The funny thing though... they are vegetables. I mean kinda... tomatoes are fruit 😕. That said... you should definitely not be eating a vegetable size portion of ketchup. My gravy for roast is mainly tomato, onion, carrot and celery and of course the beef drippings. I’m sure much more nutritious than ketchup... point being, would my gravy count as a vegetable? Not letting them classify these things as vegetables would limit their abilities to provide yummy 🤤 food. The real issue is WHY would a school decide to serve ketchup as a vegetable... not that it is labeled a vegetable but that’s my 2 cents.
@@skagraw2 You are not wrong. (in my opinion, the pizza dough would be still not as good from a nutritional stand point as other options, but good idea) The real problem is that they don't do it/they can't do it good. Or at least, that would be my guess.
The answer is in your question, that's why they are the richest country....they squeeze all profits then supply a low quality minimum nutrition to survive and pass regulations then pocket billions
The US has a very sick public school system. Teachers are underpaid, food quality is as bad as prisons, kids are sent to jail for misbehaving. It’s just gross 🤢
theres also been incidents nationwide involving special needs kids being physically restrained... leading to deaths at schools in the US over things as simple as not sitting still.
The only part I sorta disagree with you on is the jail bit. No don’t send the students to jail for acting up but there are some instances where students does get to the point where they did do something criminally wrong.
@ you can bring your own but where I live a lot of kids can’t afford to bring lunches so they have to eat the trash. Only like 4-5 kids out of 60 kids can bring lunch
the simple reason: corporate greed. i think the school should source their lunch items to their own local community. the food would be better, it would create jobs and improve overall neighborhood.
@@Gh0st_Potato of course it can be more expensive but not much and certainly not the level that make it not affordable. in fact i think local businesses would probably give the school lower prices since they know the food will goes to kids in their neighborhood and a repeat order is always good for business.
Except there’s the issue of city schools. I personally live in NYC and there’s tons of schools and tons of kids. There simply isn’t enough food close enough to the city to work. Processed food is a way of life here
US senators are owned by these companies. They will most likely make a law that bans local communities from making foods unless it is through corporations.
To all the people that serve school lunches, you deserve the uttermost respect and it’s the industry’s fault my hot dog bounced a solid 5 feet in 1st grade
@@aurakille2148 You shouldn't use no in that sentence if you want to be accurate with your vernacular, yet alas that might just be your way of articulation.
@@CaptnGino WTF hell no, my high school lunch for sale at the cafe was always Poutine and cost 5 dollars. The box is smaller than my cellphone. We had 1 hour for lunch and I was willing to bike home to have a hot lunch made by Mom. Did this from Grade 3 all the way until I left for college.
@@TransitAndTeslas If you guys get universal healthcare, it would be near impossible to get corrupted. Then again, just the idea alone is impossible to implement.
Lol its not capitalism. Its a country's moral and upbringing. American are brought up to be a individual while country and adapt moral of if i need it i will pay for it. No value for people in society which seem understandable in short run but in long run it just makes a country greedy and plan collapse
I'm a former Dominos manager. When we had a school district contract with us for school lunch, we had to use special dough, cheese, and pepperoni. Low fat and low sodium. Tastes so nasty.
@@isaiahkaulaity9467 Yeah, I noticed that the pizza slices served at lunch don't even look as appetizing as the real thing! Getting pizza at a restaurant is far tastier.
When I was in high school my district had a deal with a local pizza restaurant that was directly across the street from the school called Pats. It wasn’t bad but it was made with whole wheat dough tho
Caleb Donaldson oh yeah it was definitely dry, every time I ride past the restaurant I cringe from the memory 😂 I still eat there from time to time because the food in the restaurant is actually good
Actually, in many "western" countries kids don't get lunches at schools, they either buy snacks at school's buffet or get lunches from home. In my country, considered "eastern European" - Czechia, warm lunch (consisting of several courses - it always includes soup and main course, usually with salad or desert or fruit) is served in every kindergarten, elementary and high school, and the nutritional value is part of law which gets actualized every few years... Oh, and we eat with actual metal cutlery and on ceramic plates, no place for anything plastic.
Simply because of corporate greed, some countries don't care as much about education and health as they should. For example my school district just dropped thousands of dollars on a recreational exercise bike for our superintendent.
Well then consider yourself lucky. My school in Germany served reheated frozen food directly in the aluminum box it came in. That was sad, surely not healthy and made me eat fast food from the nearby city for basically all my school career.
Same in the UK when I was at school in the 90's, I remember it being really good as well, but I can't comment on what it's like today and with everything in the UK, it wouldn't surprise me if standards have gone down lol.
Lord Shrek Jamie Oliver was doing the u.k ones, but they stopped because they didn’t want to school dinner ladies taking to much time to prep the food. Was such healthy food as well.
Today at school in NY I got a pizza, a scoop of slightly brown green beans and a strawberry purée which consisted of strawberry, water and sugar. That apparently qualifies as a healthy lunch. Not to mention that they are also selling junk like ice cream and chips.
Mudit Gambhir except the maker of the video does not address the moral need to pay a Living Wage to all of the staff needed to prep , prepare , and serve Scratch Cooking
I remember when Michelle Obama's plan when into effect when I was in high school. The way the lunch combos worked getting a fruit would make your lunch cheaper so naturally everyone would grab a fruit to get the cheaper combo then immediately throw in the trash, there would be trash cans full of fruit and vegetables, it was really sad honestly.
It really is. Kids already gravitate towards eating unhealthy food and food corporations exploit it as much as they can. It's been going on for decades and it's only getting worse. Most of what is served in schools isn't food, it's products. Govt should make it mandatory for these corporations to disclose how much they are making off school lunches. Doubt it will happen. Even if parents try to teach their kids to eat healthy and give them homemade lunches, from my friend's son he tells me many of them just throw them away and use their allowance to buy sugary or fatty cafeteria food or vending machine snacks.
This still happens everyday at my school. I’ll just be buying a snack and the lunch lady will tell me to take a fruit to make my meal cheaper. I’ve tried eating them but they were either weirdly mushy or to hard to peel.
So dissapointing. That is why we also need to educate our children in the importance of fruits & veggies. I didn't really grow up this way but now I live in a community where already in elementary school they have gardens for kids and nutrition education. They literally grow the food and then take it home with the knowledge of how it was grown & why it's good for you.
Brad Evans Productions I’m in high school right now and it still happens. I’m one of the only people who actually eats the fruits, since I don’t like pizza... or hamburgers... so I eat all the fruits 😂
A lot of professional chefs have shown it’s possible to cook nutritious, delicious meals on a typical school lunch budget. If you ever wondered why these programs weren’t put into place, this is why. The reason why students have to eat crappy lunches everyday isn’t a lack of money-it’s too much of it.
We’re about to argue ain’t we I kinda did that but I wouldn’t bring much since I would just eat whatever I could when I got home. They called me a madman.
I remember my senior year of high school we were given mini water bottles during lunch. Well within a few weeks we were no longer provided them because “it wasn’t a coke product” coke actually threaten to sue the district if those waters were givin out during lunch.
I go to the largest public university in Ohio and we are heavily sponsored by Coca Cola, to the point that if we want to install a new water bottle filling station, it has to be approved by them because it affects their bottled water sales!
well here's how it work's. people who work farms are forever getting less money for their crops. big business takes a huge chunk off the farmer. then sells to schools at marked up cost. making money on both front's.
My Aunt for a while ran the sack lunch program for students. Where those students who didn't have food to eat at home would be given a brown bag lunch to take home for dinner. They said they would always put more in than was necessary, their logic was that if the kids are going hungry no doubt the parents are too.
I get adding the extra food, but any decent parent would not take their child's food especially when they are failing to feed them. If they are the kind of person to steal food from their hungry kid, I feel they should go hungry. Maybe I'm just jaded from personal experience tho. Regardless I think its a great idea. Generally I believe nobody deserves to go hungry. I always keep snakes and drinks in the car to hand out to homeless I see on side of the road.
I talked to my school security in high school and asked why we weren’t allowed to DoorDash food to school. We thought it was a safety issue but she told us that it’s because the school county has a contract with people like this
I graduated high school in 2016, so it’s possible things have changed since then, but we were allowed to order in food. People used to order in Jimmy Johns all the time.
I loved my school lunches. The irony was, water cost $1 more while the milk carton was included, so I kept drinking milk. Guess who has a milk allergy and realized as an adult a stomachache isn’t normal for after lunch.
I have tourettes syndrome, and one particular tic I'd have would be clearing my throat. Obviously you need to drink something, but the milk would always irritate my throat, so I was clearing my throat every 5 seconds. At some point in my school they had even shut down the water fountains. It was a joy.
@Animal king only people with water bottles were athletes. Specifically the football team on specific days (game days). Looking back, I’m not sure why other people didn’t have water bottles. Maybe school rules?
I also love how my school’s lunch has raisins in pouches and each of them has 22g of added sugar, 26g in “french toast” bar and only gives 1oz of salad at best. The only thing they make there is chocolate chip cookies which they sell. Good job Aramark
Lucky , I wish we got good food. We only get 'decen't food which is on wednesdays where we get roast chicken , potatoes and gravy. The other days we get cardboard tasting food.
Shay True Blue Aussie nah my school in Australia give us like chocolate milk and spaghetti,lasagna,fried rice or potato bake but you have to pay 6.00 +50cents for a popsicle
I’m from a small Idaho rural community. Our school did, and still does, make rolls and buns from scratch from whole wheat flour. They do an incredible job. No commercialization.
Kerra Johnson the milk is probably what kept us from developing sicknesses from the food. I know once I started trading my milk for food I got really sick and couldn’t eat lunch anymore
As a Brit, I never really understood why so many Americans were disillusioned with capitalism. But then this video probably explains why. We sort of take our constitutional framework for granted - strict regulations on lobbying, strict conflict of interest laws and regulatory commissions being fully nonpartisan and independent and run by experts. We've always had an understanding that regulation is needed to rein in corporations. And we've always separated public and private sector functions. It would be inappropriate for the private sector to run your police, fire departments or hospitals. So our version of "capitalism" turns out to be very different from American capitalism. The fact that companies can just buy their way into schools, hospitals and public institutions really shows the rampant corporate corruption in America. No wonder people are disillusioned.
It's called "crony capitalism" for a reason. It's not legal, but like most politicians, American politicians are corrupt. Capitalism is the best way to go with almost anything. Government cant compete with it. It's when politicians break the rules that causes it to go south at times.
There is nothing wrong with private corporations running fire departments. It has been done and done better in many cases by private organizations. Police however...
how do you compare that but in Britain you have a one Payer Health System what you pay a lot of money for in taxes you have a very over-reaching government was very strict on your freedom of speech and her school lunches got really bad under the Obama Administration when they try to make it really healthy when the government tries to step into much it makes things go to crap heard about how your systems are great they're not really great it's just you have a very over-reaching government who sees every single step. And you gotta understand what people only come to America because you can be one of the poorest people and get rich or you can come from a poor family and become very wealthy with how our system work
With big government, there's no incentive to keep the education quality high in public schools, so kids/parents get what they pay for. Private schools depend on the "business" to stay competitive and encourage enrollment. 👍
I used to go to school (I am homeschooled now) but I noticed that the food was salty and relatively *overseasoned* . I also noticed that more students brought their own lunch than they did taking the free lunch. Now that I'm homeschooled, I get fried rice or basically whatever I want every day for lunch.
"Pre-prepared foods to ensure students receive healthy balanced meals everyday" Yeah cause greasy deep fried French fries and artificially flavored ketchup with a side of hormone filled chicken is balanced.🙄
f̸i̶r̴e̵c̷a̷t̴2̸4̸6̶ i know, im just stating my opinion, I also live in the bn US so I would know, thats why i never eat school lunch, all love, no hate.
Agreed! As a person who has heard they put hormones in chicken over in America just makes me want to puke, I’m from England, a country which doesn’t put hormones in our chicken, my school lunches are still pretty bad and most people have packed lunches. If I ever want to go to America I will probably become a vegetarian or vegan.
When I was helping out some kindergartners when I was in elementary school, the school usually gave free lunch to kids. I helped a kid open his food up, and he bit into it and told me it tasted weird. It was a knock off sausage McMuffin, and the meat was raw. That’s why I always took my lunch to school after that.
One time I bought the pizza at my school, it was super undercooked. The dough was raw as hell, it wasnt even cooked at all. And then there was the time a kid got salmonella from undercooked chicken quesadilla, he sued the school and won a few thousand dollars. Suddenly after he sued the school, it became good.
I worked for a school district for 15 years. While I was there they started free lunch for all kids, and later free lunch for all kids. We also delivered food to area youth centers during the summer breaks. For far too many of the kids - it was the only regular meals they would receive.
Btw , the Kitchen Staff gets paid on average $19k per year , that means the staff needed for scratch cooking can not afford to live in most school districts
@@Beachdudeca If they were truly offering such low wages the jobs would go unfilled. Low wage jobs only exist because thy get subsidized with food stamps and housing.
There is a huge difference. Lunch trays and plates are reuseable thousands of times. Other food packaging, especially for fastfood, is single use and often goes directly to a landfill instead of recycling. But its just stupid for a government to suddenly "decide" to go from plastic pakaging to alternative products, before industrial grade alternatives exist. Those will take another 2-4 years to be tested and refined. Wait a bit longer to get a good product, instead of just a barely working product. Good packaging ensures that food stays fresh longer, and less has to be thrown away. Just demanding to something, that you are not ready for, is like the "planned economy" in comunist countrys. Its like socialists, it doesnt work, and if it does, its bad quality.
In Ontario (Canada), we never had cafeterias in primary school. Everybody comes with their own lunch bags packed by their parents, and it was always fun to trade with friends. We did have programs like milk program (carton of milk everyday) and we also had Pizza Day where we got pizza on Fridays (pre-paid by parents). We also had other programs but they were more of a treat and not for everybody.
That honestly sounds worse than the US. I'd rather get some crap food over no food. My poor parents relied heavily on free lunches to keep me fed. We obviously could bring lunch from home too.
@@AssBlasster well, school lunches actually still exist, you just ask your teacher and they will come back from the staff room, the food looks disgusting, and is given to people who forgot there lunch, idk if it tastes good cause i have never had it
@@Lolapoozaa Eu sou estudante e não to sabendo disso não, pelo menos na minha escola em especifico a qualidade do lanche melhorou muito. A gente costumava receber bolacha de lanche, agora e na maioria galinhada, pão de queijo, lanches que eu considero bons.
Rt! At my school less than half of the kids will eat that food, I say it’s worse than prison food like once we got basically uncooked chicken. And they never give us veggies just raw meat and slob
@Cookie Monsta My sister just came home from prison a few weeks ago and even she can confirm that that food is almost the same or very similar to American school foods however some places it may be better or worse so I can’t speak for everyone 🤷♀️
I've been to a public school, and I'm now at a charter school. The charter school makes and grows some of its food, my old public school served food so bad I always brought cold lunch. Me and some friends actually looked up the public schools main food administrators and they actually do make food for prisons. Its sick, and I think it needs to change for the sake of my generations future.
Really sad. Damn near everything in this country is driven by the ever-present need to grow quarterly earnings. If it continues on this trajectory, soon we'll need to have a subscription for police and firefighting services that flow to some mega corp.
I remember watching Jamie Oliver go to the school board and prove he could feed kids healthy lunches at the same cost of the hotdogs and sloppy joes they were being fed... The school board shut him down and absolutely hated him.
Actually, in many "western" countries kids don't get lunches at schools, they either buy snacks at school's buffet or get lunches from home. In my country, considered "eastern European" - Czechia, warm lunch (consisting of several courses - it always includes soup and main course, usually with salad or desert or fruit) is served in every kindergarten, elementary and high school, and the nutritional value is part of law which gets actualized every few years... Oh, and we eat with actual metal cutlery and on ceramic plates, no place for anything plastic.
Bro at my school they burn one side and the other side is soggy...that or it squirts blood at you(not even a joke the cook got fried at the end of the year)
I'm Indian, my uncle lives with his family in CA. They do not allow their kids to eat the school lunch...sticking to the good old Indian concept of healthy meals packed at home
In India we have a system called "Mid Day Meal" where students gets freshly cooked meal everyday. The meal is cooked in morning to noon & served in noon. And there is no capitalist intervention. Rice, Grains, Dal, Oil & Gas is supplied by the Govt and some money based on the students count is allocated to buy fresh vegetables, coconuts etc. There are cooks & helpers appointed for each school. The food is really delicious & I was only fortunate enough to savour this food till 7th standard. All students get the same meal but the dishes change on regular basis. In some places some NGOs and Temples(ISCON) have taken up the job of providing the meals on behalf of Govt.
They didn’t get it off of me for years. 8th grade onward I routinely skipped lunch because of how sick to my stomach it made me for years prior. Body routinely rejected it, just about anything of choice.
@@carl9022 Have the same story. I rarely went to lunch and people though I looked weird until students saw cooks doing the salad with skin peeling hands and random encounters of stones in buns.
In Norway we all bring lunches. When you start in middle school you can leave the school and go wherever you want and buy anything before the next class.
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My schools are a joke the teachers gets better pizza and the kids get pizza that is frozen i have gotten a frozen pizza and a raw i mean a raw cheese burger and a go sick from it and i got kick out of my school coz i got sick
My school district, I asked one of the cafeteria workers where the food went at the end of the day. She said in the trash. What a waste of food produced and it’s sad
@@phraker5709 If it's properly labeled cooled and stored food can be kept for up to 5 days from prepared date. The issue there is where does it go once it's properly stored. How to do you get that food to kids and families and will in just end up in the trash too. The biggest issue is the what's next otherwise it's just wasted effort to be stored. Finding a way to use that what's next. Pizza Huts I know are allowed to take left over buffet pizzas and cook then and freeze them. To then be taken to homeless shelters, low income families and other locations to be reheated in an oven under their Harvest Program. Those foods that get into those programs just scratch the surface of wasted food though.
Thats literally every restaurant in america/ Thats how its always been because when you do try and donate the food people have sued these restaurants for getting sick in the past. You literally cant win in this situation, its a liability. They have to throw it out.
As a european this feels so weird, here in most schools you have up to 5 options of meals (around 2 euros) all prepared on the spot or in a remote kitchen from fresh incredients, processed or frozen foods in school cafeterias are either banned or highly regulated.
cardboard pizza and french fries with chocolate milk were the best thing ever. I wish I could buy them as an adult, but the taste is different from stuff I can make on my own or buy in a grocery store.
@@user-jf7rk9vu4s you do not know that. Most likely not. A lot of fast food cies use a starchy mixture that they "shape" into a french fry then freeze then send to their "stores" to fry as a french fry.The store " Five Guys" uses real potatoes for their french fries, that is why they make a big deal out of it. They know it is not that common. Not arguing with you, just sharing what i found out. i was shocked at first. It is like cream at Denny's. It comes in a powder form at the store. it makes sense for the store i guess, a lot less perishable that way.
@@Arrica101 When the Incas grew the potatoes, the potatoes were wild and extremely nutritious, and resistant to diseases since they had over 5000 varieties. Now, the potatoes are grown as a monoculture, gene edited for transport .
I was assigned to the rich neighborhood public school because of the area my family was renting, we were very poor btw but those school lunches they were serving were a thing of beauty.
@@Szobiz I got free lunch at high school and I ate very good at home. i was from a one parent home and at my school that automatically got you free lunch.
@@rxquestgordo No, but enough people do that it brings in the question of why we pay to feed kids who's parents can afford to buy. There is something insulting about 100k+ households with 1-2 kids getting lunch slips next to the guy who's got 4 kids and makes 60k who can't get into the program. Enforcing morality isn't realistic. Tighter standards however wouldn't likely hurt many who actually need the help.
When I was a child, my mother worked as a waitress making less than $3/hr and we had to pay for lunch, I was often refused lunch at school because we were too poor but apparently not poor enough for help And there's companies making shitloads of profit from it, This is what's wrong in this country
@@jaredhamon3411 , some parents are either abusive or just incredibly irresponsible. It's a situation I lived through, where my stepdad and Mom would blow all the money on heroin and other drugs, and because they're the adults and they work, it's more important that they eat what little food we could afford, so that they can earn more money and repeat the entire cycle again. 🙄 The point is, there's an America out there that people can't believe exists, or want to believe exists.
@@the3bears392 yall weaklings all students in my school walk to the next super market like half a kilometer away and have to pay a lot bcs eastern europe yet westeners can't get crap
@@fitmotheyap at my high school we were not allowed to leave for lunch, but even if we were allowed, the closest place is a 35 minute walk (which is longer than the actual lunch break)
Tony Wu we had a fooding tasting to pick out food and I got chosen to try the food was very good and the food change starts next year and I expected good food. The food was absolute trash
War is paid by taxes, and protects everyone (except the obvious) while feeding the poor, does already happen, but it's not like people give them a three course five star meal every day.
Redpuff 101 Said it ain't no hope for the youth and the truth is It ain't no hope for tha future And then they wonder why we crazy I blame my mother, for turning my brother into a crack baby
You can't protect the country from your own pocket. You can feed the poor from your own pocket. If you trust gov to take your money and feed the poor you are a simpleton.
I want to make my own lunch but my parents keep saying “ tHe schOol luNches gIve aLl nUtrienTs neeDed aNd iS frEsh” parents they don’t understand......
I worked in Japan as an English teacher for 2 years and the school lunches there were simply awesome. The way it was explained to me was that the government aimed that every child from Kindergarten to grade 9 should have one good meal a day, and so the lunches are subsidised. There is some corruption in the program involving the dairy producers (every child gets a milk pack in a country traditionally not big on milk), but for the most part the individual boards of education manage the scheme and deal with funding at a local level. This was in a rural area, but a lot of women don't go back to the work force after having children so the board of education employs any who want to work, and they will make the school lunches for the area. They earn money, their hours of work are whilst their children are at school, and they get to see what their kids are eating. Additionally, the meals are planned out a month in advance and at the beginning of the month, a school lunch chart is sent out so that the parents can see what is being served everyday and so they don't serve the same food for dinner that the child had for lunch.
@@queencarla8949 No true. I’ve looked into all major companies, they all sell your life, just so they can make money. Google and Blackrock are the worst.
In the last couple years of high school, my friends and I all had jobs and had the cash to tip, even buy ingredients for the kitchen staff . Most of us maxed out our schedule and we're only around for breakfast services during study hall during soft more and senior year. We had a great relationship with our "lunch ladies " and the food we ate was superb! I know that kind of racket could never exist today. I'm just suprised to learn that big companies make special recipes to meet a health guideline, why not make their junk food healthier for everyone else too?
I’d guess the reason they don’t make their other food healthier is due to money and taste. They could spend more money to improve their food, but that would cut into profits. If they don’t want to spend additional money, they would have to change the recipe which would upset their consumers.
i remember in highschool they used to allow kids to go out for lunch at nearby fast food restraunts but all the sudden they stopped and wouldnt let anyone out. they said it was for "safety reasons" but now i know it wasnt
I mean they are not wrong tho: Imagine enjoying your lunch then bunch of high school kids blasting non sense and starting trouble. It's for the general public's safety.
The moment I became a junior and was allowed to go off campus I hardly ever stepped foot in the cafeteria after that. And you could tell just looking at the cafeteria freshmen and sophomores were always the vast majority of the population there. By senior year when everyone had cars the effect was amplified even further.
@@harrythebait9793 Don't know what you're talking about, the main spots people would go at my HS tons of students would go there and give local businesses a ton of business. There was never any "non sense" and businesses catered to them with lunch deals.