood8931]

As a British student at culinary school… this is is accurate.

[@nalinea18]

Finnish students love their macaroni because it's one of the cheapest things in the store. You can get basic elbow macaroni for 0,25€/kg from most stores. Finns also looooove milk, so macaroni casserole makes a lot of sense. It's one of those things that's easy to make, so you can throw it together quickly when you come home and take a shower etc. while it's in the oven. Plus basically everyone had it often as a kid, so it's what I make when I'm feeling down and want to eat "what mom used to make". Also macaroni and tuna. Add an onion and a can of pureed tomatoes if you wanna be all fancypants about it ✨ Also macaroni and sausage. Also macaroni and macaroni. For some reason mac'n'cheese is basically unheard of though. Maybe because ready mixes aren't as popular and actual cheese sticks into the pan making doing the dishes harder. Of course there are a dozen types of frozen pizza. There're even microwaveable mini pizzas, but tbh those are an insult to anyone's tastebuds, and they cost the same as the frozen ones although the frozen pizzas are 3-4 times bigger. So frozen is the way to go. It still won't beat the macaroni though. ETA: The German pal is right about the effort though. Most of the time it's not "I can't afford anything" but "I'm too tired/busy/depressed to actually cook so I'll just buy a pizza". I wish I had the energy to make better food, but not with this courseload.

[@citroenboter]

When the Dutch person said pasta pesto I felt that. Pasta pesto is like... The easiest meal ever. I usually make my own pesto though. Wraps are the holy grail of student meals here. And probably 'macaroni bolognese', probably with ketchup. Instant noodles are a good lunch. Or deep fried snacks for dinner. I vibe with Spain more. Just chuck tuna on everything and call it a meal.

[@sophieirwin3497]

jacket potatoes are a classic! especially when you're on a budget and it's winter, go into any cafe or cafeteria/canteen and get a jacket potato with beans, cheese and/or tuna mayo. Less than a fiver with a drink

[@TychoCelchu]

The UK ones must have changed over time. In the early to mid 90s it was spaghetti bolognese. It was fairly common for student houses to pool their food budget, so that you could bulk buy and cook for everyone. There was also a cookery show specifically for students on a budget, called Get Stuffed. It was on after midnight on a Saturday, when many students were arriving home after a night at the student union. There are old episodes on KZbin.

[@chrisamies2141]

yes, I was surprised at the lack of spag bol for the UK.

[@MERCHIODOS]

In Australia, the most common student food is 'Mi Goreng' which is fried instant noodles. People would prepare it as cooked noodles, but drain out the water and then add the flavour powder / sachet that comes with the noodles and sweet soy sauce, chill sause and oil sauce that also comes in a trio sachet with the noodles.

[@shoyuramenoff]

Indomie ftw! I'm in Canada and we get those here, but no one gets the hype. At least the people I know anyway.

[@lare1856]

In Finland you can also just have minced meat with macaroni. It's called "nistipata" (drug addict stew). I, as a Finn, can not imagine having a meal without meat (or vegetarian alternative), it just isn't a thing here. Also having anything sugary or chips as a meal is something I have never seen a Finn do.

[@magicofshootingstar]

Oh, I, as a fellow Finn, must not tell you how many times as a lazy student, I ate makaroni with ketchup only. 😂 Though having more proper meals is more common here. For me the nistipasta was called makaronimokko which doesn't actually mean anything but could be translated "something suspicious looking with macaroni".

[@suvikumpulainen3519]

Nistipata is actually pääkalloruoka or skull meal in English 😂

[@ldgh2288]

Finland is one of the easiest places to be a vegan in, there are so many alternatives. And student restaurants always have vegan food.

[@_x..Jamie..x_]

As yet another fellow Finn I was surprised, considering how many comments by Finns there where, that no one mentioned pyttipannu. Like... It's quite unique to Finland, pretty cheap when bought frozen (1kg bag from Xtra is like 2.3€) and easy to heat up, depending on one's appetite can feed you 2-3 times at least. But also the original concept of pyttipannu is literally just throwing leftovers on a pan so it's easy to make from scratch and if actually made with leftovers practically costs nothing. If you do buy the ingredients for it, you can get a kg of potatoes for under 1€ and then some cheap meat such as meatballs (HK costs 2€/kg) or some even cheaper option and you can make a kg of pyttipannu for the price of 1-1.5€. Can even add some vegetables, frozen or fresh to make it healthier with little extra cost. I'm so disappointed no one mentioned it because pyttipannu is my go to dinner when I'm feeling too lazy to go to the store (always have some frozen) or too lazy to come up with anything different.

[@clarasundqvist6013]

she wasn't a student during this time, but my mother and her sister used to work at a horse farm here in Sweden in their late teens/early 20's, and she told me that since they weren't paid a lot and hadn't learned how to cook yet their most common meal was instant macaroni with barbecue seasoning. most of my friends and I have learned how to cook properly by now, but when we first started uni a bunch of us used to make egg noodles and sweet and sour sauce, I basically lived on it the first few months of uni

[@Marianna-gi9rf]

in italy i'd say: pasta with pesto, pasta with tuna, grilled chicken breast (just a slice of chicken breast cooked in a pan, with salt), any type of sandwich with prosciutto, mozzarella, salame etc, and rice or pasta salad for the spring/summer months

[@21Kyzix12]

As a university student in Japan, my go to was tamago kake gohan, which is a rice with a raw egg and soy sauce on top (I would usually add pepper or whatever spice I had on hand too). I'd say instant noodles would be the biggest thing though or anything from the convenience store: bread, onigiri, various bento, etc.

[@Gewehr_3]

I like tamago kake gohan a lot but I always eat it with chashu or hotdogs

[@samuellawrencesbookclub8250]

I'm currently a UK student, and mostly I eat casseroles. Simple enough to make, any idiot can make casserole, and - depending on the ingredients you have - you can get a lot of variety out of the same premise. In my time I've made curry type casseroles, chilli, casseroles with wine, and ale - when I've had money - as well as basic ones like sausage and bean. I tend to make a large pot a the start of a week - usually when I've got free time on Saturday, or Sunday - portion it out, freeze the portions, and defrost, warm them up, and eat them over the course of the week. It's fairly cheap to do this, at most your looking at spending £20, and that's for a weeks food. Okay, various pasta-sauce mixes might be cheaper, but the different isn't as much as you might think, and certainly a plate of casserole is more nutritious than pasta. I get that this is a slower meal, initially making it can take 3 or 4 hours, but on a Sunday, when nothing's open, and all your work from the last weak was handed in of Friday, and you won't get the next week's work until Monday, you have the time. And after that it's just ten minutes heating it up in a saucepan, or five minutes if you have a working microwave, and you done, slop it into a bowl, and grab a spoon.

[@minoumcduff5727]

We live on casseroles & curries, I'm not even a student anymore just a carer for mum so moneys tight

[@TheCrazyFreak]

I feel like no matter where in Europe you are, any kind of pasta is a pretty popular student meal because it's cheap, easy/quick to make _and_ it can taste really good depending on the sauce. It was my go-to meal at uni as well. Thank you, Italy. xD

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Pretty much that. I still make pasta quite often for exactly those reasons. Potatoes might be more versatile, but that involves more work.

[@alfredstokesmyers3416]

English student here. Doing chicken fajitas tonight. My quick meals would be pasta, pesto and tuna or maybe substitute the pesto/tuna with a tin of mackerel in tomato sauce. I also make Bolognese sauce in a big batch and then freeze it in portion bags so I can have it with some pasta.

[@jaydotclass7001]

If there isn't square pizzas at the school for EVERY LUNCH then the school is a lost cause.

[@Julia33066]

Yes

[@jadeykg123]

Square pizza is for Thursdays. Every Thursday. No matter what. You will eat square pizza this Thursday.

[@em8842]

Hate to tell you this, but in Denmark (all over Scandinavia I think), we ALL eat pasta with ketchup :))) Pasta with ketchup + cheese if you're fancy :))) Every kid has it, every uni student has it, we even sometimes put ketchup on bolognese. If you're having pasta with any type of sauce (at least as a family with kids), there's usually also optional ketchup on the table.

[@ann1ka_]

true 🇫🇮

[@coz1866]

As a british student I've never seen anyone eat pasta and ketchup. A jar of pesto is like 50p, we usually go for that or in desperate times either just butter or soup.

[@viva2archive]

In my first years as a German uni student, lots of pasta (49 cents per 500g) with the cheapest pesto (99 cents per glass). Italians, please avert your eyes now: I often added peas, a glazed onion and a slice of cheese to make it a 3-portion meal. When I became a bit more health-conscious, I bought 1kg bags of frozen broccoli and 500g of chicken breast once a week and combined them with rice or pasta. Still fondly remember my meal-prep Sundays…

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Oh, how prices have changed over the last year. pasta is now 89 cents and pesto 1.29

[@WelcomeToWonderland]

ok as a current British uni student I can confirm very few people actually put ketchup on pasta- got told by one of my friends that one of her flatmates microwaved her pasta and slapped ketchup on it and everyone in my flat audiably gasped lol

[@saraxadam3659]

what a clever & sneaky way to get us to not skip over the sponsor! well played, well played

[@evan]

😇

[@apjtv2540]

As a brit, I can sadly confirm that pasta and ketchup (usually macaroni cheese with ketchup honestly) is pretty popular among British students. It's usually cause we ate it as kids and so we eat it as comfort food, at least that's my experience.

[@annoyedgamer8847]

I can’t eat macaroni without ketchup now as an adult 😭

[@ddlee84]

This must be something that by passed my generation.....then again I do know three people who love Ketchup sarnies.....So maybe later generations just graduated to pasta lol

[@JustLoveForMe]

Your PARENTS made you ketchup pasta?!?!?

[@stace3037]

We had pasta with butter. Pasta with ketchup would have been a nice idea occasionally.

[@meality]

It's very popular among French students too... And yes I think it's because pasta and ketchup are two kid confort foods (and because the whole meal is realy easy to make)

[@janhavlis]

czechia here - no.1 student meal was 10° beer, a liquid bread, i had like 5 of them a day (0.5 L), cheaper than a meal. then simple hotdog (bun, wiener and mustard), omelette with peas, czech style fried cheese or just bread with butter. btw, i am guilty of loving pasta with rich organic ketchup and sause tartar (a better version of mayonnaise) 😊

[@florallucy2053]

I personally really enjoy cooking (even though my parents are rubbish at it) so i always made time to cook at uni which meant i ate well alot of the time, but can confirm the sainsburys smart price chicken noodles are the best of the main supermarkets, and beans/cheese/egg on toast is always a go to

[@Sol3UK]

As a Brit, when I was at Uni definitely Pasta, tuna, sweetcorn and mayonnaise (pasta must be cooled before mixing). Make a huge bowl and keep going back to it again and again.

[@hollyhales2831]

Tuna pasta bake, easy edition

[@sannako6507]

A Finn here: can’t believe ready-made liver casserole wasn’t mentioned, it’s amazing!

[@theferalcollection]

You put SUGAR on your tomato sandwiches?! I have never been more offended in my life! Tomato sandwiches are my go-to quick sandwich in the summer and it's made with SALT.

[@trans_boy_kole7640]

No no no you add pepper. Also strawberry and pepper sandwiches are awesome. Maybe i just like red foods and pepper

[@akikodana]

Interesting how back when I was a student I did both the Romanian version of ajvar, which is zacuscă here, as well pateu, both on bread. I think pasta with tuna spilled over though maybe not as traditional :)))

[@Lord7979]

Really like the puns Evan keep up the good work

[@bethanlouise6607]

As a British student, I can promise I’ve never seen anyone mix pasta with ketchup and/or mayonnaise. That is terrifying.

[@Frohds14]

Depends on whether you cook yourself or eat on a budget in the cafeteria. Homemade: pasta with ketchup or sugar and butter or a bit decadent with parmesan and pepper. Canteen: rice porridge or semolina porridge with fruit cocktail. You get a huge portion that you can't eat allone, so you bring a tupperware container with you in which you can take home at least one portion for desert.

[@thenightwitch6407]

I'm a brit, and once at uni I had a plate of pasta, with no sauce and no cheese. Just pasta.

[@szendeti]

I'm Hungarian and I'd say scrambled eggs with anything you could find in the fridge, pasta with tomato sauce (you can also put anything you have in the fridge in the sauce) and toasted sandwiches from your dry bread

[@sophiaK946]

Hi from Macedonia 🇲🇰 Ajvar( i-var) is traditional Macedonian dish, extremely difficult to make, but not really healthy! The red peppers are first roasted than fried for very long time so you get delicious spread but with all the vitamins gone 😁 It’s popular student meal because every household makes ajvar, so you always leave your home with lots of jars with ajvar in your bags 😆 nice bread and quality sheep white cheese and you’ll get a nice meal. Now I combine it with meat, great as a side dish 😁

[@ems9616]

Jacket potatoes are mostly amazing cause you can chuck them in and ignore them for 1-2 hours, slap some butter on it + beans or tuna mayo if your feeling fancy and its done. Literally saved my life before my adhd diagnosis. Having said that i literally lived for three months on boiled potatoes and butter when i was a student. That or crisps and vitimin supplements. Beans on toast is good. Chip buttys too. Crisp butties too.

[@Alex-sv8th]

This is the first time I've ever heard of people eating pasta with ketchup, lived with 12 different people during uni and it was never a thing. I used to get passata/chopped tomatoes/a tube of puree from Aldi, then make a sauce with salt and herbs, depending on how often I had it and how I stored the passata I'd get 20+ meals worth of sauce for less than £3

[@flowerdolphin5648]

I'm from Austria. My meals consist mostly of pasta with tomato sauce and/or tuna and/or sweetcorn, pesto, butter garlic & cheese... But I also eat a lot of sandwiches with egg spread or cream cheese. With a cucumber & some tomatoes on the side. Another favorite in the summer is caprese salad. Ofc I make oven pizza and instant noodles a lot. My meal usually includes either pasta or bread. Rarely rice, bc it takes too long. And I get Subway often too. Or I eat out in a fast food place.

[@moon_blanche]

me, reading the title: i bet someone has replied with pasta with tuna me, literally 2:30 mins later: yup we're so predictable

[@justinebarci1171]

UK here- adding to the Valencia tuna guy, cold rice with tuna and tomatoes is so nice and easy to make

[@strawberrired]

Ah yes falukorv, just throw it in the oven with some cheese, onion and canned tomatoes, boil some macaroni and then you have a lunch box for the rest of the week. You can also slice it "raw" and put in on bread instead of ham for breakfast, truly the most versatile of sausages.

[@Julia33066]

Hey Evan I’ve been felling pretty down lately but these help so thank you.

[@zoebenefer6149]

I need to send this video to my Bosnian friend to hear your pronunciation of Ajvar 😂😂

[@mariavidal8755]

I'm from Barcelona and my usual options are 1. Bread with cheese, ham and *fuet* but not in sándwich form, except if you are un a hurry and take your lunch with you 2. Any type of pasta with tomatosauce or just oliveoil (its really good here) or 3. What we call "tortilla francesa" which is like a scrambeld egg, again with cheese, fuet and ham

[@mallabook1]

I'm not even kidding when I say, I physically had to look away when you added the mayo. I feel so sick just thinking about it 🤮

[@tina.InTheSkyWithDiamonds]

omg me too, ew 🙈

[@charcoal8]

I feel like the mayo to ketchup ratio was off. A teaspoon of mayo and 2 tablespoons of ketchup seems right.

[@evan]

@@charcoal8 WTF

[@bethelliot7140]

@@charcoal8 Or just ketchup cheese and pasta, that is better (not that I eat that pretty much at all but at least it is easy to make and not inedible) 🤔😉🤗 Ps. Learnt it from my parents, probably wouldn't have eaten it like that on my own 🤣

[@mallabook1]

I have just spoken to my roommate about this disgusting dish and she has mentioned that she has eaten it in the past. I feel like I'm living with a psycho!

[@Ainennke]

Tinned tuna, sweat chilli sauce, rice. This is what everyone ate at my uni college here in Australia. Well, that and instant noodles.

[@WouterWeggelaar]

Breakfast + Lunch: Bread with peanut butter 100% Dinner: Pasta 100% just like the other person from the Netherlands

[@flopjul3022]

8:35 as a dutch guy the plain boring one would be something(i.e hagelslag, choco pasta, peanut butter, strawberry jam or something else like cheese) on bread with butter spread on the bread before hand, for breakfest and lunch.

[@SqueamishNerd]

The Swede who answered pancakes and pea soup must've misinterpreted the question. In Sweden it's very common to get pea soup and pancakes in schools on Thursdays, but it's not something university students make very often. A typical Swedish university student lunch is macaroni with ketchup and either sausage or ready-made meatballs.

[@kpwxx]

Amongst my friends and housemates there was pasta and butter, stuffing (just stuffing), rice and gravy, Asda basics soup with chilli powder stirred in.

[@harikah]

As a Protuguese, may I shed some light on the matter... there's also a lot of packed food from our mum's kitchens, and thats probably the most portugues student meal, microaved mum's food. But if you don't get to go home for the weekend every now and then i saw a lot of tuna pasta... noodles if you're feeling bougie. I've heard of the rice w/ canned sausages, but never seen it (to add that those are our default sausages, mostly for the how cheap they are) Our canteen food is also very similar to our homecooked food. I also realize I taught a lot of people how to cook, and/or grill chicken. I'd say mine was rice or bread w/ grilled chicken, and a (un)reasonable amount of tuna sandwiches frim the vending machine that sold for 1€.

[@charlestaylor3027]

You mean the housebuying process in England. In Scotland part of the buying is a fixed moving date and the price is locked on signing.

[@grantparman4705]

I'm an American who watches a lot of both American and British content, so sometimes I question which slang is American and which is British 😄

[@DieAlteistwiederda]

I have that issue as non native speaker that learned English more from watching and reading stuff than from school. Can't say it's a bad thing though because I am always able to "translate" for English speakers of different countries because I can understand some of the weirder slang too.

[@theresa2197]

so i am from Germany and the most classic student meal is just pasta with pesto, if u are a night out it is defintily a döner and of course poatos in various forms cant be missed in a stundent diet

[@j.ul1ett]

Hi everyone :D I hope yall are having a nice day/night/afternoon/evening

[@eastofeden13]

I am from hungary and my favorite is pasta with nesquick coco powder on it. Just make sure ur pasta is not totally dry, so the coco can melt

[@BellePullman]

Mayo and ketchup mixed - isn't that "Burger sauce"? "Student Pasta" is still a dish in this house, it consists of pasta, grated cheese, and whatever's needing using up in the fridge, fried up - usually broccoli, courgette, bacon,and whatever else!

[@trans_boy_kole7640]

If you mix ketchup, mayo and paprika you have prawn sauce.

[@nephlimjedi4741]

Best thing you can do in the Dutch supermarket as a student: find the products on discount. They're usually the products that have to be eaten the same day, and they often lay in a separate fridge close to the vegetable department. You can easily whip up a good healthy meal and each product can be discounted up to 40% (depends on supermarket, Albert Heijn has 35% discount, also valid without customer card)

[@puddingvalkyrie9657]

Adding my voice to the other fellow Brits on here declaring that pasta with ketchup is an abomination! When I was a student, I'd eat loads of little frozen pizzas and microwave fries.Oh and of course Koka noodles. They're dirt cheap. I still keep a few packets in the house. I used to always have Chocolatey Squares cereal in as well.

[@augustevarkalaite321]

In Lithuania students make a lot of potatoe dishes - fried in a pan, boiled, cooked in an oven, pancakes. Then comes the pasta with ketchup, cheap sausage, onions, cheese and some mayo as well. Frozen foods - dumplings, pizzas, fish fingers. And during harvest time people bring home grown vegetables and fruits from their parents or grandparents - so loads of zucchini, tomatoes, pumpkins, apples and home made berry jams. So people find creative ways to use these ingredients.

[@evan]

I do love a good cepelinai

[@arirrray]

In Russia ketchup with mayonnaise is actually a thing and we call it "ketchunnaise" (or ketchunez if we want to sound more Russian). I always add it on microwaved sandwiches I cook for breakfast before work and have been doing it since primary school, I guess. Best combination ever. Although in my personal opinion Hienz ketchup just doesn't work with mayonnaise like at all, it's too sweet and liquid. And we eat pasta with ketchup all the time. Maybe because our ketchups are different 🤔

[@terentule]

I wholeheartedly agree about the ketchup.

[@annafirnen4815]

Pro-tip: if you want to have a bag of potatoes last long enough, keep it in dark and cold place. Cellar/basement is ideal but even a dark corner of some cupboard will do.

[@ffreyxx9007]

Evan, you have made the pasta and ketchup entirely wrong. First of all, where is your cheese? Got to cook the pasta and drain it, add a nob of butter, bit of cheese and a single squirt of ketchup, If you want to make it really fancy, a little shake of mixed spice and viola: a half decent meal. ( I did say half decent)

[@bbmcgee33]

Mixed spice?!?!?! As in the stuff you use for biscuits and cakes?! 🤔😳🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@alexanderchilvers1243]

Current 3rd yr student in the UK here; I don't think I've had Beans on Toast since I was maybe 16.

[@terentule]

Interesting, I'm surprised by the general disgust over pasta with ketchup. I'd say it's not uncommon with Czech students (but the instant ramen, noodles, pesto, etc. are probably popular nowadays too). I'd definitely made this from time to time. Obviously, without cheese it's worse and I wouldn't think of mixing it with mayo. Of course, you have to use a better ketchup than Heinz :-P (sorry if I offended anyone, I'm not a fan, doesn't taste like proper ketchup to me :D). But the pasta ketchup is probably more a lazy-to-cook food :D.

[@eriknilsson9074]

Pasta and ketchup is common in Sweden too just easy to make. Pasta, ketchup and meatballs is the lazy meal here.

[@domieszter]

I remember one of the Czech Erasmus students cooking a whole pack of pasta with spicy ketchup and eating all of it at 2am.

[@axolotlismybeautystandard]

@@domieszter it’s def sounds like 2 or 3 am dish 😅

[@trans_boy_kole7640]

Daddies ketchup is my favourite, but there brown sauce is vile

[@videogame1291]

Hello everyone and welcome back to a man whose German lessons seem to be causing him to lose his mind (9:37)

[@JonasHamill]

I don't think the pasta with ketchup is as common as that poster made it out to be. It's not completely unheard of but it's vile and I don't know anyone that's tried it more than once

[@Phiyedough]

When I was a student in England (1982 to 86) I would often pick up my mate Martyn on the way to the pub. He was invariably running late and still cooking or eating his meal. It seemed to be the same thing every day and came out of 3 tins, Fray Bentos meat pie, new potatoes and peas.

[@ad3z10]

In my case it was fried rice but that's definitely not the norm, especially as I'm not asian. I'd always have some cooked rice lying around so just fry up any leftovers and do it with the rice plus some spices & soy and you have yourself a very filling meal.

[@MrMonkeystuff]

Chicken fillet rolls are definitely are a college student favourite here in Ireland. You get them in corner shops, like Spar or Centra at the deli counter. Usually butter or mayo with 2 other toppings in a baguette and a bottle of water for about €4. When cooking yourself it probably is just the usual pasta and whatever sauce is cheapest in Aldi.

[@catherinepunchcousins1435]

Both of those, plus beans on toast when really really really really poor 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hallotschuss4177]

Do y'all hate vegetables? How do you survive, I'm literally shook

[@charlotsart]

Well more students than you'd imagine get scurvy

[@brianorozco1074]

I like vegetables

[@Gewehr_3]

Ketchup is a vegetable

[@aliceknox6848]

It's been 30 years since I was a student at uni and can't believe how the food hasn't changed! It was pot noodles, bacon sarnies and cheesy chips (just oven chips with grated cheese over the top). And please don't do the puns Evan, they're great 🤣

[@DairyFreeAutism]

Calling pasta noodles hurts me.

[@evan]

macaroni noodle

[@colingregory7464]

I heard of a UK student many years ago who bought porridge at the beginning of term made porridge wholesale and poured it into his dorm room draws and cut slices of it for breakfast, lunch and supper, at the end of term he had scurvy, which is why the teacher who mentioned it knew of it, because it was a case study of modern healthy living !!

[@ubiquitous_star584]

Ketchup and pasta??? 😭 I’ve never seen anyone do that. Why would you need to when you could buy really cheap tomato sauce

[@hollyhales2831]

Just a can of tomato and tomato puree would do as well

[@anamedja6082]

Pasta and tuna! And in Slovenia, lots of students don't cook often because we have some sort of "cupons" for eating in reataurants (probably one of few good things still present from yugoslavian times) - so you could get a good 3-course meal woth salad for max 4€

[@coco0946]

Hi

[@oscarallen4718]

omg i just got a phone whith a good quality screen and I can realy appreciate the image quality of your videos

[@edge4694]

That looked like too much mayo, I feel like you ignored the part where mayo is basically oil and egg, and ketchup is a tomato based sauce, so the combination actually makes a lot of sense if you had the proportions right, it'd effectively be just spaghetti

[@discordiasreturn1222]

my favs, which are not completly vile (mostly): - pasta aglio e olio - milchreis aka rice pudding with cinnamon and sugar, frozen fruits if you're fancy - roasted tomato and feta on bread with olive oil and garlic - oven roasted potatoes with spices and sour cream - rice and leftover veggies in a pan (with soy sauce) - chili sin carne (basically canned beans, canned tomatoes, spices) - schopska salad (tomato, cucumber, balkan cheese and red onion) - pizza toast (toast, tomato sauce, ingredient of your choice, cheese on top, pop it in oven) - veggies as sticks and dip in diy hummus (cheaper to make) ...

[@llamathedrama1454]

Okey, as a Turkish seeing people who doesn't like mixing ketchup and mayo is weird. In Turkey they are almost always used together. Evan's reaction was a shock for me :O

[@chia-iho]

uni students in taiwan pretty much live off student restaurants instead of actually cooking. cooking is mostly forbidden in the dorms(there's only space for beds desks and closets in the room) and the most people have are little electric pots and small ovens, maybe a shared minifridge. so yeah the meal for when you're short on time is a microwave meal from 7-11