Comments on: School Lunch From Around the World

By: oink

oink — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:54:42 +0000

@notoriousnicholas
I think its more about referring to seaweed as ‘pubic hair’ on the japanese lunch…
I dunno, maybe if someone referred to pepproni pizza as ‘blood stained pad’ it’d have the same effect.

By: V!veCanta

V!veCanta — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:24:01 +0000

yea lisa us ghetto school kids got the sucky food lol

tear*

By: LisaL

LisaL — Fri, 29 May 2009 02:49:08 +0000

OMG seekshelter…. those were the freakin best. Those thin rectangle floppy pizzas they served in elementary school were AWESOME.
Our elementary school also had THE best PB sandwiches. It was a honey PB, served with a bowl of vegtable soup. Good lord, best ever!

I feel bad for people who had sucky school meals…. everything the schools served here was awesome.

By: Del Taco

Del Taco — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:04:00 +0000

It’s Salsbury steak day!

By: seekshelter

seekshelter — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:20:41 +0000

for years, ive longed for some of those elementary school rectangular pizza slices… i still dream about that taste…

By: V!veCanta

V!veCanta — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:23:43 +0000

wow, its so interesting seeing what kids eat in other countries. I wonder if they hate lunch food as much as we did here in America?

I went to a public school here in Chicago. Ghetto, I guess. The food was pretty sucky, but by 1 pm you pretty much ate anything they gave you.

I actually remember some of those lunches pictured there. haha good times.

By: Stan

Stan — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:12:15 +0000

@VonSkippy – i like “difference” too. Theres a difference between poking fun and making fun – thats like saying bullies are justified in bullying because they can point out differences. Not that its an analogy to what the OP of the post did, but i’d choose your words a little more wisely

Anyways, I posted a comment on the OP post and he has since removed the comment and changed the comments on the post. If you weren’t here before comment ~9, the comments on this thread are out of context

I’ll end this response with a quote:
“Theres no ‘overreaction’. Theres your reaction, and theres my reaction. Who are you to set the standard?”

By: vonskippy

vonskippy — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:46:57 +0000

I love how everyone is cracking on the American lunches as being unhealthy when it’s the FRENCH lunches that have french fries with EVERYTHING.

By: Namowal

Namowal — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:41:21 +0000

The Korean lunches look more appetizing than some of the American ones. Many of the latter looked unhealthy- lots of processed, fried starchy things.

By: buddhaflow

buddhaflow — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:25:10 +0000

Hey! I recognize that! It’s what I ate today..and yesterday..and the day before..and what I look forward to eating today School lunches in Korea are delicious, for the most part! And nutritious too. I wonder if it helps their behavior?

By: dutchboy

dutchboy — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:57:34 +0000

I’m looking foreward to the future when we have school breakfast and supper programs as well, the best part of all will be the uniform white jumpsuits that we will all wear,that will be so cool! The implanted RFID chips will make everything so much more convenient and safe for everyone.
I’m not all for the forced medication, but if it makes everything better for the group sure I’ll go along with it.

By: seefish3

seefish3 — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:29:38 +0000

@Mysterioso

I miss some school lunch items, too. I remember a Baconburger (ground beef fried in a bacon coating of some kind) and Congo bars (a blonde brownie with dark chocolate and white chocolate chips).

And, oh, the joy of the Spork…

By: goody goody

goody goody — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:24:26 +0000

To Arwin3: when I first read your comment, I thought you said you dined on peanut butter and ham! Thanks for the unintentional funny! Glad I re-read that. It made me think of the punishment lunches my friend told me about. Her mother would send peanut butter and cheddar sandwiches to school if she or her seven siblings had gotten in trouble as a warning saying, “I know what you’ve done”!

By: goody goody

goody goody — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:18:07 +0000

I grew up eating American food but now prefer Asian. I’m vegetarian and aside from the fish, would prefer a Korean or Japanese lunch over any of the American choices presented here. It mostly looks like fried pieces of tan food to me.

By: Arwin3

Arwin3 — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:51:35 +0000

I personally found this interesting! We didn’t have cafeterias where I grew up (rural Canada). My first thought was “Wow, that’s a lot of food!” People brought their own lunches and it was typically a basic sandwhich (often peanut butter and jam), and a piece of fruit).

Probably would have been better to have a school lunches in someways,I would probably be more inclined to think “Do Ihave a veggie with my lunch? Do I have fruit? Protein?”

The only thing that gave me pause was the “nasty” comment on the organic lunch. Lol. The different culture lunches were more interesting than not.

By: La_Petite_Poi

La_Petite_Poi — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:50:28 +0000

seriously people, no need to get upset. i thought it was interesting what other people in the world got for school lunch. if neatorama hadn’t posted this, i would have never even given a thought to what people in other countries eat for lunch. i just wish there were more nations represented but hey, maybe they don’t even have school lunches. either way, if you don’t like a neatorama post, don’t read it.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:44:41 +0000

@notoriousnicholas

And for the love of god stop taking me seriously!

By: Screen Sleuth

Screen Sleuth — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:30:34 +0000

Sorry, but this just looks gross, regardless of any cultural bias.

By: notoriousnicholas

notoriousnicholas — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:29:00 +0000

@Gauldar

Wow.

By: notoriousnicholas

notoriousnicholas — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:28:03 +0000

Amen Vonskippy

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:20:39 +0000

Millions of years of evolution wiring the brain to notice any and all differences in order to decide on the friend/foe or fight/flight response and a bunch of modern goodie-two-shoe-ers want to throw that away.

Differences are what make the world interesting. Who cares if people poke fun at them – at least they noticed.

If you want everyone to be alike, join a cult.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:43:46 +0000

@notoriousnicholas

I find your comment offensive, please cease and desist your actions on making me read your comment.

By: notoriousnicholas

notoriousnicholas — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:23:51 +0000

Anywho, I e-mailed the author, told him some people were offended by the Korean lunches, and asked him to remove anything that could be misconstrued as offensive.

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:13:24 +0000

They all look better than anything I remember eating in school, but the meals always tasted better than they looked. We had beans and cornbread at least twice a week.

By: notoriousnicholas

notoriousnicholas — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:10:42 +0000

I don’t understand why you think the author was being offensive? Where did the author make fun of Korean food? It just seems to me that they didn’t know what the items were. I say quit being so hyper sensitive. If someone in Korea said, “What the heck is that?” I wouldn’t care one bit. You guys are lame for being so uptight.

By: LisaL

LisaL — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:08:13 +0000

Loved our school lunches.
And that korean lunch looks great. I think the greens on the plate is spinach. My mother often uses it when she makes kimbop. It’s also good by itself b/c they put some kind of oil and stuff on it. Very tasty.

Anywho.. at the HS I went to. I never ate in the cafeteria, but I know a lot of people did. We also had like a mini-food court. A place that sold Taco Bell, Pizza and the best eggrolls ever!

By: Stan

Stan — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:57:03 +0000

^ I agree, the culturally ignorant idiot shouldn’t be featured on neatorama

By: ignorance on neatorama? say it ain't so.

ignorance on neatorama? say it ain't so. — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:52:42 +0000

i actually found this incredibly offensive. i’m korean-american, and i don’t take kindly to some unresearched genius making fun of the daily diets of other ethnicities. i’d take kelp soup, kimchi and spinach over processed steak fingers and scoop-shaped artificial starches any day.

By: Chandrielle

Chandrielle — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:46:12 +0000

Fish heads, fish heads
Roly poly fish heads
Fish heads, fish heads
Eat ‘em up, yum!

By: oink

oink — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:07:24 +0000

If we look at everything the american way i’m sure we’ll find the most appetizing lunches at http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/, you know, mystery ground meat, wrapped in bacon, wrapped in more fat and deep fried in fat? Because its so much more appetizing than grilled fish and seaweed?

The author of that site is so ignorant it makes me sick. Honestly, articles on neatorama were quality compared to this garbage. Don’t know why you’re sponsor it. Disappointing, really.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:06:09 +0000

At my highschool it was all about the chicken burgers.

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:52:49 +0000

I liked school lunches too. I remember some items that I have never seen anywhere other than primary school cafeterias that I miss. They used to serve a great little crumb cake that I loved.

By: Byrd Brain

Byrd Brain — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:47:25 +0000

Clockwise from the top, shall we?
Fish, ham and scrambled eggs (yes, VERY mysterious), kimchi, mi-yuk gook (kelp soup), and finally, rice and more seaweed (laver). All of it is quite good except the ham- it’s processed beyond even bologna over there. For bonus points, the yellow stuff on the plate in the corner is pickled daikon or “mu”.