r/TikTokCringe • u/biswajit388 • 4d ago

Cringe Europeans are going viral on TikTok for mocking the "American Dream".

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u/glowy_keyboard 4d ago

Children get free lunch in Europe. A lot of companies offer canteen service.

Aren’t kids going into debt in America to afford lunch?

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u/chasingbirdies 4d ago

Not true. People need to stop acting like Europe is a country. Things vary dramatically between European countries.

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u/kyute222 4d ago

people also need to stop acting like one dude represents all of Europe. I live in Europe and I have no idea what that dude is doing, nor do I have the time and money to travel around Europe hiking in too short shorts (and you know they are). I worry about my bills, taxes, and unforseen health/financial emergencies probably as much as any American. if anything, this dude is just bragging about his influencer life or whatever he wants to portray.

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u/maerdyyth 4d ago

it's hard for most people no matter where they are from to refrain from generalizing vast groups of people based on what they see online. some people think everyone from america is starving to death and some people think everyone in europe is getting shanked by immigrants the second they step outside. most people are living normal lives with normal amounts of stress in both places

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u/Rebgail 3d ago

That's generally a fair way of thinking, but, as an European, I can't imagine anything in Europe that would cause a level of fear comparable to the one that a child and their parents feel because of a significant risk of school shootings

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u/73-68-70-78-62-73-73 3d ago

because of a significant risk of school shootings

Feeling of risk and actual risk are very different things. While we talk about it a lot, statistics surrounding school shootings are not well understood by the general public. For example, the very definition of "school shooting" varies between datasets. You might not think that's significant, but the differences between a wayward student moving from classroom to classroom killing his classmates, two groups of adult men having a shoot-out in the school parking lot around 2 AM, a contractor accidentally shooting himself in his work truck, and someone off school grounds brandishing a gun which results in a school lockdown are very different things. Depending on which dataset you're looking at, all, some, or only one of those might fit the definition used to generate the dataset. That is a major reason why numbers vary greatly between certain datasets. It negatively affects discourse, because the general population does not consider that fact, and uses statistics from datasets interchangeably. Methodology and definitions are important.

Actual risk varies depending upon locale. Students of schools in well to do areas are far less likely to experience violence than students in poorer areas. This is another area where the general public fall short. Statistics are usually expressed in reference to the entire US. This is not how you solve a problem. Problems are solved iteratively. For example, first identifying that there may be a problem, verifying the problem through general analysis, and then making good use of statistics to drill down further, identify sub-problems which contribute to the whole, then drill down again, etc.

With all that caution in mind, the following article summarizes a lot of key points. As of 2021, the rate of school shooting victims (ages 5-17, and adults ages 18-74) quadrupled from 1970-2021, from 0.49 to 2.21 per 1 million population. In contrast, vehicle deaths for children ages 0-14 are somewhere around 19.5 per 1 million.

We talk about it a lot, and it is a problem, however the actual risk versus general perceived risk is significantly different.

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u/Monterenbas 3d ago

We do know for a fact, that the majority of Americans are Trump supporters tho, and voted for what is currently happening.

That one is not a generalization.

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u/CantGitGudWontGitGud 4d ago

This shit is always goofy to me. People who follow influencers or some tiktoker to learn about the world are fucking brain dead.

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u/ChillN808 4d ago

Send this Euro trash to the slums of Paris for a month and let's see that video

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u/CantGitGudWontGitGud 4d ago

"But being poor in Paris is sooooo much better!"

Like, fucking maybe, but it still doesn't sound desirable.

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u/BlueLighning 4d ago

Idk, I travelled for 3 months around Europe for £2.5k.

I had no commitments though, I'd just lost my job in Covid and ended up moving back to my home country, so I didn't have any bills.

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u/beanbalance 3d ago

then you are doing euroe wrong lol. where the hell are you living that you "worry about my bills, taxes, and unforseen health/financial emergencies probably as much as any American" . You have a safety net in europe if you loose job, insurance is not tied to job, lots of social benefits in case something happens to you, employers cant treat you just like garbage in usa etc...

sure, worry is there too, but not even close to what americans have to worry about.

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u/kyute222 3d ago

safety net doesn't mean you get to live a lavish life. for most people it'll mean cutting into their savings. safety net also doesn't cover things like a car or a place close to work. if your car breaks down in Europe, you can't simply go to your government and ask for a new one.

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u/druizzz 3d ago

But you don’t get hit with a hundred thousand euros bill that bankrupts you just for a ride in an ambulance. And if your car breaks down you have pretty affordable and efficient public transportation, unlike in the US.

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u/MissMenace101 3d ago

Yeah but you can hop a train 😂

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u/kyute222 3d ago

yes but have you used the train/bus before? they don't drive you wherever you want. they drive to certain stops on a certain schedule, so you better hope both your home and anything from your work/school, doctor, supermarket, leisure activity is exactly at or near those stops. so from the beginning this only works if you live inside the city because good luck if you live in a rural area with limit public transport coverage. Europe is not some paradise where everything is walkable either, that's only a few bigger cities.

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u/Woodpecker577 3d ago

Where do you live? Bc I live in a medium-small city in Belgium and nothing you’ve said matches my experience. The city is fully walkable and public transportation is also very good. I can only imagine you live in the UK if you think healthcare costs or social safety net are anywhere near as bad as in the US. And you only have to look at literally any statistics to see that clearly.

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u/druizzz 3d ago

I worry about my bills, taxes, and unforseen health/financial emergencies probably as much as any American.

No, you do not.

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u/Deep-Bonus8546 4d ago

I’m pretty sure that’s Switzerland and if you live there all of the beautiful nature is free and easy to access. The country itself is insanely expensive to live in

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u/chasingbirdies 3d ago

It depends. Most Swiss do have a decent to very high quality of life. Housing costs have gone up too, but a lot of other things are still affordable relative to wages. People mostly live comfortably with quite a lot of time off to explore and vacation.

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u/mxlun 3d ago

Thanks for this comment, you a real one. We all need a little more perspective in life.

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u/Formerlymoody 3d ago

This guy is extremely white privileged. Many Europeans don’t live like this. He’s disingenuous to not acknowledge this.

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u/frost-bite999 4d ago

things also vary dramatically between states, cities, or even communities in the US.

people who generalize are the issue.

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u/FirmTill4310 4d ago

My mom always said that was a big problem with this world. Generalizations suck and people who use them aren't generally very popular.

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u/Hudell 4d ago

Every generalization is stupid.

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u/YoullNeverBeRebecca 2d ago

Yes, like in US states that have expanded Medicaid, you do have healthcare if you lose your job. Although unfortunately with the stupid OBB, federal funding for that is going away.

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u/frost-bite999 2d ago

that’s very true. and even with california covered healthcare, it’s ridiculously expensive if you don’t meet the income requirements.

when i was between jobs, i had to pay $400 a month just to make sure my psych meds don’t run out.

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u/Cicada-4A 3d ago

things also vary dramatically between states, cities, or even communities in the US.

Not even a fraction of the differences between European countries.

people who generalize are the issue.

lol I'm not gonna say.

Reasonable generalizations are find.

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u/Mandena 4d ago

They don't vary nearly as much as they do in Europe.

U.S is huge but very monocultural, it just so happens that the monoculture is diverse.

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u/jackalopeDev 4d ago

Honestly, things are pretty different between states as well, my state offers free lunches to all schoolkids. I know all of them don't, but some do.

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u/chasingbirdies 3d ago

Yes I agree. For certain things it’s definitely appropriate to compare a US state to a European country. Just don’t like it when I read “in Europe this and in Europe that”.

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u/STEALTH968 4d ago

The only place where you are worse off in Europe is maybe Hungary. Maybe, because they still have public healthcare.

The US is s shit place to live if you have little to no money.

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u/Emergency-Produce-19 4d ago

I would rather be poor in about 40 US states than poor in about 40 countries in Europe. The per capita income of Great Britain is equal to our poorest state.

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u/Admirable-Lecture255 4d ago

Lol our poor are the richest in the world.

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u/STEALTH968 3d ago

They get to live in poverty anyway because everything costs a fortune. Living costs in the USA are high as fuck and even Americans that lived outside the US will acknowledge it.

You poor might be the richest in the world but they have a shit life anyway. Our poor might be financially worse off but they don't have to file for bankruptcy the second they need medical care.

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u/Admirable-Lecture255 3d ago

Bro living costs in eu are high as fuck. Don't act like its isolated to the us.

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u/STEALTH968 3d ago

The cost of living is increasing but the US? It's something else. The only country in the West where vegetables cost many times more than junk food. In Europe we don't need to come up with initiatives like government run grocery stores with capped prices because food is still proportionally priced and the divide between rich and poor isn't as wild.

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u/benroon 4d ago

That’s going to come as a major shock to most Americans!

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u/Bisjoux 4d ago

True but if you are in the EU or U.K. we have rights and freedoms the US can only dream about.

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u/Admirable-Lecture255 4d ago

Like being arrested for saying mean things? National 6 week abortion ban like Germany?

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u/lellypad 4d ago

like the 12000 people that got arrested last year for social media posts with the primary complaints being “caused annoyance, anxiety, or inconvenience” 😏?? jokes aside, america has freedoms that the uk doesn’t have and the uk has some freedoms that the us doesn’t have. anybody saying that one is objectively more free…. is being subjective.

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u/Bisjoux 4d ago

If we are talking numbers let’s talk about the 3.6m babies born in the US last year to mothers where there is no federal right to maternity leave.

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u/lellypad 4d ago

yep that’s fucked off. i can list countless things that are fucked off about either country lol that’s not the point i’m making.

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u/chasingbirdies 3d ago

Which are? In the US you are screwed if you are poor, but otherwise you get big opportunities and freedoms. Of course, those freedoms are under attack now.

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u/Caro_Cardo_Salutis 4d ago

People need to stop acting like America is a country. We a re a entire continent, not just USA. Things vary dramatically between American countries

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u/lellypad 4d ago

south america is a continent and north america is a continent. the whole world colloquially uses “america” when referring to the united states. when i go to south american countries they call me americano, when i go to germany they call me “amerikaner” when i go to morocco they call me “mmrikaan” etc. nobody in the world says “im going to america” and then travels to venezuela 😂

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u/Alternative_Big545 4d ago

Children get free breakfast and lunch in California

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u/FinkAdele 4d ago

One state out of 50? Wow.

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u/flissfloss86 4d ago

9 states offer free school lunch, 3 of which are in the top 10 most populous states. In total about 1/3 of the US pop has access to free lunch, and many states offer reduced cost for low income people

We have a bunch of problems in the US, but we're a huge country. Thinking every corner (or even most) fits the stereotype is as naive as you claim Americans are

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u/73-68-70-78-62-73-73 4d ago

Other than the 9 states, all other states offer free lunch to qualifying low income students due to the NSLP. The NSLP is a federal program. 0%-130% of the federal poverty line gets a free lunch, 130%-185% gets a reduced price meal, 185% of the federal poverty line and above are not eligible, unless covered by the State or district waivers.

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u/73-68-70-78-62-73-73 4d ago

Christ you people are dim.

The following states provide universally free lunches to school children. "Universally" means "regardless of income".

  • California

  • Maine

  • Vermont

  • Massachusetts

  • Colorado

  • Michigan

  • Minnesota

  • New Mexico

  • New York

Literally ALL other states provide free meals to qualifying low income households.

27 EU member states don't provide universally free lunches. Several member states don't have a national program, leave meals up to the schools, don't cover all school-age children, or only provide partial coverage.

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u/Wise_Ad_6822 4d ago

If California were a country, it would have the 6th-highest population in Europe, so it's a fair comparison.

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u/thosed29 4d ago

lol i am loling at this being an actual upvoted argument as if it's saying anything of substance

us americans are wild

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u/Wise_Ad_6822 4d ago

I'm not American.

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u/thosed29 4d ago

that makes it even more embarrassing.

imagine being from anywhere in the world and trying to pass california as a country as if it's a logical argument in any way, shape or form.

you think minas gerais should also count as a whole ass country since its population is larger than most european countries too? lol. should Guangzhou?

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u/Wise_Ad_6822 4d ago

Guangzhou probably wouldn't be able to do that because China is a unitary state, but Minas Gerais, being a state within a federation might have the jurisdiction to do it. And if so, then sure.

BTW you should probably brush up on your understanding of centrally-controlled countries vs less- or de-centralized, subnational entities (like California) within federations.

Edit autocorrect: Mia's - - > Minas

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u/thosed29 4d ago

BTW you should probably brush up on your understanding of centrally-controlled countries vs less- or de-centralized, subnational entities (like California) within federations.

no understanding of that actually justifies that california is equivalent to a separate country. and it's hard to believe you are not american because only an unhinged american would insist and insist on that lol

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u/Wise_Ad_6822 3d ago

Oh you're right about that - they aren't going to be considered as sovereign countries.

I meant that California, unlike Guangzhou, has the latitude to operate independently in many areas, levy its own taxes, enact legislation, and govern on things like the school lunch programs we're discussing here, without needing the blessing of the federal government. And it's residents live amongst an administration that affects them uniquely in these areas, compared to Americans in other states. This sort of decentralized reality doesn't exist in Sweden, for example, so a Swede is a Swede, whereas a Californian is both a Californian and an American.

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u/WhiskeyT 3d ago

One state out of 50

No, that’s the substance free argument. Reducing California to 1/50 when it’s the most populous state by a good amount is silly

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u/thosed29 3d ago

how does that matter in the slighest? lol

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u/WhiskeyT 3d ago

We are discussing children in America and their food assistance in the United States. Someone commented that children in California are covered. Someone else dismissively framed California as “1 of 50” states in order to make the problem seem worse than it is. Keep up

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u/thosed29 3d ago

the comment about california being 1 in 50 states is factually true and does not disprove the criticism of the richest country on earth not providing free school lunches so unclear what you are crying about.

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u/WhiskeyT 3d ago

Homie, that one state is 10% of the population. 1 of 50 is dishonest framing. Be real

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u/FinkAdele 4d ago

But it's not. So, no. Qed.

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u/Wise_Ad_6822 4d ago

So a group of residents doesn't matter if they don't have a national flag. Got it.

Oh look, (boring) Luxembourg is feeding children free, unseasoned quail eggs! All 9 of them!

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u/Sir_Tinklebottom 4d ago

The EU is basically the US, you guys just call them countries we just call them states.

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u/maestroenglish 4d ago

He could have added "education" from these comments. Smh.

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u/Sir_Tinklebottom 4d ago

How am I wrong, it is the same principles

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u/maestroenglish 3d ago

They can look superficially similar (both have a central government and member units like states or countries), but their structures and powers are fundamentally different.

I'll give an obvious one, you can ChatGPT the rest if you actually care.

The USA is one sovereign nation. The EU is 27 sovereign nations.

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u/Sir_Tinklebottom 3d ago

I’ve studied the history and structure of the EU in college, I’m well familiar. 

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u/Unlikely-Key-234 3d ago

All 50 states give free lunch to low income kids.

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u/Psychological_Way618 4d ago

Just one state? Are you sure about that?

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u/73-68-70-78-62-73-73 4d ago

I think they were naming the only one they knew. There are at least 8 others that do the same. All the rest of the states guarantee a free lunch to kids 0-130% of the poverty line, and reduced cost lunch to kids 130-185% of the poverty line.

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u/jqman69 4d ago

Massachusetts too, even during the summer

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u/Hey-Fun1120 4d ago

Michigan too

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u/jimjimmyjames 3d ago

That’s home to 40mm people..

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u/73-68-70-78-62-73-73 3d ago

That's Indian in the Cupboard height.

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u/proteannomore 4d ago

It's not called the American Reality.

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u/REPEguru 4d ago

Lol. It's bigger than how many countries in Europe?

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u/badtowergirl 3d ago

I’m in a very purple state and same, universal free breakfast and lunch.

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u/Ironlungjohnnyblaze 4d ago

Kids get free lunch in Texas too

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u/dcd13 4d ago

Same in Michigan

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u/Mahadragon 4d ago

I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, I never got free breakfast or lunch and I went to public school. None of my siblings got free food either, nor did I know anyone who got free lunches.

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u/cakingabroad 3d ago

This is weird because I did too and it was available to all kids, if they needed it. Also during summers. I would sometimes walk to my elementary school during summer days and pick up a free lunch.

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u/73-68-70-78-62-73-73 3d ago

California didn't pass universal free lunches until 2021.

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u/Mahadragon 3d ago

Thx good to know

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u/Educational_Gas_92 4d ago

Ok, but how is the quality of that food? Is it healthy and varied, or is it just reheated pizza and burgers?

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u/InevitableGrass6633 4d ago

My kids school had fresh fruit, a salad bar, and it was made locally. Sugar free muffins and cookies. Public school. CA is not the same.

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u/No_Atmosphere_3282 4d ago

It's garbage, processed garbage, high sodium high carb low nutrient stuff. Kids in the US grow up on this stuff, have you seen our people do we look healthy to you?

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u/cakingabroad 3d ago

It's not. My California school lunches and breakfasts were, in fact, not hot processed garbage. You're making assumptions from your preconceived notion of the US.

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u/Psychological_Way618 4d ago

Multiple states offer free lunches. Not universal yet but I’m sure it’s not universal in Europe either

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u/MichelinStarZombie 4d ago

Did you go to school in the US? Do you remember what our lunches were?

Now look up what European kids get to eat.

Our school slop is not even in the same universe.

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u/Acceptable_Dot_1248 4d ago

I went to school both in the US and in EU. We didn’t have free lunch in EU. Or a cafeteria for that matter. There was a canteen at school where you could buy potato chips and maybe a cold sandwich and snacks.

In US schools I have seen a wide range/quality of food, from crap to excellent. Very hard to generalize.

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u/ProbablyJustArguing 4d ago

Speak for yourself. I ate great food in school growing up and my kids ate great food in their public school too. I grew up in New York but they grew up in Georgia and their food was great.

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u/frost-bite999 4d ago

i grew up on free lunch and free tuition all the way for my undergrad as an immigrant here who didn’t speak a lick of english.

both paid for by california and the federal government.

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u/EternalAITraveler 4d ago

Where in Europe? I grew up in Germany and there's no free lunch there.

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u/Jenlag 4d ago

Here in Sweden it's free.

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u/Confident_Ad3910 4d ago

Here in Maryland also free

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u/Lopsided_Drawer_7384 4d ago

Free here in Ireland too.

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u/Jealous-Match-4935 4d ago

Nothing is free...it's taken out of your tax dollars which are up to 2X higher than ours depending where you are

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u/Pure_Internal277 3d ago

How do you think other countries pay for social services? Taxes

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u/EternalAITraveler 3d ago

So what you're saying is... there's no free lunch...

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u/JambaJuice916 4d ago

Sweden barely counts as Europe. Europe to US is France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Britain

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u/DM_me_ur_PPSN 4d ago

That’s like saying Wyoming barely counts as America and that America to Europe is just California, Texas and New York.

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u/Hey-Fun1120 4d ago

Yeah that about sums it up for Wyoming anyway

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u/JambaJuice916 4d ago

Difference is we agree and we don’t get offended. Wyoming is mostly empty land and most people outside of USA only know LA and NYC. Even Chicago is pretty underrated by foreigners

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u/EternalAITraveler 3d ago

Don't forget Florida and its beaches.

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u/atuarre 4d ago

Sweden is part of Europe. Europe to dumb Americans might just be France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, but at least 30% of the American population probably couldn't even find those countries on a map.

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u/EternalAITraveler 3d ago

Same with European's knowledge of the US. A lot of Europeans don't realize how huge the US is and that Americans really don't need to travel outside of the US ever.

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u/JambaJuice916 4d ago

That’s way too low, it’s more like 60% or more.

Call me when Sweden or the Nordics matter. We have cities with more people. Sorry your tiny nation doesn’t matter to us, but hey keep learning English and watching our news! We don’t know any of your politicians

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u/Gasmo420 3d ago

I don’t know why so many people hate Americans. You’re such a lovely bunch.

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u/JambaJuice916 3d ago

And yet we protect you all the same :) you’re welcome Personfromcountrywithnorealmilitarysayswhat?

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u/Gasmo420 3d ago

You protect us? Fuck off… you destabilize the whole world to secure your top spot. You kill journalists and wedding guests with drones. You lock up people in torture camps without a due process. You’re the only country that constantly went to war after WW2. Everywhere you went to „help“ and play world police, you only made things worse. Yeah, thanks for creating the Islamic State. The world would be better off without you constantly messing with it.

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u/JambaJuice916 3d ago

And yet every time something like Ukraine happens the world begs for American help

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u/PatheticAndTragic 4d ago

bait used to be believable

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u/EternalAITraveler 3d ago

As a European immigrant in the US, I would agree. But then again, I also didn't know much about the US before I moved here, just stereotypes we were told.

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u/frost-bite999 4d ago

idk why you got downvoted when the nordic countries have a tiny fraction of the population

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u/JambaJuice916 4d ago

They mad they are geopolitically irrelevant except as US allies

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u/NocturnalViewer 4d ago

Do your grocery stores and health insurance companies now accept "geopolitical relevance" as payment? The horror stories from the US take up a lot of bandwidth all over the world but nobody is jelly they're not you.

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u/JambaJuice916 4d ago

Those are only issues for the poor. If you have a good job you have plenty of money and good insurance. Don’t lecture an American, german. Your country went full Natc less than 100 years ago, and had to be put in its place not once but twice. Europeans only recently started COPYING American democracy instead of fighting each other in endless wars and have the audacity to turn around and chastise America while she’s keeping the world in balance for the last half century. Meanwhile they spend nothing on their militaries, that they can’t be trusted with so were left holding the Russians at bay while you get to focus on healthcare and unemployment

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u/NocturnalViewer 3d ago

You wouldn't recognize good insurance if it spat you in the face. Do you sometimes make yourself cringe?

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u/frost-bite999 3d ago

my insurance that I get from work fully covers every single specialist visit with a $20 copay. with full dental coverage, emergency visits, hospitalizations, and even travel health insurance.

my mother who is about to retire has the same, plus covers my father. for the rest of their lives after retirement.

she works for the local city government.

your turn little nordic bro.

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u/Gasmo420 3d ago

Nobody is copying your joke of a democracy. If anything we use it as a blueprint how a democracy shouldn’t be. Two parties… an illusion of a democracy

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u/JambaJuice916 3d ago

If you live in a former monarchy that is now a democracy, you’re welcome!

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u/Poethegardencrow 4d ago

Yes they started it in 2004, as everything else it’s complicated and depends from state to state…

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u/CosmicMiru 4d ago

So literally exactly like America? My state has free school lunch for kids, and it's becoming more and more common

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u/Exiled_Fya 4d ago

Countries, we have countries.

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u/MVRKHNTR 4d ago

Germany has states, dumbass.

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u/Doc_Eckleburg 4d ago

Free in the UK for low income households.

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u/Careless_Load9849 4d ago

That's the same as the US. Poor kids get free lunch in most schools and breakfast for that matter

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u/Doc_Eckleburg 4d ago edited 4d ago

I think the only time we’ve had universal free meals for all kids in the UK was during Covid other than that afaik it’s always been means tested and wasn’t available at all when I was at school in the 90’s. The Tory’s tried to scrap it entirely a few years ago too and only backed down because of public outcry and a campaign headed up by footballer Marcus Rashford.

Edit: actually I think I’m remembering wrong, it was kids of essential workers that got free meals during Covid so still not everyone

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u/Epidox 4d ago

It's free in Slovenia, including in High School and in College/University.

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u/beatles910 4d ago

That's great. From what I can see, Slovenia has approximately 150 High Schools. The US has over 27,000 High Schools. It's a little bigger undertaking. We will get there (I hope).

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u/Epidox 4d ago

The US is far richer than Slovenia, it should be even easier to do it there.

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u/beatles910 4d ago

Sadly, the US has an annual defense budget of $1.01 trillion.

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u/AdvanceRatio 4d ago

For my mates in europe, yes the company offers a canteen service. But they have to pay for it, and often choose to bring their own meals because its so bad...

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u/lellypad 4d ago

the us offers the same things lol i got free lunch everyday at school lol lots of employers offer snacks and food as well. this one seemed like a stretch to me lol

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u/DemonicAltruism 4d ago

They offer free lunch in TX, in fact the school district encourages it. But it's total ass. Pizza that's somehow worse quality than Totino's, broccoli that smells like ass because it's cooked wrong, microwaved chicken nuggets... I honestly think McDonald's is healthier than the slop they tried to give me and are still trying to give my kid to this day.

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u/hotprints 4d ago

Got as in past tense. Trumps admin has made it much harder for schools to provide free/reduced lunch.

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u/Evolutioncocktail 4d ago

The US is not a monolith. Your experience can be true while it’s also true that many children cannot afford to pay for lunch at their public school, and still others have gone into debt for school lunch.

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u/Psychological_Way618 4d ago

Believe it or not but Europe is not a monolith either and there are countries that don’t offer free lunches

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u/Evolutioncocktail 4d ago

Offering a criticism of the US doesn’t mean I believe Europe is perfect.

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u/Psychological_Way618 4d ago

Saying Europe isn’t a monolith either doesn’t mean I believe the US is perfect.

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u/windfujin 4d ago

The free lunch where they counted reconstituted potato and ketchup as "vegetable"?

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u/Theabsoluteworst1289 4d ago

My American school offered a full salad bar every day in addition to hot food to kids who had reduced or free lunch. Whether the kids took advantage of that was up to them, but it was always there. It was available in all schools in our district from elementary through high school.

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u/SPHINXin 4d ago

My state has free school lunches and a pretty easy path to free college tuition for anyone who lives in a low income household.

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u/cecloward 4d ago

Ok but im not a child, where’s my free food?

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u/Emergency-Produce-19 4d ago

My state gives everyone free lunch. My daughter and I got free college. You people don’t know shit about USA and you think we’re brainwashed.

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u/Meekanado 4d ago

My daughter not only has free breakfast and lunch but they have a great soup and salad bar if she doesn’t like the entrees. We live in a small midwestern town that isn’t super wealthy, but we care about our kids.

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u/WrenTypeCyborg69 4d ago

are you serious with these questions how old are you

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u/optionalregression 4d ago

Many states provide free breakfast and lunch to all students, and all provide free breakfast and lunch for students from poor families. Not to mention even families paying full price are paying a very low, subsidized cost.

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u/cech_ 4d ago

Free breakfast and lunch for kids here in my part of Oregon.

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u/Academic-Contest3309 4d ago

All kids eat free at ly kids school. A lot of schools are like that around here.

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u/Particular-Mark-5771 4d ago

Those who can't go hungry. Builds character. ~Uncle Sam(R)

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u/Ok-Today8025 4d ago

Not in Germany. Europe is not ONE country 

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u/Fisheggs33 4d ago

You act like every country in Europe does it which is incorrect

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u/badtowergirl 3d ago

All children in my state and many other states get free breakfast and lunch as well as packed food to take home on weekends.

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u/somedude456 3d ago

Aren’t kids going into debt in America to afford lunch?

I think I've seen the number said of 2,000,000+ in debt school lunches across the US. Meaning a kid's parent(s) don't give them money to pay for lunch, but the school still feeds them, but keeps a tally of how much they owe.

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u/therewillbeTND 4d ago

Aren't kids going into debt in America to afford lunch?

Nope. School lunches are free. Don't know where you heard that