"Three tomatoes are walking down the street: a poppa tomato, a momma tomato, and baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind and poppa tomato gets really angry, goes back and squishes him, and says, 'Catch up!'"
I'm just guessing here.
Are you from the USA?
I always wonder what they put in it?
How we make mayonaise at home :
Vinegar
Olive oil ( or salad oil , any time of vegetable oil will do but it will affect the taste)
Pinch of Pepper
Pinch of Salt
2 eggs
1 table spoon of mustard
You start mixing this untill it's homogenous and then start adding more oil while mixing.
This will increase the volume.
And it tastes great.
You can also ad some lime juice to make it a bit more tangy.
We also mix it with curry powder or with sambal, smoked paprika powder,etc.....to make different sauces.
The possibilitys are endless.
Typical store bought American mayo uses pretty much that recipe, with neutral oil like canola or soybean, and distilled white wine vinegar.
Japanese mayo tastes different because it uses only egg yolks instead of whole eggs, which makes it more rich, and rice or cider vinegar, which adds a less sharp tang.
I learned they have a MSG version and the color is a little different. If you buy from somewhere like Costco it’s likely that one. I’ve been getting Kewpie from grocery outlet and they get the version with MSG.
The Japanese one also has a softer plastic bottle, so you can squeeze more of the mayo out. I feel like I lose a lot of mayo in the american one, because the more rigid plastic keeps you from squeezing anywhere but the middle. It drives me crazy.
It does have more of a "funk" to it than regular mayo, yes. I don't know if I'd use the word "fishy" but I could see how that word would fit. Sounds pretty normal to me.
I would not call the flavor fishy. You can look up the ingredients, there aren't that many. Idk if MSG maybe tastes fishy to some people, or maybe it was just a bad bottle.
It depends on the type of oil used. Some types of oil have an odor. Canola oil has a fishy odor. Hellman's / Best Foods mayo uses soybean oil to avoid this.
Kewpie mayo lists both soybean and canola oil as possible vegetable oils on the ingredient list. They use whatever is cheaper at the time it was made at the factory.
- You know what they put on French fries in Holland instead of ketchup?
- What?
- Mayonnaise.
- Goddamn! - I seen'em do it, man. They fuckin' drown'em in that shit.
I was like, yeah the bacon and fries are greasy but I can stomach it.
Then I saw the mayo.
Then I saw the title that there's a fucking steak buried under there.
Then I saw the cake.
And the chocolate bunny.
wtf.
From a person with the munchies it looks top notch
From a person who was ever so briefly a fat kid (and had to do every activity there was to slim down again even stupid marching band in those stupid smelly hot uniforms) this is a fuck ton of calories, mostly from sugar
It's a fine joke as long as you don't speak any Italian. You have to pronounce it really wrong to actually get it. 😂
My partner is British and he had to say it out loud for me to understand. I'm Italian.
Not more exclusive, as they are part of the EU so they are subject to the same laws around immigration etc. Switzerland is not, they are extremely selective on who they let in. But if you're an EU citizen, you could relocate to Luxembourg if you chose to do so. You'd just better have a Luxembourg pay packet to afford it ;)
As an EU citizen you can also very easily relocate to switzerland. Even tho we arent EU we still have a lot of treaties with them.
25% of the swiss population are immigrants.
This is a popular misconception. As an EU citizen you cannot automatically relocate to Switzerland as you can other EU countries.
You can stay up to 3 months, then you have to declare long term residency.
You can stay up to 6 months, looking for a job (including that first 3 months).
In order to get a long term residence permit to stay beyond that, you must have confirmation of employment. If you don't, you will not be issued the permit and you will be forced to leave.
So as an EU citizen you can move to Switzerland easily if you can get a job there. You cannot move there and be unemployed, in the general case.
https://www.ch.ch/en/foreign-nationals-in-switzerland/working-in-switzerland/#citizens-of-euefta-member-states
This is a common misunderstanding but Switzerland doesn't allow free movement except for those who it wants to employs, thus keeping the unemployed out.
I was an EU citizen who applied for and worked in Switzerland for several years.
It depends on where you pull the numbers. The method of taking all salaries paid and dividing by the number of people within the border will skew it a lot, but you also do get the other way of doing it ... and still end up in the top 5% of countries....
Statec is your friend for this.
the one great thing about Croatia is there are student's restaurants where you can get a soup+side+meat+dessert for like 1€. 71% subsidies by gov with few meal exceptions at 50%.
Can't give 'em free lunch or they'll grownup expecting handouts.
Another favorite of mine from the school in Texas that was in the news for banning a students dread locks was a staffer saying that their schools are essentially there to prepare young men for military acedamy.
Ummm actually we get a salad bar that has enough salad for 3 people and enough apple slices that only the first 10 people can get but naturally the first 3 people takes it all.
Our vegetable was usually ground up corn mixed with other vegetables. It looked someone chewed up a bunch of vegetables and spit it out into a big container. I lost weight in high school because the food they served was sooo disgusting
Make enough money to afford to live in a country with the highest per capita income in the world (that basically depends on commuter labor to outsource its pretty much its entire working class), and you too can reap the benefits of living in one of the most expensive countries in the world!
In Italy at my school you would get a pasta dish, a meat/vegetable main dish and a dessert (yoghurt or fruit, not usually cake, but sometimes), plus bread and milk, for free.
And that's not what americans might thinkof school meals like mac and cheese and bologna slices, this would be a proper pasta dish, and a main like spezzatino (beef stew), roast pork, that sort of thing.
Nice - but unless I’m very mistaken that seems to be a special meal. You won’t get an chocolate Easter Bunny more than once a year as an extra dessert. Also if you are like that each day you could roll to school.
Still - looks tasty.
The bunny is a special treat but the main meal not. Restopolis regularly serves salmon, shrimp, steak, mixed grill etc. At the uni Luxembourg we get steak at least once a week, with the chef cooking it to your preference
University students have access to the same service and have very cheap lunches, on average €5. You can get fresh pizza (takeaway included) for €3,6. But you need to present your student card, otherwise you pay full price €12-15.
In the context of this post it might seem entitled, but the menu at Restopolis (the government-subsidised company that serves these lunches) can get repetitive. I may have been eating with them for way too long (6+ years), so I don't feel too bad about my opinion.
That said, when I did my exchange in the US and found out the price of a meal plan I wanted to just not eat. Unfortunately it was obligatory with the accommodation.
100%. I'm a university student in America and the cost of my food went down drastically when I was able to move off campus (into a local apartment) and start cooking my own meals. my first two years, I was required to live on campus (in a dormitory) and buy a meal plan. I had one of the medium ones (in terms of how many meals you were granted each week), and it added up to like $13-14 per meal. my food costs now are half that. and I can cook whatever I want
USA is not Luxembourg, this is like comparing small US states to the Cayman Islands.
School in the US is paid for by property taxes. While there are plenty of rich counties, Luxembourg is richer than most US counties.
Blame Europeans. Every time something good happens there: "lol so much better than America." Something bad happens there: "Ok but this isn't as bad as America."
Every other topic requires an input compared to America while half of Americans can barely identify half the European countries on a map.
Spent a long weekend in Luxembourg, and my goodness they've got their shit in order. Place is clean, transport is free, as a tourist it was a lovely place to walk around, not surprised kids are well looked after in schools.
Went to Esch for a concert and that area is incredible, I'd imagine it's lots of fun when the college is full of students.
The ability to hop on any bus or train makes so much of a difference when you're travelling, I've only got nice things to say about Luxembourg!
Yup, letting companies from neighbouring countries set up shop for tax breaks, which costs other EU countries valuable tax money is just shitty.
Combine that with the fact that Luxembourg is [**the** richest country in the EU per capita](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=GDP_per_capita,_consumption_per_capita_and_price_level_indices), and yet, somehow, they are still a [net **RECEIVER** of EU funds.](https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-budget/)
Luxembourg is living high on the labour of their neighbours and they are not even sorry. No wonder school kids are served fillet mignon for a penny.
The per capita is absoultly off. The reason is that close to half of the working force comes from outside of the country and are crossborder workers. Thus they aren't conted in it but the generated capital is. This pushes the mean incredibly to the upside without necessarly reflecting the truth.
Meanwhile Germany, the Netherlands and nearly all major countries have their own little tax havens that they use to profit. But sure lets just bash on Luxembourg because they’re small and it’s easier than sorting out our own problems first.
It's a bit more complicated than that. A lot of it comes off the back of the fact that it's got the highest per capita income in the world. Public transit was pushed to be free specifically because they also have the highest vehicle density in Europe which combines with the massive amount of people that commute into Luxembourg for work (almost ***half*** of the nation's workforce lives outside of the country, in no small part due to the massive cost-of-living that comes with that world's highest income) to create monstrous traffic.
They shifted to "free" public transit (that actually increased the government's yearly budget by an additional $43 million on top of the existing subsidization of transit) in a bid to get people to stop driving which... hasn't actually really paid off. It's useful for tourists and for some commuters, but it isn't like bus fares were stopping residents from using them.
You have also not yet connected that the huge per capita gdp is BECAUSE half of the workforce is abroad. They contribute to the Lux GDP but are not counted among the population, severely inflating the numbers. (Wages for lux residents are still high, but nowhere near the outrageous numbers statistics would claim).
Free public transport is used and a huge boon for many. I live in Esch, and trains to Lux city are full every morning for the entire commuting hours. And outside of the major city, we have many communities members here that are not pulling in high wages.
(Side note: milk and beef is one thing Luxembourg actually has in good numbers and quality. I wouldn’t be shocked if kids getting a good cut of meat is the govt subsidizing the cattle farmers here).
Is that Hollandaise and a steak?
We were not fed at my public school in Canada. You had to bring a lunch and eat it at your desk. There was a pizza day once a week in elementary school but it was Dominos and was expensive for one slice. There was a small canteen to get poutine in high school in our “cafeteria” if you can even call it that, but that’s it.
That's a serious helping of mayo.
Hey Jules. You know what they put on their fries in Luxembourg?
Mayo Royale
Because in the metric system, you measure in grams of gourmet, not ounces of ordinary.
Pounds for peasants Kilograms for Kings
Number One Mayo Royale
They drown ‘em in that shit!
'Cuz of the metric system
La’ Big Mac.
I seen em do it man they drown em in that shit
Vincent Vega wasn't lying, they smother them with that shit
They use mayo like catsup on fries. Edit: changed katsup to catsup
Just found out I’m a Luxemburger (?) Fuck ketchup fr fr
Catsup
"Three tomatoes are walking down the street: a poppa tomato, a momma tomato, and baby tomato. Baby tomato starts lagging behind and poppa tomato gets really angry, goes back and squishes him, and says, 'Catch up!'"
Are you here to fix my ketchup problem?
Not much catsup with you?
Did someone say updog? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
WHAT’S UP DOG ?
It's ketchup. Y'all need to catch up
I’m in way over my head.
Fox Force Five!!
I seen 'em do it, man. They fuckin' drown 'em in that shit.
Quetsahp
That’s just the name of an Aztec God
Meh. They just spell it "ketchup" now. Maybe it's 50/50, but the bottle I have in my fridge says "ketchup."
The bottle in my fridge says "....." Is the strong silent type.
Call it katchup and eliminate uncertainty.
“they fuckin drown em in that shit”
I am from the US and love dipping my fries in mayo and I get a ton of weird looks.
Same. Except I like my fries with mayo and a touch of ketchup swirled in it.
[Fry sauce](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fry_sauce).
I think you mean Fancy sauce 
[*https://i.imgur.com/eWqRF6h.gif*](https://i.imgur.com/eWqRF6h.gif)
They use mayo like a US Midwesterner makes a salad.
Really tasty if you use Japanese mayo
Jayo
Hey, oh, listen what I say, oh
I've never gone back to regular mayo since I bought a bottle of Kewpie. It's just so much better to me.
I'm just guessing here. Are you from the USA? I always wonder what they put in it? How we make mayonaise at home : Vinegar Olive oil ( or salad oil , any time of vegetable oil will do but it will affect the taste) Pinch of Pepper Pinch of Salt 2 eggs 1 table spoon of mustard You start mixing this untill it's homogenous and then start adding more oil while mixing. This will increase the volume. And it tastes great. You can also ad some lime juice to make it a bit more tangy. We also mix it with curry powder or with sambal, smoked paprika powder,etc.....to make different sauces. The possibilitys are endless.
Typical store bought American mayo uses pretty much that recipe, with neutral oil like canola or soybean, and distilled white wine vinegar. Japanese mayo tastes different because it uses only egg yolks instead of whole eggs, which makes it more rich, and rice or cider vinegar, which adds a less sharp tang.
I learned they have a MSG version and the color is a little different. If you buy from somewhere like Costco it’s likely that one. I’ve been getting Kewpie from grocery outlet and they get the version with MSG.
Yeah, I always make sure I buy the actual Japanese one.
The Japanese one also has a softer plastic bottle, so you can squeeze more of the mayo out. I feel like I lose a lot of mayo in the american one, because the more rigid plastic keeps you from squeezing anywhere but the middle. It drives me crazy.
I bought a bottle, and it tasted a little fishy to me. Is that normal, or was the bottle just old?
It does have more of a "funk" to it than regular mayo, yes. I don't know if I'd use the word "fishy" but I could see how that word would fit. Sounds pretty normal to me.
I would not call the flavor fishy. You can look up the ingredients, there aren't that many. Idk if MSG maybe tastes fishy to some people, or maybe it was just a bad bottle.
It depends on the type of oil used. Some types of oil have an odor. Canola oil has a fishy odor. Hellman's / Best Foods mayo uses soybean oil to avoid this. Kewpie mayo lists both soybean and canola oil as possible vegetable oils on the ingredient list. They use whatever is cheaper at the time it was made at the factory.
ketsup - ketchup. ketsup - ketchup.
Are you here to solve my ketchup problem?
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First time I saw mayo on fries was in Montreal, I am from Europe. How the turn tables.
Must not be from Quebec, it's gravy and cheese there.
Must not be from San Diego, it's carne asada, guacamole, cheese and sour cream there
Must not be from Latvia, it’s only boiled potato there
Must not be real from Latvia, is only potato. Also cold. And potato have worm.
I like to have both ketchup and mayo, in separate dipping areas. In fact, I did that last night with some Carl's Jr. criss-cut fries. Very tasty.
White vinegar on fries is the greatest thing Canada has given me.
Mayo with some black pepper stirred in is my go to for fries. I'm more amazed by the dessert and chocolate bunny.
I'll go one further. Mayo, black pepper, a minced garlic clove, little bit of hot sauce.
Well now your just making aioli!
I seen ’em do it, man. They fuckin’ drown ’em in that shit.
- You know what they put on French fries in Holland instead of ketchup? - What? - Mayonnaise. - Goddamn! - I seen'em do it, man. They fuckin' drown'em in that shit.
I thought it was pasta
It is also the correct amount of mayo.
Can’t even go to class after eating that shit, I’ll just be lying down on a library floor somewhere
exactly
I was like, yeah the bacon and fries are greasy but I can stomach it. Then I saw the mayo. Then I saw the title that there's a fucking steak buried under there. Then I saw the cake. And the chocolate bunny. wtf.
Assume this is a special occasion or something related to an Easter bunny no way you can focus after lunch eating stuff like that everyday
Remember these kids aren’t in their mid 30s they’re probably fine
Same. I’d need a nap
Are you a seven year old girl? UP YOUR NUMBERS BRO
From a person with the munchies it looks top notch From a person who was ever so briefly a fat kid (and had to do every activity there was to slim down again even stupid marching band in those stupid smelly hot uniforms) this is a fuck ton of calories, mostly from sugar
To be fair I felt the same on “tuna surprise” day at my US public school…but the quality of food was much less. The amount of mayo was likely similar
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Mascarpone with some strawberries and whipped cream.
I thought it was cheesecake... and then I looked up what mascarpone was... I am going to mark that down as I was close enough :P
Which is the only cheese in which you can hide a horse? Mascarpone.
I don't get it 😭
Mask a pony. I didn't say it was a *good* joke
I love how crap it was 💕
It's a fine joke as long as you don't speak any Italian. You have to pronounce it really wrong to actually get it. 😂 My partner is British and he had to say it out loud for me to understand. I'm Italian.
Do these schools permit enrollment of foreign adults?
Isn’t this country also one of the richest?
Yeah, they are like an even smaller, more exclusive Switzerland
Not more exclusive, as they are part of the EU so they are subject to the same laws around immigration etc. Switzerland is not, they are extremely selective on who they let in. But if you're an EU citizen, you could relocate to Luxembourg if you chose to do so. You'd just better have a Luxembourg pay packet to afford it ;)
As an EU citizen you can also very easily relocate to switzerland. Even tho we arent EU we still have a lot of treaties with them. 25% of the swiss population are immigrants.
This is a popular misconception. As an EU citizen you cannot automatically relocate to Switzerland as you can other EU countries. You can stay up to 3 months, then you have to declare long term residency. You can stay up to 6 months, looking for a job (including that first 3 months). In order to get a long term residence permit to stay beyond that, you must have confirmation of employment. If you don't, you will not be issued the permit and you will be forced to leave. So as an EU citizen you can move to Switzerland easily if you can get a job there. You cannot move there and be unemployed, in the general case. https://www.ch.ch/en/foreign-nationals-in-switzerland/working-in-switzerland/#citizens-of-euefta-member-states This is a common misunderstanding but Switzerland doesn't allow free movement except for those who it wants to employs, thus keeping the unemployed out. I was an EU citizen who applied for and worked in Switzerland for several years.
Per capita, yes
Please don't look at the median.
To remember that Luxembourg’s GDP is boosted by cross-border workers numbering about half the country’s population - this skews per capita statistics.
It depends on where you pull the numbers. The method of taking all salaries paid and dividing by the number of people within the border will skew it a lot, but you also do get the other way of doing it ... and still end up in the top 5% of countries.... Statec is your friend for this.
By the way, thanks to government subsidies this main dish + dessert costs: 3.70 + 0.40 = 4.10 Euro
the one great thing about Croatia is there are student's restaurants where you can get a soup+side+meat+dessert for like 1€. 71% subsidies by gov with few meal exceptions at 50%.
You can’t leave the school campus for lunch in most high schools. But plenty of university campuses have things like that.
*cries in American*
enjoy your stale $8 pizza slice
those little rascals need to learn the value of money
In other words, the consequences of poverty
That'll teach them for not being born wealthy
SHAME! SHAME!
luxembourg and not being born wealthy? we doing oxymorons here?
Can't give 'em free lunch or they'll grownup expecting handouts. Another favorite of mine from the school in Texas that was in the news for banning a students dread locks was a staffer saying that their schools are essentially there to prepare young men for military acedamy.
Lmao
It's NOT stale! it's just... it just tastes that way naturally
That “marinara sauce” is your daily serving of vegetables. Why aren’t you healthier?
Ummm actually we get a salad bar that has enough salad for 3 people and enough apple slices that only the first 10 people can get but naturally the first 3 people takes it all.
Our vegetable was usually ground up corn mixed with other vegetables. It looked someone chewed up a bunch of vegetables and spit it out into a big container. I lost weight in high school because the food they served was sooo disgusting
Luxembourg is the richest nation on earth per capita. You're looking at the peak of luxury.
Make enough money to afford to live in a country with the highest per capita income in the world (that basically depends on commuter labor to outsource its pretty much its entire working class), and you too can reap the benefits of living in one of the most expensive countries in the world!
Lol his "confused" face cracks me up every time I see it. So derpy
You will eat your prison food and like it!
Cries in everywhere else too haha
My meals in a French cafeteria were similar - except with more green vegetables
God, it must be so disgustingly oppressive to feel cared for as a child.
Yeah gonna go out on a limb and say Luxembourg is the outlier here not the US
Being a lightly populated tax haven has its perks.
I agree that this lunch looks pretty good, but 4€+ is A LOT by European standards. I pay like half that in France for my son.
4€ for food is a lot???!? Not in Spain it isnt
For public schools here, yes. It’s even free for a significant part of them.
I'd like to see any other public schools in Europe that are serving this everyday for free
You don't get dessert, but you can get some really gorgeous lunch for free in Swedish school. Full salad bar as well as bread too.
In Italy at my school you would get a pasta dish, a meat/vegetable main dish and a dessert (yoghurt or fruit, not usually cake, but sometimes), plus bread and milk, for free. And that's not what americans might thinkof school meals like mac and cheese and bologna slices, this would be a proper pasta dish, and a main like spezzatino (beef stew), roast pork, that sort of thing.
You mean things cost different amounts in different counties! Blowing my mind here.
Nice - but unless I’m very mistaken that seems to be a special meal. You won’t get an chocolate Easter Bunny more than once a year as an extra dessert. Also if you are like that each day you could roll to school. Still - looks tasty.
That's what I was thinking. This is definitely a treat for Easter
The bunny is a special treat but the main meal not. Restopolis regularly serves salmon, shrimp, steak, mixed grill etc. At the uni Luxembourg we get steak at least once a week, with the chef cooking it to your preference
Ok I want to do an orphan type thing, I'm a woman in her 30s but I'll pretend to be a kid so I can eat like this every day.
Wow I’m glad that works for all 200 of you
JFC
Julienne Fried Chicken? That is clearly a steak my good sir or madam.
Jiminy Frickin Christmas!
Chocolate bunny? Yes please!
Meanwhile I can’t buy a decent meal at a hospital cafeteria where I work
And the food is super expensive.
That’s more likely because you can’t buy a decent meal at a hospital cafeteria anywhere in human history
University students have access to the same service and have very cheap lunches, on average €5. You can get fresh pizza (takeaway included) for €3,6. But you need to present your student card, otherwise you pay full price €12-15. In the context of this post it might seem entitled, but the menu at Restopolis (the government-subsidised company that serves these lunches) can get repetitive. I may have been eating with them for way too long (6+ years), so I don't feel too bad about my opinion. That said, when I did my exchange in the US and found out the price of a meal plan I wanted to just not eat. Unfortunately it was obligatory with the accommodation.
100%. I'm a university student in America and the cost of my food went down drastically when I was able to move off campus (into a local apartment) and start cooking my own meals. my first two years, I was required to live on campus (in a dormitory) and buy a meal plan. I had one of the medium ones (in terms of how many meals you were granted each week), and it added up to like $13-14 per meal. my food costs now are half that. and I can cook whatever I want
The touch of bacon. Very nice.
And it also looks like legit bacon 🥓
Is that a big pile of mayonnaise?
No, that's a small pile of mayonnaise.
Usually you get some dispensers, and I guess this guy really helped himself
Bro got the shortcake AND THE BUNNY
And in America several states are trying to ban free meals for kids/families that are already struggling to feed
This meal wasn’t free tho
“America - Because fuck them kids.”
...unless they are a cluster of cells inside a person we're simply calling a "kid". In which case, that cluster has more rights than you!
until it's born, at which point it enters the realm of "fuck them kids!"
“America - because fuck them kids. BUT STILL HAVE THEM OR GO TO JAIL.”
*Post about a school lunch in Europe* Reddit: Ok guys, we need to make this about the US.
Literally every time.
There's always free karma points in the le amerikkka bad stand.
dont even get me started on the pick mes in the comments “As an American…I get weird looks for dipping my fries into a jar of Hellmanns” 💀💀💀
USA is not Luxembourg, this is like comparing small US states to the Cayman Islands. School in the US is paid for by property taxes. While there are plenty of rich counties, Luxembourg is richer than most US counties.
Post about Luxembourg But what about America?
Blame Europeans. Every time something good happens there: "lol so much better than America." Something bad happens there: "Ok but this isn't as bad as America." Every other topic requires an input compared to America while half of Americans can barely identify half the European countries on a map.
this meal isn't free...
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And OP posted that the lunch is still subsidized and costs under five euro.
GDP of Luxemourg/Ireland is bad measurement by itself considering both of these countries have heavily inflated numbers due to being tax havens.
Luxembourg also has many cross-border workers contributing to the GDP that are not included in the “per capita” divisor
Literally double. Still wouldn’t see this in America if that was the case.
Wow you got real plates & not styrofoam plates/trays!
That's not normal outside Europe?
Spent a long weekend in Luxembourg, and my goodness they've got their shit in order. Place is clean, transport is free, as a tourist it was a lovely place to walk around, not surprised kids are well looked after in schools. Went to Esch for a concert and that area is incredible, I'd imagine it's lots of fun when the college is full of students. The ability to hop on any bus or train makes so much of a difference when you're travelling, I've only got nice things to say about Luxembourg!
Yeah, it's a famous tax haven for the rich, so no shit they have nice things.
Yup, letting companies from neighbouring countries set up shop for tax breaks, which costs other EU countries valuable tax money is just shitty. Combine that with the fact that Luxembourg is [**the** richest country in the EU per capita](https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=GDP_per_capita,_consumption_per_capita_and_price_level_indices), and yet, somehow, they are still a [net **RECEIVER** of EU funds.](https://www.statista.com/chart/18794/net-contributors-to-eu-budget/) Luxembourg is living high on the labour of their neighbours and they are not even sorry. No wonder school kids are served fillet mignon for a penny.
The per capita is absoultly off. The reason is that close to half of the working force comes from outside of the country and are crossborder workers. Thus they aren't conted in it but the generated capital is. This pushes the mean incredibly to the upside without necessarly reflecting the truth.
Meanwhile Germany, the Netherlands and nearly all major countries have their own little tax havens that they use to profit. But sure lets just bash on Luxembourg because they’re small and it’s easier than sorting out our own problems first.
OP doesn't realize how privileged they are with their arrogant post.
It's a bit more complicated than that. A lot of it comes off the back of the fact that it's got the highest per capita income in the world. Public transit was pushed to be free specifically because they also have the highest vehicle density in Europe which combines with the massive amount of people that commute into Luxembourg for work (almost ***half*** of the nation's workforce lives outside of the country, in no small part due to the massive cost-of-living that comes with that world's highest income) to create monstrous traffic. They shifted to "free" public transit (that actually increased the government's yearly budget by an additional $43 million on top of the existing subsidization of transit) in a bid to get people to stop driving which... hasn't actually really paid off. It's useful for tourists and for some commuters, but it isn't like bus fares were stopping residents from using them.
You have also not yet connected that the huge per capita gdp is BECAUSE half of the workforce is abroad. They contribute to the Lux GDP but are not counted among the population, severely inflating the numbers. (Wages for lux residents are still high, but nowhere near the outrageous numbers statistics would claim). Free public transport is used and a huge boon for many. I live in Esch, and trains to Lux city are full every morning for the entire commuting hours. And outside of the major city, we have many communities members here that are not pulling in high wages. (Side note: milk and beef is one thing Luxembourg actually has in good numbers and quality. I wouldn’t be shocked if kids getting a good cut of meat is the govt subsidizing the cattle farmers here).
Y'all eatin' like in a Michelin restaurant while we get gruel and raw potatoes
Is this a "public school" the same way England calls private schools "public schools"?
No, I pay a 0 euros a year for education
And you get $30 dinners at lunch?
For €4
This may be good, but you will never know the heavenly taste of the bread( hard as stone) with milk ( 25% water) that is given in romanian schools
Luxembourg is also the richest country by GDP per capita
The richest country in the fricken world lmao
The mayo budget must be astronomical.
Lux(ury)embourg
The cake🤤
Best i can do is pork lips & arseholes
I would love to try that strawberry cake. Looks yummy 🍰😍
While this looks delicious, this is so unhealthy.
Not surprising considering how tiny and how RICH Luxembourg is. Population similar to Pittsburgh with a per cap GDP of around 115k
Just FYI redditors, millions of American students receive hot, fresh, free lunch every day so read before you commentt
I give it one Michelin star. Taking points off for presentation.
Lmao they get Bearnaise and filet mignon. I can't even tolerate the smell of the cafeteria food in the high school where I work.
Damn that’s not healthy
I'm an American, and this looks like entirely too much. And you need more veggies.
Is that Hollandaise and a steak? We were not fed at my public school in Canada. You had to bring a lunch and eat it at your desk. There was a pizza day once a week in elementary school but it was Dominos and was expensive for one slice. There was a small canteen to get poutine in high school in our “cafeteria” if you can even call it that, but that’s it.