School Lunches Around the World | USA

[@Ashykitty]

The fact that you made everything from scratch increased the health value but 10000%. Everything needed to be canned, frozen, or otherwise pre packaged to be accurate.

[@dammbenderisgreat]

Don't tell Michael obamna she will make the food worse granted I'm done with school so don't care now

[@reclaimthunder9254]

@@dammbenderisgreat I had a stroke reading that fucking bullshit.Go the fuck back to school.

[@corybiss7884]

And it was always in a plastic bag!

[@BananaCatsnotanalysed]

@@corybiss7884 you had a bag i hade a tray that broke if someone touched it and never had enough room for stuff just things spilling out

[@SkanRashke]

Believe it or not, back in the 80s and even into the 80s a lot of the food was made from scratch to save money! Some of the school lunches were honestly really decent depending on the school. Nowadays though? Nah, garbage.

[@nickhoffman9256]

As an American, this meal is leaps and bounds better than anything I was given by the public education system

[@bbqchicken-yn4jw]

REALLLL

[@Empireofjapan1933]

Same im in high school and I sell snacks and I order door dash for lunch

[@Khornecussion]

Heh. I had parents that made my lunches. Ham, cheese and mayo sandwiches were a " bad day " for me and in the winter? Cream of chicken soup in a thermos made the way I like it with a little milk and butter to " cut it " on the sodium while keeping it creamy and rich. You'd think I would've been obese with those eating habits, but I kinda needed it. Ehlers Danlos Syndrome is so bad in your childhood / teen years that pushing anything beyond 115 lbs is lucky.

[@Empireofjapan1933]

@@Khornecussion I aslo eat a crazy amount of food and I'm not obese at all actually pretty skinny

[@ter2364]

id eat that everyday if it would replace the same unfreezed mush i had in elementary school

[@34Nor]

As an American I agree with all of the other Americans when they say that the American meal you made was more rich, full, and nutritious than anything I was EVER served in my American public school.

[@TheBigBadRaven]

What he made was way better then what we have.

[@cedric3973]

I am from texas and this was trash compared to what I got.

[@venti7981]

@@cedric3973right? I’m from Md and this is just sad

[@cedric3973]

@@venti7981 exactly, I read all the comments and thing about the actual fresh pizza, seasonal spiced apples. Rarely had cookies but it was some sort of fresh thing, sometimes fruit sometimes a treat. But we had 3 menu options,2-3 different veggie choices. I went to the second from poorest school for 1-5 and 9-12 grade. Many I knew from texas had better options but I don't know of any schools that had worse (and I traveled with the debate, swim team and other competitive teams, we always ate at the schools we went to and it was always good) I graduated in 2006

[@venti7981]

@@cedric3973 I go to a pretty normal school for my area but the food is nothing like in the comments, we get spicy chicken wings, chips, dairy free milk, rotini, nachos, pepperoni and sausage pizza, and ice cream on special days

[@Lizo361]

“Little bullet dodgers” had me on the ground 😂

[@matatias]

so are they in the case of a shooting

[@thekitten_hoarder]

@@matatias As an american I can confirm

[@lunamoon1239]

The implication that the cookie just _comes with_ the lunch. Naw, that shit’s always extra

[@double0evanjr271]

Always, they $2.25 at my school

[@Genes_in_jeans]

They were 2.75 at my school and then once I got to high school it was phased out completely gotta love nacho day tho with the little circle chips and fake orange cheese and sketchy ground beef or popcorn chicken day with the greenish gravy

[@josukejotaro548]

Hell yea!

[@dorkheadrae]

I went to school in the South from 2000-2012 and we got cookies some days 😅

[@meep4136]

They’re like $2.00

[@thegreatclydeidoscope4461]

As a student from the USA- that food looks WAY better than the actual food at our schools

[@nagawave24]

They never have cookies

[@spagetbear3506]

it looks better than the nothing you get in canada

[@icestryke]

The pizza is made with cardboard and lies.

[@Taniks_Kell_of_Telesto]

Yeah, and honestly we haven't done the pledge of allegiance since 2016

[@Marshall1q.]

​@@icestrykewith a little bit of melted plastic

[@SashaBeez]

As an actual American, I gotta say get rid of the jello, the corn, the tater tots, the cookie, all the good stuff. We just get uncooked veggies and the pizza.

[@trulygreg3103]

i gotta agree with everything but the tater tots. sometimes that was the main meal at my schools. option of nacho cheese sauce to go on top of it in high school too lmao

[@sylth4103]

@@trulygreg3103yes i was about to say the tater tots at my high school were good. unless they got soggy lol

[@Tiresome749]

As a another fellow American get rid of the cookie and everything else there is completely accurate

[@SylverScourge]

We would get tater tots, corn, pizza (with white sauce), and a whole ass apple. I hate corn and white sauce pizza so most of the time I'd just eat the tater tots and give away the rest of my food to the other kids at the table.

[@geliamcadams2520]

Frozen pizza

[@luna_sunny1726]

We aren’t **required** to say the pledge but we do have to stand and acknowledge the flag. In several states the pledge is followed by a “moment of silence” idrk why.

[@lumberjack7178]

Moment of silence for the fallen soilders who gave there lives for us.

[@amypiiee]

@@lumberjack7178maybe ur school should be more focused on english lessons instead of standing up for a piece of cloth

[@Tolazyforauser]

In more rural conservative areas the schools do require it. Im speaking as someone who got sent to iss for not standing due to an injury.

[@viscera8442]

sir this looks way too good to be an american school lunch. you gotta add at LEAST 2 frozen items

[@itslikethat5456]

Our public school feeds our kids hella lot better then that bulls.... And ppl saying their school lunch was worse are morons & probably part of what's wrong with our country. Debbie downers and crabby Karens

[@bigman7167]

Fr 😭 those dry freezer patties haunt me to this day

[@MISSY-qd4wk]

Plus you gotta at least put one expired true moo milk, my school had expired milk once, I only drink the slushy juices now 😭 💀☠️

[@austinslaughter319]

Pay to play baby, never mind that our f****** food system for education and jails basically one giant f****** circle.

[@wrennie1532]

​@@MISSY-qd4wk so true! The day somebody poured out chunky, rotten milk was the day I stopped grabbing it.

[@itsmuffintime6888]

“It’s not grey enough.” -An American High Schooler

[@alichan3772]

For real

[@I-sub-back.]

Fr tho

[@HunnerBun06]

This is the perfect description of our food

[@IgirlbossedTooCloseToTheSun]

It probably has too much flavor as well too lmao(pain)

[@cherry_Officialy]

Fr they gave us food with mold we never get cookies

[@PinkMomochi]

American here to fact check! The pizza was never made fresh, it was either frozen pizza pocket thing that came still in plastic, tasted like cardboard, or from a cheap pizza place where you would ONLY buy the pizza because it was sold in a stand in front of the gym instead of in the cafeteria. Also, NEVER seen corn as a side, usually prepackaged Famous Amos cookies or another prepackaged cookie. Almost all food came wrapped in the plastic they microwaved it in. There is no real kitchen in most schools, just prepackaged frozen food that gets reheated in a microwave until it becomes warm plastic mush…

[@shaemarcelin3306]

I had corn weekly

[@EmeraldEire7436]

My school had corn. Had to eat the lunch after I forgot mine one day, it was the most disgusting corn I had ever tasted.

[@cedric3973]

We had actual fresh pizza, seasonal spiced apples. Rarely had cookies but it was some sort of fresh thing, sometimes fruit sometimes a treat. But we had 3 menu options,2-3 different veggie choices. I went to the second from poorest school for 1-5 and 9-12 grade. My high school had rice dryers for treating rice prior to cooking. Many I knew from texas had better options but I don't know of any schools that had worse (and I traveled with the debate, swim team and other competitive teams, we always ate at the schools we went to and it was always good) I graduated in 2006.

[@daltoneades4814]

@@cedric3973this is some bull shit where were my options

[@acelynn4166]

SO TRUE and at our school recently in some of the food options they've been adding packaged grilled cheese... which is unfortunately better tasting than anything else they serve no joke. That and the frozen fruit cup thingys. Like how whatever they don't make and just add to the trays for the heck of it taste better than what they actually make and give out.

[@Juliamarion12]

That looks way better than my school lunch! Most of the time the pizza ain’t even cooked

[@Jijis.DeliveryService]

They don't give cookies anymore, students have to buy them separately from where I was from

[@nycookietv]

It’s an à la carte item which I cannot get because à la carte items are no longer available for the rest of the school year 😭

[@oj_Twigg]

My school had whole wheat rolls with some frosting on top and called it healthy

[@albar428]

They do give out cookies for free dependant upon your school system. The NYC public school system gives out free lunch, and that includes desserts like cookies, cinnamon buns, etc. The school lunch at my high school wasn't bad at all, I just didn't like the dumplings they served.

[@johnmorse2969]

ya when i was in high school the cookies were an extra 1.50

[@rageddragongaming1061]

I feel bad for you

[@levirogers9283]

It being made from scratch alone makes this way better than actual lunches we got

[@jaimej110]

The fact that your hand making all of this just puts you leaps and bounds ahead of any school lunch you would get in America

[@SeanTerrace]

ok brit

[@Ghduehsns]

stolen comment

[@altoidsours]

I think I had a pretty good school. I LOVED the food and I feel they fed us well. My favorite was the grilled cheese and tomato soup. I loved the pizza too. And the spaghetti. We also had a concession stand where you could buy fun extras (like my fav, slushies) and candy store in our school. Maybe not super healthy but I have great memories of the school lunches and miss them lol

[@MagicTurtleStudio]

Oh don’t forget the milk that’s either expired or frozen solid 😂

[@Hey_Cece111]

REAL

[@The_only_Pheebalicious]

Or weirdly gelatinous

[@Lemonsaregood123]

I still remember the day in sixth grade I found NORMAL MILK.

[@berurkebenei3687]

@@Lemonsaregood123In 5th grade, this one kid found NORMAL milk, and everyone cheered. Even though the teachers told us to stop

[@Arzano.229]

One time our milk was just a glob

[@hunterplays3676]

The little bullet dodgers is crazy

[@Jangofet952]

I was just about to post this wild

[@ganjagirlina]

LMFAOOO GOLD

[@rock3tcatU233]

Little Neos.

[@leogao6929]

im dead

[@waylanddee7211]

im from the usa and I cant even tell you how much that part of the video made me giggle

[@olivia_mae_karate11]

As an American, I can agree that school lunches are a -2/10. You forgot the chunky chocolate milk an moldy carrots. I've never had a cup of jello with fruit in my lunch, an it's been years since cookies were handed out. We also eat fake mac and cheese, burgers, and chicken sandwiches.

[@sharkula.1]

And the plastic fisherprice corn! Sometimes it's even stale bread

[@DigiScape903]

How about the stale dry chicken sandwich with no pickles or sauce

[@whipnaenae2253]

Oh man I be choking on those dry ass burgers

[@Luffy-132hze]

nah bro when ever we do get fruits in our jello it looks like a dog threw up on it and the mixed it up I have to gather up all of my courage and just try to taste

[@robloxplayer2876]

dont forget the pink chicken! 🤮

[@CrazyJackApl]

This is 100000000% times better than anything I’ve ever had at school

[@Nevaeh-jp3ei]

Okay. Now make the pizza soggy, the tots still frozen, the jello basically water, and the cookie is a brick of charcoal. Thats the American public school system at its finest in my neck of the woods.

[@Unhinged-n7r]

the cookies at my school were half raw lol

[@Nevaeh-jp3ei]

@@Unhinged-n7r lol

[@cjsocool8544]

don't even have cookies at my school currently

[@Sw1shyF1shy]

You forgot that the cheese on the pizza slides off of the pizza in one bite

[@AddieTheHuman]

And the cookies and jello are extra and have to be paid 2.25 each for

[@kenji_kishimoto]

the food looks edible, you did it wrong 😂

[@lizvandervort3795]

It looks like he forgot bullets in the lunch

[@Unhinged-n7r]

@@lizvandervort3795 STOP I'M DEAD

[@r1nsstuff178]

There’s no way you just called us “little bullet dodgers” 😭

[@ToastRobotixx]

I mean we are

[@bluebonproductions]

​@DarkRamProductions yeah he ain't wrong

[@The_bozo_on_siteP]

He’s not wrong

[@Sage25469]

That’s 100% what we are

[@nicoleash3516]

One: he’s not wrong.Two: some of the videos just go a little bit too far and just make fun of cultures.Not saying that he did

[@PinkPalmPuff09]

I don’t know about other public schools but at mine( in America) we have a salad and fruit bar picked fresh from the garden we have options such as salads ,wraps, pizzas, French toast sticks, hot dog hamburgers, etc or you can have whatever they’re serving that day. And a lot of it is fresh with not that much grease.

[@airy214]

what school do you go to how have you avoided lunch hell

[@PinkPalmPuff09]

@ tbh idk I been to other schools were lunches were crazy but this school it’s not that bad

[@spencerrivet3805]

As an 8th grader in the US, I will mention that lately schools have been cutting back on budgets and haven't made home cooked meals in years, but rather cooking frozen portions of food and serving per packaged sugar free disgraces that they call "food"

[@acreativename-yw4tm]

same situation for me

[@dpark189]

what I did when I was in junior high to high school was I asked my mom to teach me to cook some basic food and I just packed my own lunch in secret the day before and pocketed the lunch money or sold my lunch ticket. bought myself a couple video games that way.

[@spencerrivet3805]

Damn ok imma keep that shit in mind thanks bro

[@myadventuresandstuff5428]

My school got a grant and now I get free breakfast and lunch, but everything is still mystery meat and vegetables from an unknown origin

[@lillymurray8408]

Not our school. My daughter has the best lunches and multiple alternatives to choose from!

[@Stolazz]

Our school once served orange juice that expired in 2009. This was in 2016.

[@cas8227]

well you know, gotta get those little rapscallions into alcoholism early or the companies wouldn't make a profit

[@davidbanan.]

[@ahhhh9155]

just got served some apple juice that expired in 2006

[@sadprivatepyle7536]

The amount of times I'd open trumoo for it to be a block is ridiculous

[@jowanah3073]

wtf thats crazy lool

[@krampus9376]

you forgot to add that, in most parts of the U.S., students have to pay for their lunch

[@Ahhcommitment]

Yurp ✊

[@ItzMundane]

Wait, you’re telling me that students don’t always have to pay for lunch (and breakfast)?

[@Music_1sLife]

@@ItzMundane no my school started doing it when the flood hit of hurricane Harvey and they’ve just done it ever since otherwise they normally don’t do it

[@nughoul]

Edit: before you reply with the same shit look at the other comments please! And my edit thanks🙏 Tf are you talking about? Maybe in private schools but almost every single public school, which is the most popular type of school in the US, it is free???? No actually, where tf did you get this information. Looking at an article about school lunch debt in the U.S (education data initiative) 11.8 million students receive free school lunches, compared to 0.74 million who pay a reduced price of $0.30 and 2.23 million students who pay full price. Yeah, absolutely do not spread this bull. School lunches do sometimes suck, but they suck while also being mostly free. edit: Yall, look at the word almost and most in this comment. it is not lost on me that some people do have to pay, no shit, I never said they didn't. I am arguing AGAINST the statement that MOST people HAVE to pay. They DONT! by the statistics i gave most people DO NOT! That is my argument, I don't care if it's because of a program or it was default or you personally had to pay! MOST KIDS DO NOT! The statement that most kids have to pay for lunch in school in the U.S is wrong! that is it! please only reply if the statistics are wrong or wonky :/ I do make mistakes like that, and I would appreciate it. Edit 2: here is another stat just because I feel you guys need to understand that most people still don't pay, idfc if you pay or all your family did or you have to be in the program to not pay. most kids don't. Period. And if the "only" reason is because most kids are in the free program, it only confirms that most kids don't pay! You guys saying the same shit over and over is not disproving that most kids don't pay for lunch in America. Again. It Doesn't. Disprove. That. Most. Kids. Eat. Lunch. Free. Now please I don't want to act bitchy (because I started this who shit, my fault) but y'all really need to scroll down and read what I'm actually fucking saying :(. I'm just not gonna reply to the people saying the same thing everyone else has, thanks you. Anyway here is stat. According to schoolnutrition.org: " National School Lunch Program (NSLP) Average Daily Participation Over 95,000 schools/institutions serve school lunches to 28.5 million students each day, including: 18.9 million free lunches 1.1 million reduced price (student pays $0.40) 8.5 million full price 4.6 billion lunches are served annually (Source: Preliminary USDA FY 2023 data ) " Take it up with the USDA y'all. Not me, I'm not worth it!

[@Ahhcommitment]

@@nughoul my public school had us pay 😀

[@Starry_on_pawzz]

As an american i can confirm we didn't get cookies, the fruits and veggies were brown, the milk was spoiled, and the pizza was cold.

[@BlankIsOkay]

They gave 5 year expired chocolate milk... The actual lunch was a mix of oatmeal, throw up, and prison food.

[@azalea_1803]

Ur kidding…..

[@autism_final_boss]

me too man... me too.

[@zoro4358]

​@@azalea_1803 No we're not I what he just aight is ten times better then anything I've ever eaten in a American school that shit looks delicious have you ever eating a hamburger with the patty dryer then fucking beef jerky I have it's disgusting and the chocolate milk is chunky like it has a thick texture wtf

[@Jigga-jabbla]

Woah, I drank plain milk that was made 5 years ago recently, they really need to start checking the expiration dates.

[@dinocrafter6987]

​@@azalea_1803 As an American, I wish they were....

[@Elkemi-K]

As a fellow American, i can 100% confirm that's not what American school lunch looked like

[@Whoopsie37]

My school never had jello nor cookies that looked like that. But maybe cause it wasnt a public school.

[@sakurablossoms94]

This looks like exactly my school lunch. Except our apple wasn't cut up.

[@jjrpoektl1925]

Def never saw jello. More like plain apple or half a banana

[@Spring_Eclipse]

My high school lunch varies often But we got a fruit roll up sometimes, and a cookie whenever we had something called “Pizza crunchers” Which is just a pizza version of mozzarella sticks

[@bubblelaydy]

Every thing but the brownie and fruit cup for me. I saw jello fruit cups maybe twice in elementary school otherwise it was bags of juice, regular fruit cups, or sugary raspberry applesauce. Hell I don't think I ever saw an actual fruit 😂 In my private school shit still sucks, also doesn't taste as good, but it's 50% fresh so 🤷‍♀️

[@Your_local_bunny_friend]

As an American this is 1000 times better than our actual lunches

[@Rockship2910]

Ikr

[@LilFrijolayye.]

What???? I live in the suburbs and our school lunch is ok. In addition to that its literally free. I think its because the 2 high school in my area have huge funding. They spend like 15 million a year in renovations

[@Your_local_bunny_friend]

@@LilFrijolayye. Maybe that’s it but all I’ve ever seen is unfilling food, frozen everything and if not then thawing, mystery food, and worse That’s why I never ate school lunch and I never really got hungry at lunch anyways

[@513cgp]

@@LilFrijolayye. i grew up in drug riddled suburbs with poor schools and still had better lunch 😂 had like 4 different whole meal options everyday like a restaurant. Had to pay tho maybe $4.25

[@Unluckyprincess15]

Real. Its so fresh it could be fine dining

[@gothfoxgirlAO3]

Truthfully, what you described as a school lunch in the USA is more than what I had. It was either you were able to pay for lunch or you got an Uncrustable. Usually, it was something like nuggets, cheese maxi sticks, chicken patty on a bun, sliders, etc with a choice of chocolate milk or normal, oj or apple juice, and either an orange, apple, or string cheese. We got SO excited, when pizza was served. It was, usually, Costco pizza, if I'm remembering right. I've not been in elementary school for over ten years, so my old school might have changed lol

[@justagirl-m5t]

he dissed america in like eight different ways and his cooking was still better than the school lunch lady’s

[@bababooey7216]

Nah the school lunch ladies were legit the ingredients they were given were always shit tho

[@farkasmactavish]

Don't blame the lunch ladies for the system's crimes.

[@kittenuniverse1327]

Don't blame the lunch ladies they were always the sweetest, blame our schools for being cheap af

[@MrDumdas]

When I started teaching, I found out that you're actually not allowed to force the kids to do the pledge because it's considered "compelled speech," so I never made my students do it. It's crazy that none of my teachers ever told me I wasn't required to do it. Edit: It seems like a few people are missing the point. The issue isn't the pledge. The issue is the forced nature of it. I said the pledge every day growing up, but I assumed it was a law. I later found out that under the First Amendment, government funded educational institutions can not force you to do pledges, anthems, or prayers. If you went to a privately funded school, you're SOL. Also try and remember that the pledge has been manipulated in the past to push a specific religious ideology, just look at how much it, and other things like our money, changed in the 50s when the US decided to make Christianity synonymous with Capitalism, and Athiesm synonymous with Communism. This shit goes deep, ya'll.

[@professorrosenstock5026]

My high school principal would make us say it.

[@Runic182]

I used to refuse to do it

[@AleTitan]

certain teachers wouldn't let us stay seated...

[@jeremyd6775]

It’s unconstitutional thanks to the JW’s

[@Thishandle_isnt_available]

Actually i got written up for not saying it at most schools i went to.

[@Lostagain764]

The fact that this would be school lunch on a good day is wild

[@brickrulerz1327]

My school does not give that. We had a single piece of bread for breakfast today. That’s most of what our lunch is.

[@Nonyofuckingbuisness]

​@brickrulerz1327 we get chicken sandwich or pepperoni pizza, that is all, and that cookie ain't free that shits an extra 1.25

[@agent6219]

Incorrect the true fact is this was never served only the pizza part and even then their loaded with preservatives and so little of anything nutritious you want to die

[@ClayBrick-re7sp]

Not a good day, a day where you question if you are even ok or just hallucinating.

[@kokuseb]

“Little bullet dodgers” is CRAZY 💀😭

[@MasonMadji]

Bro called us bullet dodgers 💀

[@elmondo-s1e]

I mean…

[@CommanderWiggins]

And he ain't wrong

[@Scramify]

Not bullet dodgers but bullet absorbers 💀

[@MetalJuggalo]

Well we do have a lot of sugar sniffers playing with their nerf guns in the buildings

[@robertcisse2628]

That's because you are 🤣🤣🤣

[@thecoolestmanever9068]

this is the kind of meal you’d brag about getting at school.

[@historyboy8558]

The sad part is that he made it better then what we eat in school

[@8uphistory]

Fax

[@Christmasontop7272]

he pizza is NOT supposed to look that good the apples are small, green on the inside, and hard to bite into the cookies are so bus but they are ALWAYS UNDERCOOKED it’s either that or a dry nasty brick so…

[@rachaelgonzalez1463]

Fr we get like this gross stuff and it’s not even made by the cafeteria people it is just shipped to the frozen and they pop it in the oven 😭

[@pro-zp6cq]

And it still got -2 out of 10

[@jojoreference945]

Maybe for yall this shi looks like trash compared to my school’s meals except for when we have ham and cheese never liked it.

[@Lizard-Wizard084]

What you made is 100% more wholesome and real than anything I’ve eaten. I got instant mashed potatoes that tasted like paper.

[@Azzy2099]

Bro gave that a -2/10 and that sh*t would be amazing in an American school.

[@Emmiiiidoesstuff]

Yeah, today we had canned mac n cheese and canned unsalted green beans at my school (btw the green beans had mold on them) 😭

[@AuroraLalune]

Yep. Even the fruit in jello thing only happens certain places. Where I lived it wasn’t a thing and you’d be lucky to get a fruit cup and kids FOUGHT over those. There was never quite enough for everyone to have one. The ‘fresh fruit options’ were normally shit too. Actual rotting and moldy wasn’t at all uncommon. No one wanted the ‘fresh fruit’, which wasn’t lovingly cut up for easy eating. It was put out whole ‘as an option’ so they could say they offered it but with zero expectation for the kids to actually take it. The kids who did were usually starving.

[@medic7779]

The best was the pizza that people remember even as a adult saying man that was a good pizza but east coast nardones pizza aka Pennsylvanias golden food supplies the school with pizza like the french beard pizza or the normal rectangle pizza which always hits the spot but the best is getting their pizza from a store and throwing it on a grill

[@Liam-yt7de]

Someone got food poisoning from are lunch 💀💀💀

[@IsabellaReyes-kw9mz]

​@@Liam-yt7de I got food poisoned in elementary once for eating chicken. 😭 To be honest I still don't know why there is BONES in the chicken since that's technically a choking hazard.

[@HeatherSierraVEVO]

To be more accurate, you need a sad frozen pizza with ground sausage bits atop, or a sad corn dog. Chocolate pudding more like, and a separate apple/mandarin orange.

[@DABIGBOI57-fq9mb]

Not to mention that the Apple always had bad spots all over it

[@ieatrats8224]

And some "chicken" for taco Tuesday.

[@pro-zp6cq]

Or those potato smiles that were always soggy and burnt at the same time

[@curiousseal2678]

Also, the pizza has to be absolutely soaked in orange grease

[@-TheMachineGod-]

Ah, the good old days of whipping gross fruit at each other during lunch because it was more fun to risk getting a concussion from an apple than to eat it

[@Runic182]

I love how the pledge of allegiance has blocked out all of the hate comments about the food Edit: I am an american by the way

[@robertgronewold3326]

Because we yanks hated that food as well.

[@jakepophal985]

They don't even do that anymore at least in Wisconsin it stopped maybe 17 years ago

[@infectiontag1328]

fr bro really had a pretty scrumptious looking meal (compared to actual school lunch) and gave it a -2. he should do a review of school lunch after big mike ruined food in schools

[@realhumbug]

nobody was ever forced to do that

[@sko1beer]

only mainland china and usa make the kids do all that flag waving nonsense

[@sunspot16]

First experience with real public school was when I lived in the Netherlands for six months back when I was in kindergarten. Obviously no pledge of allegiance. It was also a Montessori school. Surprisingly the biggest shock when coming to American school for the first time wasn’t the different education method, it was the confusion as to why all the kids were droning on about the flag. I quickly noticed there was a flag in every freaking classroom. It was crazy.

[@kellyjellybean5350]

the fact that it’s actually cooked is better than most lunches we get. The amount of food poisoning especially in middle school was crazy. it’s always raw or burnt

[@IeatUraniumRods]

fr tho I got like 2 food poisoning this year because of lunch

[@italis41]

@@IeatUraniumRods sue their asses lol

[@sydneywetzler5962]

As an American, this is way better than the school lunches I get, sometimes it’s literally like 5 Dino nuggets and that’s you whole lunch, and then when we complain abt being hungry that are just like “WhY dIdN’t YoU eAt At LuNcH?”

[@octavia69]

here is a serving of moldy peas, expired milk, and chicken that somehow is either undercooked or drier than a desert :sob:

[@cocoakittenbeans]

⁠​⁠@@octavia69this is too true, and the fruit is always on its last limb

[@preppy.bloxburg.builds]

we don't even get lunch in australia, it's a vegemite sandwich (actually so good) but maybe a $5 choccy milk

[@hayliebutler9307]

True that. Only if your like my school the don’t even bother to warm up the food

[@sydneywetzler5962]

@@hayliebutler9307 ya my school serves the food either ice cold, or so hot you get burns

[@Shaka-Bear]

Cookies are only given for special occasions, and the jello is an icy cup. 😭

[@sukistorm7151]

Icy cups are only given on special dates too and they onlygive out like 20 so only a few kids get them.

[@parparpenguin]

Those icy cups are absolute 🔥

[@Shaka-Bear]

@@sukistorm7151 depends on the school

[@notdeadever]

My school charged 2 dollars for 1 of those dry ass cookies

[@kittenuniverse1327]

Where I live icy cups are honestly some of the only edible fruit

[@Nicole-hw5on]

In my school they give us raw pizza with half frozen tater tots on a good day

[@facebookaphobia1523]

This would be considered a luxury in my school

[@tHeReSaPiNaPplEiNmYbUrGaH]

Truer words have never been spoken stay

[@Kinsleybrame]

This is an 11/10 compared to what we actually ate😭😭😭😭 Edit: yall I said compared. I mean the food HE is cooking looks SO much better then are food WE eat

[@TaylorAnne12]

IK😭😭😭

[@keegentilley578]

This that 90s school lunch or something. Pre-Obama era for sure

[@ericabergami7709]

It really is

[@hackerkiller2131]

@@keegentilley578my brothers school had the exact meal minus the cookie. (Cookies were 50 cents).

[@drawingtutorialsquick]

To me this is a 1/10 (I live in America too)

[@unnamed_guy_01]

As an American, I can confidently say, this is 100 times better than anything I've ever seen in school before

[@cindyt1458]

Ikr the food is slimy and has random stuff on it

[@ihatecabbage7270]

man, I hate it when I agreed to it. Military lunch is good though, unless you're in a situation of getting shot at.

[@Zorky13]

Bro that pizza looks like heaven compared to what I have at school

[@turquoise6193]

“Little bullet dodgers” is diabolical 💀

[@HazardYaBoi]

but true.

[@Traumatizedyoungman762]

@@HazardYaBoiThat’s the part where it is diabolical 💀

[@angryduck4475]

“Little miss gripper” ass statement

[@TinkOutLoud]

I had to go back bc my brain couldn’t accept his words being said publicly. 😅😅😅

[@Your-friendly_fairy.hunter]

As a American I take 0 offense to this 😊

[@sunny0days]

As an American, this looks a lot more better than our school lunches. Most kids actually got sick in my school.

[@ForeverMorallyGray]

Same ;-;

[@Rose-wv4ez]

I heard of someone getting food poisoning from the school lunch 2-3 times, and I barely even spoke to anyone so who knows how many other times that happened 💀

[@Boredom_Reigns]

I remember the moldy peach cups of Thanksgiving in 2018, along with the 3 kids who got food poisoning within half an hour after eating it; rest in peace (not literally, as they're all still alive)

[@Cozi_The_Art_Devourer]

I remember everyone in my school getting to eat pizza with the police for fun while me and some other kids got to drink crappy smoothies from ACROSS THE CAFETERIA AWAY FROM THE POLICEMEN and they wondered why we where crying WE DIDNT EVEN GET ANOTHER ONE WHILE THEY GOT TO HAVE AS ,ANY SLICES AS THEY WANTED AND I NEVER EVEN DID ANYTHING WRONG💀

[@SportsMan0125]

Facts

[@vickidababe]

as an american student, that looks 10 times better than my school lunch 😭

[@sweppic]

probably because everything was homemade by a cook and not prepared in a commercial kitchen with the purpose of serving literally thousands of kids in 7 hours

[@victoriarouillier8065]

Ikr 😭

[@SELLAMAStunts]

At my school they just serving 10 yo pasta with spaghetti sauce

[@EverythingEmee]

Same

[@ClXlFactory]

I agree

[@fernandoortiz440]

That accurate, public schools is horrendous.

[@spacecat581]

It's actually worse than this. I didn't eat the lunch from middle school through high school. They even thought i had an eating disorder but the food was just that bad

[@Portahooty]

Yeah man like I would gag anytime I had the ACTUAL version of those jello fruit things. They were so disgusting man.

[@plugmanjohn]

I remember one time in middle school I actually threw up later in the day cause the lunch I ate was that bad. I never ate another school lunch for the rest of my education.

[@KittyKat-xg4tx]

Same. Once i got to high school i stopped eating. The burgers andcardboard pizza were the worst

[@edxdzforu]

He forgot the spoils milk 😢

[@savthemystery3488]

​@@edxdzforu Yes!! I couldnt tell you how many times ive grabbed a milk and its sour to the point its chunky in the carton! Our school food isnt even edible and the cardboard pizza tastes more like a brick weathered outside rather than a piece of cardboard with some cheese slapped on top

[@CallmeQueencrochets]

As soon as I saw seasoning I knew this was going to be inaccurate

[@Trainguy.5771]

Underrated as hell.

[@emmawilley82]

As an American my lunch usually consisted of a tiny piece of rubber chicken on a soggy bun with a side of mashed cardboard. There were bruised, squishy fruits and vegetables, but if you wanted a sweet or a drink you had to pay like two more dollars. And god forbid they give you a plastic knife cause some kid will go around stabbing people (yes, that actually happened).

[@toriquill1505]

The cardboard part is crazy accurate. They'd give us "bean burritos" that literally tasted like soft cardboard wrapped around mashed cardboard. Bean burritos were my favorite back then and even I couldn't eat that

[@creepermyeeper]

Damn, that looks really good compared to the actual lunches

[@microwavedcheeseslice]

1.) The cookie is always an after and extra. 2.) This looks SO MUCH BETTER than anything I've seen at school.

[@Pengu808]

I wouldn’t be taking lunch from home if this is how they would cook the food instead of heating it up.

[@Pengu808]

Aw dangit

[@Pengu808]

Mbbbb

[@DrewLaCroix20]

I feel bad for you… coming from a person in the USA, this looks disgusting and I feel bad for people who have lunches like this. I’m in the #1 school district in Louisiana (not that much of a flex) but at least they give us some mutrition

[@wizenedoak5046]

​@@DrewLaCroix20Lucky, I wish I had better mutrition when I was in school!

[@henryleeCabin54]

Common misconception- students don’t have to take the pledge. They just choose not to tell us that

[@tscaglione131]

Don't forget, if you don't pledge it's considered socially incorrect. I've gotten into an actual argument with my culinary teacher about this

[@Hastes.empire]

We took the pledge in the gym and if enough people didn't speak you had to do it like 5 more times, half of the time I just talked about the pledge of Mac n cheese

[@BatgirlStan]

@@tscaglione131no one in my class has cared for like 3 years. You live in Texas?

[@tscaglione131]

@@BatgirlStan Florida

[@Bear11234]

@@tscaglione131of course it is, people died for our country and also we went to war to be our own nation and separate from Great Britain. It is socially incorrect. Sure we have flaws, everybody’s got flaws. If you hate the country and the pledge then leave 🤷‍♀️

[@lilys.3318]

As an American student, I would genuinely prefer the food you’ve prepared over the industrial microwaved “food” that my school makes. The best “food” item my school offers is probably the utensils.

[@HEY_FELLAS_]

You forgot that all the food in American cafeterias has so many additives in it that hardly anything isn't artificial

[@soccrstar4]

Born and raised in the Midwest. I thought Big Food catered everything. Our cherished next generation eats the same as our (overcrowded) prisoners eats the same as Nana dying in the hospital for 6 days, causing 3 generations of medical debt.

[@nickadimouse1]

That's a lie. The hospital provides it's own food, prisons do not eat the same as the school system, why would you say something stupid like that

[@Karma-qt4ji]

With respect to Nana, she went quickly then. Only three generations of debt??? You dodged more bullets there than your kids at school.

[@BorgorEnjoyer7]

As a American and a teenager im honestly honored to be called a "Little bullet dodger"

[@lilandch4rr]

same ong

[@Daxbehne]

Little bullet dodgers😭

[@ceekay2390]

That line made me laugh and made me sad, all at the same time.

[@coach8123]

devious ah line 💀

[@AmyCampos-kh4tx]

Saaaame😂😂

[@ladymandinite7864]

Hearing bullet dodgers come from a british person is making me fight my inner patriotism

[@TBONEnoble]

they're just jealous its harder to dodge a bullet than a shank

[@keithcantplay]

fr, i get that its dark humor but seriously, children die horrible deaths from it, not funny and uncalled for

[@dumbly-stupid]

​@@keithcantplay This is more "look how edgy I am I'm making fun of dead kids" than dark humor

[@kalebwick3429]

When Americans make fun of America, it’s funny, when people from Britain do it, that’s a war declaration.

[@DaChickin-ic7mp]

@kalebwick3429 exactly especially when there states not much better

[@robotic3gg]

as an American who has been to schools with not a lot of money and a school with way too much money to kill, I can say that our lunches do not look like this. this is closer to the rich school lunch but this is still better. to even get good lunches, you either have to pay for it or you get a free lunch both with tiny proportions unless you spend extra money to get more food.

[@robotic3gg]

also, the pledge is dumb but some teachers are sticalers about it. At my current school, they have an AI voice to say it over the annulment system.

[@robertgronewold3326]

This looks better than any school meal I ever had here in the US. No joke, when I left High School, all I did was stop eating those lunches, and I lost 40 pounds in less than a year.

[@nephew_alan]

It's probably a good thing I brought my own lunch

[@Nitewolf-xd6bw]

Bruh they don't give us lunch hear in South Africa we have to make our onw

[@robertgronewold3326]

@@Nitewolf-xd6bw You're probably way better off. American school lunches are just about as bad as prison food. It's so awful and cheap.

[@Albinojackrussel]

Tbf same can be said of his British lunches one. Much nicer than the real one. Also I'd say it's better to have too many calories available for the kids who maybe aren't getting fed at home. Theoretically kids who don't need them don't have to eat the whole thing.

[@Blueberrybomb1234]

@@robertgronewold3326 Bro it is, my friend got chunky cheese whiz, I didn't even know processed shit like that could even go bad.

[@mint-wr6wc]

Bro just started a war 💀

[@KhyleMitchell]

FR

[@sakanashoji]

nah he's pretty much right

[@Lil_Burbger]

I ain't gonna lie, there's no war that can be started here. I've seen pizza with burnt cheese that just falls off in one big piece.

[@fallenlogan]

No war when the government thinks it's better to charge kids for lunch and if they missed a payment on lunches, they're required to pay it otherwise they won't graduate. Also most schools now only provide one part of the meal because they're underfunded thanks to George Bush's No Child Left Behind.

[@linkin5221]

We don’t get cookies… This is way better than an actual American school meal

[@HUNTER-NOC3DA]

As an American, I can say this looks HELLA lot better than the food we're actually fed at school Xb

[@icy2037]

Getting called a bullet dodger is crazy 😂

[@waba1231]

Fun fact, the supplier of public school lunches in the US also supplies prisons

[@dizco7934]

as a student in the US, I've never gotten jello or chocolate chip cookies as a lunch but sometimes around thanksgiving and Christmas, they give us gingerbread cookies, and they may randomly give us these cookies that tell us to say no to drugs. Also the apples are never sliced

[@person-ie4gr]

The apples at my school look like they just should not be eaten but that’s not saying much when that’s just the whole school lunch in general

[@SmooovDamns]

You guys were getting cookies?!?😮

[@NahVesX]

My school serves jello, chocolate pudding, and even cinnamon buns and the food is pretty decent like the cheese sticks and stuff.

[@steersfan]

your school was rich, gingerbread 🤦

[@spooky9817]

The fact that this looks more appetizing than the actual school lunches at school is upsetting.

[@linaaa3135]

"...the little bullet dodgers" 😭

[@JordanMullen-sx6em]

It took me a sec to realise what he said but it killed me

[@sevenhundred77]

I can’t really enjoy the joke cause I still remember guns being found on my campus.

[@GanryujimaX]

​@@fahrifahri3876☠️☠️☠️

[@Nico.di.Angelo128]

@sevenhundred77 agreed, it was made in extremely poor taste. It’s especially infuriating because this is a foreigner who doesn’t have to experience the anxiety that students and parents feel over this subject. Our friends, classmates, teachers, and family members could all be ripped away from us in a second. I’m currently homeschooled but was in public school until the 7th grade. My best friends go to the local highschool and so does my brother. The other day they were locked down because a transfer student was making threats of violence. Thank the Lord my brother was already home (he’s a senior and has enough credits to only go to school for half a day), but my childhood best friend was still in that building. My sister in Christ who suffers from extreme anxiety was in that building. This shit pisses me off

[@Pookie_Teagan]

You forgot the old pizza, solid milk, expired fruit, and there not being enough lunch to feed everyone

[@nessa1565]

Exactlyyyy they always give us milk as the drink🙄 but I gotta pay for water

[@zeldaweeb1738]

My school had veggie pizza on the menu and I was so glad I was bringing leftovers from home. That stuff smelled rancid and tasted even worse. Their pizza crust was like cardboard…

[@TheNumber1Tree]

Yeah at my school they had fake cheese and the crust didn’t taste like crust

[@josyouwatch]

Cut up fruit you're funny they gave us old oranges no one bought and suspicious Mac and cheese soaking in mystery cheese liquid plus milk in a bag and a trusty spork that does nothing 😊

[@shilohhawk2990]

Our milk wasn’t completely solid it had tiny shards of ice in it so it felt like an awful slushee

[@star_grrlll]

this gotta be pre-food pyramid lunch bc ive never seen school food looking this good😭😭🙏

[@kalisay2594]

my pizza comes in a plastic bag that has holes in it

[@star_grrlll]

@@kalisay2594 HELPP 😭

[@sakurablossoms94]

This looks like exactly my school lunch. Except our apple wasn't cut up.

[@GoblinModeMVP]

American here, turkey and gravy was the star of our school lunches.

[@RomeoChitii-ty5fr]

little bullet dogers got me 😂

[@liammorris1018]

@@sounduser hahahaha as if that comment wasnt bad enough this finished it off! bon appetite hahahaha

[@madaxwayne]

​@@soundusersnatch?

[@alexyork3177]

It gets us ready for war when our military decides to unnecessarily jump into someone else's business.

[@that_guy_that_plays_stuff]

Nah son, little jimmy’s strapped too

[@pasalking7760]

​@@alexyork3177I'm weak lol

[@laddyboy107]

As someone who has worked in a school in the US, if they served this, I would cry tears of joy

[@sakurablossoms94]

This looks like exactly my school lunch. Except our apple wasn't cut up.

[@Colorful-sw4n]

As an American, you forgot the expired chocolate milk. You also forgot to make the pizza have either the texture of a cinder block or an eraser. Also, I have never in my life seen jello served at school, kinda jealous tho cuz this looks edible.

[@kayleyuta7072]

He also forgot to make the pizza either extra dry or extra greasy. Also forgot that if you don't get school or government assistance that you have to pay for your lunch in high school.

[@sukistorm7151]

Tbh I wish I had that.

[@Hat.]

So real-

[@Writer_For_Christ]

We had jello about four times each year, it wasn't really good😭

[@Sobbing_crying_flying_]

Dont forget the square pepperoni and the prepackaged (soft cookie)

[@Eabha-marie]

As a American like most in this comment section as it seems. I’m in school still (public) and I’d wish we got this we just get hard cold pizza and a apple and that’s your lunch. Sometimes on special occasions we get bullet holed mystery meat “chicken” sandwich

[@Red_Spork]

I was once told " we aren't allowed to put salt on the food" by my lunch lady

[@cockatooinsunglasses7492]

The human body needs salt to function, what the heck?

[@Moonlight-Melody]

What’s more depressing is that we rarely get lunches that good 😂

[@eddapultstab2078]

It's a miracle if the food was that good. I swear I usually avoid most of the food and just drink milk.

[@thing-wi3hm]

I got dry Peta bread and soggy corn 😭

[@pvtghost117]

Nah I got chicken sandwiches, pizza or chow mein, then fruit or baby carrots a juice and a milk. The chicken sandwiches were a gamble tho lol. Sometimes you got one that had a patty that was dry as shit.

[@Moonlight-Melody]

@@pvtghost117 You’re lucky af 😭

[@chrismarston4266]

Can’t forget to mention meals cost >$3 in some places and are still terrible. Only when Covid happened were lunches made free in many areas but were limited to one per person of the same terrible quality. I packed everyday so I never had to worry about this, but would give my ID to a friend to use my free lunch. Then a year and a half after I graduated I was told I would not be allowed to graduate because I had a negative account balance for the previous year. Good ol’ US of A for ya.

[@Blasphemy-y1c]

So my school does breakfast lunches sometimes, and they cost 5 dollars. For one lunch, chips, and an apple. One day it was ham sandwiches and tater tots. The tater tots were crazy cold, and the ham in the ham sandwich was green. ;-;

[@chrisdogg1403]

That looks better then 99% of the school lunches in Kansas City Missouri 💀💀

[@ToryThe_Rat]

If my school lunch looked like this I wouldn’t have pushed to be homeschooled so soon 💀😭😭😭

[@froggewitch9086]

The fact that everyone from the US (including me) agrees that this is better than our school lunch

[@ToryThe_Rat]

@@froggewitch9086 fr😭 one of the little cons that I put on my VERY LONG list of cons was the food public schools have😭😭 y’all actually get fed the same food people in prison eat and our “super fun pizza parties” were thin cheap pizzas with a juice box 5 chips and soggy fruit😭 y’all need to call CPS on these schools

[@froggewitch9086]

@@ToryThe_Rat FR!! I LITARALY HAD FOOD THAT LOOKED AND SMELLED LIKE SOMETHING I WOULDN'T FEED A DOG!!! (tasted like plastic cheese and sadness)

[@ToryThe_Rat]

@@froggewitch9086 😭😭😭

[@Its_Gojover]

As an American this is way better than anything I have been served on school grounds 💀

[@tszipop]

fr 💀

[@FocusUpppp]

As a little bullet dodger, my school didn’t even pass the health inspection so..

[@Willietick11]

That looks way better then the slop I get served at my school

[@ElNachoThe3rd]

As a 6th grader in the US I cannot confirm this, we get a tiny square piece of pizza and chocolate milk with grapes or some processed strawberry stuff.

[@MYR_112]

Pizza at my school was better odds of winning powerball than getting real pizza

[@Funnyx_N00b]

You got LUCKY if they put a cookie on your tray at school, and everything was served with soggy, undercooked fries with either no salt or way too much. Then you sometimes get a vegetable and even then it’s from a can and it’s gross. Then you gotta drink the milk that’s probably expired. Luckily, once I got to high school they gave us juice boxes and you got the frozen strawberries or blueberries but otherwise the food sucked.

[@michellenance4289]

We have to pay $10.50 if we want a cookie at my school😭😭😭😭

[@Oceanrex]

Yeah, you also get rotten fruit and soggy vegetables that take the shape of the scoop

[@michellenance4289]

@@Oceanrex Wait….. you get any fruit😨😨

[@fredburroughs4533]

They banned salt 😭😭😭

[@michellenance4289]

@@fredburroughs4533 Wait really? Bc at my school they go as far as to putting salt in the apples😭

[@edipasplays]

For your information. The tater tots ate bot deep fried. They are oven baked and left out til they're rubbery in texture. And the fruits are added to the plate and students can put them in a small tray if they didn't it and didn't want to throw them away.

[@VOCALOID459]

"Little bullet dodges" HELP I'M AMERICAN I'M GIGGLING-

[@Seagull011271]

If we actually had this for school lunch, it would be considered a delicacy 😂

[@Amanwithagoal]

Agreed

[@blobfishy4]

frrrrrr

[@dylanshellthecooker]

true

[@BeccaTehBunny]

You think the cookie COMES with the lunch? HA- nah bro 2 dollars extra ontop of the lunch fee

[@ryleelovesyou5]

yk bro went to a private school as a kid cause yk all us public school be thinking that’s a whole gourmet meal😂

[@Bagofnowt]

Or more likely, a British school

[@Sit_down1]

I would give anything to have this for school lunch 💀