As a french guy, raised with incredible food at school, what strikes me , is how your mind is opened to foreign experimentations. I mean, either with transportation, motor sports, way of life, you are like a kid in a toy shop. For us, it is so refreshing to meet a guy who is commenting without the usual ostracism that TH-cam is packed with. Kuddos to you!!!
We have a twin city in France, and when I was in school, we went there for a week and their kids would visit us later in Germany. I was so surprised that there was a school lunch and it was delicious!!! With several courses and all the good things. :) Also the meals in my kind guest family were amazing, from breakfast to supper. You French know how to cook! :)
That is true in most nations today, even on quite a few american states. Then for Finland, its also worth saying that the free school lunch was introduced to stop the children from starving to death. So its not quite only sunshine and rainbows. collage can also be free in the US if you enroll in a free collage program. The sort of back side of this is that you typically can choose teacher, nurse or engineer in those programs. Even for the students not qualified for the totally free program, there are heavily subsidized programs that cost no more than a collage in France or the UK. Most of the people that complain about student debt in the US studied something like liberal arts, communications and similar that there is no use for, hence there are no subsidized program for.. So the whole US student can´t pay there debt is really a very small percentage that made very stupid choices. So the diffrance between USA and Europe is not even close to as black and white as some people like to claim
That sounds amaizing In germany at least when ibwent tonschool and where inwent to school The school cooperstet with sn cateror and the family had tonpay a small price per meal but it never was worth it Becousenthe cateror delivers to a lotnof schools foodnwould arrive as much as 3herly kept warm or be rewarmed At this point all flsvor and nutrition was basicly gone So most of us had lunch boxes from home wich insides looked more like the American lunch Although with healthyer ingredients some fruit tea or water and heslther bread then just toast. And ironicly that probaply had mire nutrition than the cooked tondeath stuff at caffeterier
@@matsv201 Why is it "worth saying that the free school lunch was introduced to stop the children from starving to death"? That's a very crude thing to say about something that started because war caused huge problems and has become a hugely positive thing since. Also I think it's a good thing that the government cared about the people enough to implement this into law. I don't know why you brought up student debt since the comment you're responding to doesn't mention it or anything towards it.
And video missed most important thing. School food is so awful that it can be barely called food. Tells alot that none of teachers anymore go eat it. Atleast in bigger cities might be bit better on smaller schools with own kitchens.
2:39 marzipan as dessert for kids in France at school ?!? I have never heard or see that at this time or in the past. Desert is either a fruit, smal bucket of compote or some other sweet dessert (someone could have make a desert out of marzipan sure). Please note that those not liking cheese can have a yogurt or an alternative milk based desert. Also please note that drink is water 🎉
French here. I used to work in a highschool where the head of the cafeteria was a chef, so we had great lunches. It wasn't a private school either, but a basic, public one (although it was pretty big). We do have 4 course meals, with an entry that might be a veggie salad, pasta salad, taboulé, cheese friand and others. Main course will, most of the time, be meat + side dish. So a pork chop with green beans, chicken with couscous etc.. Also, there is always a fish option for people who can't eat meat for religious reasons. Then we have some cheese with fresh bread, they give us different types of cheeses so we can choose, we can have some Tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Camembert, Roquefort etc... Then for the dessert, they vary and you have a nice selection : There's always fresh fruits, like apples and bananas, a large variety of yogurts (vanilla, chocolate, fruits etc...) and sometimes pastries (like eclair) and cake. There's always bread and the meals are inexpensive and sometimes even free for families with low income. When I worked at the highschool, I paid 3€ for a 4 course lunch. About the marzipan, I really don't know about that one. Never seen them in a cafeteria and I see them sold mostly around christmas.
In Australia, it is common for students to bring their own lunch to school. This is a cultural practice that varies from country to country. While some Australian schools do have canteens, they may not be as prevalent as in the United States.
Most schools here have a “tuck shop” canteen where you can buy snacks and healthy options during recess and lunch break. Kids eat outside in good weather but inside class when it’s nasty out. many schools still offer a lunch order service. You hand in a lunch order at the beginning of class- a brown paper bag that your mum has written what you want for lunch on, with the money in it. I got a lunch order once a week as a treat but other kids parents gave them money every day instead if packing a lunch for them. Teachers also will send a note home to let you know you are not giving them a healthy lunch and offer suggestions 😳 a bit rude I reckon 😂
@@Jaydaydesign Ah, yes, the old paper bag lunch order, it was a once a week treat for me too. All other days was a packed lunch of vegemite and cheese sandwich, a piece of fruit, water/juice, and if I was lucky, a sweet treat like an Oreo, TimTam or yoghurt.
in France, it is in begining, often a mixed salad, principal plat (meat or fish, vegetable and starch, and a desert (yogurt or fruit or cheese etc.) sorry for my bad english
One thing that was generally missing from the video was the information regarding the cost of the lunch. For Finland it was mentioned that school lunches are free, but I assume in most of these countries the students have to pay for their lunch, so depending on the price the lunch can vary a lot. Here in Finland school lunches are totally free all the 12 years from elementary school to upper secondary. The food is generally good normal and healthy food, but since the budgeted price per one serving is generally quite low, some of the dishes can be a bit tasteless and uninspiring. Most students eat the school lunch since it's free, but some teenagers prefer to go and buy some junk food instead of eating the school food.
As an older Australian, with children and grandchildren, I haven’t seen anyone take sausage rolls for lunch ... I’m sure chocolate biscuits were packed but in summer they would be a gooey, melted mess 😂
That doesnt look anything like an Aussie School lunch. Australians are very aware of our childrens diet at school and l have never seen sausage rolls like that. also, Tim Tams for lunch at school? Come on. We are more than just a sausage roll and Tim Tam nation.
Here are some recent menues from some random schools in Stockholm, Sweden. To all meals there is a buffé of vegetables to add to the main dish, as well as crisp bread, butter and (non-flavoured) low fat milk. School lunches are free of charge for the students, it's been paid by the taxpayers since the 1940s. Monday Chicken nuggets/veggie nuggets with rice and sweet chili sauce Tuesday Chili con/sin carne with bulgur Wednesday Spinach and ricotta tortellini in tomato sauce Thursday Breaded fish/Chick pea patties with potatoes and lemon and dill sauce Friday Salisbury steak/pea&beet patties with ratatouille and roasted potatoes Monday Meatballs/Vegan sausages with mash, cream sauce and pickled cucumber Tuesday Fish/veggi nuggets with rice and tomato sauce Wednesday Minced meat/bean ragu with pasta Thursday Vegetable soup with bread and cheese Friday Chicken drumsticks/ owen baked celeri root with potatoe wedges and bbq sauce Monday Chicken stew with coconut milk, chili, bellpepper, cauliflower and rice Soy stew with coconut milk, chili, bellpepper, cauliflower and rice Tuesday Pasta with tomatoes, basil, chili, garlic, olives and tuna Pasta with broccoli and cheese Wednesday Breaded fish with boiled potatoes and dill sauce Pasta with sunflower pesto, basil, sundried tomatoes and rocket Thursday Cauliflower soup with bread and cheese Potato and leek soup with bread and cheese Friday Fried chicken, wedged potatoes and sauce bearnaise Veggie schnizel, wedged potatoes and sauce bearnaise
Nice comment! Sounds about right in my experience too. Did I miss it or was Sweden's school lunch cut out here? I think I saw it in this video on another channel before...
French children will all tell you that the food in their school is awfull. I'm sure that if we send them spend a full week in an US school, they'll realize that french food isn't so bad, even the school food 😂
I'm french and I liked the school food. I have a niece now that eat in school and she likes it, so I really don't understand what you mean by "french children will all...", that's a bit of bullshit to be honest.
My kids love their school "cantine". They grow their own vegetables, food is always freshly made from scratch. That's probably different in bigger cities, though
@@Mademoiselfe1 Sure, I was just kidding a bit. I know some schools that offer very good food to the children, it depends where you live. In big cities where they often call for cheap "industrial" food and don't cook themselves, it's not always that good.
Lol I just find it mind blowing that lunches are provided by schools!! In Australia we take our own lunch to school. I spent the last 15 years making and packing my kids lunches every single day. Providing them lunch at the school is very foreign to us.
In Vienna, Austria, late 80's/early 90's, atleast at my school (Gymnasium in a definitely working class area of town, 1210 Ödenburgerstraße for any alumni reading this :) ), you'd either bring your own lunch, grab a "Wurstsemmel" (bun with cold cuts) from a stall run by the school, or - if you had some pocket money to spare - "sneak out" (probably the most uninforced rule of that school: leaving the premises without leave) and grab some grub from a shop basically across the street. In lower grades, school was 8am-2pm (8-12 on Saturdays), with a paid-for option for after-school care up to 6pm, also providing an actual lunch at 2pm, plus teachers helping you with your homework etc, until your parents picked you up (or your parents saying "they can leave at 5pm, that's when I'll be back home from work"). In higher grades, you'd have lessons in the later afternoon aswell, several times a week, keeping you until 4, 5, even 6pm. You'd definitely want that full lunch on those days - and you could "buy in" to that lunch option (if there was any left by the vultures err younger kids) for a laughably low price (converting Austrian Schilling to Euro, adjusted for inflation, it's been less than 1€ for a meal). Fare wasn't that great, just your regular cafeteria style pasta dishes, stews, and the like, but it filled you up and kept you running, calorie hungry teenagers the lot of us was.
For France, they exagerate a bit, we "only" have a 3 courses meals. In elementary school, you sit at table and got serve like in restaurant. From middle school, you have some kind of self-service. Everything is already prepared in plate, one-portion size, but you choose what you want. For your main meal, you have choice between 2 meats, and 2 vegetables. As an example, you have chicken or pork, you can only choose one, and rize and greens beans, you can take one, or a bit of both. Besides your main meal, you can choose 2 extras : extras being appetizer, cheese or desserts. Appetizer can be a salad, soup, hardboiled eggs or a slice of quiche. Cheese you got 2 pieces of cheese with 2 salad leafs. In dessert, you have fruits, or some kind of yogurts, fruits compote, or rize pudding, or some kind of cake in luchy day. You can choose 2 of them, and if you want, you can take 2 desserts, or 2 appettizers. Plus a piece of bread per meal
FYI mazapan is a mixture of almond powder, sugar and egg white plus (option) limon zests, or orange flower extract... It is a delicacy. And I agree with other comments, generally we are more on a three course meal with veggies and/or fruits. Young children are served at their table, while pupils at junior high and possibly at the late years of elementary school helped themselves at a self...
I'm Croatian and I went to school from 2000 to 2013. Since both of my parents worked and I didn't live with my grandparents, from grade 1 to 3 I'd have school from 8 to around 11-12, and after that I'd stay in school until 16-17 (it's optional for kids who don't have anyone else to keep an eye on them while parents work, and the teachers take care of us, they let us out to the playground for 1-2 hours, after that it's lunch and after that we do homework and play) when my mom would pick me up. So naturally I had to have 3 meals at school. We'd have something small for breakfast, usually a yoghurt and a sandwich, or a homemade pastry with jam. For lunch we'd have a 3 course meal, soup (usually chicken, vegetable or mushroom soup), main dish (always some protein like grilled fish or chicken with carbs like rice or potatoes, some veggies and a salad), and a desert (crepes, cake or something sweet). In the afternoon we'd have a snack like an apple or a banana. From grade 4 to grade 8 of primary school we only had breakfast at school since we only stayed from 8 to 13 at most. And in high school I'd have school one week from 8 to 14, another week from 14 to 20, and we'd get a 20 min break in the middle to go out and buy something as a snack. I'd usually eat something from the bakery or a sandwich from the school cafeteria.
In the Netherlands school lunches aren't a thing. In primary school kids go home for lunch (and come back to school afterwards). They can stay at school, but then they'll have to bring their own food, sandwiches with cheese or peanut butter usually. In high school students either bring their own food (usually sandwiches again), buy food at the school cafeteria (where sandwiches, candy and drinks are sold usually), or they go to the local grocery store or bakery.
In Australia, I think we have to take our own lunches or have 'tuckshop', An Aussie word for food is 'tucker'. Except Boarding Schools, where they do three meals a day for the boarding students and locals bring their own. As I'm sixty soon things could have changed.
I am from Brazil ando not recall having fritatas. I went to public school all my life and we always had food at school, for free. When we got to school in the mornings we used to have a cup of hot chocolate and maybe a small soft bread. Then at lunch we usually had, noodles or rice and beans or smashed potatoes, sometimes with salad or a boiled egg. Always cooked by the lovely ladies at the school canteen . I used to love the food at school. 🥰
I'm new to this channel. But I just turned 60 & I never saw soup or carrot sticks. Not even a grilled cheese sandwich. It was mostly pizza & French fries. And from 5 to 13 years old, nothing was healthy in the school cafeteria. Again, as am older person - nope. Maybe in the 50's lol.😂😂😂😂. And during those years, I grew up in a very upper class area.
Here in Australia You have to buy snacks and food from the canteen/tuckshop at school, or leave school and go to the shops, if you don't bring your own.
Yep, can't remember ever having a school provided or home made lunch (maybe a sammich and a drink when I was really little). As a 12y.o. (last year of primary) you were allowed to go to shop occasionally, but was normally fish cakes and potat0 scallops from the local chippie. Not healthy, high fat and salt, but we survived.
I'm part of a team that makes school lunches for the 2 schools in our small town. We prepare lunches once a week for each school. We do provide the usual (in Australia) bakery items like pies, pasties, sausage rolls, etc, but we make fruit smoothies, soup, cold rolls, pasta, chicken curry, chicken wraps, etc. Very young children often order a snack box containing an apple, cucumber, carrot sticks, cheese, crackers. We also make fresh salad rolls as shown on the video, and we provide yoghurt and fresh fruit. Of course, they can order junk food like chicken nuggets (real chicken) and potato wedges. They can order American-style muffins, such as blueberry, apple, apricot and chocolate. The rest of the time parents make lunches, just as I did for my kids. These vary from sandwiches to leftovers from the previous night's dinner.
lol the england one. my sons primary school has chefs making food from scratch daily. they have pasta, roast dinners, spagbol, all kinda healthy food. chocolate and any form of processed snacks are banned lol.
Yeah, in the school I work for there is always 3 choices. Main dish, something like chicken/vegi korma with rice, popadoms and peas, or jacket potatoes with beans and/or cheese, plus a salad bar available as a main or additional to the above. There is always a choice of dessert of the day such as a small portion of cake (cooked in house) or fruit or yogurt. They only get chips on Friday with (of course) fish.
In my municipality in DK, you need to opt-out in kindergarten if you believe you can do a better lunchbox. In school there's no included meals, but kids can buy at the canteen. The offered meal services are most often very high quality and very low prices. Especially considering the time you'd spend trying to give your kids some varied food. It takes time and planning to make a bento box every day that you believe your school kid will actually eat.
In my case in Spain it was a 3 course meal and the food used to be like the food you will have in home (healthy and balanced) but not as good of course, although i had some pretty good meals there too, and all was cooked in the schools kitchen (usually) unless it was some festive special treat.
Germany was very late to the school food roster because most children don't have school in the afternoon and will therefore eat at home. At my apprenticeship place, we had a Mensa. The food was cooked by apprentices and their masters, sometimes the food was good, sometimes it was not. Once we had a vegetarian dish, and it was Schupfnudeln (a bit difficult to explain). The Nudeln themselves were all 3 states of consistency: Not cooked at all, decent, burned.
I'm German too and at least, even it was not very good, we get very often real food! Imagine you would live in the USA. After your first week you will beg for burned Shupf noodles! Beer you'll only get with the age of 21 and it tastes and looks like pee.
While the pizza was a bit like bread dough, it tasted amazing. Yeah, the US funds so much money into the Military their "soldiers" can't get fed properly. Really sad.@@WhereIsTheSpartan
Yep, as someone mentioned below, I also never experienced school lunches, because school was exlusively in the morning and early afternoon for me here in Germany. However, there are some schools here with more lectures in the afternnoon and therefore with school lunches. But the kind of food and the quality can be on totally different levels. Friends of mine had a quite fancy restaurant, but they also catered for a local school and I guess, the meals there were rather top quality. But I guess, there are some extreme differences out there.
I grew up in Belgium in the 70s. A typical lunch was soup, beef or lamb stew, or grilled chicken, or fish, mashed potatoes and cooked vegetables such as peas&carrots, zucchini, cauliflower, spinach and some such. Dessert was usually an apple or orange. Water pitchers were available on the tables. We used to say that never mind the type of meat or fish served, it all tasted the same! But it was not that bad.
In primary in western Australia we got small carton of milk and we either brought lunch from home went home for lunch or bought from the canteen my kids primary school was the same and high school u brought lunch from home bought lunch from the canteen but some kids walked to hungry jacks which was just up the road
What I had for lunch was a jam sandwich a muesli bar, a popper. And a bit of fruit Or tuck shop. I used to get yummy drummies. It's a chicken and corn thing. When I left school me and my mum and and some mums started a group and had a red rooster day or cheerio cup day.
A few seconds in and we are stunned by "Real Food" to our children? i am lucky to have lived in a time where that wasn´t an issue, but that outburst really put things in perspective, the children are our resource and are expected to take us further and at the same time care for us as we get older.
I'm older too, 60. But even in a very upper class area, we had mostly pizza, Salisbury steak - yuck - & French fries. Honestly, it wasn't healthy food. I think the 1950's were better for real food in school.
@MFiction23 Wow..i am 64 living in Scandinavia, we already had some kind of healthy food back then, meaning no processing or adding stuff. not sure about the 1950`s it were before i were born :)
in alot of high schools here in Scotland you can actually leave the premises and go to a local shop or café, but meals are provided by the school if you cannot afford to do that.
Regarding the Japanese kids helping to clean up at the end; when Japan got to the Rugby World Cup their fans would famously stay to clear all the litter from their areas of the stadium after the matches finished.
It’s been a long time since I went to school in Australia. My lunch was made by my mum, which consisted of a sandwich of some type with a packet of chips some fruit and always a slice of homemade chocolate cake which my friends always tried to claim as it was so good. Every so often we would get a lunch order from the school canteen which was a highlight.
I like Japan's approach, cause it seems nowadays not many parents teach their kids a lot of basic skills for when they're older. Here in the Netherlands you eat at home or you take lunch with you from home. And that's usually bread with something on it and milk or chocolate milk.
In Italy we have diet studied by health doctors implemented in schools, giving balanced mediterranean diet poor of salt, sugar and every thing not natural. When I was school I had choice between rice or pasta, meat or fish and vegetables based on season, little bread and a fruit or a little snack (homemade style). In many school kids are at home in the afternoon, eating at home and not have lunch at school.
Schools in Australia don't have cafeterias or indoor dining like the US. Kids can eat anywhere outside...there are usually undercover areas to shelter from rain or hot sun. We tend to have a canteens/tuckshops (a kiosk type building with a shutter that opens to reveal a shop counter where kids can purchase food) where mothers volunteer their time to make different foods (these days by law have to be healthy). Also every morning there is a box in every classroom where kids place an envelope with their details, order and money...this box is collected and taken to a nearby take away shop that makes anything from fish and chips, schnitzel packs, yiros, rotisserie chicken meals, mini pizzas, and other unhealthy grilled and deep fried foods. But the most common is just a home packed lunch and a couple bucks to buy a few things at the canteen...especially in summer when they had frozen orange juice cups for 20C and frozen strawberry or chocolate milk cups for 40C...mini pancakes with butter for 20C and topped with jam and cream for 40C...and 50C for mini meat pies.
If want a good stew like the one from Trinidad, all you have to do is: 2 pounds of meat=2 pounds of onions. Cook the onions on very slow heat until glossy. Do not allow them to brown!!! If they did, throw away, make new! Then after glossy add the meat and fry it from all sides, add a good amount of high quality tomato paste and some smoked paprika powder, fry that for a minute and deglace it with water. Add a few bay leafs. Let that simmer very slowly for at least 2 hours. Leave it for the next day covered cooling down. The next day re-heat it and you will have the best stew you will ever have. Ofc you can add chillies, black pepper, turmeric, coriander powder, et cetera...but in general it doesn't need any of it.
When I was in secondary school in Belgium, we too had cooking classes (which proved VERY useful later on in life) by actually spending one morning every now and then - each of the classes had to do that, in turns - preparing lunch for the entire school. The only no-no was to spice with arsenic the portion destined to your most hated school mate 😈😁
Yeh In Aus, it was always a fight to see who could get the best spot for lunch. We had a couple of benches around the school so they were sort after. Or you'd find a spot on the oval, or at the handball courts. It's very foreign to go to an indoor area where food is served. I'd usually get mum to pack lunch for me, if i wanted extra id grab something from the canteen, like a sausage roll, or Potato smileys.
In france, my kids are in a private school and their lunch menu is better than mine. They have a choice between 6 appetizers, 3 different main courses, 9 desserts and, of course, cheese bread, jam and salad. The food is prepared on site with fresh ingredients delivered every day. And parents have a mobile app so we can see what their menu is every week with all relevant information (origin of produce) allergen information, nutritional information. etc.....
Just wanted to say. In primary school. We had a corner shop bakery. And once month you could be lunch monitor. Pies Sausage Rolls. Or the best was Pasties. (Pronounced pastEes)
In Australia the good old high school 'tuck shop' (aka canteen) was a feast of all the unhealthy stuff plus the token healthy bags of grapes. Good times, lol!! (this was in the late 80s / early 90s). I went to a small primary school and buying lunch was a treat as only available on Mondays and then only if one's parents remembered to have enough small notes on hand. Parent's were rostered on to either work or provide cupcakes and other deserts like jelly cups.
When I was a kid in Romania, we got some packaged milk in a cup, and a croissant like thing what was dry and tasteless. Sometimes we got apples or some biscuits but this was occasionally. We had to bring our own food. Those whose couldn’t afford to bring food or buy in the school buffet, usually got food from us, organised by the school’s religion teacher. Those kids got food on their desks bought or brought by us, kids…
Home packed lunches for New Zealand. Lunches had to have reusable wrapping at one time not sure if that is still a thing, but was to encourage kids to help avoid polluting the environment. Notes went home if the lunch didn't meet standard set. All I can say is that if the American lunch was not quite what you remembered that would go for a lot of the other countries too.
We Europeans love our Children 😇 (Just kidding, Americans love their kids too 😁) Jokes aside: it is important that kids get a healty and less boring meal.
The whole idea of school lunches is foreign to me. Aussie, Melbin. Even tho' I went to a private school. My Mum always gave me a packed lunch. Or for a treat once a week, I get a "lunch order". You'd get a brown paper bag, write your name and order from the canteen menu, put in correct change. They would be collected in the morning, and delivered at lunch.
The canteen staff at the schools i went to in England were brilliant, it was just a bunch of mums who cooked good home cooked mum food, it was always great hearty meals. The world has changed so much since then i can't imagine it's anywhere near as good now, it's all down to the budget and the people doing the cooking.
Coming from a small country town, it was either take your own, buy from the tuck shop or go home for lunch. I will say though, if your mum goes away for 6wks, because your older sister had twins...DON'T LEAVE IT TO DAD....6wks of meat pies + cream buns for lunch, it's too much, even at 15yrs of age; the very thought of that now 🤮 If I had that time again, I'd either go a kebab or maybe Subway (pub lunch-I wish). Meals vary but time & location plays a part too!
Hi ! Here is today's lunch menu at my kid's maternelle in south of France (school from 3 yrs old to 6 yrs old) : Betteraves vinaigrette (beets), Sauté de volaille sauce hongroise (Stir-fried poultry hungarian sauce), riz (rice), Edam (cheese), fruit frais (fresh fruit). There is an all organic meal, a fish meal and an egg meal once a week each. In my town, lunchtime (food and kid's supervision between 11h30 and 13h30) cost from 1€30 to 4€30, depending on your familly income and number of kids.
In Australia: My daughter sends her kids to school with a thermos flask with a hot meal, crusty bread, cheese and fruit for the granddaughter and vegetables sticks for the grandson who is fructose intolerant. My children told me what they wanted in their lunches each day and it could be something like a Vegemite or chicken schnitzel sandwich for my son. My daughter’s favourite was a cheese and beetroot sandwich, fruit and a juice box. I also gave them a dipper pack which was crackers and a pot of cream cheese for morning recess. On a Monday I was a volunteer in the School Tuck Shop and I helped out filling the brown paper bag lunch orders for the day. In my school days it was a sandwich or roll on Tuesday-Friday with a lunch order on Monday because our shops closed at 12 pm on Saturday until Monday Morning. We didn’t have a refrigerator back in the day (no Supermarkets and a lot of horse and cart home delivery), just an ice chest, temperatures could reach 40 C which made keeping fresh foods risky for more than 48 hours, so I ordered from the school tuck shop on a Monday when I would order a hot meat pie, sausage roll or a bag of hot chuncky chips or a couple of potato cakes/fritters. Usually I took fruit, crackers and chunks of Kraft processed cheese (didn’t go off in hot weather) every day. I remember one of my teachers writing a note to my mother asking her to not pre-shell the hard boiled eggs because they were stinking out the class room 😂. A good day was when we could buy, at lunch time, a frozen Jubbly (later called a Sunny Boy), which was a block of frozen orange fruit juice sealed in a waxy, thick papery, pyramid-shaped covering. We just gnawed off a corner of the covering and started crunching and slurping on it to cool down. No canteen or class room with air con to sit in, no outside seats under non-existent trees, just everyone looking to sit down in the shade of the southern side of a school room. We only got to sit inside the classroom if it was pouring with rain. Pretty basic really.
That looked all delicious, the American meal too, with the soup and sandwich. :) We never had school lunch, because we were home by 1.30 pm. But for our 15 minutes recess, we had breadrolls or sandwiches, and there was a kiosk selling all the good things that our parents didn't see. :D
I loved the school meals growing up in the UK. It varied on a 10 day rota and always consisted of 2 courses. A main meal of meat or fish, potatoes and a vegtable. Then a dessert of cake or pudding (not American style pudding) but something like Jam Roly Poly or Spotted Dick or apple Tart served with custard. Occasinally it was ice cream and Jelly (Jello). After i left a lot of schools out scorced their catering and the quality suffered with more processed rubbish entering the meals. A revolution was led by a TV chef called Jamie Oliver to improve the quality of school meals and the Government was shamed big time. I believe it has improved a great deal now.
In the Netherlands ive never really seen school lunches, every school i've been too just had a cafeteria with healthy and sweet options and it's up to the students to buy what they wanna eat, or to bring something from home. Occasionally there would be some food trucks. Something i've noticed about the Netherlands is that we seem to teach children to eat healthy by letting them eat way to much sweets & then get sick from it lol.
Yes, we eat outside but the rest wasn’t that accurate. The majority of students bring lunch from home most days. It’s not sausage roll (which is not a literal sausage wrapped in pastry) but more like a sandwich, veggie sticks or fruit, cheese line baby bell, sometimes dried fruit, dips etc. There’s also often something treat food like potato chips, sweet biscuits, or a mini chocolate bar. My kids didn’t like sandwiches and so I’d just send sandwich meats and salad without the bread. In older years they would often take a thermos with hot leftovers from dinner or a soup. My kids went to private school and more recently the school has outsourced it to a local company. They have cafe level food, such as hot pastas, schnitzel sandwiches, even sushi. I haven’t experienced a public high school but I’m going to guess the standard fare of pies, lasagna, sandwiches and hot dogs are more typical. Students may often also bring a fruit juice box but even when mine were little, about fifteen years ago, schools were heavily encouraging water as the only drink.
I mean I grew up in a small town, and my school lunch was amazing. We hot fresh cooked delicious food every day (well ok, I’m kinda pucky, so I did not like ALL of it, but the food was always a real meal, freshlt cooked
I'm an old guy now, but I can remember the "Tuck-shop" (cantina or canteen). I always went for an Aussie staple of a pie with peas or a paste (empanada) with peas, had to have peas, & 2 cans of coke. If I didn't bring my lunch from home. Home lunch was nearly always a chicken & salad roll or corned-beef brisket & salad. I'd have 1 can of coke with my lunch & smuggle in the 2nd can into class as no drinks allowed in class. The good old days.
That sausage roll looked like she grabbed a sausage and put it in puff pastry lmao. Most schools have canteens that kids can get their lunch from, my daughters school had a bit of a variety of food, Like party pies and party sausage rolls, mini ham and cheese pizza, soup, salad roll or sandwiches, chicken nuggets, chockie or strawberry milk, prima (Fruit juice) and fruit, there was never really anything that was sugary, maybe a jelly cup.. I usually gave her something to take too school also, like yoghurt, a small bag of chips, a banana or apple some bikkies an lcm bar a roll up and lesnacks, always packed a little extra so she could share with her friends
In france depend the day too you have one day with french fry and one day with usually fish for exemple (thursday French fry and friday fish most of the time)
In czech republic, kids get (parents buy for 2 dollars a day) soup, main dish and salad/dessert/kompot and a warm tea. Main dish can be something like schnitzel with potatoes, spaghetti or dumplings+meat+sauce. Often the local elderly use school cafeteria as well (different price), so they do not have to cook for themselves. You can get seconds for free. You can pick from 2 meals at least. This system was created by communists, it was not unified before ww2, though many schools provided meals. Nutritional value of meals is considered to support proper growth and healthy eating habits. No beer though.
I remember when I started school there was no tuck shop or canteen yet there was table where a woman would sell food at lunch time and it cost 1 cent to seven. However with the main meal you ordered in the morning and it would be delivered to you before lunch from the high school up the street
As an Aussie grandmother, the segment on Aussie school lunches was very wrong. Yes, the kids mostly eat outside, depending on the weather. Most kids take home-packed lunches to school. For my daughter, that usually included a meat & salad roll/sandwich or curried egg sandwich, fresh fruit, a cold drink like fruit juice, a snack like cheese and crackers, cheese sticks, sultanas, and usually a sweet snack (I included homemade biscuits, muffins, pikelets, etc. I would also pack a bottle of cold water and used ice bricks in the lunchbox to keep the food cold. Yoghurt was also a common snack. In the old days, school tuckshops sold pies and sausage rolls but they also served salad lunches and sandwiches. These days, most school canteens have a healthier menu including salads and fresh fruit. They stopped selling soda, lollies and ice cream. Even fresh sushi rolls can be seen on some school menus today, along with stir fries and casseroles.
Kid from Leipzig former east germany here inwas born 95 so after reunificatiom We always had meals from a lsrge caterer (probaply spelled this wrong) and they got delived as erly as 3 h before lunch breake and keot warm or warmed up agsin sonthe best tasting stuff was sweet stuff as anything heslth was cooked to death at this point . So most of us just had a lunch box from home usualy containing sone type of bread with sussage cheese nutella or jam something sweet like a candy a bottle of tea or water and sone fruits that was lunch We had our warm meal for erly dinner at around 6pm 😅 school was just like a breakfeast extension for most of us And lets phase it the supper boxes from home probaply had more nutrition than the school lunch
At highschool from 1996 to 2000 here in Australia, the school canteen had pies, sausage rolls, hotdogs,chicken and gravy rolls, sandwiches,cream buns,Lollies I don't think much of that is excepted today
UK Lunches vary. Firstly depending on the season, but also the area. A school with a high percentage of poor kids will serve hot wholesome meals like cottage pie, which is cheap and easy to make in bulk. My dads school down the road (Private) got Salmon and potatoes and veg with sauce. My school (boarding) was like dining in a restaurant, with Coq au Vin or Bouef Bullingdon (sorry, I still can't spell it) regularly on the menu. But except for minor changes to the menu (could you add salad to my sandwich please), you had 4 or 5 choices. And it was always 3 courses.
I went to a state run academy and they had pies with mash and gravey, stews in winter, roaste dinners and on Fridays always fish and chips. They also had salad bars which were unlimited and a fast food bar (which in the seniors was always full) I loved my school home made pies and mash! We had 2 courses usually
As an Australian, I *NEVER* had street vendors or similar turn up to school... you either took your own (vegemite) sandwiches, or you starved... Seeing all these places that had school cafeterias where a meal was supplied (or even available to buy) was something we only ever saw in TV shows from the US or the UK
All the schools I went to in Australia (in SA and Qld) had canteens with cheap goodies usually made and run by some of the mothers of the students. Also I always remember having the option to order from a take away shop in the morning that's delivered for lunchtime...usually by filling out an order form and placing it in an envelope with money into a box in our classroom...it gets taken away and returns at lunchtime ...wait for your name to be called out and you're done. But for me that was a treat only two or three times a year...usually it was a Vegemite sandwich (which was instantly binned by me) or a cheese sandwich (which had better survival rate from the bin) and an orange or apple...(both binned instantly...love oranges but they were too hard to peel and sticky so I couldn't be bothered and I hate apples) Once of twice a week I'd get 50C or a $1 for the canteen to buy pikelets (mini puffy pancakes) with jam and cream for 20C and frozen juice in a cup for 20C...
Also in French old peoples homes wine is served with lunch & dinner. Likewise in hospital, providing doctors don't forbid it, you can have a glass of wine.
No idea these days, but when I grew up schools in the 80s and 90s didn't serve food in Norway. I brought my own lunch sandwich, usually with some ham and/or cheese. We did start getting small cartons of milk (3dl) though.
Within NL i just had to bring my own lunch, but there are schools with an cafetaria which was mostly overpriced junk, like mediocre cookies for 2 euro an piece which is 1 for an full package in the store, around 2005 was that i think
We don't have street vendors. We have what we call a tuckshop it's where you can buy your sausage rolls, meat pies, snacks, sandwiches, and your drinks.
In australia I think only private schools would have a cafeteria, state schools usually run by mother's/grand mothers of the students. No meals mandated by the government, "street" food sold through the canteen or a packed lunch from home.
Having recently-ish (6/7 years ago) worked in a school at lunch time in France, I can say that the 4 course meal is true... Mostly. I never saw jam or candy in a meal, ice cream at worst. In kindergarten and elementary, kids either eat lunch in school (4 course meal : entry, main course, cheese and dessert) or at home. The eldest kids in elementary can even go home on their own to eat their lunch, if the parents gave their agreement beforehand. You need to warn the school and pay a fee a few days in advance to eat there, and the fee will depend on your family's income (going down to very, very cheap). When ordering the meal for your kid, you can also ask that said child doesn't get meat (be it for religion or not), and an alternative will be offered. In middle school, it is similar, excepted that there may be a choice between multiple options for one of the courses. In highschool, you have a different system. You buy a certain amount of meals, that are put on a card (of a format similar to a credit card, but only usable in the school cafeteria). You then get to decide what you'll eat among a few options (like 2/3 different entries, main courses, desserts), still with an meatless option (but without needing the parents noticing the school). But since the meals are on a card, not dated, a highschooler can choose to go eat outside. Either home or at a nearby food truck, or a nearby food place that serves quickly. Legally, schools have an obligation to strive towards organic meals, to reduce the amount of meat (so that there's not meat everyday, but like at least once a week there'll be fish or something else) and healthy. The law also guarantees, I believe, that kids in school get at least an hour to eat their lunch. I have seen elementary kids whose parents forgot to warn the school, and thus had no meal planned for them (meals are planned for the number of students). What happens is that the schools adds a plate, a glass and cutlery to a table, and the kid will be fed nonetheless. Where I worked, if that happens a lot, or if there's a lot of payments behind, they'll contact the family to ask for payment, warn that they won't be able to feed the kid (still will feed him/her, because you don't want to see a kid go hungry in front of half his school) and inform them of the help they can ask for from the town's social workers. But there's something fun. You looked at that french meal with sparkles in the eyes, and yet... Kids in France would tell you that school lunches are not good.
I run a school canteen in Australia and I can tell you right now that is not correct for Aussie school lunches. Kids either bring lunch from home or, order from the canteen from a menu that is then made to order. School Canteens must follow a government healthy food and drink policy which does not include Tim Tams! In my canteen business we offer a wide range of all fresh cooked or cold foods, salads to bentos to rice and pasta plus lots more for students to order from. It is true that they eat outside, then they get to play outside before returning to class.
always went home for lunch, lived 5 minutes walking away from school. only in college id bring my own lunch which was 4 buns with greens and salmon (not those sugar filled buns like in the US but real bread)
Well in Australia its called a canteen and you can buy food over the counter. Sausage rolls, pies, fries, fruit, etc. some order uber eats and wait for them at the gate. Tim tams arent really that popular at school.
Aussie kids bring their own. In primary school the school requires that they bring at least one bit of fruit and usually bans anything like lollies or something any kid in the class has an allergy to. Some schools have a canteen.
I just realize by listening few reaction to food, how fondamentaly different we are in france vs USA . I always hear about how food taste , good , sweet etc ... exept when you want to showcase increadibles meal at a restaurant with a gourmet chef , french cuisine is design to be average ! we dont try to make the food taste good ! and its probably chocking to hear i bet ! :) we make food to have the good healthy portion and the very good ingredient , the very tasty ones are blend with the very boring ones to make the bad taste healthy stuff manageable . So there is no point to make extra good , just enought to make it extra healthy ! we dont waste the extra taste exept to make somthing special ! or on a special dinner . Most of the recipe are almost boring when we talk about traditional dish in france ; vegetable we dont want to eat but a very fine meat and a sauce to make it very good at the end but still not a dish you will really remember ^^ Also i wont talk about the sugar in ingredient not supposed to have that much ruins the equilibrium . if we want 20% fat 40% carbs and 40 protein in a meal and all the USA ingredient have sugar its obviously impossible to make a dessert , but in france meal you have a 4 course meal cause you can and you can have treat at the end because there is not always sugar put in everything : everything dont have to be good , but everything should be healthy ! No guilty pleasure if the treats or dessert are normal part of your nutrition .
Growing up poor in California In the 90s I remember most school lunches being processed burgers with fries, pizza with bread sticks, spaghetti with a sad salad. A packaged sweet always. A “fresh fruit” you could see it ripen in your hand. And everything was processed kinda tasted metallic or plastic something like that. We did have grilled cheese with a few slices of ham. The only “soup” I remember is beef stew which by all accounts isn’t soup. Ohh the carrots … nasty, wet to the touch.
In Poland, when I went to school, every day there was a different lunch and two courses and milk. Now I don't know what it looks like because I haven't go to school for a long time haha, and I don't have any children of my own either.
Yea we had like proper meals with vegetables and gravy at school, but since we were kids that didn't excite us as much cos we had the same stuff at home, so often we'd go across the road and buy a hamburger.
I can say, when I lived in the States, we hade lunch outside almost every day, and the Norway lunch dose not surprise me, for they don´t do lunch, just a sandwich, witch is hard when one (from Sweden) goes over to do some work, for as a Swed, we are used to be able to get lunch almost every where, so hard to find a good lunch place in Norway
In Argentina during secondary education(12-13 to 17-18 age) . we had morning classes and the physical education a pair of days in the afternoon, And one hour free time in the middle. It all depended on how much money you had and how to get to any interesting place, until a guy wised up and opened a grocery store right in front of the school. Really good sandwiches. But that's just my experience and doesn't match almost anybody's else in my country.
I think we looked worse on that video. A couple of sausage rolls and 3 TimTams? I know its only a selection but gee. Looking at one of our local state (government run) schools tuckshop menu there is sandwiches, pizza, burgers, the sausage roll, garlic bread, corn on the cob, salad, spaghetti bog, a range of drinks, fruit salad and other fruit and snacks like boiled eggs, vegi sticks, popcorn, and also ice blocks and frozen yogurt. Cheapest item on the menu is 4 jatz crackers with Vegemite for 50C. Average items like a Vegemite sandwich costs $3 and a Bluey Milk popper $3. While the most expensive item is the chicken burger with cheese and full salad at $6.50.
As a french guy, raised with incredible food at school, what strikes me , is how your mind is opened to foreign experimentations. I mean, either with transportation, motor sports, way of life, you are like a kid in a toy shop.
For us, it is so refreshing to meet a guy who is commenting without the usual ostracism that TH-cam is packed with.
Kuddos to you!!!
We have a twin city in France, and when I was in school, we went there for a week and their kids would visit us later in Germany. I was so surprised that there was a school lunch and it was delicious!!! With several courses and all the good things. :) Also the meals in my kind guest family were amazing, from breakfast to supper. You French know how to cook! :)
I think you missed it on the video Ian, but in Finland school lunch is also completely free
That is true in most nations today, even on quite a few american states.
Then for Finland, its also worth saying that the free school lunch was introduced to stop the children from starving to death. So its not quite only sunshine and rainbows.
collage can also be free in the US if you enroll in a free collage program. The sort of back side of this is that you typically can choose teacher, nurse or engineer in those programs. Even for the students not qualified for the totally free program, there are heavily subsidized programs that cost no more than a collage in France or the UK.
Most of the people that complain about student debt in the US studied something like liberal arts, communications and similar that there is no use for, hence there are no subsidized program for.. So the whole US student can´t pay there debt is really a very small percentage that made very stupid choices.
So the diffrance between USA and Europe is not even close to as black and white as some people like to claim
That sounds amaizing
In germany at least when ibwent tonschool and where inwent to school
The school cooperstet with sn cateror and the family had tonpay a small price per meal but it never was worth it
Becousenthe cateror delivers to a lotnof schools foodnwould arrive as much as 3herly kept warm or be rewarmed
At this point all flsvor and nutrition was basicly gone
So most of us had lunch boxes from home wich insides looked more like the American lunch
Although with healthyer ingredients some fruit tea or water and heslther bread then just toast.
And ironicly that probaply had mire nutrition than the cooked tondeath stuff at caffeterier
@@matsv201 Why is it "worth saying that the free school lunch was introduced to stop the children from starving to death"? That's a very crude thing to say about something that started because war caused huge problems and has become a hugely positive thing since. Also I think it's a good thing that the government cared about the people enough to implement this into law.
I don't know why you brought up student debt since the comment you're responding to doesn't mention it or anything towards it.
It started 1943, middle of war.
And video missed most important thing. School food is so awful that it can be barely called food. Tells alot that none of teachers anymore go eat it. Atleast in bigger cities might be bit better on smaller schools with own kitchens.
2:39 marzipan as dessert for kids in France at school ?!? I have never heard or see that at this time or in the past. Desert is either a fruit, smal bucket of compote or some other sweet dessert (someone could have make a desert out of marzipan sure). Please note that those not liking cheese can have a yogurt or an alternative milk based desert. Also please note that drink is water 🎉
French here. I used to work in a highschool where the head of the cafeteria was a chef, so we had great lunches. It wasn't a private school either, but a basic, public one (although it was pretty big).
We do have 4 course meals, with an entry that might be a veggie salad, pasta salad, taboulé, cheese friand and others. Main course will, most of the time, be meat + side dish. So a pork chop with green beans, chicken with couscous etc.. Also, there is always a fish option for people who can't eat meat for religious reasons.
Then we have some cheese with fresh bread, they give us different types of cheeses so we can choose, we can have some Tomme, Saint-Nectaire, Camembert, Roquefort etc...
Then for the dessert, they vary and you have a nice selection : There's always fresh fruits, like apples and bananas, a large variety of yogurts (vanilla, chocolate, fruits etc...) and sometimes pastries (like eclair) and cake.
There's always bread and the meals are inexpensive and sometimes even free for families with low income. When I worked at the highschool, I paid 3€ for a 4 course lunch.
About the marzipan, I really don't know about that one. Never seen them in a cafeteria and I see them sold mostly around christmas.
In Finland, the food is buffet-style, where children can take whatever they want, there are several options.
In Australia, it is common for students to bring their own lunch to school. This is a cultural practice that varies from country to country. While some Australian schools do have canteens, they may not be as prevalent as in the United States.
Tuck shop
Most schools here have a “tuck shop” canteen where you can buy snacks and healthy options during recess and lunch break. Kids eat outside in good weather but inside class when it’s nasty out. many schools still offer a lunch order service. You hand in a lunch order at the beginning of class- a brown paper bag that your mum has written what you want for lunch on, with the money in it.
I got a lunch order once a week as a treat but other kids parents gave them money every day instead if packing a lunch for them.
Teachers also will send a note home to let you know you are not giving them a healthy lunch and offer suggestions 😳 a bit rude I reckon 😂
@@Jaydaydesign Ah, yes, the old paper bag lunch order, it was a once a week treat for me too. All other days was a packed lunch of vegemite and cheese sandwich, a piece of fruit, water/juice, and if I was lucky, a sweet treat like an Oreo, TimTam or yoghurt.
We called it that in primary school but highscool was Canteen @@datwistyman
@@dalesmith4985 public and primary tuck shop High school canteen
in France, it is in begining, often a mixed salad, principal plat (meat or fish, vegetable and starch, and a desert (yogurt or fruit or cheese etc.) sorry for my bad english
One thing that was generally missing from the video was the information regarding the cost of the lunch. For Finland it was mentioned that school lunches are free, but I assume in most of these countries the students have to pay for their lunch, so depending on the price the lunch can vary a lot. Here in Finland school lunches are totally free all the 12 years from elementary school to upper secondary. The food is generally good normal and healthy food, but since the budgeted price per one serving is generally quite low, some of the dishes can be a bit tasteless and uninspiring. Most students eat the school lunch since it's free, but some teenagers prefer to go and buy some junk food instead of eating the school food.
free in sweden too
As an older Australian, with children and grandchildren, I haven’t seen anyone take sausage rolls for lunch ... I’m sure chocolate biscuits were packed but in summer they would be a gooey, melted mess 😂
That doesnt look anything like an Aussie School lunch. Australians are very aware of our childrens diet at school and l have never seen sausage rolls like that. also, Tim Tams for lunch at school? Come on. We are more than just a sausage roll and Tim Tam nation.
Here are some recent menues from some random schools in Stockholm, Sweden.
To all meals there is a buffé of vegetables to add to the main dish, as well as crisp bread, butter and (non-flavoured) low fat milk.
School lunches are free of charge for the students, it's been paid by the taxpayers since the 1940s.
Monday
Chicken nuggets/veggie nuggets with rice and sweet chili sauce
Tuesday
Chili con/sin carne with bulgur
Wednesday
Spinach and ricotta tortellini in tomato sauce
Thursday
Breaded fish/Chick pea patties with potatoes and lemon and dill sauce
Friday
Salisbury steak/pea&beet patties with ratatouille and roasted potatoes
Monday
Meatballs/Vegan sausages with mash, cream sauce and pickled cucumber
Tuesday
Fish/veggi nuggets with rice and tomato sauce
Wednesday
Minced meat/bean ragu with pasta
Thursday
Vegetable soup with bread and cheese
Friday
Chicken drumsticks/ owen baked celeri root with potatoe wedges and bbq sauce
Monday
Chicken stew with coconut milk, chili, bellpepper, cauliflower and rice
Soy stew with coconut milk, chili, bellpepper, cauliflower and rice
Tuesday
Pasta with tomatoes, basil, chili, garlic, olives and tuna
Pasta with broccoli and cheese
Wednesday
Breaded fish with boiled potatoes and dill sauce
Pasta with sunflower pesto, basil, sundried tomatoes and rocket
Thursday
Cauliflower soup with bread and cheese
Potato and leek soup with bread and cheese
Friday
Fried chicken, wedged potatoes and sauce bearnaise
Veggie schnizel, wedged potatoes and sauce bearnaise
Really fortunate to have such good nutritional foods!
Nice comment! Sounds about right in my experience too. Did I miss it or was Sweden's school lunch cut out here? I think I saw it in this video on another channel before...
French children will all tell you that the food in their school is awfull.
I'm sure that if we send them spend a full week in an US school, they'll realize that french food isn't so bad, even the school food
😂
I mean, I've never ate the things they show in the video
I'm french and I liked the school food. I have a niece now that eat in school and she likes it, so I really don't understand what you mean by "french children will all...", that's a bit of bullshit to be honest.
My kids love their school "cantine". They grow their own vegetables, food is always freshly made from scratch. That's probably different in bigger cities, though
@@Mademoiselfe1 Sure, I was just kidding a bit. I know some schools that offer very good food to the children, it depends where you live. In big cities where they often call for cheap "industrial" food and don't cook themselves, it's not always that good.
Lol I just find it mind blowing that lunches are provided by schools!! In Australia we take our own lunch to school. I spent the last 15 years making and packing my kids lunches every single day. Providing them lunch at the school is very foreign to us.
Same. Aussie here and the idea of not taking my lunch to school every day is so strange to me haha
In Vienna, Austria, late 80's/early 90's, atleast at my school (Gymnasium in a definitely working class area of town, 1210 Ödenburgerstraße for any alumni reading this :) ), you'd either bring your own lunch, grab a "Wurstsemmel" (bun with cold cuts) from a stall run by the school, or - if you had some pocket money to spare - "sneak out" (probably the most uninforced rule of that school: leaving the premises without leave) and grab some grub from a shop basically across the street.
In lower grades, school was 8am-2pm (8-12 on Saturdays), with a paid-for option for after-school care up to 6pm, also providing an actual lunch at 2pm, plus teachers helping you with your homework etc, until your parents picked you up (or your parents saying "they can leave at 5pm, that's when I'll be back home from work").
In higher grades, you'd have lessons in the later afternoon aswell, several times a week, keeping you until 4, 5, even 6pm. You'd definitely want that full lunch on those days - and you could "buy in" to that lunch option (if there was any left by the vultures err younger kids) for a laughably low price (converting Austrian Schilling to Euro, adjusted for inflation, it's been less than 1€ for a meal).
Fare wasn't that great, just your regular cafeteria style pasta dishes, stews, and the like, but it filled you up and kept you running, calorie hungry teenagers the lot of us was.
School food in Japan is very impressive to see ! Kids also help for growing/harvesting vegetables too !
For France, they exagerate a bit, we "only" have a 3 courses meals. In elementary school, you sit at table and got serve like in restaurant. From middle school, you have some kind of self-service. Everything is already prepared in plate, one-portion size, but you choose what you want.
For your main meal, you have choice between 2 meats, and 2 vegetables. As an example, you have chicken or pork, you can only choose one, and rize and greens beans, you can take one, or a bit of both.
Besides your main meal, you can choose 2 extras : extras being appetizer, cheese or desserts. Appetizer can be a salad, soup, hardboiled eggs or a slice of quiche. Cheese you got 2 pieces of cheese with 2 salad leafs. In dessert, you have fruits, or some kind of yogurts, fruits compote, or rize pudding, or some kind of cake in luchy day. You can choose 2 of them, and if you want, you can take 2 desserts, or 2 appettizers. Plus a piece of bread per meal
My son, educated in Poitiou-Charentes, after maternal was fed 4 courses daily. I guess not all schools are the same.
FYI mazapan is a mixture of almond powder, sugar and egg white plus (option) limon zests, or orange flower extract... It is a delicacy.
And I agree with other comments, generally we are more on a three course meal with veggies and/or fruits. Young children are served at their table, while pupils at junior high and possibly at the late years of elementary school helped themselves at a self...
Marzipan is delicious!
I'm Croatian and I went to school from 2000 to 2013. Since both of my parents worked and I didn't live with my grandparents, from grade 1 to 3 I'd have school from 8 to around 11-12, and after that I'd stay in school until 16-17 (it's optional for kids who don't have anyone else to keep an eye on them while parents work, and the teachers take care of us, they let us out to the playground for 1-2 hours, after that it's lunch and after that we do homework and play) when my mom would pick me up. So naturally I had to have 3 meals at school. We'd have something small for breakfast, usually a yoghurt and a sandwich, or a homemade pastry with jam. For lunch we'd have a 3 course meal, soup (usually chicken, vegetable or mushroom soup), main dish (always some protein like grilled fish or chicken with carbs like rice or potatoes, some veggies and a salad), and a desert (crepes, cake or something sweet). In the afternoon we'd have a snack like an apple or a banana. From grade 4 to grade 8 of primary school we only had breakfast at school since we only stayed from 8 to 13 at most. And in high school I'd have school one week from 8 to 14, another week from 14 to 20, and we'd get a 20 min break in the middle to go out and buy something as a snack. I'd usually eat something from the bakery or a sandwich from the school cafeteria.
In the Netherlands school lunches aren't a thing.
In primary school kids go home for lunch (and come back to school afterwards). They can stay at school, but then they'll have to bring their own food, sandwiches with cheese or peanut butter usually.
In high school students either bring their own food (usually sandwiches again), buy food at the school cafeteria (where sandwiches, candy and drinks are sold usually), or they go to the local grocery store or bakery.
In Australia, I think we have to take our own lunches or have 'tuckshop', An Aussie word for food is 'tucker'. Except Boarding Schools, where they do three meals a day for the boarding students and locals bring their own. As I'm sixty soon things could have changed.
I am from Brazil ando not recall having fritatas. I went to public school all my life and we always had food at school, for free. When we got to school in the mornings we used to have a cup of hot chocolate and maybe a small soft bread. Then at lunch we usually had, noodles or rice and beans or smashed potatoes, sometimes with salad or a boiled egg. Always cooked by the lovely ladies at the school canteen . I used to love the food at school. 🥰
I'm new to this channel. But I just turned 60 & I never saw soup or carrot sticks. Not even a grilled cheese sandwich. It was mostly pizza & French fries. And from 5 to 13 years old, nothing was healthy in the school cafeteria. Again, as am older person - nope. Maybe in the 50's lol.😂😂😂😂. And during those years, I grew up in a very upper class area.
Here in Australia You have to buy snacks and food from the canteen/tuckshop at school, or leave school and go to the shops, if you don't bring your own.
Yep, can't remember ever having a school provided or home made lunch (maybe a sammich and a drink when I was really little). As a 12y.o. (last year of primary) you were allowed to go to shop occasionally, but was normally fish cakes and potat0 scallops from the local chippie. Not healthy, high fat and salt, but we survived.
Lunch pass, so you could go home or to the shops
we either had to bring lunch from home or buy from the canteen, we weren't allowed to leave the school grounds.
I'm part of a team that makes school lunches for the 2 schools in our small town. We prepare lunches once a week for each school. We do provide the usual (in Australia) bakery items like pies, pasties, sausage rolls, etc, but we make fruit smoothies, soup, cold rolls, pasta, chicken curry, chicken wraps, etc. Very young children often order a snack box containing an apple, cucumber, carrot sticks, cheese, crackers. We also make fresh salad rolls as shown on the video, and we provide yoghurt and fresh fruit. Of course, they can order junk food like chicken nuggets (real chicken) and potato wedges. They can order American-style muffins, such as blueberry, apple, apricot and chocolate. The rest of the time parents make lunches, just as I did for my kids. These vary from sandwiches to leftovers from the previous night's dinner.
lol the england one. my sons primary school has chefs making food from scratch daily. they have pasta, roast dinners, spagbol, all kinda healthy food. chocolate and any form of processed snacks are banned lol.
Yeah, in the school I work for there is always 3 choices. Main dish, something like chicken/vegi korma with rice, popadoms and peas, or jacket potatoes with beans and/or cheese, plus a salad bar available as a main or additional to the above. There is always a choice of dessert of the day such as a small portion of cake (cooked in house) or fruit or yogurt. They only get chips on Friday with (of course) fish.
In my municipality in DK, you need to opt-out in kindergarten if you believe you can do a better lunchbox. In school there's no included meals, but kids can buy at the canteen.
The offered meal services are most often very high quality and very low prices. Especially considering the time you'd spend trying to give your kids some varied food.
It takes time and planning to make a bento box every day that you believe your school kid will actually eat.
In my case in Spain it was a 3 course meal and the food used to be like the food you will have in home (healthy and balanced) but not as good of course, although i had some pretty good meals there too, and all was cooked in the schools kitchen (usually) unless it was some festive special treat.
Germany was very late to the school food roster because most children don't have school in the afternoon and will therefore eat at home.
At my apprenticeship place, we had a Mensa. The food was cooked by apprentices and their masters, sometimes the food was good, sometimes it was not.
Once we had a vegetarian dish, and it was Schupfnudeln (a bit difficult to explain). The Nudeln themselves were all 3 states of consistency: Not cooked at all, decent, burned.
I'm German too and at least, even it was not very good, we get very often real food! Imagine you would live in the USA. After your first week you will beg for burned Shupf noodles! Beer you'll only get with the age of 21 and it tastes and looks like pee.
While the pizza was a bit like bread dough, it tasted amazing.
Yeah, the US funds so much money into the Military their "soldiers" can't get fed properly. Really sad.@@WhereIsTheSpartan
@@WhereIsTheSpartan German as well. After a month in the US, I was begging my mom for a care packet containing "real" bread.
Yep, as someone mentioned below, I also never experienced school lunches, because school was exlusively in the morning and early afternoon for me here in Germany. However, there are some schools here with more lectures in the afternnoon and therefore with school lunches. But the kind of food and the quality can be on totally different levels. Friends of mine had a quite fancy restaurant, but they also catered for a local school and I guess, the meals there were rather top quality. But I guess, there are some extreme differences out there.
I grew up in Belgium in the 70s.
A typical lunch was soup, beef or lamb stew, or grilled chicken, or fish, mashed potatoes and cooked vegetables such as peas&carrots, zucchini, cauliflower, spinach and some such. Dessert was usually an apple or orange. Water pitchers were available on the tables.
We used to say that never mind the type of meat or fish served, it all tasted the same! But it was not that bad.
In primary in western Australia we got small carton of milk and we either brought lunch from home went home for lunch or bought from the canteen my kids primary school was the same and high school u brought lunch from home bought lunch from the canteen but some kids walked to hungry jacks which was just up the road
Norway here. We would never put mustard and sausage on the bread. It would be a slice of 100% meat ham with a slice of white cheese. Or brown cheese.
What I had for lunch was a jam sandwich a muesli bar, a popper. And a bit of fruit
Or tuck shop.
I used to get yummy drummies. It's a chicken and corn thing.
When I left school me and my mum and and some mums started a group and had a red rooster day or cheerio cup day.
A few seconds in and we are stunned by "Real Food" to our children? i am lucky to have lived in a time where that wasn´t an issue, but that outburst really put things in perspective, the children are our resource and are expected to take us further and at the same time care for us as we get older.
I'm older too, 60. But even in a very upper class area, we had mostly pizza, Salisbury steak - yuck - & French fries. Honestly, it wasn't healthy food. I think the 1950's were better for real food in school.
@MFiction23 Wow..i am 64 living in Scandinavia, we already had some kind of healthy food back then, meaning no processing or adding stuff.
not sure about the 1950`s it were before i were born :)
in alot of high schools here in Scotland you can actually leave the premises and go to a local shop or café, but meals are provided by the school if you cannot afford to do that.
Regarding the Japanese kids helping to clean up at the end; when Japan got to the Rugby World Cup their fans would famously stay to clear all the litter from their areas of the stadium after the matches finished.
This is the way Japan educates their kids at school, teaching them to be independent and responsible to be able to live in community with everyone!
It’s been a long time since I went to school in Australia. My lunch was made by my mum, which consisted of a sandwich of some type with a packet of chips some fruit and always a slice of homemade chocolate cake which my friends always tried to claim as it was so good. Every so often we would get a lunch order from the school canteen which was a highlight.
I like Japan's approach, cause it seems nowadays not many parents teach their kids a lot of basic skills for when they're older. Here in the Netherlands you eat at home or you take lunch with you from home. And that's usually bread with something on it and milk or chocolate milk.
In Italy we have diet studied by health doctors implemented in schools, giving balanced mediterranean diet poor of salt, sugar and every thing not natural.
When I was school I had choice between rice or pasta, meat or fish and vegetables based on season, little bread and a fruit or a little snack (homemade style).
In many school kids are at home in the afternoon, eating at home and not have lunch at school.
In Portugal, school lunch has a soup (we have a lot of soup recipes!), bread, main dish, a desert or a fruit, and 95% of the time, I loved!!!
Schools in Australia don't have cafeterias or indoor dining like the US. Kids can eat anywhere outside...there are usually undercover areas to shelter from rain or hot sun.
We tend to have a canteens/tuckshops (a kiosk type building with a shutter that opens to reveal a shop counter where kids can purchase food) where mothers volunteer their time to make different foods (these days by law have to be healthy).
Also every morning there is a box in every classroom where kids place an envelope with their details, order and money...this box is collected and taken to a nearby take away shop that makes anything from fish and chips, schnitzel packs, yiros, rotisserie chicken meals, mini pizzas, and other unhealthy grilled and deep fried foods.
But the most common is just a home packed lunch and a couple bucks to buy a few things at the canteen...especially in summer when they had frozen orange juice cups for 20C and frozen strawberry or chocolate milk cups for 40C...mini pancakes with butter for 20C and topped with jam and cream for 40C...and 50C for mini meat pies.
If want a good stew like the one from Trinidad, all you have to do is: 2 pounds of meat=2 pounds of onions.
Cook the onions on very slow heat until glossy. Do not allow them to brown!!! If they did, throw away, make new!
Then after glossy add the meat and fry it from all sides, add a good amount of high quality tomato paste and some smoked paprika powder, fry that for a minute and deglace it with water. Add a few bay leafs.
Let that simmer very slowly for at least 2 hours. Leave it for the next day covered cooling down.
The next day re-heat it and you will have the best stew you will ever have.
Ofc you can add chillies, black pepper, turmeric, coriander powder, et cetera...but in general it doesn't need any of it.
When I was in secondary school in Belgium, we too had cooking classes (which proved VERY useful later on in life) by actually spending one morning every now and then - each of the classes had to do that, in turns - preparing lunch for the entire school.
The only no-no was to spice with arsenic the portion destined to your most hated school mate 😈😁
Yeh In Aus, it was always a fight to see who could get the best spot for lunch. We had a couple of benches around the school so they were sort after. Or you'd find a spot on the oval, or at the handball courts. It's very foreign to go to an indoor area where food is served. I'd usually get mum to pack lunch for me, if i wanted extra id grab something from the canteen, like a sausage roll, or Potato smileys.
In france, my kids are in a private school and their lunch menu is better than mine. They have a choice between 6 appetizers, 3 different main courses, 9 desserts and, of course, cheese bread, jam and salad. The food is prepared on site with fresh ingredients delivered every day. And parents have a mobile app so we can see what their menu is every week with all relevant information (origin of produce) allergen information, nutritional information. etc.....
Just wanted to say. In primary school. We had a corner shop bakery. And once month you could be lunch monitor. Pies Sausage Rolls. Or the best was Pasties. (Pronounced pastEes)
In Australia the good old high school 'tuck shop' (aka canteen) was a feast of all the unhealthy stuff plus the token healthy bags of grapes. Good times, lol!! (this was in the late 80s / early 90s).
I went to a small primary school and buying lunch was a treat as only available on Mondays and then only if one's parents remembered to have enough small notes on hand. Parent's were rostered on to either work or provide cupcakes and other deserts like jelly cups.
When I was a kid in Romania, we got some packaged milk in a cup, and a croissant like thing what was dry and tasteless. Sometimes we got apples or some biscuits but this was occasionally. We had to bring our own food. Those whose couldn’t afford to bring food or buy in the school buffet, usually got food from us, organised by the school’s religion teacher. Those kids got food on their desks bought or brought by us, kids…
Home packed lunches for New Zealand. Lunches had to have reusable wrapping at one time not sure if that is still a thing, but was to encourage kids to help avoid polluting the environment. Notes went home if the lunch didn't meet standard set. All I can say is that if the American lunch was not quite what you remembered that would go for a lot of the other countries too.
We Europeans love our Children 😇 (Just kidding, Americans love their kids too 😁)
Jokes aside: it is important that kids get a healty and less boring meal.
The presentation of the food in this video is like an ad. Looks way better than reality.
The whole idea of school lunches is foreign to me. Aussie, Melbin. Even tho' I went to a private school. My Mum always gave me a packed lunch. Or for a treat once a week, I get a "lunch order". You'd get a brown paper bag, write your name and order from the canteen menu, put in correct change. They would be collected in the morning, and delivered at lunch.
The canteen staff at the schools i went to in England were brilliant, it was just a bunch of mums who cooked good home cooked mum food, it was always great hearty meals.
The world has changed so much since then i can't imagine it's anywhere near as good now, it's all down to the budget and the people doing the cooking.
Coming from a small country town, it was either take your own, buy from the tuck shop or go home for lunch.
I will say though, if your mum goes away for 6wks, because your older sister had twins...DON'T LEAVE IT TO DAD....6wks of meat pies + cream buns for lunch, it's too much, even at 15yrs of age; the very thought of that now 🤮
If I had that time again, I'd either go a kebab or maybe Subway (pub lunch-I wish).
Meals vary but time & location plays a part too!
Hi ! Here is today's lunch menu at my kid's maternelle in south of France (school from 3 yrs old to 6 yrs old) :
Betteraves vinaigrette (beets), Sauté de volaille sauce hongroise (Stir-fried poultry hungarian sauce), riz (rice), Edam (cheese), fruit frais (fresh fruit).
There is an all organic meal, a fish meal and an egg meal once a week each.
In my town, lunchtime (food and kid's supervision between 11h30 and 13h30) cost from 1€30 to 4€30, depending on your familly income and number of kids.
In Australia: My daughter sends her kids to school with a thermos flask with a hot meal, crusty bread, cheese and fruit for the granddaughter and vegetables sticks for the grandson who is fructose intolerant. My children told me what they wanted in their lunches each day and it could be something like a Vegemite or chicken schnitzel sandwich for my son. My daughter’s favourite was a cheese and beetroot sandwich, fruit and a juice box. I also gave them a dipper pack which was crackers and a pot of cream cheese for morning recess. On a Monday I was a volunteer in the School Tuck Shop and I helped out filling the brown paper bag lunch orders for the day. In my school days it was a sandwich or roll on Tuesday-Friday with a lunch order on Monday because our shops closed at 12 pm on Saturday until Monday Morning. We didn’t have a refrigerator back in the day (no Supermarkets and a lot of horse and cart home delivery), just an ice chest, temperatures could reach 40 C which made keeping fresh foods risky for more than 48 hours, so I ordered from the school tuck shop on a Monday when I would order a hot meat pie, sausage roll or a bag of hot chuncky chips or a couple of potato cakes/fritters. Usually I took fruit, crackers and chunks of Kraft processed cheese (didn’t go off in hot weather) every day. I remember one of my teachers writing a note to my mother asking her to not pre-shell the hard boiled eggs because they were stinking out the class room 😂. A good day was when we could buy, at lunch time, a frozen Jubbly (later called a Sunny Boy), which was a block of frozen orange fruit juice sealed in a waxy, thick papery, pyramid-shaped covering. We just gnawed off a corner of the covering and started crunching and slurping on it to cool down. No canteen or class room with air con to sit in, no outside seats under non-existent trees, just everyone looking to sit down in the shade of the southern side of a school room. We only got to sit inside the classroom if it was pouring with rain. Pretty basic really.
That looked all delicious, the American meal too, with the soup and sandwich. :) We never had school lunch, because we were home by 1.30 pm. But for our 15 minutes recess, we had breadrolls or sandwiches, and there was a kiosk selling all the good things that our parents didn't see. :D
I loved the school meals growing up in the UK. It varied on a 10 day rota and always consisted of 2 courses. A main meal of meat or fish, potatoes and a vegtable. Then a dessert of cake or pudding (not American style pudding) but something like Jam Roly Poly or Spotted Dick or apple Tart served with custard. Occasinally it was ice cream and Jelly (Jello). After i left a lot of schools out scorced their catering and the quality suffered with more processed rubbish entering the meals. A revolution was led by a TV chef called Jamie Oliver to improve the quality of school meals and the Government was shamed big time. I believe it has improved a great deal now.
In the Netherlands ive never really seen school lunches, every school i've been too just had a cafeteria with healthy and sweet options and it's up to the students to buy what they wanna eat, or to bring something from home. Occasionally there would be some food trucks. Something i've noticed about the Netherlands is that we seem to teach children to eat healthy by letting them eat way to much sweets & then get sick from it lol.
The Netherlands has, beside the UK, the worst eating culture of Europe. So, it's not a reference to cuisine. 😅
Yes, we eat outside but the rest wasn’t that accurate. The majority of students bring lunch from home most days. It’s not sausage roll (which is not a literal sausage wrapped in pastry) but more like a sandwich, veggie sticks or fruit, cheese line baby bell, sometimes dried fruit, dips etc. There’s also often something treat food like potato chips, sweet biscuits, or a mini chocolate bar. My kids didn’t like sandwiches and so I’d just send sandwich meats and salad without the bread. In older years they would often take a thermos with hot leftovers from dinner or a soup. My kids went to private school and more recently the school has outsourced it to a local company. They have cafe level food, such as hot pastas, schnitzel sandwiches, even sushi. I haven’t experienced a public high school but I’m going to guess the standard fare of pies, lasagna, sandwiches and hot dogs are more typical. Students may often also bring a fruit juice box but even when mine were little, about fifteen years ago, schools were heavily encouraging water as the only drink.
It's been a while since I went to school; I finished the 10th grade in 1980. In the 8th grade, we had cooking lessons, twice a week for 2 hours each.
I mean I grew up in a small town, and my school lunch was amazing. We hot fresh cooked delicious food every day (well ok, I’m kinda pucky, so I did not like ALL of it, but the food was always a real meal, freshlt cooked
I'm an old guy now, but I can remember the "Tuck-shop" (cantina or canteen). I always went for an Aussie staple of a pie with peas or a paste (empanada) with peas, had to have peas, & 2 cans of coke. If I didn't bring my lunch from home. Home lunch was nearly always a chicken & salad roll or corned-beef brisket & salad. I'd have 1 can of coke with my lunch & smuggle in the 2nd can into class as no drinks allowed in class. The good old days.
That sausage roll looked like she grabbed a sausage and put it in puff pastry lmao. Most schools have canteens that kids can get their lunch from, my daughters school had a bit of a variety of food, Like party pies and party sausage rolls, mini ham and cheese pizza, soup, salad roll or sandwiches, chicken nuggets, chockie or strawberry milk, prima (Fruit juice) and fruit, there was never really anything that was sugary, maybe a jelly cup.. I usually gave her something to take too school also, like yoghurt, a small bag of chips, a banana or apple some bikkies an lcm bar a roll up and lesnacks, always packed a little extra so she could share with her friends
In france depend the day too you have one day with french fry and one day with usually fish for exemple
(thursday French fry and friday fish most of the time)
In czech republic, kids get (parents buy for 2 dollars a day) soup, main dish and salad/dessert/kompot and a warm tea. Main dish can be something like schnitzel with potatoes, spaghetti or dumplings+meat+sauce. Often the local elderly use school cafeteria as well (different price), so they do not have to cook for themselves. You can get seconds for free. You can pick from 2 meals at least.
This system was created by communists, it was not unified before ww2, though many schools provided meals. Nutritional value of meals is considered to support proper growth and healthy eating habits.
No beer though.
I remember when I started school there was no tuck shop or canteen yet there was table where a woman would sell food at lunch time and it cost 1 cent to seven. However with the main meal you ordered in the morning and it would be delivered to you before lunch from the high school up the street
As an Aussie grandmother, the segment on Aussie school lunches was very wrong.
Yes, the kids mostly eat outside, depending on the weather.
Most kids take home-packed lunches to school. For my daughter, that usually included a meat & salad roll/sandwich or curried egg sandwich, fresh fruit, a cold drink like fruit juice, a snack like cheese and crackers, cheese sticks, sultanas, and usually a sweet snack (I included homemade biscuits, muffins, pikelets, etc. I would also pack a bottle of cold water and used ice bricks in the lunchbox to keep the food cold. Yoghurt was also a common snack.
In the old days, school tuckshops sold pies and sausage rolls but they also served salad lunches and sandwiches.
These days, most school canteens have a healthier menu including salads and fresh fruit. They stopped selling soda, lollies and ice cream.
Even fresh sushi rolls can be seen on some school menus today, along with stir fries and casseroles.
Kid from Leipzig former east germany here inwas born 95 so after reunificatiom
We always had meals from a lsrge caterer (probaply spelled this wrong) and they got delived as erly as 3 h before lunch breake and keot warm or warmed up agsin sonthe best tasting stuff was sweet stuff as anything heslth was cooked to death at this point . So most of us just had a lunch box from home usualy containing sone type of bread with sussage cheese nutella or jam something sweet like a candy a bottle of tea or water and sone fruits that was lunch
We had our warm meal for erly dinner at around 6pm 😅 school was just like a breakfeast extension for most of us
And lets phase it the supper boxes from home probaply had more nutrition than the school lunch
Ironicly lookes a lotnofnwhat smaricans get at school
Although with healthyerndrink choice and heslthyer bread and overall ingredients xD
School lunches in Australia are generally much healthier than that and usually brought from home.
In Melbourne year10+ could leave the school & there's always some sort of takeaway shop near by.
At highschool from 1996 to 2000 here in Australia, the school canteen had pies, sausage rolls, hotdogs,chicken and gravy rolls, sandwiches,cream buns,Lollies I don't think much of that is excepted today
UK Lunches vary. Firstly depending on the season, but also the area. A school with a high percentage of poor kids will serve hot wholesome meals like cottage pie, which is cheap and easy to make in bulk. My dads school down the road (Private) got Salmon and potatoes and veg with sauce. My school (boarding) was like dining in a restaurant, with Coq au Vin or Bouef Bullingdon (sorry, I still can't spell it) regularly on the menu. But except for minor changes to the menu (could you add salad to my sandwich please), you had 4 or 5 choices. And it was always 3 courses.
I went to a state run academy and they had pies with mash and gravey, stews in winter, roaste dinners and on Fridays always fish and chips. They also had salad bars which were unlimited and a fast food bar (which in the seniors was always full) I loved my school home made pies and mash! We had 2 courses usually
As an Australian, I *NEVER* had street vendors or similar turn up to school... you either took your own (vegemite) sandwiches, or you starved... Seeing all these places that had school cafeterias where a meal was supplied (or even available to buy) was something we only ever saw in TV shows from the US or the UK
All the schools I went to in Australia (in SA and Qld) had canteens with cheap goodies usually made and run by some of the mothers of the students.
Also I always remember having the option to order from a take away shop in the morning that's delivered for lunchtime...usually by filling out an order form and placing it in an envelope with money into a box in our classroom...it gets taken away and returns at lunchtime ...wait for your name to be called out and you're done.
But for me that was a treat only two or three times a year...usually it was a Vegemite sandwich (which was instantly binned by me) or a cheese sandwich (which had better survival rate from the bin) and an orange or apple...(both binned instantly...love oranges but they were too hard to peel and sticky so I couldn't be bothered and I hate apples)
Once of twice a week I'd get 50C or a $1 for the canteen to buy pikelets (mini puffy pancakes) with jam and cream for 20C and frozen juice in a cup for 20C...
In South Africa none of the schools me or my kids attended had cafeterias. Schools lunches normally consisted of sarmies you brought from home
Also in French old peoples homes wine is served with lunch & dinner. Likewise in hospital, providing doctors don't forbid it, you can have a glass of wine.
Never had a lunch like this usa one, loved to know the school district!
No idea these days, but when I grew up schools in the 80s and 90s didn't serve food in Norway. I brought my own lunch sandwich, usually with some ham and/or cheese.
We did start getting small cartons of milk (3dl) though.
For 60 cents you could get change from a dollar. That’s what you got. You could buy a donut for 6 cents
Within NL i just had to bring my own lunch, but there are schools with an cafetaria which was mostly overpriced junk, like mediocre cookies for 2 euro an piece which is 1 for an full package in the store, around 2005 was that i think
We don't have street vendors. We have what we call a tuckshop it's where you can buy your sausage rolls, meat pies, snacks, sandwiches, and your drinks.
In australia I think only private schools would have a cafeteria, state schools usually run by mother's/grand mothers of the students. No meals mandated by the government, "street" food sold through the canteen or a packed lunch from home.
Having recently-ish (6/7 years ago) worked in a school at lunch time in France, I can say that the 4 course meal is true... Mostly. I never saw jam or candy in a meal, ice cream at worst.
In kindergarten and elementary, kids either eat lunch in school (4 course meal : entry, main course, cheese and dessert) or at home. The eldest kids in elementary can even go home on their own to eat their lunch, if the parents gave their agreement beforehand. You need to warn the school and pay a fee a few days in advance to eat there, and the fee will depend on your family's income (going down to very, very cheap). When ordering the meal for your kid, you can also ask that said child doesn't get meat (be it for religion or not), and an alternative will be offered.
In middle school, it is similar, excepted that there may be a choice between multiple options for one of the courses.
In highschool, you have a different system. You buy a certain amount of meals, that are put on a card (of a format similar to a credit card, but only usable in the school cafeteria). You then get to decide what you'll eat among a few options (like 2/3 different entries, main courses, desserts), still with an meatless option (but without needing the parents noticing the school). But since the meals are on a card, not dated, a highschooler can choose to go eat outside. Either home or at a nearby food truck, or a nearby food place that serves quickly.
Legally, schools have an obligation to strive towards organic meals, to reduce the amount of meat (so that there's not meat everyday, but like at least once a week there'll be fish or something else) and healthy. The law also guarantees, I believe, that kids in school get at least an hour to eat their lunch.
I have seen elementary kids whose parents forgot to warn the school, and thus had no meal planned for them (meals are planned for the number of students). What happens is that the schools adds a plate, a glass and cutlery to a table, and the kid will be fed nonetheless. Where I worked, if that happens a lot, or if there's a lot of payments behind, they'll contact the family to ask for payment, warn that they won't be able to feed the kid (still will feed him/her, because you don't want to see a kid go hungry in front of half his school) and inform them of the help they can ask for from the town's social workers.
But there's something fun. You looked at that french meal with sparkles in the eyes, and yet... Kids in France would tell you that school lunches are not good.
Sweden, my school's kitchen was also a catering firm, so we got restaurant food every day, for free!
I run a school canteen in Australia and I can tell you right now that is not correct for Aussie school lunches. Kids either bring lunch from home or, order from the canteen from a menu that is then made to order. School Canteens must follow a government healthy food and drink policy which does not include Tim Tams! In my canteen business we offer a wide range of all fresh cooked or cold foods, salads to bentos to rice and pasta plus lots more for students to order from. It is true that they eat outside, then they get to play outside before returning to class.
always went home for lunch, lived 5 minutes walking away from school. only in college id bring my own lunch which was 4 buns with greens and salmon (not those sugar filled buns like in the US but real bread)
Well in Australia its called a canteen and you can buy food over the counter. Sausage rolls, pies, fries, fruit, etc. some order uber eats and wait for them at the gate. Tim tams arent really that popular at school.
Aussie kids bring their own. In primary school the school requires that they bring at least one bit of fruit and usually bans anything like lollies or something any kid in the class has an allergy to.
Some schools have a canteen.
I just realize by listening few reaction to food, how fondamentaly different we are in france vs USA .
I always hear about how food taste , good , sweet etc ...
exept when you want to showcase increadibles meal at a restaurant with a gourmet chef , french cuisine is design to be average !
we dont try to make the food taste good ! and its probably chocking to hear i bet ! :)
we make food to have the good healthy portion and the very good ingredient , the very tasty ones are blend with the very boring ones to make the bad taste healthy stuff manageable .
So there is no point to make extra good , just enought to make it extra healthy !
we dont waste the extra taste exept to make somthing special ! or on a special dinner .
Most of the recipe are almost boring when we talk about traditional dish in france ;
vegetable we dont want to eat but a very fine meat and a sauce to make it very good at the end but still not a dish you will really remember ^^
Also i wont talk about the sugar in ingredient not supposed to have that much ruins the equilibrium .
if we want 20% fat 40% carbs and 40 protein in a meal and all the USA ingredient have sugar its obviously impossible to make a dessert , but in france meal you have a 4 course meal cause you can and you can have treat at the end because there is not always sugar put in everything : everything dont have to be good , but everything should be healthy !
No guilty pleasure if the treats or dessert are normal part of your nutrition .
Growing up poor in California In the 90s I remember most school lunches being processed burgers with fries, pizza with bread sticks, spaghetti with a sad salad. A packaged sweet always. A “fresh fruit” you could see it ripen in your hand. And everything was processed kinda tasted metallic or plastic something like that. We did have grilled cheese with a few slices of ham. The only “soup” I remember is beef stew which by all accounts isn’t soup. Ohh the carrots … nasty, wet to the touch.
We did have a few vendors in middle school also very unhealthy. I recall Pizza Hut being one.
Finland lunch is alot different than in the video
In Poland, when I went to school, every day there was a different lunch and two courses and milk. Now I don't know what it looks like because I haven't go to school for a long time haha, and I don't have any children of my own either.
Once i had too many marzipan candies - Mozart, couldn\t go to bathroom for a week
Yea we had like proper meals with vegetables and gravy at school, but since we were kids that didn't excite us as much cos we had the same stuff at home, so often we'd go across the road and buy a hamburger.
We just left school at 11:45 to eat lunch with family at home and returned to school at 13:30
I can say, when I lived in the States, we hade lunch outside almost every day, and the Norway lunch dose not surprise me, for they don´t do lunch, just a sandwich, witch is hard when one (from Sweden) goes over to do some work, for as a Swed, we are used to be able to get lunch almost every where, so hard to find a good lunch place in Norway
Great video 👍
In Argentina during secondary education(12-13 to 17-18 age) . we had morning classes and the physical education a pair of days in the afternoon, And one hour free time in the middle. It all depended on how much money you had and how to get to any interesting place, until a guy wised up and opened a grocery store right in front of the school. Really good sandwiches. But that's just my experience and doesn't match almost anybody's else in my country.
Fun fact. Australia has a very good education system and we dont supply school lunches.
In Germany we have a two course meal - half a hog and a 1 litre stein of beer. 😀😎
I think we looked worse on that video. A couple of sausage rolls and 3 TimTams? I know its only a selection but gee.
Looking at one of our local state (government run) schools tuckshop menu there is sandwiches, pizza, burgers, the sausage roll, garlic bread, corn on the cob, salad, spaghetti bog, a range of drinks, fruit salad and other fruit and snacks like boiled eggs, vegi sticks, popcorn, and also ice blocks and frozen yogurt.
Cheapest item on the menu is 4 jatz crackers with Vegemite for 50C. Average items like a Vegemite sandwich costs $3 and a Bluey Milk popper $3. While the most expensive item is the chicken burger with cheese and full salad at $6.50.
In Italy even in the hospitals you get very good and tasty food!