What School Lunch Looks Like Around The World | Around The World | Food Insider

Lunch time at school can be one of the best parts of a kid's day. From aloo gosht in Pakistan to sausage rolls in Australia and smoky, tomato-y jollof rice in Nigeria, we’re taking a look at what kids around the world eat for lunch.
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What School Lunch Looks Like Around The World

[@kianudolce1004]

That USA lunch is the biggest cap of all. Literally we get fed 2 dollar food meals.

[@zander504]

Exactly that food looks like heaven mean while we’re getting fed meatballs that bounce if we’re lucky

[@ThemissouriTraveler]

American lunch is empty calories and usually garbage.

[@jackh3570]

School lunch in the UK costs £2.20 each so it's about the same. The quality is terrible, the meat is fatty and stringy and the veg is bland

[@jairz269]

2 dollars! We only get food for 7 sek, about 0,7 usd!

[@jackh3570]

@@jairz269 damn you Swedes are getting screwed

[@slygunslinger]

Making us Americans look generous here. It's heated up frozen pizza, lays potato chips and a Gatorade, lmao.

[@eee-th8yk]

gatorade? wtf. we aint nothing

[@jolinepulliam4785]

@@eee-th8yk we got different food everday. Sometimes garlic buttered pasta or bad school pizza. and those horrible cardboard trays that are so thin that the olive juice was dripping from it. With those horrible Milk or OJ containers. That Southern CA elementry school for you

[@jeanenamaya418]

gatorade?we had expired milk😂😂

[@kazeryu17]

@@eee-th8yk in my school in Florida, we had monster energy drinks, but it was in a vending machine hidden away in an out building, and it was only there for a year.

[@alexmiller5589]

Lays? Lucky! Haha we always got the off brand shit

[@user-cj6yz3lp9v]

As a Korean, I was convinced after reading the comments from US. If Korean schools served lunch like in the U.S., the principal would be sued for child abuse.

[@user-uv2zo3zz3m]

솔까 예시로 나온 우리나라 급식 왤케 맛없어보이냐 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 솔까 저거보단 맛있게 나오는데

[@DDong_go]

​​@@user-uv2zo3zz3mㄹㅇ 하필 개맛없는메뉴가 예시로...ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 우린 버터플라이 새우구이나 랍스터도 나오는데... 볶음우동이 짱임

[@mr-nn1cy]

@@user-uv2zo3zz3m ㄹㅇㅋㅋ 요즘 저정도 메뉴면 그저 그런 맛없는 급식 아니냐

[@Sir_Soul]

Bro if you saw some of our lunches here the principal would be executed

[@extremetech7096]

It honestly depends on the state. Just take the grilled cheese but use fake chese stail bread and instead if tomato soup there whould be 2 packets of ketchup.😅 if it was served in any other cuntry the intire school staff whould be executed for trying to poison students

[@richoyuma]

I'm Japanese and I never saw such a meal...especially sashimi! But it's true that school lunch meal is served by the students, even by the first graders.

[@ryuria9561]

地方に行ったらあるかも。地元の特産物の味忘れへんどいてね的な、僕のところ神戸牛のステーキ出てきた

[@richoyuma]

@@ryuria9561 ステーキ！？羨ましいです…！ たしかに学校によって、給食に地域性が出るのはありえそうですね。

[@oirarnoknutgib]

@@ryuria9561 食中毒などの危険性を考えて、刺身などのナマモノは99.9％給食に取り入れないと思う。

[@ryuria9561]

@@oirarnoknutgib 確かにそうですね

[@user-dwjn9muvxi0]

そもそもワンプレートじゃない

[@ellanica]

This is what politicians think they're serving in public schools.

[@NerdJoshua]

I live in an upper middle class area, (I'm middle class), like 20% are low income and they get a low quality lunch that no one eats. I had hot lunch for a week and it was awful. Something HORRIBLE was done to the broccoli.

[@flyingdragon6275]

@@NerdJoshua Sad

[@adriankingston4338]

Mate they dont seve this stuff in "public" schools its all private mate.

[@ellanica]

@@adriankingston4338 I know, I'm saying this is what politicians show in their fancy charts when they're being told to report on the state of public schools. That school lunches are nutritious, the infrastructure is maintained, and the budget is well distributed.

[@Lauro417]

I Mean im italian and when i was going to School i had like 2 times a week pasta 2 times soup and 1 time broth, then Always Salad or a vegetable and then like meat (once a week we had pizza 😏) It wont blou up you mind by any Means at the and of the day was cafetery food but It was fresh every day and It was decent i feel lucky to live in Europe

[@ashishmaruti01]

alternative title: what school lunches should look around the world

[@lovinglifewitheli]

Except for australia. Why is there a sausage in pastry. Wtf

[@BananaGalaxy]

@@lovinglifewitheli sausage rolls are awesome tho

[@ottovonbismarckboi9112]

@@lovinglifewitheli I mean they are good tho

[@user-jz4cy9ub8h]

Except for South Korea.

[@justjosh3725]

@@lovinglifewitheli did u just say Australia...it was Austria...bruh

[@ceci6443]

I'm french and the meal is actually pretty accurate : we do get a 4 course meal with either a salad or charcuterie, then a plate with a protein and a side, we do have cheese and fresh bread but I've never seen any jam and deserts vary immensely : we can have fruits, yogurt, tarts... It rly depends on the menu of the day (but we always have the option to have either 2 fruits OR another dessert)

[@akidmyself4053]

So far it looks like you guys probably have the best option.

[@Sun_Simp]

Que elegancia la de Francia.

[@haaxeu6501]

Frenchie here and I can attest, the video is pretty accurate

[@catdairy367]

So they are accurate about french only

[@Doodlydoodl]

Yeah the structure is right but I’ve never actually eaten that at school.

[@sorayamasaki9354]

I'm Brazilian and the school food here is usually very healthy, the school menu varies a lot, but they usually serve rice, beans, salad and some protein, it can be chicken or meat, sometimes soup, juice with biscuits, rarely a snack different type of hamburger or hot dog, but most of the time it's a healthy meal.

[@willrichit]

however there is an eventual "pudin" (that one who has a skin when its cold) or rice pudin once in while, specially in "festa junina" and other events where they would serve something less like whole meal and more likea snack, but yeah, its pretty complete, all the food groups in one plate and often come fruit as dessert.

[@kaycke5073]

Mano, não sei em qual escola você estudou, mas nas que eu estudei nunca vieram refeições completas. O mais próximo disso era sopa, nos outros dias eram ou lanches, cereal com leite ou só arroz e feijão e pronto.

[@olliinthekitchen7825]

This is the most unrealistic display of school lunch I’ve ever seen.

[@krumpetwithhoney8567]

You got that right...

[@Vince-A-N-O]

Definitely not accurate.... If you are poor.

[@votingbot2446]

True

[@unakgopa5116]

True 😔

[@lIlIllIlIllIlllIllIIIIIIIIIlII]

@@Vince-A-N-O what do you mean if you're poor lmao? Unless you're going to a rich school your meal is gonna be garbage or at the minimum not look like restaurant food like in the video. Only food I ate from school was french fries and that's hard to get wrong.

[@ljaynemorr]

As a US citizen I can assure you that we never got no “creamy tomato soup” or a “brownie for dessert before heading back to class”

[@officialmi-mi8843]

Exactly

[@gabeitch4484]

i did

[@rocklesson86]

We got card board pizza in the 90s.

[@isabellp.5730]

@@rocklesson86 we got cardboard pizza and bouncy “scrambled eggs” in the 2010s too- apparently nothing changed in 20 years 😂

[@rocklesson86]

@@isabellp.5730 well then.

[@ChrisDragon531]

I worked in a Japanese Elementary School between 2021 and 2022 and the teachers actually ate the same lunch as the kids. All the food was really tasty! Also, during the lunch period, one of the older students would go on the intercom and explain what the lunch was for that day, what ingredients were used to make it, where the ingredients came from (usually local farms), and why these foods are healthy for you. I really enjoyed eating the Japanese School Lunch!

[@b.elzebub9252]

Sounds like a great way to teach kids to be conscious about what they eat and where their food comes from.

[@bawintermage8351]

Do a comparison between school lunch from the 50s , 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s , the zeros and today. There was such a profound shift in what was available in decades past versus what the kids are shoveled today.

[@imqsqs]

Alternative title: What kids wished their school food looked like around the world.

[@magnoliabloom1]

CORRECTION: This is what the kid's parents and guardians think their school lunch is.

[@vxnilla1452]

Exaaactly bro BROWNIES??

[@tatererer9747]

No only in America our food is fine at school lmao

[@eternadox]

@@tatererer9747 My school lunch is non-existent. My school doesn't have school lunch. We bring our own.

[@bobdylan1968]

Not in finland... Bunch of veggies that not many people enjoy like beets and such, and a sprinkle of ham on pea soup. That would be a nightmare for a picky eater. All incredibly strong vegtable flavors. Ukraines looks awesome though.

[@shameermalik4297]

"What *private* school lunches look like around the world."

[@jotarokujojoestar9559]

nah fam this is better than private

[@SylentStar0009]

No this is what you call someone looking up what ppl eat for lunch on Sunday and putting it on a tray to ppl who don't travel or have no clue about any of these cultureswill be amazed lol This is bullshit from 75% I know especially Trinidad I'm Trini that is not school lunch it is holidays and Sunday ppl would not be making that daily... & Friends from all over this is crap...

[@ol1v3rjdh73]

No not really in France we do eat 4 courses but we eat a variety of foods such as fish beef,pork...etc. bit we also have vegetarian or vegan days as well as national food days in which we have traditional foods from a randomly chosen country. And it seems like a private school only thing but it really isn't

[@VicSellsPeace]

@@jotarokujojoestar9559 Private schools will forever have the biggest edge over shitty public schools.

[@dickgoblin]

@@jotarokujojoestar9559 not the English private, American private

[@theredshyguy311]

In the u.s we get a slice of processed pizza, for 2.00 $, water for 1.00, and we get a brown apple plus a piece of lettuce

[@thatcheesy8613]

They should give better main lunches like actual meat and not pizza.

[@GracieSunsets24]

You guys can get WATER?! Our school literally locks up the vending machines and tells us to bring our own water bottles or just use the water fountain

[@laurastreet7600]

LOL!😂

[@pirozhnoiie8570]

Ukrainian school lunch is hilarious in this video. In Ukrainian public school we usually had 1-2 options per day of soup (borstch, shchi (cabbage soup) or some kind of chicken soup with vegetables), meat part: meatballs, cutlets, chicken (boiled or oven-baked), salads: sour cabbage salad, vinegret or some simple vegetable salad) and tons of mashed potatoes/rice/buckwheat. Funny that in Russian school I had basically the same food, they also baked delicious buns with sugar, cinnamon and poppy seeds. Everything was baked right in school… It was before 2010 so idk how things are now, but totally not vareniki 😅

[@Patterrz]

is this how the upper class live

[@cyber_popcorn1680]

Yes my verified youtuber

[@abijahsamarista2820]

That's what I'm going to say

[@Chuked]

Yep and im not

[@monkeyninja150]

Patterrz this ain't a nuzlocke channel

[@cyber_popcorn1680]

@@monkeyninja150 lol

[@elyjane6078]

As a retired teacher from the Uk, I can assure that the state schools do NOT provide a meal that is anything like what you showed. What you showed was edible...

[@gzp7971]

What school you worked at???

[@qinchuanluo2265]

Edible?? I’m so concerned

[@blacksheep9144]

speak on it

[@borderlinecontent8661]

Yeah it just sort of sloppee everywhere

[@fatbababoey741]

Ok just to clarify this is not all schools in the uk the primary and secondary school I go to serve decent meals

[@Joemama-ul4ds]

I come from Mumbai, India, Growing up in a convent school, we never really got served any food. Everyone had to bring their own tiffins. Unfortunately, there were sometimes when a small minority of kids didn't bring any or had straight up a single piece of sliced bread in their tiffins. This is exactly why I believe there should be meals served in school, funded/provided by the government.

[@taengkukumo]

Wait! School lunch in Thailand is pretty different from a dish shown here. Som tam (spicy papaya salad) is not served as lunch for Thai schoolchildren, especially in kindergartens and primary/elementary schools, because of its spicy taste and hygenic concern. Thai school lunch usually consists of steamed rice with clear soup or stir-fried vegetables and meat. Sometimes, noodles (either noodle soup or fried noodles) will be served instead. Lunch snacks are either fresh fruits or Thai desserts (often ones with coconut milk).

[@est9949]

Agreed. And it took me a few seconds to figure out what the meal shown in the pic was, then I realized that the rice that goes with that dish is supposed to be sticky rice 😂

[@rrurangi]

as a thai person I agree🙁

[@samuraix558]

*Food Insider:* "So this is what kids eat for lunch" *Us, calling absolute bullshit:* ....

[@eugenekrabs9243]

Yep Australians don’t eat Tim tams for lunch unless they’re lucky. Just normal lunchbox food, and that sausage roll looks whack, wtf even is that (I’m pretty sure they took the name too literally)

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

@@eugenekrabs9243 Do sausage rolls look different in Australia? That's generally what the look like here in the US, so that's probably where they got their wires crossed

[@sarahwates3747]

@@Amy_the_Lizard don’t know about Australia but in the UK sausage rolls look nothing like that. Look up Greggs sausage roll if u want to see what they look like.

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

@@sarahwates3747 You're right, they look nothing like the sausage rolls in the video, or the ones we have here. Looks a lot better actually

[@mariluvable4244]

Were is my brownie?

[@navneethkrishna2410]

If this was the case, all students would have a 100 percent attendance ngl.

[@yeetusfeetus713]

Agree

[@NikhilKumar-mw8cg]

They should have shown mid-day meal food.

[@navneethkrishna2410]

@Pristine Artifact Government schools in India are usually the only ones who provide free food for students, the state where I come from (kerala) its rice porridge. Usuallly the quality is mediocre and students consume it cause they arent in a state to afford any other lunch. Some private schools, mainly rich ones may have canteen and may rarely provide free food or else students can buy food from the cantene, the quality is far better than government provided food, GENERALLY. But, most students in India bring their own food, and this depends on their household, it can be anything.

[@Cillian-wwweeee]

@Pristine Artifact in South Korea they have these lunch trays like the one shown in the video, they give you rice, soup, kimchi, two sides and a desert, sometimes lemonade in a small cup or ice cream in the summer

[@Cillian-wwweeee]

@Pristine Artifact ik, the one my granny makes in Korea tho, its absolutely bangin

[@YamiKisara]

Since my country, Czechia, was left out: our children get three courses - soup, a main dish (where they can pick from two or three options the week prior) and a dessert (which is often yoghurt or fruit), they also have unlimited access to tea or fruit juice and milk. The rules about the balance and healthiness of the food is pretty strict by law. Many people still remember not so tasty school lunches where only one meal (soup, main dish and dessert still) was avaiable and you were forced to eat it (yes, they wouldn't allow you to leave the dinning hall before finishing at least most of your food), but our school lunches made LEAPS in the past two decades or so.

[@luismenezes8261]

As a Brazilian, I must say that most schools don't have a sit-down cafeteria where you eat from a plate. What they do have is usually a shop that sell many types of snacks, which are usually sandwiches or typical baked savoury items such as cheesebread, bauru and many others. When it comes to drinks, then they do differ a lot. Some sell sodas, others don't. However, if a school has a sit-down cafeteria lunch service or not, it depends what type of school it is. If it's has "half-period" classes, then it doesn't because classes usually take place in the morning up until noon (or in the afternoon if it's elementary school). If it is an "integral period", then it does because classes last from morning until late in the afternoon.

[@penisdeletus4601]

Bruh... I can take a piss in the dark and still be more accurate than this video.

[@wagonswagoons3013]

this is the best comment ive ever read

[@fifvxkdkdm3012]

Its 1:38 in the uk my everyone is sleeping then i burst out laughing

[@kristingallo2158]

Even with a deleted penis. That's impressive

[@annpow5672]

Hehe

[@jasheenjamenour3281]

r/rareinsults

[@squirtlecs5536]

This feels like they just wrote up food stereotypes for every country...

[@LordDragox412]

Same thing Good Mythical Morning did. Zero research and even less integrity :/

[@Joshifying]

That’s exactly what I thought too. And the narrators delivery sounded like she rather be doing literally anything else

[@melraidfadrago4759]

I DO NOT EAT TIMTAMS AND SAUSAGE ROLLS. just a sandwich or crisps... geez -_-

[@yuva6266]

They show our school lunch like its just 50 shades of grey when in reality we usually eat mostly vegetables and fruits

[@gergiglio]

Exactly in Italy we don’t have 3 corse , Meal and we don’t have caprese salad and the only Italian dish that have chicken is pollo alla cacciatora

[@princesssheilla3919Philippines]

I am filipina-peruvian. I lived in korea for 2 years. Lunch in korea is served in school and they dont stick to one food as it showed. P.S. I really liked when they served chicken or curry and naan

[@dylanwolff218]

In my school, we always got cardboard pizza along with sweet corn and diced peaches in a container and those were so great. It was what all the students came for. I think we had tomato soup and grilled cheese, but I don't remember getting a brownie before going back to class.

[@FabulousKilljoy917]

I have never seen a US school lunch look like that. I would say 90% of the time it’s a cold rectangle of pizza most of the kids peel the cheese off of

[@rapasvi]

This is sad

[@InklingThe]

Even when we had grilled cheese and tomato soup, it was NOT on "crispy whole wheat" And "creamy tomato soup"

[@Jessica-eo5hg]

It’s always a large slice of pizza with loads of oil, bland sauce, and decent tasting cheese that can slide off with a slight tug. For the veggies I’d normally get cucumbers and tajin (best part of lunch) and for fruit it’s either apples or “pears and peaches” But that’s just me, and I live in texas

[@kitamura-du9qx]

Japan too, the school lunch is totally different from what the video has shown. Dont know where the sources came from

[@diegopills]

Facts😭

[@JuliusKindaCool]

“A gooey grilled cheese” my hamburger was literally frozen at school

[@ro-revieweryt5275]

True

[@pebble710]

7 or so years ago I was given spoiled milk, how fun.

[@mac203782]

They usee to frequently hand out rotten and expired milk. We has to conplain to get one that wasnt.

[@teggere]

I got re heated grilled cheese

[@streettravelxxi]

Lol we had offbrand pb&j uncrustables

[@leakonig8402]

This food every where else: 🥗😍🥙🍱The food in Germany and Austria: 🍔🍟🌭🍕(They serve soup with pancakes inside, Schnitzel (fried meat with a bread-crust), Fries, Burgers with a Schnitzel pattie ) 😭

[@unbreakable5058]

Our cafeteria in the US gives expired milk, frozen, rock solid broccoli, a horrendous stale piece of bread with yogurt on top they call pizza, and month old pasta even though 99.9% of the dish is cheese. For “dessert,” they gave us juice containers they found in the back of the fridge frozen shut “before heading back to class.” Not to mention that whenever we try to have fun and talk, the lunch monitors turn of the lights to the point where we are engulfed in darkness, claiming that we are being to loud even though we are barely talking at all. They like to call out kids and embarrass them in front of the entire cafeteria. And when I have to go to the bathroom, we have to raise our hand and get approval from the lunch monitor, even if we want to stand up. But when I raise my hand to go to the restroom, the lunch monitor looks me in the eye, and turns away and talks to her friends. When she finally comes over and I tell that I have to go to the bathroom, she just scoffs, tells me that I am being dramatic and that “you don’t have to go you can hold it.” Meanwhile, I am just holding it in and tempted to just walk out. If you have made it this far into my comment, then let me give some advice. Lesson of the day kids, never buy school lunch. (Oh, and they sell water in tiny bottles half the size of a regular small one for double the price. That’s right, we have to pay for lunch. And if you don’t have money, then oh well, you starve.

[@celiasjoblom1795]

Yes, exactly.

[@unbreakable5058]

@@celiasjoblom1795 I highly doubt you read the whole thing lol but if you did then good job lol

[@CaitSithDubh]

Taught at Korean primary schools for 8 years. Had the school lunch every day. Healthiest diet I've ever had.

[@serythx6503]

That's good!

[@enochlee3601]

Plus they actually make it in the canteen/kitchen

[@foofa__loofa1271]

Healthy meals😋😋😋🥦🫐🍎🍏🥗

[@lkidd73]

Was it bussin?

[@SNOWYSKY2001]

That American one is a lie, they don't put that much effort into the lunches

[@mirandapena1386]

America serves frozen meals that are just heated up in the microwave. So much for healthy food 😍

[@jeffreychen7494]

Are frozen pizza supposed to taste like cardboard? I have never tasted frozen pizza before but I’m pretty sure they don’t taste that bad.

[@mackenzieossege176]

Ato

[@mackenzieossege176]

Right. We never eat grilled cheese and tomato soup at school at least. Its usually a breaded chicken patty sandwich, some type of veggie like collards, an apple and a milk carton. It all depends on region tho.

[@mukbangfanatic5649]

@@jeffreychen7494 school frozen pizza was the best thing it doesn't taste like cardboard. now frozen pizza in general taste depends on the quality of the pizza. there are many different companies that make them.

[@Iwanttoblowmybrainsoutrn]

@@mackenzieossege176 Ikr

[@reagee7850]

Some one from Trinidad and Tobago, schools have something called ''Lunch List" as some children prefer to bring food from home. If you are on said list, you may receive a lunch like what they showed, but with no oxtail. Also they serve hotdogs, soup, and other traditional dishes packed in a medium sized white box. Soups are brought in brown, tall bio-degradable bowls. Much love!

[@denmark23]

We have Loma at my school, it was organic and healthy, we had roasted rootbeats, salmon lasagna with spinach and stuff. Really delicious and healthy. The students also learn how to make the food, we are in the kitchen helping, we had loma week, so every week one of the classes had kitchen week, where we first planned the food after the recommendations so every group should plan one meal, where it should fit the official recommendations, then we visited farms and picked up our ingredients. After this we would help make the food in the kitchen, we learned to make healthy and tasty foods. Highly recommend, still I use these recipes at home when cooking.

[@GreatBallBreaker]

As a high school student in the US There is no tomato soup or a brownie for dessert, all we had is microwaved hamburgers with hard cold fries

[@iamsearchingforthefiletmignon]

It is worse than that for me. It gives me digestive issues too

[@michellaneous3364]

we dont get fries or brownies-

[@thatgirlwhoplaysviolin6365]

Aw lucky, you guys get cold fries. We get frozen, wet (not soggy, but wet) fries

[@A_very_good_cheese]

You at least had burgers and fries

[@A_very_good_cheese]

@@pvssology like the food they give me is edible

[@yaya_-praskobby]

As a brazilian i can tell yall I never had what they showed for lunch Some of the schools here dont even have teachers or proper restrooms

[@GO-fl6cr]

Eu nunca nem se quer vi esse prato na minha vida.

[@brunapaix]

Well that in the video was an omelet with vegetables that they called "fritatta" along with rice and beans. I've never had a proper "fritatta" in school, that's for sure, but It was always rice and beans + some kind of meat and salad, sometimes it woud be bread or crackers/biscuits/ some sort of cake along with chocolate milk. I've studied on a public school in São Paulo, so i guess it wasnt that far from the video, actually.

[@CalazansDGui]

@@GO-fl6cr Né isso, e eu esperando um arroz e feijão.

[@NoName-h]

Tinha vezes que a escola nem tinha comida, porque os políticos da cidade desviaram tudo.

[@raptzzstamatescu7758]

This is not real life me and you know that👌💪😍

[@xterm1nat3]

In Australia you don’t just get Tim Tams for dessert 😂 F*ck it everyone plays at lunch instead of eating, the kids who do bring Tim Tams get swarmed and they only get to eat one of their own Tim Tams, even if they bring a whole tray

[@everyrzn2missme]

In my school that is in the US they give us many options. The options change everyday, so I'm gonna use one for example. There could be Cheeseburgers, Spaghetti, PB&J, Ham and Cheese Sub, and Cereal. You will choose whatever you like, make your way to the checkout line, and then you will see a lot of options. (Right side) Freshly chopped peaches, blueberries, fresh broccoli, apples, and bananas. (Left side) Freshly chopped pears, apples, bananas, a mix of peach and pears, strawberry sauce, and celery. Choose your fruit or vegetable, and proceed to go towards the checkout. (Don't take too long or people are allowed to cut you!!) You enter your lunch number, which is no money. (School covers it!!) Then you go over to the silverware table. There are sauces there, too. Mostly just ketchup, ranch, mayonnaise, mustard, and fat free ranch. (I know it's weird having 2 ranches but it's whatever.) You choose either a spoon/fork (whatever you need), a straw, and a napkin. If they don't have the silverware selection container, you'll see a plastic box filled with packages that contain a spork, napkin, and a straw. So take whatever's there and go to your assigned seats in the cafeteria. But the crazy part is.. THIS IS A PUBLIC SCHOOL!

[@nickfielding5685]

In Australia we actually have the option for Sushi, Samwich (brown bread), Pizza, Paster, Curry, Burritos, Wraps.

[@zoocarazy]

“Lunches we would like to have around the world”

[@ehab1300]

Most of the food here is accurate, I’m from Pakistan and that food is pretty accurate. I think the American one is inaccurate and if it is, I’m sorry but suck it America, Biryani is delicious.

[@hustletroos1383]

emphasize on word "would"

[@Pikmin_.]

No in japan we get full course meals such as curry or sometimes sushi but the god and the food that will bid for millions of dollars the yakisoba bread :p

[@ABTval]

In America we get leftover pizza and the grilled cheese is rubber bro the only things that are good in my opinion is the Mac and cheese and the lasagna witch I haven’t had in about 2 years miss is lol.

[@Alixsaxx]

True XD

[@juniorfreitas15]

As a Brazilian I would say most of schools don't have meals like that, but, when I saw the comments, I realize that every country don't have meals like that hahaha

[@potatopotatobuy239]

Only japan actually. Japan has the closest meals to what this video showed

[@Hodoss]

@@potatopotatobuy239 Not just Japan, France too.

[@user-ug9dw7ic8j]

I’m pretty sure Korea also has food like that

[@user-ug9dw7ic8j]

@Lazy Bundy then what do you get? Like some of our pizzas aren’t even real pizza, they’re just microwaved and don’t have much flavor and the cheese sometimes isn’t melted right. Plus pizza isn’t all that great

[@potatopotatobuy239]

@Lazy Bundy pizza? You mean cardboard molten plastic and red circle fiberglass?

[@floppa6969]

As a British person I can confirm we have potato's but sadly only for vegetarians if you were 8-11 years old but if you were not vegetarian you would get fries and burgers or rice and curry and fish and brownies 😋. It's more detailed then american school lunches, when you go into secondary school you get to choose what food you want but sadly it won't be free but only the first school lunches were 😔...

[@subetewomieru]

An example of Turkish school lunch: Turkish bean stew, rice/bulghur pilaf, mevsim salad or choban salad or yoghurt/cacık, some Turkish dessert or pudding or a random fruit. It may include Turkish soups too.

[@susanjeffay3851]

35 years as a teacher in USA and during my lunch duty I NEVER saw such a detailed meal! Way off!

[@kwiztas]

This.

[@kenfern2259]

USA we get half hot half cold cheese sandwich, frozen pizza count as vegetable, soggy ass veggie which no one eats

[@_No_One_178]

In the USA my school gave me yogurt a bag of cheez its and goopy milk👍

[@airtioteclint]

I cant complain about our school lunches growing up, it was actually good, but it definitely didn't look as good as the example in this video, I suspect the producers are Americans and didn't want to lose to the other countries. I'm from the US BTW.

[@Zack-jq6mg]

when i went to school there was no brownie but there was some fake grilled chesse

[@isaiahmorrison3753]

I'm insulted that y'all think American school lunches look *THAT* good.

[@danniseruntine3358]

Truth as anthor person meaning me living in Mississippi USA . Our school lunches were absolutely disgusting

[@theproski3294]

Same. I’m from the US and sometimes when I pass my cafe early morning, I can see them taking the frozen pizzas from BOXES. And I’m like, why do I eat this ?

[@joemama-mv3xz]

they do your just not in the right state

[@veliona2470]

I'm insulted u guys got lunch

[@NawUniqueHandle]

@@theproski3294 pizza?I wish I grew up like that but we ain't even have free lunch

[@djlclopez128]

Well, my Mom was in the cafeteria system for years, starting as a substitute lunch lady and after many years she worked her way up to the manager of the high school cafeteria and finally she was hired as the cafeteria director over all schools in our town. This is how it works: the government gives "commodity" foods for free to schools, which are like things like package mac and cheese, hamburgers, hotdogs, things like that. The school has a certain budget amount that they can spend as well, and they can't go over. Mom had to perfectly balance the meals and meet government nutrition guidelines, which would constantly change. I was in the kitchen there with all the ladies throughout my entire school life, and let me tell you something. They work very hard to make breakfast, lunch, and cleaning up after all the kids. They would make the cakes my hand, rolls, soups, salads, and basically everything else all by hand. If you don't like the school lunches, blame the government. Most kids waste half of their lunch and then walk over to the snack bar to buy Cheetos. That's why American kids are obese - not because of the school lunches, but because of how they eat elsewhere. I never ate away from school for lunch, because I knew how hard my Mom worked to make that for all the kids. Respect your lunch ladies, they helped me pay for a computer in college and are some of the sweetest ladies.

[@lysianassa2011]

I've got three kids in British schools and they never do fish with jackets. Yes, they tend to do 'fishy fridays', but they don't do this. And no, they don't get chocolate biscuits. This week, lunches are: Cheese and tomato pizza and shortbread, Pork sausages with creamed potato and gravy and fruit yoghurt for dessert, Roast pork with roast potatoes and gravy with Fresh fruit salad with creme fraiche, Wholemeal pasta beef bolognese and mandarin jelly, and Cod star fishcake with oven chips with vanilla ice cream for dessert. Menus are rotated on a three week schedule.

[@yaone8871]

I remember my American lunch being soggy "pizza"or chicken nuggets that bounced higher than a basket ball...

[@rho0w057]

Ah yes, I remember pizza days...whenever students got pizza, they would also get a handful of extra napkins so they could pat all the extra grease. You wouls soak at least 3 napkins like that.

[@marv6826]

Not American but wondering if you guys actually get milk to go with that? I found it weird when I saw that on the video

[@yaone8871]

@@marv6826 Yes, we actually got small cartons of milk with lunch

[@rho0w057]

@@marv6826 Yep. Problem is, the milk usually defrosts en route to the school. As a result, it always tastes off.

[@marv6826]

@@yaone8871 oh wow that’s so odd for me, thank for replying!

[@stupiddumdum6294]

Food Insider: American School lunch looks delicious. Me an American: Well thats a lie.

[@otakumangastudios3617]

Exactly! This is such a mis portrayal of American school lunches

[@wearenumber7870]

yes im in 7th grade and the lunches literally no joke taste like plastic

[@orangenade3707]

They do give like grilled cheese and tomato soup BUT NOT THE BROWNIE💀

[@stupiddumdum6294]

@@orangenade3707 It seems someone went to a private school.

[@orangenade3707]

@@stupiddumdum6294 me? Or the person in the video i went to a public school but the menus change and the grilled cheese sucks anyways and they give trash pizza and just trash burgers all bad food

[@clasagna2642]

In Australia we really do eat outside, bringing our own food from home or buying something small from the canteen (etc. burger, pasta, party pies) and Tim Tams are very popular and delicious I recommend the salted caramel flavour

[@SaltNPeppers]

i was lucky to have studied in a private school. the kind of foods i bought for the equivalent of around 2USD is usually a bowl of rice, protein (fish or chicken. but fish is more common) and vegetables (stewed or boiled, never salads). iced herbal or sugarless tea is included as well

[@jak.cr1ym]

As a person that has been in American school for 7 years, our lunches are just a little over prison food quality. Edit: actually, it is probably worse.

[@lisal3667]

i would say even worse!

[@raya-wh5bz]

A little over you are kidding are school lunches are even more than a little worse than prison food

[@cameron9149]

@@raya-wh5bz probably not

[@Dayana-gf1nu]

nah they are worse

[@Dayana-gf1nu]

@@cameron9149 y e s they are worse lol my “burger” was frozen and my “cookie” was moldy :)

[@tacitus6384]

I really like that idea that in Japan they get the kids to help make the lunch, thus teaching them various recipe's that they can use when they leave home. Plus it creates more community among the children themselves.

[@Dparrey]

Also something different is that (apparently) schools are mostly kept clean by the students who rotate the duty and thus are taught to keep the place clean and think about others.

[@spookshowbabymua]

The first couple years of school in Japan is focused on socializing the children, teaching them how to get along, share, etc. The schools usually have them do the cleaning and cooking/serving the school lunches, all to teach them important life skills. I live in the US, we definitely could learn a few things from that.

[@joeltokomaata9153]

Hawaii does the same thing

[@kristimarch1777]

I’ve never heard of anyone at school ever making the lunch. I’ve gone to various elementary schools in Japan (what they’re showing in the video) and the students only serve the food when there turn comes. You do have time in the day to clean the school though. Janitors and things like prom aren’t a thing in Japanese schools. I think is sad but a beneficial thing for all the students.

[@kristimarch1777]

Also the school food is always delicious but we never got sashimi though 😂

[@fabiocosta3830]

School meal in Portugal: -a bowl of soup (caldo verde, chicken soup, etc); -a main course (it varies. Most common national dish is bacalhau à brás, by what i recall from school days); -orange juice or water; -dessert (either fresh fruit, or some pudding/gelatine). EDIT: when was in the equivalent to elementary school (1° ciclo, 1st to 4th grade) i ate meals from the school. Though when entered the 2° ciclo (5th and 6th grade. Can it be considered middle school?) I started to bring meals from home. Mostly to cut costs.

[@inthecountrynotinthecountry]

I’m from the U.K and went to primary school in the eighties, all I remember was a horrible stew they used to serve which turned out to have exposed us all to mad cow disease. So the jacket potato and beans shown is definitely an improvement!

[@Whyamisaad]

As a Pakistani, i can assure you that i was equally surprised by "Pakistani School Lunch" part as anyone else. It was ridiculously false

[@joyshekhardutta9765]

Just curious, Do kids usually take heavy non veg curries like nihari in school for lunch?

[@black_crystal3946]

@@joyshekhardutta9765 nope like In my school we only take easy lunches like sandwiches But have heavy things like the one shown in this video for dinner

[@joyshekhardutta9765]

@@black_crystal3946 ok...was a bit taken aback when they showed a naan and curry in there!

[@ex_sideways3970]

@@joyshekhardutta9765 nope we take fast foods like burgers and sandwhiches for lunch.

[@faryalnasir.4343]

I WAS LIKE WHAAAAAAT??🤯 Nobody tales Qorma to school.

[@hypervelocity7644]

Japan’s school lunches does not looked like that. That’s a poke plate. That’s what they serve in cafe’s.

[@keira9107]

Yeah the Korean one was closer to Japanese school lunch at my school because it was served in sections like that

[@hypervelocity7644]

@@keira9107 yees that’s what I’m thinking.

[@bitterromanticist]

That's right! They actually section their food and receive more than just thr tiny portion this video shows.

[@meganwu4961]

Chinese lunches don't look like what they showed either, I gagged just looking at that dry looking meat T_T.

[@rachelcookie321]

Japanese lunches are much bigger than that. I survived off the serving of rice lol

[@ilanalvarado6645]

As someone who goes to a private jewish school, food is either very good, or not. For example, we have different meals that change every day, so some days there can be poke bowls (milk), and other day nuggets and fries (meat). But there are 5 or more options to choose to eat as the main food, there also are salads, vegetables, soup, fruits, and some small dessert. But keep in mind the menu changes every day, so you just gotta run hoping there are nuggets and fries or tacos as the main food, instead of other things. The only thing that is very good is that since the food has to be kosher most of the things are fresh and not some random mystery meat or canned/processed food

[@DaNoobrobloxNoobIsBest]

everyone saying school lunches are trash and all am i really the only person that finds school food not that horrible and sometimes delicious?

[@cheetah8618]

Nope, not the only!

[@theoxyscape7057]

Bruh these are the kinda foods schools serve during inspection lol.

[@ytypzic4821]

LMAO

[@STZ2289]

Yessss

[@jezus5471]

Right (but not in my school becues even at inspection we have worseee

[@aarnachopdekar9490]

Lol 😆

[@clairelowe9362]

YESSS

[@niben_]

I'm French and I've NEVER seen those sweets in my entire life

[@naniyan7648]

Trop XD

[@Hodoss]

They said marzipan aka pâte d’amande. Surely you’ve already seen that, it’s just there are different shapes and colours.

[@nico-iw6co]

you’ve never heard of marzipan?

[@Hodoss]

@Shyla Minhas In some places, not always, the entrée or cheese course may be skipped.

[@jmat910]

@@Hodoss seen it, eaten it but definitely not in school meals 😂😂😂 in a fancy boulangerie or in a box from the supermarket maybe

[@johannapasanen8622]

At my school, we don't get pancakes with jam, we just usually get soup and fish atleast once a week, and some veggie foods. its almost nothing like that in the video (im finnish btw)

[@Puddin205]

In the UK, we have a varied menu mainly consisting of nutritious nutrient packed lunches with an occasional dessert every 2 weeks. However, we do serve jacket potatoes and beans, no one buys them lol. So you can expect to get British chicken tikka masala, Fish and Chips on Fridays, Korean or Japanese beef noodles, stir fries or Chinese pork served with fluffy rice.

[@name3507]

As a US citizen i can confirm to you that we NEVER got a brownie for dessert before going back to class. My school would give us a sugar cookie ONE day a year. I think they're talking about private school lunches.

[@skatergirl6764]

I went to a public school in the Philly suburbs. We regularly had brownies, and my favorites (being a sweets-loving kid) were the ones that even had a bit of frosting on them. Not like we needed more sugar. We had our choice of soup in high school, and grilled cheese was a regular menu item.

[@jpbaley2016]

Back in the 70’s for me, I brought my lunch. Pretty sparse (2 slices of meat on bread, goldfish or potato sticks), which because I had some sort of job since I was in 7th grade, I supplemented with food from the cafeteria. My parents gave me 75 cents a week to buy something to drink.

[@DeadInside-gf8vo]

As a student who attended private school that also isn’t true

[@jesusdelrosario3040]

I went to a private school the food still sucked.

[@ProbablyNotSomethingImportant]

Y’all are lucky you get dessert in da mainland. We get absolutely NO dessert in the cafeteria

[@kristenelizabeth4509]

“is there anything we missed” yeah like 170 other countries

[@lyaabdulrahman9556]

LMAOOO

[@nf._.prodss6329]

😂😂😂

[@adonanroti]

Yes

[@abidubsprodection485]

Lol... so true😆

[@Dragontamer135]

They should do a part two.

[@viajandonagelatina4711]

3:13 Thanks for trying to show off some of our food. however, as a Brazilian, I've never seen this meal in any school, usually what's available here varies from day to day. some of the dishes can be: • Bread with Margarine. • Noodle • Rice, beans, chicken and salad. • Risotto sometimes it has fruit (it varies according to the time of year) such as persimmon, apple, orange and tangerine.

[@bluthunder271]

To be honest, Finland,Australia, England and Hawaii’s meals look so good!

[@JERRETT-yu7os]

Correct Title: "What we think school lunch looks like around the world"

[@veri_cherri8521]

More like “what we wish school lunches look like around the world” :,)

[@horanghae_0826]

korea really does serve that food though

[@mihikapuri5661]

India actually gets school lunch like that. I used to get Parathas for 3/5 days of the week lol.

[@lilyyyy7306]

My school lunch looks like that in America, but I do go to a private school

[@root-beer]

the thailand one was completely false lol

[@hisoka5247]

School meals in the UK: 3 micro-waved fish fingers and then starve to death.

[@tsg7official]

Yeah.

[@damaribrackett1159]

😂😂😂fish fingers lol here in America we stay fish stick but I like fish fingers wayyyy better might have to steal that

[@R1IY2N]

In my school the food actually tastes good

[@kellyd3736]

The fish fingers texture just feels like fried mash potatoes but only the outside is crispy then inside is just soaked and sometimes gooey?

[@angelina_cat]

what they showed is actually accurate....

[@I_eat_sharpies]

As an English secondary student I have never seen those biscuits in my life, we also don’t have jacket potatoes with our “cod fingers”, isn’t we have potato wedges or roasted small potatoes and other vegetables. But when we have jacket potatoes we have different filling such and tuna, baked beans and/or cheese. We also get a drink on the side such as water, juice, or a fizzy, off brand drink (like a rip off Fanta). Well that’s for my school anyway :)

[@zezmcguffin5190]

As an American who goes to a private school, this is semi-accurate. We normally get less food than was shown here, but at least in my school, we get a “main course” (chicken sandwich, corn dog, tacos, pizza, etc.), a vegetable or fruit, and a side (mac’n’cheese, chips, roll, etc.) There will also normally be either a cookie or a brownie, but ice cream is for sale as well. At my school, we also have a salad, soup, and wrap of the day on most days. But you also have to remember that we have to pay for these lunches, at least $5 per lunch and that adds up fast. At public school, the lunch is free so it makes sense for some of them to be considered worse than at private schools.

[@annavrettos2543]

umm that American lunch looks wayyyy better than what we got at my school!!

[@annavrettos2543]

@@JoshArdissonne very true

[@catherinelw9365]

@@JoshArdissonne Depends on when and where. I grew up in the 70's and our school lunches were awesome. Pork chops on a bed of mashed potatoes and gravy and homemade peanut butter cookies. We also had fried pierogies with fried onions and sour cream, and homemade chocolate chip cookies. The entrees were always home cooked food. That was in rural Pennsylvania, where I grew up.

[@zobelobe2362]

frr my school lunch dont look like that

[@zobelobe2362]

@@catherinelw9365 that sounds good but the time I'm growing up is rn and food doesn't look like that

[@catherinelw9365]

@@zobelobe2362 That sucks. I guess we were lucky back then. All the lunch ladies were our moms, so they did the cooking and it was like home cooked food.

[@-youresogolden-7829]

america: here’s a piece of cardboard with a side of old baby carrots

[@dogbreedsareamyth9409]

It is the same in every country(maybe not in Asia, never been there), schools cut the most corners in the food department.

[@savannahholbrook8992]

Yeah exactly it's like only one piece of cheese the bread is always burnt. And where did the brownie come from we never have any brownie only one or even twice I would see them.

[@jjgaming6108]

@@savannahholbrook8992 and you probably have to pay for it or once or twice a school year get a dry and teeth breaking sugar cookie

[@vietster1141991]

@@savannahholbrook8992 school chocochip or butter cookies were fire imo, we also had ice slushes and used to have ice cream machines, special days back in grade school milk ice pops. Now all i see is chicken or ham n cheese, questionable broccoli or carrots, and some odd fruit

[@sophrenia]

Where we live in Malaysia we don't have free lunches, the food quality in schools are contract based so if you get good contractors you'll have good school lunches. My sister went to a school in the state capital so budget wise it was alright. One year they got a mediocre contractor so the food was bland and terrible. One year they got a really good contractor and my sister got to buy onigiris, chicken katsu, sushis, waffles along with the usual local dishes of fried chicken, curry puffs, soups, tomyum soup, fried noodles, coconut rice, chicken rice, plain rice etc on rotation. Pretty fattening stuff with little veggies but nothing super processed or frozen( except for the obligatory nuggets and sausages which tastes like ass anyway) . Most are prepared fresh daily.

[@FujikkoJP]

*Every single time when I visit my parents my mother makes roast beef with Franconia 🥩 potatoes 🥔 for dinner if it was like 1910's if there was a special occasions she would add sauce & vegetables.* 🌽

[@benaiseoya2011]

i've been i France my whole life, but that french part was a big surprise

[@BlueYT1107]

American school lunch in reality: flavorless mac and cheese with near expired chocolate milk with half-frozen mystery meat burger

[@battleaxel]

it was more than flavorless, it was crusty and i think they just microwaved a frozen block of it

[@joshuametzl1420]

@@battleaxel In my old middle school, it used to have some flavor but then my school replaced it with this really weird looking and some tasteless cheese substitute.

[@johndwyer8993]

You cant forget the cold pizza 😭

[@ntheyeti]

And the unrefrigerated cup of "strawberries" that has started fermenting

[@joshuametzl1420]

@@johndwyer8993 I actually had warm pizza today that was semi-decent

[@kyraeve8515]

You forgot the part where my grilled cheese comes in a bag, tastes like plastic, tomato soup is a luxury, milk is warm, and the brownies were $5

[@CCP-Lies]

Huh brownies for 5$

[@MAYBEE90]

@@CCP-Lies Lol yup! In my high school, fresh-baked desserts were sold separately from lunch, and usually were between $3-5. Lunches were usually a main dish, with a side salad, a fruit, and a choice of whole milk or chocolate milk. Sometimes we'd get a free chocolate chip cookie, maybe about once a week.

[@AMaidenlessRunt]

Don't. Forget the grape juice in a box that tasted like prison hooch

[@kyraeve8515]

y'all even got tomato soup? 😔

[@machack1649]

Wait y'all get brownies and tomato soup

[@kritiarora277]

As an Indian, I have never seen anyone bring that lunch to school. Plenty of schools in India offer mid-day meals, with public schools providing meals for free. And students also serve food themselves once they reach a certain age.

[@DusklightZeta]

From my expirence, the school lunches, especailly public schools in america, tend to vary from day to day, my high school served grilled cheese and tomato soup ( bare in mind that I went to a public school) and usually a salad. But there is always pizza, chicken sandwich, and burgers every day, with some bistro boxes or bento boxes with wraps, salads, and even a hummus platter. Theres also pb&j as well, some of the main lunches may include cheese filled breadsticks, chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, some form of asian styled food like stirfrys and dumplings.

[@habibatabubakarsidiq8414]

As a Nigerian loving in Nigeria, I can assure you this is not what school lunches look like here.... I've never had broccoli in my life😂😂😂

[@nusaibahibraheem8183]

Exactly, we take our food from home, this video is mostly fake except for Japanese and south Korean lunches.

[@victoriaobah3775]

Even the ones they serve in private schools don't pass Jollof rice, chicken and coleslaw 😂😂😂. And besides, the meal varies so it's not only rice they give in a week (though it may seem like it 🥲).

[@debbieken5639]

I said the same thing. I was so shocked to see this. 😂😂😂 Imagine seeing broccoli.....😂😂😂

[@onewhoshallnotbenamed2598]

Here in the U.S. Florida we have boiled cheeseburgers with stale fries, a rotten apple and a carton of milk. Or chicken sandwiches that don’t even have real chicken in it.

[@zesovietonion4783]

yoo wtf thats not just a panhandle thing where i am

[@thestormcall3r861]

Boiled cheeseburgers wth

[@teethpaste8568]

U GOT FAKE CHICKEN LUCKY WE GOT PINK CHICKEN

[@austonhurt9119]

In Texas we have fake pizza where the cheese slides off and it's a square or over cooked steak fingers with mash potatoes with stale fries and a stale rolls

[@teethpaste8568]

also, in washington, we got bouncy pizza, mashed potatoes that taste like popcorn, and overpriced shitty cookies

[@txlmu]

This isn’t public school lunch This is a home meal or private school (maybe) In the UK, you have to get by with a Panini or Sandwich and a Radnor Fizz

[@Duskets]

The information sourced for this video came from a conversation between representatives of each of the listed nations where they were all lying to one up each other.

[@mothastrud]

a more accurate meal for the us would have been a stale burger, fruit cup , mac and cheese that doesn’t move when you turn it upside down, and a frozen milk that your obligated to get for some reason.

[@JulielovesJesus]

this comment is so underrated

[@geoffsaintima2216]

Don't forget if you live in massachusetts stale rectangle pizza that 9/10 has ink on it

[@ssboooy4153]

The dole fruit cups. Drink them first, then eat

[@mothastrud]

@@geoffsaintima2216 they put ink in your pizza!?

[@geoffsaintima2216]

@@mothastrud yeah most of the time the bread was purple

[@k-vibes2088]

I assure you, we don’t get “creamy tomato soup” or “brownies”. We get soggy pizza, expired milk, and maybe some burnt chicken nuggets if we’re lucky. Edit- Rip my notifications ayy

[@gromy4671]

I didn’t get expired milk. My milk was frozen. Literal ice.

[@k-vibes2088]

@@gromy4671 oh my-

[@catdad2]

Burnt chicken nugget is what I call my cat

[@k-vibes2088]

@@catdad2 I n t e r e s t I n g

[@deathfromthedepths]

@@gromy4671 Dude. Same.

[@yourtypicalfeminist1621]

I'm Polish and even thoug Poland is not inclded here, i want to talk about my experience bc why not: In schools we had two course meals we could eat at two 20- minute breaks and one 15- minute break. The first course was soup (these were pretty basic polish soups like tomato soup, rosół, borstch, or krupnik), and then we had another typical meal like spagetti, cutlets or pork chops with mashed potatoes etc. Sometimes in primary school we got desert. It could be a chocolate bar from time to time, but usually we just got a piece of fruit. And we always could get kompot, which is a drink made by cooking fruits with a little bit of sugar. In primary school younger kids also got fruits and vegetable portions in small plastic bags, and every student could get themselves a small carton of provided by the school if they wanted. But once again, i am talking about my experience and it is most likely different in many polish schools.

[@sofaraway1842]

US School lunches, chicken nuggets and french fries mostly. Maybe a piece of square pizza and a box of square milk, they sold prepackaged brownies and candy at the check out, some type of boiled vegetable like carrots that had turned grey and soggy. You could buy tickets for a year or pay up front something like $3.50.

[@hannahmoses5736]

I feel like it really just depends on the school, cause all of these look like more lunches for more elite school districts

[@poum_pvp]

The french one is not accurate. Salmon isn't common because it's very expensive. We indeed have bread but no baguettes and no jam. However, the entrées we have are way better, as well as the cheese, and the dessert of course. And I went in public schools so nothing special.

[@Jon-6969]

These look like gourmet meals for rich kids. This video is very inaccurate and not realistic. The slop that I ate in school looked nothing like these meals.

[@poum_pvp]

@@Jon-6969 Food is a big deal in France, we pay our meal 5$ and it's subsidized. our meals look better, usually, than what they shown.

[@NerdJoshua]

@@poum_pvp We pay three dollars for lunch, yet we get worse food than people who rely on $1.25 per day.

[@ariana_208]

Students in Japan don’t help cook, however they do help serve and clean up

[@ariana_208]

Any questions you can check out ‘the making of a Japanese school lunch -Life Where I’m From’

[@lto7368]

Same in korea👍

[@callmebig_e]

Mayday

[@muhammadadamqarllief6901]

Perfection

[@Wiley97]

Do they do that every day? We had to do it for like a week maybe once here in Sweden

[@yuri67721]

As a U.S citizen, what I remember was a popular school lunch in elementary school would be a hamburger bun with this weird white powder on the bottom, a dry and flavorless patty of mystery (or rather misery..) meat, some carrots or apple slices in a small bag, and a milk carton. In early middle school my school got fancier, we did indeed get things like chicken wings, tater tots with ketchup, grilled cheese, mac and cheese, et cetera. It was never good. In late middle school, I’m pretty sure it was all box pizza that was dry and shaped like a square for some reason. Im moving into highschool soon.. I bet it will still be crappy LOL

[@ravenusaugustus7129]

For Thailand's reputable public schools, they usually don't serve fixed menu of lunch. There is one large cafeteria where shops and cooks auctioned their ways to set up stalls selling certain dishes; some schools have a dozen of them. Since competition is pretty high, food is usually good and cheap ("excellent", for my old secondary school - I remember eating rice with crispy pork, Chinese-style herbal soup, traditional custard, and Thai tea slushies, all for just under 3 dollars).

[@anubratabit3027]

Here in India, certain schools run by the Central Government in poor & rural areas serve free afternoon lunch consisting of rice, lentils & vegetables to the students under the Mid Day Meal scheme to attract the attendance of poor students whose families have to stuggle hard to barely make for their 2 meals a day.

[@Itsme-do5cq]

Yes but what they showed was completely lie

[@subhajyotibanerjee279]

Which is not food..its shit

[@justarandompersonwithaspec5104]

@@subhajyotibanerjee279 woah mid-day meal food is good ok

[@shreyavarshney9449]

@@Itsme-do5cq didn't they showed what students bring from home?? Like there is a stuffed paratha with pickles....

[@subhajyotibanerjee279]

@@justarandompersonwithaspec5104 In which state bro..the ones I've seen are mostly truly shit..often maggot infested and with small stones in it from the grinding mill..Gujarat, Rajasthan, Bihar Jharkhand, MP all are like this. Orissa and Bengal still have some quality as the villages are not that distressed..but still nowhere near adequate and not in all villages. I dunno about south india or the north east though..and maharashtra himachal those places.

[@maya-sd2oz]

What I got at my old school: •a cup of soft gross oranges •a small carton of chocolate milk •a slice of stale pizza •very few options of dressing *OR we didn't eat at all*

[@vivekgogate3068]

We get rice but you have to bring lunch from your home. So we get what we like for lunch

[@Jay-we7cm]

Correct!

[@ayuzawa_yukina]

I only take a pack of Biscuits at school ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@akiradiarrhea]

tbh the stale pizza was kinda good

[@MrWeebs-gc2jj]

You guys even got pizza?

[@kingzmotive1511]

Depends on the financial situation of each family tbh

[@pontus_qwerty]

In Sweden in the 90th/00th, food was great with free flow veggies. Like once a year we got a cheat meal like pizza, and it was like Christmas.

[@thechocoholic864]

The Korean lunch is actually pretty accurate! The american one though on the other hand...

[@catdad2]

Ikr u get cardboard with cheese and maybe vegetable scrap soup

[@Richie_Does_It]

Yeah, you get milk in a bag, greasy ’pizzas’ or bouncy chicken nuggets, and the apples or oranges are either bruised or grainy. But the raisin box is right.

[@jericosunio9673]

Americans would need 3 more of those plates and have a burger, fries, a shake, another fries, sausage on a bun, and it goes on. It's like a damn meat market over here

[@catdad2]

@@jericosunio9673 it’s a piece of stale bread with cheese, we rarely have meat in school lunches, on the rare occasions, it tastes like it’s from the dollar store

[@justindai8401]

@@jericosunio9673 uhh no this are for kids

[@Pinkerellie]

When I was in school in the US, we never had tomato soup! We would have the grilled cheese sandwich that was frozen and heated up, with goldfish crackers, chocolate milk, and if you wanted, some fruit and vegetables from the salad bar, which many kids did not eat

[@noname-sb5dn]

I wish i had fruits in my school lunch

[@cactiroo]

you got goldfish crackers? lucky, we got regular salted crackers :(

[@rubypufferfish5372]

You got chocolate milk!? Did you go to private school

[@lostspongebob9422]

@@rubypufferfish5372 in my public school we had chocolate milk that always tasted watered down. It sucked

[@rubypufferfish5372]

we got warm milk (not in a pleasant way in a out of the refrigerator for hours way )

[@Penguins1999]

Never had biscuits for dessert in Wales We had: Curry and rice Chicken/ beef lunch with mash, some veg and gravy Pasta Mystery pie Every Friday was chip day Mini chocolate topped ring donuts (infants had 2 while juniors had 3) Apple crumble often drowned in custard Custard Sprinkle cake Strawberry mousse Choc ices Drink was usually water

[@celiasjoblom1795]

Damn, you were lucky. In the US we hardly ever got dessert.

[@comradecatbug5289]

As a Finn, the most accurate part in the Finnish lunch was the crispbread. And well I guess we do eat the pea soup once a year or so.