You just know even as a 6 year old our man Ben was the chillest dude. “Yeah this bagel sandwich is my main, plain bagel, no sara lee shit, not till high school, cheap bologna, yellow mustard only, no mayo, cheap cheese. Nothing else. Still mighty fine.” Legendary.
Takes me back to when my mom would make me an "Americanized" school lunch bc I would get teased for my smelly lunch. She made it just like that bagel but stuffed with veggies. Thank you mom ❤
One time I threw up because a kid brought a non American lunch that smelled bad. She started crying because she was embarrassed it smelled bad and made me throw up. I feel bad because it wasnt her fault but I couldn't help it lol
@@shake4259 you weren’t brought up right that’s all. Be open minded to all cultures & especially their food we all live, laugh, love, together on this earth.
@@shake4259 it must have been sauerkraut out the tin or something because what could possibly smell bad enough to make you throw up that isn't spoiled food?
bruh ppl over-dramatizing and spoiling each other over little bad experiences, not saying we should not care but we get over it and it's no big deal at the end
I was a ghost all through school. The highlight of high school was giving a bully a beat down in front of 300+ at breakfast. But I didn’t talk to anyone but my brother and 2 friends I grew up with. Social anxiety sucks.
Love this content Ben. You don’t have to eat the most trendy things all the time, we’re here for anything you wanna eat and talk about. Love getting to know you a bit better and I definitely remember those translucent bags w the flap pocket 🤣
Lovin the throwbacks. God damn, I never liked my elementary school days. Just like you, I was one of the few Asian kids at my school, a loner for the most part. I always envied your lunch and all the other kids'. Having that capri sun or chocolate milk carton, PBJ on white bread, some sort of sweet for a desert (pudding, candy, etc) every day. I even envied the brown paper bag because almost everyone would bring the same thing every day. I always had a "regular" (non-disposoable) lunch bag, always brought some Filipino leftovers or PBJ on pandesal instead of white bread, and never had any juice, just water and no sweet snacks. Man, thinking about it now makes me laugh cuz it wasn't anything to really be jealous or envious about, but hey, I was a kid that wanted what others had.
its funny i've been watching u since like 2018 and never commented, but this video was so special and wholesome, I had to just thank you for all these wonderful years
I am loving story time w Ben!! Looks like Ben had pretty decent lunches! My mom is German from the fatherland and she wld make me very German lunches so I wld take out my cool whip container and unpack whatever homemade German thing my mom concocted... picture a little Korean girl happy as shit eating liverwurst and onions on sour dough bread🤣...it was painful but so happy for those moments, taught me a lot...also that look Ben gave the camera at the end... LMAO!! I felt the feels thru the phone
@@allen.9 I mean, I guess it was to gas up the school food program so they could take in more money? (Understandable) On the other side a nice “hot” lunch instead of what you had to pack cold from home. I’m sure it was jargon
I can relate to you Ben. We’re the same age, im Fijian and adopted by white parents. Grew up in a small town where I was the only Pacific Islander in my school. 1/2 brown people all together. I was also a ghost in all of my public school years as well. Thank you for sharing! I don’t get the chance to hear from many other people in my situation very often.
I wish people really understood how much it hurts. That the things that a kid have to go through, however trivial one may think it can be, defines you for the rest of your life. I wish people were kinder to others. Small things really do make a difference. I don't exactly come from where you come from, but I can relate to your experience in school being mediocre. I too was a ghost, and usually no one would talk to me or even look at me. Most people would give me a weird look and talk behind my back, or laugh at me in secret, even though I could see it. It made me feel like shit.
Ben, you're not alone! In 4th grade I threw up orange too! It happened in the library in front of this kid named Vernel. Then in the office I blew more chunks in front of 2 foreign students from Iraq. Would've never happened if my teacher didnt suggest to lay on my stomach for 2 hours before I finally decided to call home.
Those vibes that Ben Deen brings in his videos are mighty fine. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 I can definitely relate. Elementary school and middle school also felt like one of the worst times in my life. I remember in middle school pretending to be sick so that I didn’t have to go to school. After the novelty with that started to wear off I just straight up refused to go to school on some days. On some days I straight up said “I am not going to school today.” I am so happy and thankful that those dreadful times are gone for good.
Enjoy hearing about your childhood stories even though you weren't too fond of some of them! I never was a PB&J kid, I always wanted lunch meat sandwiches and I still do to this day.
God this made me nostalgic for kindergarten and first grade. The little desks grouped together by fours. The sandwich baggies that didn't zip. My lunch was usually pb&j or a tuna salad sandwich. On horrible days, my mom would send me with pb&j on rye bread, which if you're wondering, yes that means my mother didn't love me. LOL. My favorite things from lunch was the cold soda or cold milk, and the little debbie's brownie I'd get. Then out to the playground to practice running. For some reason all the little kids in my class cared most about racing each other.
I know about blowin chunks in elementary school. Happened to me in 2nd grade. This girl kept making me laugh while I was eating and I had like a mouth full of food, so I musta started choking or something and eventually I ralphed. Bad times homie. My Mom actually came to the school and was like "What was so funny??!" and I dunno, I said something like "She kept talking about butts" or some shit.
I know exactly the baggies you’re talking about Ben 😂 they’re called flip top bags, people also call them sandwich bags. Used those all the time, never ziploc, too expensive.
He probably means that he only eats breakfast, brunch, or dinner. Lunch is usually during noon and he did say in an earlier video that he has a bad sleep schedule
Sorry you had a not breat grade school experience. Same here. Not bc of cultural stuff. There were just bullies and cliques and bitches. That got worse and lasted all the way thru till 12th grade. School sucks. Actually Ijust remembered…in like 1st grade I was the only white kid. All the kids were throwing blocks at me so I had to get switched to another class..
Ben, we had those transparent fold over bags growing up.. I know exactly which ones you're talking about. My mom still uses them and so do I. I always grab one if I don't use up a whole onion, tomato, beller pepper, etc. They're awesome. I can only find them at Giant here in Maryland
Oh and if I hadn’t mentioned my worst nightmare lunch that I was sent to school with was whole wheat bread with disgusting natural peanut butter not good peanut butter like Skippy or Jeff but that nasty stuff that has the oil on top and then freaking sliced bananas on top that would flop out onto the table and embarrass the shit out of me followed up by cantaloupe chunks instead of an actual dessert
I mostly ate the lunch that the school served, stating in 1st grade. They served hot lunches. Spaghetti and garlic bread were one of the better foods. The hamburgers were gross.
If I had lunch packed like this it was because moms or pops were having a decent income that week, and that was only like 5 times a year. The rest of the year I ate cafeteria food, which wasn’t bad at all. Pizza Wednesday was fire 🔥
Mine 90s childhood was when got order from the canteen (Australia)/cafeteria (US version). Be Meat pie/pastie/sausage roll, Sam boy chips / toobs, burger rings, sunnboy cola flavor. 😄 stuff in the bags chips tazos, pogs, oddbods.
In high school, mine was a turkey sandwich with cheese on sara lee white bread. Mom would also pack doritos (different chips each week) in little zip lock bags. Drink would be a powerade or vitamin water, desert would be a Rice Crispy Treat or Honey Bun! Brings me back typing this too
man I used to be really envious of my friends and their lunches from home. I never had anything to bring because we never had snacks or any really normal foods in our house because I am Korean. I just got a little bit of lunch money and got whatever was in the cafeteria. School food was still good to me because it was different from rice, kimchi and whatever soup we had lol and I wasn't gonna bring rice and kimchi heh heh. I used trade anything I could from the school lunch for my friend's ham and cheese sandwich. I really love just plain ham and cheese sandwich with a little mustard and mayo because of that. Good times, good times.
For me, I remember in elementary I was kinda the popular bad kid, and then as more as I aged, I just kept turning into this nerdy introvert and I don't regret the development one bit.
If your American parents are still alive and you still talk to them, you should have just asked them to recreate the lunch (verbally.) Mine was usually PBJ on wheat with either grape or strawberry jelly and I likeed extra crunchy JIF peanut butter. The same bags that you're talking about my mom used as well and Lay's potato chips, sometimes an apple or grapes or something and a Capri Sun or the school MILK.
Too funny - my son took a bagel sandwich every single day for two years in middle school. He was the pickiest eater in the world but we let him choose his lunch. Thankfully he grew up and has developed quite the adventuresome palate.
Cold cut sandwich or PB&J, fruit roll up or chips, Capri Sun or Kool-Aid Burst, and an Apple or Orange. Almost every day unless we had some good dinner leftovers like spaghetti bolonegse, pizza, whatever. I didn't have a bag, though. Rolled up to lunch with my Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lunch box.
For me, it was always bologna on white bread, Fritos, in-season fruit, and some off-brand chocolate-covered hockey puck -- you ate healthy compared to my crowd!🤣 Thanks for sharing your memories
Oh man, Ben just got me to remember the good old days when I had no worries in the world. It was me, my friends and our apricot jam sandwiches with butter, peach jam croissants, cheese croissants and the best drink ever: pineapple juice, in a small rectangular carton box with a straw taped on the back. On a side note of childhood foods, well deserts mostly, there are 3 I would like to share with you that will definitely bring a smile after each bite: creme brulee, floating islands, and ofc cremeschnitte(the layered vanilla version). Make them, since I doubt you can find these in stores outside Europe, well France, Germany, Hungary and Romania mostly and that are decent, you wont regret it, and bon appetit 🤤
Oh man... your story about your schooltime just remind me on my own 'great' schooldays... Have to be honest that my life starts to be a better one right after I could leave all this behind me 🙄 Anyway great lunchbag and thanks a lot! Greetings from Germany 😃
