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School lunch preparation in Japan


School lunch preparation in Japan

School lunch preparation in Japan
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by BlazeDragon7x

23 Comments

  1. HeavyHandedHermit

    I know it’s very weeb coded to want to be a Japanese school kid, but damn the meals look good tho, being a Japanese school kid could be nice.

    Fresh hand rolled dumplings? seriously?

    edit to add: I saw a short doc about a new inititive in japanese schools that improved the quality of school lunches beyond what was already pretty good, they have a nutritionist at each school now and there are tight rules about quality and freshness of ingredients and food handling. I think this clip might have been in that video I watched.

    They really are as a society placing the health of kids first which is commendable. It’s not just one school, the whole school system has this high quality of school lunches now by law. (is my understanding)

  2. EscapeSeventySeven

    I would do this job. 

    I heard they are criminally underpaid though. Even worse than our lunch service people warming up Sysco shit. 

  3. Wonderful_Stand_315

    Yeah but which school was this? Private? Public? Was it a school in a rich neighborhood or poor?

  4. akaoni523

    In elementary schools the kids often take turns serving out the lunches as well. I would eat with my students back in the day and by and large the meals were very tasty and nutritious.

  5. Mysterious-Lab-5918

    Anyone remember the horsemeat controversy from the late 80s early 90s?

  6. PimpOfJoytime

    Why are the letters in English and not Japanese characters

  7. truefutbol35

    Can I ask a question? I’m not a chef. Did they put the hot dog shaped rolls in frying oil? If so, why would they do that?

  8. TrendySpork

    I hope those kids know how good they have it with food made from scratch like that. When I was in school nothing was “made”, it all came in frozen and was baked before lunch if we were lucky. I remember the grey mystery-meat-puck-with-arteries special that was smothered in gravy and called Salisbury Steak. The texture was somewhere between wet cardboard and bubble gum, and took two classes to completely finish chewing.

  9. vincentninja68

    This really reinforces how little of a damn our government gives for students in the states.

  10. KinkyQuesadilla

    School lunch preparation in the US: A Sysco food truck unloads its inventory, and then a bunch of people who only got the job because they knew someone who got the job previously and none of them actually cook for themselves open cans and bags of frozen food.

    And if you were a student in Texas, square cuts of sheet pan pizza and Frito pies were your two favorite meals.

  11. STRYED0R

    That’s nuts. I remember having great cooks when I was in school. It was definitely homemade ravioli too.

    I then went to uni and man, had no idea how good I had it until then 😀

  12. PopeOfSlack

    Checks out. I mean, only the Japanese could make me want to eat 7-11 food.

  13. DaRK_0S

    Should probably slap the cost of admission in the corner of the video.

  14. Armand74

    Anyone know what the powder is the fried bread was rolled on?

  15. Beautiful_Staff_7958

    This is the only job I actually want and I don’t think I’ll ever get it.

  17. No-Brain2462

    Why they fryin’ perfectly good hotdog buns?

  19. Disastrous_Square_10

    I should go back to school. In Japan.

  20. No-Condition-1992

    Why can’t we do this in the states 😭

  21. acityonthemoon

    How much debt do the students have to take on to consume such meals?

  23. FunCrystalFun

    They use the English alphabet in Japan? I thought they had their own crazy alphabet?