Guess that u're what u eat.... poor kids

I dont believe what the kids in the US eat very well. the japan kids eat better

Man, I recognize a lot of the USA ones. Hahahah.

The question of whether one of the USA lunches was cheese sticks or pizza: answer is cheese sticks.

On the last one: it is pizza, not lasagna.

Our federal government subsidizes the dairy and meat industries in the US, and a lot of the 'extra' food gets used for the federal school lunch and prison meal programs. So that's why a lot of US lunches are pretty uniform and the types of food offered tend to be very processed.

What about the poor kids in Afghanistan who eat dirt for lunch?

God the US kids eat crap, the Asian kids have a much healthier diet.

Poor Indians....No food ...but still the best brains in the world

starnge that americans have the most fAST food types... fatties.

Schools around the world? China, Japan, Korea, USA, Sweden.
Looks like you missed a bit there...

What no UK? We could put some of the US dishes to shame, but it would be difficult...

I saw some mistakes on the comments about the French meal :

about the first one :

French fries, a piece of baguette, mystery meat hamburger, chocolate cake, something resembling an omelet actually it's a crepe with some cheese, thinly sliced bacon and cream , and a cup of something to drink actually it's a yoghurt and you missed a piece of cheese (the yellow triangle on the back)

about the second one :

France: Scallops mussel, an artichoke, grapefruit , cheesecake citrus tart, baguette and fries and you missed a yoghurt.


BTW we don't have fries each meal... :p
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In the US at least, school lunches represent limited choices, but choices. no school nutritionist okays a lunch of all deep-fried meats and starches, but kids get to pick and choose as they go down the line. They tend to choose deep fried over veggies, but that's because they are given a choice.

so, are these offical descriptions, because they're horribly worded and poorly researched

Yeah, I agree with 12. God, it'd be SO easy to put a little more effort into the descriptions. "Colorful mystery items?" No respect.

Seriously, he/she didn't have to do it. If you want a well researched lunch you try making a page.

#12 and #13 are being picky as fuck. The descriptions don't matter when all he's doing is taking his best guess at what the fuck is on the plates. The pictures are what make this article interesting :)

Square pizza rules

FRANCE RLZZZZZZZZZ

Whoever compiled these pictures has very little food knowledge... There are multiple instances of foods identified as something else. That and everywhere you go there will always be low budget food vs higher budget foods. This happens so much on the internet... from food to "scientifically proven facts" there are no facts on the interbutts

Definitely makes me want to pack my lunch...

The japan "slaw" was most likely either pickled ginger or daikon.

Loads of mistakes there.

LOL - All the USA ones look crap!!

I eat Japanese school lunch every day at my elementary schools. The central board of education thinks up a menu for each month, with the right nutritional balance and a mix of all food groups. There's a good mix of traditional Japanese food and western food. They even send out a daily newsletter to explain what's in the food so the kids can learn about the food they're eating. And it's delicious! And all for 240 yen per day ($2.40), which is incredible considering the incredibly high price of food in Japan. Other countries should learn from Japan when thinking about their school meals.

Man, all this stuff looks looks better than what they serve in most American schools.[/i]

Im hungry .....

UMMMMMM nothing beats square pizza!!!

For the Korea ones...the green things are not broccoli, it's spinach. The white thingies are dumplings that are similar to potstickers called mandu. The "colorful mystery items" are spam, egg, and spinach. With seaweed soup.

Japan definitely looks like it has the fanciest.
America looks rather bland and sterile, unfortunately, but atleast it tends to be somewhat balanced.
China looks tasty.
france seems satisfying.
India looks like the most efficient (looks like the cheapest and easiest to produce, yet the lentils probably still make it nutritious and the rice is in a substantial quantity), but does not look tasty.
Korea and Sweden look nice.

Lol all this food looks pretty disgusting. Bring your own lunches ftw, imo.

I want to know what US schools are getting these lunches! They are way luckier than my school and most others.

on the first french meal, its a steak frites (steak + french fries) and the drinking cup is either a yoghurt if you call this the blue-ish pot or a pot of water if you refer to the pot in the upper left. no idea re the omelette but its definitely not an omelette. if it was it would be on a plate like a main dish.
on the second on, Im not sure the cheesecake is a cheesecake but I dont know what it is and the scallops are "moules"
happy canteening!!!

I'd eat the american food b4 any of the other nasty shit they have pics of. Atleast with the american food you can tell what it is by looking at it.

Did anyone else notice the condoms next to the Japanese lunch with the hot dog bun?

I love this, something resembling a pile of sauteed onions.

The organic lunch looks yummy :)

Your product ID needs some work.

France is like the best to me. USA is second ^_^

for the korean pictures
korean 1: the noodle stuff is called chap-chaem the greens are either seaweed or spinach
korean 2: white things are called mando it's a dumpling either fried or steamed
korean 3: the seaweed looking stuff is called kim it's dried out sheets of seaweed that's cut into strips.

I think it's pretty unlikely that Japanese and Korean school lunch menus would include milk.

It would be nice if the compiler knew a bit more about product ID--but I also agree that the pictures alone speak a thousand words.

Where I grew up, they printed the school district's lunch menus for the week in the Sunday paper. Monday: enchiladas. Tuesday: gorditas. Wednesday: burritos. Thursday: tapatias. Friday: fish (everybody--except me--was Catholic). Every day had rice and beans on the side.

Man, I miss those days.

I absolutely hate the idea that my little daughter is going to go to a school that wants to force-feed chicken nuggets and "ketchup as a vegetable." Looks like I have a lot of brown-bag preparation in my future.

"around the world" - you kiddin me - only Sweden, France, India, Korea, Japan & USA. There is much more countries to show - eastern european, central european, arabic, nort, central ans south african and many more.

In the Netheralnds we don't do school meals. Kids just bring some homemade sandwiches and maybe some fruit and a drink and have that around noon.
Around 6pm at home they'll have dinner with their family.

Seriously - no wonder Americans are obese and overweight. Some of the stuff looked like it had come out of a slop bucket.

Let me eat in a Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish, Malawi, or even the Indian School any day of the week. There meals look absolutely mouthwatering. I wouldn't eat the other muck if you paid me to.

fuck off with that food

Jezuz i thought we were the only ones with the crappy cafeteria food

So other countries get real food and the U.S gets whatever slop they find in the trash? Not fair. School lunches disgust me a bit. The second I had to wonder if the 'chicken' I'm eating might actually be human meat/turkey butt is the second I drew the line on school food. Give me a brown-bag lunch any day.

The mysterious white things on the Korean lunch look like pot stickers.

Wow...extensive research done here... only what 5 countries represented and terrible descriptions on most. Must be an american writer. Ya sure #15 has a point but then again if I had made a page like this I would have made sure all foods were properly identified and would have had more than the limited locales. What he/she should have done was named it Unidentifiable food from 5 countries

Pft. If USA actually eats some of those good looking school foods. I wonder what school serves it. The one I go to has horrible food.

Whoever said that Japanese school lunch is great every day is wrong. Some days it is OK, but some days it is horrible. Even my kids don't eat half of the stuff they serve. I would also disagree about the health factor. Japanese food is very heavy on starch, and thus many people have stomach problems. Pretty much every day we have boiled cabbage with lunch and rarely any other vegetables. There are few green vegetables in the food, besides the boiled cabbage.

I believe the picture with the fish labeled as sardines is really shishamo.

I also think the first picture is of a lunch in a university.

The Japanese school lunches always come with whole milk (the only kind of milk available here). Some schools have glass bottles, some schools have the cardboard containers. Most schools also alternate between bread and rice during the week. Sometimes it is noodles (that you put in to the soup). The meals are generally a soup, rice/bread, vegetable, meat. The soups and/or vegetables often include meat (generally beef or pork).

Finally - those things that someone said were condoms look more like condiments to me. No teacher would have those on their desk.