American reacts to Other Countries School Lunches
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As a French, yes we have 4 course meal very diverse. We also have at least 1 hour to eat. There is always meat, fish and sometime Veggies. However the quality of the food highly depend on the school. Some school are incredible and others (most of them) are industrial food with bad looking. But overall, it has good taste.
French too, yes, between 30 min to 1h depending on the schedule but if we have steak with fries, an entrée, yogurt and fruit (classic lunch) we used to wolfed it down in less than 10 minutes 😂
Yes same here with México in a public school can be juice, sandwich but in a private school the food can be more fancy
"L’aile ou la cuisse" 🙂 I hope Ryan watches that movie
@@FolkerHQ not sure he would be sensible to french humour, though (this is one of my favorite movies)
But there is certainly not jam with the cheese😅
School lunch shows how much society cares about their kids.
And the future of the society
The state* not society
@@Alguien644 I would agree to both of. In the end the state is shaped by a society.
in sweden the average price of a school lunch is 1/5th of a prisoners lunch :D
@@Elbereth_TV Seriously. That’s ridiculous.
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!
That's awesome 👍
You being confused that kids can go outside of school grounds is so amazing to me.
In Sweden we could go whenever we liked, on lunch we often went into town to either McDonalds or another fast food resturant. Alot of kids went home to eat and take a nap. And from what i know, its like that in most of Europe.
In Sweden we do get free meals. It depends on what schools you go to what the meal is going to be. In higher grades we got restaurant food because we had people who focused on cooking classes so they made the meals for everyone in that school.
If you look more into it, you will find out that American schools, especially highschools, are like detention centers.
Their main punishment is even called Detention.
In highschools they will assign certain students to monitor the hallways and the school grounds to report and/or detain any 'rebels.'
In our Dutch schools, if we had to stay after school went out, it was simply called 'staying after.'
@@AudieHolland I France, if staying without a course, we go a l étude meaning studies. A big room where you can officially work. Used to draw a lot as a matter 9f fact, pain rule is silence like in a library
Looked for that comment, here in Germany it's mostly the same.
Much the same here in the UK. Another example of the US's vaunted 'Freedom'.
that's so cool man here in the US I literally feel trapped here at school xD.
In Brazil, meals are a constitutional right 'till high school in every public school. Some still have more than one meal (breakfast and lunch, for example). Public Universities, very often, have some kind of subsidized cafeteria, where you can buy meals very chip.
As a Ukrainian, I have never seen or heard of such school food. We usually have soup (I never ate borscht at school), porridge or pasta with meat or fish cutlets, sausages or meatballs. Sweet is usually a pastry, it can be a cheese casserole with jam and tea, cocoa or compote
I had borshch quite often, up until about third grade (2014) when the whole menu changed at my school.
In Poland a lot of schools will provide two course meals, soup (most commonly tomato soup, dill pickle soup or chicken broth with noodles) and then the other popular dishes are mashed potatoes, various kinds of meat and a salad. In the summer a lot of kids will look forward to pasta with strawberries and sour cream (I know it sounds weird to a lot of people but it's really good)
lot's of schools also do apple souce with rice and cinnamon Ever had it?
Just for curioosity, when you say "during the summer", what do you mean by summer? June, July?
@@Marina_-_- June, school ends just b4 the start of July
@@charko4191 yes! Thanks for reminding me about this I will have to make it sometime this week
i remember the pasta with strawberries and sour cream. the worst food ever served, i hated it. and the school would cook it twice, sometimes three times a week for months 🤢 i can't even look at it now
Marzipan is a paste made from almond flour, rosewater and confectioner‘s sugar. In Germany, it is a specialty of Lübeck and often shaped in molds or figures, decorated with jam and/or almonds, and toasted/flambeed…
yeah! not french at all.
@@bizzz29 Marzipan fruit is mostly eaten at Christmas in France, but I don't think it's often served in school canteens, it's more like fruit, flavored creams or pastries for dessert...
@@bizzz29 Nobody said it was. You're getting pasta or pizza sometimes in your school lunch right ? Are you Italian ?
In Europe usually lunch takes at least an hour. It's not just to provide the kids with enough time to eat but also time to rest and play, so that they download some energy. This allows them to go back to the afternoon classes rested and refreshed, so that they can study better. Yet, in Italy (for instance) this is only true for children up to 5th grade. From then on, children go to school six days a week, but usually only in the morning. In the 1970's and 1980's, when I was at school, even up to the 5th grade school was 6 days a week and ended at noon. So we had lunch at home every day.
I'm from Poland and we do not eat "lunch".in school. It is dinner and break for dinner is only 15-20 minutes. But mostly children eat only second breakfast at school (sandwich) and then dinner at home (at 16.00)
@@joanneczka9843 i think you call dinner the noon meal, aka lunch.
You might have a hour lunchbreake. I think in swdeden the minimum is 40 minutes, but you may still be kicked out from the lunchroom in 20 minutes. It depends on when you get your slott.if you get the first slot you are more likely to be kicked out. If you get the last slott (or say the 3 last) you can typically eat how ever much you like.
Typically the 9th graders (that is the highest public school grade) get the last time slot.
In the Netherlands its 30 minutes.
In Norway (also part of Europe) have 15 minutes to eat and than 30 minutes to play in the lunch break.
I'm from Brazil, and I'm saying, what was shown in the video is not lunch around here. Yes, in Brazil schools provide breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack to students, for free, in public schools. Each day is a different snack, but our lunches are usually rice or pasta, beans, meat, chicken or sausage, salad and vegetables. There is even fruit juice, natural, or water.
For an afternoon snack and breakfast, we usually have cookies, chocolate milk, coffee with milk, bread and fruit. The food provided to the students is usually from local farmers, and the menu is created by a nutritionist, with a menu each day. The lunch provided to students is the same provided to teachers, directors and school staff, and usually lasts from 40 minutes to 1 hour for lunch, and from 30 to 40 minutes for breakfast and an afternoon snack.
Eu concordo. Nunca vi um omelete desse na escola! Mas a nossa escola estadual tinha comida muito boa! Aí eu me mudei pros eua e a comida aqui é um lixo. Senti até saudade do leite com chocolate e bolacha Maria no café da manhã. Ahahah
Here in Brazil when I was in HS everyday was something different, sometimes it was rice and beans with some meat and vegetables, sometimes pasta with chicken, sometimes it was just something sweet like a bowl of pudding, sometimes grounded beef with bread.
I would always eat it twice 🤣
I've been to a lot of different schools in France (all public) and we had 4 course meals in every single one of them.
No jam with the cheese (or yogurt) though.
Bread is also always available in addition to the meal, in the form of "mini-baguettes".
The meal is also free if your family earns below a certain threshold.
As for the time we had to eat lunch, it was usually a bit under 1 hour (more often than not 55 minutes), it's also a good way to have a good rest during the school day which goes from 8-9 am to 16-17 pm (or longer depending on the school).
in Portugal kids often have from 13:20 to 15:20 to eat + rest a bit (if they have classes from 8:10 to 17:00/18:00)
Yes and a lot of kids eat at home not in school. And school lunches are 3 couses, Soup, a protein dish (you can pick between fish, meet or vegetarian) and fruit, also with a piece of bread on the side.
I went to a private (Catholic) school in France and although the lunches were made from scratch and were probably much higher quality nutritionally than US school lunches, nobody (including myself) liked most of the food - and according to my parents, those school lunches were very expensive too (again, it was a private school)... so it's all to be taken with a grain of salt, it's not necessarily "gourmet food" :)
And a 4-course meal is NOT fancy in France, it's the standard structure of lunch (alhtough not everyone eats that way, especially not anymore) - when I was in school we got 2 hours for lunch, because many of the kids lived close to the school and wlaked home for lunch and back. Also, I've never heard of marzipan served for dessert in France...
Another important point is that the only available drink was tap water.
A disclaimer: My experience is from decades ago, in a Paris private school.
Never saw marzipan in meals at school ! It's even very rare to eat that in France !
Cheese as 3rd, yes, but without jam, that's not french at all. Could be also a yaourt.
Last dishes is usually a fresh fruit but could be a pastry, pudding...depending what's before or if it's a 🎉 day. Christmas meal are usually a real Christmas meal !
@@brigittelacour5055 Glad it's not just me about the marzipan - I believe it's eaten more in Italy and also in Germany/Austria than in France, unless it's a regional thing perhaps? But I would imagine it being considered too sweet for a healthy French school lunch. We usually had fruit and/or yoghurt or other dairy-based desserts at school.
I also agree about never seeing jam in school with cheese!
@@mgparis Austrian here. We only have two typical uses for Marzipan: 1. Decoration on cakes. 2. Mozartkugel, which is a round confection containing marzipan, nougat and pistachio (very kitsch thing mainly popular with tourists). I think most kids hate marzipan, would be cruel to give them this as dessert 😂
As a French, it's Interesting because majority of French public school are using industrial food (they just heat it before the service). Even if it's good tho the quality depend between schools. It wasn't the case in the past, all the meal was made by cooking chief and it was surely better. And there is always an entrance, a cheese, a yogurts and most of the time a fruit or a dessert 🍰.
Also never heard of this fruit in my life.
Je suis passé par quatre écoles catholiques en France, sur les quatre, une seule était vraiment dégueulasse, à tel point que la plupart du temps je ne mangeais rien, la dernière, au lycée était exactement l'inverse, tout était fait sur place à partir de produits locaux et sains, tout le monde sans exception attendait impatiemment le repas du midi, parce qu'en plus, les cuisiniers variaient tellement leur recettes, surtout sur les plats principaux (pas forcément les entrées et desserts qui étaient très très bons) qu'il était rare d'avoir deux fois le même dans toute l'année. Merci beaucoup à ces véritables cuisiniers qui aimaient leur travail.
nah real french lunch: rasped carrots, tomatoes or other vegetables kids generaly like, then meat ( it can be chicken, beef, pork, sometimes sausages and it's fish at least once a week ) with vegetables, potatoes or pastas, and then you could choose between cheese, yoghurt or a fruit ( you may take all of theme or less depending on the school you're at )
and of course, you can ALWAYS have a small bread, because it wouldn't be French otherwise
and very often, there is a steak-french fries day, mostly on Wednesday because, I don't know why, people just associate wednesday with steak and french fries
and more rarely, on special days, you could take an icecream as dessert
nobody eats jam at lunch, it's only for breakfast
We had to pay for the lunches around 45 USD per month in Czechia and the lunch was three courses. First was the soup (bone broth with pieces of meat pasta and vegetables) then the main meal usually was potatoes or rice with meat and little bit of vegetables and then we got small sweet bun or a something similar to brownie. Meat was served every day except for Friday. Then we got some vanilla pudding with baked sweet buns or rice puddings or something sweet, there was not usually the third course but soup was still included. There were also big buckets of two types of tea we could choose from. Either black tea or sweeter summer berry tea.
In Portugal there’s usually a starter (salad and bread), a soup, main dish (fish/meat with side dishes), and a dessert that could be fruit or a sweet like chocolate mousse. When I was in school, I used to pay 1.50€ per day.
In France the lunch break lasts 2 hours (12h - 14h)
but then the school day is very much extended.
@@marycarver1542 yes but so worth it if you actually get a real break, many students/teachers even go home during lunch and come back totally refreshed
In Australia there are choices. Some schools have canteens depends how big the school is. There is no trays and sitting at tables. You order your lunch and it comes to you in a bag. You can bring your own lunch or go home or go down to shops (for older children.) The little ones generally stay at school unless picked up by parents
I am a recent subscriber, I really like your videos. It is really refreshing seeing an american take on the critisism of some of these videos and not just default to the whole "America is the best country" mentality. Keep up the good work Ryan, lots of love from Ireland
As an Australian I can tell you schools don’t have cafeterias or street vendors. We have lunch outside and most kids bring a packed lunch. Most schools will have a tuck shop which parents can order food for their kid for the day. A typical tuck shop order (in my family at least) is a ham sandwich, a piece of fruit, a snack sized packet of lightly salted popcorn and a juice costing $6.
That's because Australian kids are pretty well fed taking meals from home , we also get a morning tea break on top of lunch which will usually involve snacking on things like fruit and yoghurt @CharlieZaard
In Sweden most children have 50-60 minutes to eat lunch and then play outside for a while. It´s common to serve different sallads first and then the food. The food can be meatballs, sauce and potatoes or spagetti and meat sauce. Once a week they serve fish. And the lunch is free, ofcourse.
Lappskojs and pölsa are the dishes I remember most. If the food was too terrible I would either go with filmjölk and corn flakes or knäckebröd with grated carrots. This was in the 80's.
@@fredosinsemilla3896agree thats what we got as kids in school
@@fredosinsemilla3896AH, lappskojs, pölsa and the Fläskkorv. The three most hated dishes when I was a kid (born 86). I really hope they've removed those by now!
I have never had any of these but I am born 92 so I had food from those big kitchen that provided food for several schools in my early days, that was later fased out and they started cooking good healty food at each school later in my highschool days @@fredosinsemilla3896
jepp they have removed them @@QuiteFranklyFrank
In my son's state school in a suburb near Milan all the food was organic and really quite good quality: every day 2 parents were invited to have lunch with the kids in order to check it was proper food. Everybody wanted to volunteer for vegetarian lasagna with pesto sauce beause it was really good.... but for all that we had to pay 5 Euros (100 Euros a month!!!). There's always a catch unfortunately.
Finnish here! I have worked in the schools with the lunch system. I won't say that the system is perfect, but we do try to provide healthy and fresh meals. There is always a salad and milk. And there is always a vegetarian option. Everything is labelled so that kids know what they are eating.
Australian, here. We don’t eat from street vendors but the vast majority of schools have a canteen where you can buy a ‘lunch order’. Most kids would do this maybe once a week at most. When I was a kid they had all the good unhealthy stuff but nowadays it’s far better. My kids can get sushi and homemade soup at theirs. We eat outside except when it’s pouring rain and then have outside lunchtime for approximately an hour. It hardly ever gets below 5C and we were just cold 😂. Oh, and a sausage roll is sausage meet wrapped in pastry, not an actual sausage. Usually, kids being good from home and will have a sandwich, a piece of fruit, maybe some chips or savoury crackers, often a dairy item like cheese or yogurt, and a treat item like a slice or something else sweet. More recently, some schools are only allowing water to drink. Many also have ‘brain food’, an extra fruit only snack you can eat during class.
I went to school in Italy. We lived within 5 minutes walking distance of each school I attended (primary, middle and high school) so I always went home for lunch (which used to be common for primary school children anyway as back then school was only 1/2 day (held only in the morning hours). In middle school and high school classmates, who lived too far to go home for lunch, would grab something to eat at one of the nearby establishments that catered for local businesses and students. Kids would have to leave the school premises to get lunch.
my child is in the second grade, and we have a "school after school" program in Romania, this means that for children from the primary grades, there is the possibility to stay at school after the program under the teacher's supervision for another 4 hours, so that they don't stay home alone, during this time they have a free meal, which consists of a soup, a second course, a dessert and a fruit, and it differs from day to day
I can't imagine any kid wanting to spend 4 extra hours at school... with the teacher... I shudder at the thought. What age is a second grader these days? 8? Yeah, at 8 we were allowed home alone with just he neighbor's supervision every now and again. And we knew how to cook simple stuff or make a sandwich.. and heat food from the fridge... on the stove. Cause we didn't have microwave oven then... they weren't very necessary and pretty expensive in the 90's.
4 courses school lunch is pretty normal in many EU countries. I am from Czech Republic and its normal at school to have salad, soup, main dish and desert.
Yes, you can have mostly soup and main meal, but I would not call some extra cookie a "course." In most of Czech schools, you will get something like this + "shut up and eat" 3.bp.blogspot.com/-Q_iB5JDrP0U/VO2I8KyVtcI/AAAAAAAAq7Q/q1SNU0UV-ao/s1600/Screenshot%2B2015-02-25%2Bat%2B09.33.24.png
Salad is more of a side dish for us though. But yeah, I first though that we had 2 courses.. but I rememberd that we had also the deserts.
Also the break for launch was 45 minutes if I remember correctly.
@@RamsesTheFourth That's very different in each school or region, some schools have just 20 minutes, some of them have 30 minutes, you have mostly "small break" between lessons, which is 5 or 10 minutes and then "big break" which is for rest or food. Many kids in Czech schools go to lunch after school ends in like 13:30 or 14:00, because there is just not time for that during break and many schools have eating room opened for few hours.
Well... here in Germany for the most part of the country we don't even have school cafeterias, not to mention meals for lunch. Some years ago when i was in school, the 1 hour lunch break (or longer) was either spent at home by those who lived close enough, or us kids would venture into the city center (our school was directly next to the city wall of the historical center) and get whatever we could find and afford. Some would bring additional 'Butterbread' sandwiches from home though.
Tbf though, afternoon classes weren't really a thing, i think my first time having them was in 6th grade cause we had a lack of teachers for the subject, otherwise we wouldn't have had afternoon classes till 8th grade. We did whatever we wanted during that break, our teachers just told us to make sure we are back when class starts or they'll call our parents.
I lived in a very rural area though, in the Black Forest where you can let firstgraders run free without worry. I think in cities like Berlin or Munich, it's a whole other story.
While you americans consider Hawaii a part of USA, the culture is much different. That's why it's separate.
Hawaii was basically annexed by the USA after 'local business men,' who were originally from the US mainland, took over power from the native Hawaiians and then invited the USA to send over troops and officials.
They still use the British flag in theirs.
Hi
French school lunches slap 😩💅✨🇫🇷 and yes! Lunch can last anywhere from 1 to 2 hours
however, schools with those long lunches often stay open until 5 pm
whereas in the UK, a strict hour for lunch and school over at 3.30 or 4.o!
@@marycarver1542 My daughter in France starts school at 8:30am to 11:30am,then lunch time until 1.30pm,then school again until 4pm
@@marycarver1542 we had 2 hour break and classes until 3;30 and two afternoons off
Tv chef Jamie Oliver took on the British Government over school meals and he went to improve them it was in a series on tv, he had to close some of his restaurants a number of years ago.
Love to see you gain a much greater understanding of the different ways countries have a healthy relationship with food from a young age. Not just fuel to engage in the rat race again but rather a moment to relax, enjoying healthy food & company
Loved English school dinners at school until the 1970s. Cooked from scratch in a proper kitchen run by a qualified cook. Meals were basically the same as you got at home. Meat and 2 veg with gravy, followed by a pudding with custard. Then the accountants got involved and school kitchens often just heated up and dished out meals prepared in a central kitchen. With more and more cheap processed foods being used. I hope it is better now? 🤔
Mine was Private too, and we did have a proper chef. Turkey Twizzlers were not on the menu. Always fish on Friday, but it was like every menu for the week was pulled out of a hat to give us some variety.
It’s much better now , even our junior schools use locally sourced meat, everything cooked on the premises.
Haha - you obviously didn't bgo to an Inner London Comprehensive like I did: prison food.
I loved Wednesday roast beef,roast potatoes,cabbage carrots with suet current duff or apple pie and custard. Fish n chips Friday, banana custard or gypsy tart. 1960's. Steak and kidney pudding, toad in the hole. I loved fresh cooked by the school kitchen dinners. Made going to school bearable, and apples in a box from the farm one old penny for two. Good days when we had the money for our own people to have the best, not like today when the migrants bankrupted us.
I work at a school here in the UK and everything is made on site. Hot and cold options, usually a rice or pasta dish and a full roast is served once a week.
Hi Ryan, in Australia different rules apply in different schools and States. Where secondary schools are close to shopping centres, students may be allowed to leave school grounds to purchase lunch from fast food outlets. Primary school children are not allowed to leave school grounds, they bring lunch boxes from home or, if the school runs a 'tuck shop', are provided with lunch money,.
Why wouldn't I come back? You're an earnestly funny guy who spreads information with a sprinkling of sarcasm. You just keep on making videos and I'll keep watching them! Deal?
The thing with baked beans is they're cheap, they're pretty healthy and really versatile. The UK never really got out of the whole rationing thing. So you'll see a lot of cheaper cuts of meat being used, Veg that's easy to grow and cheap, and recently a lot less salt and sugar. We had a lot of pies, casseroles/stews, sausage and mash when I was growing up.
Yes I agree, I love the old wartime recipes/menu along with the traditional and great foods now in a modern UK. 😊
@@markwolstenholme3354 Yeah, we had spam at school, too - but that was the 60s.
@@wessexdruid7598 Same here, I like a slice or two fried on a butty 😁.
@@markwolstenholme3354 I haven't eaten spam since I was forced to at school. Spam fritters - ugh!
@@wessexdruid7598 🤣
I'm from Romania and kids don't eat a real meal at school. They usually eat something they got from home. For little kids in schools it's nothing fancy but it is a minimum of food just in case some children forgot their food or they get hungry. In kindergartens that was an entirely different story. My daughter's kindergarten had always a cooked full meal. Always healthy food cooked right before the time for eating. Never was food ordered from anywhere else, never was anything but a fresh cooked meal. Every day I was meeting with a van bringing salad, apples, fish, rice and everything needed for the meal of the day. They had pizza only once in a year and sweets maybe 10 times. The rest was fresh fruits, mostly from local fruit producers (they smelled and tasted different than those from supermarket).
In Greece the school day ends around lunch time (at 14:00), so we eat at home. However!!!! We have a school canteen where we can buy toasts, pies (the famous tyropita - cheesepie), chips, croisants, the famous koulouri, and other snacks or we can bring snacks/toasts/fruits from home to eat in our breaks between classes if we get hungry. Some private schools, where students may have extra curiculum corses or athletic activities that the school provides, may provide proper lunches that are coocked properly.
In New Zealand we’d get an hour for lunch and two 15 min breaks in the morning and afternoon (which is typical in the workplace too).
Everyone was outside for lunch (the schools here are not one big building like I went to in Europe, but multiple clusters of classrooms spread across the school grounds). Though if you wanted to be indoors you could of course go chill in a classroom or in the library. In high schools they let the older students leave the grounds between classes.
People would generally bring lunch from home, but there is a canteen booth where you can go and buy food like (sandwich) rolls, pies and cakes.
Kids can leave school grounds in most if not all European countries to go to cafe's or shops. But we usually get 1 hour for lunch.
Not all European countries: it is absolutely prohibited in Italian schools until childre turn 11 or 12.
South Africa sounds most similar to the Australian system, we have to bring our own food. It is usually a lunchbox that consist of sandwiches, a fresh fruit and/or a yogurt, a cold drink, & sometimes snacks/treats like a cookie or two. The tap water is safe to drink at most schools, therefore the beverage brought from home is usually something with a flavour like juice, ice tea or a flavoured concentrate mixed in water we also just call it "cold-drink or cool-drink" (it's like Kool-Aid). Most schools have a tuck shop, which is a vendor on the premises with a selective variety of snack, candy, chocolate cold drinks like sodas, ice tea or flavoured milk drinks. Boarding schools serve hot meals. It is not a shop it is usually a room with a window with a counter and you ask the tuck shop lady all the things you want. In poorer areas a combination of government and privately funded food programmes provide a school lunch to kids that need it, in a lot of places it is the only substantial meal those kids receive.
In Switzerland school hours are designed that you go home for lunch and go back afterwards. So you eat what your family cooks. Only in cooking class you cook and eat at school
Which doesn't work when both parents work... But for this reason, there is always a bakery or a kebab store near any school. 😉
It is true that usually in Italy we have two courses, but not always pasta. In general it is divided into a first course where carbohydrates are concentrated followed by a second protein course accompanied by vegetables. In Italy the culinary culture is so vast that even for a child limiting himself to a few dishes is boring and bad
From what i remember of my school lunch in the start of 90's in France, which wasnt considered fancy on our standard i think, it was a 4 course indeed as cheese was there, with some choice for the main dish (fish or meat, later maybe vegetarian and also without pork) have and the break was around 1 or 2h if i'm not wrong (was 30 years ago so yeah i try to remember). At work the normal break for lunch is usually 45 minutes (can be less by law, but so far i never got less).
Also marzipan as dessert?! The fuck?! xD
Yogurt or fruit it was, eventualy some kind of pastry
As for czechia, all kids can buy lunch for dirt cheap. It is a three course meal, consiting of soup, main dish and a salad or dessert. Typical main dish can be portion of dumplings with goulash, or schnitzel with potatoes (just 2 examples). Warm tea (black tea but very diluted) is free to drink.
While the food is not healthy, it follows nutritional values required by law. Teachers eat the same meals.
Oh, and you can choose from 2 different main dishes every day.
German schools used to be 6 days too. You’d usually start around 8AM (7:30-8:30) and have 4-6 school hours (45mins) and thus finish between 11:30-13:30 and Saturday were 4 school hours max. We had homework to do
Your lunches were 30 minutes!? Mine (UK) were 55 minutes in year 7 and 45 minutes in year 8 and up. They are now 1 hour (at least in the school I worked in). And there’s also morning break of 15 to 20 (or was it 30?) minutes
We arguably had 2 courses when I was in school. The main and the dessert if you wanted it
When i went to school in Germany, about 30 years ago, there were no school lunches. We still had school at Saturday, though it was gradually eliminated during my time: I had school every Saturday from 1st to 5th grade, then some Saturdays off from 6th to 12th grade (at first one Saturday each month was off, then later every 2nd Saturday), and finally every Saturday off in 13th grade. In elementary school (1st to 4th grade), we were home at noon, so in time for family lunch, then in secondary school, we were home between 1pm and 2pm, so we would reheat the family lunch in the microwave. (And lunch was usually the main meal for the day, in the evening we would normally eat a supper of bread with cheese and cold cuts.)
I'm from Germany. My school now has a cafeteria but didn't when I went there. But today in most cases, even with the cafeteria, the students still prefer to go to the bakery, the italian pizza guy, the kebab store or McDonalds in the city center. When they don't have lesson, kids are free to leave as they like, so it's not necessary for a school to provide meals.
Portugal here. My school (public) lunches were all cooked at the school. Normally, we had 1 soup, one meat/ fish main course with a side salad, pasta, or rice and/or potatoes. Water and a cake/jello/ fruit. At the time, it cost 2,5€. I liked it. In some private schools (it was much more expensive, around 5/6€) you could choose if you wanted fish/ meat or a vegetarian meal and you have a salad bar. You can also choose the drink you wanted and had normally 2/3 or more dessert options.
And we have at least one hour for lunch. There were years that I had 2h. But normally it's 1h.
Overall, all meals in the video looked good.
Can I move there?
@@xtremeyoylecake you will be very welcome. But if it was me, I would choose Denmark, Germany, Norway or Sweden, insted. Our weather is better, but their school system is better.
and in the UK, the meals are free for hard up families.
Yep, unless it is a wet/bad weather day, us Aussie's eat and play outside during breaks (at which point we stay in our home room).
Most schools have a private/Parent-and-Friends run Tuck Shop that sells meals and snacks, and these days also provides free meals to identified/vulnerable students.
The options available still need to meet Education and Health Department nutritional requirements
At my sons school here in Scotland the menu’s amazing. It’s definitely restaurant quality with consciously and locally sourced ingredients. You just have to preorder the night before. The food they showed is just what you can pick up at the canteen section. Also there’s always 2 courses available. I’m not counting a couple of biscuits as pudding.
Frenchie there, the 4 core meal is kinda real (more like 3 and a half tho, and the cheese wasnt even half as good as in the video, at least where i studied) but the meals were varied and something really cool the video forgot to point out, is that at least my school made sure to make us taste something "exotic" kinda once a month, like kangoroo or shark meals from time to time, i always thought it was pretty funny (and yea we got AT LEAST 1hour to eat untill the higher classes, when the quality of the food kinda goes down and we were on a rush more often)
That's terrible.
The prisoners in the USA eat better than the kids in our schools. Our kids have the worst lunches. Our country is lacking in so many things, especially food ,& education.
3:53 What worsens this situation is that she was attempting to establish a system to provide schools nationwide with locally sourced, organic, and nutritionally diverse food, similar to what we see in other countries. The concept of the plan seemed promising, but it faced opposition from politicians and random parents. They misinterpreted her intentions, believing she was calling their kids fat, and insisted on the right to feed their children unhealthy food because that's what they grew up with too. As a student during this time, it was difficult to understand why they took it so personally, as it seemed they should want better for their kids.
The opposition seemed more driven by ego, as the proposed plan offered better quality than some of these parents could provide at home. The opposing party voted against it, cutting off all funding, leading to the current school lunch system, leading to a thanks (Michelle) Obama moment.
That being said, In my middle school and high school, there was a separate line offering well-cooked but slightly unhealthy options like burgers, fries, and pizza of good quality. They also had like a juice bar thing. Although it was available in my public school, I recognized that not everyone had access to such choices. Despite being more expensive, many students naturally preferred the line with better-tasting pizza and fries over the regular, unappetizing American school lunches.
That "Thanks to Michelle Obama" Moment in the video show so well just how f'ed up us politics are. Oh no, how does she dare to try and give kids real food, must be the devil.
America's worst enemy is America
France u have entré, plat, dessert
Entré is just some vegetables like salads and sometimes charcuterie
Plat can vary but there is meat/fish and veggies ( 1 day a week we have a fully vegetarian meal) sometimes soupes too
Dessert u can have cheese, yogurts and sometimes cakes
And yes we have fresh bread
Idk where that girl made her research for the jam and marsepein lmao
We here in Switzerland had no cafeteria until 8th/9th grade because kids would usually go home (very inconvenient for parents though some schools did offer lunch). From 8th/9th to 12/13th grade we had a cafeteria that served 4 different meals and a salad bar. One pasta course (the cheapest), a vegetarian menu, a more expensive meat or fish menu and soup. A small salad or a small soup was always included. Dessert had to be bought extra.
Many kids brought their own lunch as it was cheaper.
Boarding schools of course have their own cafeterias but that's only a very small percentage of all schools and 99% are foreign kids of rich people who go there, so lunch is more expensive there.
Spain here, and regarding leaving the school to eat: it's school, not prison!
My brothers and I usually ate lunch at home; we'd have lunch in school when we were very little and our parents were out of town. Nowadays, my youngest nephew eats lunch in school whereas the others have always eaten at home. My cousins from larger towns ate at school. All of us have been able to leave the school during lunchtime and breaks since we were old enough to open a lock with a key.
Finnish could have been casserole or fish soup. I personally have liked all school lunches except university. I had good luck and went another uni building nearby to have lunch.
In Germany it depends on your grade, but primary school often ended about 12.50 so we ate lunch at home. Later on it was handeled like in australia. We used to eat outside. Nowadays some schools offer a lunch at school itself. lol Intereseting video
I had lunch in school from grade 5-13 (except Tuesdays - Tuesday was home lunch day). This was in the 90s. We had at least 1h, often 2. Usually, it was a three course thing: Side, main, dessert. I actually liked school food a lot 😂
Back in the 80ies in elementary school for some months I had to stay in school until 4 (Tagesheim) and we were served a proper lunch every day there, but only the kids that would stay after the end of the lessons. I can't recall specific things we were served, but I remember there was always a salad and a desert.
Ok. Brazilian here. Public Schools by law are demanded to provided healthy food , 30% have to be from local farmers. Some States turn this to 100%, like São Paulo, where 100% have to be from local farmers and organic. I'm 40 years old, since I was in school the lunch is really diverse, one my favorites were the chiken risoto ( yes I ate risotto in school lunch. But my favorite was meat sandwich and cashew fruit juice. Is not fancy, but is delicious.
During the pandemic the students families received a "kit" with ingredients to prepar food every month. Food safety is a huge debate nowadays in Brazil, Food safety is when you make 3 meals a day.
Should I explain the kit with uniforms and stuff to the school year that students of public schools receive? Obviously, is not the same everywhere, yet, the basics is a thing for sure. 😂😂😂
We are not perfect, but we are improving.
Yes. I'm Brazilian and we are doing Very well. When I look to other places I figure that out.
I grew up in nj in an upper middle class town we had pretty good school lunch. We had things like a salad bar, grilled cheese and soup, tacos, Spaghetti and meat sauce, roasted chicken . Everyday there we 2 hot options to choose or there was a soup and sandwich option everyday. On Friday we had domino’s Pizza.
Sadly in America the Quality of school lunch is very much based on how well off the town you live in is as property taxes are often where most of the school budget comes from.
The Norwegian one was so real. Bread with either "sweaty" cheese, liver patê, makrill-in-tomatosauce, or some sort of cold-cut spread. I didn´t get free fruit at all though and it was only in high school that we had a semblance of a cafeteria (with expensive prices of course).
I always fancied the idea of school lunches when I was a kid as I never enjoyed them. In Spain most schools stop 3 hours during the day, and although maybe a few less students do so than back in the 80s when I was a student, a large percentage still go back home for lunch and come back to school afterwards. But we also have split shifts in office hours, so the families tend to have lunch together, before everybody gets back to work/school. Schools do serve lunches, but (from what I know unless it's changed), you have to pay extra if you want your kid to eat at school. Some parents do that if they both work, or if they can't make it home for lunch on occasion. School lunches are a 3 course meal (starter, main and dessert).
The Brazilian food doesn't look accurate, but close, I guess. Not many schools are full time, we have mostly morning and evening different students, but always have food to make sure poor kids have at least one healty meal every day.
We used to have morning and afternoon shift systems for secondary schools in Trinidad and Tobago but that was phased out some years ago
So back then, at my school, I only had a sandwich with a slice of sausage, like salami. Or the familiar crackers with cheese and the meat sausage in the packet.
In addition, when I was still at primary school, I always had a bottle of cold milk or cocoa in the morning. We didn't have a canteen or cafeteria.
I think Galileo once showed the breakfast of primary school pupils or children in kindergarten in China or Japan. Pretty fancy with decorated food. Some mothers get up several hours earlier for that. The more beautifully the food is arranged, the more people look at you.
i’m scottish but that’s definitely one of many food options in the uk. i went to school in the 2000’s after an overhaul in the system and they banned fizzy drinks and pizza etc etc. there’s a fair amount of choice and emphasis on 5 portions of fruit and veg a day. it varies from school to school ofc, but it was never that bad. we had a breakfast club, 15 minutes for break time and 30-1 hour at lunch, depending on whether it was primary or secondary school. food wasn’t amazing, but it wasn’t that bad. 🤷🏻♀️
OMG i loved school meals here in the UK back in the early 70's there was wasnt ant real variety but they were full meals of stews , pies, fish always with fresh veg and potatoes and then a dessert. My fav was Tottenham cake a light sponge with pink icing sometimes with cocsnut on top and served with hot custard. Once i had 6 helpings
In Portugal, children have a 3-course meal: soup + main course + dessert. There is also the option of a regular or vegetarian diet (due to dietary preferences and/or religious dietary limitations). In the regular diet, the main course alternates daily between meat and fish + potatoes, rice or pasta + salad and/or vegetables. Dessert is usually yogurt or fruit, and once a week there is a sweet treat (jelly/chocolate mousse/pudding/ice cream). The overall price of the meal is €1.46, but families with lower incomes can pay half the price or even have free meals.
I'm surprised the French kids don't get a glass of wine.
Kids had wine at lunch in the 50's, but it has been banned since haha
When I was a child we had water or milk
@@mistercouldelleyes it was banned in 1956 in school restaurant for children under 14, and only in 1981 for highschoolers!
Wine ( often cut with water) was commonly drunk by everyone. Partially it was because water was not that good to drink back then… and of course a cultural thing 😉
Not even French toast?
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In France it’s called pan perdu (lost bread).
😂😂
I am from Finland and yeah, the things that was shown is mostly only a Thursday thing.
In my school atleast I had foods from all over the world. Sometimes indian sometimes spanish so on and so on
In France: Soup/Main: chicken, meat or fish/cheese & fruit with bread/Dessert 4 courses EVERY day at a cost of $1.50 per student. USA: Crap at a cost of $2.75 per student! A typical French school will have a chef and one or two helpers depending on the size of the school and ALL students are served at the table.
The oddest in Europe got left out. In The Netherlands it's a cheese sandwich 99% of the time period. 😂
There's no cafeteria. We either eat our home packed sandwiches in school or occasionally just throw it in the trash and go eat out at some fastfood chain or snackbar. 😅
Don't worry because we all eat our daily veggies. It's just that we eat them in the evening which for most folks is the only hot meal of the day.
In Europe you often have 1 hour to eat your lunch. I France it's mandatory to have at least 30min as a break at work and 1 hour at school and university by law 😉
And they have a full menu for toddler at day care too
Just to correct this video the school meals I had in school (South East england) you had to pick between jacket potato,cheese and beans or mash beans sausage/fish sometimes there are other options but dessert was always some type of cake with custurd
Yes! I went to an inner London comprehensive and your menu sounds like the one we had - prison food.
I used to really enjoy school lunches. Cooked on the school premises with 'dinner ladies' who ranged from the aunty types, to the good old fashioned dragons.
For the US, you have to remember it is the schools that are proud of their lunches that probably shared. Also, school food is regulated, by Federal and State regulations, occasionally County and city regulations, and varies alot between school districts, and occasionally even within school districts. In my state, there are schools that have been nationally recognized and whole school districts that keep getting sited by the state and sued by students & parents over their food programs. School funding varies a lot in the US, as does how it is spent.
In Greek schools we have a canteen. and we have delicious foods. We have snacks, sweets, juices, and soft drinks and bottled water. And of course you have to pay.
In England when I was in school you could leave school and go to the chippy for dinner or stay in school and have a school meal or even bring sandwiches from home
I studied in Hong Kong and at my school we weren’t always served bbq pork, but had options like noodles, rice, fried rice, and you could pick 1 to 3 items like stir fry’s, curries, kind of like the well known economic rice meals in Singapore.
I miss the dutch one, we bring our lunch from home. School doesn’t have anything and our kids are till 2.30 p.m on school 😊
In my part of Scotland the schools have dinner ladies who cook home made meals. Even pizza or burgers are made in house from local ingredients
I'm Dutch and other than my own sandwich (the one time I did stay in school during lunchtime) I never EVER had a hot lunch in school and as far as I know, they still don't serve those here. Probably because distances aren't that huge and kids go home for lunch. School times are different now too, lunchtime is shorter and school is out earlier than it used to be. Kids here can just leave the school ground, they're not prisoners.
America is known to have a very low budget for kids school meals. Jamie Oliver ran a campaign to improve school meals in the uk. Michael Moore did a good documentary on this called Where to invade next.
Jamie's campaign was the first time I'd heard the term 'Turkey Twizzlers'; I had my school years in the Highlands of Scotland. However, it appears that his campaign has, longer term, led to a return of the Twizzlers, though in a healthier form (and not anywhere near as tasty; according to my English wife).
Schools jn the uk is very varied with food these days. There’s usually one day a week though where its fish and chips with the option of beans. When i was still in school we would have chicken tikka masala, omelettes, pizzas, sandwich, pasta, jacket potatoes and all with the option of fruit or other snacks.
Was usually really good too, would give anything for one of those omelettes again
I was going to say the same thing. Just fish and jacket potatoes was never on the menu. We had lasagnes, full Indian meal with naan, fish and chip Friday, jello/jelly or some form of cake and custard for dessert amongst other dishes - I actually liked my school meals
Where i come from, daily we get soup, a main course, an optional side, a salad and a dessert, as well as drinks
Soups are mainly chicken, mushroom or tomato soups, even tho other soups do appear from time to time
Main courses are very different from steaks all the way up to tortillas with beans, to goulash and so on and so forth, the sides are commonly bread or other condiments/spices that go with the food
Salads are mostly mixed, sometimes tomatoes sometimes cabbage
Desserts are anything from local specialties to pancakes, pudding, or pastries.
We get to choose from water, orange juice, apple juice, multivitamin and a 'random' category that changes either weekly or monthly
Normally we pay for these meals, but they are also subsidized for less fortunate students, and if you really want/need it the cooks often look the other way and give you meals for free/seconds, cause of my good relationship with the cooks even after i wasnt paying for the meals if they had anything good they'd give it to me still, tbh perks like this is why you should be nice to everyone, it goes bit by bit but it goes a long way
I learned a new term: "open face sandwich". That's what I normally eat instead of a classic sandwich with two slices of bread. I'll add that term to the "sunny side up" fried egg. 😃
It's usually not called "sandwich" at all though, in countries that have that regularly.
"Sandwich" is a very english word.
Haha I also find the term "sunny side up" so funny. "Open face" makes sense but if you think about it too much and picture a human open face it becomes gruesome.
By the way in italy we make them with toasted bread and call them crostini if they're small, crostoni if they're big, bruschette if they're just with seasoned tomatoes.
@@herrbonk3635It would be, it's a place in England.
@@101steel4 That's no guarantee though really. Lots of places in England got these old Scandinavian type names (where bread, butter & cheese is called smörgås).
@@herrbonk3635 it's literally named after the 4th Earl of Sandwich.
Here in the Netherlands, we don't have these kinds of lunches. We bring our own bread in a lunchbox from home and sometimes we can buy (unhealthy) stuff in the cafetaria and get some soda from a vending machine. But nothing like this
Same here in Belgium. You bring a lunchbox from home or go outside to get something to eat. I always went home for lunch since we had a 1.5 hour break and I didn't live far from school.
Pretty similar for me in Germany. We had a cafeteria, but it was as small as a regular classroom and the meals were nowhere as good as in the video. So everyone brought something themselves, bought a snack in the cafeteria or just went to the bakery across the street. We had real lunch at home after school.
Meanwhile my school in Germany (Mainz): half an hour "Big break", starts 5 minutes later, because the teacher keep talking, then you go to the toilet. Walk dawn 4 flights of stairs and you have just over 15 minutes left. Calculate 5 minutes for walking to another building and up 4 flights of stairs to the next classroom and you have 5 minutes to scarf down your sandwich. At least, you go home at 1 pm. Twice a week we had classes until half past 3, then we had an hour to go buy lunch in the city with our pocketmoney, because there was no cafeteria. My parents gave me 3-4 € because at least there was something in a bakery for that price. Mind you, that was 10 years ago.
In elementary school we went home for lunch, high school had a lovely cafeteria or we could go to a restaurant for lunch.
french here, 4 course meal indeed. but we don t have jam with cheese, that an english thing, and the dessert is more like fruit or entremet . but yeah , raw veggies or delicatessen in entrée and meat / fish with veggies and rice/ pasta . we have 1h30 for lunch in school michael moore made a documentary about it few years ago ? it s on youtube czcams.com/video/zXbJ3wSSKJc/video.html
I would say that most Australian children bring a sandwich for lunch, or salad vegetables and fruit and a treat. Aussie kids sit outside in the playground (under shade of course!) on benches or if the weather is bad (storms or heavy rain) they sit in the classroom for recess and lunch. Generally speaking kids are outside for lunch as long as it's not raining - doesn't matter how low the temperature.
This has nothing to do with school lunches, just thought people might be interested in French hospital lunches in 1974 when I had my first baby (at 26 and now 75 - a Brit). Both lunch and dinner were served with a small bottle of red wine. However, if you wanted a bottle of water, you had to pay for it !!!!
In Belgium, we also bring lunch from home or buy it from a street vendor or from the cafeteria.
England here - we have a choice of lunches in schools. It's not as boring as this makes out
My school meals in Scotland were appalling all the way through, I hope they've improved since I left school some 18 years ago! At primary school I would usually either get a cheese toastie, or a small pack of peanut butter sandwiches with a small carton of milk and a satsuma and that was it. In high school it was a tiny portion of tuna pasta or a burger with a tiny bottle of juice. There were proper meals in the cafeteria that were meant for the kids (lasagne, cottage pie, fish and chips etc), but it didn't matter when you asked for it the lunch ladies would tell you they'd been asked to keep that food by for the teachers who would come in and walk away with platefuls of the good food! Sometimes there wasn't enough food provided and if you ended up at the back of the queue you could look forward to getting a banana or a single biscuit for your lunch. As soon as I was old enough I would leave at lunchtime to go buy something for myself, almost always from Greggs! Ice cream vans would also park at our school gates and some kids would literally just get ice cream or a slushie for their lunch. Ice cream vans aren't allowed to do that anymore though and I'm sure junk food in general is banned in our schools now. I just doubt it's been replaced with anything most people would want to eat!
That sounds like hell. Wtf, teachers getting all the good food and no real food left for the kids? In a school? That's criminal, teachers are the ones who could buy food somewhere elese instead. I sure hope they fixed that by now.
In german middle schools the kids get allowed to leave the School grounds at Grade 6 to go out and buy something to eat if they have a free period or something between courses.
In Greece they don't provide food for the kids. We eat a snack from the school cafetería or "kilikio" as we call it and later we eat at home, enjoying our mom's homemade food. After all school finishes at 14:00. So it's really early for us cause greeks usually eat at 15:00 or later.
0:30 In postmodern Europe, prisoners are usually given better food than kids or the elderly.
When I went to school in Germany we did not have school lunches. We brought something to eat, like a slice of bread with cheese or so, from home and ate it during the break time. But we went home much earlier than most kids today and ate lunch at home.
In the school where I work for the „after school program“ lunch involves a main course (often you can choose between vegetarian and non-vegetarian), a salad bar and a dessert.
Same here (I'm also from Germany). I don't think we had afternoon classes very often, and if there were any, it was mostly once a week. So most schools didn't really have to offer lunch. I wonder when that changed.