How Brands Like Domino's Profit From School Lunch
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- čas přidán 13. 11. 2018
- Roughly 30 million kids in the U.S. eat school lunch every day, and "Big Food" companies have a pretty big stake in what makes it on kids' trays. It starts with federal money, but before USDA funding makes it to cafeterias, many school districts order from food giants like Tyson and PepsiCo who grab a big slice of the school lunch pie.
We hear a lot about school lunches in America and the food itself doesn't always get the best reputation. From Hollywood depictions to real life memories, the school cafeteria is a quintessential part of American culture.
Who decides what food gets put on the tray? And how come one school serves this on a $1.25 budget, while another serves this? Why are teachers working at McDonald's for a night? And how does a slice of Domino's pizza meet USDA guidelines?
Those are all loaded questions with complicated answers, but if you really boil it down the answer is money. Lots and lots of money.
The billion lunches that get doled out in school cafeterias every year make up a multibillion dollar industry that makes sure millions of kids are fed. It starts with federal money but on its way to cafeterias, school districts have to order the meals and food giants grab a big slice of the school lunch pie.
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How Brands Like Domino's Profit From School Lunch
"Ketchup, French Fries and Pizza sauce are considered a vegetable"
You can't get more American than that.
The funny thing though... they are vegetables. I mean kinda... tomatoes are fruit 😕.
That said... you should definitely not be eating a vegetable size portion of ketchup.
My gravy for roast is mainly tomato, onion, carrot and celery and of course the beef drippings. I’m sure much more nutritious than ketchup... point being, would my gravy count as a vegetable? Not letting them classify these things as vegetables would limit their abilities to provide yummy 🤤 food.
The real issue is WHY would a school decide to serve ketchup as a vegetable... not that it is labeled a vegetable but that’s my 2 cents.
what do you call french fries? meats?
And more naive
according to congress pizza is a vegetable. haha look it up Congress did
@Jaidev Tube The fact that they're considering them as "vegetables" is a 100% American. No one besides them would consider them as vegetables.
You know there is something deeply wrong with your country when the official government health association labels french fries as vegetables.
Technically true but wrong at the same time.
Facing budget cuts, didn't have much of a choice. It was either that or have it taken away completely without a replacement.
Leidy Rivera yes america is deeply corrupted and evil rooted because school lunches
Yeah low quality nutrients
Kooo
I love how at my school you had to take a fruit cup for "balanced diet" reasons
While we were also given Pizza literally every single day.
Pizza is quite healthy if you reduce sugar and fat and increase toping layer with extra veggies n meat.
@@skagraw2 You are not wrong. (in my opinion, the pizza dough would be still not as good from a nutritional stand point as other options, but good idea)
The real problem is that they don't do it/they can't do it good. Or at least, that would be my guess.
@@skagraw2 school I went to served pizza certain days I graduated 2009
h y p o c r i s y unless you live in italy lol
That's what my school is like
The US has a very sick public school system. Teachers are underpaid, food quality is as bad as prisons, kids are sent to jail for misbehaving. It’s just gross 🤢
And then they wonder why school shootings happen lmao
Do you really want to let a student who almost beat a teacher or classmate to death off with detention? Sounds crazy but happens too often these days
I worked for the county jails, then later for the school district. Trust me - the food at school was light years ahead of jail food. 😎
theres also been incidents nationwide involving special needs kids being physically restrained... leading to deaths at schools in the US over things as simple as not sitting still.
The only part I sorta disagree with you on is the jail bit.
No don’t send the students to jail for acting up but there are some instances where students does get to the point where they did do something criminally wrong.
you cant find a single thing in America that is not a business
Capitalist country.
Turtles
@@unicornsprinkles3277 Selling turtles is a business
MLG TURTLE but being a turtle isn’t
@@unicornsprinkles3277 Well, being an ice cream isn't a business either. But selling ice cream is.
How can the richest nation on Earth feed their children something that looks like prison food?
Nam Do Hoai corruption.
You pose that question to the country, who thinks universal-healthcare is communism, because who can't afford it doesn't deserve it!
The answer is in your question, that's why they are the richest country....they squeeze all profits then supply a low quality minimum nutrition to survive and pass regulations then pocket billions
It’s CAPITALISM bro
Richest nation
BUT over 100% in debt
Also per capita lower than places like norway, Switzerland and Luxembourg
To all the people that serve school lunches, you deserve the uttermost respect and it’s the industry’s fault my hot dog bounced a solid 5 feet in 1st grade
“Boiled hamburgers”
That gave me war flashbacks
don't you like steamed hams?
more partial to steamed hams myself.
If Gordon Ramsay went to a school kitchen he would just pull the fire alarm and leave
Someone once done that to my school it was funny
@@Dabpss Very Grammer
@@evanchan4012 You no capitalize grammar
@@aurakille2148
You shouldn't use no in that sentence if you want to be accurate with your vernacular, yet alas that might just be your way of articulation.
@@schterban It was a joke that I did because the other guy did Very grammar.
"Studies have shown that kids perform better when they are fed""
Only in murica you need to use that as an argument
I mean, have you seen how the rich and poor are treated in america? That phrase, as true as it is, is still ignored.
@@ricky56 you aboutta go on a rant about how capitalism sucks and Stalin was actually a good person?
@@SenkaBandit but he didn't, so what's your point, be a corporate boot licker?
@@bobbiecat8000 no, he wants you to be brainless, like him.
@@bobbiecat8000 its a joke, calm down
A lot of professional chefs have shown it’s possible to cook nutritious, delicious meals on a typical school lunch budget. If you ever wondered why these programs weren’t put into place, this is why. The reason why students have to eat crappy lunches everyday isn’t a lack of money-it’s too much of it.
“Not everyone sided with the idea to feed kids during the day.”
I’M SORRY BACK THE FRICK UP
Menaces to society man
Uhh it's called parents should be responsible for feeding their own children
@@yourgooglemeister6745 kids with irresponsible kids shouldn’t starve.
Actually, in many "western" countries kids don't get lunches at schools, they either buy snacks at school's buffet or get lunches from home. In my country, considered "eastern European" - Czechia, warm lunch (consisting of several courses - it always includes soup and main course, usually with salad or desert or fruit) is served in every kindergarten, elementary and high school, and the nutritional value is part of law which gets actualized every few years... Oh, and we eat with actual metal cutlery and on ceramic plates, no place for anything plastic.
If you can't feed em, don't breed em!
Not joking I paid $3.25 for 4 chicken nuggets a milk carton and three strawberries
Gerbils For Life that’s a scam
Gerbils For Life seems about right , at , my school we don’t pay but they give us that nasty lunch
what program do you have in schools guys? in my country we learn from 8am to 2pm and so, no need for school lunch
mpala m
How do live without lunch from 8 to 2 I would die especially with soccer/football practice I would die
@@catfishyt9925 i eat at 2:30 when i get home and have a snack during school
As a current student, I can tell you that all the school lunches they showed in this video look 5x better than what we get at our school.
Right!!!! And it's even worse after Covid!
Gee, and they already looked downright nasty. Thank god I'm not american lol
Rtttt! We literally get uncooked cold food and it tastes horrible. I haven’t eaten that garbage since 4th grade
@a c you can bring your own but where I live a lot of kids can’t afford to bring lunches so they have to eat the trash. Only like 4-5 kids out of 60 kids can bring lunch
For real, the dominos pizza we get is super thin, non-tasteful cardboard. Glad I graduated.
Today at school in NY I got a pizza, a scoop of slightly brown green beans and a strawberry purée which consisted of strawberry, water and sugar. That apparently qualifies as a healthy lunch. Not to mention that they are also selling junk like ice cream and chips.
That’s amazing
@@justayoutubeaccount371 That's sad af
I talked to my school security in high school and asked why we weren’t allowed to DoorDash food to school. We thought it was a safety issue but she told us that it’s because the school county has a contract with people like this
That’s a lie
How would a security guard know about the schools contract stop taking stuff from your ass
My school has it as a security thing, it caused too many issues
I graduated high school in 2016, so it’s possible things have changed since then, but we were allowed to order in food. People used to order in Jimmy Johns all the time.
@Carl Liddle It's a chain of sandwich shops.
Y’all eating dominos pizza? Bruh I’m eating plastic pizza lmao wtf
Eagles Nation at my school I got some pizza and it has no sauce.
My school has dominos pizza but its cost $2 per slice and it comes in a box that say Dominos on the front
@@Name-nl5nf Man you got premium we just get the Dominos pizza on a plastic tray
@@emmanuel2692 lucky me, I guess
Yeah my school has dominos but they don’t put up the logo and it doesn’t taste the Same. It taste like cardboard
You'd think if we're paying Dominos for school lunch we'd get at least Dominos quality...
I'm a former Dominos manager. When we had a school district contract with us for school lunch, we had to use special dough, cheese, and pepperoni. Low fat and low sodium. Tastes so nasty.
@@isaiahkaulaity9467 Yeah, I noticed that the pizza slices served at lunch don't even look as appetizing as the real thing! Getting pizza at a restaurant is far tastier.
When I was in high school my district had a deal with a local pizza restaurant that was directly across the street from the school called Pats. It wasn’t bad but it was made with whole wheat dough tho
@@ShaniceW494 That's probably why school pizza is a bit dry. More crust than cheese or sauce. :/
Caleb Donaldson oh yeah it was definitely dry, every time I ride past the restaurant I cringe from the memory 😂 I still eat there from time to time because the food in the restaurant is actually good
"when you boil it down - the answer is money"
That doesn't narrow it down.
Yes it does
@@sph9564 nit really
I also love how my school’s lunch has raisins in pouches and each of them has 22g of added sugar, 26g in “french toast” bar and only gives 1oz of salad at best. The only thing they make there is chocolate chip cookies which they sell. Good job Aramark
Let’s get Gordon Ramsay in that kitchen
Lord Shrek Jamie Oliver was doing the u.k ones, but they stopped because they didn’t want to school dinner ladies taking to much time to prep the food. Was such healthy food as well.
I wish
I would legit like to see Ramsey make school lunch menus options that are healthy, delicious and cheap.
Most districts don't have full fledged kitchens in every school. A lot of it is heat and serve
@@playmatecaz Yes, the kids didn't know how to use a knife.
"When you boil it down the answer is money"
why am I not surprised
Who's going to work for free to provide schools with food then?
@@axolet people who work for non-profits receive salaries
Freedom am i right ?!
"You wan't socialism ?????"
Typical american answer for such problems.
@@axolet parents, maybe?
@@STScott-qo4pw the whole point of school lunches is parents cant afford to feed their kids
I used to go to school (I am homeschooled now) but I noticed that the food was salty and relatively *overseasoned* . I also noticed that more students brought their own lunch than they did taking the free lunch. Now that I'm homeschooled, I get fried rice or basically whatever I want every day for lunch.
And you are getting a better education than your public schooled peers.
When I was helping out some kindergartners when I was in elementary school, the school usually gave free lunch to kids. I helped a kid open his food up, and he bit into it and told me it tasted weird. It was a knock off sausage McMuffin, and the meat was raw.
That’s why I always took my lunch to school after that.
Gross!
ew.
I'm so glad I live in Finland where school lunches are free, healthy and we can pick the quantity and season the food ourselves 😓
Basically you're saying youre getting actual food. So lucky.
I'd've given anything to have been born and raised in Finland. Not just because of that one reason, but literally everything else too
our school lunches in an international school in shanghai is so good
America just turns everything into a business
@@h3xad3cimaldev61 so does england cause its basically americas pet dog atp 😭
“Childhood obesity rates have tripled”
Mabye because you Americans class fries as vegetables
My school has nice salad bar and fries...
My school: Check out our salad bar!
Also my school:
*Salad bar containing Pizza, Burgers, Chips and Sugary Juice/Sparkling juice*
And the fact that the lunch lines are soo long to the point where you cant even eat your lunch
@@IIzachBuilds true and XD
And pizza as a serving of vegetable... Unfortunately...
I’m from a small Idaho rural community. Our school did, and still does, make rolls and buns from scratch from whole wheat flour. They do an incredible job. No commercialization.
I worked for a school district for 15 years. While I was there they started free lunch for all kids, and later free lunch for all kids. We also delivered food to area youth centers during the summer breaks. For far too many of the kids - it was the only regular meals they would receive.
I grew up in Canada and never experienced a school lunch. We either brought our own from home or bought food from the cafeteria like a restaurant.
Mee too. Easier to just bring it myself since lots of my friends do the same and we can share our meals.
Yeah! And the food at the cafeteria was alway really good! I used to get a really nice meal for about 6$ and nothing was fried in the plate!
@@CaptnGino WTF hell no, my high school lunch for sale at the cafe was always Poutine and cost 5 dollars. The box is smaller than my cellphone. We had 1 hour for lunch and I was willing to bike home to have a hot lunch made by Mom. Did this from Grade 3 all the way until I left for college.
@@95ellington hoo ok! Maybe it's because I was in a private school in Montreal...
Same in Mexico
*American School Lunch Program.*
Started with good intentions, corrupted by greed and capitalism.
If we ever get universal healthcare watch it be totally ruined in 20 years.
@@CityLifeinAmerica If you guys get universal healthcare, it would be near impossible to get corrupted. Then again, just the idea alone is impossible to implement.
@@ammaranuar2544 suure
@@greenstorm5568 i mean other countries have it and look at them
Lol its not capitalism. Its a country's moral and upbringing. American are brought up to be a individual while country and adapt moral of if i need it i will pay for it. No value for people in society which seem understandable in short run but in long run it just makes a country greedy and plan collapse
Actually, in many "western" countries kids don't get lunches at schools, they either buy snacks at school's buffet or get lunches from home. In my country, considered "eastern European" - Czechia, warm lunch (consisting of several courses - it always includes soup and main course, usually with salad or desert or fruit) is served in every kindergarten, elementary and high school, and the nutritional value is part of law which gets actualized every few years... Oh, and we eat with actual metal cutlery and on ceramic plates, no place for anything plastic.
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the simple reason: corporate greed. i think the school should source their lunch items to their own local community. the food would be better, it would create jobs and improve overall neighborhood.
It also might be more expensive
@@Gh0st_Potato of course it can be more expensive but not much and certainly not the level that make it not affordable. in fact i think local businesses would probably give the school lower prices since they know the food will goes to kids in their neighborhood and a repeat order is always good for business.
Except there’s the issue of city schools. I personally live in NYC and there’s tons of schools and tons of kids. There simply isn’t enough food close enough to the city to work. Processed food is a way of life here
Or you can bring your lunch from home. People have been complaining about lunches forever, and yet still can't seem to figure this out.
US senators are owned by these companies. They will most likely make a law that bans local communities from making foods unless it is through corporations.
America do be making everything a business
Dat do be true
@DaddyPigsWilly Because America is one big capitalist hub.
DaddyPigsWilly where tf did you find that pic
@@whereswaldo1630 the man the myth the legend brian peppers
DaddyPigsWilly oh yay i remember him
In India we have a system called "Mid Day Meal" where students gets freshly cooked meal everyday. The meal is cooked in morning to noon & served in noon. And there is no capitalist intervention. Rice, Grains, Dal, Oil & Gas is supplied by the Govt and some money based on the students count is allocated to buy fresh vegetables, coconuts etc. There are cooks & helpers appointed for each school. The food is really delicious & I was only fortunate enough to savour this food till 7th standard. All students get the same meal but the dishes change on regular basis. In some places some NGOs and Temples(ISCON) have taken up the job of providing the meals on behalf of Govt.
In Ontario (Canada), we never had cafeterias in primary school. Everybody comes with their own lunch bags packed by their parents, and it was always fun to trade with friends. We did have programs like milk program (carton of milk everyday) and we also had Pizza Day where we got pizza on Fridays (pre-paid by parents). We also had other programs but they were more of a treat and not for everybody.
we had a system like that in my country Turkey too but they didnt give us pizza
That honestly sounds worse than the US. I'd rather get some crap food over no food. My poor parents relied heavily on free lunches to keep me fed. We obviously could bring lunch from home too.
@@AssBlasster well, school lunches actually still exist, you just ask your teacher and they will come back from the staff room, the food looks disgusting, and is given to people who forgot there lunch, idk if it tastes good cause i have never had it
@@cohengamertv6548 Sounds about the same as here then. We were always jealous of the teacher's lounge since they had vending machines lol
Here in Brasil most kids in public schools don’t even get school lunch. But they get snacks. You can’t give 5 star meals to 60 million students
Why do they serve fast food??? In Germany we get a normal “Home cooked” like meal
Simply because of corporate greed, some countries don't care as much about education and health as they should. For example my school district just dropped thousands of dollars on a recreational exercise bike for our superintendent.
You guys are so unbelievably lucky
Well then consider yourself lucky. My school in Germany served reheated frozen food directly in the aluminum box it came in. That was sad, surely not healthy and made me eat fast food from the nearby city for basically all my school career.
Bananalovingbitch u guys probably also eat juice 😉
Same in the UK when I was at school in the 90's, I remember it being really good as well, but I can't comment on what it's like today and with everything in the UK, it wouldn't surprise me if standards have gone down lol.
The kids with lunch boxes don’t seem so “childish” now do they lmao
We’re about to argue ain’t we I kinda did that but I wouldn’t bring much since I would just eat whatever I could when I got home. They called me a madman.
I cba to wait in a queue with little twats skipping the line just to get my lunch. Rather just bring lunch from home.
in my school you'd be the cool kid if you brought lunch from home in a lunch box
Bro people would make fun of people who would buy lunch, yet I’m over here not paying a dime for free food.
Finally we’re recognized as the ones who are doing the right thing
"Not everyone in the community supported the government's efforts to feed kids throughout the day" is such a wild reality
As a european this feels so weird, here in most schools you have up to 5 options of meals (around 2 euros) all prepared on the spot or in a remote kitchen from fresh incredients, processed or frozen foods in school cafeterias are either banned or highly regulated.
I loved my school lunches. The irony was, water cost $1 more while the milk carton was included, so I kept drinking milk. Guess who has a milk allergy and realized as an adult a stomachache isn’t normal for after lunch.
I can't imagine having a relentless stomachache tear through my gut after _every single lunch meal_ and only notice 10 years later.
@@jaeda6th it was my normal. I was told it was the fast pace of eating.
@@jaeda6th i grew up with chronic pain and in my teens I was so baffled when I realized that not every person has crippling pain all the time
I have tourettes syndrome, and one particular tic I'd have would be clearing my throat. Obviously you need to drink something, but the milk would always irritate my throat, so I was clearing my throat every 5 seconds. At some point in my school they had even shut down the water fountains. It was a joy.
A water bottle? This guy flexing
I remember my senior year of high school we were given mini water bottles during lunch. Well within a few weeks we were no longer provided them because “it wasn’t a coke product” coke actually threaten to sue the district if those waters were givin out during lunch.
I go to the largest public university in Ohio and we are heavily sponsored by Coca Cola, to the point that if we want to install a new water bottle filling station, it has to be approved by them because it affects their bottled water sales!
Amy Schoonover wow
At my high school we used to get mini water bottles for free but this year they stoped and made you pay for them a dollar which is a rip off
Kamren Walker smh terrible they want the kids to eat sugar and fat products
Amy Schoonover lmao terrible if that's d case I'll just bring my own water
As an Englishman who went to school, I had a very good time without it being too bad.
If others don’t follow good healthy options by balancing the meals in general, it’s definitely going to be extremely hard for them in the future.
Thankfully, others are trying hard to make scratch cooking useful, so thank you mates, your methods will save the world from everything. 🙂
I was assigned to the rich neighborhood public school because of the area my family was renting, we were very poor btw but those school lunches they were serving were a thing of beauty.
I love a good plastic burger with my plastic fries and dryass apple.
😂😂😂
SomethingSomethingCheeseGrater For real
Don't forget to wash that all down with an overpriced bottle of water that may or may not leak plastic into your water 😉🐍🐍🐍😉
Lol
Last time the hamburger bun had a booger
My Aunt for a while ran the sack lunch program for students. Where those students who didn't have food to eat at home would be given a brown bag lunch to take home for dinner. They said they would always put more in than was necessary, their logic was that if the kids are going hungry no doubt the parents are too.
Thank You for your service I grew up in housing project Defintity Needly this during childhood
God bless your aunt
That is some pretty good logic!
I get adding the extra food, but any decent parent would not take their child's food especially when they are failing to feed them. If they are the kind of person to steal food from their hungry kid, I feel they should go hungry. Maybe I'm just jaded from personal experience tho. Regardless I think its a great idea. Generally I believe nobody deserves to go hungry. I always keep snakes and drinks in the car to hand out to homeless I see on side of the road.
I dont get it why is the sack lunch fpr dinner when they go home and not for lunch when they are at school?
i remember one day our school lunches had this special item that was like a rice bowl so i tried it and the rice wasn't cooked and the sauce was literally a gray goop
When I was a child, my mother worked as a waitress making less than $3/hr and we had to pay for lunch, I was often refused lunch at school because we were too poor but apparently not poor enough for help
And there's companies making shitloads of profit from it, This is what's wrong in this country
Wait this isn't Vox?
Lobetec I think they might be trying out vox to work for them.
I felt betrayed
they're all backed by the same people so either way, same thing lmao
Lobetec LMAOOO I THOUGHT THE SAMEEE
Oh wait wtf, CNBC?! I did not expect that dafuq, the format, editing, voice, and just the whole thing seems so like Vox!!
Why do our lunch prices go up and never decrease but the food is just as bad?
well here's how it work's. people who work farms are forever getting less money for their crops. big business takes a huge chunk off the farmer. then sells to schools at marked up cost. making money on both front's.
SmilingIpad government
Its inflation bro
@@ekoms108 yeah what this dude said, the value of money decreases every year due to inflation - hence higher prices
Also why, if you're not getting at least a slight raise every year, your salary is going down
In the last couple years of high school, my friends and I all had jobs and had the cash to tip, even buy ingredients for the kitchen staff . Most of us maxed out our schedule and we're only around for breakfast services during study hall during soft more and senior year. We had a great relationship with our "lunch ladies " and the food we ate was superb! I know that kind of racket could never exist today. I'm just suprised to learn that big companies make special recipes to meet a health guideline, why not make their junk food healthier for everyone else too?
I’d guess the reason they don’t make their other food healthier is due to money and taste. They could spend more money to improve their food, but that would cut into profits. If they don’t want to spend additional money, they would have to change the recipe which would upset their consumers.
I’m so glad I can provide school lunch for my daughter and even if I couldn’t I’m glad she goes to a school where the lunches are actually edible.
We were really out here eating pizza & chocolate milk together 🤦🏾♀️
🥴
Kerra Johnson we have slurries
Kerra Johnson the milk is probably what kept us from developing sicknesses from the food. I know once I started trading my milk for food I got really sick and couldn’t eat lunch anymore
No thanks. I brought a can of Coca-Cola from home everyday.
Milk is nasty anyway.
Ew now that I think about it, no wonder they fed us crap
I don’t understand, how come these videos always show school lunches that are way better than what i ever got for school lunch?
Sayonara I’m still in school in ny n the food trash
Daily talks with Rose n Kelsey / what?! I'm from NY too, and I thought the food is delicious......My favorites are the dumplings and garlic bread
Wen.Z dumplings??!! dammnnNNN IM JEALOUS
Wen.Z what I live on Long Island and my school food is crap
Not only that, but they always key in on pizza. I seem to recall getting pizza once a month at best.
I've been a teacher in one of the largest school districts in the country for 15 years. The amount of food waste is absolutely disgusting.
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2:More Money!
3: We just want your money so hand it over.
@@queencarla8949 No true. I’ve looked into all major companies, they all sell your life, just so they can make money. Google and Blackrock are the worst.
I remember when Michelle Obama's plan when into effect when I was in high school. The way the lunch combos worked getting a fruit would make your lunch cheaper so naturally everyone would grab a fruit to get the cheaper combo then immediately throw in the trash, there would be trash cans full of fruit and vegetables, it was really sad honestly.
It really is. Kids already gravitate towards eating unhealthy food and food corporations exploit it as much as they can. It's been going on for decades and it's only getting worse. Most of what is served in schools isn't food, it's products. Govt should make it mandatory for these corporations to disclose how much they are making off school lunches. Doubt it will happen. Even if parents try to teach their kids to eat healthy and give them homemade lunches, from my friend's son he tells me many of them just throw them away and use their allowance to buy sugary or fatty cafeteria food or vending machine snacks.
This still happens everyday at my school. I’ll just be buying a snack and the lunch lady will tell me to take a fruit to make my meal cheaper. I’ve tried eating them but they were either weirdly mushy or to hard to peel.
So dissapointing. That is why we also need to educate our children in the importance of fruits & veggies. I didn't really grow up this way but now I live in a community where already in elementary school they have gardens for kids and nutrition education. They literally grow the food and then take it home with the knowledge of how it was grown & why it's good for you.
Brad Evans Productions
I’m in high school right now and it still happens. I’m one of the only people who actually eats the fruits, since I don’t like pizza... or hamburgers... so I eat all the fruits 😂
Brad Evans Productions I’m in middle school and that’s so true
The answer to everything is "money" and the reason why our children are fed prison food in public schools rather than nutritious meals.
Rt! At my school less than half of the kids will eat that food, I say it’s worse than prison food like once we got basically uncooked chicken. And they never give us veggies just raw meat and slob
@Cookie Monsta My sister just came home from prison a few weeks ago and even she can confirm that that food is almost the same or very similar to American school foods however some places it may be better or worse so I can’t speak for everyone 🤷♀️
@@futureivygirl must be your school district lol my school food good asf
@@franciscoresendiz4295 lucky lol
I've been to a public school, and I'm now at a charter school. The charter school makes and grows some of its food, my old public school served food so bad I always brought cold lunch. Me and some friends actually looked up the public schools main food administrators and they actually do make food for prisons. Its sick, and I think it needs to change for the sake of my generations future.
Giving the right food to the children and teaching them how to eat right are crucial to a nation’s future.
Thank god I live in Sweden and get actual food. I remember eating broccoli soup, fish with potatoes, lasagna, typically swedish husmanskost (which is usually rich in nutrients), lots of vegetables (I found out I loved brussel sprouts when they served them in school), etc. We would alwayd have a basket of swedish crispbread on the side with butter if you weren't that hungry OR if you already ate a portion but you wanted more. This applied to both the public and private schools I went to (I would say the food in the public schools I went to were better/more consistent in quality).
The more I learn about the US, the more I hate that place to be honest
I’m going to be honest I starve myself from how bad the lunch is at my school
Me too
ThatPringlesGuy same here
amen
Same here :/
We have great food at my school, actually. And there's always pasta pots or baguettes if you don't like the main meal of the day.
Is there anything left in America that hasn't been ruined by corporate lobbying?
No, this is the way it's always been. Since America was founded. It even says in god we trust on money.
Mudit Gambhir except the maker of the video does not address the moral need to pay a Living Wage to all of the staff needed to prep , prepare , and serve Scratch Cooking
@@joeybaseball7352 its actually been this way since the U.S. government started to rapidly expand in the 1920s-1930s
@@wclifton968gameplaystutorials long before that. In the 1700's.
weed.
as a current high school junior, the stuff we make in my food science class is more edible than what they serve at lunch. literally half the time the food is half "cooked" (reheated) and its barely edible. the lunch ladies also serve us barely enough to be called a meal and they stash leftovers in the back to eat themselves. its insane.
update: moldy hotdog buns have made it onto the menu lolll its so bad
It's sad the lunch lady won't let us get second most of the kids are hungry after 30 minutes
You know, in high school the meals were actually pretty good. I actually remember every Friday during my senior year they had a fresh egg scramble with a variety of toppings. Made to order. Was a favorite of mine.
When public schools become a business...
They don’t make money from lunch lol
@@adriansookai we're not talking about the schools
yeah we pay public schools through taxes so public schools can scream at us and make us work 7-8 hours a day with 4 hours of homework with no pay
Thanks to big government mandating
With big government, there's no incentive to keep the education quality high in public schools, so kids/parents get what they pay for.
Private schools depend on the "business" to stay competitive and encourage enrollment. 👍
Government: How nutritious is the cafeteria food?
My school: No
Food? Did you mean: cardboard?
Alexander B My food isn’t cardboard. It actually good
The hamburger in my school, the ham tastes like burned in the inside
Sike ahahah
Here we don't have school lunches
A good percentage of kids at my school don't even get in line to get lunch-
They just go straight to the student store for chips.
My school lunch staff got annoyed that every time I saw mold on the food, i demanded a replacement. "Thats only a small bit, really?"
Everyone's saying that kids aren't getting real food, they're getting prison food. The high school my spouse went to literally had the same supplier as the local prison for their lunches. One day they served tacos and a bunch of kids got sick because the meat was contaminated with cockroach eggs. So yeah, a lot of them are eating actual prison food. Kind of ironic since, at least at my high school, they literally locked us in the building save for one camera monitored door.
I remember watching Jamie Oliver go to the school board and prove he could feed kids healthy lunches at the same cost of the hotdogs and sloppy joes they were being fed...
The school board shut him down and absolutely hated him.
lol
Truly sad.
Well why?
@@guardian4452 in case you haven’t noticed lately.
School boards don’t care about children and think they know what is best..
@Micky G that’s just the way the US works.
It amazes me every time I see a US politician ripping some third world country for being corrupt.
One time I bought the pizza at my school, it was super undercooked. The dough was raw as hell, it wasnt even cooked at all. And then there was the time a kid got salmonella from undercooked chicken quesadilla, he sued the school and won a few thousand dollars. Suddenly after he sued the school, it became good.
He took the bullet for the bois
Someone got fired 👀
He is either super lucky or unlucky
@@trollinape2697 a blessing and a curse
My friend also had a chicken nugget and he was biting half of it and it was undercooked and he luckily didn't bit into the raw part.
I don’t know why I like watching this so much. It’s calming for some reason call me crazy.
Because facts are refreshing.
High school senior at Carthage NY here to remind you public school lunch is the butt of the jokes in the halls. Stale Donuts (bread coated in sugar/chocolate) are served for breakfast regularly, fries/tater tots are considered vegetables, lukewarm low quality seemingly recycled pizza is served daily, half the fruits are past ripe, and the milks have a good chance of containing something solid in them.
"Pre-prepared foods to ensure students receive healthy balanced meals everyday"
Yeah cause greasy deep fried French fries and artificially flavored ketchup with a side of hormone filled chicken is balanced.🙄
Adiella welcome to American lunch food and where LOTS of our tax money goes
f̸i̶r̴e̵c̷a̷t̴2̸4̸6̶ i know, im just stating my opinion, I also live in the bn US so I would know, thats why i never eat school lunch, all love, no hate.
Facts
At least your french fries were fried. My school heats them up in a giant microwave.
Agreed! As a person who has heard they put hormones in chicken over in America just makes me want to puke, I’m from England, a country which doesn’t put hormones in our chicken, my school lunches are still pretty bad and most people have packed lunches. If I ever want to go to America I will probably become a vegetarian or vegan.
At my school the fruits and vegetables taste so fake, everyone and I mean everyone just throws them away
It's because food companies buy from small vendors with low quality vegetables/fruits
Same, the apples at my school are usually super bitter
Daniel2x lmao
My elementary school had a canned taste to the fruits and vegetables
i got boiled burgers spaghetti with no sauce and soup that tasted like the gym floor we should get paid to eat that
Most schools in my district have free breakfast and lunch. They also have a free dinner program you have to sign up for and you take it home from school at dismissal. How good the food is really depends. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's awful. You usually can buy snacks like chips or fruit gummies or popsicles for a dollar or less. Sometimes, there were free ice cream cup days.
We need to go back to the way school lunch rooms were ran in the 1970's. No junk food, just a basic wholesome meal cooked at the school.
My school lunch costs 2.75 for half cooked pizza and 2 week old expired milk and if you’re lucky some chemical tasting carrots
Same
In my country if you are in a public school lunch Is free... which is better
same thing for me cost $5
My school we don't have pizza we have heathy stuff like rice eggs fish soup and it's cheap
kathylove i live in the us my lunch is also free it is trash though
“And is something that kid loves to eat”
Boi every slice of pizza comin outta the school kitchens tastes like dry rags and rubber
Y schools pizza was actually good
Yeah it does
Kelgo no mine is not-
My school had pizza hut once but it was still bad
School pizza is the worst thing I have ever put in my mouth
Once the private school I went to hosted dinner for visiting student-athletes from nearby public schools. I never understood why they were so hyped up until I watched this video and saw how the ‘free food’ is served at most schools 😅
The lunches they are showing look better than what I received in Georgia and Florida in elementary, middle, or high school as a student or teacher.
"Why are our people so fat?"
Gee America, I wonder if it has something to do with you labeling french fries as a vegetable?
Well it is potato but not cooked in a very healthy way
Potatos aren't really a vegetable. They lack enough nutritional value to be one of your 5 a day
@@user-jf7rk9vu4s you do not know that. Most likely not. A lot of fast food cies use a starchy mixture that they "shape" into a french fry then freeze then send to their "stores" to fry as a french fry.The store " Five Guys" uses real potatoes for their french fries, that is why they make a big deal out of it. They know it is not that common. Not arguing with you, just sharing what i found out. i was shocked at first. It is like cream at Denny's. It comes in a powder form at the store. it makes sense for the store i guess, a lot less perishable that way.
@@Arrica101 When the Incas grew the potatoes, the potatoes were wild and extremely nutritious, and resistant to diseases since they had over 5000 varieties. Now, the potatoes are grown as a monoculture, gene edited for transport .
@@Arrica101 Potatoes are actually pretty healthy. Obviously you don't want them just by themselves but overall they have pretty good health benefits.
Btw , the Kitchen Staff gets paid on average $19k per year , that means the staff needed for scratch cooking can not afford to live in most school districts
Only because it is part-time work if all they are doing is putting pre-cooked food on reheat.
@@jaredhamon3411 So your saying Schools should Hire Part Time Workers at Wages That Can Not Support Families ?
@@Beachdudeca If they were truly offering such low wages the jobs would go unfilled. Low wage jobs only exist because thy get subsidized with food stamps and housing.
There should be a school bus driver / scratch cook hybrid.
@@jaredhamon3411 but if wages need to be subsidized with food stamps and public housing thats as bad as Amazon and Walmart that do the same things
I went to a charter and we didn't have cafeterias. Usually students would sign up for meal plans so restaurants like chick-fil-a would bring the food to the school and we would eat in classroom. There was only ~400 students in our high school and about 100 or so students were actually doing that meal plan. It was kinda expensive but money was not an issue to most students.
Makes me very grateful for what my school had. They made the sandwiches fresh every morning
Michelle Obama:”We will change the food meals in schools.Period.”
3rd Graders:”We ain’t gonna have that.”
there used to be McDonald's, Taco Bell, Chick Fil-A, ect in school cafeterias in the 90s and early 2000s
Flxrry are u serious
@@umichfootball if I lived during that I would love school lunch
Flxrry yeah and then kids got fat and ruined it I still wouldn’t eat fast food. Are food in my school is all free and healthy and good
@@lena.andjelic yes and some schools in texas still have fast food in their cafeterias
I've watched more CNBC on CZcams than on CNBC.
Same, it's just that for me it isn't weird since I don't live in the US so have never actually watched CNBC
Bad Username Creator good u don’t live in US people here are crazy country gonna go down in ruins :/
Fr these videos are so entertaining
My mom packs my lunch every day. After seeing what my friends are fed daily, YEAH, school lunches ARE CHEAP!
I remember going to school in Mexico Baja for 2 years and they didn't have any food programs at all and some kids didn't even have money to eat lunch, this was in the 90s. They where expected to learn.
I'm Indian, my uncle lives with his family in CA. They do not allow their kids to eat the school lunch...sticking to the good old Indian concept of healthy meals packed at home
"healthy"
Good. Id rather have packed meals any day than the wet cardboard they serve us at school.
@@manime16 lots of meat, vegetables, flour tortillas, curry... sounds pretty healthy to me ! :)
Bet its also better than defrosted chicken nuggets and a greasy pizza.
@@nayarhhhh but the acidity you get from eating them no harm met but I’m yes
I went to a private school, originally the food was amazing, they even had sushi and a freezer full of diffrent ice creams and a make your own sandwich bar and a giant food bar. Slowly it got worse though, not awful, just stuff like dry spaghetti and muffins that fall apart almost instantly.
11:25 never thought about it that way. That’s actually a good argument against longer holidays
Not really. Infact, it feels like they just padded that argument so it 'makes sense'.
If they really only make short holidays for the sake of children then why are they overcrowding the holidays with homework?
Why are some kids required to stay in school and do schoolwork on holidays if they get a low grade?
Why don't schools pay more attention to their students so that if a child is starving at home, they can be taken out of that home?
Why is most school food so expensive with limited to 0 options in most schools for 'free food'.
They don't care about abuse lol. They just care about what the school represents as a business.
The dumpsters behind my school car say for “School and Prison use only”
welcome to america
😂
Your school gives you cars?
Our local schools AND local prisons get their food off the same Sysco food truck.
To some students school is like a prison anyways.
"Studies have shown; that if kids are fed they perform better is school". Wack
Wild, almost like living creatures need food to function, who knew
I read this comment as soon as it played
Eye-opening
Never knew kids need to eat
I have actually read those studies and conducted further research based on those publications. So, yes there is a positive correlation there.
Back when I was in school, the easiest classes were after lunch, and I didn't always eat lunch
When I went to school in the 90s our choice was Cheeseburger or hamburger with fries, or a slice of dominos pizza and fries. They called them fry boats. You also had the option of regular milk or chocolate milk. They also had a salad bar every single day, but if you put a cheeseburger/pizza and fries in front of a kid or a salad bar, and it's easy to see which one the kid would choose. We were also not taught about nutrition or what food does to the human body until our senior year. All throughout public school I was eating just terrible food that I would not serve my dog nowadays.
my school in the 90s had Pizza hut , chik fila , taco bell, KFC , mcdonalds and subway. not the entire menu of course but only certain items that qualified for healthy options and pepsi products in the vending machines plus slushy machines. and the cafeteria had a salad bar.
Ah my favorite: *burned pizza, crusty cheese, old milk and* *_c a p I t a l i s i m_*
Dr.BananaSoup wow you can’t even spell
@koala cousins This is what we've become? Is this the peak of humanity?
Why are we still here, just to suffer?
@@alejandrogutierrez3789 wa la
cardboard pizza and french fries with chocolate milk were the best thing ever. I wish I could buy them as an adult, but the taste is different from stuff I can make on my own or buy in a grocery store.
In Norway we all bring lunches. When you start in middle school you can leave the school and go wherever you want and buy anything before the next class.
Well in india we bought put own lunch throughout the entirety and we are not allowed to leave
😢
We're not allowed to leave the school in America. We used to like, 30 years ago maybe?
@@Shakeyloves69
Probably because they know you'd never come back
What do poor kids do who can’t afford to bring their own lunches?
My school has reasonably good food. My usual meal is medium quality pasta with meatballs and slightly plasticy cheese (better when melted), a strawberry yoghurt, and a cookie (usually vanilla shortbread/chocolate/rainbow sprinkle) or if they have it, lemon drizzle cake. On Fridays, there's a rotating menu of plain fries, potato squares with herbs, or potato wedges, with either fish or fish cakes, and peas/baked beans. There's also a larger meal, but I don't tend to go for that.
Dang I guess I got lucky. When I went to high school in California in 2007 we had amazing lunch food. We had Chinese food and Mexican food options. My favorite was this huge burrito in silver wrapping they served in the Mexican line. I occasionally reminisce about those burritos
To quote my man Tupac "We got money for war,but we can't feed the poor,".
War is paid by taxes, and protects everyone (except the obvious) while feeding the poor, does already happen, but it's not like people give them a three course five star meal every day.
@@jagermeister4363 The war on terrorism causes more terrorism than prevents it.
Redpuff 101 Said it ain't no hope for the youth and the truth is
It ain't no hope for tha future
And then they wonder why we crazy
I blame my mother, for turning my brother into a crack baby
Um...we do have money to feed the poor? I remember when my family was on food stamps, we got about $300 a month to use towards food.
You can't protect the country from your own pocket.
You can feed the poor from your own pocket.
If you trust gov to take your money and feed the poor you are a simpleton.