Like skiddy pants ^^; I was lucky enough to afford my own lunch when I was at primary school. But the food was rubbish anyhow; menu was always chips,burger, pizza or pie.. ugh. Anything drowned in fat, grease or salt, cheap stuff. Surprised anyone could survive class on that kind of diet.
all those lunches look quite tasty ^_^
if you had worse than skiddy pants my school's food would be it. overpriced, full of grease, sugar, salt, fat preservatives and all in between. Those japanese students got it good. well except for sendai. pity those poor kids, their meals look almost as bad as refugee food.
I never had eaten at my schools cafeteria until I went to college. My college has at least two major places to eat, the cantina and the student committee bar, you pay at least one extra € to eat at the student bar but its a lot better than the cafeteria and they serve almost jumbo sized meals, eating at college is great ^^ (well at least here)
Cafe food... DISGUSTING. I've been fed vegetarian food in high school- Oh the years of skiddy pants =]
skidy pants here too ^^ but I only ate at school when I was really young, and I wasn't eating anything cause the food was really bad, so my parents decided to end up my school diet !!
In high school I was a day student at a boarding school. The food was pretty good. I guess it should have since tuition was more than my college tuition. My high school did have the best peanut butter cookies I EVAR had.
High School meals in the US are loaded with one thing: FATS. I try to avoiid it whenever I can. Heck I even wrote a letter to the Mayor complaining about cafeteria food for an economics project (didn't get very far though). Now that I'm in college, we have to pay for lunch... My college's food is decent, but overpriced. I still try to eat at home or starve myself sometimes just to save some money for figures/models. Anyway, this really sucks. Poor kids.
School Lunches weren't ever too bad where I went to school, pigs in a blanket, spaghetti, mac n cheese, and all ways fish on Fridays. Nice thing was if they had left overs you could get seconds, very important for a growing boy like me, 'cause I was almost always hungry.
well my school used to serve chicken with plastic n rubber band on it.. u cant actually see it as it is covered with sauce...but once u take the bite yeah it is plastic n rubber band. That was long long time ago....... at least some of u get to eat hamburger.
Hmmm... I remember when I was still in christian pre-school, We had rice and spring rolls during recess periods... and not to mention a cup of lemonade w/ dead fly in it...
skiddy pants here, well at least at my school... the cafeteria is not owned by the school and it's operated by a SME (Small-Medium Enterprise) and we have 2 competing SMEs but they still serve skiddy pants food >.> when i've reached college, i started eating outside where it's much cheaper and in large servings ^^
I pay for fast food now that I'm in college lol so I always get a lot. That primary school should really beef up on the food they give out, kids will probably do better in school if they do.
My mom never believed in school lunches so I never ate cafeteria lunches. Junior High was where the food was great. I would cheat and buy lunch in the cafeteria without my mom knowing. ^^; The cooks in the cafeteria had owned an Italian restaurant for several years. We use to get the best lasagna and such... I always went back for seconds. College was the best and has gotten even better. About a year ago the University of Florida expanded the student union. Just about every fast food chain you could think of along with sushi and Italian. I want to go back to college. ^o^ I want to go back to Florida...
I never got to eat any school lunch before. In Singapore, we get to buy whatever we want to eat from the cafeteria.
I always packed my lunch. I could count the times I ate school food on one hand.
Wow, that prison food looks delicious... My high school didn't have "meals" but they had food for lunch. Stuff like pies and A ROLL IN A ROLL! :3 (a cooked sausage roll within a buttered bakery roll, tosted, or non-toasted)
We have similar problems in the USA. When I was in school the food was OK, but it was definetly not good for you. The high school pizza was ok, but I would never eat the rest of the food. I find it odd the tikes in Japan are starving, over in the USA they are fighting over an obesity crisis =X
Oddly enough, it reminds me not of the food I had during my school years (which was adequate, but not "good"), but of the food I had while in Japan for a semester a year and a half ago. Your average-size bento always seemed ridiculously small, but I felt like a glutton if I ordered larger ones (or multiples). Even after padding them out with fruit (usually mikan) and snacky things (anman, especially) during non-mealtimes, I still ended up losing substantial amounts of weight. Granted, coming from the US, maybe this shouldn't surprise me - after all, we enjoy excess, and I've been accustomed to that all my life. Nevertheless, I'll be spending a year there starting in September, and I'm a little worried: am I going to have to buy new suits halfway through because the old ones will be too big? ...okay, rant over.
In my school (Nobel Ms) going to CAthworth. Lunch taste like shit...I gain couple pounds during 6th grade. All I ate in 7th and 8th was salad. And drink non fat milk. Pretty stale lunch because i dont use dressing. Dam i wish my school was like japan. Any how i cooking my on lunch this comming school lunch. Every day. Dont wont to be fat or comsume unneasure calories. (>.
primary schools here doesn't offer heavy meals, coz whats the point of having your lunch meal, when you can have it at home? primary school and secondary school's hours is from 7.30/8.00am to 12.30/1.00pm(that for "morning session" students) or from 12.30/1.00pm. Extra curriculum activities are on Saturdays. During secondary school, i went into boarding school. My timetable everyday was always full. School hours in the morning, preparation class in the evening and at night. After 10pm, we free to do things in the hostel. With that kind of schedule, the school provide us with 5 meal course: Morning breakfast, morning tea(thats recess at around 10am i guess), lunch, evening tea (around 4pm), dinner and lastly supper at 10pm(after prep. class). ^_^
i would go home for lunch - if i had to choose from these pics i would go to prison
my school meals was just nasty... they're either too small portioned or tasteless, which is the least of my worries... sometimes you get odds and ends in there... somewhat like your big fat juicy caterpiller, bleah... i rather pack from home... nothing beats a home made BLT, a fruit and a carton of milk ^.^
They tasted awful and were full Junk at my primary school and the same goes for the secondary school I'm at now. Then Jamie Oliver came a long with his TV Show about School Dinners and the Gonvernment was forced to make the food healthier. Little did they no the food would become 100 x more crap when they did. Also, the UK is catching onto a new way of paying for School Meals. It's ridiculous imo. At my school, instead of giving the lunch ladies cash to buy stuff, you need to use a swipe card which must be topped up via cheques paid to the school. I've given up on school lunches as of last year and I now bring my own lunch to school, and as for the swipe card, It's probably somewhere under my bed collecting dust, like it should be. > < Long Reply, Gomen...
I really hope its not as bad in highschools since I'll be going to a Japanese highschool. Then again, isn't lunch free in primary school in Japan? That may be the reason its so miniscule.
My condolences go to sendai primary school. Sorry kids, at least you get some melonpans. Greato.
Wow, that's the prison food in Japan? Definitely fancier than the overpriced dog food with rice I had back in high school.
it looks so good !!
New York school foods are pretty good,even if the lot of them are fatty stuff like burgers, pizza, tatertots, meatpies and stuff. I bring my own food to school though. American style in a bag and not bento. Though I did use a LOT of home made bento boxes when I was young. Ate homecooked meals daily.
they should change all recipe to this: Banana, Milk, Sausage, ice-cream, lolipop...that should be enough.. and if you think further why I've chosen this food, you will agree with me too. ^^' Anyway can post their answer here..comment back later..
この写真の給食は，一年生の「初めての給食」です．初日からそんなにたくさん食べられないでしょう．これからどんどん増えて普通の量になっていきます．
We had the nastiest little pizzas. They were basically cardboard with cheese! I LOVED THEM!! I always got everyone else's that didn't want them! Our tacos were great! Everyone ate them!
this is why the system here is better we study from 8 to 12 and we go back to our homes to have lunch and then come back to school at 2pm
I'd rather my kids come home hungry than covered in black and blue. I heard bullying is a huge problem for kids there than anything else in school.
the food really is bad, reminds me of army breakfast T_T
Wow, a caterpillar... I mean, I know some schools don't have perfect hygiene, but a caterpillar?
The food in schools in France was simply horrible, especially for the in my youngest years. Between radishes with butter, pomelos that give you a nice citrus juice attack to the eyes, brussel sprouts (I am still traumatized from them to this very day) and lentils with a remaining bit of soil... Even spinach was meh. There even was some kinda tartar steak... Good to get some random bacteria. Hey, it's kids we are talking about. Their immune system is not fully competent yet. And still they feed them with crap. "Meals made with the supervision of dieteticians" my a**. Rather chosen to cut costs. Hopefully, I'm still fond of lentils and spinach to this very day. @seth frostheart: Incoming proteins!! lol... Well I guess I was lucky enough with my lentils with a sprinkle of soil and brussel sprouts then.
In México there is no such thing. School meals are just a political tool, shame.
holy cow...o-o i'm simply amazed by how good the meals look :P In Canada the meals suck and are never enough for students' appetite..
the japanesse complain too much about that in mexico there are a little store with high prizes if you want to eat somthing more o less ''decent'' like jorge said in a comment down me
Forget about Elementary kids, everyone in Japan is always hungry. Who can afford $38 grapes and $100 watermelons? When I was in Japan the only thing cheap enough to eat were the 10 for 100 yen eggs and the discounted bread at the end of the night. It's no wonder why instant noodles were invented. According to MGS3 it was made to help the hungry people. Maybe those school kids should bring their own instant noodles. And it's not just the small portions of food. In the winter the kids are not allowed to wear jackets in the classroom, and the teachers don't turn on the heater until after the students leave. Reminds me the main character girl from Speed Grapher.
lol, so in order for a kid not to hungry he should just do a crime and go to jail where they have better food. I knew those guys work hard to get into jail for some reason and now I know it. Its FOOD.
Perplexus, As far as I know it has to be paid for.
Oh, the caterpillar comment is in fact directed to you, Danny. Didn't read the post fully. Gomen ne. By the way, how did you react, did you get your... unexpected share of proteins, shouted or cried all the way because of that? I wonder.
wow! there seems to be a whole much difference in amount of food for other schools (and prison) as compared to those of sendai. Even the 1927 food is more decent for a school meal.
the portions are almost similar to wat i have in primary school.. hehh i'm still alive!
awww wut! i feel sorry for the people in that school... In my school we buy wut we want to eat but the food there in my school is discusting even our teachers and staff think so too....
I wish school dinners in my time had as much variation :( asside from the usually slop they feed us. no nutritional value what so ever. & It was like that until that naked chef guy made & stand to improve school dinners that things changed... assh*le took his time!!! hes 15years too late to save my taste buds.
At the schools in my area, they serves us greasy slop that they pass off for food. I don't eat lunch at school unless im really hungry. Its bad-tasting, unhealthy, and generally just insulting..
The non-Sendai ones are way better than any canteen in malaysia that's for sure. >_
wow..i think i went to the same primary school as you O_O;; was it islington green? rofll x33 yuh..school dinners here suck but i guess its improving
Wow! Talk about malnutrition, I worry those kids might get sick... LOL Danny, I think you're right. Maybe the principal DOES use the school funds on Candy girls... He could atleast share... Hairy caterpillar in you pie?! LOL, you've had it worst than me... Or do you like caterpillar pie... Hmm?
No wonder those kids are so damn skinny.
Hell people in prison get better meals than what they have at Sendai. This is a SCAM, we need to report this to the authorities, the MOE (Ministry of Education), the ACA (Anti-Corruption Agency), MIA (Ministry of Internal Affairs), and so on.
