Irish People Try School Lunches From Around The World

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School lunches! Did you get served a meal in school at lunch time, or was it packed lunch all the way? We decided to have a look at a wide variety of school meals available across the globe, and let our Irish People sit down and see what they think!
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@davidlevy706 Жыл бұрын

American public schools typically serve different main courses, often linked to the days of the week (e.g., hamburger on Monday, taco on Tuesday, pasta salad on Wednesday, hot dog on Thursday, and pizza on Friday).

@j.robertsergertson4513 Жыл бұрын

TACO TUESDAY RULES! the rest of the week was mystery meat surprise

@davidray6962 Жыл бұрын

No pasta salad for us - the hot dogs and pizza were bumped up a day so we could have fish sticks on Friday (cause it's always Lent somewhere, I guess).

@tarabryant2909 Жыл бұрын

Wtf shit did you have?!?! We didn’t have ANY of that when I was in school.

@donaldodell7585 Жыл бұрын

@@tarabryant2909 what did you have?

@Shitballs69420 Жыл бұрын

Big random casseroles full of mystery garbage!

@lous111 Жыл бұрын

"We haven't really delved into the world of soups..." You know she does have a point there.

@ronchambers3713 Жыл бұрын

Indeed from cold to hot, gazpacho to oxtail to chicken noodle to clam chowder then the ultimate, hot and sour, a world of soups

@alexlue1611 Жыл бұрын

So nice to have Nicole back with her take on things. Her mellow energy works well in contrast with the boys.

@xer0 Жыл бұрын

The new frontier.

@flyingnow4233 Жыл бұрын

WE NEED SOUPS!

@TheTRYChannel Жыл бұрын

We clearly VASTLY underestimated the interest in Trying soups... noted! 😅

@SarahRenz59 Жыл бұрын

About American school lunches: In poorer areas of the country, schools are acutely aware that their lunch may be the only decent meal kids get for the day. Some schools give kids breakfast AND lunch. US schools have been trying to offer healthier lunch options for a while now, but it's been difficult. If you try to serve American kids tofu casserole, you can guarantee that most of them will toss it in the garbage, Schools can't afford to waste food like that, which is why US school lunch menus tend to be heavy on hamburgers, hot dogs, and pizza.

@postscript3150 Жыл бұрын

Decent food is definitely needed. I loved a burger and tots once in a while.

@ballyastrocade5672 Жыл бұрын

It's especially an issue in elementary schools, where you have a lot of kids who are going through that "picky eater" stage in general anyway and simply *will not* try anything new or different.

@aceundead4750 Жыл бұрын

There's also the issue of the cost of healthy foods.

@cCiIcCo Жыл бұрын

I don't get it. First of all my apologies, English isn't my first language. "They will not try anything new or different" and the "picky eater" phase can be met with two simple solutions. Lunch options like pizza, hot dogs and burgers should be absolute exceptions on the menu or only an option on special occasions, holidays, field trips, just to give you some examples. And if there is a problem with picky eaters, adults should become picky providers. If a child does not like or want to eat what's on the menu, it's their decision and are not required to eat it, if they don't want to. Exceptional lunch options on special occasions would change their eating habits and after some time they get accustomed to the food. And if that doesn't work, give them the choice to eat what's on the menu or not. If they don't want to eat it, they don't have to.

@Talktothehand.253 Жыл бұрын

I would toss out the tofu casserole too. 🤢

@BrutusTheOwl Жыл бұрын

As someone who grew up in the mid-west of the USA, that seemed too fancy for a school lunch. You usually got your square mushy under cooked pizza slice, a room temp soy burger with nothing else besides a bun, two big hard cheese stick/cheese bread, or the blandest watery spaghetti you could imagine. Oh and the mealiest apple you could ever find.

@MrDman21 Жыл бұрын

Classic 😎

@LindaC616 Жыл бұрын

Soy burger!? Tell me you're under 30 without telling me you're under 30😅

@josefstalin9678 Жыл бұрын

What about the rubbery milk that has the consistency of glue? You can't forget that!

@Samus7000 Жыл бұрын

Wow, that’s so different to my experience of lunches here in California. That’s a similar lunch I would have in elementary, but high school had great lunches. In high school we would have quesadillas, pizzas, chicken burgers, burgers, French fries, Alfredo spaghetti, and a very basic salad bar. I got free lunch but the lunches were ~$4. And that was around ‘06-‘10. Or maybe it’s because Tom Hanks is an alumni for my high school that we didn’t have terrible food. 😅

@AngryAlfonse Жыл бұрын

Bro they always served those damn red delicious apples! Those things are disgusting and should be outlawed for making other apples look bad

@briwanderz Жыл бұрын

i think the most iconic USA school lunch is the (cooked from frozen) rectangular pizza. some loved it, some hated it. but, the food was different each day, some places had a pattern like, friday was pizza day, thursday was small very low quality burger day.. tho, somehow most people never seemed to realize you could just get two of the main part (sandwich or pizza slice) and a milk, or whatever bits you wanted, so they would get one of each of the 4 foods and not eat half of it so it goes to waste... especially the 'fruit salad' or fruit bowl. in my experience i'd say basically just get a cheap frozen "tv dinner" at the grocery store and you pretty much have the school lunch experience.

@gregleighton6172 Жыл бұрын

At my high school in the 90's we had a chub of nacho cheese you could a side of. Pepperoni rectangle pizza with nacho cheese on it was the best. With a side of French fries and more nacho cheese to dip your fries in. The lunch of champions.

@na-vn5qy Жыл бұрын

i recall the rectangular (disgusting garbage) pizza, but mostly from elementary school. by the time i got to high school we were having (rather high quality) stromboli every friday instead, and the quality of our lunches was much higher overall. i also smoked a lot of weed in high school, that helps (but genuinely the lunches had just gotten much better). eta my friends and i would usually skip 3rd period to get stoned, then come back for lunch in 4th - and to my recollection that stromboli was some of the best food i've ever tasted. like, shockingly good for school lunch food.

@annainspain5176 Жыл бұрын

In the 60s and 70s pizza day was when kids asked for an extra main dish. That tells you how awful the rest of the lunches were. Jell-O with grated carrot in it, mealy apple chunks that had soaked in salt water for hours, cabbage salad with peanuts in it, any gloop poured over instant mashed potatoes. Disgusting.

@viridian5maureen853 Жыл бұрын

In one of my schools in the 80s in NYC, you didn't know if they gave you a hamburger, chicken sandwich, or pizza until you bit into it, because it all looked like the same brown crap.

@bookcrazy001 Жыл бұрын

Actually most licensing in America has set requirements for what has to be in the daily lunch now Grain Protein Vegetable Fruit Dairy/milk/ As long as their are set measurements for each portion then it meets requirements. On a day where the cafeteria lady wants to take it easy, usually there is some sort of sandwich involved. Bread, meat and veggies. Boom done. Then you give them a cup of fruit and a milk and suddenly you meet all the components. That said, depending on who is cooking in that kitchen you may get better tasting food

@EmpathBonz Жыл бұрын

I believe many American schools have about 14 different recipes that they alternate every 2 weeks and others have buffet style. Even others allow kids off campus for an hour lunch.

@LindaC616 Жыл бұрын

They buy their food from a local supplier. My mom worked as a lunch lady, and in Michigan it was called Gordon Food Services. I think Cisco is a popular company, as well, at least among College cafeterias. So they look at their budget and make choices based on that. But you're right, there is a rotation of the more popular items

@riffers Жыл бұрын

My suburban HS had 4 lines, each serving a different meal, and never repeated during the week. So in any given week you had the option of 20 different lunches.

@williamstewart1883 Жыл бұрын

My high school allowed kids to leave for lunch, but I never bothered. I was too busy playing magic the gathering

@GeorgieB1965 Жыл бұрын

I remember back in the 80s the principal at my high school would punish students for going to the GASP local McDonalds.

@screwylooygaming Жыл бұрын

seems about right from my recollection 25 years ago.

@b33bug00 Жыл бұрын

As a college student who studied in Japan when I visited elementary schools there was definitely a protein added and usually a milk box. I had tuna mayo, a piece of fish or it would be a soup with some beef in it.

@ThreeRunHomer Жыл бұрын

In the dark ages when I went to school, most parents packed a lunch for their kids (in a lunch bag or lunch box). A sandwich, chips, and a Hostess dessert type of thing was pretty standard.

@LindaC616 Жыл бұрын

Yep. Sandwiches most often carried were PB&J, tuna, or bologna

@rdj232 Жыл бұрын

lunch boxes were great.i had a collection as i got a new one each year.

@KrisFlicks Жыл бұрын

packed lunches are still a thing

@tiki_trash Жыл бұрын

@@rdj232 I broke the thermos in every lunch box I owned.

@maxblaser4939 Жыл бұрын

OMG you did not have the Michelle Obama lunches

@davidray6962 Жыл бұрын

I hope there's rectangular pizza. Edit: There was no rectangular pizza. Am so disappoint.

@ignacio8597 Жыл бұрын

Hexagon

@tarabryant2909 Жыл бұрын

Rectangle pizza always proved it wasn’t gonna be good lol.

@misterkite Жыл бұрын

Or pizza on a half sub roll.

@davidray6962 Жыл бұрын

Rectangular pizza was somehow magical. Crust thin as a whisper, tomato sauce which had only had spices described to it, and government cheese, but still better than Sbarro.

@tarabryant2909 Жыл бұрын

@@misterkite those are really good..but, that really depends on the toppings and the bread.

@bobbrinkerhoff3592 Жыл бұрын

School lunches in the Midwest from '63 to '68 consisted of pizza burgers or half a peanut butter sandwich cut diagonally with a bowl of chicken noodle soup , grilled cheese sandwich , a decent hot dog, or a hamburger that was swimming in five inches of grease in one of those big stainless steel pans .a spoon of corn or green beans , applesauce or apple crisp , and a little carton of white milk , chocolate was two cents extra . Somehow, we all managed to survive . I forgot the fish sticks on Friday !

@revinaque1342 Жыл бұрын

That sounds delicious compared to the other commenters from the US!

@GT-mq1dx Жыл бұрын

70’s kid here, and yes we had that exact same menu. In California.

@marniekenna8653 Жыл бұрын

As an Australian, who lives in New South Wales, I was in high school in the 90's and Sausage rolls was an option, there was also meat pies, hot dogs, some schools had hot chips but there was a limit of these so if you wanted hot food you had to be quick, we also has healthier options such as chicken salad sandwiches which would fall apart as you ate them. In the early 2000's they had gotten rid of all junk food and sold only healthy options in the school canteens.

@christophercrowder872 Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid in the Kansas City area, schools would publish their lunch menu for the coming week in the Sunday newspaper. I would sit down with my mom and plan out which day's I was eating the lunch from school & which days I was taking a lunch from home.

@silentrage5425 Жыл бұрын

Don't be fooled. In the 70's and 80's we loved Fridays, because it was pizza day. Of course, our pizza was a frozen cheese pizza that in most cases were burnt! But, that burnt cheese pizza was better then anything we had the rest of the week.

@amebecca4484 Жыл бұрын

I loved the turkey, green bean, mashed potatoes, and roll lunches in the monthly rotation. I was also the weird kid who was happy for broccoli and cheese day.

@jdb101585 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, we had the same, forgot about turkey dinner day! Usually had a dessert like a cookie or apple crisp, too.

@carriesmith742 Жыл бұрын

I'm from WV in the USA and when you get to middle school you have the salad bar option, but in grade school, it was pretty typical with milk. Spaghetti w/ roll and salad, pizza, salisbury steak, chili w/ cornbread, usually cooked veggies or coleslaw. Never had a haf sub unless we were on a field trip.

@emilywilhite5807 Жыл бұрын

I’m from KS, USA. All my school lunches were pretty much buffet style and you could almost always get pizza, hamburger, chicken nuggets, maybe spaghetti. Veggies or salad available but hardly anyone ate them.

@HappyHarryHardon Жыл бұрын

Growed up in Wichita myself. Waiting in line for those square pizzas was good times.

@crystanick2697 Жыл бұрын

Same kind of. Im from wyandotte county and our school had 3 lunch lines and a snack bar. The lines were each different but each one only had one choice for the meal but the snack bar had literally anything.

@Miss_Kisa94 Жыл бұрын

Only if you had money 🤷 if you were poor you got a dry bread and cheese sandwich

@derekstein6193 Жыл бұрын

My high school had two lines: one for basic (but decent) lunches, and the other having a la carte stuff, most of which were the good stuff (pizza, brand name chips, etc). Otis Spunkmeyer chocolate chip cookies were fresh-baked (half-baked and gooey, to be precise) in that line, and they went fast. Of course, the a la carte line was a good deal more expensive. My lunch account could really only afford the basic lunch most of the time.

@jdb101585 Жыл бұрын

@@derekstein6193 Same in my high school. Although they allowed you to swap out the "main" portion of the basic lunch for a slice of pizza (it was stuffed crust too :P) on the a la carte side, if you wanted, at no charge. The basic/decent lunches were actually good though, so sometimes you did want the shepherd's pie, tuna casserole, or fish sticks. :P

@ScrewtopReviews Жыл бұрын

I laughed when he said "where's the beef" completely seriously.

@davewhitmore1958 Жыл бұрын

The ghost of Clara Peller is nearby!

@Roamr1720 3 ай бұрын

nice profile pic, Max.. do you own a swatch watch too?

@flamingpieherman9822 Жыл бұрын

Back in the 70:s and 80"s here in Florida, this was a sample of our lunches at school: Pizza, salad and veg jellow or cake milk and juice Meatloaf, tater tots, veg jello or pudding milk and juice Friday was breaded fish, yellow grits, veg milk and juice

@MichaelW1959 Жыл бұрын

I went to high school in Montreal in the early 70s. Our school had a cafeteria that served such culinary delights as grey hamburgers, grey hamburgers with hot BBQ sauce, square slices of cheese pizza with little cheese evident, the infamous mystery meat, which was chunks of brown things floating in brown liquid, served over things of a lighter brown, and, of course, Jello. The green Jello only. On a side note, Paddy and Nicole together is a huge amount of good looking in one room. Two gorgeous human beings.

@ap_mess Жыл бұрын

per the american lunch: that might be the lunch offered at one school in new jersey, but as someone who has taught in 10 different schools, in two different states, over 5 years (as a substitute teacher), i can guarantee you that most schools aren't offering a fast food-style meatball sub with fancy salad on the side. first: most kids aren't willing to eat salad straight up. second: meatball "subs" would usually be a hot dog bun that's been toasted with two meatballs and the wateriest tomato sauce you've ever experienced. it also only comes up once or twice a month, definitely not every day. on the other hand, kids in japan typically help cook the school meals, so it's not only healthy, but it helps them learn life skills, which is really cool imo

@APaganPerspective Жыл бұрын

Each American school lunch is different everyday

@2QuartersKorean Жыл бұрын

In Texas we had school cafeterias. Most kids ate the food, some brought their own lunch. If you were poor it was free an the poor kids could also get a free breakfast. This helped the kids that were poor to have a meal if they weren't getting much at home.

@ThePsmith1985 8 ай бұрын

We have this in Scotland too.

@lisaamador7436 Жыл бұрын

You should try soups from around the world.

@LindaC616 Жыл бұрын

They could do two or three episodes. One could be spicy soups, another could be cold soups, Etc

@thatgirl9532 Жыл бұрын

Good idea there’s a lot of soup based dishes 😅

@ventaliq Жыл бұрын

Was gonna say that

@steeljawX Жыл бұрын

I think they've tried Vietnamese food, meaning they've had some. But I'll just use it for this over used joke. TryChannel, what the Phở?!?!?!?!

@jenzerr8856 Жыл бұрын

School in Washington state in the early/mid 80’s the scariest days were always “ chefs choice” and that’s all it would say on the calendar.😂😂

@jenzerr8856 Жыл бұрын

Aka stuff that’s about to expire thrown in a pot and called a “soup” 😂

@CelticCubby Жыл бұрын

Growing up in Pacific Northwest during the 80s we usually rotated lunches on a two week menu. There were the "yummy cheese sandwiches" and tomato soup, another meal was mashed potatoes, fish sticks and broccoli, another was pigs in a blanket (as close as we got to sausage rolls), and like once a month they had "pepperoni pizza". Oh and on Fridays we got chocolate milk.

@artry93 Жыл бұрын

Do part two of International School Lunches. Really enjoyed this espiode, and it's insightful when it comes to school lunch from other countries.

@faithhowe6170 Жыл бұрын

That sub was NOT a typical school lunch in the US, especially with a salad like that, they're typically crappy pizza, or a few chicken nuggets (with no real meat in them), or a pathetic hamburger. Schools here feed the kids the cheapest way they can, for example for breakfast they'll feed the kids a poptart, which is why I always cooked them breakfast and packed balanced and flavorful lunches for my kids.

@amberdawn5372 Жыл бұрын

It's impossible to generalize US lunches like that and say something isn't typical. There is just too much variation nationwide. My MS and HS (2 different districts) absolutely had meatball subs in fairly regular rotation, just on plain white bread rolls and usually chips or fries and a random veggie with it instead of a salad. Because it was an easy meal to make by repurposing the same meatballs used with spaghetti, and it tended to be cheaper to buy larger bulk amounts of ingredients that can be used in multiple meals, especially proteins. And breakfast options were usually some combo of cereal cups, breakfast sandwiches, muffins, and something big batch like pancakes or french toast. We had occasional dud meals but overall everything was quite tasty. And that was growing up in a rural low to middle class area with a lot of people on subsidized meal plans. Sadly, some administrators just don't care enough/are too lazy to do anything other than hire contractors with the cheapest proposed costs with no real information about what the meal plans are and that's how schools end up with sad burgers and poptarts.

@greenmachine5600 Жыл бұрын

We had meatballs subs at my elementary school back in the day, decent hero rolls/sub rolls and decent meatballs with marinara sauce.

@mdf3530 Жыл бұрын

Please tell me that Dermot is eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich 😂

@LindaC616 Жыл бұрын

Yeeeees! With a Twinkie on the side!

@mdf3530 Жыл бұрын

@@LindaC616 even better: Little Debbie Nutty Bars 😂

@LindaC616 Жыл бұрын

@mdf3530 oh, I had more than a few of those in my lunches! Especially once my father got ill, he had a brain tumor, and it caused Strokes. Eventually those Strokes did away with his sense of taste and the only thing that tasted good to him anymore we're sweets. So we used to have a lot of Twinkies and stuff of that nature in our lunches. My mom would buy huge boxes

@nelsonhemstreet3568 Жыл бұрын

@@mdf3530 Oh, man. I love those!

@bryanlewis4828 Жыл бұрын

how about making it a peanut butter and durian jelly sandwich.

@julieneff9408 Жыл бұрын

I recall distinctly one American elementary school lunch in the 1980s: That rectangle of pizza, watery canned corn, and a surprisingly delicious cookie. Chocolate milk if it was Thursday.

@singingkitty02_ Жыл бұрын

I remember when I went to school in Queens, NY and they would have hamburger or cheeseburger for lunch. We could choose between this, a small hero of ham&cheese or tuna, and some hot food like stuffed shells. One of my all time fave to get was beef Patties.

@wwiggins65 Жыл бұрын

In the USA we got things like, rectangular pizza, spaghetti, turkey and gravy over mashed potatoes, tacos, hamburgers, sloppy joes and tater tots, etc for school lunches. They were pretty good and quite the variety! I don't remember ever getting a meatball sub sandwich. But I grew up in California, not New York, so maybe that's why. lol

@KimDreamcatcher Жыл бұрын

OMG! As someone who lives in and went to high school in Kingston, NY, this could've been a possibility. We had a different hot lunch option with a salad bar most days, and every Friday was pizza courtesy of Dominos. We also had the option to leave the school grounds and grab lunch from any nearby places, like Burger King and there were a couple of Chinese and pizza places within walking distance.

@nicthommi Жыл бұрын

I was born there and I'm wondering if anyone explained to them the difference between Kingston NY and NYC.

@deanflet973 Жыл бұрын

Japanese school lunches consist of a typical meal consists of fish or stew or curry, boiled vegetables, a sandwich, and salad. Milk is served with each meal.

@rebeccastratton4114 Жыл бұрын

Nothing beats a homemade "brown bag" lunch. I can still smell 3 rd grade around 11 a.m. you could smell bologna, egg salad, tuna, peanut butter and jelly and leftover dinner from the night before. I loved 3rd grade!

@oddreign Жыл бұрын

Right?! I claim a superior immune system due to the fermented brown bag lunches I had in the 80s. 😂

@Shitballs69420 Жыл бұрын

Haha I can relate there haha, everything wrapped in tinfoil

@bobbrinkerhoff3592 Жыл бұрын

@@Shitballs69420 tinfoil , you must be young and had rich parents, try waxed paper .

@c-bass710 11 ай бұрын

I was thankful to grow up in a school in Southern California where we got things like pizza calzones, spicy chicken sandwiches, and egg biscuits with cheese that were so soft they just melted in your mouth! This was many MANY years ago. Kids deserve tasty, filling foods that will help get them through the school day!

@pomonarose4582 Жыл бұрын

My top tier lunch as a public school kid in the US was taco pizza. Each slice was shaped like a hexagon for some mysterious reason, but that was the absolute best. I would go back to school for a day just to have taco pizza again tbh. Idk how kids get their lunch menus now, but we would get a printed out calendar sheet for each month that listed what the menu was for each day. The constant was chicken nugget Wednesdays.

@eddieaicken5687 Жыл бұрын

We had sort of a mix of the last two. We went to the local bakery at lunch time and got a 'Double decker'... not quite a sandwich, but a sausage roll inside a baguette with ketchup. Beautiful! 35 years on, me and my mates still reminisce about it.

@NotKev2017 Жыл бұрын

I went to a small town school and those lunches were the best. Creamed chicken on a homemade biscuit with mixed vegetables and either apple sauce or a cookie for dessert. Beef and noodles with corn and a cinnamon roll for dessert. Pizza was always on a Friday and it came with a vegetable too. Ham and beans with cornbread. And all homemade by the lunch ladies who had cooked for years at the school. It was the best. And always something different.

@julieneff9408 Жыл бұрын

We always had cinnamon rolls when there was chili. And yes, the quality of the food in well funded districts was quite good. Still canned fruit and veg and soup a lot of times, but the entree and dessert were mostly made fresh daily.

@KatiTheButcher Жыл бұрын

Grade school was like that for me. Even in highschool some items were still homemade. We had a fried yeast dough rolled in sugar called scarecrows. I've tried to duplicate the recipe as an adult with no luck.

@amandafazio-js2tl Жыл бұрын

Haha, I bet if you were to do a school lunch from Apple Valley, California you'd either get a foil wrapped burrito with fries or a cheeseburger and fries or a chicken sandwich with fries or whatever the special is. That's what the cafeteria served back in the 90s, Idk about now.

@worththewait1592 Жыл бұрын

Anyone else love to see the tryers that came to the us together on videos? I wish they would show us more from their trip. Drinking around the world at Epcot is my fave video ever!

@eeeismebaker9406 Жыл бұрын

In texas in elementary school we had the main entree, 2 veggies and dessert with white milk, chocolate on fridays. Except Thursdays were burger days and Fridays were fish sandwich days.

@theresapike4065 Жыл бұрын

Same in Colorado

@danjohnson9373 Жыл бұрын

Speaking as an Australian, Dermot has got his "Strike me flamin rone" down pat.👏

@davewhitmore1958 Жыл бұрын

I liked his fair dinkum as well :)

@Lanxe Жыл бұрын

*roan haha... but you're not wrong.

@randyronny7735 Жыл бұрын

I am 70 from Minnesota and we had things like hamburger gravy on mashed potatoes or fried chicken with steamed potatoes. Every lunch also included canned fruit, butter, jelly or peanut butter sandwiches and milk.

@lilykep Жыл бұрын

My school had about 20ish meals that would rotate according to what the kitchen bought and wanted to cook, we also had a daily salad bar with green and pasta salads on it, as well as a premade to-go salad option. They also did two breakfasts in the morning. A regular breakfast before school that was a full meal, and a second breakfast that they let us eat in class which was a breakfast sandwich and a drink. They started second breakfast because no one would really eat the first breakfast, and they wanted us to eat in the morning. It was seen as really uncool to eat before school. However getting out of class for 15 min to get an egg, cheese, and sausage breakfast sandwich then eating it in class was much more socially acceptable.

@cmtippens9209 Жыл бұрын

During the Reagan administration, ketchup was approved as a vegetable side. 🙄 U.S. school lunches vary from school district to school district and region to region. They have also evolved from the 60s until now. But it seems that rectangular pizza and mixed veggies remain ubiquitous.

@jpleva9987 Жыл бұрын

The rule was never implemented and Reagan fired the administrator who drafted that rule.

@HealthyDisrespectforAuthority Жыл бұрын

The only pizza memories I have from high school (even back to elementary) were not from the lunch room.. I don't think it was offered but at events like football games or dances.. pizza happened there - sponsored I'd guess because they came from local pizza places.

@jasonbroad5478 Жыл бұрын

Sloppy Joe's and Salisbury Steak were the winners in NYC in the day!

@dukehalliday9833 Жыл бұрын

Lucky

@j.robertsergertson4513 Жыл бұрын

You do realize the school just ground up the left over Salisbury steaks added ketchup and Ta-Da sloppy joes.

@joshuaamoore Жыл бұрын

@@j.robertsergertson4513 I thought it was the kids from detention.

@jasonbroad5478 Жыл бұрын

@@j.robertsergertson4513 Yes, and welcome to EVERY kitchen in the world....repurposing is what restaurant people call...Daily Specials!!! lol

@thedonleroy Жыл бұрын

When I was in school back in the 70's in America we had good food for lunch. Most of our food was made in the kitchen & was not frozen. We had hand made pizza that was great. They also had amazing chili. Hotdishes & the like. We didn't have the frozen food heated up like all schools seem to have now. They publish the menu for the area schools in the local paper & it amazes me what they serve kids for lunch now.

@jaffa726 Жыл бұрын

So Im an Aussie and although I've been out of school for many years now I can say we didn't get given sausage rolls, we had a "tuck shop" which was a cafeteria where you could buy things like sausage rolls, pies, nachos, sandwichs, cheese and bacon rolls each. We mostly brought our lunch from home and got the tuck shop money from our parents as a treat. Bonus fact, when you reach working age it's not lunch or morning tea any more, it's called smoko. Best part of the day besides knock off.

@vinnybag-o-donuts4362 Жыл бұрын

As a local in the Kingston NY area, your crew needs to have Joe Beez sandwich shop (which is right across the street from Kingston High School) you could seriously do an entire episode on the crazy and delicious menu ideas they have created. Let me know if you want any sent express shipped on dry ice and I will gladly make this happen ❤ mad love to you all, and please make some more drink roulette videos again!

@greenmachine5600 Жыл бұрын

That sounds fun

@Moofius Жыл бұрын

I second the Joe Beez recommendation.

@irishfergal Жыл бұрын

Dermot "The soup is kinda rank," Then he guzzles it down. 🤣

@tommccafferty5591 Жыл бұрын

I went to a small Catholic High School in Ashtabula, Ohio, (St. John.) The cafeteria ladies were nice old Italian Americans. You could tell how much they liked you by how much pasta they shook off the serving spoon when they put it on your tray. If they liked you, you got a heaping spoonful. If they didn't, they shook the spoon until it was less than a full spoon. They liked me, even though I wasn't Italian. 🙂

@Cornu341 Жыл бұрын

Gradiated in Germany in 2003 in a rural area: our school did not have a cafeteria, but a small kiosk/vending machine for snacks and a small cafeteria, where you could by some sandwiches and salads. Today the same school has a cantina for the lower classes to provide them with lunch, but I never had the chance to look at those meals

@dukehalliday9833 Жыл бұрын

Glad Nicole Is Back... Missed Her

@RByrne Жыл бұрын

Came from Dublin where kids brought a home lunch if anything. Then Canada for high school. We had a ceafeteria whered you'd get burgers or pizza or whatever but you had to buy it. Kids just went to Mcdonalds nearby or bought cigarettes instead.

@lumariadp Жыл бұрын

I still remember the favorite school lunch at my school. Every Wednesday, they'd serve chicken nuggets, mashed potatoes, broccoli with cheese sauce, fruit and the best yeast rolls you've ever put in your face. EVERYONE got school lunch on that day. Once everyone was served, the big football players would buy up the rolls six at a time or buy a second lunch. Good times.

@DrummerGrrrl Жыл бұрын

From first grade until a few months of seventh grade, I attended private Catholic schools, and the lunches were sooooooo good. I mean, turkey, turkey gravy, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce with real cranberries, rolls with butter, apple crisp, spaghetti with meat sauce, just amazing foods! When I went to public school, I was in shock. Mystery meat, dyed hot dogs, crappy fish sticks... ugh.

@lindsaygroote5951 Жыл бұрын

Fridays in the U.S.A. cafeterias were a treat with pizza :)

@paulasweeney7358 Жыл бұрын

Paddy and Nicole really tried to address the subject. The other four guys wavered at regressing to their own childhoods - lol. I seriously expected a food fight in at least one group.

@mikeschinlaub3688 Жыл бұрын

"I seriously expected a food fight in at least one group.". Yeah, what the hell Dermot?, He really let us down.

@soonmoo614 Жыл бұрын

It's so nice to have Nicole back. She's so sweet. Also, Dermot shoveling the soup in his mouth🤣🤣

@davewhitmore1958 Жыл бұрын

It's a vibe!

@meejinhuang Жыл бұрын

In the US, the school lunch menu will change every day. Few people will eat a meatball sub everyday. It's usually pizza or hamburger and salad.

@walmartsucks1995 Жыл бұрын

would an italian school lunch be a glass of red wine, a cigarette, and a pizza?

@jetfowl Жыл бұрын

You forgot the espresso. 😁

@bazzer124 Жыл бұрын

As much as an Irish school lunch would be Guinness, stew and chips, I imagine. Cheers....

@petestaint8312 Жыл бұрын

😄😄😄 sounds awesome!

@Shitballs69420 Жыл бұрын

So yes?

@derekkline8359 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@AnthonyClarkPaladin Жыл бұрын

We have cafeterias in the schools here. In high school the pizza days were not that great. Those were those very cheap microwavable ones that no one really likes. The great days were when we got chalupas. They weren't real chalipas, but everyone loved the eatable bowls filled with chili and cheese. And yes. Our chili has meat in it. Still love those.

@fome337 Жыл бұрын

6:34 I can't speak for other countries, but in America, we have different school lunches every day. You might get the same thing, maybe, twice in a month. The subs and pizza are a nice lunch, but there are plenty of healthy and diverse foods as well, that might include Chinese, Italian, Mexican, Greek and American classics.

@ladycatsinger Жыл бұрын

I was lucky to go to a small country school in the 60s and 70s. Our lunch ladies would bring in fresh produce from their gardens in the spring and early fall, and nothing was frozen or canned, all made from scratch. We had things like chili, ham and beans with cornbread, rice pudding. That was back when the government was buying excess commodities from the farmers and other producers, and we had things like Orange juice and something we all remember fondly..cheese ( we called it "government cheese") and it was so good, I remember getting it on chili day. One of the lunch ladies husband raised hogs,so when they served the plates the leftover food would go into a bucket and she would take it home to feed the hogs. We had milk, and a pint carton of white milk was 1 cent and chocolate milk was 3 cents. It was a big deal to be chosen as milk monitor and get to pass out the milk to the students. We would always get the menu the week before and would decide what days we wanted the school lunch and would bring the money to the teacher. Once I got to junior high/high school we would have lunch tickets that were punched when we went thru line. It wasn't a huge school, thee were 53 students in my graduating class, so we still got good food. One of my last years they got in sandwiches like hamburgers that could be heated in the microwave (which was fairly new at the time and most individuals didn't own one) and we also got milkshake/soft serve ice cream machine. Our elementary school had a candy counter where you could buy things like jawbreaker, licorice, Sugar Daddy and Sugar Babies. That went away when I was in 5th or 6th grade because they had run out of room in the trophy case and the athletic coach decided that the candy case would do nicely as a 2nd trophy case

@sailordave1000 Жыл бұрын

70s & 80s in south Louisiana. On some occasions we had shrimp ettouffee for school lunch. Our grilled cheese was deliciously evil. Melt butter in a pan. Use a brush to spread the melted butter on the bread. On skillet, place one slice of bread butter side down on pan. Add slice of cheese, another slice of bread, another slice of cheese, and last slice of bread with butter side up. There was so much melted butter and cheese that the center was a gooey mass and the crust was crunchy. Oh so evil.

@nrxia Жыл бұрын

You should do an episode of "Irish People Try Soups," but the twist/joke is that they're actually all stews and chowders.

@lyndakelly1016 Жыл бұрын

Delighted to see John back By far one of my favs

@janfitzgerald3615 Жыл бұрын

My son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter live in an area that is very agricultural, known for growing apples, apricots, cherries and lots of other fruits and vegetables so they have a farm-to-table relationship with nine area farms. Since a lot of Hispanic families live in the area, their lunch menus often feature a choice between a Mexican option and a traditional option. The school also serves a full breakfast as many parents go to work early and the kids are in a before school program. The elementary school menu this week was; Monday- Chicken Nuggets w/Fries or Yogurt w/whole grain Crackers, String Cheese & Fruit Tuesday - Chicken & Cheese Quesadilla or Energy Wrap Wednesday- Beef & Cheese Nachos w/Seasoned Beans or Sunbutter & Jelly Sandwich Thursday - Breakfast For Lunch, Pancakes, Sausage, Egg, Berries, Whipped Topping or Chicken Caesar Salad with whole grain roll Friday- Pizza or Yogurt Parfait w/Granola, String Cheese and crackers

@thomasbecker9676 Жыл бұрын

School lunches in the US, even when I was a kid, were usually awful.

@grovelandgal1222 Жыл бұрын

Except the pizza. I always loved the pizza.

@Delostacia Жыл бұрын

@@grovelandgal1222How? It was like ketchup on cardboard with maybe 2 slices of old pepperoni. Granted I liked the mystery meat meatloaf so who am I to judge, lol.😂 star crunch or walnut brownies at the end were great though.

@LindaC616 Жыл бұрын

@@grovelandgal1222my mother took a job as school lunch lady with my dad got sick. Not only could she bring home the leftover pizza, but she could also go into the food supplier herself and buy large packages of them. We ate a lot of that pizza when I was a kid!

@LillaJag Жыл бұрын

In Sweden the school lunches is free and the kids don't bring food to school at all..

@honkanen72 Жыл бұрын

Same thing here in Finland.

@Miss_Kisa94 Жыл бұрын

Just another thing that the Nordics do better than us 😂

@ThePhaeriephox Жыл бұрын

Same here in southern CA, U.S.A., except kids can bring their own lunch as well, and many do. But they get free breakfast- one before school and one during first recess and free lunch.

@josefstalin9678 Жыл бұрын

Yeah well I bet your milk isn't rubbery with the scent of burning plastic. So, uh, take that I guess

@Tiaan90 Жыл бұрын

The school lunch cafeteria at my first school was apparently in the top 3 best ones in Sweden in the 90’s and early 00’s. This is something I didn’t realize until I switched school when starting 10th year.. 😅 Still have a book of recipes from that school! Remember a finely minced chili with rice and peanuts very fondly!

@zels7750 Жыл бұрын

As someone who went to school in spain and had cantine at school (primary school only), normally the lunches would be long tables with shared salad plates like a normal in season salad with their onions, olives, corn and tomatoes. Then the dish was served on a metallic platter with bread on one side, main first dish, main second dish and a fruit/yogurt and a few times during the hot months we'd get ice-cream. In spain you normally would have 4 course meal with the entré (something light like a plate of chees and jamon iberico with toasted bread with grated tomato and garlic) then a main like a pork cutlet and a second like a soup or fish and then the dessert. Not everyone can stomach it, but it has great taste.

@LionsOfJudah_ 11 ай бұрын

Glad to see Mr. Sharpson back in the mix! He was always one of my favorites!

@realong2506 Жыл бұрын

"Do they get a meatball sub every day for lunch?" No guys not every day, they rotate meals everyday and week for lunch in American schools as I am sure they do in all countries.

@RAD6150 Жыл бұрын

My daughter's middle school had a salad bar every day (along with rotating options) and she was so upset when they stopped having it.

@traceymarshall5886 Жыл бұрын

As they mention in the video...in ireland we dont get lunch provided by the school. There is no canteen. We had to bring in a packed lunch made by our parents. Usally a sandwich and juice. So no its not "rotated like every country". Most schools in ireland you have to stay in the classroom for lunch. The odd school was lucky enough to he allowed to go to a local shop to buy a freshly made sandwich

@W_R_L_L_ Жыл бұрын

Yeah literally how that works, some more significant meals might even only happen once a month, and also you have to remember that for some kids this is their only foods of the day.

@W_R_L_L_ Жыл бұрын

@@traceymarshall5886 Why?

@ObserverAmanda Жыл бұрын

@@traceymarshall5886 You were not able to figure out that they are talking about schools in countries that provide school lunch?

@Lauren_1998 Жыл бұрын

I think the majority of secondary schools in Ireland nowadays have a canteen

@traceymarshall5886 Жыл бұрын

I would doubt that as alot were built 150 years ago and dont have a canteen...at least in Dublin

@tamarapetersen3779 Жыл бұрын

As an Australian most of my lunches for school were brought from home. However the schools did have a tuckshop, and could get things like sausage rolls, meat pies, pizza. In primary school you'd have a brown paper bag, with your name, classroom designation, what you were ordering and the money in the bag. Someone would come round and collect these and take tgem to the tuckshop, at lunchtime your lunch was delivered in your paperbag. In high school I would have money, and my go to tuckshop order was a fresh wite roll, buttered, with hot chips in it with either vinegar and tomato sauce or gravy, we called these a chip butty. Delicious!

@johngunderson6168 Жыл бұрын

Loved our school lunches. Pizza day was definitely most liked big piece of a square flat slice. Another favorite we had was the baked potato bar.

@debo98433 Жыл бұрын

There’s no way these are accurate portrayals of school lunches.

@kayleblang5081 Жыл бұрын

Knowing how the quality of the food is at school in America (at least public school) the subway bread was probably slightly healthier than school sub bread

@jimoran5265 Жыл бұрын

Everyone got so excited when they saw the sausage rolls! Would love to see a video sometime of the TRY Channel trying to see how well they know popular/traditional Irish foods without seeing what it is before guessing. So going off smell, taste, and touch alone!

@kittydarling6405 Жыл бұрын

My mom would make me a cream cheese, tomato, spinach and salami wrap on days that I didn't have what was left over from our dinner the night before. Oh, and Cheese Fantasico dressing for my wrap and whatever fruit! Still love those wraps. I have no memory of what my Catholic school served, other than porridges!

@Bodyriot Жыл бұрын

More Dermot & Colin paired up videos PLEASE!

@davewhitmore1958 Жыл бұрын

They do sync up nicely

@TheSaltySiren Жыл бұрын

Yeah, no. Our kids don’t get a meatball sub and salad! It’s more like crusty microwaved breaded chicken Patty that is incredibly dried out, on a plain burger bun, and corn. 🙄

@idjtoal Жыл бұрын

Must've been a private school that had the sub ? Where's the salisbury steak, mac and cheese, fish sticks, and jello ?

@podpolia Жыл бұрын

Meatball sub was always a staple cafeteria meal when I was in school (and still is). The difference is quality - tiny sub roll with three meatballs rather than what they had here.

@jacquie212 Жыл бұрын

Had my kids in both private and public in the US (state in the UK). The private school had an amazing caterer, made everything from scratch. Had kids in the school. But it was still Mac and cheese, meatball subs etc. NO VEG. It would have been thrown away. The public school is much the same, but all pre made. Marginally less healthy as a result, but really comparable in my eyes. UK blew them away with the food being somewhat healthy. Always veg on the plate, less reliance on starch.

@greenmachine5600 Жыл бұрын

We had meatballs subs of decent quality when i was in elementary school

@fenikso Жыл бұрын

So a classic pairing for school lunch in the Midwest, when I was a kid, was chili and a cinnamon roll. It was always a big hit. Would love to see the tryers reaction to that classic (weird) pairing. I would also love to see their reactions to the classic rectangle of pizza and the, ever rare, hexagon of pizza.

@sj-art Жыл бұрын

My high school didn't have a cafeteria, just a "store" where you could buy things that were microwavable (burritos, chips with cheese on it, and awful little pizzas). When I was little the only meal I got to have at the cafeteria was an occasional frito pie otherwise we brought our lunch because it was cheaper.

@lokiodinson2326 Жыл бұрын

The lunch from New York must have been a rich school, because the average American school lunch does NOT look that good, or at least it didn't when I was in school. Square pizza that was half burnt, or spaghetti with mystery meat sauce. A small carton of milk that was gone after two sips.

@MrDman21 Жыл бұрын

Private school lunch

@lokiodinson2326 Жыл бұрын

@@MrDman21 Ah, that explains it. They need to try the public school lunches then. lol.

@zippymacadoo6336 Жыл бұрын

Upstate.

@josefstalin9678 Жыл бұрын

Yeah and the milk has the consistency of glue and smells like ammonia

@jdb101585 Жыл бұрын

@@josefstalin9678 Clearly you have past milk trauma. The milk was good at my schools. *shrug*

@thatgirl9532 Жыл бұрын

In Australia, typically our packed school lunches are just sandwiches either with ham or Vegemite, snacks & a juice.. But we do have canteens in schools that you can buy hot food from…love me a sausage roll 😋 Also loved these guys reactions 😅

@doughyguy2663 Жыл бұрын

I used to love Meatball Sub day (usually every other Thursday, at least when I was in high school.) We'd get a 4 inch meatball sub (with 3 meatballs) and a pile of 'wet salad' (salad mix covered with cheap Italian dressing) and a bowl of Jello with whipped cream. My second favorite school lunch was 'Hot Ham & Cheese' which, as its name suggests, a grilled hamsteak on a hamburger roll with a slice of American cheese, served with a tiny bag of plain potato chips and a scoop of fruit salad in a styrofoam bowl. They always tried to give you a fully 'rounded' meal in school for some reason. And then when school let out for the day there would be a line at the Dairy Queen right around the corner.

@jennifermalcolm6838 Жыл бұрын

Rural Scotland in the late 90s were banging! My favourite was steak pie with puff pastry, mash, cabbage and beetroot and sprinkle cake/custard for pudding. But it was all made in house by old ladies then. It was amazing! We often got Scotch Broth and a cheese scone too....LUSH!

@lamebear1000 Жыл бұрын

School lunches aren’t fancy in US. They are becoming closer to soup kitchens as poverty creeps up and more homeless children are integrated into the public (state funded) schools. My county has free breakfast and lunch guarantee for all kids so they don’t go hungry while learning.

@baskervillebee6097 Жыл бұрын

The poor Irish Tryers have done NOTHING so bad to deserve American school lunches. That's just cruel.

@Pinky-lg3lz Жыл бұрын

In high school (Southern U.S. 50 yrs ago), us kids would attach a complete setting to the underside of the kitchen table. Plate, bowl, milk carton, full silverware, napkin, using the ultimate bonding agent. Institutional mashed potatoes were strong durable adhesives. We'd then see how long it stayed, usually 2 weeks until the janitor took down the tables to wax the floor.

@racheller8946 Жыл бұрын

I went to public school in Texas in an area with lots of Catholics, so we were usually offered breaded fish every Friday, sometimes with sliced cheese cooked inside it. I loved it!

@Sebambi Жыл бұрын

Australian schools don't have provided lunches, but we do have canteens. You usually bring lunch from home or, as a bit of a treat, you might grab a pie or some chips from the canteen.

@forcetz 4 ай бұрын

I love Dermot’s and Colin’s energy, absolutely hilarious

@user-ot1eb6mt4k Жыл бұрын

Got a good one for you, Army meals during field exercises. Green eggs and greasy bacon. Makes MRE's palatable.

@t.j.parker954 Жыл бұрын

Colin will forever be my favorite TRYer for several reasons

@robthorne2077 Жыл бұрын

We had Nacho Boat day. It was a giant bowl shaped tortilla filled with either salsa or hot cheese dip (or both if you had a friend to share/mix with) and a pile to tortilla chips. I’d spoon that leftover con queso down and chow down the remaining boat. And wash it down with a few chocolate milks.

@AlterMann57 Жыл бұрын

It's great to see John and Dermot back! Now that I watched this video I'm hungry as hell!

@jpbaley2016 Жыл бұрын

It’s not a school lunch without the lunch tray. I brown bagged it. My lunch consisted of a sandwich with 2 thin slices of deli meat and mayo (hate mustard) on white bread with a handful of goldfish crackers. I would buy my beverage at school with the only choices being regular milk, chocolate milk, or orange drink. I never had lettuce/tomato on the sandwich, though sometimes my mother would add a slice of cheese. By the time I was in HS, I was working a lot more and would often toss my deplorable sandwich in the trash and buy the school lunch.