You just know even as a 6 year old our man Ben was the chillest dude. “Yeah this bagel sandwich is my main, plain bagel, no sara lee shit, not till high school, cheap bologna, yellow mustard only, no mayo, cheap cheese. Nothing else. Still mighty fine.” Legendary.
Takes me back to when my mom would make me an "Americanized" school lunch bc I would get teased for my smelly lunch. She made it just like that bagel but stuffed with veggies. Thank you mom ❤
One time I threw up because a kid brought a non American lunch that smelled bad. She started crying because she was embarrassed it smelled bad and made me throw up. I feel bad because it wasnt her fault but I couldn't help it lol
@@shake4259 you weren’t brought up right that’s all. Be open minded to all cultures & especially their food we all live, laugh, love, together on this earth.
@@shake4259 it must have been sauerkraut out the tin or something because what could possibly smell bad enough to make you throw up that isn't spoiled food?
bruh ppl over-dramatizing and spoiling each other over little bad experiences, not saying we should not care but we get over it and it's no big deal at the end
I was a ghost all through school. The highlight of high school was giving a bully a beat down in front of 300+ at breakfast. But I didn’t talk to anyone but my brother and 2 friends I grew up with. Social anxiety sucks.
Lovin the throwbacks. God damn, I never liked my elementary school days. Just like you, I was one of the few Asian kids at my school, a loner for the most part. I always envied your lunch and all the other kids'. Having that capri sun or chocolate milk carton, PBJ on white bread, some sort of sweet for a desert (pudding, candy, etc) every day. I even envied the brown paper bag because almost everyone would bring the same thing every day. I always had a "regular" (non-disposoable) lunch bag, always brought some Filipino leftovers or PBJ on pandesal instead of white bread, and never had any juice, just water and no sweet snacks. Man, thinking about it now makes me laugh cuz it wasn't anything to really be jealous or envious about, but hey, I was a kid that wanted what others had.
Love this content Ben. You don’t have to eat the most trendy things all the time, we’re here for anything you wanna eat and talk about. Love getting to know you a bit better and I definitely remember those translucent bags w the flap pocket 🤣
its funny i've been watching u since like 2018 and never commented, but this video was so special and wholesome, I had to just thank you for all these wonderful years
I can relate to you Ben. We’re the same age, im Fijian and adopted by white parents. Grew up in a small town where I was the only Pacific Islander in my school. 1/2 brown people all together. I was also a ghost in all of my public school years as well. Thank you for sharing! I don’t get the chance to hear from many other people in my situation very often.
I wish people really understood how much it hurts. That the things that a kid have to go through, however trivial one may think it can be, defines you for the rest of your life. I wish people were kinder to others. Small things really do make a difference. I don't exactly come from where you come from, but I can relate to your experience in school being mediocre. I too was a ghost, and usually no one would talk to me or even look at me. Most people would give me a weird look and talk behind my back, or laugh at me in secret, even though I could see it. It made me feel like shit.
Those vibes that Ben Deen brings in his videos are mighty fine. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I can definitely relate. Elementary school and middle school also felt like one of the worst times in my life. I remember in middle school pretending to be sick so that I didn’t have to go to school. After the novelty with that started to wear off I just straight up refused to go to school on some days. On some days I straight up said “I am not going to school today.” I am so happy and thankful that those dreadful times are gone for good.
Enjoy hearing about your childhood stories even though you weren't too fond of some of them! I never was a PB&J kid, I always wanted lunch meat sandwiches and I still do to this day.
@@allen.9 I mean, I guess it was to gas up the school food program so they could take in more money? (Understandable) On the other side a nice “hot” lunch instead of what you had to pack cold from home. I’m sure it was jargon
God this made me nostalgic for kindergarten and first grade. The little desks grouped together by fours. The sandwich baggies that didn't zip. My lunch was usually pb&j or a tuna salad sandwich. On horrible days, my mom would send me with pb&j on rye bread, which if you're wondering, yes that means my mother didn't love me. LOL. My favorite things from lunch was the cold soda or cold milk, and the little debbie's brownie I'd get. Then out to the playground to practice running. For some reason all the little kids in my class cared most about racing each other.
one of my favorite videos yet. thank you dude. youve been a staple in my life and having meals with you even parasocially (lmao just calling it how it is, not afraid to say it) has been pretty cool. thanks for sharing
I am loving story time w Ben!! Looks like Ben had pretty decent lunches! My mom is German from the fatherland and she wld make me very German lunches so I wld take out my cool whip container and unpack whatever homemade German thing my mom concocted... picture a little Korean girl happy as shit eating liverwurst and onions on sour dough bread🤣...it was painful but so happy for those moments, taught me a lot...also that look Ben gave the camera at the end... LMAO!! I felt the feels thru the phone
In the UK fruit by the foot are called "Fruit Winders" and you can get a flavour combo or all one flavour. Really cool hearing about your elementary days and pretty relatable, always nice to learn more about you bro.
Ben, you're not alone! In 4th grade I threw up orange too! It happened in the library in front of this kid named Vernel. Then in the office I blew more chunks in front of 2 foreign students from Iraq. Would've never happened if my teacher didnt suggest to lay on my stomach for 2 hours before I finally decided to call home.
Oh man... your story about your schooltime just remind me on my own 'great' schooldays... Have to be honest that my life starts to be a better one right after I could leave all this behind me 🙄 Anyway great lunchbag and thanks a lot! Greetings from Germany 😃
man I used to be really envious of my friends and their lunches from home. I never had anything to bring because we never had snacks or any really normal foods in our house because I am Korean. I just got a little bit of lunch money and got whatever was in the cafeteria. School food was still good to me because it was different from rice, kimchi and whatever soup we had lol and I wasn't gonna bring rice and kimchi heh heh. I used trade anything I could from the school lunch for my friend's ham and cheese sandwich. I really love just plain ham and cheese sandwich with a little mustard and mayo because of that. Good times, good times.
In high school, mine was a turkey sandwich with cheese on sara lee white bread. Mom would also pack doritos (different chips each week) in little zip lock bags. Drink would be a powerade or vitamin water, desert would be a Rice Crispy Treat or Honey Bun! Brings me back typing this too
Oh man, Ben just got me to remember the good old days when I had no worries in the world. It was me, my friends and our apricot jam sandwiches with butter, peach jam croissants, cheese croissants and the best drink ever: pineapple juice, in a small rectangular carton box with a straw taped on the back. On a side note of childhood foods, well deserts mostly, there are 3 I would like to share with you that will definitely bring a smile after each bite: creme brulee, floating islands, and ofc cremeschnitte(the layered vanilla version). Make them, since I doubt you can find these in stores outside Europe, well France, Germany, Hungary and Romania mostly and that are decent, you wont regret it, and bon appetit 🤤
I enjoyed listening to your childhood school experiences... i kinda felt like I was on a friend date with you and forgot this was a video... just a nice feeling of organic conversation.. and I probably would've been sitting at the same lunch table with you... I didn't like sitting at the busy/full tables.
For me, it was always bologna on white bread, Fritos, in-season fruit, and some off-brand chocolate-covered hockey puck -- you ate healthy compared to my crowd!🤣 Thanks for sharing your memories
This is weirdly similar to what my grandma would pack for me. I tried to only drink a bottle of water…but I’d snag a caprisun sometimes before I left. But I also had fruit by the foot, carrots/ apples, chips and I’d have a turkey sandwich. Guess we both had good parents growing up 😂
For me, I remember in elementary I was kinda the popular bad kid, and then as more as I aged, I just kept turning into this nerdy introvert and I don't regret the development one bit.
Mine 90s childhood was when got order from the canteen (Australia)/cafeteria (US version). Be Meat pie/pastie/sausage roll, Sam boy chips / toobs, burger rings, sunnboy cola flavor. 😄 stuff in the bags chips tazos, pogs, oddbods.
Too funny - my son took a bagel sandwich every single day for two years in middle school. He was the pickiest eater in the world but we let him choose his lunch. Thankfully he grew up and has developed quite the adventuresome palate.
I remember seeing kids in school doing the upside down caprisun. They thought it was the cool way to do it lol. But they had the same problem of not being able to set it down. Simpler times lolol
Ben! That’s so crazy! My dad used to make me the same bagel sandwich when I was in 7th grade and all I remember is the bbq sauce he added to it. Idk why he thought I would be able to microwave it at school like sir this sandwich will be subpar at best lol but wow such nostalgia
Everytime I had worries and shit in my life, Ben channel is my go to videos n that would make me chills down. Thankyou for your videos Ben. Not trying being edgy here just an honest comment passing by.
10:14 Yo Ben is Abby your first crush? These stories are freakin amazing bro lol. Being Asian in small, mostly white town in Illinois must've been wild
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Ben in elementary school: "This is some mighty fine bagel"
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LOL.....so cute. I wish he brought his school picture. 🤪
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"I'm gonna go in for another bite"
You just know even as a 6 year old our man Ben was the chillest dude. “Yeah this bagel sandwich is my main, plain bagel, no sara lee shit, not till high school, cheap bologna, yellow mustard only, no mayo, cheap cheese. Nothing else. Still mighty fine.” Legendary.
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@@wubv 🤓
@@wubv 👴
@@wubv don’t cut yourself on that edge
why yall getting heated over an "ok" 💀
I love how we're getting to know more about Ben through food
It was beautiful 🥹
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That's how you break bread
Back then he was more open but since the incident he keeps now 98% private
@@Shaysshorts oh god not that incident
Imagine 6 yr old Ben eating lunch at school and talking to himself about how mighty fine the food is 🤣
Lmfao bruh this comment really had me laughing out loud.
after the kid pranked his capri sun, Ben stared at him and said 'this is rare air'
Haaaaaaaa, yeh
bro even brought back the old school haircut as well
LMAO
he is hiding his bowlcut under his hat
dis nigga
Lol
Takes me back to when my mom would make me an "Americanized" school lunch bc I would get teased for my smelly lunch. She made it just like that bagel but stuffed with veggies. Thank you mom ❤
One time I threw up because a kid brought a non American lunch that smelled bad. She started crying because she was embarrassed it smelled bad and made me throw up. I feel bad because it wasnt her fault but I couldn't help it lol
@@shake4259 oh Yeah lol
@@shake4259 you weren’t brought up right that’s all. Be open minded to all cultures & especially their food we all live, laugh, love, together on this earth.
@@shake4259 it must have been sauerkraut out the tin or something because what could possibly smell bad enough to make you throw up that isn't spoiled food?
@@EyesOfTheGTA Bro he didn't vomit because he wasn't open minded wtf are you on about a food can taste great but still smell like absolute crap
Even when sharing his traumas, Ben Deen is sooo chill
bruh ppl over-dramatizing and spoiling each other over little bad experiences, not saying we should not care but we get over it and it's no big deal at the end
@@jabigchad1749 L
"no one knew what an Asian kid was at that time"
Yeah that one hit hard
"when I was in elementary I was too much of a noob to put chips on the sandwich" I felt that
This man was had all the memories flooding back as he went on 😭🤣
Ben has THE best voice EVER
Ikrrrrr😍
it's super hot💕
EVER!
what is this thread..
You ladies stay safe 😭
I didn't know ben had this kind of audience as well
I was a ghost all through school. The highlight of high school was giving a bully a beat down in front of 300+ at breakfast. But I didn’t talk to anyone but my brother and 2 friends I grew up with. Social anxiety sucks.
I was talkative up until 6 then I got social anxiety. I’m at my final years of high school and I’m a ghost. Just got to get through it
Lovin the throwbacks. God damn, I never liked my elementary school days. Just like you, I was one of the few Asian kids at my school, a loner for the most part. I always envied your lunch and all the other kids'. Having that capri sun or chocolate milk carton, PBJ on white bread, some sort of sweet for a desert (pudding, candy, etc) every day. I even envied the brown paper bag because almost everyone would bring the same thing every day. I always had a "regular" (non-disposoable) lunch bag, always brought some Filipino leftovers or PBJ on pandesal instead of white bread, and never had any juice, just water and no sweet snacks. Man, thinking about it now makes me laugh cuz it wasn't anything to really be jealous or envious about, but hey, I was a kid that wanted what others had.
This is going to go down as one of his most iconic videos.
Ben started out as an outsider in elementary school. Today he is an internationally acclaimed legendary mukbanger.
I remember those baggies, back in the old days when ziplock wasn’t even invented yet 😂
Love this content Ben. You don’t have to eat the most trendy things all the time, we’re here for anything you wanna eat and talk about. Love getting to know you a bit better and I definitely remember those translucent bags w the flap pocket 🤣
its funny i've been watching u since like 2018 and never commented, but this video was so special and wholesome, I had to just thank you for all these wonderful years
Thank god I’m not the only one who thinks ALL capri-sun flavors taste the EXACT same. Nectar of the gods
"same flavor...even though it's a different flavor" bendeen, 2022
Capri sun taste like Capri sun no matter what flavor
I can relate to you Ben. We’re the same age, im Fijian and adopted by white parents. Grew up in a small town where I was the only Pacific Islander in my school. 1/2 brown people all together. I was also a ghost in all of my public school years as well. Thank you for sharing! I don’t get the chance to hear from many other people in my situation very often.
I wish people really understood how much it hurts. That the things that a kid have to go through, however trivial one may think it can be, defines you for the rest of your life. I wish people were kinder to others. Small things really do make a difference. I don't exactly come from where you come from, but I can relate to your experience in school being mediocre. I too was a ghost, and usually no one would talk to me or even look at me. Most people would give me a weird look and talk behind my back, or laugh at me in secret, even though I could see it. It made me feel like shit.
Those vibes that Ben Deen brings in his videos are mighty fine. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I can definitely relate. Elementary school and middle school also felt like one of the worst times in my life. I remember in middle school pretending to be sick so that I didn’t have to go to school. After the novelty with that started to wear off I just straight up refused to go to school on some days. On some days I straight up said “I am not going to school today.”
I am so happy and thankful that those dreadful times are gone for good.
Enjoy hearing about your childhood stories even though you weren't too fond of some of them!
I never was a PB&J kid, I always wanted lunch meat sandwiches and I still do to this day.
Do you know the moment when you nearly start to cry because you are overwhelmed by the memories you get from eating food you haven't had for so long?
Bruh… hot lunch/cold lunch gave me some real nostalgic feels.
Also… Carl Buddig meats still slap for some reason…
it makes me think like why tf did we call it that? like if someone brought food from home it was called "cold lunch" lmao.
@@allen.9 I mean, I guess it was to gas up the school food program so they could take in more money? (Understandable) On the other side a nice “hot” lunch instead of what you had to pack cold from home. I’m sure it was jargon
@@allen.9 I mean...it’s in the name. The packed lunch is cold due to not being warmed up and school lunch is warm due to being warmed up.
@@SnuupSantana so when I took a thermos to school I was breaking some sort of law?
@@allen.9 you took a thermos to school as an elementary schooler? Doubtful
God this made me nostalgic for kindergarten and first grade. The little desks grouped together by fours. The sandwich baggies that didn't zip. My lunch was usually pb&j or a tuna salad sandwich. On horrible days, my mom would send me with pb&j on rye bread, which if you're wondering, yes that means my mother didn't love me. LOL. My favorite things from lunch was the cold soda or cold milk, and the little debbie's brownie I'd get. Then out to the playground to practice running. For some reason all the little kids in my class cared most about racing each other.
“But I’ve guarded my caprisun since then”
I’m gonna go buy some caprisuns tomorrow now 😂
one of my favorite videos yet. thank you dude. youve been a staple in my life and having meals with you even parasocially (lmao just calling it how it is, not afraid to say it) has been pretty cool. thanks for sharing
also my new favorite benism/phrase: "it is nostalgic but not in a good way" LMAO 16:39
This video was incredible! I loved it :D Every time you talk about yourself It's great.
This is my favorite video you’ve ever made. And thats crazy cuz u got so many good videos. The way u just talked about your life it felt good.
It's nice listening to a man talk about his school time. Reminds me of those times I had back then too.
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Abby is a real one ✊😔
Enjoyed this one man. You're a great storyteller
I am loving story time w Ben!! Looks like Ben had pretty decent lunches! My mom is German from the fatherland and she wld make me very German lunches so I wld take out my cool whip container and unpack whatever homemade German thing my mom concocted... picture a little Korean girl happy as shit eating liverwurst and onions on sour dough bread🤣...it was painful but so happy for those moments, taught me a lot...also that look Ben gave the camera at the end... LMAO!! I felt the feels thru the phone
Yo. Your lunch sounds fire. I love liverwurst.
@@KyDarknight lol it really is good!!😊
Aye I mean sourkraut isn't too far off from kimchi 😂😂
@@cheef825 LMAO!! That is what my mom always said and it's totally true!!
The classic cool whip container brings back memories
In the UK fruit by the foot are called "Fruit Winders" and you can get a flavour combo or all one flavour. Really cool hearing about your elementary days and pretty relatable, always nice to learn more about you bro.
This is hilarious Ben, I think many of us will be able to relate… Especially that Capri Sun! 😂😂😂
Ben, you're not alone! In 4th grade I threw up orange too! It happened in the library in front of this kid named Vernel. Then in the office I blew more chunks in front of 2 foreign students from Iraq. Would've never happened if my teacher didnt suggest to lay on my stomach for 2 hours before I finally decided to call home.
capri sun is a must have fr, tropical was the best
tropical lover? respect 🫡
stay based brother
The iced tea flavor has that "capri sun" flavor because they use monkfruit in all their drinks as a base.
Thanks for sharing Ben! This was so good!
Love your storytime videos!
Imagine a 8 y.o Ben now how cute is that
Fake bagel tho ! Jews from Montreal and NYC would be disappointed 😅
Cheers from San Diego California 🇺🇸
Oh man... your story about your schooltime just remind me on my own 'great' schooldays...
Have to be honest that my life starts to be a better one right after I could leave all this behind me 🙄
Anyway great lunchbag and thanks a lot!
Greetings from Germany 😃
i haven’t ate lunch for 10 years
Ben- 2022
Lol
Man must be starving during lunch every day
@@brokenstage17 Eat a big enough breakfast and you don't need it
you are a chill dude, probably a good friend.
This was a nice convo you reminded me of a few memories keep up the videos 😭✨✨
Those bags with the fold broo memories. And peach cupri-sun??? I need dat. Never had one.
Cool video. Was awesome to hear some early school memories.
man I used to be really envious of my friends and their lunches from home. I never had anything to bring because we never had snacks or any really normal foods in our house because I am Korean. I just got a little bit of lunch money and got whatever was in the cafeteria. School food was still good to me because it was different from rice, kimchi and whatever soup we had lol and I wasn't gonna bring rice and kimchi heh heh. I used trade anything I could from the school lunch for my friend's ham and cheese sandwich. I really love just plain ham and cheese sandwich with a little mustard and mayo because of that.
Good times, good times.
In high school, mine was a turkey sandwich with cheese on sara lee white bread. Mom would also pack doritos (different chips each week) in little zip lock bags. Drink would be a powerade or vitamin water, desert would be a Rice Crispy Treat or Honey Bun! Brings me back typing this too
Thanks for sharing ur story, Ben! I loved fruit roll-ups as a kid & still do :)
This was cool to watch! Brought back memories! ❤❤
Oh man, Ben just got me to remember the good old days when I had no worries in the world. It was me, my friends and our apricot jam sandwiches with butter, peach jam croissants, cheese croissants and the best drink ever: pineapple juice, in a small rectangular carton box with a straw taped on the back. On a side note of childhood foods, well deserts mostly, there are 3 I would like to share with you that will definitely bring a smile after each bite: creme brulee, floating islands, and ofc cremeschnitte(the layered vanilla version). Make them, since I doubt you can find these in stores outside Europe, well France, Germany, Hungary and Romania mostly and that are decent, you wont regret it, and bon appetit 🤤
👍💝Awwww this was sweet. So your dad made your lunches. Such nice memories. 💝
I enjoyed listening to your childhood school experiences... i kinda felt like I was on a friend date with you and forgot this was a video... just a nice feeling of organic conversation.. and I probably would've been sitting at the same lunch table with you... I didn't like sitting at the busy/full tables.
I think we ate at our desks 🤔
8:42, i remember doing that in elementary school because it was "cool" 😂😂
For me, it was always bologna on white bread, Fritos, in-season fruit, and some off-brand chocolate-covered hockey puck -- you ate healthy compared to my crowd!🤣 Thanks for sharing your memories
So active and consistent I love it
man, that is a pretty humble and wholesome school lunch
Love the stories and the food ❤
I completely forgot about those bags! You definitely brought back memories.
Nostalgic video! I like that concept! :D
18:26 goddamn i can feel you...you speaking facts
I had a similar lunch in school - ham sandwich/ plain crisps and of course a Capri-sun all time favourite!
This guys has been chilling since kindergarten. 🤣
Oh man...school memories..I used to have mad ghetto lunches 2!😃
This was such a cute theme Ben! Love your videos! 😊❤️
Hi Ben
Thank you for sharing your elementary lunch and school experiences.
Classic Ben, I like when he reminisces
This is weirdly similar to what my grandma would pack for me. I tried to only drink a bottle of water…but I’d snag a caprisun sometimes before I left. But I also had fruit by the foot, carrots/ apples, chips and I’d have a turkey sandwich. Guess we both had good parents growing up 😂
I love this video it brings back so many memories!
Great video
It takes me back.
I do remember those sandwiche bags
Thanks Ben
For me, I remember in elementary I was kinda the popular bad kid, and then as more as I aged, I just kept turning into this nerdy introvert and I don't regret the development one bit.
Nice lil throwback stories
So in other words Ben was cool even as a pup. This video probably brought memories back for all of us 👍👏🏻
I like bagel sandwiches. I’d go turkey, Swiss, mustard, mayo, toasted with a side of Doritos.
The way the items are placed on the table and the location of the camera always makes everything seem 10x bigger
My school actually had great food and it's one of the few things I miss from school. I am saddened that I may never experience the food I liked there.
Ben Deen tell us few stories from Ur childhood, please!!!
This video feels nostalgic.
My mom would always use twist ties to keep the baggies sealed.
Damn I love when u talk about yourself especially about your past
“too much of a noob” XD
W VID NGL, BRINGS BACK MEMORIES
Chillest guy on youtube.
Mine 90s childhood was when got order from the canteen (Australia)/cafeteria (US version). Be Meat pie/pastie/sausage roll, Sam boy chips / toobs, burger rings, sunnboy cola flavor. 😄 stuff in the bags chips tazos, pogs, oddbods.
5:19 Ben had a Anton Ego moment right there
Yoooo been a while let’s goooo another mighty fine review
It's the ASMR with the carrots and lays for me 💕💕💕💕
Too funny - my son took a bagel sandwich every single day for two years in middle school. He was the pickiest eater in the world but we let him choose his lunch. Thankfully he grew up and has developed quite the adventuresome palate.
I remember seeing kids in school doing the upside down caprisun. They thought it was the cool way to do it lol. But they had the same problem of not being able to set it down. Simpler times lolol
Damn that second foot roll really hit home, he was transported hahahah
Ben! That’s so crazy! My dad used to make me the same bagel sandwich when I was in 7th grade and all I remember is the bbq sauce he added to it. Idk why he thought I would be able to microwave it at school like sir this sandwich will be subpar at best lol but wow such nostalgia
“If that bagel were a woman, I would make it my mistress”
-BenDeen-
looks good :D
Everytime I had worries and shit in my life, Ben channel is my go to videos n that would make me chills down. Thankyou for your videos Ben. Not trying being edgy here just an honest comment passing by.
i love ur videos lmao
It reminds me of my childhood school lunch
10:14 Yo Ben is Abby your first crush? These stories are freakin amazing bro lol. Being Asian in small, mostly white town in Illinois must've been wild