School Lunch From Around The World

[ChinoWayne]

As depicted in this blog post: http://interestingemailforwards.blogs...

The blogger is not a Chowhound, as he confuses scallops with mussels, so his descriptions of the food depicted might need some correction from real 'hounds.

[Phaedrus]

The copious amounts of rice on the Chinese school lunch is quite different from what I remembered from Taiwan. We got more rice than anything else but not THAT much.

it was actually quite distracting when lunch time got close, like about 11 AM we could smell the food being delivered and we were all pretty hungry by then.

[Ericandblueboy]

Did they really have school lunches in Taiwan? I recall bringing my own boxed lunch. My alternative was to eat out. Don't remember the school providing lunch.

[Phaedrus]

My parents had to pay for it. But my school had the option.

[Passadumkeg]

In Finland, in the 80's, food at our school was served family style w/ a big bowl of grub set on tables that held about 12 students and 1 teacher. My favorite was salmon and potato casserole; my least, blood pancakes and pea soup on Thursdays. The breads were excellent. With the bowl of fresh apples was also a bowl of peelers to take off the insecticide laden skin.
In a private school in Bolivia a major 3 course lunch was served. As ther were few canned and no frozen food in such a poor country, everything was fresh and made from scratch.Soup was prepared daily, the fried chicken and rice w/ strawberry pie for dessert was my favorite and I can't remember anything I didn't like. I wish I had some photos. At morning break, I loved the chicken saltenas and strawberry baltidos.
In the 90's back in Maine, the price of lobsters was so low, both my wife's and my elementary schools both served lobster stew! And the kids threw it out!