Americans Try European School Lunches! (Italy, Norway, Germany)

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We gave Americans a selection of school lunches from around Europe to see what they think of what some of other countries eat for lunch at school!
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Americans Try European School Lunches! (Italy, Norway, Germany)
0:00 Intro
0:15 England
2:11 Ukraine
4:22 Italy
6:34 Norway
9:28 Spain
12:08 Germany
14:49 Winner!
15:51 Outro

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@_sxph1e_ 4 ай бұрын

As a german, I can say I have never seen this as lunch. Within the schools I've been to people usually either brought their own bread with things on it or if they got something at school it was usually like some meat, with some kind of vegetables and carbs (rice/pasta/potatoes) and then they would get to choose desert either something sweet or fruit. Depending on the school a small side salat or bowl of cold veggies was also included.

@_limex_ 4 ай бұрын

Yes!!!

@cacklebarnacle15 4 ай бұрын

Crying in German, because you did us, Italy and Norway dirty with those weird bread and bun choices. And those 'prezels' looked sus as hell.

@SpiderSplash_ 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, we usually use sourdough bread in Norway, and always one slice of bread at a time

@drSvensen 4 ай бұрын

@@SpiderSplash_ ^Fake Norwegian. We do in fact stack four slices of bread all with completely different toppings into one huge bread tower.

@Luredreier 4 ай бұрын

@@drSvensen Sure, they might be *stacked* four high, but you *eat* them separately...

@drSvensen 4 ай бұрын

@@Luredreier Are you German? How did you not understand that it was a joke?

@Locomaid 4 ай бұрын

@@drSvensenHow could you think that it IS a joke? Are you Danish?

@olafriedel2182 3 ай бұрын

As a german i have to say, that they chosed the worst school lunch possible. Most schools i know have similar meals like italy or spain.

@HappyLoki585 3 ай бұрын

Well maybe in Berlin. I never had sausage in a bun in school. That's normal street food. School food is more like meat or fish+potatoes or nudels+salad

@aerinn6136 4 ай бұрын

My face went 😱 when they ate all the slices of bread smashed together! We eat them separately in Norway. 😂

@mrslally2023 4 ай бұрын

Word 😂 fy faen så ekkelt å de fikk det til å se ut 😂😮

@RogueOwl 4 ай бұрын

Saaaaaame 😂 They didn't even point out the liver paste.

@missc2824 4 ай бұрын

as a brit, I never had a school lunch like that. My school offered panini's, Jacket potatoes, pasta pots and tuna melts every day and then had a rotation of curry, lasagne or other pasta dishes, roast dinners, etc. every friday was fish and chips

@rtsharlotte 4 ай бұрын

What was given to them was what we had in the 80's 😆

@natzloveu 4 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s all mixed together which isn’t correct..

@-Gacha-Nerd- 2 ай бұрын

What is a jacket potato???

@rtsharlotte 2 ай бұрын

@@-Gacha-Nerd- another word for a baked potato

@-Gacha-Nerd- 2 ай бұрын

@@rtsharlotte oh. Thank you 😊

@dapperdanbuilds 4 ай бұрын

There's a lesson here that no one is talking about. That is what meals look like when your health isn't being sold to the highest bidder, and you aren't being poisoned on the daily. Half the crap put in our food in the US is banned and labeled as poison in Europe.

@-Gacha-Nerd- 4 ай бұрын

The yellow food dye in Kraft that got them into trouble in the uk for it being linked to adhd and other mental health issues

@user-wi9hv2pb2q 2 ай бұрын

my father wouldn't let us eat it.

@womanonabicycle Ай бұрын

YES! Agree

@lesterine77 Ай бұрын

Its a conspiracy theory on a global scale v

@mssandybeach1 22 күн бұрын

You act like you are being made to eat food that you feel is poisoning you! Grow your own food!! Don't blame this conspiracy theory on the government when you can take care of yourself and not be poisoned Take accountability for yourself. There's a new concept.

@jenzhere99 3 ай бұрын

In the US, school lunches consisted of a rectangle piece of pepperoni pizza, fries, some kind of canned fruit and a half pint of milk. If we let go of the emphasis on competitive sports we might be able to feed our kids better healthier meals

@Owen004 4 ай бұрын

That one girl was right. Schools get massive football stadiums but can’t have good fruit at lunch

@chicken 4 ай бұрын

Idea for next time do Japanese bento boxes.

@Vulcanerd 4 ай бұрын

They could do this in a Asian lunches episode where they cover places like Japan, South Korea, Philippines, etc. Bet it'd make for another fun episode.

@AP-RSI 4 ай бұрын

Or natto... LOL

@thatgirl9532 4 ай бұрын

@@Vulcanerd as much as I respect your opinion… they haven’t even touched other Asian countries besides the typical ones you mentioned and it is unfair and disrespectful

@dealinreid 4 ай бұрын

I love you chicken 🐔

@grebenrA 4 ай бұрын

Leverpostei, brunost, ham and cheese all at once?! Madness. I'd plop the ham and cheese together, maybe. But the two others needs to be eaten on their own. You savages. 😂

@polen23455 4 ай бұрын

As a norwegian seeing them squishing the bread toghether actually hurts

@NathalieTyler 4 ай бұрын

Same. I was shouting at them 🥲

@midnightrainvlogs 8 күн бұрын

In Italy pasta isn't usually put together with the other "courses".

@KamillaFjeld 4 ай бұрын

I’m Norwegian… and it physically hurt to see them eat those 4 open faced sandwiches together…..

@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 2 ай бұрын

Skinke og gulost. Greit. Men.... Brunost og leverpostei....🥪 Fytty katta ! 😝

@camkiller2004 4 ай бұрын

I’m British and I have never had a jacket potato, fish fingers, Beene and biscuits for lunch in any school I attended. When I had school lunch I went for a burger or a pizza with a drink(not tea) and a dessert(usually a chocolate brownie or cake).

@AdamYJ 4 ай бұрын

That pretty much sounds like a U.S. school lunch.

@jenniferchan3462 4 ай бұрын

We had jacket potatoes in our school and fish fingers sometimes appeared on the menu in primary school. High school we mostly had burgers or pizza but we still had jackets and roast dinners as options too

@YoongisWife-nn5sd 4 ай бұрын

@BLOSSOM.1000 3 ай бұрын

I had jamaican food at mine, and then we had bbq chicken wraps

@greatboniwanker Ай бұрын

I thought - beans for lunch? 😂

@tatitz1677 4 ай бұрын

No German would call this a pretzel... Also the bun of the Bratwurst would never be served with a Bratwurst. To me that looks like a hotdog bun.

@mr.atomic2970 4 ай бұрын

Exactly what I wanted to say. Thats a soggy and discusting Brezl it even isnt one. A real Brezl needs Schweineschmalz and be crispy and dark Brown at the Outside and Fluffy on the Inside.

@drSvensen 4 ай бұрын

You think you got done dirty? Look at that American "bread" they used in ours (Norway).

@darthtrout5097 3 ай бұрын

During my time in school the Bratwurst was often served with Sauerkraut and mashed potatoes. Never in a bun like that. And i can't remember if we ever got a pretzel for lunch in school. Our food often looked more like the spanish one - tho it was never of that quality.

@Charoke 4 ай бұрын

Norwegian here, the stacked bread is real, but we dont eat everyone at once. Its different toppings to have more variations. You eat one slice of bread with topping at the time. Not everything at once🤢

@briaunaharris7303 4 ай бұрын

Europeans when they realize every school in every state is different from each other we don’t do the same thing like y’all do over there

@Charoke 4 ай бұрын

@@briaunaharris7303 lol, I was talking about how we eat our lunch here, how it's meant to be eaten, not how US kids eat.

@Luredreier 4 ай бұрын

@@briaunaharris7303 How is that relevant to *our* traditions? Norway used to be relatively poor, and we had a period when people *really* thought bread was healthy, and got a bit obsessed with it, so traditionally people here make sandwiches like that at home, and bring to school, although *definitely* not with toast bread found in US stores... Our breads are a lot like the German ones, very healthy. We eat the slices separately. And since every pupil has their own food package brought from home it varies what's on it depending on what's in the fridge, what people *want* etc. This is also a typical lunch at work in a normal job. On the side people drink a glass of cold milk.

@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 2 ай бұрын

Mellomleggspapir... Mmmmmh ! 😋🤪

@TheStephrules 4 ай бұрын

Sorry but I am from the UK and I have never seen that served for a school lunch, just saying. I used to work at a secondary school and I know, at least in the school I worked at, that they never served this at lunch

@riddlerosehearts8277 4 ай бұрын

Same as a brit I never saw that at all

@hybridstryker233 4 ай бұрын

Stop tha 🧢 😂😂😂😂

@zeddyfin 4 ай бұрын

My primary school years, were at the start and high of the Jamie Oliver health school meal’s revolution.

@malcolmelliott3471 4 ай бұрын

When I was younger I had a teacher day so was off school. Mum worked at a school as dinner lady so got everything on lunch menu. Best day ever

@EmpressSunshinesMother 4 ай бұрын

I’m from the UK, West London and we were served this in primary school.

@IncitingScenes 4 ай бұрын

Just for the record: no Norwegian has ever eaten all of those four sandwiches squeezed together 😂 They're meant to be eaten one by one, not all together 😅🤢

@lfreuja92 4 ай бұрын

I was just writing this. (I am from Denmark, but guess, we are similar) … Also, that is not how it is packaged together?!

@88Atwood88 4 ай бұрын

@@lfreuja92 No wouldn't in Sweden either, just the thought of mixing Leverpastej with anything but cucumber makes me barf 😂

@danipianoarts 4 ай бұрын

That is NOT a typical German school lunch!! 😂 Cantines would serve nice dishes, at least from my experience.

@johannessoleng9471 4 ай бұрын

The norwigan one is madnes 4 on topp of eachother i am crying😭

@irminschembri8263 4 ай бұрын

@@johannessoleng9471 Don't cry Johannes, after all you know these are Americans. ;))

@marybillups4822 2 ай бұрын

@@johannessoleng9471 idk - maybe trying it the way the Americans ate them? Something different? It honestly only ego, that's hindering you.

@djturbo89 4 ай бұрын

As a Norwegian I'm was SCREAMING at these kids.... You eat each piece separate, not as a huge sandwich... omg guys -.-

@MikuRobloxYt 4 ай бұрын

Frrr

@rtsharlotte 4 ай бұрын

I'm not Norwegian and it was obvious to me that you don't eat them like that. I think it just proves on how much Americans think big is better. They kept saying how much bread there was as if the bread isn't part of the sandwich

@celinejohnson4925 4 ай бұрын

As a dane i agree

@drSvensen 4 ай бұрын

@@rtsharlotte Silly Americans, don't they know that we have the bigger alphabet? ÆØÅ!

@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 2 ай бұрын

Not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier these kids...🙄

@m.p.9931 4 ай бұрын

well .. in every German school i went to there was a Kiosk with Snacks like Croissants, tomato-mozarella Sandwitches, pizza slices and stuff like that to buy but it's honestly more common to bring whatever you want from home. Sometimes we went to the Supermarket or whatever foodplace was near to get our food..

@norGE_17 3 ай бұрын

as a Norwegian i'm not gonna lie,i died a little on the inside when they asked if brun ost was sliced peanut butter. also you dont eat all the sandwiches in one bite!!..if it wasn't obvius my Norwegian soul is crying right now.

@giuliaanichini7667 2 күн бұрын

Italian high school students usually go home for lunch. Lunches are usually served in kindergardens, primary schools and sometimes in middle school. The food is not super delicious (you can't make great tasting food for that many people), but it sure is healthy. As the girl said there are pretty strict guidelines.

@HeckleCat Күн бұрын

ah the days of going home for lunch, home was a few blocks away.

@Karin_Aquatica 4 ай бұрын

The German bread rolls aren’t that soft. They have a crispy crust outside and they are soft inside but another type of soft than these hot dog buns. And there are definitely other school lunches being more healthy. At the time when I was at highschool there wasn’t school lunch but meanwhile an Italian restaurant from the town provides the school lunch.

@mg3929 4 ай бұрын

I'm from the UK, and trust me when I say, that looks nothing like what we were served for lunch.

@Mommyz.at23 4 ай бұрын

As a norwegian i wanted to stop them so bad when they started eating the whole thing like that😭

@animearigatoo 4 ай бұрын

Same 😅 It looked gross. One at a time please 😜 I can't understand how they could like the mix...

@francescapucciano9205 8 күн бұрын

As an Italian we don't mix all courses on same plate, is considered gross

@rosiekaytrevino166 6 күн бұрын

I agree 👍

@Sdoironpowers 6 күн бұрын

Sounds like too many dishes to wash haha

@francescapucciano9205 5 күн бұрын

@@Sdoironpowers One more?

@kjk8941 2 ай бұрын

I am German and I can assure you: This is not what we got for school lunch. There was always some salad and fruit. Plus usually something with potatoes or pasta and a really good piece of meat. Oh, and the pretzel didn't look originally German to me, to be honest

@alicetwain 2 ай бұрын

Also the pasta was a really poor imitation.

@lisaschubert1396 2 ай бұрын

In the tiktok she showed that there was salad and apples, i didn't get why they would leave them out

@RogueOwl 4 ай бұрын

The open faced sandwiches (Norway) aren't supposed to be eaten stacked all at once like a big American sandwich. They have the paper separating them (or are supposed to anyway. I didn't see any in this video other than what they're wrapped in) because you eat them separately. I had to laugh when someone pointed out how much bread it is. I've told my husband that people here (I live in Norway) seem obsessed with bread since they have it so much during the day 😂

@liihler 4 ай бұрын

Why didn´t they correct the tasters?!? Holy! Now my mission is to try everything at once... (Also from Norway;))

@user-nq8nr1lt1p 2 ай бұрын

In Italy the food served in school canteens (primary school) varies daily. Pasta, rice, polenta, vegetable soup, fish, white meat, red meat, cooked or raw vegetables, mashed potatoes, pizza, pudding, fruit, fruit salad... Sometimes even fish sticks but baked. Frying is prohibited. I am a cook in a school ;)

@itzTeTe 2 ай бұрын

Question, is the food quality so high because the child population is so low?

@FilippoTarpini 2 ай бұрын

@@itzTeTeno

@user-nq8nr1lt1p 2 ай бұрын

@@itzTeTe No

@Artaudette 2 ай бұрын

@@itzTeTe I don't know if "quality is high", I just know that the menu is based on pediatric/ health recommenations. I confirm that fried food is banned. Then I don't understand your question: if there were more students we'd be allowed to serve them crap?

@dianabialaskahansen2972 4 ай бұрын

The paper is used to separate the layers of bread for the Norwegian one. You eat each slice individually, not mashed together.

@PUTDEVICE 4 ай бұрын

it's an american thing. you rarely see them eating open face sandwiches

@marybillups4822 2 ай бұрын

@@PUTDEVICE This is true!

@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia Ай бұрын

@@PUTDEVICE I'm French and to me this is confusing. A sandwich for us is two pieces of bread and something in between. If you have just one piece of bread with something on top of it, it's called a "tartine"...

@PUTDEVICE Ай бұрын

@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia here in Sweden it's called a smörgås if it's an open face sandwich or tartine. one with double bread is a sandwich. like your tartine is an open face sandwich. like the Danes' smörrebröd.

@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia Ай бұрын

@@PUTDEVICE Nice to know that other languages also have two different words depending on whether or not there are one or two slices of bread. 😄

@123batina 2 ай бұрын

Im from EU and what amazes me is how you guys are so amazed by our soups and stews. Those are literally easiest and cheapest foods that can be cooked en-masse. You need 2 100l pots, 2 ppl to chop up some meet and veggies for an hour or two and you get 500 meals easily. Pair it with salad which is also dirt cheap and easy to season / process + good fresh bread and you got yourself a great meal. For dessert u usually dont exactly get a fruit salad as depicted (its not exactly fine dining) restaurant but you get whatever fruit is in season - being apples, oranges, watermelon, strawberries, etc. But you get it whole, just washed.

@yopanda2 4 ай бұрын

We're in the uk and my child's food options today were roast beef, veg, roast poatoes and gravy or sweet potato and chickpea roast with veg etc with banana cake and a fruit pot for lunch. They go to a standard british primary school and the meal in the video is not at all a common British school meal at all.

@rachelee18 4 ай бұрын

As an Italian person, we don't have school lunch, actually most of schools don't have a "cafeteria"

@user-tm6sd5jt1c 4 ай бұрын

For the Norwegian one, why would they eat all of those different pieces together!? That's not the point... you eat each separate😅

@MelMeltalks31 4 ай бұрын

i think some of them preferred it together rather then separate. Just because they are trying a Norwegian dish does not mean they have to eat it the way every Norwegian does. I am also pretty sure people in Norway eat how they want too.

@RAZEROWNING 4 ай бұрын

@@MelMeltalks31just stop talking when u dont know anything about it.

@marthe18luck 4 ай бұрын

@@MelMeltalks31 If they do it on their free time, sure, be abominable. But when they have to rate something? Please eat it accordingly then, it doesn’t become even fair. I don’t get why they have to have to call it a sandwich.. it’s like they’re making it into something it’s not. Just, think of a dish that your culture has, that you grew up on.. rated unfairly because it was done wrong. How would you feel? Also, never in my life have I seen someone eat brown cheese and liver pate together in Norway.. nor is a sandwich really common to make here, it’s not preferred because it takes more bread in my opinion.

@csdragonfly Ай бұрын

You should do Portugal. Like Spain, we also have very strict laws about school lunches. Every day schools have to offer soup, a main dish of meat, fish or a vegan alternative, salad and fruit. Occasionally kids are offered pizza, but only like once a month. There's also bread and water is the only drink available. In most schools, lunches are prepared on site, in the school kitchens by a cook and several helpers.

@Cthomas5678 Ай бұрын

❤that’s the way it used to be here in the 60’s and 70’s real food!! Unlike what the kids get nowadays

@mettehustad8007 3 ай бұрын

07:30 The whole of Norway screaming Nooo 😱 (I actually did this)

@joykind4258 Ай бұрын

I'm in my 60s, and my public school in Dallas prepared food like Spain in the 70's. You could smell the rollls baking all morning.

@cathyb5759 Ай бұрын

I remember those days. If we could have bought a plate of rolls, we would've. Lol torture all morning until lunch period! Lol But we didn't have choices then. And I don't remember a whole lot of fried foods then either.

@TheSweetMartinez Ай бұрын

I'm right there with you. Those rolls were so delicious. The smell was heavenly.

@Cthomas5678 Ай бұрын

Same here!! We had good home cooked food back then!! When my daughter was in elementary school I was shocked to find that all the meals were packed cold meals from a central kitchen it was awful. My favorite from school when I was a kid was ham and beans cornbread, mashed potatoes with sauerkraut and hotdogs oh and they made homemade peanut butter bars❤❤❤

@mkh1996mkh 4 ай бұрын

In the UK if they're giving you fish fingers then they usually come with chips(fries) and peas. And the dessert is usually a piece of cake with custard or something similar.

@momuv6980 Ай бұрын

I was Food Services Manager for a small Elementary school and I made 95% of the food from scratch. Introduced the kids to cheddar broccoli soup, homemade pizza, all kinds of veggies & fresh fruit. My biggest complaint about the system - we weren't supposed to give kids second helpings (but I did anyway!) I loved the job & those kiddos!❤❤

@CS-ol7wo 29 күн бұрын

How big was your district? Where I grew up, they made food for us (campus of about 500-600 kids). But my kids' school has a lot of prepackaged foods (about 1k per campus). I always felt their school lunch program was a rip-off.

@amberc7115 4 ай бұрын

Whoever did the research on this should be fired 😂

@Lee_Marion 11 күн бұрын

In France, school lunch is pretty similar to the ones from Spain and Italy showed here. We have a salad or apetizer, a main meal with fish or meat and vegetables/puree, a piece of bread, a piece of cheese or a yoghurt, and a fruit. Many kids eat at school (that was my case) but some go home when they have a parent to eat with. We didn't know we were so lucky to have a full and balanced meal.

@lisathaviu1154 14 күн бұрын

One thing people don’t seem to realize is that in Spain, for example, lunch is usually a large meal because they don’t have supper until 9:00. Supper is also usually a smaller meal.

@Cut_Throat_Girl 13 күн бұрын

Don't worry, we have merienda in the middle of the evening to get us going xD

@norwegiandpg5910 3 ай бұрын

Sorry but they just ate 4 separate sandwiches that are ment to be eaten separately as a big sandwich. As a Norwegian myself it was a bit desturbing to se them combine dessert-like cheese with savoury liver pateé. Its just 😑 wrong… other than that fun to watch their reactions

@komet_kid3656 3 ай бұрын

Im in the UK and that is not what my school lunch is like, ours is basically pizza, chicken and chips or a panini but sometimes on special occasions they do curry, rice or nachos

@nuanceblacksywin4868 4 ай бұрын

NOOOOOOO!!!!!! WTF?!?!?!??! You eat one BRØDSKIVE at a time. Not everyone together! This is madness! PURE MADNESS!!

@godenzoon5955 Күн бұрын

Madness? This is Americaaaaah😜!

@quinnderuna16384 7 күн бұрын

As a german this is not what I ate back at school. This is not what a typical German school lunch looks like at all.... I'm shocked!

@Leenapanther 4 күн бұрын

I thought germans go home for lunch, at least in primary school.

@mecolour591 4 ай бұрын

Yo wtf are they doing to the Norwegian matpakke 😭😭😭 you’re not suppose to eat them all in one wtfff 😂😂

@nordicstorm9666 4 ай бұрын

I AM HORRIFIED by how they ate the Norwegian lunch😭 it’s supposed to be appart like some of them did🤦‍♂️

@fishbone3333 5 күн бұрын

Americans (and I am one) should be ashamed at the total lack of quality and nutrition of school lunches.

@tanyacampbell29 4 ай бұрын

My kids don't have this on their school menu in the UK they have a week 1, week 2 and week 3 menu and it rotates continuously, BBQ Chicken Pizza with baked wedges and sweetcorn, Beef Spaghetti Bolognaise with a side of peas, Roast chicken, Roast potatoes with seasonal green vegetables and gravy, Chicken Fajita wrap with steamed carrots, Creamy pesto chicken pasta, sticky glazed chicken with baked wedges, beef chilli with rice and carrots, sausage, mash and gravy with peas, beef lasagne, chicken tikka masala and every Friday is fish and chips and all deserts are fresh fruit, yoghurt or jelly on most days except for fridays when it's cake day. There is also vegetarian options and if you're vegan basically you can sod off and your parents can send you in with a packed lunch. Jacket potato (baked potato to Americans) is an option but its usually a veggie option and the kids can choose if they want the veggie meal or the meat meal regardless if they are vegetarian or not. School lunches have changed drastically since I was at school, they must follow a guideline for healthy options now and to be fair when I was in school it wasn't even that unhealthy apart from all the cakes.

@gillianrimmer7733 4 ай бұрын

I've been a teacher in English schools all my adult life and have never seen chocolate digestives, or any other biscuits as a dessert option. Also, that combination of food was just plain wrong - you wouldn't get fish fingers with a plain jacket potato.

@mckaelyntennison 4 ай бұрын

That sounds so so good 😊

@virginiarobbins7539 3 ай бұрын

You honestly just described most school lunches in Florida..I don't know where ppl are getting such horrible American school lunches but in Florida they were pretty good too very good.. Pizza day of course everyone favorite.. I still haven't had any pizza that taste like it and it's still my favorite... I'm 51 and wish I could buy it somewhere.. We had very well balanced meals at school and breakfast at school if you wanted.. we have free and reduced lunch and breakfast depending on parents income.. others pay full price but over half likely got cheap or free as they were lenient in the income level and you didn't have to be completely poor to qualify for reduced price. We honestly had really good food I even love stopping in a hospital cafeteria and buying lunch or dinner to take home as it's the closest thing I can get to what our school lunches tasted like. We did get a small desert each day but it would be jello or pudding maybe a cookie a small fudge ball or small piece of cake but it wasn't elaborate size it was just a few bites size. We had fresh or canned fruits depending on season. Fresh veggies as topping for hamburger or a small side salad a lot but not every day. ALWAYS had a veggie of some sort ,a fruit ,a meat and a starch, and small desert.

@acrojen03 4 ай бұрын

Nah, when they just ate all the slices of bread together at once??? I almost barfed thinking about all those flavours and textures together... (this is coming from a norwegian)

@wisteriapoison3 4 ай бұрын

SAME, NO ONE DOES THAT?

@GeirTheNorwegian 4 ай бұрын

Jeg tenkte det samme når de klemte alt brødet og pålegget sammen....urk....

@karenoien325 4 ай бұрын

Yeah, no!!!!! Leverpostei and brunost together is wrong on all the levels. Like sure the cheese and the ham, but not with two breadslices. Its not a sandwich.

@wisteriapoison3 4 ай бұрын

@@GeirTheNorwegian ja det var jo en grunn til at det var plastikk rundt

@mockupguy3577 10 күн бұрын

“I’ve never had grilled fish” BLOWN AWAY

@sofiarasch2460 4 ай бұрын

omg the they they ate the lunch from Norway makes me so mad, ITS NOT A SANDWICH ITS INDIVIDUAL SLICES OF BREAD WITH TOPPINGS

@dakariruth9044 3 ай бұрын

Stay mad I would do the same thing

@SpecialJay 3 ай бұрын

My child is in school in Spain. Its broadly accurate except for the vegetables which would never be served plainly steamed like that. It would be either in a stew with beans or stir fried or as a rice dish.

@chloeh9824 13 күн бұрын

In France, we have : a first course, a main course, cheese or yogurts and dessert plus bread and water on the side. The meals are not repetitive, there is a few extra special meal through the year , like Christmas, Chinese New Year, some international food days…Every meal have to be approved by a nutritionist, with vegetables,fruit,crabs,protein and dairy. Fish at least once a week, nowadays some school offer a vegetarian day with vegan protein. In the preschool I worked ( but I think it’s mandatory in every preschool) the kids had a small piece of bread and a fruit at around 10am if they wanted. If the kids stays after school hours they get a snack , it might be biscuits, viennoiseries or fruits (depending of what they had for lunch, and the calories intake) . There’s often organic ingredients in those meals. The french government is well aware that for some children, the school meal will be the only (healthy) food they will have for the day. The costs depends of the household income, in my city the poorest family is symbolically paying a few cents pers meal and the richest 3€ ( still very cheap)

@sebastianjohnsenrossow3462 11 күн бұрын

That's no German shool-lunch. Seems this school only has a small shop but not a kitchen with real cooked food at all. In reality many schools serve cooked food similar to this from Spain or France. Not just bread and unhealthy stuff. But yes, french fries and Curry Wurst are very popular. It differs a lot.

@zeliard91 4 ай бұрын

As a frenchmen, at first, I was so was ready to once again make fun of our friends accross the pond. But honestly, I mostly feel sorry and pity for them : they are so used to eat crap that they are amazed by some normal food. Next step, they will discover that you don't have to pay enormous amount of money to get basic healthcare ... I really hope for them that this next generation can break the old mentals shackles (exceptionalism, red scare, over individualism...) and join the rest of the world by having a minimal welfare state.

@julianbarber4708 4 ай бұрын

Totally agree. They are so deprived, it's criminal.

@TheMediaSource Ай бұрын

For lunch in the UK we wouldn’t have that for lunch at school lol where the f did they get that idea from?

@annmariepanchaud2411 2 ай бұрын

Wait till they find out the lunches are either free or less than 6 euros

@Leishafan1985 4 ай бұрын

Nobody in the uk calls them Cod Fingers, it’s Fish Fingers. Also never been served any of that in the UK when I was in school

@anuraktaray4255 4 ай бұрын

I think the Italian luch was most balanced meal of all. Spain came second. Fish is a way better choice of protein than beef ( red meat). Also, Italian one had carbohydrates too which was missing in Spain. I feel, every school lunch should be taking care of providing a balanced nourishing meal.

@luciagarcia1978 4 ай бұрын

In Spain me eat bread with our meal almost everyday.

@kpopworldshi5827 4 ай бұрын

Not them eating 4 different norwegian sandwitches at the same time....

@notlyxu 4 ай бұрын

It’s pure horror .w.

@Torniization 4 ай бұрын

Omg same 😂 and I am American/Danish and I was like "NOOOOOOOOOO" You. Eat. Them. Separately!!! Odin have mercy 😂😂😂 and that was ham, more specifically "Sandwich Skinke" and not baloney. I've had enough baloney in my life to know and taste a huge difference 😂 and omg that "Burn Ost"... which reminds me, I need to get some. It ends up tasting like caramel because of the boiling process.

@notlyxu 4 ай бұрын

@@Torniization oisann, en Oleanna danske jo

@Himbros 12 күн бұрын

Ok, just for information, in Italy cantines are just for kindergarten and elementary schools. Middle and high school rarely gave any lunch service because in most schools lessons stop at 14.30 max. Also, Fruits in school are not chopped in a bowl. Usually they are an apple. Or an orange.

@Alek4275 9 күн бұрын

well, not necessarily. I had lunch at school until I was 15 yo (doing 8 h a day at school we had a lot of free time from friday to monday) Also macedonia (sliced fruits in a bowl with some sugar and lemon juice) was quite common, expecially for all those kinds of fruits that need a knife to be peeled. You don't want your unsupervised kids cutting themselfs with a knife am I right?

@Himbros 9 күн бұрын

@@Alek4275 you had a better experience than me then!

@meow762 Күн бұрын

agreed with the first part of the comment! i almost always got macedonia though, sometimes a clementine or tangerine instead.

@Himbros Күн бұрын

@@meow762 dunno, in my experience it was a banana, an orange a pear or an apple. Sometimes we got ice cream, yogurt and pudding. But, my school decided to give childs fruits as a midmorning snack instead of a dessert, so maybe that is why!

@meow762 Күн бұрын

@@Himbros woah i never got those other sweets! did they actually taste good? :0

@martinfranzen9151 4 ай бұрын

I'm 33 years old and live in Sweden. I work as a bricklayer/plaster and get around 31 000 Swedish kronor (2733 Euro) /a month after taxes and pay 6000 Swedish kronor (529 Euro) for my apartment and then i get a parkingplace with electricity, electricity in my apartment, wifi (250/250), 25 tv-channels, free water (for example drinking-water from the tap and hot water in the shower). With that said...and with all the benefits we in Sweden have with whealtfare..like free education, parental leave, 5 weeks vacation (by law) and more and more....i can't really complain 👏

@fryanilsen9975 4 ай бұрын

I am from norway you don`t eat the bread to getter you eat it separate

@DillaryHuff 14 күн бұрын

We typically eat those sandwiches separately in Norway 😅 One has regular cheese on top of it. Looks like they added a smiley made out of paprika. Another one has brown cheese on it, which is caramelized goat cheese. There's one with liver paté on it, which I never developed a taste for. And the last one has a slice of ham and pieces of cucumber on it. Those are all very basic school lunch sandwiches here. I always envied the kids who brought grilled cheese or pizza as their school lunch, or got enough allowance to be able to buy something more fancy in the school cafeteria every day, but in hindsight, our classic school lunches are all pretty healthy and many of us had to prepare them ourselves from middle school and beyond, which I think is a good thing.

@AHVENAN 3 ай бұрын

I can pretty much guarantee that if the ingredients had actually been sources in Europe too, everything wouldhave tasted even better and probably blown their minds even more, the stuff they are allowed to use in the production of food in the US is baffling too me!

@flitsertheo 3 ай бұрын

They would find European non-sugary food odd.

@CornedBee 3 ай бұрын

Especially the Norwegian sandwiches. Imagine using American bread instead of Scandinavian bread...

@AHVENAN 3 ай бұрын

@@CornedBee I can't, it's unfathomable 😂

@Morgaine 3 ай бұрын

Yes! They ban chemicals that are in American foods. We should ban them, too.

@heleli 4 ай бұрын

MATPAKKE ! IS ! NOT ! A ! DISH ! it's literally just the word for lunchbox in Norway (literal translation: food package). You bring your matpakke to school and eat during lunch. AND YOU EAT ALL THE BREAD SLICES SEPERATELY

@memyselfi4325 Ай бұрын

omg please don't smoosh the (norwegian) sandwiches together and eat all four at the same time! 😱 they are four individual sandwiches 😂 also; we don't eat white bread every day, and definitely not for school! 😱

@theoriginaldirtbikejoe7636 29 күн бұрын

I always squish my sandwiches. I don't know why. LOL

@hollykennedytaylor94 4 ай бұрын

‘Steer me away from London’ why do Americans never say England and literally think London is a country

@knirfien2091 5 күн бұрын

While italian school lunches are tasty and healthy, this is likely combination. And I've almost never seen a soft bread roll there. I also went to school in the UK for a couple of years and we hardly ever got baked beans, and if we did, it was always accompanied by some veggies and protein.

@ileniagennari499 3 күн бұрын

In my school we used to have little bread buns, very similar to what you could see in Pompeii. But little and soft, with crunchy crust

@YumiWings21 4 ай бұрын

They did the Norwegian matpakke diiiirty💀 You eat one slice of bread at the time...

@mj3107 4 ай бұрын

Why? Is there a law in Norway that you have to eat food a certain way?😂 Give me a break, you eat however you want.

@JustsJordan 4 ай бұрын

I’m from England and our school lunches are deffo not like that😂 we have much healthier options and most of the time it’s the Spanish or the Italian one

@skodass1 3 ай бұрын

Eating the Norweigan lunch all together is a BIG nono... each slice of bread is supposed to be eaten separately. Danish school lunch is very similar but would probably be rye bread instead of wheat.

@ccsullivan9164 12 күн бұрын

My favorite observation? ‘We don’t have fruit and vegetables, but we have a football field’. Classic.

@riveraharper8166 12 күн бұрын

I prefer my fruits&veggies

@LondonNat 2 ай бұрын

We never once had this for school lunches. I have never heard of digestive biscuits given out at a school.

@Neashadia Ай бұрын

I can only speak for German school cafeteria food: it is fresh and will be presented on a plate and eaten with fork and knife. There will always be a side of veggies or salad. A hot dog is not German food at all and not a typical school lunch either. And if you in fact have a hot dog for lunch you would definitely not combine it with a pretzel!

@Mochigamergirl 3 ай бұрын

Lunches are not like that in UK, we do have Jacket potato options , fish fingers one day a week but we have healthy foods and multicultural meals throughout the week. E.g pasta and meat balls, vegetable lasagna, lentil bakes etc

@joelrudshavn4894 4 ай бұрын

Squishing the bread together in layers like that is not the way to eat ”matpakke” in Norway. Brown cheese and liver pate in the same bite ? 🤢

@marybrouwer2315 3 ай бұрын

In the 60s and 70s in America we had real cooks that made wonderful lunches for us. I remember cottage pie and chicken pot pie. Sloppy Joes that tasted great. Also peach cobbler, cookies or apple pie for dessert. All made from scratch.

@motolife620 4 ай бұрын

Norwegian one should be etaten one at a time hahaha

@eulalia6225 4 ай бұрын

The fact that as a german i knew they would screw up the bread choice 😂 you need a Brötchen for the sausage, not a hotdog bun. And why does the brezel looks so beige? 👀

@Henrik_Holst 4 ай бұрын

they obviously have to source the stuff in the US

@execbum1 11 күн бұрын

Can I just say, as a British person, that is not a combination you would see together over here. Fish fingers are served with chips (fries in America), not jacket potatoes. Beans would only go with a jacket potato if they were on top of the potato with cheese melted in on top. Chocolate Digestives are not eaten as a pudding (dessert in the US) - they are served with a cup of tea. They are also not universally considered the best biscuit to have with tea - that is a hotly debated topic here in the UK, but Hobnobs are usually given that exalted title.

@BookNomming 3 ай бұрын

Fish fingers would not be on the same day or same meal as jacket potatoe and would have chips and veg. Those are definitely not the type of cookies in school, we do have some but not like them

@BookNomming 3 ай бұрын

Did you even actually research school dinner in the U.K.? Yes jacket potato is one option but doesn’t really represent them

@rosek315 2 ай бұрын

Told ya Countries outside the USA care about the health of their citzens.They not serving their kids crap.

@Bradamante68 4 ай бұрын

But in Italy high school don’t have school lunches, everyone eats at home! Only at the kindergarten and at elementary school only some classes do the “tempo pieno” staying at school till 4 in the afternoon. The majority eats at home! Then usually the food is not that great, and not served on a single plate. Every course has its plate. One dish of pasta or risotto or soup, then meat or fish or cheese with a side of vegs. Dessert yogurt or fruits or little pudding.

@malachia908 3 ай бұрын

Nelle scuole private medie incluse mangiano primo secondo con contorno frutta e talvolta dolce ognuno servito nel proprio piatto

@Bradamante68 3 ай бұрын

@@malachia908 dipende dalla scuola media privata. In quella dove ha studiato mio figlio, non c’era la mensa. Orari simili alla pubblica.

@yourlocaljoliee 3 ай бұрын

Ok I live in Spain and that's actually what we have as lunch like literally yesterday I had this bruh 😭😭

@ms.1207 3 ай бұрын

That's great

@selmafranz 3 ай бұрын

Nonononono you dont eat all the bread together😭😭 amazed y’all had all the different spreads but please I’m crying in Norwegian. Happy they liked it tho😭🩷🩷

@SquatCobbler-Cry 3 ай бұрын

Maybe they just showed you a new way to try it lol

@Narnendil 2 ай бұрын

I wanted to see their reaction to that they ate liver! haha

@jenniechan3587 4 ай бұрын

Im from London in the UK, this is some examples of what i had as state school lunch/break (2017-2022) Break options: waffles, bacon cheese bagel, pizza square, grilled chicken wings Lunch rotation example (main dish + one side): tomato pasta/spaghetti, jacket potatos, bangers and mash, cottage/Shepards pie, variations of curry and rice, roast chicken and mash, some asian egg noodle stir fry, fish and chips (every friday), variations of different baguettes/sandwiches, chicken and chip wedges, mac and cheese, roast pork slices and mash - there were normally 2-3 main dishes mostly served with a small side of veggie plus the cold sandwiches and one option is always vegetarian. Side dish/ desert option rotation: short cake that was dry as hell, fruit, chocolate/carrot cake and custard, apple crumble, fruit salad, chocolate/strawberry mousse, rarely icecream with biscuit/cookie, jelly custard trouffle

@SuperCloudBerry 4 ай бұрын

I'm Norwegian, and let me tell you...that's not matpakke-bread 😳You'd never be able to mush 4 slices together like that here 😂However, from what i've seen and heard online, America doesn't reeeeally have actual "proper" bread (by Norwegian standards) in stores, so you had to go with what you got i guess. 🤷‍♀

@The_Squirrel_irl 4 ай бұрын

They never seen proper german bread either 🤷‍♀️

@marcusfridh8489 4 ай бұрын

America doesnt have any proper food at all, not only bread

@NaeniaNightingale 4 ай бұрын

American bread are considered cake over here, not allowed to be sold as bread because there’s too much sugar in it.

@B3llaThat 3 ай бұрын

Noo, most of you ate the norwigen wrong. You’re not supposed to mix them. you’re supposed to eat them separately❤.

@KateOBrienCreative Ай бұрын

As a non-American I find it really sad that these kids and young adults obviously crave good healthy food and can't get it. It's easy to believe that Americans eat crap because they like crap, but this video really shows that isn't the case at all.

@DizziJaden Ай бұрын

American here, that's exactly how it is. Food that will fill you up but is not necessarily good for you is the norm around here because that's what's affordable to most. We only really see the unhealthy options as normal or desirable because that's what we've been bottle-fed since we were babies. Honestly it's just this issue with money that businesses have done hella capitalizing on

@nataliewalters2759 Ай бұрын

American here! We have a lot of healthy food here. However , the school food sucks. We have so many farmers markets and places to get healthy foods. The issue is that we have so much food that the healthy food isn’t presented as much to younger kids in school to cut costs which isn’t right.

@KateOBrienCreative Ай бұрын

@@nataliewalters2759 But other places have a lot of food too so I don't quite understand. There are plenty of options where I live, and there are definitely people who choose less healthy options too.

@1ACL 22 күн бұрын

it just depends where you live. Some American school systems are making good lunches. Some partner with local growers. Some schools even have gardens and the kids get to learn how to grow food.

@amyb1078 22 күн бұрын

We have healthy food here in the U.S., but school lunches are generally not healthy. The kids in the video are reacting to the fact that these are school lunches. Do they get healthy food at home? They probably do. I'm always amazed at the assumptions and generalizations that are made about Americans.

@Stayskz457 4 ай бұрын

‘Baked cod fingers’ lol *fish fingers* 😂😂😂

@chanqmin8687 4 ай бұрын

Brooo the Norway one is sooo bad, why did they eat all of them together like that TT You're supposed to eat one by one..nobody here eats it like that, thats so weird