Throughout the last 4 years, Chelsea High School’s lunch has had more options and diversity. They often have Mexican, Chinese, and Korean as well as other countries’ food for lunch. But now we wonder what CHS students and those from other countries think about it.
“Honestly, I think they should make more effort to cook cultural lunches,” senior Luis Solorzano Garcia said. “Because it doesn’t taste like it. It’s not accurate to real food from the country. It doesn’t resemble the food at all, not even close.”
Most exchange students’ points of view are not positive toward cultural lunch. Similarly, U.S. students are also not big fans of it either.
“I think they are trying but not very well,” senior Ava Miller said. “I like Asian food but I don’t think It’s accurate to their food. If they try not to make it Americanized so much, It would be good.
Americanized lunch shows strong stereotypes of other countries’ food. International students worried that other students would get bad opinions about their food.
“I’m just worried that American students would think that other countries’ food is not good, or that it tastes bad,” Solorzano said, “judging other country’s food by school lunch doesn’t make sense, because it’s not accurate at all.”
Students’ experiences from different cultures are important. Since CHS has international students every year, they are diverse, and trying other countries’ food is also important.
“They are not accurate to actual Mexican, Chinese, or Korean food but they are school food so I think it’s ok,” Miller said.