Why are Lunchables SO Popular? 

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Blame the whole wheat bread is what I always say...

Same

Bro your mother did you a solid favour.

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Almost a kilo lmao

What do you mean? Is your luncheable not made with ~1.6 lbs of salt?

shortly after you see, that their source got it wrong too

​@@m0bb42 How did they miss that? Doesn't Canada use metric for weight?

@@m0bb42 That is why I put the time marker on the News Post.

#Relatable

It was like that for my sibbling and I too (although I have eaten a few as an adult, they just aren't the same).

I came here to comment this, too. My single, disabled mother with her little food stamp book of coupons could NOT AFFORD lunchables for me. I didn't get them when I was young for this reason, they were much more expensive than using the saltines and lunch meat and/or cheese she already bought for sandwiches for me that would last much longer. Only when I visited and then moved in with my dad and step family who were living the standard middle class lifestyle could I get lunchables, and it was like gold to me. In fact now that I'm an adult, I still buy them when I want a small meal.

Here they did cost (~5$) more then full sized packages of all the foods they pretended to be. 200g sliced sausages (apparently some americans call this "meat" for some reason) 400g sliced cheese (cheap cheese, but actual cheese) 300g salted crackers Literally cheaper then a pack of lunchables. And then you even have a pretty good choice of cheese and sausage options. So of course they where cheap to manufacture. Because they did not actually contain that level of quality that the real products would deliver.

In my family too they were a rare treat, usually for field trips. The cost depended on how fancy of a lunchable you wanted, the dinky little just crackers and cheese lukchables were cheapest but if you wanted it to come with a caprisun and a crunch bar it was more expensive

as a portuguese, same. this is like, something you'd snack on in between meals, at like 10am, because you're a bit hungry and it's still a while until lunch time. but not as a replacement for an actual meal. i'd be starving if i had that for lunch

And yet obesity runs rampant in the US and very much less so in Europe. Go figure. But yeah eating crackers with ham and cheese for lunch is really strange. Even our mid morning snacks were more substantial back when I was in school. 😅

As an American, I'm totally for this. I effing love lunchables 😆

@@Pr0toPoTaT0 I love me some crackers with cheese myself. Just not as a school lunch. But hey you guys do you 🤣

​@@Pr0toPoTaT0Me a german loved them a lot as a kid, but then they unfortunately stopped selling them here😔

Sounds delicious!! I will try and make that, now lunchables just tastes far too salty for me..

Are you taking adoption applications? XD

That's the strat. Gonna try this when mine are old enough.

that sounds good!!!

There's a TikTok trend of adult lunchables - people cutting finger food up and putting it into compartment boxes. 😋

The irony is that between them and Kraft they own a large percentage of the brands that are on even the highest end charcuterie boards. They really played the long game

the lunchable to meat and cheese board pipeline is real...

@@FutureProofTV 😂🤣

😂 this is REALIST COMMENT, meat, cheese and crackers, WHAT’S UP!

In the UK, you can't even order McDonald's or fast food to a school. Even if you are an teacher that wants it for lunch. The delivery app wiill not allow it to be delivered.

Same I'm glad my family packs lunch with home cooked rice chicken pasta and many more. I only tried school lunch once and it tasted fake like plastic. Good thing I'm still going to school with a packed lunch because school lunch is honestly trash

It's still weird to me how Filipinos are kinda like Spanish Asians lol. The food is pretty much the same stuff we eat in South and Central America lol

@@zerocool5395 They are definitely similar to Spanish in some ways but legit they got some VERY different foods apparently. Some similar but to explain my wife is Filipina and she came here when she was 20. She is a good cook and I have also eaten her family's cooking (Tito and Tita). She worked with a lady who was from Venezuela and they would have a lot of fun sharing their foods and talking about it. It was a dayhome so they could cook as well as the lady had 2 kids to take care of with it. There is some in common but my wife says its quite different. Filipino's don't use beans much and they eat LOTS of seafood but that may just be her family. Thought I would give you my take on it. They definitely have that fire that lots of Latinas/Italians have. haha We get along.

@@zerocool5395it’s because they got colonized by the Spanish bro

@@gorkaaustin5306 What, really? I mean the Spanish names they have, but I'm too dumb to put it together.

😞we can all dare to dream

considering children usually believe in santa and don't even question religion, I'm not surprised. we are not the most perceptive and intelligent at a young age, i think all of us can think back and honestly say "yeah,past me is kinda stupid"

@@bloodlove93 In fairness we certainly paint the picture as things still being like that, pretty much every cartoon and live-action show features an old-school lunch lady. Anybody remember Gramma Stuffum?

They were in my school, in Portugal, I'm honestly confused how crackers or a sandwich is considered a lunch for children, I've always had warm lunches at school all my life. My parents payed for it, but low income families don't pay

Already in the 80’s & 90’s, most large school districts in the U.S. had centralized commissary kitchens that made HUGE batches of warm food to go with the sometimes fresh fruits & vegetables from the fridge/freezer. And Red Delicious apples were NEVER delicious!

feel the taste of evil 😂

Ok

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riiiight!

Apparently that was the lead

I wrote an article when I was in high school for the yearbook 10+ years ago how the program had good intentions but had fallen flat. I interviewed students and the cafeteria ladies and they all agreed that it had negatively impacted the food quality and nutrition of the food that they were now allowed to provide. This was when news outlets were releasing stories about how a volleyball player collapsed because of their lack of nutrition and how athletes needed to consume more than the kids sitting at a desk every day without additional physical activity.

And now the military is freaking out because of how many potential recruits they have to disqualify due to obesity. The lunchroom feeds America's future defenders, and giving them junk food isn't helping.

It also, completely, trashed a lot of things for the school I went to since it covered things not part of the actual program. Several of the high school grades did fundraising by selling various other foods that they'd worked with places to have. The school, until Obama's messing, did nothing about it and it meant that you could get some really good options on occasion from some pretty high end places (along with some cheaper ones). They didn't fit the requirements, so they got blocked and the classes after it suffered pretty badly with their class finances which were what covered most of the class trips. It also meant that a pile of the recipes the school had used for years had to be thrown out because of them, and the school lunch program had made a decent amount of money from selling a few cookbooks over the years with some of it (with total volume turned way down). Then there's the even more annoying portion of it where the school budget got screwed with paying early releases for deals that they had made...the big one being with Yum! Brands who basically paid to build the gym and the entire schools computer system in exchange for 1/week days with one of the restaurants they owned providing lunch along with exclusive concessions and soft drink sales including vending machines which were supposed to include lunch periods and before school/post school hours...but those were locked down fifteen minutes before school started to the same afterwards and all of the snack foods in the school shop were removed which included baked goods from a nearby bakery. But the school district had to buy out the remaining three years of it because the new rules meant that they couldn't keep their end of things which screwed the schools and taxpayers over.

I actually really liked some of the food. There were three main dishes I enjoyed the most. The salad (even had avocado in it and it was big!), the orange chicken (I added hot Cheetos as a topping as a treat and hot sauce), and idk what it’s called… taco soup? A large amount of tortilla chips accompanies by a delicious soup. Out of those three, the last one was as my favorite. Maybe I just had a better school, I do live in a rich state despite being pretty poor.

​@@janelle_beans if kids eat the WHOLE amount of food provided (including milk, fruit), I don't think the collapse is because of lack of nutrition

Lunchables are definitely cheap when your time is expensive. $2 for something that is ready-made and requires no work on your end as a parent can be worth it. Sure, it's not a lot, and sure, it's terrible. But if you are a parent with 2 or 3 jobs, trying to get by, your time is unfortunately more valuable, and so a $2 lunchable for school is an easy and cheap win. And mind you, I completely agree with you. But we have the luxury of time, which some parents just *don't*.

@@MarisaClardy I can definitely understand paying for the convenience factor. I work at Walmart and occasionally will grab the cheaper brand of lunchables in a pinch if I'm hungrier than I thought. But usually I have the time to prepare a cheaper, healthier snack

10 bucks a week for lunch doesn't sound like it's be that much more than making your kids real food for lunch lol

@@mind-of-neo well, maybe not. But look at the quality and quantity. Lunchables are really more of a snack than anything. They're not substantial enough to pass as a meal. Maybe I see it different because I eat more as an adult, but even as a kid I don't think I would have been fine with just a lunchable. I probably would have gotten really hungry again quick. But if you look at $2/meal cost of something you make at home, you can definitely get way better food out of that than a lunchable. Can't forget the time it takes to prep that food, though, I know. Pros and cons, pros and cons... Lol

@@ItsQshie Amazon Fresh: 2.79 for a Lunchable ham and cheese "cracker stacker", 340 cal, no fiber, 11 g protein. and a lot of the calories are from a cookie. 1.33 for a hotdog ($8/6 pack), 190 cal, 10 gr protein. 0.17 for a slice of whole wheat bread (2.79/loaf, lol), 100 cal, 3 g fiber, 5 g protein. So $1.50 for a hot dog + bread that's equal in calories (290) to the Lunchable minus cookie, with more protein and fiber. Or double the calories to 580 for about the same cost as the Lunchable. Not that that's a great lunch either but it's cheap and convenient and _better than Lunchable_. In reality I'd probably aim for a ham-cheese-lettuce sandwich, hell that's what my father gave me half the time (other half, PB&J with whole wheat bread and natural peanut butter) but that's slightly more research work.

Yes it's so sad how much we don't realize we should be appreciating what our parents were trying to do for us!!! Only to realize it in adulthood and feel that "shit I sucked" feeling...

Yeah, I just did some math for another comment, and hot dogs + whole wheat bread would get you 2x as many calories for the same cost, plus proportionally more protein and waay more fiber. Not that that's a good lunch but it was easy to research from my laptop, and it's indicative.

Is americans live in your heads 😂

As a european, I thought that lunchables was a proper full meal not just some small crackers, fake cheese and bologne :/ Though in my elementary school cafeteria they didnt make anything *that* was much better as it was just some maceroni and tomato sauce that tasted terrible

I had to rewatch to make sure it really said 750 grams, and then tried to imagine how gross those Lunchables must taste...

Hahaha. Was looking for someone who caught before I did. It's more than 1.6 lbs of salt!

Americans when they meet the metric system. 😂

Yeah 750 grams is literally enough to kill a fully grown adult :DD how did nobody catch that before publishing

I'm kinda disappointed seems he's just reading of mashable as his research and parroting whatever they print, like how can you record that line without going wait how is there that much salt?!

Lol I'm with your son tbh. The fact that like 99% of Lunchables were ice cold (but were weird DIY versions of foods that were normally hot) did it for me. It felt uncanny valley.

Reagan had impact, whether you like him or not.

He just keeps popping up doesn't he!?

@@HAFBeast91impact 😂 no one is denying that

biiiiiiig kid logic lmfao

Personally, even my mom as an american never bought Lunchables. Heck, I tried it myself and uh...my goodness the crackers and the meat did NOT taste well. I used to have myself pack either a PB&J sandwich, or a Ham, Turkey, and Cheese on a whole grain sandwich and pack that for school, as well as a drink and yogurt with me, and those were better than what the school cafeteria was selling pre-packaged food as if I was eating fast food but three times worse.

And cadmium

Just do them yourself. Crackers, cheese and meat can be bought seperately. You cut cheese and meat so that it fits the cracker or use cutters (depending on the age of your son). You can experiment with the food: different crackers, meat and cheese, fruits or vegetables like cucumber or carrots, cream cheese as a sauce or you can go sweet with Nutella, peanut butter or sprinkles. There are a ton of different varieties your son can use and still have fun with it. He can even make pizza, they sell these small pizza bases or you can use Tortillas. Or you take a wrap, put some sauce or cream cheese on it, other things like meat or vegetables, roll it up, then cut it in pieces, it looks good. You can even put them on pretzel sticks. With a bit of fantasy you can give your son a fun meal. And if you need more ideas, look at videos of parents making bento boxes. Some of them are a bit over the top, but the general ideas are useable.

he says "thanks! It's pretty chill" but maybe take chill with a grain of salt ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@@FutureProofTV More like with 750 grams of salt

But if the pizza lunchables aren't heated and warm.... Gag ...

@@tanikokishimoto1604 it’s literally just a cracker with pepperoni and cheese. Besides cold pizza is actually pretty good - if you’re starving. Or you could microwave it using a paper towel- can’t microwave plastic lol

McDonald's is garbage, but that's a wee bit overboard.

What??? @@Firevine

the sad reality of the world we live in 💔

It's not like those Bratwurst and sausages are healthy either.

It's not like they eat them every meal don't they

​@@dannydaw59 why? I'm genuinely curious. They seem way less processed than something like a hotdog sausage or a bologna. It has saturated fat in it, and maybe a bit too high amount of salt per gram, but that's it, especially when compared to ultra-processed food.

From 2002 -2008 during my elementary Very often i refuse to go home just because the food lady still have some food Its that tasty, i Miss the spaghetti

I ate one this morning

Yyyyyyy😅😅😅😅

Yeah I eat them now because I didn't as a kid 🤦‍♂️

Me! Me! I love talking about slop "foods"!!! 😃

Oof.

Yea that made me laugh. I'd like to see a meal with 750g of salt :DDD

One serving of rock salt

best part is that the editing shows it as grams aswell

A year later and no acknowledgement of the mistake, that is how one earns a dislike on this video and all others RU-vid shows me from this channel.

Yeah Lunchable: 🫃/🤰 Marlboro:💀

Dang, that's brutal. My college was tiny so probably unusual, but we had little kitchens in all the dorm hallways, and needed them since the meal plan only fed us on weekdays. Meal plan was a cafeteria/food service, with (student) waited dinners even.

I went to elementary school in Surrey in the 2000’s and no lunch program here except for the occasional hot lunch.

"Enough to kill you" is an understatement

He copied the grams claim from the source without doing a double-take on the obscene number.

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@@FutureProofTV Ok I admit it america sucks. I'm glad I got to eat real food in school though. I hope one day it is preferable to have real food in schools again. But if I was a kid I wouldn't mind having dominoes pizza everyday :)