An early Sino-American trend among young RedNote users has Chinese students grossed out, and American students fed up with crappy lunches.
  • AllNewTypeFace
    8·
    13 hours ago

    Western food is regarded with bemused horror in China. There’s a retired English engineer who lives there whose wife posts videos of him making the sandwiches he eats for lunch: he has a bit of a following, who refer to him as Old Dry Keith.

  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca
    272·
    22 hours ago

    RedNote users, while you’re at it, can you show Americans some high speed electric trains and get them interested in it? Thanks.

      • NotMushroomForDebate@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        2·
        13 hours ago

        I’ve re-read this comment three times and can’t get over “Morocco, Africa”. I’ve never seen a country referred to like this in my life.

        • comfy@lemmy.ml
          1·
          5 hours ago

          You’re right, it’s a strange way to refer to a country, I only wrote it that way to emphasize the fact that an African country already has more HSR than the US. The truth is that many outsiders still carry a default impression of Africa as just desert and savannahs and TV ads asking for donations to famine-striken villages, rather than a diverse continent with some impressive cities and growing modern infrastructure already. Western mainstream media doesn’t really expose us to Africa often beyond war and conflict news, and wildlife documentaries.

  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    23 hours ago

    Good. So is everyone that sees our school lunches and isn’t a part of the system that forces the bullshit on our students.

    • CaptainPedantic@lemmy.world
      3·
      18 hours ago

      You got fries? We got green bananas, dry bread, chicken sandwiches (bread, dry “chicken”, bread, and nothing else) and a thimble of juice.

  • southernbrewer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    18 hours ago

    The whole concept sounds so fake to me. You mean you don’t just make and take your own lunch? Why not? Do you have to pay for the lunch or is it includes in your fees?

    I always just took some PBJ sandwiches, a yoghurt, a muesli bar, a piece of fruit, maybe a cookie or a chocolate or some seaweed. It’s not exactly time consuming to throw that together in the morning, takes maybe 5 minutes or less

    • kholby@lemmy.world
      4·
      13 hours ago

      You certainly have the option to take your own lunch, and many students do, but the fact is that a lot of American families just can’t afford to. Lunches provided by the school are usually less than $2, and there are federal free or reduced-cost lunch programs for families that can’t afford that.

      For my kids, specifically, their school provides free lunch for every student. Additionally–and this does not seem to be the typical experience–they both absolutely love their school lunches.

      • southernbrewer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        13 hours ago

        Thanks, that makes sense. I guess I should have mentioned but you probably figured out , that I live in a country (NZ) where (most?) schools don’t provide lunches.

        Now that you mention the cost angle I think I’ve heard of some schools providing free … breakfast? For kids who show up hungry. But this was specifically a social aid program and not something that was designed/funded to be used by a majority of students.

        • SoJB@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          20 minutes ago

          Respectfully, you don’t understand how bad things are for the average American.

  • comfy@lemmy.ml
    2·
    16 hours ago

    It’s cherrypicking, but apart from TV and cartoons who are likely to exaggerate, my impression of US school lunches is from Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, and Jamie looked like they were about to cry.

    I say cherrypicking because it was considered one of the most obese towns in the USA, Huntington, West Virginia, but it’s absolutely dystopic. Soylent Green would be a step up, nutritionally.

    edit: I can’t easily find the scene of the kids eating, but this two minute clip goes over Jamie’s disappointment at the food products being served. “I’d never seen kids being given pizza of any kind for breakfast before.” “Do you really recognise any of those ingredients?”