I used to drink milk as a snack at school everyday and I also got terrible stomach cramps every day. It only took about 8 years to realize I was lactose intolerant

I really hate the dairy/cattle industry subsidies.

My school forced me to take milk despite me having a doctor's note that I'm lactose intolerant and often I would get yelled at by teachers for not drinking it.

I don't even understand why kids in the USA have to pay for lunch, much less as to why this is even an argument that people are against. Unifying state budget to allow all public schools to receive all the things they need without copay is much smarter than depending on the taxes of the surrounding properties AND if you are against children having lunch for free in school you really need to rethink your priorities.

Starting the year off with strong bones! At least that's what milk ads want us to think.

It's good to see another food-based episode. If any more are planned, I'd like to see your take on how crops from the Americas (chilies, potatoes, chocolate, ect...) were incorporated into the culinary traditions of Asia, Africa, and Europe. Depending on the time period and specific location, these foods could range from being outright rejected (for various reasons) to becoming staples and cultural icons.

The majority of people in the world are lactose intolerant. A lot of people are not aware of it because they came from cultures that have not traditionally consumed milk. I think the US (and Canadian) government should have an obligation to include a disclaimer about lactose intolerance in every milk ad-campaign.

I love this woman and Simon Whistler educating me on dozens of random things :D

I'm lactose intolerant but when I was in school, the teachers always made me put a carton of milk on my tray anyways. I always wasted that milk by throwing it away :/

No milk in France too, I remember the teacher could get wine tho :D

drink my soy milk and eat my green vegetables like an adult

In Finland we always have milk in school. Even 1st grade kids are constantly being told that we all should drink 6 glasses of milk every day in order to get enough calcium and we had posters all around school showing the pros of drinking milk. Getting enough calcium is of course important for growing kids, but honestly I feel there could be another way to get enough calcium than drinking milk, especially ways that contain less calories since teenager and child obesite are probably bigger problems.

I have a milk allergy so i always got juice instead of milk in school. I hate orange juice though so I pretty much always threw it out. It was really wasteful looking back on it, I'd really would have rather drank water.

Three words: The. Dairy. Lobby.

When I was a child,, (I'm 29 yo now) my school always had cartons of white milk, chocolate milk, strawberry milk, orange juice, and sometimes apple juice. Children deserve healthier lunches than what most American schools serve. I look at the type of lunches that are serve to children in most European countries and think that American kids should be getting that type of lunch, not the type of lunch they are getting. So yes, healthier lunches would be a good idea. Happy New Year. Have a nice day/night. Great video, keep up the good work.

QUESTION: What is the connection (if any) between providing milk in school lunches and printing missing children ads on milk cartons?

As a foreigner, I think it's very weird to drink milk even weirder chocolate milk at lunch, we would mostly drink water at my school

Nice use of a John Mulaney quote at 5:55 😂

In Poland, most of us have to pay for school lunch, unless your family can't afford it. We have free milk, vegetables and fruits, but they are given separately. And when I say "lunch" I mean something more like dinner because it contains soup, main dish and sometimes a dessert.

Crazy how we now know most people are lactose intolerant, because all mammals become lactose intolerant as adults. Only Central-East Africa and Northern Europe had the two genetic mutations that allow lactose tolerance (lactase production) in adulthood. Are there any pushes to take biology into account? (Yes, school kids aren't adults, but hospitals and nursing homes often serve milk).

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Great first step into the very interesting and complex topic of entitlements!

I think when I was in elementary school in the 70s/80s we were only offered chocolate milk one day a week - and of course that was considered the best day to buy lunch. ;-)

Yay! Origin of Everything is back!

The with the advent of contractors providing lunches the food has got so nasty that kids won't eat it. The cost savings is forcing the kids to bring snacks in their backpacks to eat in the classroom.

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very interesting! I never would have thought about this on my own

Why do you like green juice more than milk? Sorry if you're lactose intolerant. It's o9nly a few of us mutants that have the lactase persistence gene :(

Cow milk is meant for baby cows, not humans

“Sponsored by the dairy men of Idaho” that’s what they always said every 5 min of the school sports programs

I got free lunch in high school. After figuring out milk made me feel ill to the stomach I went through the line and just didn't grab one. But then the cashier lady told me I'd have to or pay because it wasn't a "full meal"

Interesting topic. When I worked at various daycare centers, milk was a big deal. Almost every meal was served with milk and I felt bad for the kids that hated the taste. We would encourage them to drink it, but if it were my child, I would give them water. Milk especially cows milk has no real value to a person's diet. I am lactose intolerant. Another thing people are bringing up in the comments on how back when they were school, water wasn't seen as a beverage. Sad, because water is the best thing a person can drink! Love your channel, keep the food-related topics coming!

you should do an episode on why high paying jobs (like STEM related) are high paying and why some lower paying jobs are lower paying

Your such a joy to listen to, keep up the great work!

Yea, soy milk!! YUM

So my small rural high school would buy the milk cartons in bulk, but didn't have enough kids in the system to go through all of those milk cartons before they went bad. Solution? Freeze them. The result? No one drank the milk and instead went to the water fountain if they were thirsty (the vending machines were only turned on after school was out). And then there were those of use that were lactose intolerant by high school that couldn't have drank the milk anyway, even if it wasn't watered down through freezing to the point that literally no one wanted to drink it. I'm curious how many schools across the US freeze the milk to save money. I know our lunches were the cheapest, mass produced shit they could find - most of it was mystery meat or had the texture of cardboard along with virtually no flavor. I'm pretty sure the cockroaches lived off the shit we threw away (yes, we threw most of it away and yes there were cockroaches in the cafeteria). Edit: Since I graduated, I looked up the lead levels in the water in the town that my high school was in. Let's just say there was a reason the water tasted bad. It's not above the legal limit, but it's not too far off from it either. So that's fun. The town I currently live in has a pretty high lead content too, but at least we're using filters (however much good that does). It's better than the area my grandmother lives in - they can't drink the water there because strip mining in the area has poisoned the water and the county doesn't have the money to address it and the state... doesn't care. So she and everyone else in the tiny rural community she lives in buy their water bottled from the nearest city. Mind, it's not as bad as Flint - they can still use it to bathe and do laundry, but it's not safe for drinking or cooking. However, it's been that way as long as I can remember and probably longer. That area's been mined for over a hundred years, so this is definitely not a new problem for them.

When I was in school we had a choice of plain milk or apple juice. They would let us have chocolate milk on fridays. I always picked reg milk as it was my favorite, except for on friday ;).

When I was in high school, I was forced to take a milk. I had to buy a bottle of water but even then I had to still take the milk. I’m lactose intolerant. I wasted SO much perfectly good milk due to this. Still annoyed over it.

Extra points for using the word kerfuffle! I drank milk at home for breakfast and dinner, I remember our school occasionally had juice options as well. .

When I was in elementary school (early 2000's) I recall having the choice of 2%milk, fat-free milk, chocolate milk, strawberry milk, orange juice or fruit punch, as I got older those choices shrunk, first we lost the punch, then the orange juice, then we lost the 2% then orange juice came back then the strawberry milk disappeared then the orange juice went away again until in my senior year of highschool we had the choice of fat-free white milk, and fat-free chocolate milk

I love the john mulaney reference at 5:54 lmao

I started kindergarten in 68. That county in N.J. kids had to bring lunch. All the rest of schools in N.J., MD, N.C., FL. and GA schools provided meals. All schools I went to, meals were like healthy home cooked. Also, in elementary school, we got a recess every hour. In N.C. this ended in 77 and high schools 75. Schools need to bring lots of recess back. Having time to run and get mind of work made learning MUCH easier.

Oh man!! I remember that discussion during school!! At the time as I was not too into politics but I did understand it was to subside farming but I felt, not for the farmer's benefit....less us kids

My friend is sensitive to lactose and hates drinking milk yet they make her pay for juice, Gatorade, tea anything. Even water I think they should always have a backup for kids who dont like or are sensitive to milk

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we got those plastic milk bags. cartons too good for us

I never drank milk for lunch or at school. I always took food from home.

My grandparents went to one room schoolhouses in the 1940s cuz they lived in rural Iowa. My grandfather graduated 8th grade and went to work as a farm hand. He eventually became a mechanic as on-the-job training was much more common back then (plus the engines were simpler than they are now - he hated it when computers started being put in cars). My grandmother actually went to high school in the nearest city and eventually went to university and became a physical therapist. My grandmother's family had a lot more money and more kids so their parents were concerned about making sure all of their kids got a proper education and had options. Plus, my great grandmother actually ended up getting kicked out of her family (due to a dispute that absolutely no one would talk about and everyone involved is now dead), so after that she ended up working as a maid-of-all-work (BBC has a good documentary on the job, albeit the form it took in the UK) until she met my great-grandfather who came from a moderately successful family, although they were still farmers - basically she wanted to make sure none of her daughters ended up having to do what she did.

A milk carton is free while a water bottle is $1 where I go to school. It sucks because I hate milk but I need something to drink.

Side note, love the book shelves, can you buy them somewhere?

How am I just now finding out about this channel?

When I was a kid in PR in the sixties, we still went home for lunch... we had an hour and a half, so we could also take a siesta... :)

I do wonder if healthier food (since it nourishes the body) or good tasting food (since it makes you feel good) is a better predictor of academic performance.

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The John Mulaney quote at 5:55🤣

4:18 I got a kick out of the "n" being backwards. Reminded me of how cartoons depict lemonade stands with backward letters 🤣⭐

Good vid. Needs more about the dairy lobby.

I always hated that they only had milk, because my family couldn't afford to by the water and I was lactose intolerant.

I gave up milk for calves about 4 years ago, never felt better though. So glad Im not breast-feeding!

They never mention the tax burden placed on homeowners that pay for the entitlements. Its always" a "Federal Program".

In 1st and 2nd grade we went home for lunch, but they still had a milk break. It was in a heavily agricultural state, SD. Then, we moved to OR where we just had lunch at school. No milk break. Now, many years later, I take calcium supplements because they are cheaper and more portable, no car.

Here in the netherlands we don’t often eat lunch at school because we live with in a 5 minutes walk from our primary school, most of the children goes home for lunch. If your parents aren’t home for lunch time you will bring your own food. Also we do drink a lot of milk here. (We have many cows 🐄 )

I always found wierd to see kids drinking milk with their lunches at school in movies... I don't go to school anymore but the years that I ate at the schooé cafeteria it was only water... I can not imagine drinking milk other than for breakfast or maybe a late snack...

I brought a lunch but bought a small carton of milk. I paid the same as everyone, was in the 50s. It may not have been market pricing though. We were lower middle class but the area was middle to upper middle. So not until HS did I encounter anyone who'd need a free or subsidized lunch.

I only drink strawberry flavored milk. So I grew up either drinking water, or drinking nothing at lunch.

I have that shirt and love it and Elvis!

I’m allergic to milk and in the 1980’s I was often forced to drink milk all the time by teachers who didn’t believe my allergy was real.

Can you do a video on origin of birthday cakes

We all have that one person who asks for your milk

*B-but...I drink water in school, I've never drank milk in school...*

Can you guys do an episode explaining when did showering daily became the norm?

Love these videos. 🧀🥛

Did you just imply that you're a vegetarian or vegan? Excellent!

I am not a huge fan of chocolate milk either but I love regular milk. Those green juices are really good, just expensive.

the choice of dairy during the great depression reminds me of govt cheese. like snap/food stamps got partly started to deal with a surplus of food. (although im not sure if that surplus also came with the ability to guarantee food security for everyone). i'm also concerned about justice thomas wanting arguments to repeal child labor bans.

We had milk (also, chocolate milk and strawberry milk) in school in Germany as well. Not cartons, though, but bottles, because recycling. They cost money, though, plus a deposit for the bottle.

Thank the lord i never really got into that shit. Today I rarely ever touch the stuff.

Why haven't I already subscribed to this?! Problem fixed.

The milk at my school was always spoiled or frozen or something weird.

When I was in elementary school I went home for lunch because it was literally across the street. In high school, I went to the park to smoke weed.

When I was in gradeschool in the late '70s, the only way you could get a non-milk option in the cafeteria was if you had a doctor's note stating you had a milk allergy..which a handful of kids did. They got to have fruit juice of the sort served with school breakfast OR they could have tea from the staff's table. In my house, we drank tea with dinner and coffee with breakfast and milk was strictly for cereal. I SO wanted to fake a milk-allergy note so I could have tea with lunch. Also I was well into my late teens before I found out that not every household gave their young children coffee with breakfast.

When I was in my third grade (1981-'82) school lunch was usually pasta, meatballs, French fries, bread and an apple + water. No milk. I lived in Italy.

We need plant based milks in school for kids. Cow's milk is for baby cows.

*casual john mulaney reference in there*

Does anyone see that John mulany quote at 5:57

My school has chocolate, strawberry,and white milk

I feel that the free lunch program in public schools 🏫 here in the U.S.A was a good idea 💡. Because it helped out lower income students get a breakfast and lunch during the school year 🏫. And more should be done to keep both state and federal government programs ready in the school 🏫 system. Even prolonging it into the summer break☀️.

I've always associated milk and apples with school. I wonder if the apple growers' industry also made them the default fruit for school lunches? Or, more likely, this is all just cultural with no real nefarious plot behind it.

"He need some milk."

7:57 How typical that they are focussing on how the kids are "performing" instead of the long term effects on their health. After all children are supposed to have careers, not lives.

Hi Danielle, I have my own channel and DAMN I wish I could read that well... and that fast. But, yeah, you gotta slip once in a while, right? I hope they pay you enough!

Cool.

THIS GIRL IS A BOSS

My milk at my school is real suspicious

How about the Origin of Nursing Homes?

I think I would have done better in school if they had served breakfast and snacks during the day. Those familiar hunger pangs distracted me terribly. I wasn't allowed to eat or drink anywhere but the cafeteria. I think nowadays, kids can snack and drink during the day in class. Lucky kids

I grew up with brown paper bag lunches, and I turned out.... Oh nevermind. :-)

Interesting video! I was expecting a mention of how a majority of non-white people are actually some form of lactose intolerant. Yet milk consumption is pushed heavily to these public school children. Often non-white.

There’s more milk conspiracy theorists in the comment section than I was expecting, welcome to the Internet!

What the hell who don't like Chocolate milk? That's like admitting not liking ice cream. It's something you just don't say out loud.