Food Theory: DON'T TRUST Your School Lunch!
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Theorists, did you ever buy lunch from school? Did you feel like it was satisfying and healthy? Well, that is what we are looking into today. You see, your school lunch is meant to give you a healthy balance of foods to get you through your school day. Except, that is NOT what I remember about the lunches I ate from school. Is it all one big LIE? Let's find out!
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The “fries” that are shaped like smiley faces are god tier when it comes to school food
You’re absolutely right
Oh yeah! And waffle fries. But those were really really rare
I made a deal that if I give this kid one smile fry he gives me whatever they serve at lunch for a month
i hated them because my school never cooked them properly, tasted like the tator tots but with like no crust and buttery
so true
Matpat sitting crossed leg, refusing to be lifted by “Sporty Girls” lives in my head rent free 😂
FACTS
hahaha
Lol
Yes
😅
Matpat dunking on and name dropping the mean “sporty girls” will live in my head rent free for the rest of my days
That is some matpat LOOOORRREEEE
1:25 when he talks about his " experiment " its so goofy j mean bro hung on for dear life
Matpat definitely seems like the guy to unironically remember the exact names of 5 school bullies for years
same
Trauma has a tendency to do that to people.
And exposing them on the channel
I remember mine. One of them works for my dad.
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I considered myself lucky in high school when I learned that the sweet lunch ladies would work with the culinary class to chop fresh vegetables and grill chicken for our boxed salads. These big homemade salads would count as an entree because of the chicken, hard boiled egg, and breadstick that came with it, but would also have all kinds of good stuff in a couple varieties. I would always pick them up and thank the lunch lady that told me about it, because she definitely felt more like a lunch mom to the students.
I had something like "Cheezy Dippers" when I was in high-school in Eastern Tennessee. My Mom would give me $2 for lunch and I would bypass the regular food line and go to where the Cheese Bread sticks was being served and it would only be $1 per Cheese stick. Maaann those were the days!!! 😅😂❤
Who else is watching this after he retired
Me😭😭
Me :'3
Me he was real good
Best theory maker
Yep.
Matpat: “Don’t trust your school lunch!” Me: “Never did, never will.”
Lol
Same, does anyone?
I Never did either, you can’t tell me that those mozzarella sticks were trustworthy
Same
Ok dont read my name 😑 😤 ..
My school used to have a fruit requirement. You could not have your meal unless you had at least 1 fruit (an orange, apple, or banana). They later changed it that you didn’t need anything except the food you wanted (but they would charge you more without telling you). There was a rumor that went around that the janitor would dig through the trash and pull out any fruit that looked like it could be served again. Almost everyone just assumed it was fake, but still didn’t eat the fruit because it was not very fresh. I did an experiment with an apple and really didn’t think anything of it. I made a mark on that apple that looked like it could’ve just been natural, but it was just different enough that I could tell the difference. I was actually disgusted when I found that same apple 2 days later. I never ate anything from that school ever again
and no one sued them?
will things have changed but I am glad I still bite every apple I get at school
Should have reported that
And no one else did that and realise it!!?!?
You did right man, you did right ._.
My number 1 favorite school lunch is when they served orange chicken and chow mein, I also liked the Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner that they served when it was like a week or something from Thanksgiving and Winter break, I also liked when they served Spaghetti, I also remember we got garlic bread with the spaghetti which makes it a lot better
Orange chicken fr
Everybody’s favorite thing they had on the menu at my school was pizza crunchers and they were basically breaded on the outside and cheese on the middle with sauce surrounding the cheese and it had the best cheese pull. But personally, my favorite is the pepperoni pizza that wasn’t shaped like a triangle but more like a boat… Not many people liked them, but I loved them lol. BUT THE HOTDOGS??? THEY WERE SHRIVELED FINGERS BY THE TIME OUR LUNCH CAME 😭
My school has a student's mom as the main cook. So we always got traditional home cooked meals in the selections of food. It's actually very nice. School usually just gets the raw ingredients delivered by a nearby supplier. (This stuff is cheaper in my country)
Country? Which one
lucky
Except your parents spent their retirement on your private school.
@@Kammo757 nope got in with an Athletic Scholarship in Judo and the tuition fee for an entire school year for those without a scholarship is around 859 USD. But due to a government program that supports the education sector it gets deducted to 687 USD for the tuition. This is for the Junior and Senior High School. The middle and pre school rates are obviously lower and the college one's higher. Note: using USD here since it's a more internationally recognized currency. Also again thing's are a lot cheaper here.
Same except I went to a hippy school in the middle of no where so it was all vegetarian food.
I actually did a survey about school lunches at my school. Most people said the lunches were okay, a few kids hate the lunches, and the kids who think that the soggy fries and the dry spaghetti is to die for.
@bcvbb hyui Hot tea, it made my throat much better when I drank a cup earlier.
@bcvbb hyui Hot coffee, orange juice and spicy food helped me when I had a cold
0:01 tuna sandwiches ( my favourite ) and chocolate cake ( big serving ) with custard on the top
My school give us these burito bowl with rice bean chicken or beef and you have the option to add lettuce bits and cheeder cheses and I always thought it was the best
The best thing my school ever served was the “Holiday meal!” This included stuffing that strangely tasted like Rice-a-Roni, mashed potatoes, green beans, and two slices of turkey and the whole thing was covered with turkey gravy! Back when the the Pandemic was bad and they send lunches and breakfast, and when they were delivering the “Holiday meal” I would order extra because it was that good 😋
Sounds like a 5 star restaurant
Was this for thanksgiving or every holiday?
In high-school we had a few different "restaurants" where students who volunteered (and got paid) made fresh burritos, pizza, salad, sandwiches, and sub sandwiches. It was so good
Student economy
We had chili every Wednesday at my school (we happened to get extremely lucky and had a local restaurant cater our lunches - the perks of being in a 700 student combined middle and high school). A friend of mine would trade my cornbread for his chili. He loved the cornbread and would often get multiple servings from others, I loved the chili, no food went to waste, and we were both happy. Win-win. He'd also take my potatoes and corn on wing-ding day - not a fan of either, so I didn't mind.
Dude student economy was the best, you learn certain skills and you get to do stuff on your own
We had similar "cafes"
My high school lunch was terrible! Any chicken was VERY pink inside, all the toppings of pizza (including the cheese) you could pull off in one piece, the milk was spoiled a lot. The most semi acceptable thing was the salad. Especially with goldfish and ranch on it. I also found it weird that all the vegetables we grew in agriculture class and gave to the cafeteria were never used?
Our school has Italian dunkers which are basically cheese with some bread rolled around it. They’re really good. They also have cheesy French bread which is some bread that looks to be from a more rounded prince of bread cut into quarters horizontally and vertically if that makes sense. With butter and cheese on top. Not to mention quite a few people seem to like crispitos which are basically ground beef with some sort of seasoning to them wrapped in what I can only assume is a hard tortilla? Besides those food quality had been declining except for the fact they’re finally getting better tortillas which my friends and I are quite pleased with.
As an European, American school lunches scare me. In my country school cafeteria was more like a non official restaurant. You could pick from a meniu what you wanted to eat, from soup to fish to meat and other meats and a full meal+drink was usually around 3-4 euros and that's not talking about the pastries and pizzas( yes, a whole pizza, but it was only one kind) for around 2-3 euros. And you knew what was in the meat, so you were certain that your burger wouldn't come alive once it was on your plate EDIT: I'm from Lithuania and I went to a public school. In my schools there were also programs for parents with very little income where the kids would eat completely for free as well as there was a program where you could pay for the school to provide a meal for your kid and ensure they were eating if you weren't sure if your kid could be responsible with money and would actually eat instead of saving it to buy toys
It's similar here in Singapore too, whereby the school canteen (which is what we call it) is essentially a non-official food court, which has several stalls operated by different vendors, which mainly served meals and snacks that regular people would buy and eat normally outside of school anyway, like noodle soup, rice with sides that you pick and choose, a pasta dish, etc.
As an American high school student myself, I can confidently say that school lunches here are definitely sus. Seriously, sometimes they give us "pizza" that's literally a piece of bread with cheese on it. I'm serious, that's something they actually do. So many people got mad about it that they had to rename it to "french bread pizza" lol
They do have things like that in America, but only in certain areas or private schools.
As an eastern european i can somewhat relate to the american school lunch experience, for me my parents would pay a flat monthly fee and every day my class would get food from the cafeteria i cant really say it was bad but it wasn't 5 star food either. (Also in other schools there straight up weren't any school lunches you could buy) The best food my school served was pasta with cheese and sugar (sound bad ik but trust me with the right type of cheese its extremely good) and (i don't have a direct translation but here it goes) home made chocolate which is basically a type of chocolate that has more sugar and is usually home made and cut into thick chunks.
You should be scared, at the private elementary/middle school I attended, there was "Mac'n'cheese", but the cheese was so gross that everyone called it "Mac'n'glue". I'd be surprised if they didn't still serve it, 10-12 years later
My high school had these cookies that were practically the size of your head. They had either chocolate chips or M&Ms in them, and sooo much butter! Weirdest (and in my opinion, best) part of these cookies was that because they were so big and so buttery, they were never totally cooked all the way through. The outside edges were crispy and chewy, but the inside was like safe-to-eat raw cookie dough!
That’s the wrong link
Yes! Those Otis spunkmeyer cookies they'd get the dough for in bulk, then slot out and sell. I loved those things, I'd go through the line for one even when I packed a lunch.
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@@bobchase6115 The bots are getting creative, aren't they? Here bots, have a cookie. You earned it.
When I was in elementary school, they used to serve pasta once or twice a month. They were the best compared to what we usually ate back there(glowing curries, food that smelt like it’s older than the 6th grade class, and rice that’s sometimes undercooked.)
12:41 this made me LOL SOOOOO HARD 😂😂 I was in the QSR pizza industry for most of my professional career… I set up and ran many school lunch programs at many different locations, and they all ordered the exact same way: extra sauce, light on the cheese And they were MILITANT that they be made properly
I'm a lunch lady (no my names not Brenda!) and I seriously had so much fun reading the comments below on everyone's favorite school lunch foods! Best part about being a lunch lady is serving those cute kids and seeing them get excited about the food. And seeing that a lot of your favorites are my kids favorites too was awesome! I love that Matt talked about the vegetable serving in the pizza's sauce, it always confused me too. I know there's a lot of controversy when it comes to school lunches but we really do try to make things as healthy as we can with, like Matt said, all the rules and regulations, budgets and people pushing decisions in all directions, there really is soooo much more that goes on in those Nutrition Offices than you realize and it's mostly about making the kids happy and healthy with what we have to work with. I've worked summers in test kitchens and it can be tough to get food to hit all the marks. (stepping down from my soapbox) This was a fun episode, loved that it hit so close to home for me!! My favorite foods from school lunch as a kids were the homemade rolls they used to make and the chicken fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy! And back then (when dinosaurs roamed the earth) they still made desserts for us everyday - Yummmmmmmm!!!
O_O. THEYRE STILL SERVING DESSRTS HERE AT BIRKES!
Do they still serve "mexican pizza" (used my old lunch menu's name for it)? That was one of my favs!
Like the Taco Bell ones?! That would be amazing!! I’ve never served that, we do Walking Tacos that the kids really love.
Luckeeeeeeee!!!
In Jr high, I used to help the custodian clean the cafeteria. When the lunch ladies threw out a heavy bag of trash I'd carry it for them. I remember them giving me a box and said "share with your friends." I looked inside and it must have had a dozen foot-long hot dogs. Take care of the lunch ladies and they'll take care of you.
I love how two thirds of this video is Mat talking about the history of lunch food and the rest is the actual math for the theory, this is what we come here for. Mat feeds us more than our schools do
None of it is historically accurate, none of the math is applicable or anything beyond anecdotal. These aren't "theories" -- they're rote clickbait meant to pound on the YT algorithm and trick kids, like yourself, into clicking.
@@donaldmccullough38 dude wth, I’m fifteen and I enjoy watching the theories for fun, I don’t care if they’re accurate or not they’re fun to watch and listen to. I’ve been a fan of Mat for years and have always enjoyed his videos and theories wether they’re true or not
My elementary lunch program was a little different. I went to a small elementary school from ‘87-‘93 in a town of 130 people. Roughly 30 students k-6. Or fruits and veggies were canned but our main dish was always homemade. Our school cook would make things like tater tot casserole, elbow macaroni with velvetta cheese but the best was the pizza. She’d roll out pizza crust, lather it with sauce and thick layer of ground beef and a pile of cheese. It was so good. When I moved onto Jr High (consolidated school dist) I was in for a bit of shock when I had a more conventional school lunch. The JH/HS was in a town of 500 with approximately 250-300 kids k-12 in the school . The best thing they made from scratch was the pig in a blanket. They called them wiener winks. It was a slice of buttered bread wrapped around a hot dog with a chunk of cheddar stuck in it and a toothpick holding it all together. Heated in the oven for some toasty, cheesy goodness. Their homemade dinner rolls and cinnamon toast was also a daily salad bar option.
my school in the uk was some type of apple crumble like but with different fruits best food with custard
The best food my school had ever given me?: Prepackaged Chips that have literally no way to expire or be cooked wrong, or get infested with insects.
@RedDot ur the only one who's not a bot trying to scam me😒 (I hope)
@@shepshepson nope definitely a bot
What about the rock hard prepackaged cookies?
One time in my primary school, the chips tasted kinda funky, like it was seasoned with expired ketchup (there was none on the chips btw) so it is possible to frick up a chip
Prepackaged foods are safe foods to me. Consistency is e v e r y t h i n g
The funny part of school lunches is every person's dietary requirements is different. For me I required double the food they'd normally serve a single person because I was malnourished and underweight. Where other people around me were fine just eating a salad crouton.
Awh I'm so sorry you were malnourished.. But hopefully the food you have at your school is good and healthy so you can be healthy too! :D
word
I was malnutrished, and underweight too. A middle school I went to often ran out of lunch, and therefore I'd go hungry, and I didn't have food at home. I would always get mad at my bully, who would beat me up, forcing me to go to back of the lunch line. He would get double portions, and was obese. I hated him for that, and other things. At least I could get free breakfast before school
now i realize why i am the way i am, thank you. i have a bmi of 17 or so.. could be why im short and have been growing up. the pale look to my skin, sunkin in eyes, lack of appetite the mood swings and feeling tired all the time. currently work a warehouse job and have lost even more weight, despite the lack of forklifts, working my muscles dragging 80 pounds of punching bag across the store the size of an imax movie theater, i eat usually 3 times a day with no effect to my weight. I have most likely very malnourished for several years now. I gave up on protein powder months ago, no significant weight loss, nor gained. Seriously thought i was just smaller than the average human, which I am, there's a possible explanation for all of it and I've known for awhile, didn't consider it shaping my life to what it currently is, always ate less, never twice the size of someone else's plate, ive been trying to eat equal to a full meal 3 times a day as of late, i burn right through the calories. should probably see a doctor for all this..
At my school we have something called “pizza crunchers” which is crispy pizza crust with cheese and sauce inside with marinara sauce to dip it in
In my research, those "cheesy dipper" breadsticks were called Bosco Sticks in many places. They're still around too, if you're feeling nostalgic and want to see if they are still as "good" as you remember!
At my middle school, we have basco sticks, and our school HATES them 😭
My entire school loves them
BOSCO STIIIIICKKSSS!
My school has Bosco sticks and people love them
Spoiler: They're not
I remember being in high school when they started claiming the tomato sauce on a slice of pizza was 2 servings of veggies. It was laughable then!
the best thing in my school lunch was one of the only palatable things. a "smoothie" that was a pouch of fruit juices either lukewarm or so frozen it takes all of lunch to make it edible. the presliced oranges sealed via tape in those stretchy impossible to tear plastic bags get honorable mentions for worst idea. it was legit harder to open those than peeling an orange.
Love the name and pfp lol
We used to get "envueltos" which are soft rolled taquitos, steamed and not fried. They were Soo good, the school used to cook them there and they came with fresh salsa. South Texas Tex-Mex magic.
I would like to see more of this cafeteria territory encroaching experiment. It actually sounds fascinating.
what a fucking chad move he pulled
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Ditto, I really want to know his results. XD
The best meal my southern schools would give us was the thanksgiving meal: turkey chunks, bread roll, gravy, stuffing, peach cobbler, and the casual veggies and milk. We never got anything like for the rest of the year and it tasted a lot better than the weird baked chicken they would serve.
that is crazy
I agree that the Thanksgiving meal was the best since because since I live in (and from) Louisiana the thanks giving meal was good especially the Dirty rice. (Dirty Rice is a meal consisting rice and meat in one dish) which I still love to eat at my middle school.
My school served gumbo every Friday, which was the best school meal I ever had. Their vegetable soup was a close second. And of course, every single meal came with the obligatory milk carton and corn on the cob.
0:05 nachos my school never did serve them often in fact i think my whole time of being there I only seen them serve them 3 or 4 times.
The best school lunch at my school was French Bread Pizza with a miniature bag of goldfish
SAME DID IT HAVE NO SAUCE IF IT DIDN’T I KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT
I love the story of matpats science fair experiment, him sitting at a bunch of different tables to find out who would be the most hostile to him is so cool
And the fact that he name dropped both the school and the “sporty girls.”
“DON’T TRUST YOUR SCHOOL LUNCH” Doesn’t take a genius to know that
The soft pretzels with the cheese. That meal was a shocking chefs kiss 💋👩🍳
Last year when they announced they where closing this school (we've got two more) they started seving pizza with peppers and pepperoni and hot sauce in the sauce station and that was a great combination
My old school had this separate stand just for slushy’s and Ice cream, and another stand just for "Wookiee’s" warm chocolate chip cookies that would melt as you eat them. Those two stands were the most popular at the school, and they were the cheaper options, so people would order those instead of a salad, or the actual meals etc. because they only had a dollar for lunch, not three.
our school got rid of our ice cream cuz a kid would throw rock-hard ice cream sandwiches at kids
@@celest1al_octopus did he get bullied because of it
@@ferbious7258 you killed me
we had an ice cream machine where you could add flavors to the swirl. you bought the token and tgen give the token to the ice cream guy. after about 2 months there was a student underground that stole and distributed the tokens.
The lunches at my high school are made by students taking culinary arts, so we get different meals everyday. If you want to know I'm from Canada, and yes the students made poutine for one day.
That sounds.. amazing
In my High School in the Midwest US that was an option. Lunches were served en masse as usual but you could optionally (for like $5) go to culinary arts and get a full meal.
Our school also has the smiley fries but the Mac and cheese and pretzelwich is god tier
12:40 Tbf, that's about how many packets you need for a serving of fries or tots.
Bosco sticks were so amazing. They were so simple yet so precious, everyone was happy on bosco stick day. Its literally just dough sticks filled with cheese which u can dip in sauce, but it just tastes so good compared to other things.
i like bosco sticks, BUT I DIDNT GROW UP WITH THEM WHICH MAKES ME SAD AHAUHAUAHXHHAG
those are the best days, when theres a cheese item like the Bosco Stick.
At our school they call them pizza sticks
MY SCHOOL JUST SERVED THOSE TODAYYY
That was my high school as well. I always used to look forward to them
The thing my school makes the greatest profits off of are vending machines and FRUIT at lunch. The vending machines have like gatorade, water and juice but alot of people weather or not they buy lunch, come up and get an orange or two, or some sliced pineapple some grapes, etc. they introduced it last year and it makes them so much money its crazy
My school had snack and lunch and the best things were at snack but the best thing was a crum cake. Every Wednesday it was there but then all the good snacks like crum cakes, cinnamon rolls, and other pastries were removed. So now the best thing you can get is Cheerios. The lunch was always gross but the best things were the smiley face fries and chicken nuggets.
the best thing we had was thanksgiving dinner lunch. The last day of school before thanksgiving break our lunch ladies make us a whole thanksgiving dinner. Turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, rolls, ham, pumpkin pie. They did so much and i’m always thankful for them. They also decorated the lunchroom for every holiday.
what utopian world is bro living in 😭😭
We did not get all that but we still got extra food on thanksgiving.
same i got it because i in a magnet school
DANG IT YOU LUCKY PERSON
WHAT I DO THAT TOO AT MY SCHOOL
Matt’s story about the science experiment is so absurdly clever it sounds exactly like something he would do
I’m it was sugar day we got any sweet we want like donuts and sweet buns
Ohio
Lucky
of course it would only happen in ohio
@@Thelittledevilonyourshoulder no
A popular choice in elementary school was the Bosco sticks. I gotta say, I rlly loved them. And when going to middle school, they upsized the bosco sticks :)
Pizza day is usually the best. I think because most school cafeterias have a nice industrial oven, which isn't usually the best for burgers or fries
Food Theory: Can soup actually help a cold, and what other alternatives are there?
And if not what foods help you fight of a cold the most
soup is probably a cultural remedy for colds
short answer: yes it does
Nutrition, temperature, and water content. Any food that meets this helps
Nah my parents are convinced that steaming your face with a boiled mixture of ginger, onion, lemon, honey, garlic and a bit of hibiscus
I never went to a school that served lunches, though there was a program at my middle school where you could sign up for lunches delivered by this third party company (paid service) and they were pretty good. My high school also had a kitchen attached to the cafeteria, but you had to manually order and by any given item. No “everyone lines up with a tray” type of thing. I live in Ontario, Canada.
Ya same with me, only lunch was Tuesday pizza day at highschool
Ye it's an American thing I think bc I'm also in Ontario
@@Mel0nMel pizza tuesday😊
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Now that I watch this video years later I get flashbacks of when matpat was the host of the theory channels I'm really sad that Mat how to retire but you know what they say all good things must come to an end eventually and I hope he's doing well wherever he is
my best friend at my school goes absolutely feral for the chicken burgers (every friday), and my favorite thing is either the normal burgers (every wednesday) or the cheese pasta (like... every three tuesdays roughly)
Fact: brands that have their snacks in school lunches actually change their recipes to meet school lunch health standards, even though their store bought food is MUCH MUCH UNHEALTHIER
Truth. I work in a school cafeteria.
Back in the day, my school had lunch catered by a restaurant down the street. I don't even mean crappy food, it was a FANCY restaurant. They had acai bowls, sushi, and almost every sandwich you could think of. It was amazing.
What kinda school you went to
Dude let me in to this school 😩
My school was like that . Well my high school
That must've been a fancy private school because that sounds implausible
@@revolvingworld2676 I think mine was although can’t remember
my school didn't have school lunch, we had a break by 10 and school ended at 2 ,i brought sandwiches to eat in the break and lunch at home by 3 , school cafeteria sells snacks and juice some schools sell doughnuts
In my school, they served chicken and potatoes. It was exactly how it sounded. Chicken nuggets and potato wedges, but they weren’t made from the box. It was a special occasion and they were made by parents, homemade chicken nuggets and potato wedges. It was perfect.
I'm in my senior year, and throughout my entire time at my highschool, "Italian Dunkers" always were the best, the holy grail of school lunches if you will, there were these 4 sticks of flatbread dough stuffed with mozzarella and then browned on the outside and baked, absolutely incredible with ranch, these were very similar to cheesy dippers but our cheese was on the inside
Oh! We had those at my middle school but they were called something else. Just cheese stuffed bread sticks, they weren't that special but they were the best things that were there.
Y’all mean bosco sticks?
yeah bro bosco sticks
I had that exact thing but we called it cheese sticks
@@michaelluzier7683 YEAHHHH BOSCO STICKS ARE THE BEST
It is always better to cook your own lunch at home with your family and bring it to school because school lunch is overpriced.
$16 a week for my school lunch. Only good thing about 2021 was the free school lunches. I did some math, and I believe that about 190 kids in my school buy lunch, so my school, per week, gets around $3,000. Not counting extras btw.
Triangles: a pizza like sandwich with chicken,barbecue,sauce and cheese
My favorite lunch was the spicy chicken sandwich! They taste mid right now, but I LOVED them as a kid. I haven’t found a good spicy chicken sandwich since. I’ll forever be on the hunt!
My school had a separate “snack line” aka they wouldn’t yell at you if you didn’t get certain things you were supposed to get. They sold baked potatoes in there and for two and a half years when I learned that I had two potatoes a day, so much so I was known as potato girl by the staff and classmates would ask if I legitimately did that.
I did this too but one day I got the cheesy broccoli baked potatoes, ate like 3-4 bc they had made way too many, and got WICKED bad food poisoning 😭
Potato Girl? ANIME IS REAL!!!!!! HAHA I DIDN'T LIE TO UNDYNE IN UNDERTALE 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
@@kiwi_studios7778 firstly what anime, secondly what did Undyne the Undying have to do with anything
@@lancetheking7524 during the pacifist route, you can tell Undyne that Anime is real, and the anime would be Attack on Titan
We kind of had cheesy dippers! We called them “cheese-stuffed breadsticks” and they were, well, warm breadsticks filled with gooey cheese that you dipped into tomato sauce :)
bosco sticks?
Same
You mean bosco sticks? I think Mat Pat had something else, he said the cheese was put on the breadsticks not in them, lots of schools do bosco sticks, heck some gas stations do like Kwik Star or Caseys.
bosco sticks!
@@Blaze4ification I didn’t know what those were, I had to look them up lol. It’s the same idea except ours were a lot flatter and you separated them from one another on a serrated edge versus individual sticks. Dang, I want to try a bosco stick now tho😂
Elementary is smiley fries. Middle to highschool is chicken and fries. But for holidays pumpkin pie and stuffing out does everything else
I remember going to elementary school lunch and seeing those cheese sticks and my god out if everything else, those were the best.
The average lunch at my school was a slab of “meat” sometimes between two pieces of “bread”. Sometimes we unironically questioned whether or not we were actually getting real food. It also doesn’t help that our school building looks like a remodeled prison. I’m not joking about that last part, our school actually looks like it was once a prison but got turned into a school.
What fucking country u grow up in
everyone kept saying school is a prison, but explain THIS: a school and a prison aren't seen in the same room. Beat that flat-earthers
What you want prime rib and lobster daily?
In our school the architect used to model for prisons, he modeled the school and everything intentionally making phones more or less impossible to use in certain areas, and the ways things were set up
the best thing they served was basically the same: breadsticks stuffed with motzerella cheese (they were always kinda soggy until they changed it one year to be like nice hot crispy breadsticks)
kzhead.info/sun/nZ2xideNh6GHias/bejne.html Japan school lunch
facts. Same at my school.
Same
We called them Italian dunkers
same, ours are always tiny and soggy.
My school had something called “crazy bread” it was pretty much just thick slices of bread with cheese and plenty of seasoning on there, it also came with the best marinara sauce I’ve ever tasted.
The best thing my school ever served for lunch is probably these things called "Pizza Crunchers" which are basically flat mozzarella sticks with marinera inside.
There was a saying in my school: "50% of the (school) lunch is plastic, and the other 50% is lies".
The pre-packaged warm cinnamon donuts served for breakfast in PALM BEACH GARDENS HIGH SCHOOL were so, SO good. It was crazy moist because it was warmed up in the individual plastic pouches they came in, which was full of air so when you opened the bag it would pop and warm cinnamon steam would slap you in the face and make you call it mommy. Good times.
Love the description lmao
That is a VIVID description, lol
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Chicken nugget
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I LOVED The meatball sub ! They were rlly good
My schools most popular lunch item is probably the mince and cheese pie, or the hot chips. My favourite however the bbq bacon pizza.
As a Swede: Our school lunches are free, and we’re served complete meals, there are usually two dishes and one vegetarian to choose between, and a few vegetables to choose between. And there is milk, water, bread and butter to take in any quantity you want. American school lunches are weird.
During Covid that was essentially what my school had, but now we’re back to having to pay for it
That sounds like a dream..Living in America really sucks when our government won't spare any money for stuff like that, always cutting corners to make stuff cheap and making us pay individually for things we shouldn't have to.
As a fellow Swede I agree that amarican school lunches are weird
Bro free butter and bread😭😭😭
Understatement of the year
My school had these things called “hot lunches” were once (or twice) a year you had to prefill out a sheet for what food you wanted for school (6 separate days not for like a full school year) and these food items came from places like Dominos or Subway The weird thing (to me anyway) is, I wasn’t from like some elite or rich neighborhood, it was just your average US public school
At least in my rural area, it was basically just a tax writeoff for the businesses. The places would free advertisement in the gym and yearbook and would get to brag about how "We donate X amount of food to local schools nationwide", the school saves money on food costs.
@@maromania7 did you have to pay for it? Because we had to pay for it but I don’t remember advertising that much besides the day we got the food, and even then it was only on the serving tables if anything I can only imagine the tax write off and public image is the only reason they’d do such a thing and, y’know get the kids to crave their food so their parents buy more outside of school
i had that at my jewish day school when i was a kid, but it was weekly! we'd wear stickers at lunchtime to show what we ordered beforehand, and we would often have things like pierogis, or pita with falafel, or bourekas. very fond childhood memories :)
@YouTubе 🅥 check your punctuation. KZhead would check it's punctuation.
@@sincerecinnamon Would they though...?
3:04 'malk now with vitamin r' got me dyin'💀💀💀
As a refined Aussie, we have 'tuckshop', with really yummy fresh baked muffins, cakes and biscuits, sushi, meat pies and other really good quality items 💅. it was also mainly preordered so you didn't have to worry about getting there on time!
My school didn't have the "line up with a tray" cafeteria, rather food stalls where someone can take the spot and sell what food they were selling. Kids who couldn't afford a meal everyday were given food coupons instead that they could claim and these things lasted the entire school year. They eventually moved from a coupon to an electronic card to lessen their use of paper. Where is this? Singapore.
I LOVE THIS GUY “the sporty girls threw food at me and they physically tried to lift me out of my seat for the entire hour in an attempt to get me to move BUT SCIENCE MOVES FOR NO ONE!!”
The craziest part of this is that his school actually let them have an entire hour. Our school gave us 20 min. That wasn't just to eat, that was also to go to the bathroom, wash your hands, get your food, and then put the tray away afterwards. Not nearly enough time, and most kids were always starving because they didn't get to finish their lunch.
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I had cheese dippers, they used to be melted mozerrlla style breadsticks with sauce to dip . After a year or so the cheese stopped being fully melted.
The best thing my school served were Max Sticks, people loved them. People would trade their whole lunches for them and when we found out they would be on the menu that day we would all immediately try to get them, they only were on the menu like once a month.
Mom's theory to improve school lunches, have every school put in a greenhouse so that they can grow their own food. It could also be a part of science class.
Good in theory, but in practice this means schools have to not only staff someone (or multiple people) to maintain said greenhouse, build a green house large enough to produce enough food for an entire school year round, all while making it cheaper than buying frozen pizza for $0.02 per slice from large corporations with a strangle hold on the school lunch industry.
You have any idea how large a greenhouse would have to be for a school in somewhere like NYC?
Would never produce enough food to feed inner city kids. Maybe if you’re from nebraska And each grade has a side of 12 students.
Ah yes time to manually chop up cows, gut it, and cook it
My high school graduating class was 1200. The total school population was ~5000, when you include staff, not including visitors. Can you even image the size of the green house needed in order to produce enough food to feed 5000 people every single day.
I'm so glad that finnish schools have lunches with real food. Good food. My absolute favourites were: - Baked salmon with mashed potatoes - Perunavelli (runny mashed potatoes) - Creamy spinach soup - Fries and chicken nuggets (god-tier at the time) - Riceporrige (all-time favourite)
HUH- JESUS CHRIST THOSE SOUNDS AMAZING
S…… *salmon*!? As a school lunch!?!
How does your country affort and manage this??? That's awesome and there has to be a reason they didn't just throw cheap stuff at you guys like USA.
@That 1 Kid what?? The UN doesn't pass laws
Woah! We where lucky if we got green beans without bugs in them (it’s a long story)
My best school lunch was, and I am not making this up, "Big D's BBQ Chicken Sandwich", Big D being a nickname of one of the kitchen staff. Frozen chicken patty on a whole wheat bun with barbecue sauce and funions or something similar on top. Consistently warm and flavorful, which is a low bar to clear, but I went to a public US high school, so
So in kindergarten they once served these weird teriyaki bites or something like that but they were delicous it tasted like a burger cut into strips (mind you I love burgers so I chowed down on them) but they never ever came back to the lunch table ever again.ALSO THE SMILEY FRIESWERE GOOD
Me: has never experienced the school cafeteria food experience. Also me: “Let’s watch this food theory video!”
Me 2
Lucky 😭 My chicken bleed last time, no one ate they’re chicken. My pizza (which is extremely small, not even one slice) was uncooked, the cheese wasn’t melted even… plastic cheese has a very low melting temperature to.
My districts "Cheesy Dippers" was cheese stuffed dough filled with mozzarella that was cut into 3 sticks and served with some weird factory made marinara sauce. It was one of our schools most popular items.
Same that was was the best thing at my school too ,sadly they do not sever it anymore😢
MINE TOOOO
Bosco sticks?
Same, except mine was in 2 sticks
wait no way, it was the same at my school except they only gave us two of them
Nachos with special cheese was the best thing we have at lunch to me. We call it special chess cause we see little chunks in the cheese sometimes, some ppl still don’t know if it’s mold or if the cheese is just ruined
honestly, at my school, the best lunches were on Tuesdays. sure, they had taco's, enchilada's, and the usual hamburgers, but the fourth line always had Meatball subs with a bucket of mozzarella. used to pile as much on as I could before eating the meatballs and having a marinara and mozzarella sandwich. Then the year before I graduated, they added curly fries. 10/10, would break into my HS to eat one again.
Brings me back lol... We were forced to have one fruit and one vegetable on our tray to be able to buy lunch (k-12) or they wouldn't let us have lunch. Which really sucked for some people because there were days they only offered a single fruit / veg -- which some people were allergic to. And without the thing we were allergic to on our tray, we didn't get lunch, so we usually opted not to eat. Then we were asked why we never bought lunch. "Because I didn't know you were serving something I was allergic to today, you only gave us the menu for main items"
Yikesss
A good friend of mine is seriously allergic to dairy. Elementary school? No problems. Every student and teacher that she interacted with for over a few minutes knew about it. Then we had to move to a different school for middle school. Middle school REQUIRED that you have a healthy beverage with your food. They served milk and water. Seems fine right? Well one day the water fountain.. thing.. broke. So she skipped the beverage because, the only option was milk. And she was allergic to dairy. She got a detention for “Disobeying lunchroom protocol.”
Cheese sticks😂
Yeah we had to drink milk. We could choose whole, 2%, chocolate, or coffee milk.
We had to get one fruit/veg on our plate or we would get sent back to get said fruit/veg. Ice cups didn't count. You practically were pushed to get milk unless you were allergic. And the milk was DISGUSTANG. That's probably because they got rid of the sugar.
me, a teenager in school who eats the disgusting lunches daily: ooh this video looks good! btw: I have these... bread stick... things? covered in grease, garlic, and cheese. they aren't good. but they're definitely the best!
@whaaa t nice… not a scam somehow
I have them at my school but the cheese is instead inside. No, not a mozzarella stick, just bread is cheese in it. I would die for those.
"aren't good" "they're the best"
Yes
@@insomniagobrrr5542 that's just how it is when it comes to some school lunches
At my high school everyone brought their own lunch (seniors got to go out to get food as long as they came back) and we would sell pizza to fund our senior trip (or RESELL, we’d get it from like Little Caesar’s and Papa John’s)
Ok so we had two things that are tied for first place. Number one is Italian Dunkers, or Pizza Boats as I liked to call them, and there’s a reason I called them Pizza Boats. They were a boat shaped slice of bread with melted cheese on top that you’d dunk in marinara sauce, and it was the greatest thing ever. Next up was something I don’t remember the name of, but I definitely preferred to the Italian Dunkers. They were essentially sticks of mozzarella cheese wrapped in dough and then baked just enough to melt the cheese, but not enough to fully bake the dough. And of course you’d get some marinara to dunk them in.
I was homeschooled until 1st grade and ate a very clean diet at home due to massive food allergies, so I usually brought my own lunch. Looking at the school lunches grossed me out, honestly. My teacher actually forced me to drink a carton of milk (which I hate, BTW) or she wouldn't let me go to recess - even though I had a serious sensitivity to it! It was one of many reasons I was homeschooled again until 7th grade, and also started my lifelong screaming fit over what school lunches could be.
In 2nd grade my teacher was terrible, so was my class. Halfway through the year, I needed to switch classes. Edit: also, go you! I was also very squeamish when it came to school lunch
WTF
I remember 10+ years ago my High School literally had a laminated print out by the register that explained how the school lunch met regulatory requirements. If memory serves me right the requirements for 2 servings of fruits and vegetables was met by providing a cup of wilted shredded lettuce, a cup of mandarin oranges, and ketchup packets. No joke, they claimed that the ketchup packet counted as a serving of both a vegetable and a fruit. Suffice to say I had a suspicion as to where this video was going.
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