Hi we're Joel & Lia and today's video is all about the things we had in our
lunch box when we were at school in the 90s in the UK so let's get cracking
the order of what you eat your stuff in your lunch box when you're a kid is so
routine oh yeah I don't know about you but I would never change the order for anyone
no no I always start with crisps, you're joking! It's always sandwich first, no
see that's what everyone would say, they'd say - people would tell on
me and be like "Miss Joel's eating his crisps first" I'd be like who are you
what are you doing with your life? this is my life! as a 10 year old I was like "this is my life" I'll eat my crisps if I want, how funny the stuff that used to be pernickety at school.
for the purpose of this video we're just using Tupperware which is what we use sort of
on-the-go everyday but when we were at school I had an S Club 7 plastic lunch box. Well my
parents wanted me to look stupid so they literally gave me like a cooler thing a
chiller box that was like a mini chiller box but it made me look so
stupid. Like an actual freezer box? yeah like an actual freezer box
20kg lunch box! So ridiculous, thanks mum and dad.
squished sandwiches that's very important, much like what you'd get at school, yours are cling film, mine were always foil, I used to have like
disgusting cheap white bread until secondary school and then my parents would make
me eat brown bread I think I've always had brown. well what about this how do
you feel about the end crust? ok so this is the end of a loaf of bread and I
would kick off me and my mum would have it out but she would never do that to
me this was always my favourite, so I've got two brothers and if I didn't get the end
of the loaf I would kick off you're joking, I love it
so we'd be perfect siblings.
we're not siblings people always ask that we're not the other thing I used to really like was
banana sandwiches, but again I'd be mortified, coz I wanted it mashed, sprinkled with brown sugar and inside some bread. You're so middle class
middle-class you're so middle-class I want sprinkled banana with a bit of cinnamon and a bit of brown sugar.
No that is so not - honestly I went to a really normal school
it was not posh but this is the standard safe sandwich yeah a disgusting amount
of margarine or spread or butter yeah your parents would always give you
like one slice of ham and it'd be squished by the time it's lunch for the
purpose of this video oh I thought I bought vegetarian ham but I think I
bought the real deal - well I never got ham coz I've always hated ham okay
I got sandwich spread which looks like this, where's the jar? Heinz original
sandwich bread which is just the laziest way to make a sandwich it's just
basically salad cream with chopped up vegetables inside. I haven't had it for year, oh my gosh! moving on from
sandwiches so the next one, well MY most important thing in a lunchbox was always
crisps. Absolutely love them, if you're feeling naughty, you'd have crisps at the same time as your sandwich or put them inside you sandwich! School hacks! The other kids are like "guess what you can make a crisp sandwich". So I've got the salt and shake
Which I never had at school but my nan always used to have these and whenever we went
on hers it would always just be salt and shake which is basically plain crisps
that come with a little sachet of salt I'll show you so it comes with a sachet
of salt you have to put your own flavoring in shake the bags and then
it's salty the company are either really lazy, I think it's made by walkers, Walkers are either
really lazy or what they say is that you add your own amount like it's as
much as you like you know salt intakes not great for kids or for anyone really so
add your own they're so so good and I get Hula Hoops, sometimes I get Pom Bears these are great because
kids always put them on their fingers and then you know if you're really the skinny as
a kid you can probably propose with it yeah and then you just go...
Imagine if you still ate hula hoops like that whenever you went out drinks yeah we didn't drink much as
kids at school it's amazing that we weren't dehydrated all day look
how big this fruit shoot is I used to get fruit shoots occasionally but look how
tiny it is that's like two mouthfuls yeah it's nothing and it's gone. I'd have to give
my kid two of those maybe more or maybe just a bottle of water and
these are Capri Suns no added sugar and they kind of feel like foil
and these are really nice so next thing is cheese oh my gosh cheese strings British
mums love giving their kids a form of cheese yeah sometimes you get babybels
yeah and cheese strings which might be American so who knows but we always used
to get these, both equal amounts of fun this can be molded and thrown at
people it's basically wax it's basically just like a wax for bullies like Lia
no I never - I was bullied not being a bully.... actually I did both. But that's another story. Whereas cheese strings, you just peel off the
cheese so good messy gross food. Kids used to peel it half way make a hula hula.... no.
you're joking? kids used to hate me coz I used to do this that is
breaking every rule, I can't even deal with that right now Joel, that's disgusting. they hated
me doing that after the cheese you probably get something sweet we've got a
little bit of selection of everything but bear in mind on an average school
day you'd probably get one of these things in your lunchbox, yeah would wouldn't get all of them!
So we've got penguins that come with a joke on the back yeah that's so famous in the UK
so yeah everyone knows this, you've got to read the joke to everyone it's
a terrible joke always why are penguins hard to get along with I don't know
they're always fishing for compliments but yeah and it gets the point where
you've had penguins so many times you know all the jokes yeah yeah a penguin bar
is just a chocolate biscuit it's literally digestive biscuits by
McVitie's that's covered in chocolate really nice another option would be
jaffa cakes thats served like this I loved them so these are Jaffa Cakes they're
like a chocolatey orange cake or biscuit thats always the argument yeah and they come in
a little tub like this, these are the small ones for kids
and that's portion control there there's six in there and I remember occasionally a kid
would get seven in there and that would be like... that child would be like the hero of
the school yeah it's like you're gonna have a good future yeah
another one I used to get all the time is wagon wheels now these were my least
favourite coz these were filled with jam you can get wagon wheels that are just
filled with marshmallow and that's it is that your favourite? yeah. Oh i bought the jammy ones for the video. Thats okay! I don't mind it I just don't like
jam and chocolate but look it's just a chocolaty biscuit if you snap it in half
it's just got like marshmallow and jam inside, can I have a little bite? Yeah go for it. another thing you might get as a
chocolaty treat would be a mini roll again
these come plain or with Jam yeah because I bought the stuff for the video I bought
everything with Jam because I was obsessed with jam, these are basically a spongy cake covered in a
thin layer of chocolate with a jammy inside so good they're literally amazing
I mean I prefer the ones without jam but they are good. you're joking! no why don't you
put jam in a chocolate thing it's like Black Forest gateau that's chocolate
cake with jam in the middle I'm like *barf* fruit and chocolate do not go together
no matter what anyone says. Wow. I'm so passionate about it. You're so strongly opinionated. I am, and I dare anyone to fight me on it.
so this next one fruit winders this is both of our absolute favourites, contains probably zero fruit. We got a double!
I used to unwind them completely and then take it off whereas some people just
do it as you go I used to think that this paper which is
like a comic book was a tattoo, so I would go and hide in the toilet
do a cold compress with water and tissue and wait for a very long time for
nothing to happen that's why she's a youtuber now coz she didn't get any
qualifications. That used to be bigger when we were kids. That used to be literally the size of the room.
I moaned at you for playing with your food but I sometimes used to do this oh yeah no no not all in
one mm-hm that's why I was fat as a kid I think coz
I just ate the food as fast as possible, I was just like get it in. Next thing we need to talk about is yoghurts
so I would always get Petits Filous which was my
favourite yogurts they're French obviously because of the name
I dunno what it means like small.... the advert used to say "makes your bones grow stronger"
remember that, great advertising and obviously you
have your spoon that rattles around in your lunch box yeah and that's the only
thing that's left in your box at the end of the day and it's just like *sound effects*
Frubes the yoghurt that was probably invented because you don't need a spoon
yeah and these pull off the top squeeze it into your mouth yeah this is the best
flavour peach oh I love peach you get strawberry red berry or peach you could
do swaps at schools as well yeah oh I love doing that trading I really want
a Frube yeah I'll trade you my ... although you probably wouldn't do it with this coz
I wouldn't let you use my spoon yeah we'd probably trade on something more like
babybels yeah or raisins here's another one but that's a weak trade Sunmaid raisins
yeah but some geek at school really loved raisins yeah so I never got this as
a kid because it was so unhealthy yeah this dairylea lunchable stackers
where you get crackers cheese and ham and you make them yourself oh it stinks
that's disgusting That smells so bad.
That's probably quite telling isn't it? We can't actually show you coz it stinks
we've got very weak stomachs so you build your own sandwich anything that involves creativity in some way. You put your cheese on, and then some animal flesh,
and then do you not put a cracker on top for the sandwich, I don't know I never had them. So that's the sandwich. I sometimes got given these
Dairylea dunkers did you get them that was a good day when I got them my mum wouldn't buy
them very often but when she did I loved it. They've changed it that used to be just
foil yeah that was foil. bread sticks dipped into dairylea cheese
if you said to a Brit oh it's dairylea we all know what you
mean you used to get them in triangles as well I hated them coz they were like
flavourless unless you dipped crisps in them I love
dipping crisps in the triangles the most boring part of a lunchbox was fruit
so I would always get a banana if it had any bit of brown on it I wouldn't eat it
my mum would pay for it later on that day I'd be like why did you put a brown banana in my
lunchbox you're just weird though you like really green, unripe bananas. I love green bananas.
So my mum still to this day has to buy me green bananas so that when
they turn yellow I eat them straightaway because I can't eat them if they've got brown
on them I'm not even gonna argue with you Joel coz you're just so wrong
here's a sample of some grapes that's about as much fruit as I'd get as a
child six grapes. No I'm kidding mum would give us more fruit but would I eat it? probably not
you'd either get an apple that would go back home battered in the lunchbox coz it had taken a beating
or some grapes which I'd probably eat if they were red yeah green would be a
no-no yeah ah well that's it, that's all the stuff we're going to go through
that is such a throwback it's absolutely mental I don't really know what else to say to
you guys other than I'm sorry that we've ever judged our American audience on the
food they eat because this is what we had as kids in our lunchbox it's so unhealthy.
it's so bad and obviously there was also the option to have hot school dinners I
never had that my parents were like it's too expensive so I just got packed lunches
every day really I think I went through a stage of having hot school lunches for
a bit but then went back to packed lunch you know I was just a bit of a picky eater
let us know in the comments if you are a Brit and if you can relate to this
and if you're not please let us know your thoughts
we'd love to know what you think about this stuff yeah did you have any
of the same stuff or do you think we're disgusting yeah
plastic cheese that you eat with your fingernails but we're going to wrap it up
there I'm gonna finish off wagon wheel you didn't want okay if you like this video
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