I used to work in a school lunch program. When you only have 5 people cooking for 1500 kids the only way kids can get healthier food is funding. Half those kids didn't even have food at home so we would rather fill them up with carbs than let them go home for the weekend hungry.
I totally get that and we definitely need to put more money into the lunch programs. There should be enough money that there's planning and sourcing done nation-wide. I think lunch should be free for all kids, and good enough that anybody would feel fine with their kids eating a school lunch. I don't think anyone's blaming the current lunch staff, it's just a matter of resources. People need to see it as an investment into the country down the line. Kids grow up healthier, smarter - they use less medical resourced, they'll produce more and innovate more. We won't see results in a few years, but the countries that are outperforming us on a relatively even plane generally have robust school lunch programs.
@@blowinsmokeupyourfiber is actually a carbohydrate. Fiber is just broken down by your digestive system instead of breaking down into glucose energy. That’s why you feel fuller when you eat high fiber. Edit: if that sounds like, passive aggressive that’s not my intent. I just think it’s a cool fact and I like telling people lmao
@@lrom5445 Bro nobody seems to underrstand this. I had an argument about free health care actually lowering the cost due to preventative care and how across the board in countries with free healthcare less Emergency visits meant lower cost of care in many individuals and they just just kept arguing that its absolutely impossible and would never work or would cost more. Like WERE ALREADY FOOTING THE BILL FOR OTHERS. Do you think the person coming in with chronic mental health issues and is living on the street is paying for the medical care they recieve when they go into psychosis? Nope. They get taken to the hospital, Treated for the psychosis and then either released back onto the street or to jail for whatever actions may have occured. Then they run out of medicine and it happens all over again. Costing Police/Ambulance resources. Hospital Resources. Jail resources. When if they had access to free healthcare as long as they follow the program you change that from multiple thousands of dollars to what equates to a 40$ visit and like 20$ in medication and they could possibly become a functioning member of society. Sorry for the rant its just something im passionate about since programs like free lunch for kids, Free education, and free medicine can vastly improve society. Youll have members of the community who are Well educated, Have their medical needs met without worry, and dont have nutritional deficiency issues its a win win win win for everyone. But its not profitable immediately and apparently thats all that matters..... when you could see the results in in 10ish years. "The one who plants trees knowing they will never sit in their shade has at least started to understand the meaning of life"
This is incredibly entertaining, oh boy the trivia sections lol! But, I would love for next year them to do this challenge again, but work within the budget of a school. The scale wouldn’t be the same but think of it as a reverse Fancy Fast Food, making the most nutritious thing possible for the least amount of money.
This is an awesome idea. I was a school nurse for years, and the schools that had kitchens did some serious wizardry on a tight budget. The food was available to buy for staff (free for kids) and I often bought it because it was genuinely good, balanced, and healthy on a supply budget of only a couple dollars.
I appreciate you all emphasizing that while healthy, fun foods should be a priority, the only way we can truly make it a priority is to ensure that all of our schools are properly funded. It’s an ideal to say “we should be serving our kids food like this” but it can only go so far when the funding only allows for $1.50 per meal if that, and we have only a few people preparing food for hundreds if not thousands of kids per day.
The elementary schools in my area of Texas charge $1.75 for breakfast. Plate Lunch is $3.50 or $3.75. A two pack of Graham crackers (it’s essentially one full graham cracker broken in half) are considered a viable breakfast option for kids. It’s crazy.
@@shelbymartian I live in South Texas and every school I've gone to gives free school food, its not necessarily healthy, but everyone was given lunch and breakfast as well as an afterschool bagged lunch for those who wanted to take one home with them.
I'm a lunch lady in a middle school amd this was cute! We absolutely need more funding. Not just for the food itself but for many of the schools that do not have the equipment needed to make a lot of scratch meals. I wish we got to make more foods from scratch than we do and I am the only building in my district that even does. And its just fresh soups and stuff like homemade pizza. There is also the issue with getting kids to try new things. If this may be your only meal of the day you don't want to risk grabbing something unfamiliar and going hungry. Wr always tell kids to give a new item a try and if the don't like it to bring it back to us and we will let them switch. I have to explain a lot of foods to kids that we make in house like scalloped potatoes at christmas, stuffing, salsbury steak. Heck I had some hot dogs to use last year and made pigs in a blanket with some dinner roll dough I had made and They had never heard of it. They will go for chicken sandwich or bosco sticks over any of that. Kids need to be exposed to variety at home before they will eat it with us. We also need to focus on the younger kids. If you get them to try new things early they will be set for life. Find foods that hold up well for 3 hours or that you can prep and batch cook in less that 15 minutes while serving 800 to 1000 kids with 9 lunch ladies and food dudes and stay in nutrition guidelines and making sure they take all they need is a challenge but it is so worth it!
Considering that you all are devoted to making healthy food that isn't boring (including school lunches), I'd look up Dan Giusti and see if he'd be interested coming on for an episode. His ENTIRE goal over the last few years has been to overhaul the school lunch system so that kids aren't just eating HEALTHY food, but eating ENTERTAINING food.
What a fantastic charity to choose, you guys! Close to home and big impact. As a parent I say thank you. I am lucky enough that we aren't facing food insecurities, but when I read the statistics my heart breaks for my kids classmates.
Josh if you're interested in changing the school lunch system you should look into the organization Brigaid! It would be cool to see you and Dan Giusti (the founder, who also formerly was the head chef at Noma) make some content together
You can really tell when Josh is so used to having a monopoly on esoteric millennial references and feels so out of his depth when faced with younger generations pop culture. Honestly, relatable.
As the Lily Lore deepens, we are reminded that she wasn't "corrupted" by Mythical Kitchen, merely accepted by them. Sex Ed classes in 2nd grade is wild and we love you for that
I'm pretty sure each kid is "allocated" $4 for lunch funding. It might be possible at a larger scale to afford fresh food, but they also have to compete with time. Trying to mass cook health fresh food is very difficult.
"Lobby your politicians to fund the education system, its a nonpartisan issue." Ohhhhh if only it was Josh...and many signs point to the issues getting worse. Im f***ing depressed lol
@sasquatch8600 yeah. That's why it'd be interesting. Compare at scale for both meals (contact local food distributors possibly) and just see what it shakes out at.
Our district here in West Michigan requires lunches to have fresh fruit and vegetables. We have an entire salad bar actually. Also, school lunches(and breakfast )are free for all public school children in Michigan schools. They are pretty good here.
I come from a family of lunch ladies and another thing to consider is you have a handful of people cooking for hundreds of students. Some of the things they serve are just because they need to get food out quickly.
I know this was supposed to be a fun episode that was all about donating to a worthy cause. BUT I think it would’ve been much more fun to see the crew work within real school parameters. 1. The Meals have to abide by federal health standards. 2. You get 3 hours to prep the day before and 3 hours to cook the day of the meal. 3. You have to make 600 meals in that time. 4. You get $1.85 per student for food. Jamie Oliver got his A$$ whooped when he tried this challenge.
So fun (possibly mildly upsetting) fact: people don't all have the same number of bones and 206 is honestly a totally arbitrary choice. Also Antarctica isn't just a frozen ocean, that's the Arctic. Antarctica is a landmass covered in ice (well, some of it would be an archipelago without the ice, but I'm pretty sure it's all continental crust)
Josh, antarctica is absolutely a continent. There's land under all that ice. You're thinking of the artic ocean, where there is a constant ice sheet over the ocean all year around.
I loved my school lunches, especially in high school. I somehow became friends with one of the lunch ladies and every time they served this apple crumble side I told her I loved, she’d always give me 2 helpings of it. She was awesome!
these meals would drain a school's lunch budget for the year in about a month, no offense. there's no plan to 'make school lunches healthier' that doesn't start with fixing the disparity in financing between schools in rich and poor areas, and investing more in public schools
Ive had that corndog lily was talking about, it is so good i love it more than a normal corndog, i also love this other breakfast my school served which was french toast sticks, those were amazing
As a lunch lady at a small town school, I LOVE this video. Some kids dont have the "luxury" (for lack of better words) to eat much at home. All of our students in our district gets free breakfast and lunch everyday. Fresh fruit and veggies daily on our salad bar and the kids are required to take at LEAST a half cup of either. If they are still hungry after that they can go back to the salad bar for as much as they want! We also do a summer program that we cook hot meals for them and they can pick it up for meals when they aren't in school. It's such a rewarding job. And when you get card and letters from the kids expressing how much they love that we cook for them every day it definitely feels like we make a difference! ❤❤
My mom used to be a dietician/head lunch lady for a school system. One of my proudest moments was introducing her to totchos that are now a monthly staple as the main dish.
I also attended private schools, including an all-girl Catholic boarding school in Baltic, Connecticut. Uniforms shift the attention to shoes, watches, and earrings, making the poor girls more obvious.
It was pretty crazy moving to America after growing Korea and experiencing the difference in school lunches. Korean cafeteria are usually set up so kids can get a variety of foods before putting the metal tray back for easy cleaning, but American school lunches always seem to consist of a single item like one sloppy Joe burger or just a bowl of macaroni and cheese. I know there’s lots of factors as to why this is the case but I really hope things can get better for American school children.
That's really odd honestly, I've had lots of problems with American school lunches both as a child of the system and as a parent within that system but I've never encountered what you're describing, and furthermore, and I've never encountered anyone else with that particular problem either. Now I'm not at all implying that you're lying, I believe you fully, it just sounds very strange to me. Usually it's an issue with proportion or ingredient quality, maybe freshness, but I've never heard of a school serving a solo item like that, always with something else. Never something good, mind you.
What school did you go to? I worked in many different korean schools at all levels and that isn't a common thing unless you were one of the rich kids... going to the nice schools. Im so tired of people from other countries taking their best example of something that usually is quite rare and then pretending like it is the norm.
Anybody who hasn’t tried the pancake batter sausage “corn dogs” Lily was talking about, give em a try! Super quick in the microwave and absolutely delicious
School lunch and school breakfast ensured i had some kind of nutrition to get me through my childhood. My mom did her best but it was tough. Im forever thankful for these programs and its why im okay with paying taxes towards it. I hate that any kid would have to pay for lunch at school, it should always be free! And we should have better options! Kids are the future but school funding is grossly missapropriated.
Such a great episode. Funny, informative, entertaining, nostalgic, and so much more. Enjoyed them semi talking about their childhood memories and doing littlechallenges... but truly Drew was the star. He gave an honest opinion and you could see him get more confident on camera as he went on.
Making sure kids have a good meal should be the easiest, least controversial position a person can hold. I heard a thing recently - maybe on this channel even - the per-meal cost actually has to be less than like ~$1.50 based on the funding the program/s have. There's very little meat in that proverbial gym mat.
Actually not sure if Josh and Nicole’s horchata is legal because schools have to make most foodstuffs consumable by people with the major Government-identified food allergens (which includes nuts. Of which coconut is one.)
Entertaining, but schools get like zero funding to make lunch, so they should've really done a low-cost competition too. Even economy of scale doesn't save most schools. Also most of the money goes towards the poor attempt at paying the cafeteria workers a living wage, while being likely scorned by every student in the place.
I'm gonna need y'all to recreate the rectangle pizza from school lunches, please and thank you. Just cheese or those cube pepperoni and cheese. Ive tried a couple recipes found online and none of them are right 😭 I know yall could figure this out PLEASE!
I’m going to need a ep.2. As a home cook with 3 kids, this is the jam! It’s hard to cook every night and make sure to get them dang kids the nutrients they need. It’s hard af. I know most of these hacks, but I would LOVE to get more of these diverse sneak attack dinners for the chittlans. Blessed media y’all put out this day (get that tax break hombres! Y’all deserve it). Let’s eat some good food.
Haven't watched yet, but Im pretty sure you can make either good food, or school cafeteria food, but not both. Edited to add, after watching: Both of those school lunches were nicer than anything we ever got. Except for the corn dish on Josh's, I think Dee's plate sounded better to me. It certainly looked better. But if it didn't taste good, it's no win. This was a very fun episode to watch!
I feel like it's one part you just forget things the longer you are out of school and don't use what you have learned regularly and one part more of a focus for testing well on standardized tests n such
I didn't go to school in Europe but I spent several years in the Australian school system before coming back to the US. Maybe I was just lucky but the public schools I went to in the US were superior in almost every way. I imagine a lot of that came down to the way we fund school districts in the US. I lived in an upper middle class neighborhood so my school received more tax funds than schools in less affluent areas. I do wish public schools in the US had uniforms though.
@@ForgottenNavigator some schools in the US do have uniforms but ultimately that is nothing but a useless extra for schooling. It's an additional cost for no reason so usually only rich schools would have that requirement.
I honestly like how open Drew is to trying all this. I was a picky white kid growing up, so I would just be like “it ain’t pizza, it ain’t for me.” Now I’m a slightly less picky but still white man who would still be like “if it ain’t pizza or anything else with cheese, it ain’t for me.”😅
School lunches are a crazy concept to me. I’m from canada, we never had school lunches, we never had a cafeteria. We often had teachers (not all, but some) keep a stash of ramen noodles, granola bars and fruit cups for the kids who forgot their lunch, or for the kids who were struggling a bit more. For a year or two in middle school we had a program where you could buy a lunch for 5$, and in high school one day a week you could buy a lunch, but both programs only lasted a year or two.
School lunches from when I was in middle/high school consisted of Subway and Taco Bell and other fast food options the only thing made in house was like french fries and tator tots and baked pretzels
"Food is the most important school supply" hit hard. I was on assisted programs as well. The LunchLadys (would sneak food) and friends would help when problems arose. That should never happen.
Maybe I'm the only one but because of Josh I have a habit of adding Fish Sauce to almost everything 😂 My family doesn't know my secret and I plan to keep it that way 😂
I did a year on exchange in Wisconsin for high school. Everyone hated school lunch but to me the concept of hot lunch at school was novel and super cool. Big fave was corn puppies, always got a double on those days.
As a 4th grade teacher, the 9 year old going for the plain apple is so on point. Most of them dislike the more complex flavored meals, though Takis rule the school.
I used to work in a school lunch program. When you only have 5 people cooking for 1500 kids the only way kids can get healthier food is funding. Half those kids didn't even have food at home so we would rather fill them up with carbs than let them go home for the weekend hungry.
I totally get that and we definitely need to put more money into the lunch programs. There should be enough money that there's planning and sourcing done nation-wide. I think lunch should be free for all kids, and good enough that anybody would feel fine with their kids eating a school lunch. I don't think anyone's blaming the current lunch staff, it's just a matter of resources. People need to see it as an investment into the country down the line. Kids grow up healthier, smarter - they use less medical resourced, they'll produce more and innovate more. We won't see results in a few years, but the countries that are outperforming us on a relatively even plane generally have robust school lunch programs.
@@lrom5445 Free things in US? What You are smokin' bro? 😅
Fiber=more filling than carbs
@@blowinsmokeupyourfiber is actually a carbohydrate. Fiber is just broken down by your digestive system instead of breaking down into glucose energy. That’s why you feel fuller when you eat high fiber.
Edit: if that sounds like, passive aggressive that’s not my intent. I just think it’s a cool fact and I like telling people lmao
@@lrom5445 Bro nobody seems to underrstand this. I had an argument about free health care actually lowering the cost due to preventative care and how across the board in countries with free healthcare less Emergency visits meant lower cost of care in many individuals and they just just kept arguing that its absolutely impossible and would never work or would cost more. Like WERE ALREADY FOOTING THE BILL FOR OTHERS. Do you think the person coming in with chronic mental health issues and is living on the street is paying for the medical care they recieve when they go into psychosis? Nope. They get taken to the hospital, Treated for the psychosis and then either released back onto the street or to jail for whatever actions may have occured. Then they run out of medicine and it happens all over again. Costing Police/Ambulance resources. Hospital Resources. Jail resources. When if they had access to free healthcare as long as they follow the program you change that from multiple thousands of dollars to what equates to a 40$ visit and like 20$ in medication and they could possibly become a functioning member of society.
Sorry for the rant its just something im passionate about since programs like free lunch for kids, Free education, and free medicine can vastly improve society. Youll have members of the community who are Well educated, Have their medical needs met without worry, and dont have nutritional deficiency issues its a win win win win for everyone. But its not profitable immediately and apparently thats all that matters..... when you could see the results in in 10ish years.
"The one who plants trees knowing they will never sit in their shade has at least started to understand the meaning of life"
My city gives free breakfast AND lunch to every single child. Absolutely love my taxes paying for it.
SAME! I love MN.
Taxes are paying for it as you have said so how is it free?
@ it’s free to the children.
@@alyssatheexcellent they pay for it now, and when they become taxpayers as the debt burden created in other areas are passed down
@ these are things our tax dollars should go to.
This is incredibly entertaining, oh boy the trivia sections lol! But, I would love for next year them to do this challenge again, but work within the budget of a school. The scale wouldn’t be the same but think of it as a reverse Fancy Fast Food, making the most nutritious thing possible for the least amount of money.
This is an awesome idea. I was a school nurse for years, and the schools that had kitchens did some serious wizardry on a tight budget. The food was available to buy for staff (free for kids) and I often bought it because it was genuinely good, balanced, and healthy on a supply budget of only a couple dollars.
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Yeah a real good showing for the public education system of the united states.
Great idea, but I think the budget would have to be more for the team. Schools most likely buy food in big quantities and at a discount.
Lily being like “GLAZING IS CUMMING ON SOMEONES FACE BUT IM NOT GONNA SAY THAT” is peak mythical kitchen
I love that Drew immediately went for the fresh produce! Says a lot. I don’t remember a lot of fresh fruit in my school cafeteria lunches growing up.
I appreciate you all emphasizing that while healthy, fun foods should be a priority, the only way we can truly make it a priority is to ensure that all of our schools are properly funded. It’s an ideal to say “we should be serving our kids food like this” but it can only go so far when the funding only allows for $1.50 per meal if that, and we have only a few people preparing food for hundreds if not thousands of kids per day.
The elementary schools in my area of Texas charge $1.75 for breakfast. Plate Lunch is $3.50 or $3.75. A two pack of Graham crackers (it’s essentially one full graham cracker broken in half) are considered a viable breakfast option for kids. It’s crazy.
@@shelbymartian I live in South Texas and every school I've gone to gives free school food, its not necessarily healthy, but everyone was given lunch and breakfast as well as an afterschool bagged lunch for those who wanted to take one home with them.
I'm a lunch lady in a middle school amd this was cute! We absolutely need more funding. Not just for the food itself but for many of the schools that do not have the equipment needed to make a lot of scratch meals. I wish we got to make more foods from scratch than we do and I am the only building in my district that even does. And its just fresh soups and stuff like homemade pizza. There is also the issue with getting kids to try new things. If this may be your only meal of the day you don't want to risk grabbing something unfamiliar and going hungry. Wr always tell kids to give a new item a try and if the don't like it to bring it back to us and we will let them switch. I have to explain a lot of foods to kids that we make in house like scalloped potatoes at christmas, stuffing, salsbury steak. Heck I had some hot dogs to use last year and made pigs in a blanket with some dinner roll dough I had made and They had never heard of it. They will go for chicken sandwich or bosco sticks over any of that. Kids need to be exposed to variety at home before they will eat it with us. We also need to focus on the younger kids. If you get them to try new things early they will be set for life. Find foods that hold up well for 3 hours or that you can prep and batch cook in less that 15 minutes while serving 800 to 1000 kids with 9 lunch ladies and food dudes and stay in nutrition guidelines and making sure they take all they need is a challenge but it is so worth it!
I loved my lunch ladies in my middle and high school. They went above and beyond with what they were given. Glad there are still a lot of good ones.
I think at the end Drew just wanted to be left alone to eat both lunches. LOL. Kid was chowing on the fruit and veggies.
Considering that you all are devoted to making healthy food that isn't boring (including school lunches), I'd look up Dan Giusti and see if he'd be interested coming on for an episode. His ENTIRE goal over the last few years has been to overhaul the school lunch system so that kids aren't just eating HEALTHY food, but eating ENTERTAINING food.
Yes! Check out Dan Giusti and Brigaid. He’s doing awesome stuff and would be excellent for a segment like this!
the episode of Brad Leone's "Local Legends" with Dan Giusti is a great vid
He would be great for last meals as well
from everything Josh says about his childhood. He should be an inspiration to any kid out there. What a come up story.
What a fantastic charity to choose, you guys! Close to home and big impact. As a parent I say thank you. I am lucky enough that we aren't facing food insecurities, but when I read the statistics my heart breaks for my kids classmates.
Josh’s tramp stamp was part of a fundraiser for No Kid Hungry! He shaved his head and mustache, too. 🥹
Josh if you're interested in changing the school lunch system you should look into the organization Brigaid! It would be cool to see you and Dan Giusti (the founder, who also formerly was the head chef at Noma) make some content together
Or run for office and change the way the budget is spent!
You can really tell when Josh is so used to having a monopoly on esoteric millennial references and feels so out of his depth when faced with younger generations pop culture. Honestly, relatable.
As the Lily Lore deepens, we are reminded that she wasn't "corrupted" by Mythical Kitchen, merely accepted by them. Sex Ed classes in 2nd grade is wild and we love you for that
I love that Josh said that school funding wasn't a partisan issue, yet it so is where I live. And that's just sad.
Yes Lily, the Blueberry Pancake Sasuage corndog with syrup, use to be my fav Breakfeast item growing up.
To be fair public schools don’t really get the funding for healthy food especially in poorer areas
I'm pretty sure each kid is "allocated" $4 for lunch funding. It might be possible at a larger scale to afford fresh food, but they also have to compete with time. Trying to mass cook health fresh food is very difficult.
"Lobby your politicians to fund the education system, its a nonpartisan issue." Ohhhhh if only it was Josh...and many signs point to the issues getting worse. Im f***ing depressed lol
"is pokémon a hedgehog" is not a sentence I thought I'd ever hear, but I guess here we are
the way vee was like “excuse me?” lmao
Cute outfits on the crew & Vi's nephew, Drew, seems like a sweetheart of a kid!
It'd be interesting to see a per meal cost breakdown compared to an average school meal cost.
For prep time and labor, plus ingredient costs even at scale these school lunches would probably be at least 3 times the cost per meal to produce.
@sasquatch8600 yeah. That's why it'd be interesting.
Compare at scale for both meals (contact local food distributors possibly) and just see what it shakes out at.
Our district here in West Michigan requires lunches to have fresh fruit and vegetables. We have an entire salad bar actually. Also, school lunches(and breakfast )are free for all public school children in Michigan schools. They are pretty good here.
I come from a family of lunch ladies and another thing to consider is you have a handful of people cooking for hundreds of students. Some of the things they serve are just because they need to get food out quickly.
I know this was supposed to be a fun episode that was all about donating to a worthy cause.
BUT
I think it would’ve been much more fun to see the crew work within real school parameters.
1. The Meals have to abide by federal health standards.
2. You get 3 hours to prep the day before and 3 hours to cook the day of the meal.
3. You have to make 600 meals in that time.
4. You get $1.85 per student for food.
Jamie Oliver got his A$$ whooped when he tried this challenge.
It is called, Eurasia. It is one contiguous land mass. Only politics makes anyone call them separate.
So fun (possibly mildly upsetting) fact: people don't all have the same number of bones and 206 is honestly a totally arbitrary choice.
Also Antarctica isn't just a frozen ocean, that's the Arctic. Antarctica is a landmass covered in ice (well, some of it would be an archipelago without the ice, but I'm pretty sure it's all continental crust)
Josh, antarctica is absolutely a continent. There's land under all that ice. You're thinking of the artic ocean, where there is a constant ice sheet over the ocean all year around.
Came to the comments looking for this.
I think Josh knows, it's just Josh being Josh lol
That quiz was painful to watch
Drew is chill. I love his personality 😂😂
I loved my school lunches, especially in high school. I somehow became friends with one of the lunch ladies and every time they served this apple crumble side I told her I loved, she’d always give me 2 helpings of it. She was awesome!
OMG that stuff was so damn good!!!! I'd totally forgotten about it. ❤️
I love when Lily and Vi are on the same team!!❤
love that Josh got the most of the pop quiz answers right while also being very wrong about some things
I was totally expecting Trevor to be and act like a 9yr old judge 😆
Lily being a bully 100% tracks.
“It’s like when you’re a toaster strudel - IM NOT GOING THERE?”
I don't care how healthy it is, you gotta put that school lunch pizza into a rectangle, bro.
these meals would drain a school's lunch budget for the year in about a month, no offense. there's no plan to 'make school lunches healthier' that doesn't start with fixing the disparity in financing between schools in rich and poor areas, and investing more in public schools
Ive had that corndog lily was talking about, it is so good i love it more than a normal corndog, i also love this other breakfast my school served which was french toast sticks, those were amazing
As soon as I heard her describe it I was like "oh, I'ma make that"
I was so hoping they would dell him what the pudding is made out of. Just to see his reaction because it was clearly his favorite of everything.
next time you do this, you should do this inside of the cost constraints that schools have to do.
Great idea
"If you got fruit or veggies or sandwich cut with a squiggly knife someone loved you"
Yeah that tracks, I never got the squiggly stuff
We use one in our kitchen and the kids love the fancy fruits and veggies😂
As a lunch lady at a small town school, I LOVE this video. Some kids dont have the "luxury" (for lack of better words) to eat much at home. All of our students in our district gets free breakfast and lunch everyday. Fresh fruit and veggies daily on our salad bar and the kids are required to take at LEAST a half cup of either. If they are still hungry after that they can go back to the salad bar for as much as they want!
We also do a summer program that we cook hot meals for them and they can pick it up for meals when they aren't in school.
It's such a rewarding job. And when you get card and letters from the kids expressing how much they love that we cook for them every day it definitely feels like we make a difference! ❤❤
"That's how kids become friends on the playground" so true
The hedgehog is absolutely adorable.
My mom used to be a dietician/head lunch lady for a school system. One of my proudest moments was introducing her to totchos that are now a monthly staple as the main dish.
I also attended private schools, including an all-girl Catholic boarding school in Baltic, Connecticut. Uniforms shift the attention to shoes, watches, and earrings, making the poor girls more obvious.
ive never seen josh and lebron james in the same room sooo...
it's sad josh wasn't it this episode, so he couldn't meet lebron but what can you do
It was pretty crazy moving to America after growing Korea and experiencing the difference in school lunches. Korean cafeteria are usually set up so kids can get a variety of foods before putting the metal tray back for easy cleaning, but American school lunches always seem to consist of a single item like one sloppy Joe burger or just a bowl of macaroni and cheese. I know there’s lots of factors as to why this is the case but I really hope things can get better for American school children.
That's really odd honestly, I've had lots of problems with American school lunches both as a child of the system and as a parent within that system but I've never encountered what you're describing, and furthermore, and I've never encountered anyone else with that particular problem either. Now I'm not at all implying that you're lying, I believe you fully, it just sounds very strange to me. Usually it's an issue with proportion or ingredient quality, maybe freshness, but I've never heard of a school serving a solo item like that, always with something else. Never something good, mind you.
What school did you go to? I worked in many different korean schools at all levels and that isn't a common thing unless you were one of the rich kids... going to the nice schools. Im so tired of people from other countries taking their best example of something that usually is quite rare and then pretending like it is the norm.
Anybody who hasn’t tried the pancake batter sausage “corn dogs” Lily was talking about, give em a try! Super quick in the microwave and absolutely delicious
This is my new favorite episode of Mythical Kitchen! Great content. Great cause.
School lunch and school breakfast ensured i had some kind of nutrition to get me through my childhood. My mom did her best but it was tough. Im forever thankful for these programs and its why im okay with paying taxes towards it. I hate that any kid would have to pay for lunch at school, it should always be free! And we should have better options! Kids are the future but school funding is grossly missapropriated.
Such a great episode. Funny, informative, entertaining, nostalgic, and so much more. Enjoyed them semi talking about their childhood memories and doing littlechallenges... but truly Drew was the star. He gave an honest opinion and you could see him get more confident on camera as he went on.
Making sure kids have a good meal should be the easiest, least controversial position a person can hold. I heard a thing recently - maybe on this channel even - the per-meal cost actually has to be less than like ~$1.50 based on the funding the program/s have. There's very little meat in that proverbial gym mat.
The trivia section was a tough watch 😭
Actually not sure if Josh and Nicole’s horchata is legal because schools have to make most foodstuffs consumable by people with the major Government-identified food allergens (which includes nuts. Of which coconut is one.)
Entertaining, but schools get like zero funding to make lunch, so they should've really done a low-cost competition too. Even economy of scale doesn't save most schools. Also most of the money goes towards the poor attempt at paying the cafeteria workers a living wage, while being likely scorned by every student in the place.
Lilly always looks so cute. Especially so in this episode. That fit kills.
That is 133,573.20 in Serbian Dinar.
Drew is so chill, love him as a little judge :)
29:36 is just Josh doing a Jokic impression
Yesssss! Need more of these episodes!! These are my favorite!
"I'm gonna glaze on you...."
Lily's a freak. 😂
16:09 The moment I knew was coming: Josh says something that makes Nicole sad.
Absolutely wonderful of you all. Much love.
Literally the comment I was looking for
the trivia section killed me. josh, that is not pi
5:50 Lily, that is extremely weird. We DEFINITELY would have been friends 🤣
"Carbon Monoxide" killed me 😂
It probably would if you inhaled it
The milk carton glass is dope
MORE OF THIS!!! Haha Josh being a hyped toddler and yet an old grump at the same time is hilarious! And that bff energy of the girls!!
Tomatoes are a fruit so technically pizza is a fruit salad
not having Trevor, the certified child of this channel, in this episode was a missed opportunity
Sorry, does Lily think Pikachu’s name is Pokémon?
Wait, it's not??
I'm gonna need y'all to recreate the rectangle pizza from school lunches, please and thank you.
Just cheese or those cube pepperoni and cheese.
Ive tried a couple recipes found online and none of them are right 😭
I know yall could figure this out PLEASE!
I’m going to need a ep.2. As a home cook with 3 kids, this is the jam! It’s hard to cook every night and make sure to get them dang kids the nutrients they need. It’s hard af. I know most of these hacks, but I would LOVE to get more of these diverse sneak attack dinners for the chittlans. Blessed media y’all put out this day (get that tax break hombres! Y’all deserve it). Let’s eat some good food.
Here in Australia every school you have to bring your own packed lunch. It was always a cheese and Vegemite sandwich 😅
Haven't watched yet, but Im pretty sure you can make either good food, or school cafeteria food, but not both.
Edited to add, after watching:
Both of those school lunches were nicer than anything we ever got.
Except for the corn dish on Josh's, I think Dee's plate sounded better to me. It certainly looked better.
But if it didn't taste good, it's no win.
This was a very fun episode to watch!
I got a kick out of how much the little man just loved the fruit vegetables. He went back for the apples more than he did pudding😊
I remember the advanced culinary class cooking an option for lunch everyday in high-school. Then two generic burger pizza options.
I'm sad Trevor wasn't in this baby talk session
*trevohwuh
As a European listening to them answering quiz questions, I weep for the American education system
Unfortunately, that's not likely to change any time soon.
Asia is also a part of world, the correct for continent would be Eurasia?
I feel like it's one part you just forget things the longer you are out of school and don't use what you have learned regularly and one part more of a focus for testing well on standardized tests n such
I didn't go to school in Europe but I spent several years in the Australian school system before coming back to the US. Maybe I was just lucky but the public schools I went to in the US were superior in almost every way. I imagine a lot of that came down to the way we fund school districts in the US. I lived in an upper middle class neighborhood so my school received more tax funds than schools in less affluent areas.
I do wish public schools in the US had uniforms though.
@@ForgottenNavigator some schools in the US do have uniforms but ultimately that is nothing but a useless extra for schooling. It's an additional cost for no reason so usually only rich schools would have that requirement.
Bingo sheet for this episode:
Michelle Obama
Jonah
Something about Josh's "tasteful" lower back tattoo
I went to a private school and my principal actually measured our shorts and skirts when we wore them to school. War flashback.
I honestly like how open Drew is to trying all this. I was a picky white kid growing up, so I would just be like “it ain’t pizza, it ain’t for me.”
Now I’m a slightly less picky but still white man who would still be like “if it ain’t pizza or anything else with cheese, it ain’t for me.”😅
School lunches are a crazy concept to me. I’m from canada, we never had school lunches, we never had a cafeteria. We often had teachers (not all, but some) keep a stash of ramen noodles, granola bars and fruit cups for the kids who forgot their lunch, or for the kids who were struggling a bit more. For a year or two in middle school we had a program where you could buy a lunch for 5$, and in high school one day a week you could buy a lunch, but both programs only lasted a year or two.
School lunches from when I was in middle/high school consisted of Subway and Taco Bell and other fast food options the only thing made in house was like french fries and tator tots and baked pretzels
"Food is the most important school supply" hit hard. I was on assisted programs as well. The LunchLadys (would sneak food) and friends would help when problems arose. That should never happen.
This was such an awesome episode, and love that the money went to a good cause.
@20:57 Omg, I loved the sausage pancake bites for breakfast, they were so yummyyyyyyyyy 🤤 The breakfast pizza also was one of my top faves
The best lunch was the spicy chicken sandwich still wrapped in the aluminum foil wrapper instead of it just begin in that basket plate thing
The what
@@apeaape spicy chicken meat between bread 🍞 also known as a sandwich 🥪
💯
Maybe I'm the only one but because of Josh I have a habit of adding Fish Sauce to almost everything 😂 My family doesn't know my secret and I plan to keep it that way 😂
I did a year on exchange in Wisconsin for high school. Everyone hated school lunch but to me the concept of hot lunch at school was novel and super cool. Big fave was corn puppies, always got a double on those days.
Lily probably genuinely gave her classmates better sex-ed than the school system was doing.
This should have had Trevor in it because he is closer to that generation.
A packet of catsup is considered a vegetable! An actual serving of vegetables.
Not in the US its not. And a serving of fruit or veggie is 1/2 cup. That would never be true with ketchup.
As a 26 year old, this ( 16:40 ) is how I make friends
Let’s follow all the rules except cost and prep/cook time!
And the salt. I clutched my pearls in lunch lady😂
@21:18 definitely no chorizo in Maine schools.
Can confirm
Same
15:34 he is correct tho it’s Eurasia. It’s connected …
So’s Africa. So it should really be Afroeurasia
Wow, someone got their facts construed because as we all know tomatoes are fruits
As a 4th grade teacher, the 9 year old going for the plain apple is so on point. Most of them dislike the more complex flavored meals, though Takis rule the school.
Using the platform responsibly and lovingly 🖤 love to see it!