JJ: Indian kids eat Indian food Me: Whoa! 😲

In Greenland, my kids always get two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 7, a number 6 with extra dip, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.

The UK one is pretty accurate. When I was at primary school in the 90s, my typical lunchbox would contain a sandwich with cheese or some form of processed meat, a packet of crisps, and either a cartoon of juice or a small bottle of fizzy drink (Panda Pop was the prefered brand at the time), and maybe a small yoghurt. If we didn't like our sandwich filling then we'd take the meat out and insert the crisps instead to make the British delicacy that is the crisp sandwich.

In Mexico in my experience, the most common thing kids get for lunch are “tortas”, which are not cakes as Google translate might tell you. They are basically sandwiches, but made with “bolillo” (a kind of bread roll) instead of sliced bread. I would usually get mine filled with refried beans with chorizo or eggs scrambled together with ham or some other sort of meat. Funnily enough, the sold those same octopus wieners (called salchipulpos) at the school’s cafeteria, but they’d pan fry them so that their “legs” would stay open.

Very accurate about my country, and I hate upama.. And no I didn't had that metal thing but i had a small plastic box

JJ: The kids go nuts for it, as seen in this commercial Me: Immediately gets a beer commercial

Quick note: in south india, we have a dish called "saambar", which is essentially veg curry with lots of pulses. Very common in school lunches.

"Vollkornbrot" is just whole grain bread, nothing weird about it... and most kids in germany also get some fruit for lunch, mostly sliced apples, grapes, or stuff like that.

Indian here. Frooti is amazing but we didn't have it everyday. And rarely anyone in cities carried those multi box lunch box. So we usually carry two separate boxes in a lunch basket.

As a Brit, the things JJ mentioned do exist, but most lunches are very very similar to Canada. A meat sandwich, a piece of fruit, and usually a pack of crisps or sweets.

In Egypt, kids might get a couple Fino bread sandwiches filled with Rumy cheese, mortadella is also eaten in sandwiches and is commonly refered to as “luncheon”, as well as halawa (sesame paste based confectionery)

I love when he says the idea of having indian food for lunch everyday sounds amazing, as this is my reality 😂. I work at a small indian restaurant and get a free curry and buttery garlic naan everyday for lunch, and is basically the only reason I still work there 😂

It's been awhile since I was a kid but in the US we had the same typical food as you describe in Canada, however there was a great competition over lunchboxes. You tried to have the best metal lunchbox with pictures from your favorite cartoon show on them, doubly impressive if it had a similarly decorated thermos inside. These thermoses were also impressive because they were somewhat fragile in that they had a glass liner for keeping things hot or cold. If you accidentally dropped it you may hear glass rattling around in it. If you had a thermos then your mom would fill it with soup (chicken noodle or alphabet soup) or something fun like spaghetti-os, Ravioli or other canned Chef Boyardee delicious goodness.

This made me really appreciate growing up in Hawaii. Traditional Hawaiian, Filipino, Japanese, Modern Hawaiian, Korean, American. You could go two weeks eating a different cuisine every day. Of course, obesity is a huge problem over here but at least we have some damn awesome food.

In Belgium we put “hagelslag” in our kids sandwiches. It’s chocolate sprinkles. In Flemish (Dutch) translated we called them “mice poop” . We also had “sirop de Liège” on our bread. The thick, gelatinous sirop was made from dates and pears. Very sweet and kids love them.

As an American, my mom sometimes makes cucumber sandwiches when she has a friend over since her last trip to England. At least the kind she makes, they don’t just have cucumbers, they also have cream cheese in the sandwich too. It’s pretty good; it’s a simple way of balancing mild sweetness and mild savoryness while also having some protein from the cream cheese

German classic: Dark bread with cheese or meat Apple Slices

In India we have a thing called midday meals where we enjoy a proper meal in the afternoon with rice, sambar ( a vegetable stew kind of dish) , pickles and papadam ( a crispy flavorless/ful thingy if you will) . Non Vegetarian foods are generally not seen with the exception of eggs in certain schools. Others make home made meals. And yes we don't eat samosas for lunch. Its more of a evening snack/ breakfast kind of a thing. Cheers 🇮🇳🇨🇦

7:54 Vollkornsbrot literally means "whole grain bread" and is popular across northern and north-eastern Europe. In Sweden almost everyone eats the food provided by the school cafeteria, which is served buffet-style. Some of our most distinct and regular foods were found on a separate "bread table": Knäckebröd ("crispbread"): A dry, thin (usually about 1cm wide) rye bread. It's more like a biscuit/cracker than what most people think of as "bread". Fil/Filmjölk: Soured and fermented milk. Reminiscent of yoghurt, but a bit more lean, sour and pungent. We ate it with muesli or cornflakes. Messmör ("whey butter"): A spread made by cooking whey until it caramelises. It has a sweet and unique flavour. Smörgåskaviar/Kaviar ("sandwich caviar"): A popular condiment for sandwiches and boiled eggs which isn't actually caviar, but rather a paste made from about 50% fish roe (usually cod) and 50% other fillers like potato.

Funny you mention bologna as a "lower class food" When I was a kid growing up in Texas (very poor family) in the 1980s, lunch was indeed bologna (not all-beef Osca Meyer; no, cheap Rogelein brand) with American "cheese" (basically a lot of stabilized vegetable oil with yellow food coloring, not in any way real cheese). Apples, oranges, and bananas were common, and occasionally we would get fruit roll-ups or maybe fig Newtons - or Little Debbie snack cakes. Milk was the usual drink option, all carried in a lunchbox with matching thermos (I had a Star Wars lunch box, a Dukes of Hazzard lunch box, and a Muppets lunch box). But I fondly remember my mom sometimes picking wild mustang grapes and boiling them down into juice and sweetening with table sugar - which is about the only real use for them, as they're very heavy with tannins and fibrous. Not really good for pies or jams. In mid-spring we'd often pick wild dewberries (a kind of trailing blackberry) and that would become pie or jam. One thing we did have was fresh eggs and veggies, as my parents always kept a garden and chickens (my mom would sell excess eggs to the local country store to make a little extra money). Our neighbors next door (next door being a quarter-mile away) also had livestock and did some farming, so trading produce was pretty common as well. One particular year we had so much squash that we literally couldn't give it away, and another year it was the same with okra. We also qualified for reduced-price school lunches for a time. I'm pretty much convinced that schoolkids today have much worse school lunch options than we did, because I do not remember the school lunches being particularly low-quality. They weren't great, don't get me wrong, but they weren't terrible. The menu varied from week to week but meatloaf, chicken nuggets, hamburger steak, mini pizza, side salads, mixed veggies, apple crumble, pudding, were all common menu items. And if you didn't like the main entrée, you could always get a hamburger. The drinks were either milk or juice - if you wanted a soda you had to buy that from a vending machine out of your own pocket!

In Romania, the school would always give us a short baguette and a milk packet. They did this for free, so no kid goes without eating

In australia, we have a vegemite sandwich, granola bar, juice box and apple, but in a proper insulated container

In Sweden, kids never bring lunch to school, the school serves them lunch 99% of the time. Although some younger kids bring "mellis/mellanmål" or "in between meals"

When I was in school, there was one kid at my table whose mom made him Steak-um sandwiches once a week. For those unfamiliar, Steak-ums is a very thinly sliced beef type meat that you can pan fry in about a minute (technically a brand but it's basically a genericized term.) They were on a short sub roll and usually had some sort of cheddar cheese and onion, and he'd bring a bottle of steak sauce for dressing. Those sandwiches were considered the highest tier item you could trade for outside of Chicken Wrap day, and commanded top dollar on the lunchroom barter floor.

Indian lunches you mention are absolutely spot on, at least in the place where I am from. I used to go to school with a similar type of tiffin box and lunch bag. :D

As a Brit i totally remember having cucumber, and ham sandwiches, it's basically an entire meal with vegetables, meat, and carbohydrates.

Here in Italy you either come home or eat in the canteen. Usually we eat a first course (pasta / rice / ravioli etc), a second course (meat / fish), bread, vegetables, fruit and water. They try to get you used to eating healthy and tasting new things and it has been the practice for decades. As usual we Italians are obsessed with food😅😁

In Mongolia, we were pretty much always served food by the lunch lady, packing lunches wasn't a thing at my school (and I can only assume that was the same for other schools). The food we ate was always served food to us in these small grey bowls - we were usually fed airag (fermented mare's milk, I never really liked it but other kids loved it), or bantan (a Mongolian soup which is mainly broth and flour), rice, or khuushuur (kinda like a flat dumpling). If we had money, we could also buy other foods or snacks in addition to the meals (which were free). Once we finished our lunch, we would wipe the bowl clean and then drink tea in the same bowl. Lunch lasted around 5-10 minutes every day - no recess at my school too, so that was our main official free time, though we would spend plenty time goofing around during class too, so not a bad trade off lol

And I used to complain about the food quality provided by the school cafeteria... (Réunion Island, France) A bit out of topic but the school cafeteria we can chose between 2 starter (exemple : corn + fish, salads, sometimes pizzas) + 3 main course (often rice + meet and a side dish (lentils, beens, vegetables...)) + 2 dessert (fruit or yogurt). There's always a vegetarian option. I think it's the same kind of lunches for the whole school system but younger kids have less choice. In "Maternelle" (school for 3 to 5 year olds), they can't choose, it's already served on the table.

I'm from the US, I knew a guy who ate a ketchup sandwich for lunch every day.

As a swede who visited an indian school once. I can say that their school lunch is absolute bomb (atleast at the school I visited)

As someone from the US, was interesting to learn that Canada's version of pizza day is hot dog day. Neat.

It's crazy how much "long john" dessert looks so much like a cheaper and failed version of the french éclair au Chocolat 🤣

4:51 It's the other way around. The umeboshi-rice meal is supposed to be patriotic because it symbolises the Japanese flag

I also had this tiffin tin, from Ghana BTW but I changed schools and where I went we got food from the cafeteria or dining halls. They served Jollof rice, rice or boiled or fried yams and sweet potatoes with tomato stew or pepper sauce called shito, beans with fried ripe plantain and Kenkey (corn dough dumplings) with ground tomato and peppers, and this may be paired with fruit juices or water. Snacks could include plantain chips, spring rolls or samosas

6:20 How did you mispronounce uPMa like that lmaooooo P.S: I also hate upma 🤣🤣🤣🤣

In India : if your mom's a homemaker literally anything - 1.Paratha 2.Noodles 3.Dosa 4.Pasta 5.Pakora . . 99.Sandwich . .

When I studied in Spain, our host mom would pack us “bocadillos”. They were long baguette sandwiches (like a sub) with Iberian ham, chorizo, or salchichón and cheese. They were so simple but she got fresh bread every morning from the bakery down the street, so they were always delicious. I tried to remake it when I got home to the US and it wasn’t anywhere near as good.

Growing up in Israel I didn’t have afternoon classes, but did study 6 days a week. Therefore we didn’t have lunch at school. Most kids did bring a sandwich to eat at around 10AM for a “10 o’clock meal” which was very popular. The sandwiches ranged from pita with hummus or Nutella to sandwiches with (kosher) salami and veggies or cheese. I personally had pitas with smashed avocado and salami, but I was a weird kid.

Germany is very accurate, what I would add is that it's usually also put into plastic boxes and a lot of kids would have a separate, smaller box (or a box with two compartments if you were fancy) to put things like apple or carrot slices in. And yes, German parents ALWAYS cut up the fruit/vegetables before school so the children can just eat them out of the box. Occasionally, children would also have a fruit yoghurt with them and take a spoon from home in a plastic bag just so they could eat the yoghurt lol.

In mexico school lunches are also very sandwich-centric, but just a few use that floffy white bread, most of the people use the more traditional "bolillo" bread instead. The filling can be almost everything, from ham, turkey or cheese, to beans, hash, scambled eggs, scrambled eggs with ham, scrambled eggs with turkey, scrambled eggs with beans, scrambled eggs with sausage or even scrambled eggs with beans, sausage, ham, cheese and turkey. In my experience there is also a kind off cafeteria in every public school (called "cooperativa"), in which you can buy burritos, "gorditas" or tacos filled with different stews. I think fruit juice is almost universaly liked by the children, the most popular brands when i was a kid were "boing" (especially a pyramid shaped one), "frutsi" and "pau pau". The "cool kids" usually opened the last two tearing a hole in the bottom instead of just removing the mettalic top. Sorry for my poor english, but i hope i could have made my point.

In New Zealand we are so lazy, sometimes we just pack a bag of chips or order a subway

In America we'd usually have the kind of stuff you talked about for Canada as well, however, our school cafeterias would always serve really good and fairly stereotypical American food, like hamburgers, hotdogs, and usually have pizza served daily.

In the USA, a friend of mine would tell me about what he ate. He’s lunches usually included a PB&J sandwich/ Ham or turkey sandwich, a lunchable, some sort of candy, and 1-2 juice boxes.

Indian here. Idli can also be sweet, covered with coconut powder and given as the snack. The curries put in those tins are often the left over from the previous dinner. Curry taste best when it rests for a day. Depending on certain areas, a lot of women are stay-at-home so they can cook fancy things for the kids but in my case, since my mother works and i sometimes cook for my little brother, we cook a thicker curry that can be held inside a bread/roll/sandwich. It has the consistency of a more liquidy ketchup or mayo Kids prefer to get these breads since they can walk around while eating rather than having to sit down and eat their rice/flatbread with curry. We also have dry curry or basically stir fried stuff with masala+spices. We wrapped it in flatbread as lunches. Edit: Ah yes. Also canteen were the ones selling the little Indian snacks like samosa. They mostly sold juices and candies/biscuits/chocolates/chips though. The culture was that snacks were bought while a real meal was to be provided by the parents. There were flatbread sellers at the gates of the school during lunches though. They would have a random selection of stuffs that you could ask him to put in the bread. Some kids' parents were too busy to put a lunch for the children so they just gave them cash.

I am from Egypt and I usually eat molten cheese with chips warped up in Lebanese bread

In Kentucky a popular school food item is fried chicken sandwiches (including a spicy variation). Another one is a little rectangle pizza slice, usually corn is served on the side, but many kids would put the corn on the pizza as well as ranch dressing.

7:30 me literally drinking frooti watching this

At most schools in Thailand, the students eat lunch prepared by the school. Also in Thailand we call the “tiffen tin” “pin toh”

This seems so foreign to me, since we have free lunches in Sweden. So I've never had to imagine bringing food to school

I live in England. I remember having three options for cooked dinners at primary school - main, vegetarian and jacket potato. "Main" usually had meat. We also had a choice of desserts. I remember there usually being yogurt as an option, but you can have stuff like cake and I think fruit too. Then you would go to a salad bar and have veg. You had to eat lunch properly and sufficiently to move to your dessert. For packed lunches, I think everyone had a sandwich, crisps (chips for Americans), fruit and something like a chocolate bar. And I think you had to eat sandwiches first. Everything was so damn exact and "strict", the entire procedure of simply having lunch. [Edit: Oh - and for primary school, you must have a cup of water or a bottle of water, unless you got lucky and you have permission to have a cup of juice!] For secondary school, you get completely free choice on the day (heck, you could even just get a bunch of waffles to eat) with no menu to fill in (in primary school, you had to fill in a menu for each week in advance, and that decides your dinner, but you could free-choose dessert). That was _such_ a drastic change for me! Could also eat anywhere in the school you wanted until the birds became too much so then the rules were changed and you had to eat inside then go outside whenever you wanted (well, you can be outside or inside any time but you can't eat outside)! And you didn't even have to eat at a specific time, as in the start of lunch or the end of lunch. You could initially use lunch time to hang out with your friends a bit then get something to eat later during that time period. But the lunch time is fixed - it's just that there isn't any specific eating time or playing time within lunch time, while in primary school lunch time would be split into "eating time" and "playing time". You could even just not have anything if you're not feeling it, though you'd be weird for it. I think you could bring in anything from home and eat/drink it as long as it doesn't contain caffeine. College is pretty much "do whatever you want, as long as it's on your break". There are so many different "shop" things within the college! You could even go outside and get something to eat. Or bring in whatever you want from home. Or just use the time to study or whatever. There's no set break time. Teachers constantly tell you that you'll be confused by and struggle with the school above because they're so much more strict! It's the opposite, kids.... It's the damned opposite. I struggled with _the independence_ and creating my own restrictions, and feeling like I'm still secretly needing to tread on eggshells constantly *when I'm not* initially when it came to moving upwards, to secondary school, then college. But it feels like an autism thing. Idk if any other autistic people would confirm/deny.

Where I come from in India, in my school, kids usually brought light and more easy to pack food such as macaroni, roti, noodles, sandwiches etc. in small tiffin boxes, which we had during our lunch break at 12, and then we'd go home and have a proper Indian lunch at 3.

So in Austria the lunch food is very similar to the stuff you get in Germany. Mostly bread with ham in it (yes alot of Vollkornbrot and it tastes good and is healthier than white bread) and fruits (either (sliced) apples or a banana) People also often have a simple water bottle with them. When you get older it gets common that you just buy your food somewhere, I have made the experience that "Schnitzelsemmel" (roll with a Wiener schitzel in the middle) or a "Leberkässemmel" (roll with a meatloaf in the middle) are a very common thing to eat during long school days.

In my country: the Philippines, in school my parents would always pack me rice with chicken or beef adobo which is basically chicken or beef just soaked in what I think is soy sauce

I'm from Norway. The typical lunch my parents would pack me was an open-faced sandwich with either jam, peanut butter, slices of meat, cheese, or brown cheese (caramelised goat/cow milk). I would also get some veggies and/or fruit, and a yogurt. This was typical for the other kids at my school as well.

I actually read an article for one of my college courses last semester about the obentos. I remember they seemed to be a cultural institution in Japan, with magazines and books showing how to make certain styles. The article also talked extensively on what this could say about gender roles in Japan. It was super interesting! The article was called, “Japanese Mothers and Obentos” By Anne Allison in case you were curious!

In my country (at least my school) we used to blow the juice packs with air and then step on it. It creates a sound which feels as if someone shot with a gun. Bangladesh

I remember once going to the school cafeteria and asking (in my native language, Bengali): "Uncle, do you have Bitch Lasagna?"

In elementary school (in America) I always had pb&j, a fruit cup, a capri sun juice pouch, and some sort of sweet cookie snack like Scooby snacks or mini Oreos. Everyone generally had a similar structure but with varying brands and varieties for each category

Idk what others had but I usually got to eat plain rice and hotdogs for lunch in the philippines. The hotdogs would be put on top of the rice in the lunch box and it would turn the rice red/pink. Back when we couldn't afford buying hotdogs regularly, it's just fried fish and rice. One time I asked my mom to pack me some raw vegetables like carrots and cucumbers.

In Delhi I used to eat an Indian lunch for less than a dollar a day from the High Commission cafeteria. It seemed awesome at first. But, the low-protein, high calorie meals eventually caught up to me and I got pretty damn fat within a few months. Indian lunches every day is less awesome than it seems.

In the Canadian North, they get served food from the school. They use ingredients flown in from rest of Canada or caribou meat from locals. Things like caribou meat poutine. Locals are poor while grocery prices are high so the school provides lunches for some days. I got a chance to go to a Canadian Town up north and talk to the locals.

One of the perhaps more unusual things about kids’ lunches in Poland would be that a relatively common component of sandwiches may be pâté (pasztet in Polish), the cheap type that comes in a small metal dish thing (look up pasztet profi and you’ll see what I mean). Another thing is milk bread rolls (bułeczki mleczne) that are packaged in a bag like bread, 10 in a pack. They look like tiny loaves of bread but taste like a very sweet fluffy bread-like substance. It also has a pretty artificial taste, you can almost taste the preservatives (idk if you actually can or what that artificial taste actually is). And that’s what I usually got for lunch, also maybe with a mandarin orange and a bottle of water to drink, not specifically for lunch though. For most of my childhood there was also a program that everyone would get a small carton of milk to make kids healthy I guess? So you could drink that with your lunch.

JJ continue this premise!! This is such a solid video with fun information!

In the exotic land of Pennsylvania We eat peanut butter and Marshmallow fluff sammiches

I'm from the UK, around when I was at school there was a big turning point in school foods. A TV chef called Jamie Oliver started a campaign to make catered school food more healthy. The food which I had at school was quite varied and moderately healthy. However, some of my friends who are only a few years older than me have fond memories of pizza and chips every day, deep fried everything, and no wasted space on vegetables.

As a swede we had free rather good food in scool, often with a big salladbar and some knäckebröd if you didn't like the food. But on the days we had fieldtrips swedish pancakes was in many childrens lunchboxes, often with some strawberry jam. You could also get a tunnbrörulle. That is flat bread that is rolled up with diftent fillings, like chees and/or ham.

So glad you added that clip of you devouring the fruit roll up

I know you didn't ask for school lunches but in the UK schools across the country used to unknowingly give us horse-meat lasagne, hence why i take packed lunches.

Food reflecting culture is so true! Some guys at work were discussing this. One was an orthodox Jew describing how limited his menu choices were due to religious culture. A Vietnamese guy laughed and said that in his culture "If it moves, you can eat it. If it doesn't move, you can probably eat it."

7:00 - "Especially Frooti brand mango juice, which the Indian children apparently go nuts for - at least, if this commercial is anything to go by." KZfaq: *inserts a comically-timed Grammarly commercial*

growing up in Croatia, the most popular lunches were sandwiched whit cheese and salami, bologna meat, or mortadella. fruits like banana or mandarin. more often than not a juice is made from syrup at home or water. and sometimes special lunches like Nutella sandwiches, a small packet of crunchy corn puff snack, packed croissant, or some Kinder brand desert

From Canada, so basically the same as you although we had both hot dog day and pizza day and I’m pretty sure it was every week, or at least the pizza was for sure.

Finland: Pea Soup, Karelian Pie, Karelian Stew, Rye Bread, A lot of things from blueberries (and cloudberries if you live in the north), sausages, carrot salad and on free time those light green parts of the spruce leaves.

Yes, we call those long johns in Richmond too! Also, you’re supposed to dilute Ribena, not drink the concentrate directly. Please don’t tell the government my grandma brings me Ribena! 🙏🏻🥺

I like how you make videos on all sorts of topics

In Panama we will usually get fried empanadas with meat or cheese filling, also fried corn tortillas that are a lot thicker and smaller than Mexican tortillas usually served with a piece of american cheese and a fried hot dog on the side, fried plantains were also popular and hojaldre wich is a fried bread, we will be lucky to get bollos with cheese on top and those are made with corn and butter and look kind of like a thicker hot dog To conclude, our lunches will always consist of some soggy fried carb with a side of some soggy processed meat

In Italy, we didn't have afternoon school when I was little, at least not where I live (countryside) so we went home for lunch (but we went to school also on Saturdays). Home lunch was usually pasta, unless I went to my grandparents, then it was pasta and then meat and vegetables. Now many schools have afternoon classes and they provide also lunches, but I don't have children in school so all I know is from an administrative perspective. I was a councilor for a while and school lunches were provided by services who had to follow a nutritionist guideline on their menu. Also, usually bringing food from home into canteen is forbidden because of contamination worries. We have a "merenda"= snack midmorning, and that is usually a sandwich or bread with oil and tomatoes, or fruit. This is where a Nutella sandwich would come into sometimes. Never for lunch though.

I lived in Japan too, but I was an ALT at an elementary school. In my experience, bento boxes were typically brought on school trips or on any occasion that children were not at school, with lunches always being served at school. Lunches always consisted of rice, a milk carton, a salad of some sort, and a main dish (typically curry, beef stew, soup like tonjiru or ramen). The head teacher would always served me extra food when there was some leftover, even serving me thirds... and I gained a lot of weight from that ahaha.

My mum made me make my own lunches as soon as I could. my personal favorite was cheese and gherkin sandwiches. I liked the combo, and they froze well, so you could make a whole loaf of breads worth of sandwiches, bung em in the freezer, and grab one on the way out. would be defrosted by the afternoon, and that combo was the least soggy.

Idk if this is my country's (Uruguay) thing, or just my mom, but growing up I was never allowed to have sandwiches for lunch, since they are not "lunch food". I was mostly sent milanesa to school, with either rice or mashed potatoes. Milanesa must be one of the most common foods in here, along with anything containing meat.

So Canadian lunches are American lunches? *Conspiracy noises*

I’d love to see a second video of this based on comments from KZfaq, Twitter, etc.

So I just found you, and your hair has been wildly different in every single video I've seen, love it 😂😂😂

Hey JJ, another great video. Love from England. My lunches were sandwich, packet of crisp, biscuit and fruit similar to yours. 🇨🇦🍏🍌🍊🥪🍫

"Homemade luches that parents give their children to bring to school" I'm from Finland

In Sweden parents don’t make the lunch, it is served for free at school. The lunches are actual hot food with a lot of variety, like lasagna, soup and pancakes, pizza, tacos, swedish meatballs, stew, hash browns, and so on. There’s also usually a salad buffet and crispbread sandwiches.

Swedish schools eat a full meal for lunch, never sandwiches as a main dish. Although there will be hard bread at the side sometimes. It was served in the "food hall" which is what I assume you guys call the cafeteria. Which is weird to me, unless the kids are having coffee breaks at your schools. The most common food I think we had is a breaded or panéed fish with boiled potatoes, peas and a sauce made from sourcream/milk, lemon, dill, gherkin, salt and pepper. I think there was a mandate that there had to be fish one day of the week. But there are also some stews, sausage or if you were lucky pancakes or meatballs. Some complained about it being quite boring food, but I usually liked it. The worst days was when the school tried to do something that sounded cool (for kids) like pizza-cod which is just as horrible as you might imagine. But it does fit in with Swedens long tradition of doing weird things to Italian food.

Here in Czechia most kids get sandwiches with ham, cheese and vegetables for snack from home, but then they usually go to the school cafeteria for lunch. The lunch very often consists of cooked cheap beef, pork or chicken (breast) with rice, potatos, potato or bread dumplings and some kind of a brown unindentifyable souce (called by students the UHO: Univerzální hnědá omáčka - Universal brown sauce) made of whatever. An Austrian schnitzel with potato mash or spaghetti “bolognese” are considered the “good” food. Sweet tea is the most common drink. And schoolkids sometimes get battered apples or oranges as a bonus.

"The brits have the weirdest sandwiches." Im pretty sure its in par with dutch sandwiches.

I'm Canadian but my parents are Paraguayan and while (living in Vancouver) most other kids would get sandwiches, Indian, Chinese, or Japanese food (my school had a majority of Asian kids), I got traditional Paraguayan lunches.... and being a very shy kid, I hated it when everyone asked what my lunch items were. It was so embarrassing to have to explain foods that I didn't have an English name for. I often wished I could just have sandwiches ever day!

In Finland genrally parents don't make lunches for the kids. They get it for free at school. It is usually different every day, but common items include potatoes, salad, and some tipe of sauce with some type of meat. At christmas we would have a christmas meal. As a drink we got milk and water, sometimes juice

I go to a Catholic school in England so the cafeteria serves Fish and Chips every Friday, it gets pretty boring

USA: lunchables, just leftovers, frozen meals, speghettios. I’m done now bye!

Yeah you summed it up pretty well

The way he says is soooo cute. Canadian accent at its finest

As a Peruvian, what I remember eating back when I was in elementary (and in Peru) it would usually consistent of the following. Entree - Stuffed Potato or Tamale or Triple (three layered sandwich) or Empanada Snack - Apple, banana, or whatever fruit was cheap and plentiful Drink - Fruit juice, sometimes peach or apple. Again depending on what was available and cheap Desert - (when given) Lucuma ice cream, tres leches, or flan ***I lived in Lima so my lunch did vary from the other places

Slavic cuisine is honest, what we eat normally, we are giving to tourists too. and they love it. Hi from Slovakia and greetings to Croatia. Love your Lignje na žaru 🇸🇰❤🇭🇷 Edit: In lover quality in school cafeterias of course

While I was in high school (maybe around 2017?) in the states, my cafeteria changed to where they just offered pizza (“healthier” bc it was a whole wheat crust) EVERY DAY in one of the lines, because the other food was so bad that a majority of kids who didn’t bring lunch would just skip eating. A lot of it came down to schools trying to make foods that kids would still want to eat (burgers, fish sticks, tacos, fries, etc) while also conforming to national and district standards on what they could actually use in the food and how much sugar and salt can be in them.