Growing up in the 2000's I don't think any of my meals looked like that. I feel like mine were more remenecent of what they showed for like the 60's and 80's. The things I remember most were the square pizza slices, the pb and j crustables, there was always milk that I'd blow into with a straw to get fun bubbles, and the chicken nuggets. Chicken nugget day was undoubtedly the best day for school lunches.
Yes! I was in school in 2000s We had square pizza & chocolate pudding alot! I do remember having grilled chicken sometimes, but not often. I also remembered the chicken fried steak & mashed potatoes bc It was one of my favorites 😂 I don't remember ever having wraps, although I was in early HS in 2010 so maybe it was different since we had a lot of options unlike elementary school. We also had grilled cheese sandwiches & tomato soup which is what. Made me learn I liked tomato soup 😂
I legit just commented the exact same thing and even mentioned most of the same food items without seeing your comment lmfao. Yeah theyre trippin. And if they got an early decade this wrong I wonder what else they got wrong lmfao
@@ChronicallyRollingWithIt Fairly accurate, my memory's kinda foggy but I definitely remember the pizza & chocolate pudding and sometimes there would be some chicken nuggets I think but I'd never get the calzones they would serve occasionally.
Retired lunchlady here. The program I worked for provided several options to students including a homestyle meal prepared daily from scratch. My favorite was homemade vegetable beef soup and grilled cheese sandwhich. We also made homemade yeast rolls daily.
In the 70s and 80s, none of the public schools served coca-cola or any other carbonated drinks. You had a choice between white or chocolate milk. They also included apple or orange juice during breakfast. Also, cheese pizza with fries or tater-tots were a daily option, the other main dishes were offered on specific days.
yeah, we didn't have any soda, it was milk, choc, van, or 2%, and optional fruit juice, apple or orange. Some of my favorites was the pizza, square, with a meat sauce and cheese: Chili and cornbread; porcupine balls, a meatball with a generous amount of rice, so it looked like a porcupine: spaghetti; turkey dinner. Overall the only lunch that I did not like was the tuna boat, a tuna hoagie that fished up the lunch wing of the school. They did have options, one being a 3D, it was a triple decker cold cut sandwich which you could get instead of the main meal. This was late 70's, early 80's.
In the 80s-early 90s I remember something similar. I never liked the square pizza everyone else liked and the side dish was almost always tater tots, sometimes swapped with soggy crinkle fries or fake mashed potatoes with fluorescent gravy. The drink was always white or chocolate milk. By high school there were vending machines with soda but that wasn’t included in the school lunch, it was extra.
Fun fact: 2:37 the reason why it’s not peanut butter and jelly sandwiches it’s because jelly was more expensive than peanut butter so they only use peanut butter because it’s more cheaper
In Singapore throughout my school years from the 2000s to 2010s, our cafeteria just has a bunch of mini stalls with different cuisines. We had the choice of chinese, indian, malay, western food. A drink stall, pasty stall, noodle stall. The prices usually ranges from $1.50 to $4 for a meal.
I went to school throughout the 2010s and tbh, what you got is michelin star worthy compared to what we got. Everything had been frozen, burgers warmed with water (not sous vide, just straight in the water) with fake grill marks, chicken patties with cartilage in it and some red spots, burnt pizza with soggy crust and probably more oregano than sauce, soggy fried chicken wing with a flat side, half decent nuggets and oddly good mac and cheese (very rare tho). The worst of it was that my school *constantly* tried to convince us the food was good. They had "ads" for their food depicting people being so lucky to have "such good food". No one was buying it. I'm so glad to be out of high school.
Same lol. But this was a thing in my H.S. prior to 2010. Most of the processed stuff was crap. Like the baked chicken nuggets, mozzarella sticks or "chicken teriyaki" 🤮. Stuff basically had little to no flavor. But at least the quesadillas were decent, or the cold food. In some cases my parents got me outside lunch. Usually a chicken parmesan or meatball hero. Eventually I started buying my own food in my later H.S. days. And started opting for rotisserie chicken from the Deli. Or pizza and pinwheels from the pizzeria. The pizza at my school was the WORST, especially the pizza sticks..... Think of pizza pockets but 10 times worst.... It was literally dough rolled over mozz cheese, AND IT WASN'T EVEN BAKED bro.... it was warmed / pale crap 😡🤬
Im in school right now and gotta be honest drinking the milk feels like a chore. Id rather drink water but they don't give you water. They also give us this thing called cheesy pull aparts, i wouldn't call it food really.
I lived through the 2010s. In 2010 I was in 1st grade iirc, and the food was delicious. The Chicken sandwiches that they were(note 'were') serving at my elementary school's cafeteria was superb, arguably better tasting than the fastfood equivalent of a chicken sandwich. Same went with chicken nuggets, pizza, and a whole bunch of other stuff at the time. Water was served, pretty good chocolate milk was served, as well as juice. It was until when I got into 2nd, half-way into the grade level, when the food just nose dived in the quality of taste imo. It just tasted awful for me and I just ended up skipping lunch for the rest of the time I was in elementary. It really pissed me off honestly. Whole wheat was being used rather than other better tasting bread, the pizza just tasted awful thanks to the change in how the cheese was made and the bread used (seriously? Whole wheat as pizza bread?), and hell, I don't even know what they did to the chicken, I think they switched to brown meat. The chocolate milk wasn't even safe at all from the changes, it also went from good to bad tasting for whatever reason. Bs after more bs basically. After leaving elementary for middle school, I finally got hands on decent good food, which, surprisingly, was pizza hut because they served it at my school luckily enough. This was short lived though, like 3 months, since I had to move schools because I was moving to a new home. If I still managed to stay in my old hometown, I would've went to the HS it had, which amazingly I got a tour of. They didn't just serve pizza Hut, but they had a literal fast food chain restaurant inside where the indoor basketball courts were. Flipping amazing honestly. But unfortunately, like I said before, I moved schools, and imo it was way worst than my old one. Not just in food served, but also just the quality of learning and engagement there.
@@Liezaac That sounds awful. At my son's school, the kids only get water and sugar free ice tea. When I was a kid we had a choice of milk that tasted like cardboard, cocoa that tasted like sweetened cardboard and vanilla milk that tasted like sweetened vomit.
Raised in Alabama in the late 40's and early 50's we had wonderful lunches. Fried chicken , okra ,and potatoes . Ham and sweet potatoes everything was really good! I am sure there were some things we didn't care for but overall it was great . This was Elementary school.
I was in school from the early 90s to the early 2000s. We never got anything from McDonald's lol. The fruit cocktail is accurate. And we also were served something different every day in grade school. And in high school we just went in line and you could buy whatever you wanted. French fries, pizza lasagna, cheeseburger, a cookie, etc.
I was in elementary in the 90s. Our school did 'burger' day maybe twice a year. It was from McDonald's. Our parents had to pay for it though and if they didn't you'd have your sad PB&J jealously watching the others
@@justjeni83 that is interesting. I'm from the Midwest (northern Illinois). Lunch was provided at every single school I attended. And I moved quite a bit as a kid. It's always fun hearing what others had growing up. As a kid, you think it's the same everywhere. 🤙
I graduated in 1984 and we had awesome food. Junior high and high school the one meal nobody missed was hamburger gravy over mashed potatoes, usually served with a roll green beans or corn and some kind of dessert; and of course white or chocolate milk. I was never offered pop.
As an immigrant kid from Taiwan in the 1970's, it was a shock going from delicious nutritous bento boxes to cold pizza slices, jello, a bite of mushy salad. I always chose chocolate milk for the only solace I had.
ikr, like there aint no way people had salad in the 1960s as part of there school lunch, most schools still don't have that today ( in North America ).
The school lunches at my school district were actually insanely good, some more than others, but I overall liked it all. Trust me, I know what good food is too, and I still actually liked the school lunches.
@@xa-xii9338 yeah. IIRC, the district I was in was one of the higher ranked districts in the state, somewhere in the top 50 I think. Most are probably just average or not good though, unfortunately. :(
Remember the triangle popsicle thing in paper from the 90s? Late 2000s were rough: pizza, artificial slushies, and cookies (that's it- every day) but later on, we got cobb and chef salads with side apples and extracurricular things after school had pizza
After watching this, I have come to sincerely appreciate the school lunch system in Japan. Our country regards it as an essential part of our educational nutrition programs. The interesting fact is that it all started under the direction of Douglas MacArthur from the USA.
The food shown here is way better than what is actually served! In the 2010s we did not get fresh food at all. It was all processed and tasted very bad.
The US school system was originally planned around farming, hunting, and logging. They were some of the biggest industries on our soil, all that physical work was done outside mostly in the summer and generated it's own food product. It's why we have summers off. Then we switched to a service economy and schools didn't, it means families mostly used to feed their kids, and now factories do.
So you can also pack your lunch and eating healthy is a choice. It doesn't matter what is fed to you none of that matters if you don't eat it. Like for example, fast food. I might eat it once or twice a month. If I push it 3 times. I eat at home. I cook at home, it's better for you. Another thing people tend to forget is even if you eat healthy, you need to exercise, not everybody does that. Lifting weights is a great way to exercise.
I grew up in a small town in South Louisiana in the ‘60s and ‘70s and in those days, the ladies cooked like they did at home. There were a ton of great cooks in our town and we grew up eating a lot of really great food. We had spaghetti and meat sauce, hot dogs with homemade chili, steak and rice & gravy, sausage and potatoes, shepherd’s pie, rice dressing, cornbread dressing, ham, shrimp etouffee, fried chicken, shrimp creole, etc. Of course, all of these dishes were always served with some kind of vegetable, milk, and the best cobblers, cakes, and homemade rolls you ever ate in your life. Were we fat? Most of is weren’t because we PLAYED outside and rode our bikes everywhere. I’m a teacher now and what kids are fed today is a travesty.
Hello, Im An Italian Student (Middle 7th) I would Like to specific our school launches are based On Other things, Pizza Hamburgers (meat only) etc.. I would like to state This is the most strict education in Europe And Most students here Rebel against the Other Teachers (A teacher cried about it).
@@Lucia_camposim Italian too an I remind 2010 elementary school meal to be like only vegetable and spaghetti EVERY DAY. It was boring af that I really just started to take food from home and it was gooder an coasted less. I would have payed the triple only to have the toast with cheese
Sugary drinks and fried food is banned in the schools in my country, we got chicken and rice wraps, salads, sandwiches, soup, rice with curry sauce or gravy, baked potato , lasagne.... no chips or fries etc, only fruit and low sugar cereal bars.
I'm from turkey creek Louisiana and I know what you mean we had gumbo in the winter but pork and sausage gravy and jambalaya a lot too we had good lunches.
We had all sorts of lunches in my high school during the 80’s. I grew up in Chicago. We had about 4200 kids in my school some from different backgrounds so we had to provide. It was so cool four lunchrooms with three different seatings. It was fun to have anything from curry to hamburgers to gyros and salads. You name it we had it.
I graduated in 2012 and my school had such a huge selection to pick from. We had a build your own salad or wrap station, jumbo pretzels or Bosco sticks or snack stuff , chicken tenders and fries, pizza and then a line that changed daily. Chicken bowl was everyone’s favorite. $20 lasted me 2 weeks and we had milk, water, Izzy drink or flavored water.
I feel like the main problem with the food at my school is that it's never seasoned, so the food is always just very bland. As for fried foods, the food still isn't seasoned and never fried long enough so it's always soggy.
here in europe where i am its very normal. france was amazing, and I currently like in the Netherlands and well yeah I don't understand why America doesn't put more money into actually caring for their students @@MarzFromMars
I went to a small rural primary school in Ireland in the mid 1980's. About 50-60 pupils. Our cook made absolutely everything fresh and from scratch. It was honestly top-level
So lucky bro my average school lunch is 99% rice with a disgusting stew/soup Btw 1% was shawarma,chicken shawarma,fries(not crispy but not soggy) and finally the best one FRIED CHICKEN. And yes the 1% is all in sandwich
My mom was a lunch lady in the 80's and manager of school lunch in the 90's through the early 2000's. In the 80's they made almost everything from scratch. I remember chili and donut day(yum), watery spaghetti and watery hotdogs (yuck), rolls were freshly made, and no soda in sight. The 90's I was in middle school and high school and the options went from salad bar, pizza, and sandwiches in middle school to the same plus commercial restaurants like Chick-fil-A and Pizza Hut and vending machines in High school. Also more pre-made processed foods into the 90's and 2000's.
I was taught a few cooking recipes by my paternal grandmother. In regards to your chipped beef, she said you soak it in hot water up to 5 to 10 times to get most of the salt out before you make the dish.
The chipped beef was usually soaked over night and drained, put in with garlic sauce, cream, shredded thin on toast. That was actually a decent breakfast. Sometimes, we added mushrooms, zucchini, lemon juice.
I've never had it with garlic sauce or any additional ingredients. I love the stuff. There are different brands of beef that are less salty. I'm surprised anyone their age is just now trying this and they're the first people I've ever heard say they don't like chipped beef and gravy.
@@Mark-op7ztGoing off of the fact that they were also shocked about tomatoes being eaten by themselves, it's safe to assume they haven't got the best taste.
As a person coming from post-soviet space, our school lunch has always been nutritional. My son now gets a first course (soup with meatballs, borscht, chicken soup etc), a second course of some meat/chicken and a side dish (usually some kind of grain, potatoes or pasta), a salad and a drink (tea or compote) for one dollar. My school meals 20 years ago were similar in composition, just a lot cheaper))))
Im in a U.S. highschool and the food is... well food, I'll eat it and somewhat enjoy it but it's almost the exact same thing every day, luckily they started giving us fresh cut kiwis which taste really good, but most of the time it's best to eat at home or skip the food itself.
@@dimplesskits5575 It's great that your schools have started to include some healthy stuff, like kiwis)) I guess, this is the difference in general mentality. In my country we tend to homecook a lot, and eating out or ordering food for us is more of an adventure than a meal. We can order pizza or some sort of takeouts once or twice a month, but compared to a full size homecooked meal it's not too healthy, so we don't do it too often)) Besides, it's traditional for us to eat a lot of soups, we have some sort of soup every day during lunch. So the school lunches resemble the general attitude, I guess.
Here in Australia, we didn't have school lunches or school dinners, but a Tuck Shop (Canteen), where you could get your Mum or Dad to write on a brown paper bag what you wanted from a range of items on a menu from pizza, to sausage rolls, to pies, to chips etc, and attach some coins to the bag, to which it would be sent to the Tuck Shop and at Morning Tea or Lunch, your bag would be returned filled with what your parent ordered for you.
aaah im now in my last years of secondary college but i remember this so well from my primary days! it's much different now. now the kids can just bring money to the canteen, whereas back when i was just starting primary school we had the orders sent about a 20ish minute drive from our school and back because we didnt have a canteen. Then i moved closer inwards and we had canteen at that school, so the orders were just sent a 2 minute walk away.
So I remember going to school in the 90s/2000s. Our lunch programs had options. You could get a cold lunch or a hot lunch. Cold lunch was usually some sort of sandwich, fruit, juice, and milk. Hot lunch was usually some sort of chicken, fruit, juice, and milk. Fridays we had pizza. High school we had the same thing though you could pick your sandwich and we also got fries. For someone like me who was really poor that lunch was the only thing you ate all day. To this day, because of that, I still only eat like once a day.
Honestly, I love dried beef. And when you make the gravy right, I think its awesome. My dad said in Vietnam they called it Sh** on a shingle. And I am from the 80s but never had any kind of soda in school. Always milk.
was in elementary in the 2000's, my schools always had food that looked more like the 90's just without the fast food. It was always a sad grey mystery meat and a fruit cup. The free lunches were usually just some milk and either a cheese sandwich or a plain piece of bread.
I went to a private school in Madrid for a few years, and lunch was always a treat. You could either get a hot lunch tray, in which the food was always fresh, or you could go get a sandwich they made themselves, and Fridays always had french fries. They also had a vending machine so you could get your own drink.
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School cafeterias always intrigued me with their stories. I grew up in Canada in the early 2000s, we only had a cafeteria at my highschool and only ate from there time to time as a treat cos it was expensive as hell for such a small portion. It was more the norm to bring a lunch bag either you or your parents packed for you. We did have special days throughout the month where you can have your parents sign you up for pizza day, sub day, ice cream day… or a specialty program called kids kitchen where your parents could prepick the food you would get and they would come delivered to the school in brown baggies with your name and student number every wednesday. The meatloaf was the best
I was in elementary school in the early and mid 2000s. Our lunches consisted of a combination of 60's and 80's lunches. We often had square-shaped pizza and chicken nuggets. Every day, we had milk cartons. Everyone always picked chocolate milk and I've never been able to find the tiny chocolate milk cartons nowadays. Maybe they're only visible to kids 😅
Some schools have cut 2% and chocolate milk. But also branding ahs changed. Most milk just has a barely seeable colored stripe now showing what flavor. Sometimes chocolate is brown, sometimes it is purple. I don't get it.
I currently work in a school cafeteria and the little milk cartons are still there (I'm literally the one that gets them in the totes to be served. So. Many. Cartons. Over 300 A DAY.)
The way you plate everything is absolutely outstanding. It’s so cool like looking back and thinking wow people actually ate this. It’s kind of cool and the 1910s look pretty delicious I’ll really eat anything I’m willing to try anything
Missing some of the classics for the 90s: you had the 'turkey dinner' lunch which was usually reheated from frozen pre-sliced turkey almagamation served with instant mashed potatoes, instant gravy, frozen vegetables maybe a roll with butter pat and cranberry sauce. We also had "chinese" style lunch, which consisted of wet instant rice, cold chicken nuggets with expired sweet and sour sauce served with 1/2 of a microwaved egg roll and a bag of baby carrots. Then we had "pasta" which was either overcooked spagetti noodles with plain tomato sauce and way too much oregano or "butter noodles" made with margarine or flavored oil and a sprinkling of freeze dried parm all served with a slice of burnt cheesy bread and fruit cocktail. Came out to 3 bucks a meal and if you didn't have the money, your only option was the 'sad station' which was making your own Peanut butter sandwich with old and sometimes moldy bread and a dixie cup of water from the fountain. Wonderful stuff 😢
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I went to high school in the 2010s and the wrap you showed is honestly way better than what we actually got. Lots of questionable food standards, and pizza sauce became a vegetable. They wound up cutting meals to such a degree where everyone just brought in a ton of junk food.
@@colechurch6785 Worse, my school had a culinary arts class that helped with the lunches in a full kitchen downstairs. The school decided we didn't need scratch cooking anymore.
Seeing all these lunches are cool. Especially when you see stuff like a burger, grilled cheese, peanut butter sandwiches, soup and veggies. I was in school from the mid 2000s all the way until my graduation of HS in 2022. School lunch was super lame in my time. And when there was good food like hotdogs, popcorn chicken and mozzarella sticks? They're super rare or only happen once or twice and that's it for the rest of the year.
I went to elementary school up in Alaska in the 2010’s and I can say for sure none of our school lunches were ever made fresh. They were all pre-packaged reheated meals/tray, a cold tray of veggies and a small carton of milk. And they were pretty expensive too, like $5 a pop. It wasn’t until high school did I ever encounter fresh meals
I’m from Florida and had the same experience! It got to the point where my mom just started packing me salads (until I got to 5th in which I started packing my own) and I always liked that a good bit more because I would grill chicken and toss it in the salad
As a high schooler myself I can say that school lunches are just not worth it they taste terrible and the food is mostly prepackaged or reheated and the salad bar is ok not great but ok and the “fresh sandwich’s” there are fresh on Monday the rest of the week they are used from Monday. And depending on the state some have made school lunch free as of 2020.
2000’s had the best food (in this video) imo. The grilled chicken looks great, and I don’t know about you people, but the fruits and vegetables are the best part.
I went to a three room schoolhouse in 1976. my mother packed a lunch for me everyday. Usually, a sandwich, soup, and a can of pudding. I still have good feelings about the effort and love she put in my lunches despite having to work a hard labor job AND take care of me.
Your mom is good one. First year I used to be studying in school where even wasn’t a kitchen. So, my mom had to coming to me and fed by home food. Don’t ask me why she wasn’t giving me lunch before school 😂 but anyway, I appreciate that
To me what was shown for the 2010s is a very small scope. Coming out of high school recently I can say that what we got was almost always processed, frozen, breaded, came out of can, in some form of all of that combined and there was the good ol plastic cheese. There was always a wrap or something "healthy" but no one ever got it. For a drink I wish I had water everyday, we were forced to get a carton of milk everyday I would've had to pay an extra 1.50 to get that bottle of water.
I was in high school late 90’s into the early 2000”s. My school was trade oriented and we actually had our commercial cooking and baking classes make the lunches. It was always something different, and they even did catering orders in the afternoon classes.
When I was in high school in the mid 80’s the food was really good. Everyday there was pizza but you could get on any given day you could get turkey and dressing, meatloaf, spaghetti with meat sauce, fried chicken , mashed potatoes. Everything was homemade and the cost was about 4.00
Every time I see a video similar to this, it makes me realize how healthy my school was and this is coming from a 90s kid. We never had McDonalds and desserts were maybe twice a month. There was always fruits and veggies and we were expected to eat them, unless there were allergies. Also HIgh School in the 2000's were not as boring at least.
Where I'm from 1990, 2000, and 2010 couldn't be farther from the truth... We always had multiple lines from elementary all the way up to high school. There was a sandwich line with multiple options like a burger or a chicken sandwich, a pizza line, and a main line that had something different everyday.
Same. My school had a choice of the daily entree, pizza (the most popular choice), burgers and chicken sandwiches (your choice of grilled, breaded or spicy on either a wheat or a white bun). Then you'd move on to the sides which were usually some type of fried potato. For some reason, the only drink my school offered for free at lunch time was milk, which really pissed me off as someone with a dairy allergy. I almost never had a drink with my meal because I didn't have money and you had to pay for water bottles. You weren't allowed to bring your own bottles in, either.
@@amandanapoli5425 It really wasn't. It's in one of the more economically disadvantaged cities in my entire state and the students who go there are considered the most unintelligent in the entire county. But hey, at least the football team is good.
@@Samevi no I stand behind what I say for the simple fact of the nicer schools where I live had everything that you just typed in this paragraph and the schools that I went to gave a slop so you definitely went to a rich School
I went to school in the 1960s in Florida, and our school lunches were 25 cents. and the milk came in little cartons. Also, the pizza was a slice of bread with tomato sauce and cheese. In addition, we got a dessert every day. There was also a starch, some form of meat, and vegetables. We hardly ever got salad. We never got coke.
Awesome! That's a blessing! I'm glad I was picky and conscious of my health back in school. It's a shame how unhealthy school lunches are in America, but it'll still be "the best country in the world" to Americans regardless.
I grew up in the UK and didn't attend a fancy school but always enjoyed my school dinner in the 1980s. We were all pre allocated a square table which we'd share with about 5 or 6 other people, each of us would walk up the kitchen counter and collect a pot which I'll explain more about in a moment, we'd bring that back to the table and return for a plate. An example meal might be this. After collecting the big crock pots we'd get a plate each that would have mince beef and onion pie. We'd take it in turns to be the 'dinner monitor' and that was performed on a rota basis to ensure each person had a chance. the dinner monitor would take the lids off the crock pots and each would contain different steam vegetables, such as potato or mashed potatoes, cabbage, peas, carrot, gravy and so on. They would then serve each person on the table from the pots and ensure everyone had an equal amount. It was cheap because everything was batched cooked but also very tasty and nutritious. For some kids growing up in the 80s this might have been the only meal they had that day. It was also all served on real crockery with metal knives and forks and we had to give thanks to each other before eating. Afterwards we'd collect up the dishes and pots and return them to the kitchen counter where we'd exchange them for desert. This would often be a milk shake (tiny glasses which hold about 7oz) and something like a cornflake tart (cornflakes on jelly - jam in the UK, and pastry with custard) or my favourite, a caramel tart. Jugs of water were provided on each table and the dinner monitor would pour everyone a drink when they wanted one. Now of course it's nothing like that. Kids are served food on plastic trays from a hatch and it's mostly pizza, nuggets and soggy fries. Such a shame really we went down the so called convenience route. we were never hungry but now with their high carb/sugar replacement everyone is getting fat and staying hungry.
As someone who went to school 07-20, I’ve never had a wrap, yogurt and a bottle of water. It was always the spicy chicken sandwich (desert dry) with crinkle fries, fruit cocktail or pears and choc milk
It’s actually quite insane to see how different American school lunches are from what I’m used to here in Portugal! Here it’s almost unthinkable to serve students hamburgers and French fries 😅 (although I’m sure sometimes the students would prefer it). What I noticed is that in America lunch is seen as a lighter meal (correct me if I’m wrong), dinner being maybe the main meal of the day. Here in Portugal lunch is as important as dinner in terms of servings, so usually school lunches always include a full course meal with soup, rice/ potatoes or pasta with some kind of fish or meat, salad and desert (which is usually some type of gelatin, puddin and always with the option of fruit). You can also have bread but it’s usually optional and used to eat with the soup.
Fun video ! This is my experience in the late 80s: We had a lot of grilled cheese & tomato soup and something called “ Apple crisp “ quite a lot in school . The little milk carton was always prevalent !
When I studied at a private school in Brazil, they has the best lunches. Cooked meals every day( meats, rice, etc), almost buffet style. I had a big culture shock when I moved to the states and went to public school. All foods were frozen and heated up. And during those years, I brought my lunch, and sometimes ate the school food
I was school in the 2010s (2016 grad baby!) and honestly that wrap would have been way better than what my school served lol. Also the food was always, ALWAYS cold
Pretty accurate for the 2000s. I'm a 90s baby so the carrot was accurate. We still had pizza as well. There was also the frozen popsicle pyramid minute maid thing 😂
Do they Not realize that people back in the 80s and 90s and the early 2000s made the lunch from scratch it wasn't just ordered off a food truck and you get it they actually ordered this stuff and made it themselves to wear the people in the video are just dumping food on the food tray from the can
Pizza first became popular in the 60’s. My grandpa opened a pizza restaurant in our city after buying a recipe from an Italian pizza owner in the Twin Cities. It became one of the longest running restaurants in our city. He sold it to his partner about ten years after opening it. It’s changed hands several times, but is still just as loved as a day one.
for the cream chipped beef being to salty, label on the dried beef says to rinse before use in recipes. this rehydrates it and decreases the salt amount.
My school in the 2010's served HIGHLY processed burgers and chicken, with cheese that tasted like plastic on burgers and more, aswell as pizza that tasted like cardboard. This is with fries that were soggier than the ocean, with all of the veggies/fruits that they'd serve tasting mediocre at best (they were DEFINITELY not fresh by a long shot).
i remember my school and high school giving free breakfast for everyone that wanted it, they also were giving lunch but you had to register for it, all of that free. i used to get breakfast and it was almost always milk with a sandwich with something, like scrambled egg, jam, cheese and etc, or sometimes they give cereal with milk which was cold as hell, always nice to have that food even when it wasnt always the best.
I was a Midwest/Appalachian kid in the 90s and 00s - I don't think we ever got McDonalds or any fast food for lunch. There would be special pizza days around holiday breaks and at the end of the year but for regular lunches while the fruit cocktail is still on point, everything else was different in Ohio. The mains would usually be super processed and usually from frozen - Salisbury steak, meatloaf, sloppy joes, slice of pizza (it was made to perfectly fit the size of the big rectangle compartment of our lunch trays, lol), hot dog or corn dog, or chicken patty sandwich. Sides would be corn, green beans, or mixed veg (which were frozen so they always tasted like cardboard to me) or what I actually did love - mashed potatoes or parsley potatoes. the sweet side would be fruit cocktail or a solo fruit of some sort, pudding or jello. We'd typically get some sort of bread, usually a small roll, biscuit, or just some simple bread n butter. And we didn't have sodas in schools until the mid 00s, and only in vending machines - so the drink provided with lunch was milk, chocolate milk, some sort of juice, or water. I graduated in 2007 - and where I'm from, even then they were still giving us super processed, flavorless foods that sat at the middle of the health scale, not particularly healthy for growing minds and bodies, but not the absolute worst either.
I worked in southern Ohio some years ago, not being from there, and they had an employee cafeteria in the place I worked at and had peanut butter sandwiches like they showed in the video, but served it with really thin soupy chili. Always together. I thought that was the oddest thing, but was told that was something common in school lunches in that southern Ohio/Northern WV area. As odd as it sounds, it actually goes well together.
I'm from Taiwan, and in Taiwan we usually have a catering company contract with the schools to deliver our lunches to each school every day. and we had a lot of lunch every time! (since so many of them had classes late into the night). We usually have a 3 course meal,rice, a meat dish, fruit and soup. It's about 1-2 dollars a meal (less than 1 dollar in some places in the countryside). When I was a kid, all I wanted for lunch was a hamburger and fries, but the school thought those were unhealthy, so we basically didn't have those（I was worried that American students wouldn't be able to eat enough for lunch🤣
Keep in mind, the quality and effort put into making specifically these lunches in the video, is going to be 100% better than what was actually served / prepared at the time.
@@jeffschmelzer1592 because this is made by, who I'm assuming is an actual chef, and it's only made for one person with modern ingredients. When things are mass produced the quality goes down and there is little care put into the product. I'm sure the facilities then were not as well put together, the workers probably didn't care too much as long as the food was made, and the ingredients were of lesser quality.
I loved my highschool lunches. I'd get the main course for the day, salad, two sides, and a drink. They also had pizza as an option every day but I had that maybe three times my four years there.
for us in chile our cafeteria is small since we usually being our own lunch, but the cafeteria ladies here always give us really nice meals! we have some protein like roasted chicken, chicken friend steak or milanesas or beef strips with either rice or potatoes! then some other days we would have pasta for lunch like spaghetti, spirals, bowties or even god blessed lasaña with bolognese or alfredo sauce, other days we can have beef stew or lentils, and as a side it can very, there are fruits like apples or bananas, a bowl of jello or yogurt of wherever flavour they had, a salad cup with the option of salt, oil and lemon juice, and on certain days with heat there would be popsicles, and lastly a juice cup with wherever flavour was available that day, it was quite nice and liked it and still do!
7:04 My school actually served little circular pan pizzas sometimes, and also served pepperoni, which they could get away with because they would put a pork warning above it on a sign.
As a public highschooler our school lunches are pretty decent and free! I take food from home but whenever I do need to get lunch, there are options for those with dietary restrictions and the food’s pretty healthy depending on what you get. You can also buy additional snacks if you want. (Soda, goldfish, ice cream) We have the options of pizza - cheese, bacon, or garlic. As a vegetarian the cheese pizza is something that I always rely on. We have many salad options: these will be packaged and complete salads with protein, vegetables, and a small packet of dressing. We have tortilla wraps which I’ve heard are pretty good. Then of course the other regular stuff like chicken sandwiches. We also have the option of a yogurt parfait… just in case you’ve got a small appetite. Unfortunately the meat options are not Halal which is weird since there is a huge Muslim population in our school, enough for us to have a day of Eid off. That’s probably my only quip, along with there not really having a lot of vegetarian options since I and my Muslim friends rely on that. (There isn’t even a vegetarian salad!) It’s a step up from elementary for sure! Elementary sucked.
@@Xiaolingchan Haha thank you! Elementary was literal health hazard but ig the high school is good because it’s the only high school in the district! (And more student representation)
Milk was really important at my school, lunch or not. I vaguely remember every week or so they brought a crate of mini milk cartons we were encouraged to drink for our growth. I always looked forward to mine.
Yes, I was surprised at the Powerade and water options shown in some of these later decades. The "Got Milk?" campaign began in 1993 and we also chose between chocolate or white milk (sometimes strawberry). We never got McDonald's or Powerade.
In my old elementary school, the most common meal was the chicken sandwich, apple slices, carrots, chocolate milk, and them ICONIC SMILEY FRIES!! I get memories of the apples and the carrots tasting like literal plastic because they were served in bags. the sandwich was in the styrofoam box so it got soggy with condensation. I would always love the smiley fries the most, they were kinda half cooked but it was fun to dip them in ketchup and pretend he was bleeding 😅 The milk would always be expired by a week or two and one time it tasted like mold and it had chunks-😭 Ay, it may have been bad but it sure gives me great flashbacks :)
My kids get school lunches in UK now and they are basically like proper home meals, very healthy. Governments should be ahead of minding next generations' eating habits and BMI.
I'm so glad I liked to cook even as a kid. I still brought my own meals from home even in the 90's. I was allowed to use the crockpot to make soups, casserole, BBQ chicken at night to bring to school the next day.
I grew up in California. I graduated in 1979. The 1970's lunch you show looks nothing like I remember. 1. Never got soda. Only white milk. But our meals were delicious. Oven cooked spaghetti was my favorite. Salads, and real good apple crisp. Sometimes there would be mashed potatoes with hamburger gravy on top or mashed potatoes with turkey and gravy on top. Always with vegetables and some type of fruit. And yes the pizza was real good too. Although I must say I don't remember what era had the chipped beef or the chipped creamed beef but that was something I never had in school but my mom did cook it at home and we loved it.
right. I graduated in 1978. We never had pizza, rather we had things like baked chicken on the bone, meatloaf, baked codfish, real mashed potatoes, oven-cooked spaghetti, chili con carne, and other homemade foods.
the depression had the chipped beef.My mother,when she was a child, used to walk home every afternoon for her mother to make her lunch ,then walk back to school.She lived several blocks from the school.
My time in school was the 70s/80s, but our lunches looked more like the 60s. I can't remember eating burgers and we never were allowed soft drinks like Coke. We could have water, milk or maybe juice. We ate a lot of pizza, fish sticks, mac & cheese and liver. (I think that I was the only one who actually ate the liver.) lol
Bro I ain't never had McDonald's in school growing up in the 90s. Definitely got the fruit cup right, except we always had milk or chocolate milk to drink.
I was in elementary school in the 60's and our school lunches cost 35 cents and the pizza was fantastic. It was like a deep dish with pizza sauce, ground beef, and American cheese. We also had other really delicious meals like oven fried chicken, or pork chops with gravy and mashed potatoes. And of course, milk and dessert. Todays school lunches don't even rate close to what we had. We sometimes brought our own, or were allowed to go home for lunch.
I went to school in Texas in a very wealthy district. Often times we got good quality food yet not always healthy. We didn't just get taco Tuesday. We got enchiladas on that same week. Of course we had frozen pizza as well as "home made pizza." Yeah that's what they called it. Most days we had so much food I couldn't even eat it all.
For me, the 90’s and 20’s were nuggets and stuff, once you got to 2003 to 2010, it was all about choice meaning you could grab that burger and fries or go for the school lunch as the kitchen provided both, any processed stuff was brand name rice krispy treats, brownie mix type cookies and cakes and cokes and what not from vending machines if you didn’t want the milk or apple juice
I vividly remember having Domino's Pizza on Tuesdays and on Friday there was Ellio's pizza's. The meals were always a hit or miss tbh. Also I'm shocked you guys didn't do the classic milk cartons
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I was born in 2002 so I started school in 2008. So back then we had healthy food. Thank God the 1990s didn’t take over the 2000s. Because even though I love McDonald’s. I remembered that my teacher said it’s so unhealthy. That’s why we had to change the lunch menu. And I remembered I just hated that.
I went to school in the 90s. We weren't getting mcdonalds unless your parents brought it school during your lunch, or checking you out for lunch. This video is extremely inaccurate.
4:14 Honestly, my grandma made this for me pretty frequently! We called it cream dried beef, and we'd put it on flakey Pillsbury grands biscuits, along with adding her own spin with seasonings, along with other things and balancing out the amount of salt in it. I LOVED it! Haven't had it in a few years, but I'd definitely eat it even now, at 30 years old. 😂 Sadly, shes not doing so well and in a nursing home now. Also, meatloaf SLAPS! And, always will!
My elementary school’s milk was always either frozen (impossible to drink) or expired by like, a week. Same thing with the chocolate milk. Had one of the milks that was expired (expiration date was scratched off bc of my nails), chugged it bc lunch was finishing up, ended up puking all over a math test. Almost never drank milk again (unless it was an ingredient or sum.)
I graduated fairly recently and our meals were split into cold and hot options, for hot we still have a lot of processed foods like chicken nuggets, frozen pizza, frozen burgers and chicken sandwiches, ect.. We did have some wraps and salads that were cold options, but barely anyone picked those. Milk was an option at breakfast but not often at lunch, at least not in HS. Also, according to my siblings, the HS just started doing chickfala sandwiches on Fridays and the occasional food truck day for kids that have less than 3 absences, so not very healthy in that regard. I guess they may have been more nutritional 'cause of Michel Obama's program, but it certainly didn't taste all that great, tho that may be due to being from a larger school district, no idea if rural foods or city districts are any better.
90’s baby here! I don’t know what school everyone else went to, but in elementary school they gave us options. It was called “hot meal or cold meal”. Typically the cold meals consisted of a salad and protein (I.e. Turkey or ham in the salad). The hot meals we would get would be whatever they chose to warm up that day: hamburgers, frozen burritos, chicken nuggets that were grilled w/ no breading, pizza, and chicken sandwiches. They would rotate that week to week and on Friday’s we had the option of buying a pizza ticket, which meant we get the “special pizza”, which was catered to us for 5.00. Middle school was different, we had options of Taco Bell, dominoes, subway, pick-up sticks.. etc.
born in 2010 my elementary school was kinda the same but cold lunches were just lunch boxes kids brought from home and hot lunch was just ham or turkey sandwiches
I know this is weird but, I don't have anything to do so.. If your born in the 90's im gonna round it to 1990. 2000 you would be 10, then 23 years later your 33 years old. You would be exactly 33 years old, and before you say "1990 is not my birth date!) I rounded it up, so its not accurate.
I absolutely loved this video. I can tell you put a lot of effort into it, and it turned out amazing. My only feedback would be that the ratings are inconsistent, since you keep changing the perspective from a kid who only cares about how exciting the food is to an adult who cares about their health. Other than that, great video.
I moved around a lot growing up and went to a lot of different schools and the best lunch was a small town school in Oklahoma with 200 kids total between grades 1-12. Anywho the school had home cooked meals, homemade lemonade and tea and a loaded salad bar. One day the cafeteria fried up some catfish the lunch ladies husband caught. Good stuff, I still miss steak finger Wednesdays.
That sounds good😊 prob cause they could afford it since not many kids it’s like the place where the lunch lady’s bring their own food to cook like catfish I wish I had that
I was in high school in the 2010 era. We had a sub bar where you could build a sub like you can at subway, we also had pizza, fries, chicken sandwiches and burgers. The pizza was sooooo greasy, I still distinctly remember my friend getting it and when they picked it up grease dripped off of it and filled one of the sections on the tray.
I think location matters, our lunches from 1980-84 in northern Washington state we had incredible lunches, my favorite was the Turkey ala king and the salad bar (any size same price) we would put a half dozen hard boiled eggs on it, quarter pound slice ham, croutons, cheese, you get it. We also had burritos, pizza, tacos, hamburgers and all cooked by a kitchen crew of close to twenty women. The large salad with two chocolate milks was $1.15. I grew up in Switzerland and we would get sent to school with a snack for recess that consisted of a large piece of German bread and a chocolate bar, every day, then we would walk home for lunch and back to school.
I would've loved 1910...bringing my own five course lunch to school
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Yeah they out here serving hotdogs in hardshell taco shells with some nasty chocolate milk
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ok but like the school lunch ladies did not made it that good on god i know bc they did not have all that time
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Growing up in the 2000's I don't think any of my meals looked like that. I feel like mine were more remenecent of what they showed for like the 60's and 80's. The things I remember most were the square pizza slices, the pb and j crustables, there was always milk that I'd blow into with a straw to get fun bubbles, and the chicken nuggets. Chicken nugget day was undoubtedly the best day for school lunches.
The breaded pork chop was the best imo. I don't think it contained any pork but damn it was salty and good
Yes! I was in school in 2000s We had square pizza & chocolate pudding alot! I do remember having grilled chicken sometimes, but not often. I also remembered the chicken fried steak & mashed potatoes bc It was one of my favorites 😂 I don't remember ever having wraps, although I was in early HS in 2010 so maybe it was different since we had a lot of options unlike elementary school. We also had grilled cheese sandwiches & tomato soup which is what. Made me learn I liked tomato soup 😂
I legit just commented the exact same thing and even mentioned most of the same food items without seeing your comment lmfao. Yeah theyre trippin. And if they got an early decade this wrong I wonder what else they got wrong lmfao
@@ChronicallyRollingWithIt Fairly accurate, my memory's kinda foggy but I definitely remember the pizza & chocolate pudding and sometimes there would be some chicken nuggets I think but I'd never get the calzones they would serve occasionally.
Same! But I remember they switched white rice to brown rice and they would give cookies but it cost extra 🥹
Retired lunchlady here. The program I worked for provided several options to students including a homestyle meal prepared daily from scratch. My favorite was homemade vegetable beef soup and grilled cheese sandwhich. We also made homemade yeast rolls daily.
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The only thing you can buy from my school is cookie slushy and water plus the cookie is 75 cents each😢😢😢😢
@@ohiolooksmaxxer be grateful, we don't even have anything like that.
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@@ohiolooksmaxxerthats cheap for a cookie, my school has cookies but its $3.50
In the 70s and 80s, none of the public schools served coca-cola or any other carbonated drinks. You had a choice between white or chocolate milk. They also included apple or orange juice during breakfast. Also, cheese pizza with fries or tater-tots were a daily option, the other main dishes were offered on specific days.
yeah, we didn't have any soda, it was milk, choc, van, or 2%, and optional fruit juice, apple or orange. Some of my favorites was the pizza, square, with a meat sauce and cheese: Chili and cornbread; porcupine balls, a meatball with a generous amount of rice, so it looked like a porcupine: spaghetti; turkey dinner. Overall the only lunch that I did not like was the tuna boat, a tuna hoagie that fished up the lunch wing of the school. They did have options, one being a 3D, it was a triple decker cold cut sandwich which you could get instead of the main meal. This was late 70's, early 80's.
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In the 80s-early 90s I remember something similar. I never liked the square pizza everyone else liked and the side dish was almost always tater tots, sometimes swapped with soggy crinkle fries or fake mashed potatoes with fluorescent gravy. The drink was always white or chocolate milk. By high school there were vending machines with soda but that wasn’t included in the school lunch, it was extra.
We had vending machines at the school we could get sodas from. Ironically, they were located in the school gym building. Lol
That's still how it works at my current school
My Mom and grandmother cooked in the schools for years 1950s and 1960s and they always got compliments about how good their food was.
How nice!
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Schools eliminate processed food (proceeds to give processed baloney and cheese)
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Fun fact: 2:37 the reason why it’s not peanut butter and jelly sandwiches it’s because jelly was more expensive than peanut butter so they only use peanut butter because it’s more cheaper
especially in the great depression
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My school meals in the 1960s were superb. A thick stew followed by chocolate sponge in a white sauce were just one of my favourites.
73 years old dang.
my dad is 55 and he was born in ‘60s
7:30 I know that
@@LetrisinI think 63 you meant because my mom is 63 and she was born in 1960 same with my dad
@@AbramHorneno.. if your parents were born in 1960, how could they go to school in 1960. Common sense..
In Singapore throughout my school years from the 2000s to 2010s, our cafeteria just has a bunch of mini stalls with different cuisines. We had the choice of chinese, indian, malay, western food. A drink stall, pasty stall, noodle stall. The prices usually ranges from $1.50 to $4 for a meal.
Oh wow that is so cool where I lived we had a tuckshop every Friday and It could be soups or pizzas (wood fired) or gourmet food
same here in thailand
same here in Indonesia
same in malaysia
Not in norway
I like how the 1910 lunch is infinitely healthier than the school lunches of today.
dude our lunches look like that its so depresing😮💨
@@KrissTheRider i think thats called a good school
@@snakesbakecookiesnah, that’s not filling.
@@Down_the_Wind yeah ig thats fair
@@snakesbakecookies but I guess it’s better than nothing lol
Bro's hand was literally shivering from fear while drinking vegetable soup 💀💀💀💀
I went to school throughout the 2010s and tbh, what you got is michelin star worthy compared to what we got. Everything had been frozen, burgers warmed with water (not sous vide, just straight in the water) with fake grill marks, chicken patties with cartilage in it and some red spots, burnt pizza with soggy crust and probably more oregano than sauce, soggy fried chicken wing with a flat side, half decent nuggets and oddly good mac and cheese (very rare tho). The worst of it was that my school *constantly* tried to convince us the food was good. They had "ads" for their food depicting people being so lucky to have "such good food". No one was buying it. I'm so glad to be out of high school.
Same lol. But this was a thing in my H.S. prior to 2010. Most of the processed stuff was crap. Like the baked chicken nuggets, mozzarella sticks or "chicken teriyaki" 🤮. Stuff basically had little to no flavor. But at least the quesadillas were decent, or the cold food. In some cases my parents got me outside lunch. Usually a chicken parmesan or meatball hero.
Eventually I started buying my own food in my later H.S. days. And started opting for rotisserie chicken from the Deli. Or pizza and pinwheels from the pizzeria.
The pizza at my school was the WORST, especially the pizza sticks..... Think of pizza pockets but 10 times worst.... It was literally dough rolled over mozz cheese, AND IT WASN'T EVEN BAKED bro.... it was warmed / pale crap 😡🤬
Im in school right now and gotta be honest drinking the milk feels like a chore. Id rather drink water but they don't give you water. They also give us this thing called cheesy pull aparts, i wouldn't call it food really.
Im in school and our food sucks teachers say that is good
I lived through the 2010s. In 2010 I was in 1st grade iirc, and the food was delicious. The Chicken sandwiches that they were(note 'were') serving at my elementary school's cafeteria was superb, arguably better tasting than the fastfood equivalent of a chicken sandwich. Same went with chicken nuggets, pizza, and a whole bunch of other stuff at the time. Water was served, pretty good chocolate milk was served, as well as juice. It was until when I got into 2nd, half-way into the grade level, when the food just nose dived in the quality of taste imo. It just tasted awful for me and I just ended up skipping lunch for the rest of the time I was in elementary. It really pissed me off honestly. Whole wheat was being used rather than other better tasting bread, the pizza just tasted awful thanks to the change in how the cheese was made and the bread used (seriously? Whole wheat as pizza bread?), and hell, I don't even know what they did to the chicken, I think they switched to brown meat. The chocolate milk wasn't even safe at all from the changes, it also went from good to bad tasting for whatever reason. Bs after more bs basically. After leaving elementary for middle school, I finally got hands on decent good food, which, surprisingly, was pizza hut because they served it at my school luckily enough. This was short lived though, like 3 months, since I had to move schools because I was moving to a new home. If I still managed to stay in my old hometown, I would've went to the HS it had, which amazingly I got a tour of. They didn't just serve pizza Hut, but they had a literal fast food chain restaurant inside where the indoor basketball courts were. Flipping amazing honestly. But unfortunately, like I said before, I moved schools, and imo it was way worst than my old one. Not just in food served, but also just the quality of learning and engagement there.
@@Liezaac That sounds awful. At my son's school, the kids only get water and sugar free ice tea. When I was a kid we had a choice of milk that tasted like cardboard, cocoa that tasted like sweetened cardboard and vanilla milk that tasted like sweetened vomit.
Raised in Alabama in the late 40's and early 50's we had wonderful lunches. Fried chicken , okra ,and potatoes . Ham and sweet potatoes everything was really good! I am sure there were some things we didn't care for but overall it was great . This was Elementary school.
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My school gave me expired milk the cheese slide of the pizza too
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I was in school from the early 90s to the early 2000s. We never got anything from McDonald's lol. The fruit cocktail is accurate. And we also were served something different every day in grade school. And in high school we just went in line and you could buy whatever you wanted. French fries, pizza lasagna, cheeseburger, a cookie, etc.
I was in elementary in the 90s. Our school did 'burger' day maybe twice a year. It was from McDonald's. Our parents had to pay for it though and if they didn't you'd have your sad PB&J jealously watching the others
Also common from where I grew up... after grade 4, you went home for lunch. Or brought your own. School did not provide.
@@justjeni83 that is interesting. I'm from the Midwest (northern Illinois). Lunch was provided at every single school I attended. And I moved quite a bit as a kid. It's always fun hearing what others had growing up. As a kid, you think it's the same everywhere. 🤙
@nicholastv5543 Lake County. Basically 40 miles north of Chicago and a little east
It’s still the early 2000s and 2,000s, as opposed to 20-00s.
I graduated in 1984 and we had awesome food. Junior high and high school the one meal nobody missed was hamburger gravy over mashed potatoes, usually served with a roll green beans or corn and some kind of dessert; and of course white or chocolate milk. I was never offered pop.
In fact:1900s people are more healthy than nowadays people. (nvm)
1920s and 1930s looks better than my school hot lunch today
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school lunch today is trash
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I think it depends where in the US and also if you paid for your own food or it was free :(
As an immigrant kid from Taiwan in the 1970's, it was a shock going from delicious nutritous bento boxes to cold pizza slices, jello, a bite of mushy salad. I always chose chocolate milk for the only solace I had.
I feel you
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Yeah.... America needs bento boxes
bro taiwan isn't a country and plus china doesn't have bento boxes so stop lying
no chinese kid has a name of bob jones
all of these looked 10x better than the actual school food
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Lol yea
ikr, like there aint no way people had salad in the 1960s as part of there school lunch, most schools still don't have that today ( in North America ).
The school lunches at my school district were actually insanely good, some more than others, but I overall liked it all. Trust me, I know what good food is too, and I still actually liked the school lunches.
@@arandominternetuser9099 prob had a good school district
@@xa-xii9338 yeah. IIRC, the district I was in was one of the higher ranked districts in the state, somewhere in the top 50 I think. Most are probably just average or not good though, unfortunately. :(
Remember the triangle popsicle thing in paper from the 90s?
Late 2000s were rough: pizza, artificial slushies, and cookies (that's it- every day)
but later on, we got cobb and chef salads with side apples and extracurricular things after school had pizza
After watching this, I have come to sincerely appreciate the school lunch system in Japan. Our country regards it as an essential part of our educational nutrition programs. The interesting fact is that it all started under the direction of Douglas MacArthur from the USA.
Oh yeah, Douglas MacArthur pretty much ruled Japan after WWII.
The food shown here is way better than what is actually served!
In the 2010s we did not get fresh food at all. It was all processed and tasted very bad.
The US school system was originally planned around farming, hunting, and logging. They were some of the biggest industries on our soil, all that physical work was done outside mostly in the summer and generated it's own food product. It's why we have summers off. Then we switched to a service economy and schools didn't, it means families mostly used to feed their kids, and now factories do.
So you can also pack your lunch and eating healthy is a choice. It doesn't matter what is fed to you none of that matters if you don't eat it. Like for example, fast food. I might eat it once or twice a month. If I push it 3 times. I eat at home. I cook at home, it's better for you. Another thing people tend to forget is even if you eat healthy, you need to exercise, not everybody does that. Lifting weights is a great way to exercise.
Yeah, me too, from finland. These meals are so unhealthy and poor nutrition. Also very boring. 😐
I grew up in a small town in South Louisiana in the ‘60s and ‘70s and in those days, the ladies cooked like they did at home. There were a ton of great cooks in our town and we grew up eating a lot of really great food. We had spaghetti and meat sauce, hot dogs with homemade chili, steak and rice & gravy, sausage and potatoes, shepherd’s pie, rice dressing, cornbread dressing, ham, shrimp etouffee, fried chicken, shrimp creole, etc. Of course, all of these dishes were always served with some kind of vegetable, milk, and the best cobblers, cakes, and homemade rolls you ever ate in your life. Were we fat? Most of is weren’t because we PLAYED outside and rode our bikes everywhere. I’m a teacher now and what kids are fed today is a travesty.
Hello, Im An Italian Student (Middle 7th) I would Like to specific our school launches are based On Other things, Pizza Hamburgers (meat only) etc..
I would like to state This is the most strict education in Europe And Most students here Rebel against the Other Teachers (A teacher cried about it).
@@Lucia_camposim Italian too an I remind 2010 elementary school meal to be like only vegetable and spaghetti EVERY DAY.
It was boring af that I really just started to take food from home and it was gooder an coasted less.
I would have payed the triple only to have the toast with cheese
@@glochri86 Damn. Here its Just Good food
Sugary drinks and fried food is banned in the schools in my country, we got chicken and rice wraps, salads, sandwiches, soup, rice with curry sauce or gravy, baked potato , lasagne.... no chips or fries etc, only fruit and low sugar cereal bars.
I'm from turkey creek Louisiana and I know what you mean we had gumbo in the winter but pork and sausage gravy and jambalaya a lot too we had good lunches.
I love how he compared decades with refrigerators 😂
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This video was clearly inspired by Ryan trahans 100 years of video games video
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@@Kerguelen.Mapping omg I didn’t realize that
We had all sorts of lunches in my high school during the 80’s. I grew up in Chicago. We had about 4200 kids in my school some from different backgrounds so we had to provide. It was so cool four lunchrooms with three different seatings. It was fun to have anything from curry to hamburgers to gyros and salads. You name it we had it.
I graduated in 2012 and my school had such a huge selection to pick from. We had a build your own salad or wrap station, jumbo pretzels or Bosco sticks or snack stuff , chicken tenders and fries, pizza and then a line that changed daily. Chicken bowl was everyone’s favorite. $20 lasted me 2 weeks and we had milk, water, Izzy drink or flavored water.
Rich.
Damn u obviously went to a private school😂
Hahah yup. This was public school for me tho in Texas. Ngl some of that cafeteria food in high school was actually really good.
@@ozboz-roblox363 Nope, my public school had these same options too. 2012 as well for me.
Yep my school did the same too
I feel like the main problem with the food at my school is that it's never seasoned, so the food is always just very bland. As for fried foods, the food still isn't seasoned and never fried long enough so it's always soggy.
@We_are_what_so_stupid3 same
My school actually seasons the food
@@StephanieJimenez-fn7cq lucky
here in europe where i am its very normal. france was amazing, and I currently like in the Netherlands and well yeah I don't understand why America doesn't put more money into actually caring for their students @@MarzFromMars
As a finn seeing an American complaining of their school's fries😂 We eat healthy here in Finland. And it's FREE.
I went to a small rural primary school in Ireland in the mid 1980's. About 50-60 pupils. Our cook made absolutely everything fresh and from scratch. It was honestly top-level
I am intrigued...
So lucky bro my average school lunch is 99% rice with a disgusting stew/soup
Btw 1% was shawarma,chicken shawarma,fries(not crispy but not soggy) and finally the best one FRIED CHICKEN. And yes the 1% is all in sandwich
Cool 😎
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Bro did not do 2020 bruh
My mom was a lunch lady in the 80's and manager of school lunch in the 90's through the early 2000's. In the 80's they made almost everything from scratch. I remember chili and donut day(yum), watery spaghetti and watery hotdogs (yuck), rolls were freshly made, and no soda in sight. The 90's I was in middle school and high school and the options went from salad bar, pizza, and sandwiches in middle school to the same plus commercial restaurants like Chick-fil-A and Pizza Hut and vending machines in High school. Also more pre-made processed foods into the 90's and 2000's.
I was taught a few cooking recipes by my paternal grandmother. In regards to your chipped beef, she said you soak it in hot water up to 5 to 10 times to get most of the salt out before you make the dish.
Was thinking the same, the stuff is basically like salt pork. Heavily salted so you need to remove it by soaking in hot water.
Ahh it’s kinda like salt fish… you have to soak and rinse like three times
Ww2 food
In the early 70s my stepsister used to.make **** on a shingle when our parents went out to eat. It was ok. I haven't had it since then.
The chipped beef was usually soaked over night and drained, put in with garlic sauce, cream, shredded thin on toast. That was actually a decent breakfast. Sometimes, we added mushrooms, zucchini, lemon juice.
thin → finely
I've never had it with garlic sauce or any additional ingredients. I love the stuff. There are different brands of beef that are less salty. I'm surprised anyone their age is just now trying this and they're the first people I've ever heard say they don't like chipped beef and gravy.
@@Mark-op7ztGoing off of the fact that they were also shocked about tomatoes being eaten by themselves, it's safe to assume they haven't got the best taste.
bro was alive in the 1940s 😭
As a person coming from post-soviet space, our school lunch has always been nutritional. My son now gets a first course (soup with meatballs, borscht, chicken soup etc), a second course of some meat/chicken and a side dish (usually some kind of grain, potatoes or pasta), a salad and a drink (tea or compote) for one dollar. My school meals 20 years ago were similar in composition, just a lot cheaper))))
Im in a U.S. highschool and the food is... well food, I'll eat it and somewhat enjoy it but it's almost the exact same thing every day, luckily they started giving us fresh cut kiwis which taste really good, but most of the time it's best to eat at home or skip the food itself.
@@dimplesskits5575 It's great that your schools have started to include some healthy stuff, like kiwis)) I guess, this is the difference in general mentality. In my country we tend to homecook a lot, and eating out or ordering food for us is more of an adventure than a meal. We can order pizza or some sort of takeouts once or twice a month, but compared to a full size homecooked meal it's not too healthy, so we don't do it too often)) Besides, it's traditional for us to eat a lot of soups, we have some sort of soup every day during lunch. So the school lunches resemble the general attitude, I guess.
@@mariya2485 Woah that sounds really cool, kinda wish more places were like that.
I wish I had that food now
Only the evil empire poisions their own. I'm glad you had that Russian decency. ❤
It’s been about a year or two since I watched this video. Thank you for making this cause I really feel educated and hungry.
Here in Australia, we didn't have school lunches or school dinners, but a Tuck Shop (Canteen), where you could get your Mum or Dad to write on a brown paper bag what you wanted from a range of items on a menu from pizza, to sausage rolls, to pies, to chips etc, and attach some coins to the bag, to which it would be sent to the Tuck Shop and at Morning Tea or Lunch, your bag would be returned filled with what your parent ordered for you.
That must have been a very nice system.
aaah im now in my last years of secondary college but i remember this so well from my primary days! it's much different now. now the kids can just bring money to the canteen, whereas back when i was just starting primary school we had the orders sent about a 20ish minute drive from our school and back because we didnt have a canteen. Then i moved closer inwards and we had canteen at that school, so the orders were just sent a 2 minute walk away.
@@madebybambi I have kids in primary school and now it's a pre-order app 😂
Interesting
theyre making life easier and easier for introverts lmao@@mclovin5903
So I remember going to school in the 90s/2000s. Our lunch programs had options. You could get a cold lunch or a hot lunch. Cold lunch was usually some sort of sandwich, fruit, juice, and milk. Hot lunch was usually some sort of chicken, fruit, juice, and milk. Fridays we had pizza. High school we had the same thing though you could pick your sandwich and we also got fries. For someone like me who was really poor that lunch was the only thing you ate all day. To this day, because of that, I still only eat like once a day.
Honestly, I love dried beef. And when you make the gravy right, I think its awesome. My dad said in Vietnam they called it Sh** on a shingle. And I am from the 80s but never had any kind of soda in school. Always milk.
I knew I wasn't the only one who thought it looked like S**t on a Shingle. Especially since I saw it on a Tasting History video.
The shingle was something we all looked forward to on deployment
was in elementary in the 2000's, my schools always had food that looked more like the 90's just without the fast food. It was always a sad grey mystery meat and a fruit cup. The free lunches were usually just some milk and either a cheese sandwich or a plain piece of bread.
I went to a private school in Madrid for a few years, and lunch was always a treat. You could either get a hot lunch tray, in which the food was always fresh, or you could go get a sandwich they made themselves, and Fridays always had french fries. They also had a vending machine so you could get your own drink.
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French fry Friday
School cafeterias always intrigued me with their stories. I grew up in Canada in the early 2000s, we only had a cafeteria at my highschool and only ate from there time to time as a treat cos it was expensive as hell for such a small portion. It was more the norm to bring a lunch bag either you or your parents packed for you. We did have special days throughout the month where you can have your parents sign you up for pizza day, sub day, ice cream day… or a specialty program called kids kitchen where your parents could prepick the food you would get and they would come delivered to the school in brown baggies with your name and student number every wednesday. The meatloaf was the best
That was how it was in Sacramento where I went to high school, elementary school took my own lunch
I was in elementary school in the early and mid 2000s. Our lunches consisted of a combination of 60's and 80's lunches. We often had square-shaped pizza and chicken nuggets. Every day, we had milk cartons. Everyone always picked chocolate milk and I've never been able to find the tiny chocolate milk cartons nowadays. Maybe they're only visible to kids 😅
I drink them at the school i teach at haha
I was a kid in the 90s our lunch consistent 70,80s and square pizza as well as special day in the 2000s it was subway sandwich.
Everyone chose strawberry milk over chocolate at mine. Breakfast pizza, Stromboli, spaghetti, bacon egg and cheese biscuits
Some schools have cut 2% and chocolate milk. But also branding ahs changed. Most milk just has a barely seeable colored stripe now showing what flavor. Sometimes chocolate is brown, sometimes it is purple. I don't get it.
I currently work in a school cafeteria and the little milk cartons are still there (I'm literally the one that gets them in the totes to be served. So. Many. Cartons. Over 300 A DAY.)
The way you plate everything is absolutely outstanding. It’s so cool like looking back and thinking wow people actually ate this. It’s kind of cool and the 1910s look pretty delicious I’ll really eat anything I’m willing to try anything
Real bro
Missing some of the classics for the 90s: you had the 'turkey dinner' lunch which was usually reheated from frozen pre-sliced turkey almagamation served with instant mashed potatoes, instant gravy, frozen vegetables maybe a roll with butter pat and cranberry sauce.
We also had "chinese" style lunch, which consisted of wet instant rice, cold chicken nuggets with expired sweet and sour sauce served with 1/2 of a microwaved egg roll and a bag of baby carrots.
Then we had "pasta" which was either overcooked spagetti noodles with plain tomato sauce and way too much oregano or "butter noodles" made with margarine or flavored oil and a sprinkling of freeze dried parm all served with a slice of burnt cheesy bread and fruit cocktail.
Came out to 3 bucks a meal and if you didn't have the money, your only option was the 'sad station' which was making your own Peanut butter sandwich with old and sometimes moldy bread and a dixie cup of water from the fountain.
Wonderful stuff 😢
Damn you must’ve went to school in Baghdad Illinois
Thanks giving school dinner
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I’m not reading that
Sloppy Joes man. that was my 90s
I went to high school in the 2010s and the wrap you showed is honestly way better than what we actually got. Lots of questionable food standards, and pizza sauce became a vegetable. They wound up cutting meals to such a degree where everyone just brought in a ton of junk food.
Wow
I wasn't alive yet
@@colechurch6785 Worse, my school had a culinary arts class that helped with the lunches in a full kitchen downstairs. The school decided we didn't need scratch cooking anymore.
Yeah same here in Canada back then
Seeing all these lunches are cool. Especially when you see stuff like a burger, grilled cheese, peanut butter sandwiches, soup and veggies. I was in school from the mid 2000s all the way until my graduation of HS in 2022. School lunch was super lame in my time. And when there was good food like hotdogs, popcorn chicken and mozzarella sticks? They're super rare or only happen once or twice and that's it for the rest of the year.
I went to elementary school up in Alaska in the 2010’s and I can say for sure none of our school lunches were ever made fresh. They were all pre-packaged reheated meals/tray, a cold tray of veggies and a small carton of milk. And they were pretty expensive too, like $5 a pop. It wasn’t until high school did I ever encounter fresh meals
I’m from Florida and had the same experience! It got to the point where my mom just started packing me salads (until I got to 5th in which I started packing my own) and I always liked that a good bit more because I would grill chicken and toss it in the salad
As a high schooler myself I can say that school lunches are just not worth it they taste terrible and the food is mostly prepackaged or reheated and the salad bar is ok not great but ok and the “fresh sandwich’s” there are fresh on Monday the rest of the week they are used from Monday. And depending on the state some have made school lunch free as of 2020.
Hahaha...Sounds like y'all were getting MRE's or in my day C-Rations.
2000’s had the best food (in this video) imo. The grilled chicken looks great, and I don’t know about you people, but the fruits and vegetables are the best part.
It's funny. I'm having that for supper sometimes, like today. Using Amish boneless chicken thighs. Organic celery and carrots.
I went to a three room schoolhouse in 1976. my mother packed a lunch for me everyday. Usually, a sandwich, soup, and a can of pudding. I still have good feelings about the effort and love she put in my lunches despite having to work a hard labor job AND take care of me.
Your mom is good one. First year I used to be studying in school where even wasn’t a kitchen. So, my mom had to coming to me and fed by home food. Don’t ask me why she wasn’t giving me lunch before school 😂 but anyway, I appreciate that
I totally agree. My Mum was the same. We were lucky. Life was easy.
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To me what was shown for the 2010s is a very small scope. Coming out of high school recently I can say that what we got was almost always processed, frozen, breaded, came out of can, in some form of all of that combined and there was the good ol plastic cheese. There was always a wrap or something "healthy" but no one ever got it. For a drink I wish I had water everyday, we were forced to get a carton of milk everyday I would've had to pay an extra 1.50 to get that bottle of water.
2010’s was horrible food wise, you can thank Michelle Obama for that.
Or you could just go to the drinking fountain...
I was in high school late 90’s into the early 2000”s. My school was trade oriented and we actually had our commercial cooking and baking classes make the lunches. It was always something different, and they even did catering orders in the afternoon classes.
When I was in high school in the mid 80’s the food was really good. Everyday there was pizza but you could get on any given day you could get turkey and dressing, meatloaf, spaghetti with meat sauce, fried chicken , mashed potatoes. Everything was homemade and the cost was about 4.00
This was AWESOME guys. It shows how lucky I was the 1980s to be raised in small town where our cooks still used homemade recipes.❤
Every time I see a video similar to this, it makes me realize how healthy my school was and this is coming from a 90s kid. We never had McDonalds and desserts were maybe twice a month. There was always fruits and veggies and we were expected to eat them, unless there were allergies. Also HIgh School in the 2000's were not as boring at least.
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Where I'm from 1990, 2000, and 2010 couldn't be farther from the truth... We always had multiple lines from elementary all the way up to high school. There was a sandwich line with multiple options like a burger or a chicken sandwich, a pizza line, and a main line that had something different everyday.
Same. My school had a choice of the daily entree, pizza (the most popular choice), burgers and chicken sandwiches (your choice of grilled, breaded or spicy on either a wheat or a white bun). Then you'd move on to the sides which were usually some type of fried potato.
For some reason, the only drink my school offered for free at lunch time was milk, which really pissed me off as someone with a dairy allergy. I almost never had a drink with my meal because I didn't have money and you had to pay for water bottles. You weren't allowed to bring your own bottles in, either.
Probably depends on the school sounds like you went to a nice School
@@amandanapoli5425 It really wasn't. It's in one of the more economically disadvantaged cities in my entire state and the students who go there are considered the most unintelligent in the entire county. But hey, at least the football team is good.
@@Samevi no I stand behind what I say for the simple fact of the nicer schools where I live had everything that you just typed in this paragraph and the schools that I went to gave a slop so you definitely went to a rich School
Yup. Same. This guys duplication from 2000-present is wildly inaccurate
I went to school in the 1960s in Florida, and our school lunches were 25 cents. and the milk came in little cartons. Also, the pizza was a slice of bread with tomato sauce and cheese. In addition, we got a dessert every day. There was also a starch, some form of meat, and vegetables. We hardly ever got salad. We never got coke.
This video made me feel grateful for being born in India. Freshly harvested vegetables, greens and fruits & lunch boxes of home-cooked meals.
Awesome! That's a blessing! I'm glad I was picky and conscious of my health back in school. It's a shame how unhealthy school lunches are in America, but it'll still be "the best country in the world" to Americans regardless.
I live on a farm and we have these exact things! Unfortunately, things like I have is not common for most kids/people in America. 😔
It’s amazing how poorer countries have better food available.
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I grew up in the UK and didn't attend a fancy school but always enjoyed my school dinner in the 1980s. We were all pre allocated a square table which we'd share with about 5 or 6 other people, each of us would walk up the kitchen counter and collect a pot which I'll explain more about in a moment, we'd bring that back to the table and return for a plate.
An example meal might be this. After collecting the big crock pots we'd get a plate each that would have mince beef and onion pie. We'd take it in turns to be the 'dinner monitor' and that was performed on a rota basis to ensure each person had a chance. the dinner monitor would take the lids off the crock pots and each would contain different steam vegetables, such as potato or mashed potatoes, cabbage, peas, carrot, gravy and so on. They would then serve each person on the table from the pots and ensure everyone had an equal amount. It was cheap because everything was batched cooked but also very tasty and nutritious. For some kids growing up in the 80s this might have been the only meal they had that day. It was also all served on real crockery with metal knives and forks and we had to give thanks to each other before eating.
Afterwards we'd collect up the dishes and pots and return them to the kitchen counter where we'd exchange them for desert. This would often be a milk shake (tiny glasses which hold about 7oz) and something like a cornflake tart (cornflakes on jelly - jam in the UK, and pastry with custard) or my favourite, a caramel tart.
Jugs of water were provided on each table and the dinner monitor would pour everyone a drink when they wanted one.
Now of course it's nothing like that. Kids are served food on plastic trays from a hatch and it's mostly pizza, nuggets and soggy fries. Such a shame really we went down the so called convenience route. we were never hungry but now with their high carb/sugar replacement everyone is getting fat and staying hungry.
That sounds amazing
Soggy fries
Sounds like good wholesome food for all.
As someone who went to school 07-20, I’ve never had a wrap, yogurt and a bottle of water. It was always the spicy chicken sandwich (desert dry) with crinkle fries, fruit cocktail or pears and choc milk
In the 80s we had a salad bar in junior high. Of course, you could make the salad anyway you want , with as much dressing as you want.
It’s actually quite insane to see how different American school lunches are from what I’m used to here in Portugal! Here it’s almost unthinkable to serve students hamburgers and French fries 😅 (although I’m sure sometimes the students would prefer it). What I noticed is that in America lunch is seen as a lighter meal (correct me if I’m wrong), dinner being maybe the main meal of the day. Here in Portugal lunch is as important as dinner in terms of servings, so usually school lunches always include a full course meal with soup, rice/ potatoes or pasta with some kind of fish or meat, salad and desert (which is usually some type of gelatin, puddin and always with the option of fruit). You can also have bread but it’s usually optional and used to eat with the soup.
Well they don't serve hamburgers and fries here either for the most part; that was decades ago. Nowadays it's mostly bland, healthy government food.
Yeah lunch is a light meal and dinner is the heavy meal. Breakfast can go either way.
Yes, so try to match up the years to which you are referencing. The era I went to school will be a different experience than other years and eras.
@@skip081961my cousins go to elementary and middle school and the commenter actually aligns with my cousins school lunch meals
@@hmmV420 maybe it depends on what region of America you were reared.
Fun video ! This is my experience in the late 80s: We had a lot of grilled cheese & tomato soup and something called “ Apple crisp “ quite a lot in school . The little milk carton was always prevalent !
coke was never an option in the 80's for me. milk only
When I studied at a private school in Brazil, they has the best lunches. Cooked meals every day( meats, rice, etc), almost buffet style. I had a big culture shock when I moved to the states and went to public school. All foods were frozen and heated up. And during those years, I brought my lunch, and sometimes ate the school food
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As a brazilian, i can confirm this
I was school in the 2010s (2016 grad baby!) and honestly that wrap would have been way better than what my school served lol. Also the food was always, ALWAYS cold
Pretty accurate for the 2000s. I'm a 90s baby so the carrot was accurate. We still had pizza as well. There was also the frozen popsicle pyramid minute maid thing 😂
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Do they Not realize that people back in the 80s and 90s and the early 2000s made the lunch from scratch it wasn't just ordered off a food truck and you get it they actually ordered this stuff and made it themselves to wear the people in the video are just dumping food on the food tray from the can
No it’s wildly in accurate. School lunch was always, pizza, chicken nuggets, fish sticks…never once was I served grilled chicken
That's my school food but instead of soup it's beans
Pizza first became popular in the 60’s. My grandpa opened a pizza restaurant in our city after buying a recipe from an Italian pizza owner in the Twin Cities. It became one of the longest running restaurants in our city. He sold it to his partner about ten years after opening it. It’s changed hands several times, but is still just as loved as a day one.
First time learning that something changed hands multiple times with a good ending
Minnesota represent. Nice.
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for the cream chipped beef being to salty, label on the dried beef says to rinse before use in recipes. this rehydrates it and decreases the salt amount.
That chipped beef and toast is actually my favorite. It's also a field kitchen dish
It's called "Shit on a shingle"
My school in the 2010's served HIGHLY processed burgers and chicken, with cheese that tasted like plastic on burgers and more, aswell as pizza that tasted like cardboard. This is with fries that were soggier than the ocean, with all of the veggies/fruits that they'd serve tasting mediocre at best (they were DEFINITELY not fresh by a long shot).
michelle ruined everything
This is the problem. And who likes fhose wraps or fatty old chicken??
@@twiddlerat9920So agreed
Lucky my school serves pasta with chicken bones and 5 cents tomato sauce
@@twiddlerat9920I’m with you on that one lol
i remember my school and high school giving free breakfast for everyone that wanted it, they also were giving lunch but you had to register for it, all of that free.
i used to get breakfast and it was almost always milk with a sandwich with something, like scrambled egg, jam, cheese and etc, or sometimes they give cereal with milk which was cold as hell, always nice to have that food even when it wasnt always the best.
I was a Midwest/Appalachian kid in the 90s and 00s - I don't think we ever got McDonalds or any fast food for lunch. There would be special pizza days around holiday breaks and at the end of the year but for regular lunches while the fruit cocktail is still on point, everything else was different in Ohio. The mains would usually be super processed and usually from frozen - Salisbury steak, meatloaf, sloppy joes, slice of pizza (it was made to perfectly fit the size of the big rectangle compartment of our lunch trays, lol), hot dog or corn dog, or chicken patty sandwich. Sides would be corn, green beans, or mixed veg (which were frozen so they always tasted like cardboard to me) or what I actually did love - mashed potatoes or parsley potatoes. the sweet side would be fruit cocktail or a solo fruit of some sort, pudding or jello. We'd typically get some sort of bread, usually a small roll, biscuit, or just some simple bread n butter. And we didn't have sodas in schools until the mid 00s, and only in vending machines - so the drink provided with lunch was milk, chocolate milk, some sort of juice, or water. I graduated in 2007 - and where I'm from, even then they were still giving us super processed, flavorless foods that sat at the middle of the health scale, not particularly healthy for growing minds and bodies, but not the absolute worst either.
I worked in southern Ohio some years ago, not being from there, and they had an employee cafeteria in the place I worked at and had peanut butter sandwiches like they showed in the video, but served it with really thin soupy chili. Always together. I thought that was the oddest thing, but was told that was something common in school lunches in that southern Ohio/Northern WV area. As odd as it sounds, it actually goes well together.
I grew up in the Southern Ohio Appalachian area as well (I graduated in 2007, too 🙂) and our school lunches here were exactly like you described.
Me too never had McDonald's pizza all the time but not McDonald's 🤦🏿♂️
just sounds like a normal school lunch
Ooof the Ohio school lunches 🙃 then Michelle Obama took are ice cream in 2012 and that was the final straw.
I'm from Taiwan, and in Taiwan we usually have a catering company contract with the schools to deliver our lunches to each school every day. and we had a lot of lunch every time! (since so many of them had classes late into the night). We usually have a 3 course meal,rice, a meat dish, fruit and soup. It's about 1-2 dollars a meal (less than 1 dollar in some places in the countryside).
When I was a kid, all I wanted for lunch was a hamburger and fries, but the school thought those were unhealthy, so we basically didn't have those（I was worried that American students wouldn't be able to eat enough for lunch🤣
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Keep in mind, the quality and effort put into making specifically these lunches in the video, is going to be 100% better than what was actually served / prepared at the time.
Why
That's what I was thinking lol
@@jeffschmelzer1592 because this is made by, who I'm assuming is an actual chef, and it's only made for one person with modern ingredients.
When things are mass produced the quality goes down and there is little care put into the product. I'm sure the facilities then were not as well put together, the workers probably didn't care too much as long as the food was made, and the ingredients were of lesser quality.
I loved my highschool lunches. I'd get the main course for the day, salad, two sides, and a drink. They also had pizza as an option every day but I had that maybe three times my four years there.
@@fourjhin_cookies sometimes they're good, ive been to schools with trash food, and others with actually good food.
for us in chile our cafeteria is small since we usually being our own lunch, but the cafeteria ladies here always give us really nice meals! we have some protein like roasted chicken, chicken friend steak or milanesas or beef strips with either rice or potatoes! then some other days we would have pasta for lunch like spaghetti, spirals, bowties or even god blessed lasaña with bolognese or alfredo sauce, other days we can have beef stew or lentils, and as a side it can very, there are fruits like apples or bananas, a bowl of jello or yogurt of wherever flavour they had, a salad cup with the option of salt, oil and lemon juice, and on certain days with heat there would be popsicles, and lastly a juice cup with wherever flavour was available that day, it was quite nice and liked it and still do!
7:04 My school actually served little circular pan pizzas sometimes, and also served pepperoni, which they could get away with because they would put a pork warning above it on a sign.
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As a public highschooler our school lunches are pretty decent and free! I take food from home but whenever I do need to get lunch, there are options for those with dietary restrictions and the food’s pretty healthy depending on what you get. You can also buy additional snacks if you want. (Soda, goldfish, ice cream)
We have the options of pizza - cheese, bacon, or garlic. As a vegetarian the cheese pizza is something that I always rely on.
We have many salad options: these will be packaged and complete salads with protein, vegetables, and a small packet of dressing.
We have tortilla wraps which I’ve heard are pretty good.
Then of course the other regular stuff like chicken sandwiches.
We also have the option of a yogurt parfait… just in case you’ve got a small appetite.
Unfortunately the meat options are not Halal which is weird since there is a huge Muslim population in our school, enough for us to have a day of Eid off. That’s probably my only quip, along with there not really having a lot of vegetarian options since I and my Muslim friends rely on that. (There isn’t even a vegetarian salad!) It’s a step up from elementary for sure! Elementary sucked.
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@@Xiaolingchan Haha thank you! Elementary was literal health hazard but ig the high school is good because it’s the only high school in the district! (And more student representation)
Milk was really important at my school, lunch or not. I vaguely remember every week or so they brought a crate of mini milk cartons we were encouraged to drink for our growth. I always looked forward to mine.
Yes, I was surprised at the Powerade and water options shown in some of these later decades. The "Got Milk?" campaign began in 1993 and we also chose between chocolate or white milk (sometimes strawberry). We never got McDonald's or Powerade.
1960 is better and more balanced that my school lunch💀
Bro, what are you eating there? 💀
Wow, it’s great to see people are reviewing the lunches from when I was born in the 20s. It’s nice to know people care🥰🥰🥰
You’re in your 100s?
If you was born in the 20s you've been at least 100 years old
maybe 2000s is what he means
@@AtkSoloGokuz if they were born in 1929 (20's) they're 94
@@DimitrisSartzetakis I know but if he was born in 1923 he have been 100
In my old elementary school, the most common meal was the chicken sandwich, apple slices, carrots, chocolate milk, and them ICONIC SMILEY FRIES!! I get memories of the apples and the carrots tasting like literal plastic because they were served in bags. the sandwich was in the styrofoam box so it got soggy with condensation. I would always love the smiley fries the most, they were kinda half cooked but it was fun to dip them in ketchup and pretend he was bleeding 😅 The milk would always be expired by a week or two and one time it tasted like mold and it had chunks-😭 Ay, it may have been bad but it sure gives me great flashbacks :)
im not reading allat 💀
Intresting!
My kids get school lunches in UK now and they are basically like proper home meals, very healthy. Governments should be ahead of minding next generations' eating habits and BMI.
I'm so glad I liked to cook even as a kid. I still brought my own meals from home even in the 90's. I was allowed to use the crockpot to make soups, casserole, BBQ chicken at night to bring to school the next day.
I grew up in California. I graduated in 1979.
The 1970's lunch you show looks nothing like I remember. 1. Never got soda. Only white milk.
But our meals were delicious. Oven cooked spaghetti was my favorite. Salads, and real good apple crisp.
Sometimes there would be mashed potatoes with hamburger gravy on top or mashed potatoes with turkey and gravy on top. Always with vegetables and some type of fruit. And yes the pizza was real good too.
Although I must say I don't remember what era had the chipped beef or the chipped creamed beef but that was something I never had in school but my mom did cook it at home and we loved it.
right. I graduated in 1978. We never had pizza, rather we had things like baked chicken on the bone, meatloaf, baked codfish, real mashed potatoes, oven-cooked spaghetti, chili con carne, and other homemade foods.
Perhaps thats what was intended to be served?
the depression had the chipped beef.My mother,when she was a child, used to walk home every afternoon for her mother to make her lunch ,then walk back to school.She lived several blocks from the school.
Cali native here and ur absolutely right
Hey, at least you had it better than I did, you had homestyle lunches@@strawberryseason
My time in school was the 70s/80s, but our lunches looked more like the 60s. I can't remember eating burgers and we never were allowed soft drinks like Coke. We could have water, milk or maybe juice. We ate a lot of pizza, fish sticks, mac & cheese and liver. (I think that I was the only one who actually ate the liver.) lol
Eww liver
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Yep...no coke ever at school in the 70's.....we had the Pizza then, but I don't remember hamburgers.....
Hehe I like liver too. We never had it for school lunch though.
Bro I ain't never had McDonald's in school growing up in the 90s. Definitely got the fruit cup right, except we always had milk or chocolate milk to drink.
I was in elementary school in the 60's and our school lunches cost 35 cents and the pizza was fantastic. It was like a deep dish with pizza sauce, ground beef, and American cheese. We also had other really delicious meals like oven fried chicken, or pork chops with gravy and mashed potatoes. And of course, milk and dessert. Todays school lunches don't even rate close to what we had. We sometimes brought our own, or were allowed to go home for lunch.
I went to school in Texas in a very wealthy district. Often times we got good quality food yet not always healthy. We didn't just get taco Tuesday. We got enchiladas on that same week. Of course we had frozen pizza as well as "home made pizza." Yeah that's what they called it. Most days we had so much food I couldn't even eat it all.
For me, the 90’s and 20’s were nuggets and stuff, once you got to 2003 to 2010, it was all about choice meaning you could grab that burger and fries or go for the school lunch as the kitchen provided both, any processed stuff was brand name rice krispy treats, brownie mix type cookies and cakes and cokes and what not from vending machines if you didn’t want the milk or apple juice
Facts. This cideo couldn’t be further from the truth
Kids back then get their food so seasoned they were so lucky 😭😭😭
here in England it's better
I vividly remember having Domino's Pizza on Tuesdays and on Friday there was Ellio's pizza's. The meals were always a hit or miss tbh. Also I'm shocked you guys didn't do the classic milk cartons
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@@christianweatherbroadcasting thats relevant
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I was born in 2002 so I started school in 2008. So back then we had healthy food. Thank God the 1990s didn’t take over the 2000s. Because even though I love McDonald’s. I remembered that my teacher said it’s so unhealthy. That’s why we had to change the lunch menu. And I remembered I just hated that.
I went to school in the 90s. We weren't getting mcdonalds unless your parents brought it school during your lunch, or checking you out for lunch.
This video is extremely inaccurate.
Yes I know I agree with you. However though school in the 2000’s and 2010’s were recommending no more McDonald’s in schools.
4:14 Honestly, my grandma made this for me pretty frequently!
We called it cream dried beef, and we'd put it on flakey Pillsbury grands biscuits, along with adding her own spin with seasonings, along with other things and balancing out the amount of salt in it.
I LOVED it!
Haven't had it in a few years, but I'd definitely eat it even now, at 30 years old.
😂
Sadly, shes not doing so well and in a nursing home now.
Also, meatloaf SLAPS! And, always will!
I like cream dry beef too.
6:41 Where was that when I’m in school, I get a weird square thing and some mystery meat squares for the pepperoni
My elementary school’s milk was always either frozen (impossible to drink) or expired by like, a week. Same thing with the chocolate milk. Had one of the milks that was expired (expiration date was scratched off bc of my nails), chugged it bc lunch was finishing up, ended up puking all over a math test. Almost never drank milk again (unless it was an ingredient or sum.)
Damn
Ya ok?
Did we go to the same elementary school because I resonate too hard
Same here
When I was in elementary school, there was a student that’s milk expired 30 years ago 😦 it looked and smelled terrible
What f*cking school are you going to that provides expired milk for lunch💀💀💀
I graduated fairly recently and our meals were split into cold and hot options, for hot we still have a lot of processed foods like chicken nuggets, frozen pizza, frozen burgers and chicken sandwiches, ect.. We did have some wraps and salads that were cold options, but barely anyone picked those. Milk was an option at breakfast but not often at lunch, at least not in HS. Also, according to my siblings, the HS just started doing chickfala sandwiches on Fridays and the occasional food truck day for kids that have less than 3 absences, so not very healthy in that regard. I guess they may have been more nutritional 'cause of Michel Obama's program, but it certainly didn't taste all that great, tho that may be due to being from a larger school district, no idea if rural foods or city districts are any better.
90’s baby here! I don’t know what school everyone else went to, but in elementary school they gave us options. It was called “hot meal or cold meal”. Typically the cold meals consisted of a salad and protein (I.e. Turkey or ham in the salad). The hot meals we would get would be whatever they chose to warm up that day: hamburgers, frozen burritos, chicken nuggets that were grilled w/ no breading, pizza, and chicken sandwiches. They would rotate that week to week and on Friday’s we had the option of buying a pizza ticket, which meant we get the “special pizza”, which was catered to us for 5.00. Middle school was different, we had options of Taco Bell, dominoes, subway, pick-up sticks.. etc.
born in 2010 my elementary school was kinda the same but cold lunches were just lunch boxes kids brought from home and hot lunch was just ham or turkey sandwiches
I know this is weird but, I don't have anything to do so.. If your born in the 90's im gonna round it to 1990. 2000 you would be 10, then 23 years later your 33 years old. You would be exactly 33 years old, and before you say "1990 is not my birth date!) I rounded it up, so its not accurate.
@@kouroshisrealhold up I don’t get it lol
90's kid here. We didn't have any of that until high school.
@@kouroshisrealcongratulations on your ability to do 2nd grade math.
You can't go wrong with peanut butter sandwiches and soup is kinda good!
I absolutely loved this video. I can tell you put a lot of effort into it, and it turned out amazing. My only feedback would be that the ratings are inconsistent, since you keep changing the perspective from a kid who only cares about how exciting the food is to an adult who cares about their health. Other than that, great video.
I moved around a lot growing up and went to a lot of different schools and the best lunch was a small town school in Oklahoma with 200 kids total between grades 1-12. Anywho the school had home cooked meals, homemade lemonade and tea and a loaded salad bar. One day the cafeteria fried up some catfish the lunch ladies husband caught. Good stuff, I still miss steak finger Wednesdays.
That sounds good😊 prob cause they could afford it since not many kids it’s like the place where the lunch lady’s bring their own food to cook like catfish I wish I had that
*jealousy intensifies*
Those aren’t all kids and your spelling/punctuation is awful.
@@NerdilyDone then I probably shouldn’t tell you about Indian taco day
@@sarabear8087 where at? And when? I went to school in a small Oklahoma town with about 200 students…
I was in high school in the 2010 era. We had a sub bar where you could build a sub like you can at subway, we also had pizza, fries, chicken sandwiches and burgers. The pizza was sooooo greasy, I still distinctly remember my friend getting it and when they picked it up grease dripped off of it and filled one of the sections on the tray.
Thanks so much for sharing looking forward to watching ❤
That creamed chipped beef looks delicious. Had that a lot growing up in the 60's. I didn't realize it at the time but that's poor people food.
GROSSSS
I think location matters, our lunches from 1980-84 in northern Washington state we had incredible lunches, my favorite was the Turkey ala king and the salad bar (any size same price) we would put a half dozen hard boiled eggs on it, quarter pound slice ham, croutons, cheese, you get it. We also had burritos, pizza, tacos, hamburgers and all cooked by a kitchen crew of close to twenty women. The large salad with two chocolate milks was $1.15.
I grew up in Switzerland and we would get sent to school with a snack for recess that consisted of a large piece of German bread and a chocolate bar, every day, then we would walk home for lunch and back to school.