- Are you sniffing the bread?
How does it smell?
- Hi, I'm Lindsay.
- I'm Brenden.
- Hi, I'm Destiny.
- Hey, I'm Nate.
- We are going to eat a Los Angeles
Unified School District high school lunch.
- Oh, nailed it.
- First try!
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- I feel like a LA school lunch is bouge.
They got some kale in there.
- Quinoa.
- Quinoas!
Vegan options.
- There's no gluten on this lunch tray.
- No gluten.
- Locally sourced.
Very farmers market friendly.
- Oh my god, imagine!
- I remember taking my lunch everyday.
- I was a kid that never brought their lunch.
- My mom actually ran my school cafeteria.
It wasn't like a regular school lunch.
She like made family recipes and everything from scratch.
- Oh my god!
- I some some really good school lunch,
so I will also be judging this meal
by my mom's standards as a professional lunch lady.
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- Oh my god, I remember when they came out in calendars!
- The lunch schedule!
- I love a good lunch schedule!
- Today we're gonna have a deli turkey ham sandwich.
- Fresh garden salad.
- Petite baby carrots.
- Fruit and fruit juice.
This is the lamest.
(laughing)
- And then I have a hotdog.
- Yours is an all-star hotdog.
What makes it all-star?
- This is an all-star turkey hotdog.
- It's not just a hot dog, it's all-star.
- Yeah!
- This is Monday's hot, this is a day old hotdog.
- Cheesy pillows and sweet corn?
We missed that day.
- You picked the wrong day to give us.
I am gonna call out all of our other options
were like a burger, chicken tenders, cheesy pillows.
We got the ham sandwich from home
and a dirty old hotdog.
- Friday would have been good.
Oh, there's even a Chick-fil-A sandwich.
- I have a question.
- [Producer] Yeah.
- Is there any dressing for this salad?
- Okay, well I'm assuming this, you know in real life,
comes with dressing.
- You know I'm kind into, I'm on this low carb kick.
- Yeah?
- So this turkey ham deli thing, this is awesome.
- Oh, you're going no bread?
- Yeah I'm going no bread.
- Okay.
- I will say these are two things that
you can't really mess up.
Like these aren't bad.
- I think these fruit cups are also severely underrated.
- I- yes!
- I think they're amazing.
- I love fruit cups, I love fruit cocktail cups.
- You gotta make sure they don't squirt at you.
- And they don't expire for a whole year.
- Ah!
It got at me.
- That was mostly me.
- Ugh.
- It's on my face.
- You gave me the end?
(laughing)
This is, there's always a kid that gets the end.
- I feel like that's an authentic school experience though,
that you would get the heel.
- Ugh!
- I'm not sure that the Los Angeles Unified
School District high school lunch
is getting a fair shake here.
- Cheers! - Cheers!
- He says do another sip.
Take another hit of juice.
- It feels like, you know what,
that's what this feels like.
- How's that?
It looks like, wrinkled.
- I mean, it's a hotdog.
- Okay, it's well balanced, right?
(laughing)
- I'm getting notes of mahogany.
Is that cloves?
- What is something we would talk about
at a high school lunch table?
- Oh let me tell you what I used to talk about.
Did you see Devon?
He looks so fine after basketball practice.
- He does.
He is the finest, I agree.
- You suck at this.
- Remember when you'd forget your lunch money
and they'd have like a PB&J.
It was like the PB&J of shame.
- What did you talk about in high school?
- Sports.
So I was at a meet the other day with--
- Track?
- Ah wrestling.
- [Destiny] Oh!
- And I lost real bad.
- For pretty much all of my teens
I had shoulder length hair.
(laughing)
And was really into music.
I don't really have much more then that.
I mean, I have like--
- Were you in clubs?
- Uh-uh.
- No, me neither.
- Yeah.
- I got in, I tried to do my homework
and then I got out.
- Yeah I mean my hair was really long, I had bangs.
I looked like Hannah Montana.
Wasn't the vibe I was going for.
I was going for more Zooey Deschanel,
but looked like Hannah Montana.
- I think I probably looked more like Zooey Deschanel.
(laughing)
- I spent most of my lunches either eating with friends,
or in the library doing college prep, or reading books.
- You were doing college prep at lunch,
but you're giving me the nerd card for doing my homework.
- I mean, you didn't think Devonte was looking fine,
so that's why--
- Listen, obviously I think Devonte's looking fine,
but I can't tell him so.
I don't want it spreading. - That's right.
No you're right, you're right.
- There was this really cute senior one year that,
we called him Coke Guy, but not because he did coke,
but because everyday he'd go to the soda machine
and get a Coke, so we'd watch.
- Watch him get a Coke.
- I never did the same, ever said hi to him.
Coke Guy, he's not gonna be watching this.
- What if he is?
What is he's at home with his Coke
and he's like "She remembers!"
- My picture of your high school,
just to kind of paint a picture.
- Yeah, paint it.
- Is one child covered in ranch dressing
and then two other children fighting,
and then over in the corner is a very pretty man,
but we're not gonna talk to him.
- Devonte, correct. - Devonte.
- Yep, that's right.
- The hottest goss now, I'm predicting
James Charles drama.
(gasp)
- James Charles.
- What Billie Eilish wore that day.
How many Instagram followers does that girl have?
- Fortnite.
- What do you think?
- Tik Tok?
(laughing)
- They just make Tik Toks?
- I would assume it's just all Tik Tok now.
- I wish we went to high school together.
- We would probably be friends.
- I think so too.
- Well high school's the time to actually experiment
and mess up with like, just school stuff.
- Yeah.
- Just experiment with what you like.
Experiment with with what your interests are,
because college is kinda like
oh now you gotta pay to experiment.
- Yeah.
- Yeah no, high school was great.
I don't have any super bad memories of high school.
- I wish I had prepared more for college.
I was like I don't care, I'm not even gonna go to college.
I'm gonna take a year off and I'm gonna work,
and make a bunch of money.
It was like, no, I was a stupid kid.
- Oh.
- I didn't make any money I was like minimum wage
job somewhere that didn't matter.
- I thought this lunch was more healthy
than I thought it was gonna be.
Like I assumed it was gonna be real gross,
or like, real processed,
but with the exception of the sugar water,
it was pretty decent.
- Satisfied's a strong word, I--
- Full?
Not gonna die?
Yeah.
- And I will give them credit,
looking at the rest of the menu,
it seems like they do have some heavy hitters
throughout the month. - Oh yeah.
If the metaphor
of high school, no life,
it's a school lunch.
Does that make sense?
- Not yet.
- Some days are good, some days are bad,
but Monday's, some Monday's you'll get cheese pillows.
- I couldn't put it better myself.
I promised myself I wouldn't cry actually.
Listen, high school is a weird time, right?
High school's a weird time.
Your body's changing.
- Yeah.
- Your hormones are going all haywire.
You think everyone hates you.
You'll get past it.
High school's weird and then eventually you'll be
not in high school and you'll just look back
and be like high school, what a weird phase.
- Oh, the blip of time.
- Yeah.
- A true blip of time.
- It becomes so insignificant in the long run,
so if you're stressing, just try to work it out,
you'll be okay.
Keep on keepin' on.
If the metaphor of life is a ham butt sandwich
and a dirty old hotdog.
(laughing)
- Mine was better than that.
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