/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>7942481
>>7944109
They just heard "pea soup and pancake" and prepared it according to their understanding. This is what it actually looks like.

This is literally propaganda. It looks like they basically got a list of typical school menus from around the world, then had a chef make his version of each dish from top quality ingredients and a food stylist to present it neatly and then presented that next to an actual American school lunch to prove how shitty American schools are.

>>7029807
Coming with insider information from Finland. Finland only has public schools and they all serve essentially the same food (often made by the same company).

The inclusion of crepes makes me think it was supposed to be a pancake, as I've never heard of any school serving crepes. Further, pancake is always served with pea soup, which I suppose is what the green soup is supposed to be despite looking nothing like any pea soup I've ever eaten. Likely what was on the menu was: pea soup, pancake, bread, salad with beet and carrot. As for the pea soup, it's really nothing but a thick pale green mush of peas and trace amounts of pork. Apparently the chef here decided to make more of a clear soup as well as adding some carrot and a leafy vegetable in there, making it a different dish entirely. The crepe should be a pancake as mentioned (also Finnish pancake is more like a big hotcake that you bake on an oven sheet and cut into squares) and even in the unlikely case that anyone would get crepes at school, they certainly would not get fresh berries with it but would be limited to one or two types of cheap jam as with pancake.

The bread is likely wrong also. Typically they only have crispbread (a hard rye cracker) with margarine rather than soft bread. The carrot looks cooked, which would be a strange addition to go with pea soup, so I'm inclined to believe that it's supposed to be raw grated carrot, which is the most common type of "salad" in any establishment. The beets are the only thing that look like they might be accurate.

Overall, this has nothing in common with a real school lunch besides the base ingredients.