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Americans does not know how badly they are treated by their country. In every field.
Let's just say American kids are picky cause the parents are. No buts about it.
My Friends it is a beautifull welthy school in your vidéo , but most of the public school they are not eating well , back in the days YES that was real for every public school in France ( my Time ) NOT TODAY , so next Time go to a public school for example in Paris or Suburbian Areas , Merci Beaucoup
Hello there ! I’m French and I work in a primary school as a helper for disabled children (often autistic children / with learning disabilities / with ADHD, etc) and I help them too during lunch at the cafeteria. In our school, I can say we’re lucky to have the majority of the meals being prepared on site and with 70% of organic products. The meals are developped and planned with a nutritionist / dietetician and the cooking team of the school employed by the municipality (not by a Big Master Chef, it’s not all the schools, it’s quite rare in fact. And when ut happens it could be for an experiment to improve meals, motivate the kids).
Meals must be healthy. Plus, it’s a way to be sure that the kids have at least one healthy meal (and sometimes just a meal ) during the day.
Still… kids being kids (and often not well « culinary educated » and not used to healthy food) are very picky, lots of good food is thrown away each day. (We can’t keep the untouched food on a tray of course cause it’s sanitary norms).
And of course, allergic children are notified to have a special meal. It’s strict to avoid accident.
We also have the « La Semaine du Goût » (litteraly « The Taste Week or The Week of Taste ). « In addition to discovering new flavors and textures , children will learn to eat in a more balanced way, to appreciate things they do not know, and to further diversify their daily meals. »
Lol its not like that AT ALL!! where i live people alsmot died with bacterias in the prepared meals.
Lot of schools have bad products or almost nothing to serve for the kids,
since decades its know that the food is stolen by the cantines workers.
Some of the poor kids ask for a second plate but there is nothing left.
i am french, when i go to buy groceries, every week, i plan my menus of the week in the shop , buying promotions and season food ! all is easy to to!!
1:57 For a second I heard Oscar from the office talking about hygiene in school 😂
Arthur pas changer assiette pour fromage !!!
Believe me, kids in France are NOT eating like they do in this Parisian school. In our local schools, the food is prepared by the same kitchen that makes the food for the retirement homes and the kids are expected to eat the same overcooked veggies, tasteless, post-wartime dishes as the old folks, including cow tongue. 🤮 They mostly leave it and come home starving in the evenings.
Yes, the French are serious about their food, but they also believe they are the epicentre of good cuisine (because of Escoffier – 200 yrs ago??) . In reality, they are living off a reputation from the 70s when it was the trend to have a French bistro or bust. Italy has a way better standard of food, generally. I've lived in France for over 20 years, so I've had plenty of experience. Down on the riviera might be different, but not in your average town. It's brand BS. Like Hermes.
I was incredulous when I learned that some American schools consider pizza a vegetable because it has tomato sauce on it… And sometimes peppers, it's completely crazy!
In my town it's culinary school students who prepare the food for kids.
The ‘normal stuff’ as you call certain food is not normal. Poor planning leads to not following through with preparing meals. Making prep and cooking a joint activity is social and educational. Variety of fresh food is important to good gut health. Food is your fuel.
As a Canadian who moved to France 5 years ago I was impressed with my son's weekly menu that looked like a restaurant menu, but everytime my son was telling me "I don't know what they do, everytime it looks good but it is tasteless. This being said, my husband and I cook a lot but my son told me all his friends tought the same as he did. Also, his school dont systematically serve vegetables because most of the kids would not eat them and they decide it was too much waste. So the kids need to ask for the extra veggies, and my son told me, nobody ask for them. So not all school have an ex gourmet chef at the head of the kitchen.
What they call escargots are not escargots (snails) but sea whelks i.e seafood. Maybe sea snails if you wish but not the same thing. Way more common than snails actually in a French diet. Also way tastier if you ask me. Called "bulots" in French.
These weren't snails theh were bigorneaux, sea snails
This is really BS. Showing some 3 star chef in a small village cafeteria. In reality, school lunch is famously known in France to be shit, so much that we call something that's not very good "school food". Most of the time they serve canned food with no salt or any seasoning, becaues it's unhealthy, and some overcooked meat to be sure to kill all bacteria. Then you have the occasional pizza/fries/burger day, that every kid loves (which is still frozen, but good this time).
4:53 is a complete lie. You do not get to choose between 10 chef meals and chocolate cake. You get ONE meal, and if your snowflake lifestyle or fairy religion doesn't let you eat what's on the menu, they open a can of spinach or boil a few potatoes for you. We do not get snails or other weird stuff, they only serve things that are sure to be eaten by kids. For desert you always have a plastic sealed small sample of cheese and a fruit. I would say entrées are the most diverse, with several choices and different salads.
PS : I'm not even saying it's bad, it's just very bland frozen food. It is healthy and forces you do discover various foods at least. I always liked school food, but every day is a gamble. One day you'll get delicious lasagna, and the other dry rice and a dry piece of meat.
10:52 I once heard a sentence that describes the US food problem perfectly: "Americans eat like they have free healthcare."
Je comprends que ça puisse étonner les Américains, car au niveau culinaire, vous avez tout lâché pour la facilité.
N’oubliez pas que beaucoup de vos ancêtres étaient européens, il doit forcément en rester quelque chose 😉.
Au travail, je mange dans le restaurant d’entreprise, le bœuf est d’origine française, le poisson est souvent frais tout comme les légumes disponible en entrée et il y a beaucoup de plats fait maison, sans parler des desserts. Niveau qualité ça vaut un restaurant …….le plus surprenant, je mange pour 4 à 6€, bouteille de Perrier comprise.
The French Way of Life 👍🏼
I’m french, from Paris, and it’s true, à lunch is very important in our culture, it’s à moment of encounters, in family, with friends. And cooking is art for us !😊
I hope you could visit France. But i ’ll never come back in USA until thé clown Trump is président…😢
We don't care about the kids as much as we say that we do. Our actions regarding feeding and caring for the most helpless members of our society is a reflection of our thoughts on them.
I had to learn how to slow down in France. I ate more and still didn't gain weight or feel sluggish.
5:10 There’s a big error here those are whelks, it’s sea food!!!
Not exactly the same as the escargots (ground snails) which are not common at all and you won’t see them at the cafeteria.
I’ve never eaten escargots in my life for example.
It's easy to understand, and the difference is quite huge… we French eat, and for us eating is both an art and an pleasure. You Americans most often only feed yourselves !
American care about pro life and the fetus but when they are born or kids they don't care about them anymore the irony
I am French. My very small school in the 80's : parents (mostly farmers) gave food to the school , that a woman cooked. So, fresh vegetables from our village, meat from our farms. (We were unfortunately forced to eat vegetables, even if we cried without stop).
Oops ! Mostly, we (French people) don't like this "cantine – food", theorically balanced, but industrial products without taste. It doesn't taste so good than you think. Homemade food is so much better. But at least, at school, children from very poor families can have something correct. I don't think that France does something especially good… in my opinion the quality of food at school in france is often not good enough. So, I am afraid… How bad it is in your country????
Check how Japan manages food at school : this is a real good level .
I'm french and it's new , when i was in public school we ate defrosted food ,my school had a contract with restaurant chain , now it's no longer possible , it was in 2002
5:08 Bulots, which are shellfish.
Because rich people privatized all your institutions
I'm pretty sure most school don't do any of this xD
It's too funny to take 2 or 3 schools in France and make generalizations out of them. France is one of the countries in the world that eats the most industrial food. The schools are on the same level as the USA. If you want to see quality, it's not in France, but in Italy, Switzerland, Asia, among other places, but not only. France, the UK, and the USA are the 3 worst regions in the world.
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also in france parents can go at the cantine and try the same food as there child to check the quality and eat with their child ( not all rear long ofc but they can go once a year to see ) at least in my region
The few times I had a school meal here in the UK (1970s) it was proper shit. It felt like a punishment.
In Spain is the same
7:38 It's all about how important you think this is.
When you know that eating keeps you alive but can also ☠️ you in the long run if you eat bad…
Then you know how important it is and you put the time on it.
And healthy meals don't necessarily need hours to be cooked.
It's really about food education and cultural habits.
(I'm french)
Check out how kids in Japan eat lunch. Probably one of the best lessons as well as healthy food. The kids serve themselves in their classrooms they don’t go to a cafeteria. Kids in America have one the worst lunches in the western world. Carbs and high calorie.
The best part is the outstanding quality of French primary and secondary education, which truly prepares students for university and professional schools.
Now we have fridge, so you can cook one day a week for all the other days of the week! You choose one day and you cook 3 or 4 recipies in big quantities. Then you put it in the freezer in little bags and you can defrost what you need each day.