School Lunches Growing Up (

[@shashankrao3085]

The whole "getting stares" for ethnic food resonates with me, as an Indian American, so hard; my mom used to send me Indian food for lunch at school, because the food at school was unhealthy and my mom believed in eating home-cooked food as a value. People used to make fun of my food, and I still remember that my mom would tell me, "You eat what I give you, and remember that not everyone has someone to make food for them like I do for you." A lot of the experiences that you've talked about with your family resonate with me even though I'm not Latino. I just wanted to say keep at it.

[@JennyLorenzo]

Your mom was absolutely right! She sounds like such a sweet woman!

[@miamartin2561]

Shashank Rao yeah lol my mom is Japanese and makes me yummy Japanese meals. People stare but I don't care !! Food is life

[@mermaidatlantica]

A kid in my husbands old school used to bring indian food in to school, his sister was the chef for a local Indian restaurant and he was the main source of jealousy for majority of the school! Indian food is amazing!

[@AWESOMExMx24]

You're outfit is bringing me major flashbacks. It reminds me of Ashley Spinelli from Recess. Lol. So cute!

[@jessierae881]

Maria Munguia omg i thought i was the only one who saw it!! I love her outfit

[@Drksparrow]

She loves Ashley Spinelli. So you're correct! =)

[@wednesdayaddams1473]

Maria Munguia that's exactly who she is trying to portray. She's really big on cosplay 😊

[@kookieskream3325]

Maria Munguia OMGG YESS I KEPT THINKING THAT!!

[@newmonnfreak1]

I am half Greek half Cuban . ..yoi can imagine the looks I got growing up from having a crazy lunch box with empanadas con spanakopita 😂

[@bowlins5223]

Jenny You're dressed *like you are out of a Disney channel original series*

[@Otterpoptheotter]

MaleiadeTM you mean Spenelli from Recess

[@JennyLorenzo]

Bahahaha! Animated > Live Action!

[@bowlins5223]

Zee The German Shepard ye mah boi

[@wednesdayaddams1473]

Jenny Lorenzo I love that you're dressed as spanelli from recess

[@anothernameneeded]

Maleiade hamilfam

[@Hlsyea]

Last time i brought a gordita as lunch i got made fun of and called poor . But it was a bomb ass gordita .

[@genizahx]

Man I would've sticked up my middle finger and keep eating my gordita 😂

[@ronir8176]

Ashley Rae broo yeess my friend always had 2 and she was super small so she'd get full easily and give me the other one 👌

[@aly2413]

Ashley Rae IM DIEING!!! Girl you eat your Gordita and give me some

[@johannalopez7220]

Ashley Rae same but that gordita was good af 👌

[@pcarebear1]

My mom made me a sandwiche or torta of frijoles, plantains, and crema (traditional Honduran breakfast for kids on the go) and people looked at me weird too. Pssh I didn't care, they're just jealous I had a mom that loves me and a warm meal😘 😘

[@adaliznoemi1084]

My school didn't allow us to bring lunches and their lunches SUCKED. So I would always bring salt and adobo with me. People looked and snickered, but then realized I was a genius. Then everybody started bringing some. Best legacy of you ask me.. 😎

[@JennyLorenzo]

YOU FREAKING GENIUS. lmao!

[@dannygonzalez9358]

Revolutionizing the school lunch system

[@thediannetic]

Adobo is life 👌🏻

[@9RedSquares]

I graduated in 2000 and I still remember the smell of the first week of every school year. It's a mix of paint, wax, cleaning chemicals, and crushing low self esteem. Next time I drive down that memory lane I'll have to roll the windows up. Great vid, Jenny ^_^ \o/!

[@ltrebach]

She says she ate the pizza lunchables raw like that's weird..... were you supposed to microwave them? Cause I always ate them cold......

[@mermaidatlantica]

You can def eat em cold :) I used to but it was never good haha!

[@ArtofLunatik]

ikr

[@joshiyonnahayes6016]

Fr me too! 😂

[@ashleyashleym2969]

Yeah, I learned you were supposed to cook them as an adult

[@aikisu13]

You are? I thought that you weren't... The thought of them warm actually grosses me out. I thought it was just because like any Cuban grandma they would say you needed to cook it and look at you strange when you wouldn't. I got that from mine.

[@stwalstan]

We were spoiled at my parochial school. The cafeteria was staffed by a bunch of retired Italian ladies who founded, ran, or were still running, their own restaurants. I didn't know what people meant by bad school lunch until I got to high school.

[@johncarlosahagun4065]

stwalstan u r one lucky dude

[@angelofcoffee.]

I once brought fricase de pollo 🤤🤤🤤to school for lunch and some saltine gringa asked " oh my god what's that smell???" I told her what it was and she has the AUDACITY to say " well, it smells gross"...... this lil girl had grapes, goldfish, crackers in her lunch box. I just looked at her lunch and back at her and back at her lunch. 👀👀👀👀

[@nutellaeatingpanda]

Kahlei Aguilar grapes, goldfish, and juice are just snacks smh

[@michaelferryman3839]

I remember "Trapper Keepers™". At the start of every year I'd get one, and spend the rest of the year trying to keep it from falling apart.

[@Raincloudthetherian]

I never had a packed lunch, we couldn't afford it. School lunches were always free for me and so that's what I ate. No complaints about it either. :)

[@JennyLorenzo]

School lunches for me were more expensive than home lunch. :(

[@DaisyGalvanlikes]

In elementary school, everyone used to talk shit about my food like "Ewww what is that" whenever i pulled out my gordita o mis Conchas ect. but now everyone wants my food and they're like " oooo that looks so good your mom must be a really good cook" and im like "hell yeah she is" :)

[@alinaluna8019]

I REMEMBER THE CANNED SALCHICHAS!!! I also remember the Malta, lunchables... My cousin loved chef boyardee

[@javidzcool]

If you had salchichas I'd sit next to u and ask u for some 😂

[@JennyLorenzo]

Instead of, "Psst. Hey! Gimme your tots!" it'd be like, "Psst. Hey! Gimme your salchichas!"

[@javidzcool]

well I'm half Cuban so this would be an accurate statement haha

[@priscillagabriela8988]

My kids just started elementary school and I was thinking hmm what should I send them, boom, I send them some salchichas hahaha. In Miami my mom always sent me this.

[@amandarosefoell1223]

From 6th grade on I went to school in PR and it was rice almost everyday. It was good but it gets to a point where you hate rice. My son now goes to a PR school and when he asks me to make him lunch O do it without complaining because I can remember eating arroz con salchicha en school then going home and my mom made the exact same thing.

[@salomonrael8117]

During winter I was packed three tamales for like the intier month of December as well as flan and a homemade tortilla

[@yairibeld5643]

The Dominican lunch lady (she gave me extra chicken tenders 😋)

[@amyrodriguez3645]

One time I wanted to bring a pan dulce (concha) and the white kids would just look at me ... I think it's because I had bred crumbs all over my face 😖😆😋

[@bexg2902]

Amy Rodriguez nowadays the white kids will be all over that. At least where I live.

[@thewonderlander1372]

Pan Dulce is really fucking good

[@BasicYutuber]

Bro. NO ONE can tell me that she doesn't look EXACTLY like Ashley Spinelli from the Recess Cartoon. BROOOO. ~Currently typing from south miami, wassup

[@lunacinful]

Loved the shout out to Recess! Mi mami always made my lunch. I forever had pan de caja con jamon y queso

[@telmamaresch2417]

Pisa y corre is called Romeu e Julieta (Romeo & Juliet) in Brazil. But with white cheese.

[@SharonE88]

To me the worst experience ever was the huevo duro in the lunch box. Opening it like a bomb inside the classroom and everything starring to smell like that -_- in my school we didn't have cafeteria, sadly

[@iluvzurara2]

OMGGG THE FROZEN WATER BOTTLE!!! i forgot about that! im dying of laughter now! and ooo my parents are colombian and my mom would sometimes also pack me guava paste cubes but we call them bocadillos... with pollyo cheese or any queso fresco ... i preferred my pollyo cheese when i was little lol

[@danielav8668]

EVERYBODY wanted my food because my mom used to pack the following: Arroz amarillo con pollo y platanito frito o con platanito sometimes Oreos Jugo de mango And me too had the water bottle in the paper towel

[@almaguillot8597]

Ah... the good ol' days of public school lunch. One could tell the food was good when the cafeteria was packed. The students favorites were french toast for breakfast and arroz blanco con habichuelas rojas y chuleta frita for lunch. We had it good in Puerto Rico.

[@aaliyah0612]

Lucky

[@demonchild919]

In elementary/middle school I ate the school lunch that consisted of chicken tenders with cheese or my favorite the squared fried fish with cheese (ugh soo good) or bringing a brown bag with a sandwich on the crappy burger days. But oh I though I was the shit when I hit high school and they had papa johns pizza (it was a fresh concept back in the days)or we would take off to a burger joint down the road during 11th n 12th grade .... ahhh the memories of ditching 3 n 4th period during 11th grade then co-op during senior year!!! And yes I graduated lol, it pays to have smart friends 😉.

[@shaden807]

M- made O- of M- money Think about that

[@salibettegallegos1771]

shaden arias for me that’s not true

[@f.l.k5018]

I'm Danish and I always eat leverpostej på rugbrød at lunch. That's liver paste on rye bread, and it will be even more delicious with pickles on it! 😆❤️

[@mackenzieking2994]

I love the Recess inspired look, that show was the best!

[@saramehta6861]

My Mom was queen sandwich lady. Everything was a sandwich if it was between slices of bread. A fan favorites was a lasagna sandwich with pesto. That was dope as fuck

[@horchatamami]

Can't forget the ñoo que barrato commercials for back to school I knew summer was over again when I would hear the guy

[@marceloponce8342]

I went to elementary school in Mexico. My mom never even made me lunch. She'd hand me 20 pesos right before getting me off the car at the corner and be like te compras algo sano. I'd always get molletes ir quesadillas. When we moved to Canada she started making me lunch and she somehow got 10 times more mexican as you do when you're not in your country. I had chilaquiles once and sometimes she'd pack tortillas in a little bag

[@StephaniePoo]

I pretty much lived for taking lunch to school because miami dade county sucks at lunches 🤣 but tuna sandwiches, ham/bologna and cheese.. i loved it though when i took left overs and when my mom was fancy and made empanadas and i could take those!! And salchicha with white rice was my jam!

[@oskars1178]

Love you and your vids! You bring back crazy memories of my 90's childhood in Miami! Keep it up!

[@hoibintang8194]

Cold fried noodle ( because it was soaked by the steam while it was still hot for probably 5 hours before lunch until it gets molded into the shape of the lunchbox) with slightly crisp edges sunny side up egg and a drizzle of fried shallots , or whatever leftover food from yesterday's dinner, rice included . ohh the good old days~

[@krisanthonysilveira8244]

I HAD TO STOP EVERYTHING to come watch Yennnyyyyy :DDDD U ROCK MAN !!

[@shareensita4155]

arroz con piccadillo with bananas y un huevo LOVE IT

[@irenecampbell5698]

i remember i brought a senorita to school and surprisingly everyone wanted a peice and i was like no no no no cause senorita es mi vida(i eat the school lunches they are great curry,spaghetti, chicken and fries,jerk pork etcp.s. im Cuban Bahamian raised in The Bahamas)

[@Hiswifex3iLy]

I was spoiled my parents always took me out for lunch in middle school for about 6yrs i ate out whatever i wanted within the time limit of course but looking back now as an adult although my lunches tasted better and i got to spend time with my parents im not much of a social person i wish i would of gotten to spend time with kids my age more

[@jessmartinez2276]

Growing I mostly ate the school lunches because both my parents were working, I mean I knew how to prepare lunch for myself but let's face it I'd rather sleep in those 10 extra minutes than prep a lunch. Anyway I remember I used to make this pasta ravioli dish (not from a can) and I would bring it to school I kid you not every time I would bring it one of my former friends would unpack it for me and eat the entire thing while I was talking to another friend! It got to the point where if I was going to make that I would make some for her also but she would end up eating both of our portions! I figured she was just hungry but so was I.

[@vianjelos]

Jess Martinez That doesnt sound like a friend..it sounds like a leech. I hate people who try to take things without asking.

[@autumnsmith5136]

The caca lunches at my school costed about $2.50 a plate, so for my junior and senior years of high school, I decided it made more financial sense to eat Ramen everyday. Great for my bank account, not so great for my health

[@maribelcosme-vitagliani7296]

I'm a senior in college and I still bring lunch from home lol

[@mandilaz]

Currently watching this video in the corner of a sedano in Hialeah waiting for my Abuela to buy all her food

[@dorisbain9281]

In school I ate the lunch because it was actually good back then now my daughter she read the lunch sheet and she seside if she want to pack her lunch or eat at school because some of the lunches are gross now they don't flavor the food and I willnt make my child ate tasteless food

[@caeliecat575]

I've always made my own lunches. Back in primary school I usually had s9mthing like a packet of popcorn/rice wheels, pickles (in a snap lock bag) and a tin of tuna.

[@tdlavam1413]

omg, im filipino and i always brought the weirdest stuff with me and we all had assigned seats so it was the same kid telling me my food smelled weird. eventually i said well at least its better than that caca sandwich that youre eating

[@randowviewer3832]

I am Cuban and in Cuba my lunch was harrina and a pan at the side

[@bexg2902]

My mom wanted to assimilate so I got "normal" stuff. My mom would actually pack me TWO sandwiches made with turkey and American singles, nutri-grain bars(my fave) and a Capri Sun(my parents called them Poches). When I got a little older, I remember actually cooking my own lunch once for the next day. It was a pork chop sandwich. Yum yum. The few times I had to walk home from school, my mom would meet me with a snack(usually frozen strawberries) and I remember being sooooo embarrassed that my mom was meeting me to walk home. Man, I was an ungrateful kid. I did, however, like when my parents had an errand or an appointment right after I got out of school. My mom would always bring me a freshly made bowl of arroz con papas and some ranchera or a chuleta.

[@mickyxperreo97]

For me I've always buyed lunch bc my parents got me free lunch at school. I do remember those days in Boca Raton, FL and how I always wished my mom would pack me a lunch like all my friends.

[@VittoIB]

As a teacher of a Mexican/Haitian community, I actually appreciated setting the kids bring in leftovers. They'd ask me if they could warm up their food and I always let them. Who the heck is made of money? That dinner's so nice; go have it twice.

[@grabitgee]

the salchichas really hit home. so good.

[@rianabasista8161]

I used to pack my own lunch and it was pretty good!

[@rianabasista8161]

Btw you made my whole Monday brighter!!!!

[@Pennless]

I went to a private international school, so nobody cared what I brought. Most days it was some form of leftovers that I shared with the halfies (half insert nationality and half American) that I was friends with lol, or like, pasta. My friends bought Cup Noodles, and most of our lunch experiences involved running around to find hot water 😂

[@dorenhycondado6432]

Love your videos!! Love you!! And growing up I was embarrassed to take homemade lunch and I didn't like the food from school either so I just to starve all day until I got home. However, in my junior year in high school, I really wanted and MP3 player and my parents wouldn't buy it for me. So since they used to give me $5 for school for the whole week lol I started bringing my own lunch and saving those $5 bucks lol long story short asta el día de hoy i take my homemade meal to work and funny enough I still get the looks as if I was still in high school!! Ooh well I'm not rich to buy food everyday lol

[@alexandriamount3069]

Growing up I went to catholic school, my mom was the lunch lady... There is a smell that all catholic schools have that is a mixture of rehydrated powdered mashed potatoes, some sort of meat in gravy, and over steamed veggies. I will never forget that smell. I ate school lunch every day unless we were going on a field trip. My dad use to always chaperon because my mom had to stay at the school. I was spoilt, I got lunchables, left over cold pizza, some times even soda. I was never the cool kid expect when my little igloo lunch box was filled with grape Swedish fish and pizza.

[@mariagarcia-gd3bg]

money does grow on trees it's paper according to my 7 yr malcriada

[@d.s169]

My mom just buys me whatever I want, *mi chula*

[@saeranswife2929]

When I use to ask my dad for things he would say "no me preguntes yo no cagó dinero" and I stay silent now it makes me Laugh😂.

[@Rei.Eatsfoods]

Your nostalgia videos are my favorite. Also love your Recess outfit. That's pretty bad you school had food poisoning O.O I was homeschooled from 1st-4th grade for health reasons. I'd beg my mom for Lunchables & fruit gushers so I could be cool (even at home too). I even had my mom buy me a lunchbox so I could pretend like real school. When I went back to school I loved eating school lunch plus I got it free because low income.

[@kyleprosper8942]

Communications technology was my favorite class since all we did was play quake 2 or UT2 on LAN. On free periods i would go under a different alias in the Mik'maq counselor's room (a place for the reservation kids to go for help) and hear people cuss my alter ego out across the hall. We used to get bagged milk when i was in grade Primary for lunch (P-12) because Canada (Bagged milk being a thing up here, and the company that made the milk also sold juice in bags of bagged juice). PB&J was the main course until i could make my own sandwiches, my mother used to make them until grade 2. I used to have the typical fruits, boxed raisins, those packages of cheese and crackers. In elementary they would have "hotdog day" on fridays, and "pizza days" on wednesdays. Junior high days we had pizza days, and mainly homemade foods from a canteen (i miss the hot chicken sandwiches) since i went to the same schools my parents went to. Senior High those schools got replaced by a building designed by an architect who designed prisons, also the cafeteria company was a subsidiary for a company that had all the prison contracts. But the food was modern for a canadian standard, so i would work at a tobacco shop to afford my appetite for poutines, ceasar wraps and pizza wraps.

[@klimtkahlo]

Back home in Portugal food was awesome and always cooked. The schools provided it! Private catholic schools that parents pay according to their salaries ( poorer people pay less). Friday's was always fish and Wednesday's we had fried egg, ham, French fries, white rice and salad. That was my favorite. We always had to eat soup and sandwiches were snacks that we would take to school as mid morning and mid afternoon snacks.

[@kayleiduchesne8871]

I appreciate the outfit so much.

[@athia37]

Omg,you just brought back horrible memories of my school lunch.I would pack my own.My mother made this brown whole wheat bread like a brick,you had to slice yourself,and in my Italian /slavic household we always had an enormous array of stinky cheeses and garlicky cold cuts,you can just start visualizing this,with the sound effects.Kids would tease me almost to tears because of the weird stinky food,and the worce part was the after effects of all the garlic.By the time I got to high-school I learned how to pack better lunches,but couldn't eat school lunch,it was just too gross.

[@LuisTheFilmHack]

I always ate really thick sandwiches made by my mother. The other kids were always jealous of my sandwiches. Those who made fun of my food (which was a risky thing to do) would spend the rest of the day WEARING their lunches on their shirts and liking it!

[@emmamarie1368]

Im latina and at my school its mostly mexicans and hispanic kids and some black and white kids so its pretty normal for me to see alot of people bringing conchas or quesadillas to school

[@AverchenkoMiroslav]

My primary school schedule was so dope (2:00 to 6:30 pm ) that I was always able to have delicious freshly made food for lunch at home. I do feel your envy, mai frens.

[@francescagonzalez5913]

My abuelita made my lunch she gave me some aros con pollo or some menudo and she would always pack me some mango with chamoy for dessert or like a concha and a frozen water bottle and I would get so many looks and when I would speak Spanish cause I'm the only Mexican I would speak so fast people would stare at me and be like wtf and I would get a frozen water bottle it was hilarious 😂

[@siloesang9447]

u deserve a million subs

[@kikihappy54]

I LOVED chicken drumsticks (still do tbh), but I definitely got odd looks while chomping on one during lunch as a kid...

[@astridtrinidad1313]

elementary it was a cheesedog from la guaguita frente al porton con un icee de coca- cola this was in PR and it was the best thing ever

[@fervega4159]

I LOVE THE SPINELLY VIBES! ITS SO CUTE.

[@cecilia08yeah]

I would mostly eat school lunches, the milk parket at my school was weird it came in a little baggie and you had to poke a hole through it to drink it, and if you didn't do it right the milk with spread out throughout the table so all the other kids would hate you. but sometimes I would bring a ham cheese torta, if we didn't have sandwich bread at home. And a jar of juice, because for some reason someone always forgot to buy a juice packet.

[@suheylaa.5120]

My middle school was catered by different restaurants and I would buy the food sometimes but I would bring a lot of ethnic food. Since I was there only like 4 other Hispanic kids in my grade I would get a lot of stares when I brought arroz con pollo or con frijoles or some fried empanadas but that stuff was frckn good so i didn't rlly care about the stares😂😂

[@thomasaljilani4805]

I ate a media noche and maraquita chips and if I was a good boy my mum would pack me cafe cubano

[@KamisKisses]

Man looking back I used to get teased a lot for carrying lunch. To this day I prefer to eat alone or with a few close friends, if I am in public. Mom gave us bread and cheese, peanut butter sandwiches, mango juice, cool aid, mac and cheese, porridge or whatever else she could find. In Jamaica at that time poor kids carried lunch. I used to cry but when I got to high school I realised that many of the kids teasing me didnt have parents who cared about what they ate or even if they ate. Thanks Mom. Ps. One day that mango juice melted and leaked out the bottle, everything smelled sour and turned yellow. Books, uniform and bag😂

[@christina.lynn97]

In elementary school (kindergarden till 3rd grade) I always ate lunch from the cafeteria. Wednesdays were my favorite days because it was pizza day until sometime in middle school when the pizza was made differently and disgustingly. But there were times that I brought my own lunch made by my mom or she could bring lunch from a local pizza/sub place and eat it with me at the cafeteria (this only happened in 4th & 5th grade and those were the good times).

[@jajajan]

I didn't have school lunch packed from home but I had snack that my mom packed and I had a friend who only liked me for my Mexican snack my mom packed me. How to make friends 101

[@JennyLorenzo]

WHAT WAS THIS MAGICAL SNACK YOU SPEAK OF?

[@usagiXrookia]

used to get lunch from school but it got more expensive so my mom started making ourlunches, and then we were encouraged around high school to make our own lunches lol.

[@ignaciorodriguez1019]

Me hacen reir tus videos eres toda una cubana y si hasi somos los cubanos y niestra manera de ser felisidades por tus videos .a yo tambien vivo en california hace 24 años

[@kiaraeijo]

Oh my goodness! You look just like Spinelli! When I was a kid, it was all about Lisa Frank ( Lunch Box, Notebooks, Folders, Stickers you name it, I had them). My school lunch at least in elementary school, on Fridays it was baked potato day but when I would sleep over at my Abuela Mercedes' house my favorite childhood dish was Arroz con Huevos Fritos. Everyone at school looked at me weird when I would tell them that was my favorite food😊

[@Beafree]

I used to love hot dog wrapped in a flour tortilla. Another favorite was cold beans in a flour tortilla. This was back in the 80s. We didn't have fancy Tupperware back then. Haha

[@emilygrab1004]

I'm first generation American, (my father is from Poland) and sometimes I would bring Polish ethnic foods and kids would always want to try it lol. The school food was actually nasty, so most kids brought home lunches.

[@nodnoc]

Is deviled ham something other Cubans eat or was that just my family? My mother says that when they arrived from Cuba and discovered that (along with other canned foods) they were so fascinated and fell in love

[@drzsweetestlily13]

She's dressed like Spinelli from Recess 😂😂😂...love it. and I had school lunch and on trips had my mom prepare something plus a few things from the store 😎😎😎

[@marianajust4481]

Mami packs my lunch, so since I’m puertorican my food is good! But everyone eats comida criolla at my school cause we’re all Latinos :)

[@brilymusic]

I love watching theses videos she is so funny

[@hugerock]

Manzanilla tea is so gooood!

[@acoz]

Vienna sausages! Haha! I've always wondered where else in the world they were "common." Yes. This too was a convenient lunch food I'd see in the Philippines before. Some even treated it as a fancier option to Spam (rather, the cheaper Chinese Mah-Ling) or corned beef.

[@JennyLorenzo]

My favorite way to eat them was with yellow rice. Pretty dang addicting.

[@arelimarie0320]

I once forgot to bring my lunch for school and my abuelo took my lunch box(and my lunch box also smell like caca and sofrito idk) so he made a pan sobao sandwich with salchichas, he packed me Oreos, orange juice and I think he packed me queso de papa in foil paper I felt like I was having a full buffet in my box😂

[@stephanierestlessinseattle5261]

any day of the week , any place we went Disneyland , the park , friends BBQs..... we had a cooler of a million foil wrapped burritos with eggs and beans . ALWAYS. I had decided on shitty school food early on. We moved a lot (army dad) so I had enough things to worry about . Left them at home!

[@shortmocha850]

Yes for the Spaneli ensemble. My grandmother made me breakfast to bring to school but like yea I got food poisoning. And MacArthur milk! Omg memories lol

[@_AmeliaMendoza_]

Growing up, my tia would make mine and my prima's lunches which consisted of arroz with frijoles, frijoladas, tamales, un sandwich with heuvo con salchicha, and if she was generous maybe un gelatina or arroz con leche, but when I moved to Texas when I was twelve, I came downstairs to find instead of a prepared lunch ready to go, I find a 10 dollar bill and note from my mom saying to make the money last the entire week. Let's just say I lost the weight I gained from my from not eating my Tia's lunches made for me.

[@auroraaragonbruzzichesi3822]

At least Jenny grew up in Miami not so long ago... I grew up half Cuban and half Gallega, in NJ, in a Catholic school full of mostly Irish kids... Bringing a choripan brought a lot of looks, I also would bring grelos with garlic and olive oil... I was bullied for it. It was nuts!!!

[@mikaylam2213]

In third grade, I used to get homemade lunches that contained ham and cheese sandwiches, but my mom would always forget to add the little freezer block to keep the lunch cool. By lunch time- the ham and mayonnaise were all warm and gross!! I flat out refused to eat it! Lol after complaining about it and she realized I was just wasting food, I got a lunch box with a built-in cooler block and the sandwiches were good again lol.

[@stargatefansg1]

Love that you brought back the Spinelli outfit from the Buzzfeed video you were in :)

[@annabellecisternelli7131]

I always had to bring my lunch because it wasn't provided in my catholic school and since I wasn't a big eater my (Cuban) abuela would make me this potaje I would bring in a *gasp* thermos to school everyday. Let's just say it was a thick soup concoction made of meat vegetables and god knows what else but It was the only thing I would eat and I loved it. She took the best care of me and wanted to make sure I would eat. And of course I got the ewwwww what's that or that smells comment. I would never say that to someone but some kids are just super cruel and nasty. Anywho that's my dos centavos! Love you yenny!

[@clivebby4877]

I'm Jamaican but I used 2 eat lunchables cuz my family all worked a lot cuz we were fresh from Jamaica just coming to America but after about 2 years of supermarket food came in the Jamaican food cuz I was not gonna frickin' eat them school lunchesbdo I brought in the Vienna sausage between bread or just Vienna sasauge in a container, some curry(insert any meat here) with rice, some ox tail with rice, and other Jamaican food and I would always have some fruit like apple, banana, orange, and in some instance mango or pear (avocado) and u know I was livin' for that mango and pear (avocado) sometimes I would have dessert like sugar bun, pudding, black cake, chubby, milo, those nestle blue cans with the really sweet creamy drink, sorrel and I remember one time I brought some black cake with me and the whole cafeteria smelled like rum and the teachers were trying to find out where the smell came from and they finally noticed it was my food and they were telling me to throw it away because they thought it was alcoholic so I'm half way done with my block of black cake and she they were talking to me I looked at them stuck my fork inside the remainder of the block and put it in my mouth and ate it they just stared at me and were panicking and telling me to spit it out and telling me to open my mouth so when I was finished and swallowed it I opened my mouth and it smelled like rum and they were freaking out and called my mom and my mom explained and then a fellow Caribbean teacher came in and explained some more and I got scolded by the teacher and my mom but I didn't care....so.....😐

[@MsDieynaba]

AnimePandacorn Queen LOLOLOL

[@kellyj.goodgoldberger4012]

I love this intro! So glad you switched back.