TikTok star Jesse Sunset reveals the differences between American and Australian school lunches – including ‘hundreds’ of Domino’s pizza deliveries and ‘scabbing’ at the tuck shop
A TikTok star who lived in both the USA and Australia as a child has revealed the differences between the countries school lunches.
Jesse Sunset, 32, real name Jesse Willesee, revealed he’s spent half of his life in each country as his father – respected TV journalist Terry Willesee – is Australian, while his mother, Melissa, is American.
The creator said there are some big differences between school lunches in the two countries, with the biggest being children in the receiving their food in cafeterias while in Australia most bring their own lunch from home.
In a video to his 40k followers, he said: ‘In America they have a cafeteria and most people eat lunch here, some of the food here was awesome, not healthy but awesome.’
Jesse revealed that while he would regularly eat footlong hot dogs, cheese burgers and tater tots, they also had Domino’s pizza in his American school.
A TikTok star who lived in both the USA and Australia as a child has revealed the differences between the countries school lunches. Jesse Sunset is pictured
‘On a Friday Dominos would bring in hundreds of pizzas and you would be sitting there in class on Friday and you would smell the pizzas down in the cafeteria,’ he said.
‘In Australia almost everyone brings their lunch in a lunch box, lots of Vegemite sandwiches and some little snacks.
‘(In Australia) we do have what’s called a tuck shop and that has snacks like chips, ice cream, pot noodles, and they sometimes have pies and sausage rolls.’
The influencer said when he was in school in Australia the kids would often beg others for money so they could buy treats, but he never saw that happen in the US.
Jesse revealed that he would regularly eat footlong hot dogs, cheese burgers and tater tots, and they also got Domino’s pizza delivered in droves at his American school
Tater tots were regularly on offer at his American cafeteria
The influencer said when he was in school in Australia the kids would often beg others for money so they could buy treats, but he never saw that happen in the US. Jesse regularly ate pies while in school in Australia
‘One thing I saw in the tuck shop that I never saw in America is “scabbing”, where you stand in line and ask for money so you can get some treats from the tuck shop,’ he said.
‘I never saw that in America. For me I did it because my mum packed pretty healthy lunches and I would eat my healthy lunch but then I would want an ice cream or noodles.
‘In one school in Australia they would bring the lunch in a laundry basket and I would get a pie or an ice cream or both and flavoured milk, that was a standard lunch.’
The TikTok star said in Australia almost everyone brings their lunch in a lunch box
