School Lunches in the UK! ✏️🍎🇬🇧

We've wanted to do this video for SO long! We talk through all the things we used to get in our lunchboxes at school in the UK! If you're British let us know if we missed anything, and if you're not, let us know what YOU had for lunch at school!
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  • @ThoseTwoBrits1
    @ThoseTwoBrits16 жыл бұрын

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  • @lucyoconnell4650

    @lucyoconnell4650

    6 жыл бұрын

    Being British: Joel & Lia hi do you remember me I am in every video

  • @lucyoconnell4650

    @lucyoconnell4650

    6 жыл бұрын

    We have a healthy eating thing in school so all we are aloud is sandwich and fruit

  • @nefertarycallaghan8810

    @nefertarycallaghan8810

    6 жыл бұрын

    u 2 would be the best couple ever

  • @lucyoconnell4650

    @lucyoconnell4650

    6 жыл бұрын

    A puppies life N.C they are

  • @beaproctor1822

    @beaproctor1822

    6 жыл бұрын

    Hi r u vegetarian is sorry but marshmallow has gelatine which is pig fat

  • @Chariots1981
    @Chariots19816 жыл бұрын

    It's funny you call them cheese strings-- in the U.S. we call them string cheese!

  • @McFlingleson

    @McFlingleson

    3 жыл бұрын

    I was just commenting the same thing when I happened to see your comment.

  • @raffellothegreat
    @raffellothegreat5 жыл бұрын

    I used to drink Capri Sun all the time when I was a kid. It sounds sooo much fancier when you say it with a British accent, lol.

  • @eeveebrown5673
    @eeveebrown56736 жыл бұрын

    Chocolate covered strawberries are my life... Meet me outside Joel... We'll settle this like sophisticated adults.

  • @Christophersanchez1326

    @Christophersanchez1326

    6 жыл бұрын

    Eevee Brown meeting at the swings or slide to settle this dispute? 😂

  • @jordanhendrix2619

    @jordanhendrix2619

    6 жыл бұрын

    Is that like a fancy way of saying "come at me bro"? It seems like it is😂

  • @Christophersanchez1326

    @Christophersanchez1326

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jordan Hendrix yeah or you could meat at the monkey bars. 😃

  • @eeveebrown5673

    @eeveebrown5673

    6 жыл бұрын

    The slide. IDK what will happen if we're near the swings.

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    DEAL!

  • @natebarrett9506
    @natebarrett95066 жыл бұрын

    Other than a few slight variations,packed school lunches here in the US were basically the same(not sure about now). Some sort of sandwich,chips(crisps),fruit,"fruit juice"(Capri Sun), and a dessert were the staple items. I'm actually somewhat surprised at HOW similar they are!

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ah that's interesting! Had no idea!

  • @ladystark1959

    @ladystark1959

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nate Barrett & Being British: Joel & Lia: It's true! A lot of what you showed us is the same or very similar to what we had for lunch. It just had different names and some with different packaging. My sandwich was usually peanut butter and jelly or turkey and cheese with mustard.

  • @MrWhoevr

    @MrWhoevr

    5 жыл бұрын

    In New England we sometimes had a Fluffernutter sandwich.

  • @peggyallen326

    @peggyallen326

    5 жыл бұрын

    I'm an aussie, and we never got any of the treat stuff! My usual childhood lunchbox was either a salad or peanut butter sandwich on multi-grain bread, a muesli bar WITHOUT choc chips/yogurt bits etc, and two pieces of fruit? This was pretty normal at my school, some kids got the sweet muesli bars or maybe a home-made muffin instead? Did i just go to a weird school?

  • @serpephone

    @serpephone

    5 жыл бұрын

    I packed my sons lunch and I always packed peanuts or cashews and carrot sticks in addition to all the junk. Pudding cups are really big as well as applesauce

  • @MB-MD
    @MB-MD6 жыл бұрын

    LMAO I am that geek at school that loved raisins

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    I know. Loser!! ❤️(slash healthy Bhatnagar's)!

  • @powerspyin1games
    @powerspyin1games4 жыл бұрын

    I actually felt offended when Joel took that bite on the Cheesestring🤣

  • @georgiakolster4143
    @georgiakolster41435 жыл бұрын

    PB and J was the standard sandwich in my America lunchbox, 🥪 because it didn’t need to stay cold. It taste good room temperature 😋

  • @ivetterodriguez1994

    @ivetterodriguez1994

    4 жыл бұрын

    I don't what's sadder, the school lunch provided by the school or the flimsy little sandwiches I called my lunch. I eventually gave up after half a school year and just picked at the food the school gave us. Plus PB & J also was my standard sandwich because if it was a ham sandwich it couldn't have lettuce cause it would wilt, and the cheese would feel like it was squished into the bottom bread, and eating ham every school day for lunch gets old quick. PB & J also gets old quick. Plus it's not really a hearty lunch meal.

  • @cheyennemarie7075
    @cheyennemarie70756 жыл бұрын

    Idk if it’s just me, but I swear every time I kept a banana in my lunchbox it made everything taste like banana!

  • @agentleebs

    @agentleebs

    6 жыл бұрын

    Oh I remember that! As an adult, I wrap mine in plastic wrap when I pack a lunch!

  • @karicoffey2743

    @karicoffey2743

    6 жыл бұрын

    And then your lunchbox seems to smell like bananas forever!

  • @sombodu728

    @sombodu728

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@karicoffey2743 yea it's disgusting

  • @donnaokoniewski3761
    @donnaokoniewski37616 жыл бұрын

    Loved the video. Got me to reminisce about what I took to school ~ they were all in brown bags and wrapped in wax paper. Bologna sandwich and an apple; hard boiled egg and a piece of toast and a banana; pb& j and a cookie; meatloaf sandwich and some carrot sticks. Drank water. Sometimes the school lunch program would bake dinner rolls and you could line up and get two rolls for a nickel. Thanks so much for sharing. I enjoyed.

  • @flamingfire2025

    @flamingfire2025

    6 жыл бұрын

    thats not fair....you get good food

  • @marilynmcelroy9634

    @marilynmcelroy9634

    6 жыл бұрын

    Oh yes, wax paper. Before the invention of Ziplok baggies. I hated bologna but my mom kept giving it to me. I finally threw a fit and from then on it was tuna sandwiches. Oh and I never got a really cool lunch box, so when I got to be an adult I bought myself a Cinderella lunch box.

  • @LJBSullivan

    @LJBSullivan

    6 жыл бұрын

    Mine too! Only bologna or pb& j, Fritos in the little bags, two cookies, biscuit for you Brits, and a fruit apple, pear or banana. I hated the school milk it was always warm so in a small thermos had milk or apple juice.

  • @ellesmith5383
    @ellesmith53836 жыл бұрын

    In America we have baby bells and string cheese.

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    mmmmm yummy!

  • @cobwebafternoon3737

    @cobwebafternoon3737

    6 жыл бұрын

    I laughed when he called it cheese strings! So cute how the name of it depends on where you're from. I'm in the US 😉

  • @Artioproducer

    @Artioproducer

    4 жыл бұрын

    We have baby bell

  • @verac6731
    @verac67316 жыл бұрын

    I was a bit shocked about this video. I grew up in the 60's and 70's in England, and we just had plain sandwiches. Mine were just with butter and my best friend's were with jam and cut into triangles, so I was a bit jealous. But we never took sweets to school. I think we had apples with our sandwiches. How did you manage to stay slim with all those sweets and sugary drinks?

  • @ktoth29
    @ktoth296 жыл бұрын

    This all sounds like stuff Ron Weasley would buy on the train to Hogwarts

  • @niamhgreen9342
    @niamhgreen93426 жыл бұрын

    I had hot school lunches at primary and secondary school, so whenever we went on school trips and had packed lunches it was always really exciting!

  • @Paola-jf2qf

    @Paola-jf2qf

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same here. I loved our school lunches there was a great variety. They had a great school cook.

  • @pastorcoreyadams
    @pastorcoreyadams6 жыл бұрын

    While they are different companies I can see many similarities between your school lunches in the UK and mine in the US. Though by my junior year of High School I eliminated lunch from my schedule in favor of the library.

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    AH that's funny how similar they are!

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    @teknekon6 жыл бұрын

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  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    😭😭😭😭 Thank you Tek! Couldn't have done it without your help! Thanks for all the support! ❤️

  • @VitoDiCantante
    @VitoDiCantante6 жыл бұрын

    My British grandmother made us banana sandwiches with peanut butter when we were kids... They were the perfect fusion of US and UK cuisine!

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Awww they sound amazing!

  • @ladystark1959

    @ladystark1959

    6 жыл бұрын

    Vito DiCantante and Being British: Joel & Lia: Right! Every time we had a peanut butter and banana sandwich the teachers would tell us that it was the favorite sandwich of Elvis Presley.

  • @LeslieLanagan

    @LeslieLanagan

    6 жыл бұрын

    Although I think Elvis also added honey and fried it like a grilled cheese.

  • @Orceh

    @Orceh

    5 жыл бұрын

    My mom made me banana and peanut butter roll ups (which is with a tortilla)

  • @Orceh

    @Orceh

    5 жыл бұрын

    elvis had his with bacon as well. which is a weird, but really good combo

  • @barbiebarrios4908
    @barbiebarrios49086 жыл бұрын

    I love School Lunches in the UK, thank you, Joel and Lia!!! 🍎🇬🇧

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks barbie!

  • @reallyshortgirl
    @reallyshortgirl6 жыл бұрын

    Lunchables were a standard in the 90s. In the US they came with candy and Capri Suns. We would do trades on the candy. I mostly ate in the hot food line at school. If you were in a lower income bracket lunch was free. I’ve never heard of or seen sandwich spread. The sweets looked really interesting, we don’t have a lot of stuff with jam in it. I think they’re the equivalent of our Little Debbie snacks. They make small chocolate cakes (or you might call the biscuits) with cream in them. They’re really good I’m describing them terribly. Just google Little Debbie ho-ho’s and ding dongs ( yes they’re really called that)

  • @injujuan8993

    @injujuan8993

    6 жыл бұрын

    Amber Jones That is so interesting! Could you please tell a bit more about the free lunches. Weren’t the kids who had to opt for those happy with the quality? So curious to know. Cheers from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿

  • @reallyshortgirl

    @reallyshortgirl

    6 жыл бұрын

    Inju Juan this was back in the 90s before they changed the menus to all the healthy food and portion control. We were served pizza, chicken nuggets, tacos, so yes the food was awesome. We also got a monthly menu of what was being served so if we didn’t like it we could plan to bring our lunch that day. From what I understand now, majority of kids don’t like what is served anymore because of the menu changes.

  • @injujuan8993

    @injujuan8993

    6 жыл бұрын

    Amber J Thanks Amber for your quick reply! In our schools lunches are free for kids 7-10 y.o. Others have to bring or buy their food. 😊🌷

  • @Jennifer-wq2bl

    @Jennifer-wq2bl

    6 жыл бұрын

    Amber J lol where are US school lunches healthy?

  • @jasonwhittemore7847

    @jasonwhittemore7847

    6 жыл бұрын

    Amber J I live in england and I agree with the free lunches for families on benefits and also year r-2 have free school meals because they are the little kids in primary school. ( age 4-7 )

  • @Alavaro82
    @Alavaro826 жыл бұрын

    Guys you are amazing . I just love watching you as you're totally optimistic and entertaining . thanks for the great video

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Aw thank you so much!

  • @bigdaddyldo8943
    @bigdaddyldo89436 жыл бұрын

    This is my favorite video of yours so far! Great job. Thanks.

  • @nissa.f3930
    @nissa.f39306 жыл бұрын

    I didn't realise how lucky we French are till I moved to the UK & discovered most of countries had no school cafeterias with fresh food & subsidised by the government like we do.

  • @roxcyn

    @roxcyn

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nissa - so they have no option to buy a school lunch?

  • @nissa.f3930

    @nissa.f3930

    6 жыл бұрын

    UK, has small cafeterias but for the privileged ones as its quite expensive and not that good. It seemed 80% brought their lunch boxes everyday. Whereas in France we are not allowed to bring our own food as there isn't anywhere to it eat and you need a membership card to enter the cafeteria. Plus, if you are a working class family, its free.

  • @roxcyn

    @roxcyn

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nissa - that's cool to learn more about UK and France.

  • @mariacurtis9247

    @mariacurtis9247

    6 жыл бұрын

    In my primary school we would have free school meals and sit in the lunch room if we went on a trip the school provided pack lunch in replacement of free school meals.. at senior school we had a cafeteria and could have a choice of food which had to tally up to a set amount of money and you paid the extra if you wanted something more expensive

  • @jenellehardin2670

    @jenellehardin2670

    5 жыл бұрын

    50 years ago, in USA (California), we had a full cafeteria serving a hot lunch everyday. We got a monthly menu to know what they would serve, so if we didn't like it, we could bring a lunch. There were no choices, it was ladeled onto your plate and handed to you.Hot entree, starch, veggie, fruit or small sweet for desert, I think. Oh, and drink choices were milk or orange juice. Now cafeterias aren't allowed to cook, only to heat up packaged food, for 'health and safety reasons.' Ugh.

  • @faithshillito1069
    @faithshillito10696 жыл бұрын

    Wow, that was a trip down memory lane. I loved all of those in school. Sometimes i would get a chocolate biscuit bar and the factory missed the biscuit and it was all chocolate. On a bad day their were two biscuits in one with little chocolate. Usually this was an Echo bar.

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ahhhh that was a gooooood day!

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    YES ECHO BARS OMG HOW COULD I FORGET RIP!

  • @heysteph
    @heysteph6 жыл бұрын

    This channel deserves to be SO much bigger. You guys are honestly so hilarious

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Aw thank you! ❤️

  • @johnr7279
    @johnr72796 жыл бұрын

    Hilarious stuff! Takes me back to my school days in the...70s. Joel...totally agree on the sandwich spread. 'I don't really want to MAKE a sandwich for you...so...where's the sandwich spread?" Best line: "This [wax Babybel wrapper] can be molded and thrown at people." Ha ha ha!! Honorable mention to: "Yeah but some geek at school LOVED raisins." Ha ha!!

  • @sarah-kateryan9953
    @sarah-kateryan99536 жыл бұрын

    I really want to come and visit the UK

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    You should!!

  • @christinalovestoplan

    @christinalovestoplan

    6 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely for it !

  • @ATLbench

    @ATLbench

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sarah-Kate Ryan it’s very expensive. If you haven’t been to New York City do that first. The jet lag after a flight to London takes a couple of days to recover from. When you go to England spend at least 2 weeks, other wise it’s a blur.

  • @alejo_montano3677
    @alejo_montano36776 жыл бұрын

    Talking about food... Joel, you're the apple of my eye...

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    ahaha! Thanks 🍎

  • @alejo_montano3677

    @alejo_montano3677

    6 жыл бұрын

    Love you so much guys ❤

  • @ulvavodin2546
    @ulvavodin25466 жыл бұрын

    Alot of what you had for lunch is what we had and still do for lunch. I love your videos!

  • @robertkaelberer9526
    @robertkaelberer95266 жыл бұрын

    Y’all are funny, energetic and I feel good after watching.

  • @jonmoore8855
    @jonmoore88556 жыл бұрын

    What a fun video. I usually had school lunch. We always envied the kids that brought their own lunch. I don't remember lunch boxes being a thing, rather brown paper bags. Now, that I'm older I bring my lunch in either a super hero tin lunch box or as Star Trek lunch box. It's so fun lol

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Jon! Ahhhh would love to reinstate the lunch box (or lunch tin!!)

  • @ladystark1959

    @ladystark1959

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jon Moore: Me too! In the area where I lived kids who used lunch boxes weren't as "cool" as those who used brown paper sacks. Everybody used or wanted to use brown paper sacks. I always got a lunch box and then I would beg my mom to get the brown paper sacks. One year she caved in and got the sacks.

  • @johnross1991
    @johnross19916 жыл бұрын

    That is a lot of food for a school kid. In the 1970's, in the Southern United States, we would get a sandwich, a bag of chips (crisps) and a piece of fruit. Often we would have a thermos of water and sometimes a small carton of milk. During the winter hot soup would be in the thermos. I used a Harlem Globetrotter metal lunch box with matching thermos. Thanks for the video.

  • @ladystark1959

    @ladystark1959

    6 жыл бұрын

    John Ross: I was a kid of the 80's and had much the same kind of lunch as you. Sometimes, though, mom would put cookies or a granola bar in my lunch instead of fruit.

  • @sof.defran
    @sof.defran6 жыл бұрын

    This was a very original and fun video! Loved it❤️

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @tabithawhite7241
    @tabithawhite72416 жыл бұрын

    Oh I remember these lunches they were amazing. I recognise all of them even tough only being in secondary school. I love your videos. Have a nice day!

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Aww yeah love them!

  • @Christophersanchez1326
    @Christophersanchez13266 жыл бұрын

    That's about what is over here in America just with a different name. Same food different name. Oh and the cooler lunch box is the best. Eat your lunch now a empty box, then a 6 pack fits perfectly. I've got a collection of them, Coleman red, green, blue. One even looks like a 12V die hard battery.😉

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ah that's interesting! hahaha wish i still had it!

  • @merlyncharlesnieto
    @merlyncharlesnieto6 жыл бұрын

    We weren’t allowed to eat any sweets until grammar school 😂 we had sandwiches, vegetables and fruits that’s all 😔

  • @gingerspice5336
    @gingerspice53366 жыл бұрын

    SO many of those foods were started in America! I remember when Lunchables came out, in the late 80s or early 90s or something. And the long roll-up fruit leather, and the breadstick dips, and string cheese, and Capri-Sun, and Fruit-Shoots (although we had a different name for it) ... wow. All EXACTLY the same!

  • @llera_navi
    @llera_navi6 жыл бұрын

    aww this video brought back so many memories, loved it!!

  • @geneinpennsylvania
    @geneinpennsylvania6 жыл бұрын

    I agree w Joel jam w chocolate is a bad idea.

  • @scottchaffee3954
    @scottchaffee39546 жыл бұрын

    Whenever I got Tuna salad and potato chips it was a bonus,,, Tuna and chip sandwich :D

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    ❤️

  • @A-_-A.

    @A-_-A.

    6 жыл бұрын

    I love tuna sandwiches so much! I ate tuna sandwiches 10 days in a row & I regret nothing! my WhatsApp profile just says "I REALLY LIKE TUNA SANDWICHES" 😂

  • @bonniebabird

    @bonniebabird

    6 жыл бұрын

    YES! Tuna and potato chips sandwich!

  • @LJBSullivan

    @LJBSullivan

    6 жыл бұрын

    Never got tuna sandwich, was always worried about getting sick from warm mayo mixed with the tuna

  • @jill9606
    @jill96066 жыл бұрын

    I like that you made the lunches and talked through them. It made the video more fun! Very interesting to see how similar your lunches were to mine as a child in the 90s. I’m from the US and I rarely packed my own lunch. I usually bought a hot lunch at school.

  • @wakenbake22
    @wakenbake226 жыл бұрын

    Hi Joel and Lia! found your channel a few weeks ago and love the content! I hope to visit the UK someday and the cultural insights you two give are fantastic.

  • @sugumorik1526
    @sugumorik15266 жыл бұрын

    In Japan where I’m from, we get cute double-deck lunch boxes or rice-balls (called おにぎり[Onigiri]) which I never can get full during lunch time:P Love from Japan:)

  • @injujuan8993

    @injujuan8993

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sugumori K Aww, that’s sooo cool! Love from Kazakhstan 🇰🇿

  • @nx8481

    @nx8481

    6 жыл бұрын

    Bento boxes look so cute but they never look like they have enough food. I just assumed that Japanese kids are used to eating very small amounts of food.

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ah that sounds amazing!!!

  • @woodies2009

    @woodies2009

    6 жыл бұрын

    That's so true haha

  • @TheOrikousan
    @TheOrikousan6 жыл бұрын

    Wow it’s so different than Japanese lunch boxes. You guys have a wide variety of sweets lol. Schools here don’t allow kids to bring sweets. Maybe a few pieces of chocolate occasionally for a little dessert.

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Aw thanks Yuya! YOU were the inspiration for this video! ❤️

  • @mariannaagh5812

    @mariannaagh5812

    6 жыл бұрын

    In Slovakia hot lunches are a standard and they are quite cheap and almost everyone can afford them.

  • @funsized924

    @funsized924

    6 жыл бұрын

    yet here in the glorious US of A we have mothers going to the news over their precious little dumpling not being allowed to eat oreos at lunch! lol

  • @polarbarr21

    @polarbarr21

    6 жыл бұрын

    It’s like everything in America is oozing with sugar and they can’t figure out the obesity epidemic.

  • @veratranslationandwriting5690

    @veratranslationandwriting5690

    6 жыл бұрын

    comment winner, Hannah

  • @christinalovestoplan
    @christinalovestoplan6 жыл бұрын

    You two just great, wonderful! Your British pronunciation is perfect, all these sounds they are great really! I love your sense of humour. I think you're great 'teachers' ! Thank you for your videos (if you'll read this comment) .

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    aw thank you! ❤️

  • @mygreatestdayever
    @mygreatestdayever6 жыл бұрын

    All of your videos are fun, but this was especially fun to watch.

  • @nutsriket9687
    @nutsriket96876 жыл бұрын

    What did you mean when you say “you’re so middle class”? I’ve heard the Brits said this phrase a few times, (on Downtown Abbey also) but I really don’t understand what they mean. Could you or anyone who knows tell me what it means?

  • @Random-sk6hm

    @Random-sk6hm

    3 жыл бұрын

    it mens a little posh and slightly rich

  • @65cmark
    @65cmark6 жыл бұрын

    Joel, you’re such the rebel. 😉👍x

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    haha thanks!

  • @nicholasmccalister3753
    @nicholasmccalister37535 жыл бұрын

    OMG..could relate to some of it!! I use to pack Lunchables (the same concept as the little box with ham, cheese, and crackers) and some of them even came with a caprisun! I ALWAYS bit into the whole cheese string and I would get the weirdest looks from the other students. ( I also bite into ice cream and people look at me like I have three eyes 😂) I LOVE your channel! Not even someone who loves to watch KZread videos but your channel caught my eye and I knew I just HAD to subscribe to it! I enjoy all of your videos and great job!! You do such great work!

  • @joshmart91
    @joshmart916 жыл бұрын

    Keep up the good work!!! You guys are really cool!!

  • @lankadivore6379
    @lankadivore63796 жыл бұрын

    Why did I never get Capri-Sun for school? :(

  • @dancingwithmyhands4419
    @dancingwithmyhands44196 жыл бұрын

    Oh my gosh Joel that “sandwich spread” ....I thick is just mayonnaise with a bit of stuff in it.... again I think.... it was meant to be used as a condiment for your sandwich....I think....maybe look it up lol!! did you really eat mayo sandwiches?? No wonder you put chips on your “sandwich!” 😂 and Joel FRUIT AND CHOCOLATE are AWESOME TOGETHER!!!Hahahah!! I love this video it helped me to reminisce and lmao😂 Great job you guys!! Having a ball bingeing on your videos!! Love love love!!♥️♥️♥️

  • @airtightpuppy1
    @airtightpuppy16 жыл бұрын

    As an American, I can say that as a child, all these food items were ones that would be in our lunchboxes as well. The only difference was the brand of each product (aside from a couple of them). It's strange how much I identified with everything you said and I didn't even grow up in England. Anyway, great video. Love you guys and hope you keep putting out content that makes me smile. 😊

  • @DanStClairCole
    @DanStClairCole6 жыл бұрын

    Joel you look much cuter with just a stubble!♥️♥️

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Aw thank you! I prefer a little stubble too - I looked too wild with a beard!

  • @yellowbug5113

    @yellowbug5113

    3 жыл бұрын

    Joel is always adorable. 💯

  • @leighflorkevich9916
    @leighflorkevich99166 жыл бұрын

    Back in ancient times when I was growing up, we had classic peanut butter and jelly on white bread, which I understand is very American. I don't think peanut butter and jelly is popular elsewhere. We like sliced banana and peanut butter sandwiches as well. We also had chips (crisps) as well. Because of childhood obesity here, school lunches are much healthier these days. Btw, we call the ends of the loaf of bread the heel of the bread. Love to you from West Virginia, USA

  • @skeletonkitty

    @skeletonkitty

    6 жыл бұрын

    Leigh Florkevich jelly in the UK is gelatin that you eat for dessert after dinner or at parties

  • @crunchyalmondbutter2239

    @crunchyalmondbutter2239

    6 жыл бұрын

    The lunches are said to be more healthy but I have kids in the school system and they are definitely not healthy, IMO! lol. We used to get reduced lunches (ie, not free but 25c per child) but then I went back to work and forget it! Even with 9 children, we don't make the cut. So, they bring lunches. However, every freakin' classroom is "nut free" so they cannot even bring in anything with peanut butter for snack, as we have caused all of these nut allergies by the APA (American Pediatric Assoc.) warning parents, back in the 90's, to keep their child from ingesting tree nuts or peanuts until age 3+. They even did this up until just about 5 years ago, I believe? Anyway, they changed it to expose the child as soon as they can eat solids because they realized what I already knew, (as a doctor) that the sooner you introduce a possible allergen, the less likely the child is to be allergic. Pain in the butt. Remember the days when our parents would bake a cake for our birthday and bring it in? Doesn't happen in our schools here anymore. Everything must be labeled "nut free" and "made in a nut free facility". Which means nothing can be brought in. I always gave my kids peanut butter as babies. Out of 9 children, not one food allergy. Of course, true nut allergies existed when we were kids but very very rarely compared to what they did to the poor kids of today. Ok, rant over on the limits of lunch. It's all changed!

  • @mermaid1717

    @mermaid1717

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@crunchyalmondbutter2239 all American schools really don't play the nut allergy game. I work in public schools in North Carolina. Nuts & peanut butter are not baned. The cafeteria even serves pb&j crustables on early release days. The rule is to know your own personal allergies & DON'T EAT THAT KIND OF FOOD. Pretty plain & simple.

  • @crunchyalmondbutter2239

    @crunchyalmondbutter2239

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@mermaid1717 I know that. Our kids' school used to sell PB&J too. Do you know why so many kids are allergic to nuts? The AMA decided, about 20 years ago to switch the guidelines from exposing a child to these allergens at a very early age to 3 years of ago or longer, if the parents could hold out. Stupid. So, I always told our pediatrician that I would be starting honey, PB, etc. ASAP. Not one nut allergy amongst 10 children here. Well, around 4-5 years ago, the AMA changed their minds again. They now advise ASAP again. Nothing like messing with our kids and parents who don't know better and want to do the best by following guidelines. My son (public school) couldn't bring PB if he wanted to sit next to his best friend at lunch. There was a nut free table in elementary. Sound familiar? Segregation.

  • @mermaid1717

    @mermaid1717

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@crunchyalmondbutter2239 yeah, but only a small percentage of parents are 100% by the book when it comes to raising kids according to "rules". Most people & children I know do not have any allergies to food or meds. I have a feeling it's possibly a genetic thing too. No one in my full family is or has ever been allergic to any food or medication.

  • @karapatricia1395
    @karapatricia13956 жыл бұрын

    Love yalls videos!!! Great job, keep it up! 😀

  • @HazelJuanitaMillanHoffman
    @HazelJuanitaMillanHoffman6 жыл бұрын

    I remember lunch boxes with a small thermos that came with them that either had a drink or in winter hot soup. Fruit, or either a cookie, cake or slice of pie or fruit cobbler baked by my grandmother. Sandwiches were normally on homemade bread. Sliced up raw vegetables. Sometimes it was leftovers from the supper.

  • @NataliaAndrea
    @NataliaAndrea6 жыл бұрын

    I grew up in America and as a kid i always just had left overs from whatever my mom made the day before, but if there wasn't ant leftovers she would give me a ham and cheese sandwich, caprisun, and probably a fruit.

  • @Iadyemiliachalamet
    @Iadyemiliachalamet6 жыл бұрын

    Oh my gosh! I LOVE green bananas too! I only eat Green Bananas too! And I have been treated like a weirdo in my family my whole life!

  • @mikepressley3956

    @mikepressley3956

    4 жыл бұрын

    🤢

  • @ivetterodriguez1994

    @ivetterodriguez1994

    4 жыл бұрын

    Still better than a mushy overly-browned banana. Plus I like the somewhat bitter taste of a slightly still green banana.

  • @PetraMike
    @PetraMike6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this awesome video! 💕

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    You're welcome! Thanks for watching!

  • @ryanallen8218
    @ryanallen82186 жыл бұрын

    New viewer. Favorite video so far. American midwestern here. Went to school in the 90’s Lunchables and smashed sandwiches with chips and fruit with similar sweet were common with me too! Never heard of sandwich spread until now.

  • @LesleyCanterbury22
    @LesleyCanterbury226 жыл бұрын

    Joel, I agree with you about the jam and chocolate things. We have stuff like that in the US and I've never been a fan...it just doesn't seem right!

  • @savanbelegil1396

    @savanbelegil1396

    5 жыл бұрын

    I can only think of one fruit that tastes good with chocolate - cherries. Not a fan of other fruits and chocolate.

  • @queenjustine66

    @queenjustine66

    5 жыл бұрын

    the flavor of orange with chocolate is delightful... other fruits, not so much

  • @lishy9517
    @lishy95176 жыл бұрын

    I'm from North Florida, but currently live in Alabama. I would love to send you a few "Southern" snacks. How can I get your PO Box?

  • @injujuan8993

    @injujuan8993

    6 жыл бұрын

    Connie Songer So lovely 😊 Let lunch boxes fly around the world! I’d fancy to have one too!🍅🍒🍌🍏😉🖖😁

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Hey Melissa! That would be brilliant! We don't have a PO Box but you could send something to our management: Joel & Lia, c/o Studio71 UK Ltd, 18 Soho Square, London, W1D 3QL. We'd love to try your snacks!!

  • @garyatkins7142

    @garyatkins7142

    6 жыл бұрын

    a moon pie LOL its a cookie with marshmallow cream covered in choclate

  • @naimah5807

    @naimah5807

    5 жыл бұрын

    Why did I read this in a southern accent?

  • @jenellehardin2670

    @jenellehardin2670

    5 жыл бұрын

    Try to figure out a way to send them some Milo's Sweet Tea and Milo's Lemonade! I always get a lot and bring back to Californina, as we don't have that brand here.

  • @felipe1055
    @felipe10556 жыл бұрын

    Great video! Loved how Lea ate the Mini Rolls! Just so pleasant to see how pleased she was haha

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Ahaha, she loves playing with her food!

  • @Esmeralda-bq7ev
    @Esmeralda-bq7ev6 жыл бұрын

    This video was so funny. I've laughed a lot. Cheers guys.

  • @thierryboissiere6963
    @thierryboissiere69636 жыл бұрын

    Petit filou means naughty little boy in french

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    does it??

  • @thierryboissiere6963

    @thierryboissiere6963

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes indeed! It's a colloquialism! (Mainly used by old people though)

  • @amandaely9983

    @amandaely9983

    6 жыл бұрын

    I thought it meant little rascal

  • @mariacurtis9247

    @mariacurtis9247

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thierry Boissière - Google translate is close enough with little trickster then as a lot of the time it’s way off

  • @amandaely9983

    @amandaely9983

    6 жыл бұрын

    TheRenaissanceman65 fuck off knob head.

  • @sarah-kateryan9953
    @sarah-kateryan99536 жыл бұрын

    How long were your lunch breaks? Mine was 25 minutes in high school.

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    40/50 minutes I think!

  • @sarah-kateryan9953

    @sarah-kateryan9953

    6 жыл бұрын

    Being British: Joel & Lia oh wow!

  • @Ace-mw9pm

    @Ace-mw9pm

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sarah-Kate Ryan 20 minutes in high school 15 if it takes 5 minutes to get to the lunchroom

  • @sarah-kateryan9953

    @sarah-kateryan9953

    6 жыл бұрын

    way 2 cold ours was 30 but it took 5 minutes to get to the cafeteria so it was actually 25.

  • @Ace-mw9pm

    @Ace-mw9pm

    6 жыл бұрын

    Sarah-Kate Ryan also it took 5 minutes to get your lunch if you were eating school lunch so you basically had 10 minutes to eat lol

  • @1234laf
    @1234laf6 жыл бұрын

    This is the most accurate representation of a British packed lunch I have ever seen😂

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    ahahah thanks Lauren!

  • @vamo7846
    @vamo78466 жыл бұрын

    You guys, made my mouth full of water. Lovely video, thanks! :)

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    ❤️

  • @nefertarycallaghan8810
    @nefertarycallaghan88106 жыл бұрын

    don't watch 5:23 I warned you

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @injujuan8993

    @injujuan8993

    6 жыл бұрын

    A puppies life N.C HAHAHA 😆 😁🤣

  • @tabithawhite7241

    @tabithawhite7241

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nope. Just nope

  • @lishy9517
    @lishy95176 жыл бұрын

    Banana with mayonnaise sandwiches are sooooo good!

  • @Samuel115s

    @Samuel115s

    6 жыл бұрын

    eeeewwwww why? you're kidding right.

  • @lishy9517

    @lishy9517

    6 жыл бұрын

    Samuel115s Omg, no I'm not kidding! So so good!! 😋

  • @jimcrovatt6988

    @jimcrovatt6988

    6 жыл бұрын

    I like banana and mayo sandwiches. It's actually very common in the Southern US.

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Oh wow! That's ... odd!!!

  • @A-_-A.

    @A-_-A.

    6 жыл бұрын

    Jonathan Parks YESSSSSSS I'm so gonna make that asap, that sounds amazing! :D

  • @ern1406
    @ern14066 жыл бұрын

    Your S Club 7 lunch box just made my day! Loved me some S Club. I never missed their TV show either!

  • @lauren4110
    @lauren41105 жыл бұрын

    We have Bugles that are chips we put on our fingers as kids! Also we have string cheese and baby bell cheese too, love it. We have fruit by the foot just like your fruit winders! We have “go-gurt” which is the same yogurt in a tube concept. Lunchables are just like the pre packages crackers, cheese & deli meat. I don’t know what they’re called, but I loved the American version of the breadsticks with spread cheese dip. I just kept editing this post as you showed more things lol! You guys are great, love your channel ❤️

  • @carlosmontenegro6406
    @carlosmontenegro64066 жыл бұрын

    Lia is so cute. 😏

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Yes she is!

  • @papateachme
    @papateachme6 жыл бұрын

    🖕here's my emoji. Love you guys

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    love ya you little bitch

  • @abbysullivan1538
    @abbysullivan15385 жыл бұрын

    In America we had similar foods but different brands! We had lunchables which consisted of the crackers ham and cheese. They also had pizzas that you can make or nachos that you dip in cheese or salsa. And little Debbie cakes for treats in all different varieties. We also had the little bread sticks you dip in cheese! So nostalgic for me as wel

  • @kerk9795
    @kerk97955 жыл бұрын

    I left Primary School 5 years ago and we had pretty much the same sort of things you guys had, but I was never lucky enough to get lunchables even though I absolutely love them. Wagon wheels are the best thing everrrr

  • @ricardohernando1829
    @ricardohernando18296 жыл бұрын

    But, hey guys, didn't you ever take real food to school? I used to take home-made food to school which is much healthier than all that crap, don't you think? Healthy food such as fruit, sandwiches filled with natural stuff, not junk food. Of course every now and then my mum allowed me to self-indulge with a pastry or something, but not on a daily basis, my gosh, what a great ammount of sugar you'd take.....

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Nooo always this stuff!

  • @jewelsgrl
    @jewelsgrl6 жыл бұрын

    This was so educational and fascinating to me that I watched twice!

  • @valentine1299
    @valentine12995 жыл бұрын

    Chicago Public Schools had great lunches when I was a kid. They included the most fantastic butter cookies that cannot be matched by any cookie since. High School included Cheeseburgers, fries and pizza. We were also able to buy fantastic ice cream sundaes and banana splits.

  • @geneinpennsylvania
    @geneinpennsylvania6 жыл бұрын

    Loved this

  • @aprilking8853
    @aprilking88536 жыл бұрын

    OMG! I love how Lia is just chowing down! LOL

  • @danielleporter1829
    @danielleporter18295 жыл бұрын

    We have fruit winders here , we call them fruit roll up or fruit by the foot . We also have babybel , you can buy them either individually or a dozen or so in a mesh bag in the dairy case where the block 🧀 is, they can come in different flavors like roasted red pepper, garlic and herb, etc. Lunchables are popular here, ours come with some kind of sweet treat, cookies, brownies, fun sized snckers candy bars. String 🧀 tube yogurt (we call then go gurt) a popular part of snacks that preschoolers bring or that is served to preschoolers for snack. I used to work at a preschool(nursery) and go gurts was a mainstay on our snack menu for both morning and afternoon snack times depending on the day.

  • @pamelamiller3757
    @pamelamiller37575 жыл бұрын

    Loved this!!! I had really cool lunch boxes but took lunch only when we went on field trips. When I was in elementary, as well as my children, the school lunches were large, varied, balanced, very low cost, and really good. So very few kids ever brought lunch from home. These days, even though many parents load their kids' lunch with horrible junk food, the schools serve even worse food. Food too frightening to allow your children to eat. A fun fact: When I was in elementary even though lunch was fairly large, varied and good, the school had for us, on every table, a 1 gallon can of the best peanut butter I have ever eaten in my life. It was dark and bursting with a fresh roasted flavor. As well, they had a loaf of sliced bread on the table and if kids wanted it, they could make a sandwich with it. We could also go back for seconds on any food we liked, except dessert. I have not seen or heard of these things since I was in elementary in the 60s.

  • @judithjohnson3100
    @judithjohnson31005 жыл бұрын

    I am an American teacher and see what children are bringing for their lunches currently. Usually peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, carrot sticks, capri suns, or teas, pretzels, and sometimes cheese sticks or yogurt sticks like you a modeling. I am elderly compared to you and we didn't have capris back in the 1960s, lol, we had tiny milk bottles with cardboard peel off tops. It was a special treat to have chocolate milk! I had to carry a nickel to buy my milk to drink with my lunch. I had the typical sandwich, potato chips (crisps), fruit and vegetables. My favorite day of the month was when the moms would serve us sloppy joes (ground beef with tomato sauce on a bun) with dill pickles and potato chips. I remember this clearly.

  • @georgiakolster4143
    @georgiakolster41435 жыл бұрын

    Omg Salt and Shakes! That is brilliant! I’m obsessed with crisps, but sometimes they are too salty, love this idea! 😁

  • @tracy9681
    @tracy96816 жыл бұрын

    That's exactly what I had every day but then I got sick off it and went on school dinners which were even worse. Love you guys 😚

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    haha lose-lose!

  • @ishanimazumder3064
    @ishanimazumder30646 жыл бұрын

    I agree with you, Joel, about the jam chocolate thing.

  • @kathycrank
    @kathycrank6 жыл бұрын

    Love the video! There are a lot of similar foods in America, the cheese and fruit roll-ups especially. There is a regional thing like your wheel. It is called a Moon Pie. They come in flavors, are made in Chatanooga, and are sold almost exclusively in the deep south. A lot of American kids got Little Debbie snack cakes or Hostess snack cakes like Twinkies. I had to eat the school hot lunch because my dad sold food to the school. "If it's good enough for me to sell, it's good enough for my children to eat." I was so jealous of the other kids and their Twinkies.

  • @maesecho6019
    @maesecho60196 жыл бұрын

    Im with you Joel, no fruit with chocolate!!! Our American home lunches were just about like yours.. you two are awesome..❤️

  • @sarahthornley3245
    @sarahthornley32456 жыл бұрын

    I'm from Canada, we had pretty much all of those things as well! My mum used to freeze the yogurt tubes and put them in my lunch to keep everything cold and then it would usually be just thawed by lunch.

  • @davidkibler5456
    @davidkibler54566 жыл бұрын

    We were working class. I had a Six Million Dollar Man lunchbox. Sometimes I had a bologna or peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Once in a while i got a cream cheese sandwich. Always had an apple or banana or a peach if they were in season. Often we had angel food cake for dessert at home, and i would get a slice to take with me. Usually i bought a milk at school but sometimes i would get a thermos of strawberry flavored milk or juice from home. If i was having a tough go, i would get a kit kat bar and a note from mom or dad saying they were proud of me and to keep trying harder. So long ago, but i will never forget those notes and those times.

  • @sirlancelot148
    @sirlancelot1486 жыл бұрын

    You guys are so adorable haha with your Capri Suns and fruit wraps.

  • @ThoseTwoBrits1

    @ThoseTwoBrits1

    6 жыл бұрын

    Aw thanks!

  • @larshizzleramnizzle3748
    @larshizzleramnizzle37486 жыл бұрын

    We have basically all the Same stuff!! But a lot of those were luxury lunch items! Also we would have a drink, sandwich, and one snack! That's it! Anything more, you were the cool kid!

  • @leslieharris2536
    @leslieharris25366 жыл бұрын

    Loved that! I want some British snack food!

  • @ATLbench
    @ATLbench6 жыл бұрын

    Baybel is delightful! I LOVE baybel cheese with grain crackers (and wine). Also you probably know by now that Americans don’t typically do chocolate and orange but I LOVE that combo! I even like spreading Nutella on tangerine segments.

  • @tomgraham3612
    @tomgraham36125 жыл бұрын

    5:40 The iconic American food-with-a-joke-on-the-wrapper was Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum. From 1954, Joe (the kid with the eyepatch), Pesky, Mort, Jane, Hungry Herman, et al, played their little pranks on little comic inserts on the inside of gum wrappers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazooka_Joe

  • @JulietteTsvigun
    @JulietteTsvigun6 жыл бұрын

    this is the best video you made. ahahahhha!!! I went straight to the kitchen afterwards. ahahahahahahhaha

  • @lovinlife6630
    @lovinlife66306 жыл бұрын

    What a fun video! I also like the end piece, which we call the heel, of a loaf of bread. When I was in school, we could get a hot lunch in the cafeteria. It was often beans, soup, meatloaf, spaghetti, hamburger, pizza, or turkey and dressing, always served with fruit and vegetables and a hot roll, maybe a piece of cake or peach cobbler. However, I was such a picky eater, I usually just brought my own lunch. I had a lunch box with a picture of Bobby Sherman on the front, which will give you an idea how old I am.

  • @10minuteswithc.j.korrynavl46
    @10minuteswithc.j.korrynavl466 жыл бұрын

    One of my favorite things to put in my lunch was a tupaware with crumbs of the white powdered donuts. I would purposefully break the donuts into tiny crumbs and eat pretty much powdered sugar and bread with a spoon. It was delicious!!!!

  • @Amy-dv7rg
    @Amy-dv7rg5 жыл бұрын

    I’m Australian and I grew up on babybel and string cheese too! Both of which had really cute ads on tv with their own theme songs haha, good times