School Lunches in the UK! ✏️🍎🇬🇧

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

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[@lucyoconnell4650]

Being British: Joel & Lia hi do you remember me I am in every video

[@lucyoconnell4650]

We have a healthy eating thing in school so all we are aloud is sandwich and fruit

[@nefertarycallaghan8810]

u 2 would be the best couple ever

[@lucyoconnell4650]

A puppies life N.C they are

[@beaproctor1822]

Hi r u vegetarian is sorry but marshmallow has gelatine which is pig fat

[@natebarrett9506]

Other than a few slight variations,packed school lunches here in the US were basically the same(not sure about now). Some sort of sandwich,chips(crisps),fruit,"fruit juice"(Capri Sun), and a dessert were the staple items. I'm actually somewhat surprised at HOW similar they are!

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Ah that's interesting! Had no idea!

[@ladystark1959]

Nate Barrett & Being British: Joel & Lia: It's true! A lot of what you showed us is the same or very similar to what we had for lunch. It just had different names and some with different packaging. My sandwich was usually peanut butter and jelly or turkey and cheese with mustard.

[@MrWhoevr]

In New England we sometimes had a Fluffernutter sandwich.

[@peggyallen326]

I'm an aussie, and we never got any of the treat stuff! My usual childhood lunchbox was either a salad or peanut butter sandwich on multi-grain bread, a muesli bar WITHOUT choc chips/yogurt bits etc, and two pieces of fruit? This was pretty normal at my school, some kids got the sweet muesli bars or maybe a home-made muffin instead? Did i just go to a weird school?

[@serpephone]

I packed my sons lunch and I always packed peanuts or cashews and carrot sticks in addition to all the junk. Pudding cups are really big as well as applesauce

[@Chariots1981]

It's funny you call them cheese strings-- in the U.S. we call them string cheese!

[@McFlingleson]

I was just commenting the same thing when I happened to see your comment.

[@eeveebrown5673]

Chocolate covered strawberries are my life... Meet me outside Joel... We'll settle this like sophisticated adults.

[@Christophersanchez1326]

Eevee Brown meeting at the swings or slide to settle this dispute? 😂

[@jordanhendrix2619]

Is that like a fancy way of saying "come at me bro"? It seems like it is😂

[@Christophersanchez1326]

Jordan Hendrix yeah or you could meat at the monkey bars. 😃

[@eeveebrown5673]

The slide. IDK what will happen if we're near the swings.

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

DEAL!

[@raffellothegreat]

I used to drink Capri Sun all the time when I was a kid. It sounds sooo much fancier when you say it with a British accent, lol.

[@donnaokoniewski3761]

Loved the video. Got me to reminisce about what I took to school ~ they were all in brown bags and wrapped in wax paper. Bologna sandwich and an apple; hard boiled egg and a piece of toast and a banana; pb& j and a cookie; meatloaf sandwich and some carrot sticks. Drank water. Sometimes the school lunch program would bake dinner rolls and you could line up and get two rolls for a nickel. Thanks so much for sharing. I enjoyed.

[@flamingfire2025]

thats not fair....you get good food

[@marilynmcelroy9634]

Oh yes, wax paper. Before the invention of Ziplok baggies. I hated bologna but my mom kept giving it to me. I finally threw a fit and from then on it was tuna sandwiches. Oh and I never got a really cool lunch box, so when I got to be an adult I bought myself a Cinderella lunch box.

[@LJBSullivan]

Mine too! Only bologna or pb& j, Fritos in the little bags, two cookies, biscuit for you Brits, and a fruit apple, pear or banana. I hated the school milk it was always warm so in a small thermos had milk or apple juice.

[@verac6731]

I was a bit shocked about this video. I grew up in the 60's and 70's in England, and we just had plain sandwiches. Mine were just with butter and my best friend's were with jam and cut into triangles, so I was a bit jealous. But we never took sweets to school. I think we had apples with our sandwiches. How did you manage to stay slim with all those sweets and sugary drinks?

[@georgiakolster4143]

PB and J was the standard sandwich in my America lunchbox, 🥪 because it didn’t need to stay cold. It taste good room temperature 😋

[@ivetterodriguez1994]

I don't what's sadder, the school lunch provided by the school or the flimsy little sandwiches I called my lunch. I eventually gave up after half a school year and just picked at the food the school gave us. Plus PB & J also was my standard sandwich because if it was a ham sandwich it couldn't have lettuce cause it would wilt, and the cheese would feel like it was squished into the bottom bread, and eating ham every school day for lunch gets old quick. PB & J also gets old quick. Plus it's not really a hearty lunch meal.

[@pastorcoreyadams]

While they are different companies I can see many similarities between your school lunches in the UK and mine in the US. Though by my junior year of High School I eliminated lunch from my schedule in favor of the library.

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

AH that's funny how similar they are!

[@cheyennemarie7075]

Idk if it’s just me, but I swear every time I kept a banana in my lunchbox it made everything taste like banana!

[@agentleebs]

Oh I remember that! As an adult, I wrap mine in plastic wrap when I pack a lunch!

[@karicoffey2743]

And then your lunchbox seems to smell like bananas forever!

[@sombodu728]

@@karicoffey2743 yea it's disgusting

[@niamhgreen9342]

I had hot school lunches at primary and secondary school, so whenever we went on school trips and had packed lunches it was always really exciting!

[@Paola-jf2qf]

Same here. I loved our school lunches there was a great variety. They had a great school cook.

[@VitoDiCantante]

My British grandmother made us banana sandwiches with peanut butter when we were kids... They were the perfect fusion of US and UK cuisine!

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Awww they sound amazing!

[@ladystark1959]

Vito DiCantante and Being British: Joel & Lia: Right! Every time we had a peanut butter and banana sandwich the teachers would tell us that it was the favorite sandwich of Elvis Presley.

[@LeslieLanagan]

Although I think Elvis also added honey and fried it like a grilled cheese.

[@Orceh]

My mom made me banana and peanut butter roll ups (which is with a tortilla)

[@Orceh]

elvis had his with bacon as well. which is a weird, but really good combo

[@heysteph]

This channel deserves to be SO much bigger. You guys are honestly so hilarious

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Aw thank you! ❤️

[@reallyshortgirl]

Lunchables were a standard in the 90s. In the US they came with candy and Capri Suns. We would do trades on the candy. I mostly ate in the hot food line at school. If you were in a lower income bracket lunch was free. I’ve never heard of or seen sandwich spread. The sweets looked really interesting, we don’t have a lot of stuff with jam in it. I think they’re the equivalent of our Little Debbie snacks. They make small chocolate cakes (or you might call the biscuits) with cream in them. They’re really good I’m describing them terribly. Just google Little Debbie ho-ho’s and ding dongs ( yes they’re really called that)

[@injujuan8993]

Amber Jones That is so interesting! Could you please tell a bit more about the free lunches. Weren’t the kids who had to opt for those happy with the quality? So curious to know. Cheers from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿

[@reallyshortgirl]

Inju Juan this was back in the 90s before they changed the menus to all the healthy food and portion control. We were served pizza, chicken nuggets, tacos, so yes the food was awesome. We also got a monthly menu of what was being served so if we didn’t like it we could plan to bring our lunch that day. From what I understand now, majority of kids don’t like what is served anymore because of the menu changes.

[@injujuan8993]

Amber J Thanks Amber for your quick reply! In our schools lunches are free for kids 7-10 y.o. Others have to bring or buy their food. 😊🌷

[@Jennifer-wq2bl]

Amber J lol where are US school lunches healthy?

[@jasonwhittemore7847]

Amber J I live in england and I agree with the free lunches for families on benefits and also year r-2 have free school meals because they are the little kids in primary school. ( age 4-7 )

[@ellesmith5383]

In America we have baby bells and string cheese.

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

mmmmm yummy!

[@cobwebafternoon3737]

I laughed when he called it cheese strings! So cute how the name of it depends on where you're from. I'm in the US 😉

[@Charliegeee1]

We have baby bell

[@MB-MD]

LMAO I am that geek at school that loved raisins

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

I know. Loser!! ❤️(slash healthy Bhatnagar's)!

[@airtightpuppy1]

As an American, I can say that as a child, all these food items were ones that would be in our lunchboxes as well. The only difference was the brand of each product (aside from a couple of them). It's strange how much I identified with everything you said and I didn't even grow up in England. Anyway, great video. Love you guys and hope you keep putting out content that makes me smile. 😊

[@powerspyin1games]

I actually felt offended when Joel took that bite on the Cheesestring🤣

[@gingerspice5336]

SO many of those foods were started in America! I remember when Lunchables came out, in the late 80s or early 90s or something. And the long roll-up fruit leather, and the breadstick dips, and string cheese, and Capri-Sun, and Fruit-Shoots (although we had a different name for it) ... wow. All EXACTLY the same!

[@sarah-kateryan9953]

I really want to come and visit the UK

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

You should!!

[@christinalovestoplan]

Absolutely for it !

[@ATLbench]

Sarah-Kate Ryan it’s very expensive. If you haven’t been to New York City do that first. The jet lag after a flight to London takes a couple of days to recover from. When you go to England spend at least 2 weeks, other wise it’s a blur.

[@teknekon]

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[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

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[@ktoth29]

This all sounds like stuff Ron Weasley would buy on the train to Hogwarts

[@jill9606]

I like that you made the lunches and talked through them. It made the video more fun! Very interesting to see how similar your lunches were to mine as a child in the 90s. I’m from the US and I rarely packed my own lunch. I usually bought a hot lunch at school.

[@faithshillito1069]

Wow, that was a trip down memory lane. I loved all of those in school. Sometimes i would get a chocolate biscuit bar and the factory missed the biscuit and it was all chocolate. On a bad day their were two biscuits in one with little chocolate. Usually this was an Echo bar.

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Ahhhh that was a gooooood day!

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

YES ECHO BARS OMG HOW COULD I FORGET RIP!

[@PamelaM741]

Loved this!!! I had really cool lunch boxes but took lunch only when we went on field trips. When I was in elementary, as well as my children, the school lunches were large, varied, balanced, very low cost, and really good. So very few kids ever brought lunch from home. These days, even though many parents load their kids' lunch with horrible junk food, the schools serve even worse food. Food too frightening to allow your children to eat. A fun fact: When I was in elementary even though lunch was fairly large, varied and good, the school had for us, on every table, a 1 gallon can of the best peanut butter I have ever eaten in my life. It was dark and bursting with a fresh roasted flavor. As well, they had a loaf of sliced bread on the table and if kids wanted it, they could make a sandwich with it. We could also go back for seconds on any food we liked, except dessert. I have not seen or heard of these things since I was in elementary in the 60s.

[@nissa.f3930]

I didn't realise how lucky we French are till I moved to the UK & discovered most of countries had no school cafeterias with fresh food & subsidised by the government like we do.

[@roxcyn]

Nissa - so they have no option to buy a school lunch?

[@nissa.f3930]

UK, has small cafeterias but for the privileged ones as its quite expensive and not that good. It seemed 80% brought their lunch boxes everyday. Whereas in France we are not allowed to bring our own food as there isn't anywhere to it eat and you need a membership card to enter the cafeteria. Plus, if you are a working class family, its free.

[@roxcyn]

Nissa - that's cool to learn more about UK and France.

[@mariacurtis9247]

In my primary school we would have free school meals and sit in the lunch room if we went on a trip the school provided pack lunch in replacement of free school meals.. at senior school we had a cafeteria and could have a choice of food which had to tally up to a set amount of money and you paid the extra if you wanted something more expensive

[@jenellehardin2670]

50 years ago, in USA (California), we had a full cafeteria serving a hot lunch everyday. We got a monthly menu to know what they would serve, so if we didn't like it, we could bring a lunch. There were no choices, it was ladeled onto your plate and handed to you.Hot entree, starch, veggie, fruit or small sweet for desert, I think. Oh, and drink choices were milk or orange juice. Now cafeterias aren't allowed to cook, only to heat up packaged food, for 'health and safety reasons.' Ugh.

[@kerk9795]

I left Primary School 5 years ago and we had pretty much the same sort of things you guys had, but I was never lucky enough to get lunchables even though I absolutely love them. Wagon wheels are the best thing everrrr

[@barbiebarrios4908]

I love School Lunches in the UK, thank you, Joel and Lia!!! 🍎🇬🇧

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Thanks barbie!

[@ulvavodin2546]

Alot of what you had for lunch is what we had and still do for lunch. I love your videos!

[@TheOrikousan]

Wow it’s so different than Japanese lunch boxes. You guys have a wide variety of sweets lol. Schools here don’t allow kids to bring sweets. Maybe a few pieces of chocolate occasionally for a little dessert.

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Aw thanks Yuya! YOU were the inspiration for this video! ❤️

[@mariannaagh5812]

In Slovakia hot lunches are a standard and they are quite cheap and almost everyone can afford them.

[@funsized924]

yet here in the glorious US of A we have mothers going to the news over their precious little dumpling not being allowed to eat oreos at lunch! lol

[@polarbarr21]

It’s like everything in America is oozing with sugar and they can’t figure out the obesity epidemic.

[@veratek1]

comment winner, Hannah

[@judithjohnson3100]

I am an American teacher and see what children are bringing for their lunches currently. Usually peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, carrot sticks, capri suns, or teas, pretzels, and sometimes cheese sticks or yogurt sticks like you a modeling. I am elderly compared to you and we didn't have capris back in the 1960s, lol, we had tiny milk bottles with cardboard peel off tops. It was a special treat to have chocolate milk! I had to carry a nickel to buy my milk to drink with my lunch. I had the typical sandwich, potato chips (crisps), fruit and vegetables. My favorite day of the month was when the moms would serve us sloppy joes (ground beef with tomato sauce on a bun) with dill pickles and potato chips. I remember this clearly.

[@johnross1991]

That is a lot of food for a school kid. In the 1970's, in the Southern United States, we would get a sandwich, a bag of chips (crisps) and a piece of fruit. Often we would have a thermos of water and sometimes a small carton of milk. During the winter hot soup would be in the thermos. I used a Harlem Globetrotter metal lunch box with matching thermos. Thanks for the video.

[@ladystark1959]

John Ross: I was a kid of the 80's and had much the same kind of lunch as you. Sometimes, though, mom would put cookies or a granola bar in my lunch instead of fruit.

[@HazelJuanitaMillanHoffman]

I remember lunch boxes with a small thermos that came with them that either had a drink or in winter hot soup. Fruit, or either a cookie, cake or slice of pie or fruit cobbler baked by my grandmother. Sandwiches were normally on homemade bread. Sliced up raw vegetables. Sometimes it was leftovers from the supper.

[@sugumorik1526]

In Japan where I’m from, we get cute double-deck lunch boxes or rice-balls (called おにぎり[Onigiri]) which I never can get full during lunch time:P Love from Japan:)

[@injujuan8993]

Sugumori K Aww, that’s sooo cool! Love from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿

[@nx8481]

Bento boxes look so cute but they never look like they have enough food. I just assumed that Japanese kids are used to eating very small amounts of food.

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Ah that sounds amazing!!!

[@woodies2009]

That's so true haha

[@valentine1299]

Chicago Public Schools had great lunches when I was a kid. They included the most fantastic butter cookies that cannot be matched by any cookie since. High School included Cheeseburgers, fries and pizza. We were also able to buy fantastic ice cream sundaes and banana splits.

[@alejo_montano3677]

Talking about food... Joel, you're the apple of my eye...

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

ahaha! Thanks 🍎

[@alejo_montano3677]

Love you so much guys ❤

[@lauren4110]

We have Bugles that are chips we put on our fingers as kids! Also we have string cheese and baby bell cheese too, love it. We have fruit by the foot just like your fruit winders! We have “go-gurt” which is the same yogurt in a tube concept. Lunchables are just like the pre packages crackers, cheese & deli meat. I don’t know what they’re called, but I loved the American version of the breadsticks with spread cheese dip. I just kept editing this post as you showed more things lol! You guys are great, love your channel ❤️

[@thierryboissiere6963]

Petit filou means naughty little boy in french

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

does it??

[@thierryboissiere6963]

Yes indeed! It's a colloquialism! (Mainly used by old people though)

[@amandaely9983]

I thought it meant little rascal

[@mariacurtis9247]

Thierry Boissière - Google translate is close enough with little trickster then as a lot of the time it’s way off

[@amandaely9983]

TheRenaissanceman65 fuck off knob head.

[@Sailor_Enchantix]

I love string cheese we get it for home all the time. For most of my tine in school my siblings and I bought hot lunch. My mom tried packing our lunches for a while, but it didn't work out because she couldn't pack them in the morning because she gets up at 4:30 to leave the house by 5:15 to go to work. After work she was just too tired most of the time.

[@nutsriket9687]

What did you mean when you say “you’re so middle class”? I’ve heard the Brits said this phrase a few times, (on Downtown Abbey also) but I really don’t understand what they mean. Could you or anyone who knows tell me what it means?

[@Random-sk6hm]

it mens a little posh and slightly rich

[@CHixon]

My neighbor, who passed away 20 years ago, described her school lunch back in 1910 in rural Texas. Typical lunch would be a boiled sweet potato, boiled egg, and biscuit (scone) and an old perfume bottle with honey to put on the scone.

[@leighflorkevich9916]

Back in ancient times when I was growing up, we had classic peanut butter and jelly on white bread, which I understand is very American. I don't think peanut butter and jelly is popular elsewhere. We like sliced banana and peanut butter sandwiches as well. We also had chips (crisps) as well. Because of childhood obesity here, school lunches are much healthier these days. Btw, we call the ends of the loaf of bread the heel of the bread. Love to you from West Virginia, USA

[@skeletonkitty]

Leigh Florkevich jelly in the UK is gelatin that you eat for dessert after dinner or at parties

[@crunchyalmondbutter2239]

The lunches are said to be more healthy but I have kids in the school system and they are definitely not healthy, IMO! lol. We used to get reduced lunches (ie, not free but 25c per child) but then I went back to work and forget it! Even with 9 children, we don't make the cut. So, they bring lunches. However, every freakin' classroom is "nut free" so they cannot even bring in anything with peanut butter for snack, as we have caused all of these nut allergies by the APA (American Pediatric Assoc.) warning parents, back in the 90's, to keep their child from ingesting tree nuts or peanuts until age 3+. They even did this up until just about 5 years ago, I believe? Anyway, they changed it to expose the child as soon as they can eat solids because they realized what I already knew, (as a doctor) that the sooner you introduce a possible allergen, the less likely the child is to be allergic. Pain in the butt. Remember the days when our parents would bake a cake for our birthday and bring it in? Doesn't happen in our schools here anymore. Everything must be labeled "nut free" and "made in a nut free facility". Which means nothing can be brought in. I always gave my kids peanut butter as babies. Out of 9 children, not one food allergy. Of course, true nut allergies existed when we were kids but very very rarely compared to what they did to the poor kids of today. Ok, rant over on the limits of lunch. It's all changed!

[@mermaid1717]

@@crunchyalmondbutter2239 all American schools really don't play the nut allergy game. I work in public schools in North Carolina. Nuts & peanut butter are not baned. The cafeteria even serves pb&j crustables on early release days. The rule is to know your own personal allergies & DON'T EAT THAT KIND OF FOOD. Pretty plain & simple.

[@crunchyalmondbutter2239]

@@mermaid1717 I know that. Our kids' school used to sell PB&J too. Do you know why so many kids are allergic to nuts? The AMA decided, about 20 years ago to switch the guidelines from exposing a child to these allergens at a very early age to 3 years of ago or longer, if the parents could hold out. Stupid. So, I always told our pediatrician that I would be starting honey, PB, etc. ASAP. Not one nut allergy amongst 10 children here. Well, around 4-5 years ago, the AMA changed their minds again. They now advise ASAP again. Nothing like messing with our kids and parents who don't know better and want to do the best by following guidelines. My son (public school) couldn't bring PB if he wanted to sit next to his best friend at lunch. There was a nut free table in elementary. Sound familiar? Segregation.

[@mermaid1717]

@@crunchyalmondbutter2239 yeah, but only a small percentage of parents are 100% by the book when it comes to raising kids according to "rules". Most people & children I know do not have any allergies to food or meds. I have a feeling it's possibly a genetic thing too. No one in my full family is or has ever been allergic to any food or medication.

[@robertkaelberer9526]

Y’all are funny, energetic and I feel good after watching.

[@LesleyCanterbury22]

Joel, I agree with you about the jam and chocolate things. We have stuff like that in the US and I've never been a fan...it just doesn't seem right!

[@savanbelegil1396]

I can only think of one fruit that tastes good with chocolate - cherries. Not a fan of other fruits and chocolate.

[@queenjustine66]

the flavor of orange with chocolate is delightful... other fruits, not so much

[@constant_change72]

In the U.S. the end of the bread loaves are called the "heels". Most people either feed them to ducks or put them in a cookie (biscuit) jar to keep the cookies soft.

[@DanStClairCole]

Joel you look much cuter with just a stubble!♥️♥️

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Aw thank you! I prefer a little stubble too - I looked too wild with a beard!

[@yellowbug5113]

Joel is always adorable. 💯

[@bigdaddyldo8943]

This is my favorite video of yours so far! Great job. Thanks.

[@jonmoore8855]

What a fun video. I usually had school lunch. We always envied the kids that brought their own lunch. I don't remember lunch boxes being a thing, rather brown paper bags. Now, that I'm older I bring my lunch in either a super hero tin lunch box or as Star Trek lunch box. It's so fun lol

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Thanks Jon! Ahhhh would love to reinstate the lunch box (or lunch tin!!)

[@ladystark1959]

Jon Moore: Me too! In the area where I lived kids who used lunch boxes weren't as "cool" as those who used brown paper sacks. Everybody used or wanted to use brown paper sacks. I always got a lunch box and then I would beg my mom to get the brown paper sacks. One year she caved in and got the sacks.

[@ryanallen8218]

New viewer. Favorite video so far. American midwestern here. Went to school in the 90’s Lunchables and smashed sandwiches with chips and fruit with similar sweet were common with me too! Never heard of sandwich spread until now.

[@geneinpennsylvania]

I agree w Joel jam w chocolate is a bad idea.

[@kathycrank]

Love the video! There are a lot of similar foods in America, the cheese and fruit roll-ups especially. There is a regional thing like your wheel. It is called a Moon Pie. They come in flavors, are made in Chatanooga, and are sold almost exclusively in the deep south. A lot of American kids got Little Debbie snack cakes or Hostess snack cakes like Twinkies. I had to eat the school hot lunch because my dad sold food to the school. "If it's good enough for me to sell, it's good enough for my children to eat." I was so jealous of the other kids and their Twinkies.

[@scottchaffee3954]

Whenever I got Tuna salad and potato chips it was a bonus,,, Tuna and chip sandwich :D

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

❤️

[@A-_-A.]

I love tuna sandwiches so much! I ate tuna sandwiches 10 days in a row & I regret nothing! my WhatsApp profile just says "I REALLY LIKE TUNA SANDWICHES" 😂

[@bonniebabird]

YES! Tuna and potato chips sandwich!

[@LJBSullivan]

Never got tuna sandwich, was always worried about getting sick from warm mayo mixed with the tuna

[@Rahrah_tee]

I'm from Canada, we had pretty much all of those things as well! My mum used to freeze the yogurt tubes and put them in my lunch to keep everything cold and then it would usually be just thawed by lunch.

[@Christophersanchez1326]

That's about what is over here in America just with a different name. Same food different name. Oh and the cooler lunch box is the best. Eat your lunch now a empty box, then a 6 pack fits perfectly. I've got a collection of them, Coleman red, green, blue. One even looks like a 12V die hard battery.😉

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Ah that's interesting! hahaha wish i still had it!

[@abbysullivan1538]

In America we had similar foods but different brands! We had lunchables which consisted of the crackers ham and cheese. They also had pizzas that you can make or nachos that you dip in cheese or salsa. And little Debbie cakes for treats in all different varieties. We also had the little bread sticks you dip in cheese! So nostalgic for me as wel

[@NataliaAndrea]

I grew up in America and as a kid i always just had left overs from whatever my mom made the day before, but if there wasn't ant leftovers she would give me a ham and cheese sandwich, caprisun, and probably a fruit.

[@ATLbench]

Baybel is delightful! I LOVE baybel cheese with grain crackers (and wine). Also you probably know by now that Americans don’t typically do chocolate and orange but I LOVE that combo! I even like spreading Nutella on tangerine segments.

[@lankadivore6379]

Why did I never get Capri-Sun for school? :(

[@danielleporter1829]

We have fruit winders here , we call them fruit roll up or fruit by the foot . We also have babybel , you can buy them either individually or a dozen or so in a mesh bag in the dairy case where the block 🧀 is, they can come in different flavors like roasted red pepper, garlic and herb, etc. Lunchables are popular here, ours come with some kind of sweet treat, cookies, brownies, fun sized snckers candy bars. String 🧀 tube yogurt (we call then go gurt) a popular part of snacks that preschoolers bring or that is served to preschoolers for snack. I used to work at a preschool(nursery) and go gurts was a mainstay on our snack menu for both morning and afternoon snack times depending on the day.

[@lishy9517]

I'm from North Florida, but currently live in Alabama. I would love to send you a few "Southern" snacks. How can I get your PO Box?

[@injujuan8993]

Connie Songer So lovely 😊 Let lunch boxes fly around the world! I’d fancy to have one too!🍅🍒🍌🍏😉🖖😁

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Hey Melissa! That would be brilliant! We don't have a PO Box but you could send something to our management: Joel & Lia, c/o Studio71 UK Ltd, 18 Soho Square, London, W1D 3QL. We'd love to try your snacks!!

[@garyatkins7142]

a moon pie LOL its a cookie with marshmallow cream covered in choclate

[@naimah5807]

Why did I read this in a southern accent?

[@jenellehardin2670]

Try to figure out a way to send them some Milo's Sweet Tea and Milo's Lemonade! I always get a lot and bring back to Californina, as we don't have that brand here.

[@T.Pink.]

My kids American lunches consisted of... a ham or turkey sandwich (1 child had the crust cut off the bread), string cheese, & fruit-Apple, banana or grapes, or flavored applesauce. Occasionally they'd have a Little Debbie snack or a small bag of chips. It's fun to see what you guys ate!

[@merlyncharlesnieto]

We weren’t allowed to eat any sweets until grammar school 😂 we had sandwiches, vegetables and fruits that’s all 😔

[@mrandquist]

An American lunch was usually pretty similar. I would get a Capri-sun to drink (often grape or fruit punch), a box of Lunchables (your crackers, cheese and meat sandwich) or we would get a package of crackers with spreadable cheese or peanut butter. Always had an apple or banana (never ate it if it had brown on it, lol) and sometimes my parents would throw in a can of Pepsi or Coke. Once high school started I was just given money and would buy a lunch at the cafeteria or local market. When I was a kid we had a milk program where my parents prepaid for a small milk which we got at the start of each lunch day. On Wednesdays was "Hot Dog Day" where mothers would make hot dogs and we could get milk or chocolate milk, chocolate wafers and potato chips on the side. The money went to a local fundraiser.

[@65cmark]

Joel, you’re such the rebel. 😉👍x

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

haha thanks!

[@tomgraham3612]

5:40 The iconic American food-with-a-joke-on-the-wrapper was Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum. From 1954, Joe (the kid with the eyepatch), Pesky, Mort, Jane, Hungry Herman, et al, played their little pranks on little comic inserts on the inside of gum wrappers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka_Joe

[@Iadyemiliachalamet]

Oh my gosh! I LOVE green bananas too! I only eat Green Bananas too! And I have been treated like a weirdo in my family my whole life!

[@mikepressley3956]

🤢

[@ivetterodriguez1994]

Still better than a mushy overly-browned banana. Plus I like the somewhat bitter taste of a slightly still green banana.

[@johnr7279]

Hilarious stuff! Takes me back to my school days in the...70s. Joel...totally agree on the sandwich spread. 'I don't really want to MAKE a sandwich for you...so...where's the sandwich spread?" Best line: "This [wax Babybel wrapper] can be molded and thrown at people." Ha ha ha!! Honorable mention to: "Yeah but some geek at school LOVED raisins." Ha ha!!

[@nefertarycallaghan8810]

don't watch 5:23 I warned you

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

😂

[@injujuan8993]

A puppies life N.C HAHAHA 😆 😁🤣

[@tabithawhite7241]

Nope. Just nope

[@missyan4713]

Hi this is the first time I have commented on youtube channel. I am teaching in British school and what I have noticed the kids eat nowadays are very similar to what this video showed us. They would normally get a sandwich, a snack ( chocolate bar or crisps) and fruit or fruit juice. I studied in Chinese school and our packed lunch are so different. We would have rice and cooked meet and vegetables in our lunch box. Most pack lunch is hot in China.

[@papateachme]

🖕here's my emoji. Love you guys

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

love ya you little bitch

[@Alavaro82]

Guys you are amazing . I just love watching you as you're totally optimistic and entertaining . thanks for the great video

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Aw thank you so much!

[@sarah-kateryan9953]

How long were your lunch breaks? Mine was 25 minutes in high school.

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

40/50 minutes I think!

[@sarah-kateryan9953]

Being British: Joel & Lia oh wow!

[@Ace-mw9pm]

Sarah-Kate Ryan 20 minutes in high school 15 if it takes 5 minutes to get to the lunchroom

[@sarah-kateryan9953]

way 2 cold ours was 30 but it took 5 minutes to get to the cafeteria so it was actually 25.

[@Ace-mw9pm]

Sarah-Kate Ryan also it took 5 minutes to get your lunch if you were eating school lunch so you basically had 10 minutes to eat lol

[@10minuteswithc.j.korrynavl46]

One of my favorite things to put in my lunch was a tupaware with crumbs of the white powdered donuts. I would purposefully break the donuts into tiny crumbs and eat pretty much powdered sugar and bread with a spoon. It was delicious!!!!

[@lishy9517]

Banana with mayonnaise sandwiches are sooooo good!

[@Samuel115s]

eeeewwwww why? you're kidding right.

[@lishy9517]

Samuel115s Omg, no I'm not kidding! So so good!! 😋

[@jimcrovatt6988]

I like banana and mayo sandwiches. It's actually very common in the Southern US.

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Oh wow! That's ... odd!!!

[@A-_-A.]

Jonathan Parks YESSSSSSS I'm so gonna make that asap, that sounds amazing! :D

[@KingArtexerxes]

In USA, my typical school lunch was in a small paper bag, which typically consisted of either a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or a Peanut butter and banana sandwich. (Slice banana into 9 checkers). Then a zip lock bag of chips, and a candy bar or a zip lock bag of about 4 cookies. Can of pop to drink.

[@ricardohernando1829]

But, hey guys, didn't you ever take real food to school? I used to take home-made food to school which is much healthier than all that crap, don't you think? Healthy food such as fruit, sandwiches filled with natural stuff, not junk food. Of course every now and then my mum allowed me to self-indulge with a pastry or something, but not on a daily basis, my gosh, what a great ammount of sugar you'd take.....

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Nooo always this stuff!

[@heather91582]

I am from West Virginia in the US, we were too poor to have a packed lunch. (4 kids in school) It was cheaper to eat school hot lunch. Back in the 90s, it was only 40 cents per meal if you were lower-middle class. If you were part of poverty it was free, and upper middle class was $1.00. Our school had 3 lines...a salad line, a pizza line, and then regular school lunch line, which was usually chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes and peas & carrots with a white or chocolate milk that came in a square bag. We made a friend that had moved here from Mexico, and he thought it was the weirdest thing ever. We still laugh about it today. Great video guys :)

[@carlosmontenegro6406]

Lia is so cute. 😏

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Yes she is!

[@lisaanderson2900]

I'm from Michigan in the U.S. and much older than the two of you! I went to school in the 1970s. I bought hot lunch a lot. In grade school, it cost 40 cents. I can remember bringing a quarter, a dime and a nickel every day. The first year of school (1970-ish) we had milk in little glass bottles and someone would break at least one every day. Eventually we got the little paper cartons of milk. And by middle school we had the option of chocolate milk. When I brought lunch from home, my favorite sandwich was chicken spread with mayo and lettuce, grapes, and a Hostess King Dong.

[@susieroo9743]

Lisa Anderson suburban Detroit. Same time line

[@lisaanderson2900]

Susie Roo Wow! I went to Southgate schools. I still live pretty close. Small world! =0)

[@queenjustine66]

i grew up in the 70s in CA, and our grade school lunch cost 45 cents. in junior high there was a snack break with a walk-up window where we could buy packaged chips, cookies, or Hostess donuts/cakes. once in a while they would bake "angel cookies" which were a delicious shortbread type treat.

[@nathandanczak2273]

My Mom went home for lunch and came back to school after lunch. Her mom made her regular lunches like a sandwich and milk. She used to buy milk at school, hence milk money. They had milk and cookies for snacks. When I went to school, there were school lunches and menus every day. There were up to three different lunches served each day. Pizza days on most Fridays. I brought in snacks like animal crackers, cheese and crackers, peanut butter crackers, pretzels, etc. I used to bring gummy snacks until I got a cavity from it.😀. Nice to see what you brought in.

[@davidkibler5456]

We were working class. I had a Six Million Dollar Man lunchbox. Sometimes I had a bologna or peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Once in a while i got a cream cheese sandwich. Always had an apple or banana or a peach if they were in season. Often we had angel food cake for dessert at home, and i would get a slice to take with me. Usually i bought a milk at school but sometimes i would get a thermos of strawberry flavored milk or juice from home. If i was having a tough go, i would get a kit kat bar and a note from mom or dad saying they were proud of me and to keep trying harder. So long ago, but i will never forget those notes and those times.

[@LovinglfDesigns]

My kids in Virginia USA had school cafeterias which provided cooked breakfast and lunch. We had to pay for breakfast and lunch unless the kids qualified for free food based on family income. I just wrote a check/cheque once a month. One of my kids always took a packed brown bag lunch and the other ate school food. The high school had a better selection with tacos, pizza, Chinese and subs which the older kids preferred. It also had fresh salads and fruit. The packed lunches would have a sandwich, fruit, crisps/chips and a drink. Sweets/candy were not allowed. Kids were allowed to keep a bottle of water with them in their backpacks to stay hydrated. Rules vary between school districts as does the quality and variety of food.

[@lovinlife6630]

What a fun video! I also like the end piece, which we call the heel, of a loaf of bread. When I was in school, we could get a hot lunch in the cafeteria. It was often beans, soup, meatloaf, spaghetti, hamburger, pizza, or turkey and dressing, always served with fruit and vegetables and a hot roll, maybe a piece of cake or peach cobbler. However, I was such a picky eater, I usually just brought my own lunch. I had a lunch box with a picture of Bobby Sherman on the front, which will give you an idea how old I am.

[@anthonymahaffey2358]

Here in America we had hot lunches or you could take a lunch box that was tin with a popular TV character of the time. We had a matching thermos which then insulated by glass so you had to be careful not to drop them. My mom bought me little Debbie pecan pies. I had a sandwich made with chicken,ham bologna favorite add one and condiments. My sandwich was wrapped in wax paper. Piece of fruit. Maybe Jell-O pudding. The drink in the thermos would contain milk,soda,tea or juice. If your ran out of lunch food(meaning if you ate the food your mom prepared for the week after school because lunches we're budgeted weekly) to take then you had to eat the cafeteria meals. .85¢ was the cost of the cafeteria food. Some kids were on free meals then.

[@tplon2001]

In the '60s and '70s when I was in school in Iowa, my sisters and I would get peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on Wonder bread. The jelly was homemade raspberry jelly that my mom made from raspberries we grew. We would have that every day for lunch. It was always a sandwich, chips, and milk. During my first year of school we got milk in glass bottles. That was in 1965-66. We had metal lunchboxes with matching Thermos.

[@llera_navi]

aww this video brought back so many memories, loved it!!

[@cynthiagrubbs2660]

American school lunches are very similar. But some product name differences, like string cheese (pull apart cheese), fruit roll ups (fruit on waxed paper), twinkie (cake with filling inside). Also sandwiches, fruit, and cookies.

[@KevlarX2]

Most of the time I had to eat whatever the Lunch ladies served in the lunchroom.😂 When I brought my lunch, my sandwich would be one of the following: A peanut butter and banana sandwich, a bologna and American cheese sandwich, or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. A bag of Lay's chips (potato chips or corn chips.) (They own Britain's Walkers crisps by the way. Look at the logo it's the same as Lay's except the name.) Sometimes the thermos would have some soup of some kind. For a treat, I either had a small cake with creme filling known as zingers, or some Oreo cookies. Fruit juice or milk to drink. My lunch box had some racing cars on the front and a game board on the back with some magnetic cars as game pieces and a spinning arrow with numbers.

[@mathildeckto2616]

We were quite lucky in France because we had a cantine to get lunch or you could go back to your home for lunch and then come back to school in the afternoon. I still eat Les petits filous (small tricksters). They are my favourite :)

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

Ah that's really nice!

[@marilynmcelroy9634]

My mom always saved the end crusts, cubed them and froze them in a baggie to use later when she'd accumulated enough, for making bread pudding. I still do this. O I use them for making French toast.

[@annagarcia6856]

I had a smurf lunch box(the 80’s)always a ham/cheese sandwich,frito chips with a little thing of bean dip,frozen grapes tastes so much better because it was still cold by the time lunch came around.some kind juice

[@sherryedwards695]

Funny video. Growing up in Canada in our lunch boxes (we called it a lunch kit) don't know why since no one else in Canada does. We would get a sandwich. Usually egg salad, tuna salad, salmon or some type of meat and cheese. Every day an apple, orange, banana and grapes if they were in season. I think that was our dessert because we didn't get any of those packaged junk foods like you guys did. And a thermos of milk. We didn't get any of those juice boxes. I think other kids got the same kinds of food we did.

[@dancingwithmyhands4419]

Oh my gosh Joel that “sandwich spread” ....I thick is just mayonnaise with a bit of stuff in it.... again I think.... it was meant to be used as a condiment for your sandwich....I think....maybe look it up lol!! did you really eat mayo sandwiches?? No wonder you put chips on your “sandwich!” 😂 and Joel FRUIT AND CHOCOLATE are AWESOME TOGETHER!!!Hahahah!! I love this video it helped me to reminisce and lmao😂 Great job you guys!! Having a ball bingeing on your videos!! Love love love!!♥️♥️♥️

[@renee176]

In high school we had the option of a hot lunch or you could buy the other option a quick lunch. Which was a hotdog, hamburger/ cheeseburger (and sometimes a fish or chicken sandwich was added in as a option) and fries with a fruit drink called a Coolie (and up until today....and that's been a long time...they are still some of the best hamburgers and fries I've ever had)! For dessert they had these hot big fluffy squares of goodness, otherwise known as cinnamon rolls/buns... with icing oozing all over the place, that we thought were simple Wonderful! WOW, that food was surprisingly so good then! Haven't a clue what they're being served now.!

[@mygreatestdayever]

All of your videos are fun, but this was especially fun to watch.

[@HisWildFlower]

Ourunch boxes in the US, at least when I was a kid, always came with a big thermos that matched whatever your box was. So I had a my little pony lunchbox so my thermos was my little pony too. Always had some juice, loads of sugar of course. Sandwich with mustard or pb&j. Chips, fruit roll ups and a little cookie and raisins. For fruit, apples, oranges, grapes, bananas. I quite like the idea of those salt and shake crisps. I dont like a lot of salt so that's nice.

[@michellethomas7140]

I started Kindergarten in 1974 sooo waaayyy back, I had a metal Waltons lunchbox, I still have it, and it still has a piece of tape in the lid where Mama would put a dime for milk! PBJ was the most typical lunch, or bologna and cheese, apple or banana, crackers or potato chips! I graduated before either of you were born I'm sure 1986. Love from Phoenix, Arizona

[@tracy9681]

That's exactly what I had every day but then I got sick off it and went on school dinners which were even worse. Love you guys 😚

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

haha lose-lose!

[@katieny1974]

We have most of those things in the U.S., they just go by different names. Fruit Winders = Fruit by the Foot, Wagon Wheel (minus the jam) = Moon Pie, Cheese Strings = String Cheese. We don't have those hoop-shaped chips (crisps), but kids, here, do the same thing with Bugles (cone-shaped chips/crisps).

[@MinimumWageComedy]

Hi Joel and Lia! found your channel a few weeks ago and love the content! I hope to visit the UK someday and the cultural insights you two give are fantastic.