School Lunches of the World

Let's look at more lunches of the world, based on your tips!
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[@chrisprobst6963]

"My Quebec fans, who apparently .. exist ?" Classic JJ

[@ThaVolt999]

Me, me, me!

[@maeshamahmud6347]

kids in quebec, montreal just go to there nearest mcdo and eat fries and get medium drink then go to pizza pizza and order a slice of pizza and poutine to share with the whole gang, basically everyday

[@bootdude7527]

*CONSPIRACY NOISES*

[@binoutech]

I am from québec and I never got chips or cola for lunch

@@maeshamahmud6347 That must be a city-exclusive thing because that'd never be allowed or even close to possible in the suburbs. They got rid of lots of unhealthy foods from the cafeteria menu at my school (Fries, pizza, etc. were all gone)!

[@peter-kw2sc]

In Belgium it was common to give kids "school beer" which was like a really low alcohol content beer but they don't do it anymore

[@sodinc]

what a loss

[@purplekloss1587]

Such a shame

[@peter-kw2sc]

Сергей Одинцов i know. They say it was better for children than sugary sodas lol

[@EclipselaLuna3657]

Ah yes the good times when you could buy things if you didnt pack your lunch

[@nurailidepaepe2783]

wait what? as a belgian i've never heard of that only of tafelbier (something one of my friends' grandmother gave me once, it was awful)

[@jaxonmourning]

is it just me or is jj referring to his fans as “friends” really awesome

[@BinglesP]

It’s also a lot more humble since it sounds more personal

[@anib]

It’s how I get my daily serotonin

[@chockie]

imo it's kind of a mixed bag bc while it may be nice for the viewers to feel seen as a friend rather than a fan this kind of feeds a lot into creating an unhealthy parasocial relationship. not sure if the wisest choice. i was just thinking about this while watching then saw this was a top comment lol. it's nice, but truth is random people commenting on youtube videos can't truly be friends with the youtuber, not without at least ONE proper 2 way conversation. i'd probably just call them "viewers"

[@djaccountisbfisbx3880]

@@chockie I don’t think there are too many overly-obsessive “stans” who genuinely think they’re dating a person who doesn’t even know they exist watching a history and culture based channel. I shouldn’t make any assumptions though.

[@bookshelf5759]

It cheapens the word “friend,” as we all know that we are not truly his friends.

[@gretaj.7146]

10:38 this is Finnish breakfast tho!! Finnish shcools actually offer a free warm lunch to every student. It could be anything from lasagna to peasoup and pancakes.

[@augustuslunasol10thapostle]

Doesn't take from the fact it sounds like prison food also pancakes on the actually most important time to eat food? Are y'all running on high fructose corn syrup or something

[@J_A]

@@augustuslunasol10thapostle Peasoup and pancakes come together. You see, we eat the peasoup for lunch and pancakes for dessert. And I don't know if it is true or not, but I've heard the food in prison in Finland is quite high quality too, so I suppose you could be right.

[@crazydragy4233]

@@augustuslunasol10thapostle Cleary you've never had good porridge. I'm so sorry for your loss.

[@augustuslunasol10thapostle]

@@crazydragy4233 no I've never had good I presume wheat porridge only ever had rice porridge

[@crazydragy4233]

@@augustuslunasol10thapostle Tbf it can be hard to get hands on good grains which depends a lot on area. And it gets even worse with "fast porridge" bc from my experience in most places, esp in West, it's always mediocre at best oatmeal or nothing at all and people genuinely end up believing there can't be better. But it's pretty mind blowing how amazing buckwheat 'alone' can be, or my personal favourite- semolina. I eat that everyday and am in love, and I only use milk with a pinch of salt to cook it. You can 'personalise' porridge easily to make it both sweet or savoury. All you need to know is how to prepare it, which is an issue with any food item. (I strongly believe there are only few if any at all things that taste bad, most people just can't really cook, and we get the worst of that when the people in charge of food don't care or even hate what they're doing.) Basically "an artist never blames his tools" and "a cook never blames his ingredients" :)

[@mjr_schneider]

Speaking of cringy educational videos for kids, I feel like there must be a treasure trove of those from all around the world. That would be a pretty funny and interesting thing to explore.

[@MustraOrdo]

Hope JJ realizes this comment

[@AlyInk]

I dunno if J.J. experienced this but in French class in Ontario every elementary french class I know of was subjected to Ananas, a talking pineapple trying to teach you french while just being... Utterly terrifying to look upon, honestly.

[@cal4720]

AlyInk Oh gosh! In deep cajun louisiana we had these old videos from the 70s or 80s, and there was a french speaking clown, and he genuinely looked like the meat clowns for britain. But then I skipped french the whole next year, so it’s fine.

[@whytfbuddy4118]

MJR Schneider I once had a Spanish class ( I am American ) with this horrific scarf thing.

[@Freedom34176]

@@AlyInk I remember that talking pineapple lol. I only took Gr. 8 French class but every now and then, my teacher would've put that on the television for us to watch.

[@josephedmond3723]

Fried Pizza. Texas wants to KNOW YOUR LOCATION

[@appa609]

I feel like Deep Fried Pizza is the most American food that can possibly exist.

[@Bluegillbronco2]

@@appa609 Yet as an American, who happens to live in Texas, I have never once heard of or even considered deep frying a pizza.

[@appa609]

@@Bluegillbronco2 Funnily enough I had a "Canadian Poutine" while in the states and it was topped with maple syrup. I've never even thought of that but I can see where they got the idea

[@connorirwin8094]

@Bluegillbronco2, As a fellow Texan i can say, it definitely SOUNDS Texan.

[@bjornhattan6026]

@@Bluegillbronco2 in Scotland they will literally deep fry anything, I'm surprised I'd never heard of pizza crunch before, certainly doesn't exist where I'm from (just over the border at the very top of England)

[@epicgmaer26]

I feel like the reason why lots of asian countries have such a vast street food culture is because of (now i know this sounds really weird at first) the size and width of the sidewalks, i feel like in places like the US, they're rather narrow and not really as big. While here in Indonesia, you have sidewalks that are as wide as entire roads, and without any laws that really focus on street vendors and restrict them from popping up in random places, it just lets random people go rampant on putting up tents on the side of the road and just start cooking. These people also really like to go near schools, because schools here don't usually have cafeterias, and if they do have one, usually you'd be required to bring your own food, which becomes a problem for students who don't have much money; and so they just go for street food. idek it's 3am i need to sleep :p

[@ednworks]

I know I'm responding to an old comment and an even older video, but at least in the US, and I think Canada as well, most cities have strong regulations against street vendors due to health and safety concerns. In cities where street vendors are legal, see Manhattan, vendors need to obtain permits which can turn away some of them because it's either pricey, inaccessible (language barriers), or expensive. In NYC for example, you can find street vendors regularly getting chased off by the cops in busy areas. As some Asian cities try to "clean up", they also have come down harder on street stalls and some areas are now missing some of their most iconic foods as a result. That said, food hygiene and safety is also pretty important...

[@epicgmaer26]

@@ednworks ah i see, as i sometimes find like 14 vendors in a small sidewalk, and it can get pretty hard to walk through and stuff

[@xWood4000]

Wait wouldn't it be cheaper to bring your own food than buying street food? I know Asian street food is really cheap but still

[@epicgmaer26]

@@xWood4000 most families don’t have enouh time to prepare their kids’ meals since schools start at 7 and most people wake up at 6.30

[@caramelapple5562]

i feel like you're probably at least somewhat right about this, the vast majority of american cities were designed around the car (which is why it's so inconvenient to walk a lot of places) - you're not really _intended_ to walk around, or it's really low priority, so street food is less viable (just a theory) (though the bit about car-centric design is true)

[@Audiojack_]

That representation of Finland is very odd, considering Finland has quite comprehensive and varied free school meals. Sure, sometimes there are porridge days, but that's like what, once a month?

[@ilarious5729]

It made me raise my Finnish eyebrow 🤨

[@shuruff904]

U mad?

[@peeparoni8634]

same, but im pretty sure its the same for every other country too, aka im pretty sure malaysians dont have nasi lemak for every single school lunch either.

[@Tobbyzzz]

@@peeparoni8634 would say the Norwegian one was spot on. Forgot to mention school milk, and the absolute lack of "treats/dessert" though. But now a days kids just bring junk, and eat insta-noodles 😅

[@aapovirtanen9599]

Yeah, and I don't think its even the most accurate generalization. I'd say potatoes and some kind of meaty sauce + grated carrot is the most usual thing As we can see here, free and high quality school lunches are a huge thing of national pride in Finland ☺

[@JT-uw5xi]

Quebecois fans of JJ? That's definitely an oxymoron

[@TheFecesGuy]

Juliet Treacy im one of them tabarnak

[@lorenzomabalos9851]

Me here, moi aussi câlisse

[@maeshamahmud6347]

fiere detre quebecoise

[@SenorMeinKrafter]

Oui monsieur, bonhomme de neige.

[@prod.byesco6087]

Nah dude we exist

[@il-dottore]

07:31 American here. Trust me, you don’t want Lunchables in your country.

[@gumbyforreal]

eating lunchables all my childhood had given me the BLANDEST taste buds in the world

[@Name..........]

They weren't that bad come on , the only ones I would eat were the nachos lunchables. But most of the time if I packed it was peanut butter and jam sandwiches with fruit.

[@kale3563]

@@Name.......... the nacho ones were the only ones I could stomach lmao. With that being said, I could eat 7 of them in one sitting if given the opportunity

[@veryslowpoke2025]

most of them were eh. If you're starving they're pretty okay but if you're only a good bit hungry they're sickening

[@sendhelpiamahugedisaster8257]

When I was in Kindergarten & 1st Grade I would have Lunchables for lunch at school but I would only eat the Oreos & Ritz Crackers and the one time I was forced to eat the nasty meat & cheese I almost puked.

[@Talmorne]

I think a lot of Western counties not having the same street food culture as Eastern countries has a lot to do with food standards/laws. Street foods can quickly become unmanageable/untrackable if you don't have the resources to keep track of every seller and the quality/safety of their food. So more relaxed food safety/quality laws could be a big part of it

[@dannivizion]

I absolutely LOVE that the dried instant noodles directly out of the packet made the list. 😂 I remember doing that.

[@Tbal_96]

I'm Canadian and I did that.

[@ArchTazer]

8:20 I thought he was going to say Indonesian students leave their school to buy cigarettes

[@vroomkaboom108]

Ciggies are obviously a staple of a balanced indonesian meal!

[@user-qq9rh]

English canada: I think we should pack him my some fruit today Quebec: GIVE MONSIOUR TIMMY FUGGIN "JOSE LUIS"

[@nettart4924]

Pop Kek for Quebec!

[@Hexagonian]

Too many kids had pop tarts in elementary school. Also, I eat toaster strudels with icing for breakfast. That’s probably why we failed as a nation.

[@HenrikoMagnifico]

Swedish cafeteria food is strange in the sense that it's generally really varied and offers a plethora of dishes from all over the world on the menu. Kids get 2-3 alternatives to choose from every day, where one alternative is always vegetarian. The quality of the food differs greatly from school to school, and if the school is private or state funded. A buffet of varius greens are also always offered at every meal. To drink, kids get to pick between water or milk- no alternatives for soda or juice or anything like that. But in general, our school food is quite good and healthy! Classic dishes include; * Spaghetti Bolognese * Meatballs and mashed potatoes * Various stews and soups * Fried Fish with Potatoes or a fish gratange * Pancakes * Chicken Marengo * Ryssröra * Potato buns * Pourage * Palt or blood pudding * Various international dishes Bonus facts: * The school food is free for all kids in all schools here! * Sweden has a long tradition of healthy school food. * It is very uncommon for students in middle school or younger to buy lunch themselves or take lunch with them from home. * For some major holidays special dishes are served in many schools. Including our famous smörgåsbord (called Julbord) which is often served one day near Christmas and includes many tradional dishes like smoked salmon, boiled eggs with creme fraîche and fish rum on top, janssons frästelse (anchovies, potatoes and onions), meatballs, sill (fermented fish), christmas ham, ribs and sometimes risalamalta (rice pourage with a sugary jam-like sauce). * There are no desserts. Cheers from Sweden :)

[@dinhored2010]

🇧🇷 We here in Brazil usually eat for lunch rice and beans mixed in a plate. It includes ( fried or boiled) chicken or meat and salad. ( Lettuce, tomatoes, onion). Important: Almost all the workers have 1 hour for lunch, around noon. Kids 20 minutes at school.

[@dollarama5142]

Rice and beans Every Damn Day

[@foxiflakes8245]

You also live in the Southern US?

[@haiironosora9714]

🇧🇷?

[@chanjoven1288]

If you are talking about malaysia its not rice and beans its rice and penuts

[@cal4720]

Fuego XCFC No, we eat GRITS and PIZZA, but square pizza.

[@jessefireblade6599]

🇵🇷?

[@JT-uw5xi]

Food Dude RUINED primary school I'm still traumatised it was HELL

[@JfkJames]

Juliet Treacy I used to give the tomatoes to the girl I sat next to coz there was a secret bin in the girls bathroom

[@mac_ni_ghairadh]

I’m glad Food Dudes got a mention. I remember at first we just had to try the fruit and veg but then they made us eat the whole portion to get the prize, so whenever we were given tomatoes or raisins most kids wouldn’t get their prizes because we hated them. Some of the prizes were: a green lunchbox, a red lunchbox, a magnet, really crap pencils and a topper (pencil sharpener). It was awful

[@JoeHasAids]

Swear

[@waxwingsfall]

I think I still have one of those green lunch boxes after all these years

[@mac_ni_ghairadh]

@@waxwingsfall Me too!

[@PeacefulPeteable]

No way in hell that kid was eating that broccoli in the video. I would have started a riot.

[@ThisKeepsMeAwakeAtNight]

Did anybody else see that kid a tomato like freaking apple?

[@julianzuniga8905]

In Mexico my dad told me that growing up, their lunch consisted of traditional Mexican rice, black beans and a couple of tortillas. I know there's way different options in medium to larger Mexican towns/cities, but in rural Mexico that was your breakfast, lunch and dinner

[@gruffysnuggles]

Who in their mind eats an entire head of broccoli?! Food Dudes will not be missed.

[@diviny1139]

Wait.. that's not normal?

[@kylem1112]

an absolute mad lad

[@JJMcCullough]

I wonder where the kids are now!

[@Brick-Life]

@@JJMcCullough They work at McDonald's and KFC

[@LordDavid04]

You wouldn't eat broccoli if it was deep fried and dipped in chocolate sauce.

[@JohnSmith-ey6zy]

I'm indonesian and what you mentioned about my country's lunches are not lunch but merely snacks and for the real lunch we mostly have rice, noodles, soups, and sandwiches Edit: and my favourite sandwich is grilled hagelslag (but we call that meises here) sandwich

[@vladimirdmitrov6678]

Ya, toasted bread with hagelslag is a very typical Indonesian breakfast.

[@shuruff904]

I'll stick with lunchables pizza lol

[@muftiharits]

But nothing beats Indomie Goreng with rice for packed lunch 😂

[@torquedawg1004]

A little late, but I think Yakult is more of a south east Asian thing. I'm Filipino and once you mentioned Yakult, I jumped out of my seat out of pure nostalgia

[@t.dominey4150]

We also have them in the uk

[@fieryedits4882]

I know it bc my cousin had a urinary infection and her dr recommended drinking yakult along with her prescription to help restore healthy bacteria

[@silentsmurf]

Interesting! Yakult is Japanese and I’ve seen them in US and East Asian stores. Didn’t realize they were so ubiquitous in SEA.

[@Wubadubadub1967]

@@beeschurger9310 I remember Yakults being HUGE in my childhood, they were the absolute best though

[@Wubadubadub1967]

@@beeschurger9310 I kept buying packets but my brother kept drinking them all 😭

In Slovakia we take a serious break to have a big lunch. I know that foreigners are often shocked that we also take a break even from a work at 12:00 to have a lunch for half an hour to full hour, and then we stay longer in the work because of this break. We need two to three dishes: a soup (lentil, bean, vegetable, chicken broth, goulash..), main dish usually containing side dish (potatoes, rice) and usualy a meat (most often chicken or pork) and a side salad or pickles. Then we usually have some kind of dessert, which can be fresh fruit or some sweet snack. We do have some kind of pastry (rožok) filled with butter and cheese and vegetables, or liver spread or mayo fish (treska) or whatever, but it is deffinitely just a snack, not lunch, we eat those aroud 10am. ❤️😉 we love eating full foods and we propably eat a lot.

[@glame9001]

When I was in middle school I got a hold of a sushi roller and I felt so fancy eating sushi while everyone else ate mystery meat burgers and little tubs of fruit.

[@FullOfMalarky]

G Jerome mystery meat and fruit sushi anyone?

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

Saturday is quickly becoming my favourite day of the week, this stuff is fascinating

[@Nogu3]

In Korea we usually have a fairly varied lunch, tend to have rice and kimchi, some kind of soup (often a type which is comprised of anchovy stock and seaweed called miyeok-guk), seasoned vegetable side dishes (banchan), maybe a meat dish and if you're especially lucky maybe a drumstick of fried chicken coated in a sweet and spicy yangyeom sauce with roast peanuts all over it, or something equally tasty and treat worthy. As for Japan their food is highly regimentalised and when I was there kare rice, or curry rice was always the school favourite. Noodles called soft men (like a mix of ramen and udon) is served with a meat sauce, you could get pasta salad or even a type of pastry called "age-pan" which is a sweet roll fried in oil then rolled in kinako, roasted soy bean powder and sugar. This is not a dessert btw it's an actual part of the meal. I also noticed japanese schools also serve milk with every meal and you get both furikake for rice, and sometimes a milk flavouring. I also especially liked the frozen mandarins we got for dessert which had a consistency almost like ice cream. You know in hindsight growing up in Korea and Japan, two countries very well known for high quality school food I ate very well.

[@yuvalgabay1023]

Its kinda wierd how milk drinks are so popular in asia considering most people out side European and middel eastern ethnic groups (like 70% of world population) is lactose intolerance

[@Nogu3]

@@yuvalgabay1023 the popularity of drinking milk primarily came from Western influence, but also from the Mongol Empire. Even today Mongolian culture survives primarily off meat and dairy products, meanwhile countries like Japan emulated the European propensity for dairy, eggs and meat during the Meiji restoration as a means to strengthen the bodies and conditioning of the army.

[@maraphernalia]

I lived on a native American reservation for a year in a town that only had 140 people, so all of the cooks at the school were local moms. We had the most incredible breakfasts and lunches. Homemade fry bread with lunch, bacon and eggs in the morning. Hands down the least healthy school lunches I had (which is saying a lot for the USA), but God, they were also by far the best. They tried to pack as many calories into the meals as they could bc a lot of kids didn't get to eat at home, so their two school meals and the "snack" (a meal) they got to take home was all of the food they got.

[@johnkeefer8760]

I absolutely love fry bread. Navajo tacos may be better than Mexican ones

[@nemesis962074]

A very specific example but if you were a Latino kid in SoCal your lunch consisted of a bag of hot cheetos and nacho cheese, maybe with an Arizona tea.

[@tiebreakeralveolar7978]

The 3 guarantees of life: death, taxes, and kids not looking school lunch

[@KlaxontheImpailr]

10:26 never before have I been so shocked to discover something so obvious to exist.

[@micmikeman6865]

Hiw is this not American?

[@jaakkot5440]

10:31 Finnish school lunches vary alot, we have a cycle of various foods that cycle throughout the year. The meals are in my opinion like healthy home food: salad, carbs and protein, you can drink milk or water. You can always eat näkkileipä (knäckebröd, nordic crispy rye bread), but occasionally we also have soft bread.

[@ilarious5729]

Let's not forget the best part, it's free 👌🏻

[@Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeal]

It’s kinda the same thing here in Sweden!

[@jaakkot5440]

@@Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeal Knäckebröd :)

[@bobshoe8426]

"lunch in Venezuela" *_snorts_*

[@k-techpl7222]

They eat Venezuelan Bolivars.

[@josephg12345]

This was sadly funny

[@jarendavidson5758]

7

[@TheSteam02]

Venezuelans have internet?

[@justjack1658]

Lunch in the USSR

[@minc33]

Hi J.J., did you make those food drawings yourself?

[@JJMcCullough]

minc33 yes!

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

@@JJMcCullough your cartoons are one of my favourite things about your vids (I draw myself so I'm a sucker for original art)

[@mduboz2u941]

@JJ, can you cover US Governors ?

[@DJVexillum]

@@JJMcCullough I'm shocked at the speed that you were able to put all this together (comb through comments, draw all the food) in a week. Amazing work!

[@maeshamahmud6347]

i thought it was gonna be sponsored by skillshare and thats where you learned how to draw..

[@samhutchison9582]

When I was in Japan I spent a day with elementary school kids talking about America (with a girl who was Senegalese and talked about Senegal) and we had their lunch. The food was not too dissimilar from American lunches, but the routine was massively different.

[@EthanPerales.]

As a (US) southerner with a sweet tooth, that PB & Marshmallow fluff from the New England part of the US sounds like pure diabetic sweetness that you couldn't even find at the Texas State Fair

[@juwebles4352]

Fluffer-nutters rule dude. Im from NJ but even in the middle states we have em

[@stepanfedun9122]

12:11 As punishment for this, England will not be returning Northern Ireland

[@CancerGaming56]

We will also increase military presence and armed police presence in N Ireland.

[@davidfreeman3083]

I finally understood the minds of Unionists in Ulster I guess?

[@xp_studios7804]

You just made me a unionist bro

[@katerwhall1865]

A nation runs on food. really cool to hear about food cultures from around the world.

[@dannyblanco8544]

Idk why I got so excited when you mentioned the bolillos

[@user-vj5bc7ji4q]

School meals in Italy provide regular Italian cuisine, although they may vary among regions and towns. The Italian government is very "down to people" and is doing a large-scale study to measure and involve students in food habits, diets, and food choices. However, many parents struggle for the right to pack home meals for their children since school food is rather expensive.

[@jaharihenry4062]

Hey J.J. I’ve noticed that you discontinued your world leader series. Will this series ever make a comeback because I found it very enjoyable ?

[@trfccurt07]

I echo this!

[@vfsdm]

Jahari Henry he stopped doing because it needed a lot of research and simply not all world leaders are interesting

[@lucaswolf-pudney184]

Jahari Henry I loved it too

[@armwrestlingfan6804]

I am so sad that he stopped :( Maybe he could make a summary of 10 each? 🤔

[@64imma]

I'm guessing it's just much more difficult to research world leaders and make an interesting video about it, than to relay comments that viewers leave him (I dont mean that in a mean spirited or sarcastic way). Not to imply that its "lazy content", but I'm sure it's more personally fulfilling for him to get feedback from viewers about their culture, than to research a bunch of world leaders who may not have an interesting backstory other than "he worked in politics his whole life and generally everyone likes him".

[@eye_lube6022]

the amount of vegemite in that sandwich would look like tit would block your arteries us aussies like ours as an extremely thin spread of vegemite and butter - unless you want to prove your masculinity and have 8 spoonfulls on your bread (or maybe from the spoon)

[@jankansi5679]

That amount seems pretty accurate, I dunno what you're talking about.

[@augth]

Ikr I’m not even Australian but I nearly had a stroke

[@anamusingidiot2565]

Would it be more or less manly to just eat the spoon?

[@alpha00z26]

As an Aussie some would agree with you but I love alot of Vegemite I had a spoon full once it was nice

[@dannivizion]

Often eat it off the teaspoon too. Not proving anything to anyone. It's good. I don't like bread though, so that's a factor.

[@tokusatsu56]

Here in Israel, a lot of kids will also snack on Bamba which is like a Cheetos Puff but peanut butter flavored instead of cheese. Not exclusive for lunch but a popular snack nonetheless. There's a bunch of other flavors of Bamba, too. There's also Bissili which is our equivalent of Lay's Potato Chips, essentially. Love your stuff, JJ!!!! תודה רבה אחי!!!!!

[@MegaGABSAM]

I love that you tried to pronounce all the different snack foods, but for the "chilaquiles" the qui isn't a hard Q, it's more (chee-lah-key-less)

[@danbabitch563]

keep doing things like this, engage your viewer please, i love it!

[@liopleurodon155]

12:11 That kid eating that raw broccoli is my new hero

[@micmikeman6865]

He's built different

[@plumjet0930]

I like raw broccoli more than steamed broccoli

[@yungstalin8936]

I am from the US state of Louisiana and sometimes we had a lot of Cajun food classics like Gumbo and Jambalaya

[@marchionybros1920]

As a New Yorker, we would have pizza day every Wednesday in elementary school. Pizza is a big part of New York culture.

[@HenrikoMagnifico]

Sweden has really good school food! Every day you're served a (free) meal which differs from day to day, and consists of usually normal Swedish and international dishes. This reaches from Pasta Bolognese, Meatballs and mashed potatos, pancakes with jam, meat stews, fried fish and so on. All food is "unlimited" and free, so you can eat as much as you like and take multiple portions. It's also always accompanied with a buffé of different greens, vegetables and bread. For drinking there's always water or milk, and in some schools carbonated water. Some schools even have their own chefs that cook the food from scratch in the school kitchen, but many schools import the food from larger school kitchens from all over the country. Generally the food is also very healthy. On special holidays the schools also serve themed dishes, including the popular smörgåsbord and "christmas table". Popular dishes with students at my school includes: meatballs with pasta, tacos, pancakes, palt, potato patties, curry chicken stews with rice and lasagna. A few years ago the Swedish government implemented a law that each school must serve at least 1 vegetarian dish every week. The funny part is often the food served to prisoners in prison is even better than in schools. Pretty crazy!

[@AeromaticXD]

Who knew food was such a rich topic? (Like that Georgian food you referenced... I gotta get to Georgia at some point!)

[@AeromaticXD]

Kim Jong-un I’m in the UK...

[@gecttakhla4249]

Me too

[@kingding-a-ling9794]

I love to hear JJ pronounce foreign things very Canadian-ly

[@ilovebarrylewismynamejeff6482]

In the Czech Republic we are often given sourkrout and a beer for school lunch, as is tradition. In gypsy communities it is even more common for the lunch to purely consist of beer (stolen) and maybe a cigarette (stolen from parents, who presumably stole it from someone else)

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

What JJ failed to mention is that nasi lemak often consists of chicken rendang, which is basically chicken with a spicy light brown paste.

[@ahmad_m1538]

And he forgot to say the sambal!!

[@JJMcCullough]

Please forgive me Malaysians!

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

J.J. McCullough It's not your fault. Apparently, Tan Soong Wei failed to inform you that nasi lemak normally consists of sambal, which is a spicy red chilli paste, and chicken rendang, which is basically chicken with a spicy light brown paste.

[@ahmad_m1538]

@@ekmalsukarno2302 So whos wrong here? Is it Tan Soong Wei's fault?

[@ekmalsukarno2302]

Malaysian Fed It's Tan Soong Wei's fault. You can read his comment on this video and see everything he mentioned with regards to nasi lemak.

[@logannaraine7952]

Dear j.j I work in a hardware store in Quebec City. And unfortunately the “Quebec lunch” of chips and soda is still super common. In fact they eat more chips then they sell in the store. And we even order specific amounts of certain chips just for some of my colleagues.

[@Hexagonian]

Damn. I guess my parents raised me right with thermos lunches lol

[@Lucky-sm3yu]

In America, specifically Oregon, the school cafeterias serve daily specials often times some form of chicken burger which can be spicy, and sometime they'll do more ""exotic"" foods like teriyaki chicken or orang/lemon chicken, which are my personal favorites. They also often times serve uncrustables which are like premade PB&J sandwiches on these round white bread things that are pressed together at the sides, and as the name implies do not have a crust, basically just think big ravoli but with PB&J. On the other end of things they also serve turkey and gravy over mashed potatoes, which sounds good until you try it and the turkey is more akin to Styrofoam and the potatoes don't fair any better. We also get some form of milk as a drink which can be either plain or chocolate, I have also seen skim milk but thats more uncommon. All in all the school lunches are pretty hit or miss but most the time they're pretty good.

[@TheBestcommentor]

8:49 population density

[@TheBlackestKey]

Do a video about pop/soda. In Brazil I tried this drink called Guarana and it was super good and unique

[@guilhermecastro9893]

Guarana is great (im portuguese we have it here too)

[@McFluff33]

marshmallow fluff is one of the greatest human creations

[@Hexagonian]

Sounds like Mayonnaise met Willy Wonka and had a child. Looks awfully sugary for a school lunch.

[@Simoran]

@@Hexagonian I grew up in upstate New York and it's actually way better than it seems on paper, but it's definitely really sweet. Beats what schools themselves serve imo, which just ends up being processed hamburgers, pizza, and sometimes some half-decent pasta.

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

But WHY on a sandwich?

[@McFluff33]

@@Hexagonian try it, you will not be disappointed

[@user-hl7bw8yw7n]

In Bulgaria, only primary schools have cafeterias where warm, cooked meals are served. In middle and high schools, there is usually a small shop inside the school which sells junk snacks. If you want to have actual food for lunch, you have to either pack your own (usually a sandwich and some kind of fruit), or go outside and buy it ( some notable options are banitsa (a pastry with white cheese) or doner kebab (a wrap filled with chicken, chips, garlic sauce and veggies)) If you choose to buy your food, however, you have to be quick - lunch breaks last for 20-25 minutes in most schools.

[@lurji]

cute dog

[@motherlodeman589]

9:37 *exists* Hot Chocolate: Am I a joke to you?

[@fanOmry]

Israeli here. The Pitta (in my experience) is either a half, or have a side opened. Then those spreads go inside. Now, what you said *can happen.* But the pitta will be fully separated in to two round halfs. *Or* it was baked with it on in the first place.

[@ravenlord4]

8:41 -- yup, the reasons are a getting a business license and a health permit. Good luck with that in a first world country.

[@rekeinserah]

raven lord Street food is becoming popular in many places in the US... so there’s that

[@organizedchaos4559]

There is street food culture in major metropolitan areas especially with large immigrant populations.

[@ravenlord4]

@@organizedchaos4559 Those almost always get shut down as soon as they are noticed by authorities. For instance in NYC the permits for Hot Dog carts run from $1,000 to over $100,000 per year depending upon location. And there are people in line willing and waiting to get them.

[@organizedchaos4559]

@@ravenlord4 I see you never been to NYC, all you know is what is written about online. NYC is bigger than just Manhattan. Sure the street food scene isn't that robust in Manhattan but there are spots that have strong street food scene and even more in the other boroughs of NYC. If you know where to find it there is good street food in large major cities like NYC.

[@ravenlord4]

@@organizedchaos4559 I concede the point. NYC is indeed notorious for the unregulated sale of alcohol, tobacco, illegal drugs, construction materials, and as you say, prepared food vendors without licenses and permits. Tip of the hat for extolling the "benefits" of a seedy yet thriving black market, and have a wonderful day :)

[@pedrofifyt6535]

Omg im from Panamá and nobody ever notices us thank you soooo much. Thats what I need now in quarantine😀😀

[@oppressivestraightwhitemal6161]

7:54, you forgot the cigarette

[@MinaKamill]

Please keep doing this series until you cover the whole world map.

[@zoltandober]

Lard bread. Literally just an open faced sandwich with lard on it. Raw green onions for a snack on the side. Oh and a literal bag of milk. Yay Hungary

[@nintenjoe38]

I don't mean to offend you but that doesn't sound very appetising.

[@mixedbag2]

@@nintenjoe38 That's the joke

[@justanotherfailure15]

I was so surprised to see food from Georgia covered on this! I have had Khachapuri in Georgia and it is so amazing!!

[@samcrea]

As a New Englander, I have never heard of these sandwiches, though they sound good!

[@noideac]

Shocked a New Englander didn’t mention our love for coffee flavored milk

[@t.o.4251]

It's more of a Rhode Island-specific thing. They sell coffee syrup up in Massachusetts where I am but no one else knows what to do with it.

[@noideac]

@@t.o.4251 Its big in my MA city but we literally touch RI so it makes sense. Hard to imagine a school cafeteria that doesn't have coffee milk

[@April_a26]

What does coffee milk taste like, I must know

[@noideac]

@@April_a26 guess the closest you can get without the syrup is taking a glass and filling it with half milk and half cold coffee and adding a teaspoon of sugar

[@April_a26]

@@noideac so how sensible people drink coffee

[@robbicu]

Excellent JJ! Your illustrations are fantastic! Plus, your research and insight make it cool!

[@JJMcCullough]

Thanks so much my dude

[@pomaranczowaszarlotka]

In Poland a lot of children eat lunches at cafeteria and they are very simmilar to the Russian ones listed in the video. But even the kids eating lunch at cafeteria would also have a sandwich, a yogurt, a toast or at least some fruit for so called "second breakfast" (drugie śniadanie). Some children have double amount of the second breakfast things if they don't eat at canteane (I hope I spelled it correctly). For drinking most children just have bottle of water. Some with leanient parents have bottle of juce of icetea. During colder half of the year quite a lot of kids bring thermoses with hot tea. If you know Poles you can probably gues it could be basically any kind of tea though usually black tea. It's interesting to add that in Poland you don't pay every day separately for your lunch. Your parents buy you at least a monthly lunch subscription. There's only one kind of soup and one kind of a second dish for everyone, so you can't choose what you eat. In recent years some schools started to have different kind of lunch for kids with allergies. Of course the dishes would change every day but there is only one kind of a dish each day. Due to the subscription thing you simply must eat at cafeteria if your parents pay for it, so the money wouldn't go to waste. Simmilarly to Russian we also have kompot to drink. Sometimes a sweeted tea or horribly watered down "kisiel". I remember that my primary school also had a lady who was a caretaker of the cafeteria and you have to past her with your dirty dishes and show her you ate everything or at least most of your food. If she wasn't pleased with the amount you ate she ordered you to come back to the table and eat the rest. Some children would come back to her multiple times during one lunch break if they were picky eaters or something.

[@cutesykb]

I know this was posted 2 years ago but I'd thought I'd give my input anyway. I grew up in a couple states in the U.S. mostly Minnesota (twin cities), Iowa (a little town), and California (in the desert valley 2 ish hrs north of L.A.). I was a very poor child and ate alot of ramen (dry at school, wet at home), sandwiches (either pb & j or a bologna that had holes filled with cheese *cough* disgusting *cough* with white bread and mayo, chips and milk or water. Those were homemade lunches, the lunches from school were usually bad rly bad pizza, spaghetti, meatball sandwiches, sloppy joes, burgers, chicken sandwiches, walking tacos, and lasagna. Usually sides with poor salads, fruit cups, bread sticks, and/or chips. A favorite high school snack was flaming hot Cheetos drenched in nacho cheese eaten from the bag. Flaming hot Cheetos was the school favorite but some kids preferred Doritos (nacho cheese or cool ranch) or other chips. That was alot thanks for reading my post XP

[@Jcyberinc]

Doing a project on Canadian censorship for finals and used one of ur articles!

[@Kennedy_Killer]

How did it go

[@Jcyberinc]

@@Kennedy_Killer if I remember correctly, pretty good

[@edenbee5460]

hey jj! i love the drawings!! they must have taken you forever and a whole lot of research to draw! it definitely payed off :) love your videos

[@averydaws]

I grew up in the south east United States and it was common across public high schools to have a “Chicken day” (much more popular than pizza day) where people would run to the cafeteria for first pick of fried chicken (breast being the best), Mac and cheese, Lima beans/collard greens, and mashed potatoes and gravy with a lunch roll. No one ever brought lunch on that day. It was an event. Been chasing that lunch high ever since

[@GoodCourage]

Seriously, the amount of effort that goes into these videos is truly commendable

[@bradleyilagan3939]

"The whole ordeal is packed in paper, and if you want the authentic experience you need to write 'Have a good day' on the front of it in sharpie, so the ink seeps through the paper, and on to the yellow cheese." I just laughed at this part. Would it even be edible? I can't believe it!

[@DemetriosLevi]

So glad you got Georgia! Always wanted to try Khachapuri. Killer job on the animation, man!! Such a great video

[@clemenceriotteau725]

In France We are used to eat a whole meal. ( entrée +plat ( vegetables + meat) fruits +yogourts or cheese (or both^) ). And at school we have a approximately 2h hours break for lunch. ( we eat in half an hour or more )

[@loworochi]

I was so confused about the whole chips thing at 10:00 I’m so used to the American way of saying Fries or French Fries

[@maxis2k]

"Ha en fin dag!" is going to be my new catchphrase.

[@laudeinvicta7113]

This is the first time i encountered a Durian filled Fudgee bar. Also Macapuno's very sweet and is a popular dessert that has pearls aka taro

[@lilac2698]

THE FOOD DUDES KILLED ME 😭😭😭😭

[@ericallen2370]

The last thing I thought I would get when I clicked on this was the food dudes. Nostalgia

[@MelindaSordinoIsLiterallyMe]

Must have been some pretty rough nights drawing all of the food. Props, amazing video as always!

[@Hexagonian]

Omg that didn’t occur to me. I kinda just assumed the animations drew themselves or something, or maybe a personal editor. That’s awesome!

[@MelindaSordinoIsLiterallyMe]

@@Hexagonian idotic, dumb and unnecessary comment; of course he drew it himself, I just praised his efforts.

[@gloobierust]

@@MelindaSordinoIsLiterallyMe rude asf

[@MelindaSordinoIsLiterallyMe]

@@gloobierust realtalk

[@benvallely1352]

I totally forgot about food dudes but I agree with Jaime I was a terrible

[@C0RV1Dco]

i live in the southern USA Every single day our school serves milk, either soggy strawberries or canned pears, and whole grain pizza occationally they'll serve other dishes, but they rarely have enough so from time to time the first 30 or so kids will get some other entre like "walking tacos" which is just a bag of chips and some bland bland cold ground beef and fake cheese.

[@nzubechukwu]

I love the art in this video! Great job to whoever drew it!

[@antonk1524]

In Armenia we eat khatchabouri or lavash bread with cheese

[@eoghan.5003]

10:21 Okay so I live in Glasgow and I know that unhealthy eating is a real issue here, and though I have seen a pizza crunch advertised outside chip shops I am very surprised to hear that there are schools selling them - at my secondary school there is a mix of things so you can always get soup or whatever if you want to be healthy, but there's nothing quite as disgusting as deep fried pizza (or any pizza). If people bring lunch it tends to be sandwiches, lots of people go out to places like Subway as well.

[@fearmorpiercemacmaghnais7186]

The food dudes still give me traumatic flashbacks

[@hamerugumiandthevocaloidfa8654]

0:58 I'm Australian but we have those too! Most commonly Yakult

[@indyfan9845]

At my old school in Pennsylvania, Rotini with "homemade" meat sauce and vanilla flavored milk.

[@benjaminquattrocch6153]

Ive been subbed to you for quite a while now, but I must say your video quality has become much better since I first started watching, keep up the good work dude!

[@saulgoodman5073]

I hope the marketing for the Zooper Dooper is something like "How does your Zooper Dooper taste?"Oh, super duper!"

[@Gayass776]

I don’t know how widespread this is in America but here in the state of Maryland every kid knows about the crispy circle pizzas. they were always the same and honestly looked so much better then what i’ve seen in other school lunches around the u.s. I’ve gone to 5 different schools in Maryland and they all had those pizzas and they were amazing.

[@sammexp]

J.J. I'm from Quebec and I love your channel ! … When you don't expose your ignorance of Quebec to the whole wide world.

[@louismelahn1805]

8:41: about the street food. That is probably because in the West we have a lot of food-safety laws (some of which are excessively onerous) that make it prohibitively expensive for street venders to operate.

[@SSand4]

Oh! Lunchables! I'd (somehow) forgotten those when I commented on the other video. Yeah, I had those a lot too; one thing I remember about those is how my uncoordinated elementary school self had a hard time getting the straw into the Capri Sun pouches that came with them, being used to the more rigid Hi-C boxes.

[@BigRedHen]

happy new year. I happened to be watching this when new year hit. 2022