Public school food

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Fun Fact: In France, children get a full hour to eat, a four course meal including dessert, and a different cheese option every day. And most French schools spend less money on food than America.

I have always been so picky with food, that my mom learned very quickly she could not make me eat cafeteria food. Because if we tried that, I simply wouldn't eat. So I packed a lunch the entirety of my school years. And because I was bullied, I spent several of those years, eating it in the bathroom...

You make me feel very happy that I made my own lunches. All of that looked so nasty... and a little traumatizing to think of any of it going near a human mouth.

Mac sticks were called “bosco sticks” back when I was in school lol. they were served with marinara sauce.

Fun fact: The American public school system considers ketchup as a vegetable

4:03 I love how you drew the people who also took theater in high school lol

There were 2 types of lunches at my school:
1) The lunch that everyone hated.
2) The lunch that would create a line with a 3 year wait.

I can't believe I ate this crap as a kid.
And actually enjoyed it
*cries in corndog*

“Do you all remember the SMELL of the lunch room?”
Everyone in 2020:
N o

My middle school made the absolute best thing ever. It was called “dorito chicken” and its exactly how it sounds. I don’t know what they put in the stuff but it was amazing

This was the most relatable video ever, besides the fact that lunch was typically at 10:00 in my middle school which led to some serious eating disorders with some kids.

"Gordon Ramsey feels a feeling he hasn't felt since his mom made him that Ratatouille…" -Illymation 2019
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In my high school we had a deal where you had to pick out: a main dish, a side, and a drink, in order to qualify for meals. But sometimes people just didn't want a whole meal or they didn't like what was available etc. So, rather than throw food away, we started putting the food we didn't want (packaged wise) on a specific counter for anyone who wanted it and it turned into an official place where students could get free food. It always made me happy that my fellow students saw a need and took steps to fix it. My school didn't have the best reputation, but at least I can say that no one ever went hungry.

I love the part when Bryson and Brody runaway screaming

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Public School: Have A Healthy Lunch!
The Food: **Looks Like Roadkill**

Lunch ladies: Choose healthy!
Also lunch ladies: **Cooks pizza**

Damn, if I get food from the cafeteria from any of the schools I've gone to, there is a 25% chance I could get sick or it could be expired/moldy. I've seen them have applesauce that was moldy and tasted juce that didn't taste like juice anymore. The pizza's were solid grease shaped like tringles.

as someone who was basically required to eat lunch in elementary school (my code used to be 17095, after having it be "lent" to me from my brother) and we had to share the cafeteria with 4th/5th/3rd graders depending on what grade we were in, there were two lines that we had to line up in inside of the hallway, one being the one for "hot" lunches, which were basically the things in the cafeteria, and the other being packed lunches for the kids who packed food from home. thankfully, as i lived in a school district with hundreds of schools, lunches were entirely free, but the best we got were corndogs (which for some reason i stopped liking), very dry and obviously not chicken "chicken" nuggets that tasted like dirt, fritos shaped corn chips (which i absolutely loved, especially the ones with a burnt chip), and some other things that i dont really remember, but the rest were as equally as bad as each other. honestly, the ones that i stated were the only ones that tasted decent, as the other ones either always tasted freezer burnt or was noticeably old due to some of the packaged ones having a sell by (expiration?) date on them, and rarely we would get ones that were fresh from the freezer, which tasted fresher than most the other ones. ok this is kinda starting to get long due to me talking about stuff that probably doesnt really fit in here so imma just leave this here for now and come back to it later (whenever i get to it)

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Illy: “what really matters is, what is that good smell?
Me: *T H E R E I S N O G O O D S M E L L*

In Germany you can eat a small salad with a sufficient portion and a dessert in the canteen, and if you are thirsty you have to buy drinks.
The food was always okay.
Only once was there something strange to eat, spinach with raw eggs..
I love how everyone from different countries reports how their food was at school.

My middle school lunch actually wasn't that bad we had pizza served everyday(although that could be kind of hit or miss), the daily changing food was usually decent(we had mac sticks too but they were called italian pizza dunkers), salad and sandwich boxes, and you could always buy chips, ice cream, a pretzel, or a cookie so usually you have at least something good

Teacher: HEY! WHAT THE HECK ARE THOSE CHIPS DOIN’ IN THE TREE?!
Illymation: HISSSSS! NOM NOM NOM NOM!

Schools: Eat healthy foods!
Also schools: Eat this for lunch! >:)

I love the addition of Bryson and Nathan running away in fear

I LOVE THE FOOD. I usually pack my own lunch, but eating the food at school on certain days is so good! ❤

As a North Carolinian
I remember eating something that looked like meatloaf but was probably roadkill

Oh boy this makes me appreciate more the meals I had at high school in France. They were cooked everyday by an onsite chef and his team, and it resembled an actual meal: entrée, a main course with greens, proteins and carbs, cheese and a dessert (and mini baguettes, because of course). Also water was the only drink.
It was not the best food I've ever had (cafeteria food never has been, never will be), but at least there was a lot of diversity and it opened my palate a lot: head cheese, shellfishes, spinach, celeri, beet roots, stewed meat...

I LOVED Max Sticks in elementary school! They were some of my favorite lunch items from the lunch menu!

Corn dog nuggets sound very similar to something I grew up on; Ku’Be. Basically ground beef deep fried in a something resembling a corn shell.
According to my mother, I was practically living on those in my early childhood

There's nothing better than being the lunch lady/supervisor's favorite student

We have Chicken sandwiches in my school, but it literally tastes like plastic bags or something like that.

in my school, there were:
ham and cheese sandwiches that tasted like cheese by itself.
pasta with WAY too much salt.
spicy chicken goujons that tastes like turkey.
vegetable soup that is so hot that if u spill it on ur skin, u get a 2nd degree burn from it.
small plain bread baguette (usually bought with the soup).
ham and cheese baguettes (tasted more like a pizza, tbh)
that's it. (I would get either the ham and cheese baguettes, the sandwiches or the pasta)

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder into the beholder you say MAC STICKS

“holy crap its chicken jesus”
that just threw me off hard

Schools: We need to promote healthy eating habits!
Also schools: Make their foods as unappetizing and gross-tasting as humanly possible.

I would do more things for a mac stick (I don’t remember what they were called at my l school but I know we had them) than for a FREAKING *Klondike Bar*

Here in Philippines the only thing I ever ate in school lunchtime was those weird rubber-like rice and sopas (Mac pasta with creamy milk sauce) that didn’t have taste, BUT they also served popcorn witch was sprinkled with cheese and those ham hotdogs with cheese, and MAN the vegetables were super hard

MacSticks: exist
Illymation: I have already decided your fate.

In my primary school they sold pizza squares on Friday and the lunch lady knew that we would fight over who gets pizza and who has to be stuck with burnt fries, so she would always order an extra tray of pizza squares, she was the best, she died last year though, may she rest in peace

I remember at my elementary school, in the morning we has to take a magnet with our name on it and put it under whatever food option we wanted so they knew how much to make of everything (it was also how they took attendance). I also remember that Wednesday was breakfast for lunch, so on wednesday everyone but the social outcasts had their magnets under the breakfast for lunch option, and then if you didnt get to the cafeteria fast enough the line was looping around the entire building and occasionally going outside the door

I love how you include other youtubers in the background!

" *holy crap it's chicken jesus* "

Why is your school serving so much better food than mine.

I only got, what we called back in my days, hot lunch during elementary school on pizza day. In my Jr. High and High school days lunch costs $1.75 and consisted of an entrée you got to choose (sandwich or salad) milk, fruit, veggies and until 8th grade seasoned fries. They took the fries out during my 8th grade year.

1:23 THANK YOU those teriyaki nuggets weren't a fever dream!......also idk what they put in that rice but jt was GOOOOOOOOD

Illymation: send me copycat recipes for max sticks
Literally says the recipe in her video

In Australia we had what we called the traffic light system. Healthy foods were green, "healthy" junk food was amber and junk food was red. No school was allowed to sell food that was in the red.
Majority of kids brought their own lunches as the canteen was pretty pricey and something you'd get as a treat every now and then. Why was it pricey? Because it was quality! I'm taking meat pies, sausage rolls, tomato sauce, mini homemade pizzas.
Australian canteens are God Tier.

As trashy as my school was,THE POTATO BALLS REMAIN ENGRAVED IN MY MEMORY

so at my middle school they served the most godly pizza. it was triangular and came in a whole pie and they gave us parmesan and red crushed peppers, but that wasn't the best part. the pizza was always hot, and had a cheese pull. a real cheese pull. and it always had the perfect amount of grease and sauce and was perfectly savory, and that crust was always perfectly crunchy. that food item was amazing.

The only “good food” at my school were, the plastic forks.

That picture of the mini corn dogs was spot on.
I used to take the outside off
.--- ________ .---

I go to an Australian school, my schools is actually pretty special as it has an on campus café for students and teachers, very good food as well :D

I love the references in all the vids! Good job!

I had max sticks in my school too but they were just called pizza or cheese sticks. THEY WERE SO GOOD, but for some reason my school got rid of them....😢😭

Schools: Be healthy
Also Schools: yeah let’s serve this super questionable greasy meat and slip it inside a bun lololololol

my school's favorite was either: fruit, cheese, and granola day (because all of which were not made but bought) or....
dont judge.....
chili (the bean soup one) and a big fat frosted cinnamon roll.
they were amazing

The "don't touch my dog😦" had me on the floor🤣🤣

The cheese sticks were actually kind of excellent but everything else was the culinary epitome of suffering.

Our “Corn dog nuggets” were called “Mini corn dogs”.

The boys really be feelin' those goofy school lunches. That food is wild!

My school lunch had a deli!!!! My pallette usually consisted of pizza, the normal to go, shabby 2 star restaurant style. And a sugar cookie, snapple and banana muffin with actual banana! Somedays we would get undercooked pasta twizzlers, Buffalo wrap, Chinese rice and veggie takeout meal,chicken burger, pancakes with dry bacon, hamburger and fries, salad, fruit salad, strawberry and vanilla yogurt, chocolate chips, etc, etc. LOTS of choices. Most of these food you would get daily. My personal fave is the chips. It had grated cheese, ground beef and salty tortilla chips.

I feel like our school was completly different in names:
Mac-Sticks: Mozzerella Pizza Dippers
Corn Dog Nuggests: Mini-Corn Dogs
Rich Kid Line: Ala Carté

*que sad music* “tUrKey graVY suPRisE, sLoppY jOe wiTh buN, gReen bEan.” IM DEAD

I actually had something similar to Mac Sticks at my school. They were called beacon street cheese stuffed breadsticks. They had no cheese pull whatsoever but they were still bomb.

i love the other animators you put in :D
as a refrence

I'm from Ireland so the lunches weren't government funded. Our school hired a catering company every day. They used to do wedges in disc-like shapes and they were soooo delicious they sold out in seconds. Was heartbroken when they stopped making them

My school “cheeseburgers” are disgusting, me and my friends joke around and say,”We should send this to a lab to see what this thing is actually made out of.”

This was one of the first videos I watched of Illymations, just felt like I wanted to say it 🙂

2:57 OOOOH WE HAVE ONE OF THESE IN MY SECONDARY
GOD I MISS IT
I wouldnt exactly call it a rich kid line, but we effectively had 3 different lines for 3 different things. One line had bagguettes with all sorts of fillings, one had hot foods, something youd find in a fast food, and one had healthier options. All of them were priced differently but youd still be spending around the same amount at each line. Options changed everyday and by god i will never forget the taste of those Tuna bagguettes

Our school sells undercooked chicken strips and bread that tastes and smells moldy so that’s fun
Edit: they also do this thing where they put their sorry excuse for hamburger meat on the tray and then add gravy as a meal. Also Mac sticks here look like the ones in the picture but instead of just cheese they add an unholy amount of this greasy butter thing in between the bread and cheese to take it from bland to inedible

Are you telling me that your school didn’t have the common courtesy to supply its children with marinara sauce with your Mac Sticks? 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

girll i was OBSESSED with the bbq rib sandwiches omg

I was very fortunate that my Mum gave me a packed lunch almost everyday for my entire school life up until year 11 (sophomore year) when I had so many exercise books, mock tests and folders that I couldn’t fit my lunchbox in my locker (we only had small lockers).
So that last year was mostly school meals. The quality wasn’t bad but it wasn’t healthy. Mostly pizza and chips, pasta pots, jacket potatoes and cheese & chilli from memory. There was a pick and mix salad cart but that was only for teachers and sixth form (juniors and seniors).
If you were lucky, you might nab one of four salad pots from the fridge.
They did a Christmas lunch that year which was mostly turkey, mashed potato and gravy with a single slice of a carrot and one floret of broccoli. The carrot was so undercooked, as I attempted to grab it with my fork, it pinged off the plate and hit a staff member on duty square in the back. I was so embarrassed!
Long story short, I put on at least a stone if not more in weight that year and I’m convinced it was the school dinners that did it. Although it was exam year, so there may have been a little stress-eating at times but nothing hugely changed in my diet other than school meals.
Again, quality was decent, just lacking in the veg and fruit options which I found ironic given how school would always tell us how important it was to eat healthy.

At my school we don't even have a cafeteria, we just bring stuff from home

my schools food would be:
- unknown animal parts
- mystery meat
- sauce that you’ve never heard

It makes me happy to see that she also is from NC and went to public school that 2:20 sold absolute crap for lunches

We had Kentucky fried chicken in our lunch choices sometimes. My Mom made an arrangement with the school cafeteria people that she would pay in advance for the meals I got at high school.

My elementary school had “shrimp poppers”. Being that we literally lived in Minnesota, nowhere near an ocean, they were soggy, mushy, didn’t taste good at all, and made the entire lunchroom smell. And God I’m glad they don’t serve that anymore.

Me: Too shy to order food
Me: Doesn’t like food that in sat in lunch box for 5 hours
Solution: Doesn’t eat from morning til 2:30 PM

I am on a Swedish gymnasium, and although they have some foods that may be balanced but taste horrible, most often they have food in the "acceptable to good" range and mostly balanced. And it's really filling food, too. No hungry afternoons after that.

man in my country the latest time for recess in primary school is 10:45-11:15 (10:45-11:15 for P5 & 11:15-11:45 for P6 in 2020-2021, covid sucks man) and THAT'S for the upper primary students (P5-P6), but the teachers either came early or dismissed us late so it's usually around 20-25 minutes. the food there is like our local hawker centre and snack conveniece store but they didn't have certain foods like carrot cake (it's not a literal carrot cake and i don't think any actual carrots or cakes are involved in the dish but it's still yummy). the earliest time for recess are for the P1-P2 students (lower primary) is 9:45-10:10 (ik it's supposed to be 10:15 but for some reason it was scheduled like that but the lower primary students didn't care as long as they got to eat + play). not to sure about high school, jc/poly (junior cllege/polytechnic) and uni i'll have to check with my seniors about the high school part
we have lunch breaks on "long days" (wednesday & thursday) and cca (co-curricular activities, it's for the P3-P6s and it's on every tuesday/friday, depending on what cca you choose) the P1s/P2s' lunch break will be 1:15-1:45, P3s/P4s will be 1:45-12:15 and P5s/P6s will be 12:15-12:45. for cca days it'll just be the same as P1/P2 lunch breaks. dismissal time varies for P5s & P6s' long day
for P5s & P6s they have this thing called "supplementary classes" which basically mean that they would get you to stay back until 3:45 to basically learn the same stuff as you would learn in normal class time (it's basically useless) and it's not like remedial where you're given a consent form + get to "choose" what subject you wanna improve on (ur parents ultimately decide for you) + you have to get it signed by your parents and hand the form in the next day (tho originally P5s would get remedial lessons like P3s & P4s so idk why the school changed it). it used to be every wednesday for P6s but bc they were pulled out from cca in preparation for this year's national exam (i'm P6 so ik this but my juniors would know that too) it became every tuesday AND friday in term 2 (lunch break and dismissal time is the same. but some P6s have foundation subjects (basically mean that they are so poor in english/mother tongue/math/science that they have to learn P1 and P2 level for the subject) so they have "foundation classes" every wednesday (so they got to skip SOME of the remedial classes but now they can't)
so yeah the schedule is pretty chaotic at my school.

School: eat healthy!
Also school: *We offer rice Krispies treats and lots of sweets!*
Students: what why?
Edit: (I grew up In Massachusetts.)

I’m jealous of people who have actually decent or restaurant worthy food at their school

It's been three years but I came here to say, "square sausage pizza was the pinnacle of the culinary arts."

My favorite in highschool was what i dubbed fish nuggets. They were bassically just fishnsticks but in the shape of a fishes and stars and i loved them!

3:50 that's the sound I make when I get caught taking a full on buffet to my room at one in the morning

Imagine eating school lunches.
This meme was made by the lunch pack gang. Or, as my school calls it, "cold lunch".

I Remember there was a lunch like a chicken/fish patty with cheese in it! It was super good and my favorite

I love your videos and and your hard work,good work!

Schools:”We care about our students’ health.”
Me:*shows video*

“What the heck are those chips doing in a tree?!” Love the HSM reference

Rib sandwiches are HANDS DOWN 🙌 the BEST school lunch ever especially when covered in that nasty bbq sauce 🤤🤤

this is my fav video good job ilyssa

Thumbnail Illy: Ew why does school food exists?
Video Illy: School food is heaven

One “chicken” sandwich had mold on it. Like deadass mold on it. Smelly, old, rotten mold. I packed lunch from then on out...

italian dunkers and funnel cake were my fav in elementary school, i stopped getting school lunch after that cause the middle school lunch was atrocious and molding 💗