Food Theory: DON'T TRUST Your School Lunch!

The “fries” that are shaped like smiley faces are god tier when it comes to school food

My school used to have a fruit requirement. You could not have your meal unless you had at least 1 fruit (an orange, apple, or banana). They later changed it that you didn’t need anything except the food you wanted (but they would charge you more without telling you). There was a rumor that went around that the janitor would dig through the trash and pull out any fruit that looked like it could be served again. Almost everyone just assumed it was fake, but still didn’t eat the fruit because it was not very fresh. I did an experiment with an apple and really didn’t think anything of it. I made a mark on that apple that looked like it could’ve just been natural, but it was just different enough that I could tell the difference. I was actually disgusted when I found that same apple 2 days later. I never ate anything from that school ever again

1:25 when he talks about his " experiment " its so goofy j mean bro hung on for dear life

Matpat dunking on and name dropping the mean “sporty girls” will live in my head rent free for the rest of my days

Matpat: “Don’t trust your school lunch!” Me: “Never did, never will.”

Matpat sitting crossed leg, refusing to be lifted by “Sporty Girls” lives in my head rent free 😂

I had something like "Cheezy Dippers" when I was in high-school in Eastern Tennessee. My Mom would give me $2 for lunch and I would bypass the regular food line and go to where the Cheese Bread sticks was being served and it would only be $1 per Cheese stick. Maaann those were the days!!! 😅😂❤

My number 1 favorite school lunch is when they served orange chicken and chow mein, I also liked the Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner that they served when it was like a week or something from Thanksgiving and Winter break, I also liked when they served Spaghetti, I also remember we got garlic bread with the spaghetti which makes it a lot better

I considered myself lucky in high school when I learned that the sweet lunch ladies would work with the culinary class to chop fresh vegetables and grill chicken for our boxed salads. These big homemade salads would count as an entree because of the chicken, hard boiled egg, and breadstick that came with it, but would also have all kinds of good stuff in a couple varieties. I would always pick them up and thank the lunch lady that told me about it, because she definitely felt more like a lunch mom to the students.

My school has a student's mom as the main cook. So we always got traditional home cooked meals in the selections of food. It's actually very nice. School usually just gets the raw ingredients delivered by a nearby supplier. (This stuff is cheaper in my country)

Who else is watching this after he retired

Everybody’s favorite thing they had on the menu at my school was pizza crunchers and they were basically breaded on the outside and cheese on the middle with sauce surrounding the cheese and it had the best cheese pull. But personally, my favorite is the pepperoni pizza that wasn’t shaped like a triangle but more like a boat… Not many people liked them, but I loved them lol. BUT THE HOTDOGS??? THEY WERE SHRIVELED FINGERS BY THE TIME OUR LUNCH CAME 😭

As an European, American school lunches scare me. In my country school cafeteria was more like a non official restaurant. You could pick from a meniu what you wanted to eat, from soup to fish to meat and other meats and a full meal+drink was usually around 3-4 euros and that's not talking about the pastries and pizzas( yes, a whole pizza, but it was only one kind) for around 2-3 euros. And you knew what was in the meat, so you were certain that your burger wouldn't come alive once it was on your plate EDIT: I'm from Lithuania and I went to a public school. In my schools there were also programs for parents with very little income where the kids would eat completely for free as well as there was a program where you could pay for the school to provide a meal for your kid and ensure they were eating if you weren't sure if your kid could be responsible with money and would actually eat instead of saving it to buy toys

My high school had these cookies that were practically the size of your head. They had either chocolate chips or M&Ms in them, and sooo much butter! Weirdest (and in my opinion, best) part of these cookies was that because they were so big and so buttery, they were never totally cooked all the way through. The outside edges were crispy and chewy, but the inside was like safe-to-eat raw cookie dough!

0:01 tuna sandwiches ( my favourite ) and chocolate cake ( big serving ) with custard on the top

My school give us these burito bowl with rice bean chicken or beef and you have the option to add lettuce bits and cheeder cheses and I always thought it was the best

Matpat definitely seems like the guy to unironically remember the exact names of 5 school bullies for years

I actually did a survey about school lunches at my school. Most people said the lunches were okay, a few kids hate the lunches, and the kids who think that the soggy fries and the dry spaghetti is to die for.

Our school has Italian dunkers which are basically cheese with some bread rolled around it. They’re really good. They also have cheesy French bread which is some bread that looks to be from a more rounded prince of bread cut into quarters horizontally and vertically if that makes sense. With butter and cheese on top. Not to mention quite a few people seem to like crispitos which are basically ground beef with some sort of seasoning to them wrapped in what I can only assume is a hard tortilla? Besides those food quality had been declining except for the fact they’re finally getting better tortillas which my friends and I are quite pleased with.

My high school lunch was terrible! Any chicken was VERY pink inside, all the toppings of pizza (including the cheese) you could pull off in one piece, the milk was spoiled a lot. The most semi acceptable thing was the salad. Especially with goldfish and ranch on it. I also found it weird that all the vegetables we grew in agriculture class and gave to the cafeteria were never used?