I went out on a date with a girl who had an onion alergy. Part of her order was a kinoa salad and it had very thinly sliced onions in it. I think I spend like 5 minutes removing every single piece of onion from her salad with my fork and knife(it was the first dish that came over and I like having to do something with my hands when talking). She also found it extremely cute so bonus points from that!
Why it's always Muricans with their gazillions of allergies? Like.. allergies in asian nations are not that common and mostly is about the commonly occur allergies like.. seafood, gluten, peanut allergy.
@@Ahhahhhsiisis true i feel like an italian would consider american pizza "more italian" than this. This is just mince slapped on top of some bland spaghetti with a side of the strangest lookin baguette I've ever seen lol
Mine was 3 bucks and you could get a salad, red sauce noodles with even more veggies and meat, and mangoe slices for dessert. Portions were small but god was it good. Love my country for the accesible fresh produce.
@@xubunquin7-15 dollars, for bad meals? That’s insane. My lunches are like 3 dollars and are usually decent. I feel bad for the kids buying that lunch 😭
Same. I have some many food sensitivities and allergies. It would have been so nice to have even just an occasional school lunch. Sometimes cold lunch got kinda boring
School food isn’t that bad, unless it’s gotten worse since I left. We had fish and chips, pizza, a pasta stand where you could pick from different sauces, a baguette stand where you could pick what filling you wanted. They made fresh muffins and flapjacks everyday. It was pretty alright - better than the food they served at my university for sure.
@@generalpurpose772 WHAT!? that lunch sounds like heaven. we once had uncooked pea soup. the peas were all sunken to the bottom and theres just that gross green water without peas (except if you want to eat hard sunjen peas). also almost everyday i don't eat the food cause the food is such a bad quality so i only take a glass of water and after school go buy myself like a croissant and an enegery drink,
THEY GIVE YOU ACTUAL COOKED MEALS AND NOT JUST SOME HEATED UP STUFF 😭😭😭😭 Edit: dayum, I either started a war or I found some people whose schools have horrible lunch. Dayum.
For real, I went to public school in Oklahoma and we had fresh cooked meals everyday. Country fried steak, Mashed Potatoes, Pot Roast, Chicken and Dumplings. I guess large city school food is just microwaved?
You wanna know something weird at my school (which is a public school in America) one time only they gave us a hot lunch and today they gave buffalo sauce with the nuggets it was just bussin bussin
Man the American public lunch is no comparison to that.. I remember wondering what was in them cause once I decided to buy lunch cause I always packed, never again I got sick on it.
American school lunch always sound so crazy to me, cause i always thought the US is, or maybe used to be an agriculture country, cause of its vast land. Mirroring wat i saw in my country, an agriculture economy, food tends to be cheaper than processed, so it's much easier and cheaper for school to cook hot meals for students 😅
@@justwalkingby3882 Yeah, we're not an agricultural economy anymore, I think we are what's called a 'service economy', which just means we don't make shit. We still grow food, obviously, but that leading to local cheap food........nawwww. The country is a bit large too, so there are such practices such as putting butyric acid in our chocolate to extend shelf-life, since shipping it cross-country away from the dairies would lead to spoilage otherwise.
Japanese curry is the best meal ever made! I used to be a sushi chef, and we would make that for “staff meal” so we could all eat together after we closed, and so we just put all the throwaway scraps into it… so like the chain from a filet mignon, bits of Chilean sea bass that weren’t the right size or shape to be used in a dish, all the veggie scraps and peelings etc. And we would just keep adding water and keep adding curry cubes and we kept one single pot going for two years! Every day we would turn the burner on and have it gently almost simmering with all the added stuff and so no bacteria grows cause it’s constantly boiling basically, and we eat and add to it every day! Such a great memory!
Oh I can imagine the curry being so flavorful like a flavor bomb. Yeah in some parts of asia in chinese cuisine some broth they just let it forever simmer for many years.
I think if my school served even that Italian food I’d cry with joy. When my school serves chicken, there’s a 50/50 it’s still pink. Once I got fried chicken, and the inside was slimy and cold.
Oh wow that curry looks fantastic. It's also nice to see how much love and care is given to those kids - nothing but healthy and delicious food. Even here in Canada most elementary schools don't even serve food to the kids (at least not that I'm aware of) and my highschool cafeteria was nothing but junk. Just one more way we need to get our act together.
Japanese curry came to Japan through the brits from India. Eating flatbread isn't really common in Japan so curry is almost always eaten with rice. The curry itself is very adapted to Japanese tastes, it includes sweet elements you'd never see in an Indian curry and even the hottest versions would be considered extremely mild (I can barely tolerate medium heat Indian and Thai dishes and eat the very hottest Japanese foods without an issue).
I'd definitely say japanese curry is more just like a sweet stew served over jasmine rice, it's yummy though. Made some just last week I love aloo mutter! It's one of my go-tos for Indian food. I would have curry almost every day if I didn't end up devouring multiple servings every time and leaving no leftovers haha 😅
I live in Canada but it can be similarly hit or miss. I was pretty lucky with my school who had lunch-ladies that were basically adoptive grandmas. Fresh brownies, made from scratch caramel with apples, cooked to order sandwiches, breakfast, pizza, etc. Even had a salad bar.
i also live in canada and never ever had lunch like this. lunch ladies don’t exist in my province, ngl didn’t know they existed in canada at all but it’s nice to know some of us got the lucky experience 😢😢
Onions make my stomach upset too. It's actually a sensitivity to FODmaps. I use a product called FODzyme with my meals, you just sprinkle it on the top of your food. It's a game changer!
I’ve never been told I was allergic to anything by doctors BUT I pay attention when I eat something and it tares my stomach up. Onions, cabbage, cheese, too much garlic rare mine up. It doesn’t make me upset. It’s just very sharp pain until it digests and leaves my body. I will search for the “FODzyme” and give it a try. Thank you for posting this comment. It may be a life changer for me- I hope 🙏. Thank you.
@@tashtash4694FODZYME contains the following enzymes: Fructan hydrolase → breaks down the fructan inulin (found in foods like onions, wheat and garlic) Lactase → breaks down lactose (found in some dairy foods) Alpha-galactosidase → breaks down GOS (found in beans, pulses and some root veg) Looks like you should get relief! They have a trial pack I believe. The stuff is pricey but I only use it on major meals and restaurant stuff that's more tricky. I got the jar and it lasts me a few months if I'm careful. Good luck!
At my public high school we had different genres: pizza, burgers, Mexican and Asian (Americanized versions ofc) &the Asian line became so busy that you could only get it on Tuesdays and Thursdays 🤣
I studied abroad and learned from my host grandma how to make Japanese bentos for the salary worker! (She made them for her late husband whom had passed years before I stayed with her). Can't get all the ingredients, but she knew I like umeboshi (pickled plum) on my rice and I liked a couple of them so when i make my bento with umeboshi it reminds me of her 😢
I think „Dorfschulen“ are schools in the city’s are different in that regard in Germany. We always had lunch at our school. Even then bakery lady came over with a truck to sell us her baked goods in lunch breaks.
When i was in school around 2010 we got school lunch at school. And... it was not very good. I remember very overcooked nudles, which is very disgusting
Raised in the American public school lumch and it was amazing! The lunch ladies could throw down and were so creative. I love gourmet and international food but there is something so comforting about what those ladies cooked.
@@yep404 probably for you but for me it was. Those ladies made miracles, even it was a poor neighborhood. Don't underestimate what people can do when they care.
I went to a public school in Kansas and we had great school lunch with three different lines that you could choose one of every day. One was always pizza or cheeseburgers, one was always salad or sandwich, and the third was a different international meal every day.
Fr, my brother still studies in Japanese schools, and when I go visit his class sometimes, MAN THOSE LUNCH BE GOOD. I’ll tell you what I saw he had. Curry rice 🍛 Milk 🥛 Soft bread 🥖 Kimchi (Korean Kimchi) Small salad 🥗 Grilled Salmon 🍣 THOSE LOOKED SO MF GOOD I WISH I WAS THERE TOO 😭
My school lunch is so despicably bad. Not only does the meat look processed and is always undercooked, but they regularly hand out expired milk, yogurt, and cheese products. Not to mention I’ve seen bugs (specifically a grasshopper on the lunch trays several times now. And we’re not some underfunded school. We’re a pretty well funded school. In my opinion the lunch food HAS improved but it’s not longer free too so it’s like a double edged sword. I still wouldn’t eat it even if it looks somewhat better then a couple years ago tho
My school lunches were great, but I did stop going to school in 2014, so idk how it is now.. but I feel like american School lunch gets unfairly scrutinized as a whole when some school have great lunch.
As an Italian person it’s okay our food needs a lot of ingredients and not food ingredient it’s called well we call it wise ingredients they are perfection,patience,love,timing and the most important one is spending time with the people you love and eating the food together ❤
I worked at Japanese Elementary School for a year. I miss the school lunches! Curry days were my favorite too! I can understand the allergy thing, I can’t have cow’s milk (I usually just drank water), the other teachers looked at me weird for that.
Europe is a pretty big continent, so the way they do things vary from country to country. Also, no european calls themselves a European, they just say the country theyre from
@@seadrown6252 well I do call myself European bc most countries in Europe don’t serve food in schools but most do sell sandwiches or smth but not a real lunch. Also Europe is big but it’s still the smallest continent
if I'm remembering correctly American school lunches are just whatever is left over from big food companies after the grocery stores are done with them. Though there were questionable foods in my school cafeteria, my middle school breakfast eggs were the bomb (it was also drenched in butter so it was addicting)
@@matcha_whirlpool The health standards in Canada are the highest in the world. The U.S. are the third highest, according to the Economists Global Food Security Index "Quality and Safety". Japan is around rank 30.
@@WillieFungoyeah I agree, this isn't quite accurate. Our milk came from bordens and then switched to a local supplier. The food where i went is usually cheap food designed to be prepared for large quantities often frozen no name brands. Or brands even specifically catering to schools with like high fiber and low sugar or fat. And in my experience, working at a grocery store those leftovers usually go to food banks, i know leftover bread and poptarts went to the dollar tree.
Mine weren’t either, in America. We had a common area with 3 different sub sections in our cafe that all served different things. There was a pizza, salad, breadsticks, and pasta line that served the same thing everyday.. there was a deli counter, a nacho and taco counter and there was a main counter also where the options changed everyday. Anyone who says American school lunch isn’t good is definitely ignorant and privileged.
@christianbryant5617 Alternatively, people who say American school lunches aren't good are not from wealthy school districts. 😂 My district is pretty well off but there are three hot lunch options at the main high school and the alternative high school only gets one.
@@mariacarolinaamorim5063 it’s not like France, where I went to school, or England, Spain, Sweden, and other Euro countries I presume you admire are much better to be fair. A lot of stuff Americans see online about stuff like this is just mythology. Super weird.. in France, we ate chicken nuggets and French fries also people lol! Spain had pizza day in many schools I’ve visited. As long as kids have the choice to eat healthy I think it’s okay to have the “unhealthy” stuff as well.
my absolute fave food from japan is katsukare absolutely amazing me and my mother just love it and we order it together like once a month so id have to agree that curry rice days are the best lol
Where do u think that money comes from? People aren’t going to be happy with any government for raising taxes. Unless u have the money to help everyone, then go ahead!
@kaelinfisher6813 Are you daft? Where would the money have come from to send kids to college for free? If Bernie Sanders had been elected, that would be pir reality. Also, you are very much able to get free lunch as a kid in school (refer to the comment below.)
@@rubenlopez3364that’s no excuse for the lack of funding for schools to have better meals. A fuck ton kids in America rely on school lunches as one of their main meals. We spend trillions and trillions on our military but god forbid we let kids eat something that isn’t shit for them
Good meals should always be available to all & cheap! In this day & age every country should strive to provide this for all especially the kids & poor!
me and my friends were eating school lunch and one of them found mold growing on her food. the lunch lady told her to pick it off (in good old america ofc) 💀💀💀
It’s crazy how we lump the American experience into one category. I went to 5 different public high schools in South Florida and had 5 different experiences. The worse lunch was just your basic frozen foods warmed up either too little or too much. That was Hialeah-Miami Lakes that had an open lunch. Which means you could leave the school property during your lunch break. The best was almost a buffet style with a mix of paid options that you could buy even if you had free lunch. We had a full salad bar and a Jamaican Patty stand. This was at Micheal Crop Senior High and they also had an open lunch. I graduated in 2002 so maybe things went downhill from there yet there were so many options in my day. So I was not traumatized by school lunch in America!!!
I was working for an investment bank in Tokyo in the mid 90's which had an office Canteen. This was good most of the time until the days fish head stew hit your nose as you left the elevator...
As an American, i just wanna say that your lunch really depends on how wealthy your school is. Where I'm at, its not bad at all, its actually pretty good.
Can't beat my trade schools restaurant I ate when I was age of 16-18. I live in Finland and I had Fazer restaurant in my school. We had 5 buffets which 2 of them for us. We serve 5 different drinks there. Food is made on spot and is healthy and rich of nutrients, proteins etc. There were 5 different crisp bread and best rhing was the white bread was made on the spot. As it came to the bread table. It was warm, fresh, crispy from the crust and you need to cut it. The butter melts on it and is the best. Sometimes we got garlic smere to put on it and I was in heaven. We had one free meal per student per day.
I actually liked my school lunches they were actually quite nice I live in a small town so I think they just had a budget to do some good lunches my high school also did pretty well
In my school, we have free soup and free mash, gravy and veg. We have chicken curry everyday for 50c and variations of bolognese and stews some days, we have bacon and chicken rolls for €1 and its all so delicious, every Thursday there is €1 homemade cookies and every friday there are €1 chips. 50c crossaints first break and free 2nd break
In Poland it was potatoes with protein and a salad. On Fridays, the vegetarian day because of catholicism, it was rice with fruit sauce, surprisingly tasty actually.
In my school in Ireland the only option was soup made from powder in two flavours, oxtail or cream of vegetable, served in a polystyrene cup and a dry roll. That was it, and you had to pay for it. There was also a vending machine with mostly junky snacks. Most people went home for lunch or brought lunch ofc. Some kids also opted for fast food like kebabs or fish and chips from surrounding takeaways.
my school has butter chicken, garlic bread, dumplings, sandwiches, those cute little small cakes, fruit, fried rice, nasi lemak, french toast, chocolate and strawberry milk that is ALWAYS good, orange juice, syrup, rootbeer, some other more stuff and all of it is sooooo good
“and if the lunch lady is feeling nice she’ll throw in some fruit” if american lunch ladies are feeling nice they’ll let you pass through without taking a fruit😭
