I Cooked 100 Years of School Lunch

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School lunches are such a big staple in many peoples lives, so I wanted to go back 100 years and see what school lunches were like from the1900's all the way to the 2000's.

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All Comments (21)
  • @NickDiGiovanni
    I would've loved 1910...bringing my own five course lunch to school
  • @ryancantcook
    Grilled Cheese with a slice of bread on the side is crazy😂
  • @angelmage99
    Every time I see a video similar to this, it makes me realize how healthy my school was and this is coming from a 90s kid. We never had McDonalds and desserts were maybe twice a month. There was always fruits and veggies and we were expected to eat them, unless there were allergies. Also HIgh School in the 2000's were not as boring at least.
  • Growing up in the 2000's I don't think any of my meals looked like that. I feel like mine were more remenecent of what they showed for like the 60's and 80's. The things I remember most were the square pizza slices, the pb and j crustables, there was always milk that I'd blow into with a straw to get fun bubbles, and the chicken nuggets. Chicken nugget day was undoubtedly the best day for school lunches.
  • @TeddyStrongBear
    In the 70s and 80s, none of the public schools served coca-cola or any other carbonated drinks. You had a choice between white or chocolate milk. They also included apple or orange juice during breakfast. Also, cheese pizza with fries or tater-tots were a daily option, the other main dishes were offered on specific days.
  • @MrJayrock620
    I was in high school late 90’s into the early 2000”s. My school was trade oriented and we actually had our commercial cooking and baking classes make the lunches. It was always something different, and they even did catering orders in the afternoon classes.
  • In the late 80s, we had chili every Friday. There were 2 options for sides. An apple and a PBJ sandwich. I still eat PBJ sandwich with Chili to this day.
  • @SSJfraz
    I like how the 1910 lunch is infinitely healthier than the school lunches of today.
  • @rhondadupras2477
    My Mom and grandmother cooked in the schools for years 1950s and 1960s and they always got compliments about how good their food was.
  • @drea409
    Really liked this video and how the health aspect kind of went back and forth from year to year
  • @reginafisher9919
    You guys are crazy, I was born in 1975 and I never got any kind of soda with my school lunch!!! You guys are making this stuff up!
  • My school meals in the 1960s were superb. A thick stew followed by chocolate sponge in a white sauce were just one of my favourites.
  • @MikuJR3
    In fact:1900s people are more healthy than nowadays people.
  • It’s actually quite insane to see how different American school lunches are from what I’m used to here in Portugal! Here it’s almost unthinkable to serve students hamburgers and French fries 😅 (although I’m sure sometimes the students would prefer it). What I noticed is that in America lunch is seen as a lighter meal (correct me if I’m wrong), dinner being maybe the main meal of the day. Here in Portugal lunch is as important as dinner in terms of servings, so usually school lunches always include a full course meal with soup, rice/ potatoes or pasta with some kind of fish or meat, salad and desert (which is usually some type of gelatin, puddin and always with the option of fruit). You can also have bread but it’s usually optional and used to eat with the soup.
  • lol!!! I was eating school food in the 80’s! The whole made fresh rolls were the best! They served them with spaghetti and with the turkey 🦃 thanksgiving meal and with the fried chicken 🍗 too!
  • @CrabMan2539
    I went to school throughout the 2010s and tbh, what you got is michelin star worthy compared to what we got. Everything had been frozen, burgers warmed with water (not sous vide, just straight in the water) with fake grill marks, chicken patties with cartilage in it and some red spots, burnt pizza with soggy crust and probably more oregano than sauce, soggy fried chicken wing with a flat side, half decent nuggets and oddly good mac and cheese (very rare tho). The worst of it was that my school constantly tried to convince us the food was good. They had "ads" for their food depicting people being so lucky to have "such good food". No one was buying it. I'm so glad to be out of high school.
  • @ryancantcook
    Schools eliminate processed food (proceeds to give processed baloney and cheese)
  • @TheBlaert
    I went to a small rural primary school in Ireland in the mid 1980's. About 50-60 pupils. Our cook made absolutely everything fresh and from scratch. It was honestly top-level
  • There's something comforting and wholesome about the simple meals from the earlier decades.