Nine School Lunches From Around The World

For $2.50 today, my daughter ate Popcorn chicken, cherry tomatoes, green beans and a side of salad and some fruit. Here’s what a few other kids around the world ate today.

enhanced-6218-1410863512-1 — Sweden: Potatoes, cabbage, and beans, served with a cracker, Lingon Berry juice to drink.

enhanced-6347-1410863253-1 — France: Fries and nuggets with broccoli, bread, pasta salad, and a slice of cake.

enhanced-24385-1410794086-7 — Chennai, India: Lentil soup, snake gourd, rice, curd, and kesari, served with buttermilk.

enhanced-25689-1410863061-3 — UK: Peas, baked potato, cake, and custard.

enhanced-1075-1410862277-1 — Brazil: Meat in BBQ sauce, rice, green salad, pudding, and a strawberry juice.

enhanced-23715-1410792213-1 — Czech Republic: Semolina and vegetable soup, beef with garlic, spinach and potato dumplings, an orange.

enhanced-22163-1410791735-1 — Israel: Falafel, pitta chips, yoghurt and cucumber sauce, with green leaves

enhanced-1201-1410624870-10 — South Korea: Pickled sesame leaves, kimchi, doenjang (a soybean paste) stew served with rice and a side of grapes.

enhanced-10569-1410620419-1 — Japan: Fried fish, dried seaweed, tomatoes, miso soup with potatoes, rice in a metal container, served with milk.

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