Hi, I'm David and I'm representing America.

Hi, I'm Hinano and I'm representing Japan.

Hi, I'm Blake and I'm American.

Hi, I'm Miho; I'm from Japan.

And today, we're gonna swap school lunches.

My school lunches in Japan, they're called "kyushoku".

I loved it; it was pretty good.

School lunches as I remember... I mean, I probably wouldn't like them as much now as I did back then.

I would just eat, like, four burgers everyday or, like, eight slices of pizza.

We had this thing when I was really young called a cheese zombie, which was just, like, two giants pieces of bread and a bunch of, like, melted American cheese.

Oh, yeah, I mean, I liked it. I liked it.

We had this thing called UFO, which was literally a giant gyoza that was shaped like a UFO and it had meat and vegetables inside.

That sounds way better.

My favorite was agepa, we say, it's a bread, it's fried, tons of sugar; it's good.

- It's good. Right. - Our food has a lot of sugar in it, too. Yeah.

Well, maybe it's less sugar.

Less sugar?

- I believe so. It's probably healthier. - No. No.

- I would like to see the stats on this. - I, I really...

Ready to swap lunches?

- Let's do it. - A'right, let's do it.

Oh, this is the American lunch.

What type...

No, we gotta swap now.

This is crazy.

- Oh, yours looks way better. - Okay.

Is that salmon?

That looks fantastic.

Is that miso soup?

Oh, that's crazy.

In a school lunch?

I would be excited to go to school.

So, we have carrots and ranch, which I think that's pretty standard, the green beans is also pretty standard.

Apple slices. We don't necessarily get healthcare in the US, but we got apples.

This is, like, a manwich sloppy Joe.

We got this from-the-freezer, probably-was-cooked-four-days-ago cheeseburger.

We got the tater tots; you usually can't mess up tater tots.

I'm excited about the tater tots, but I don't know what's going on with this bun situation.

I mean, it's... it's not brioche.

And then you got a Nesquik 'cause you gotta have your chocolate milk.

That's if your mom didn't give you money to go to the vending machine and get a coke, you know what I mean?

So I would really like to know what you have on that tray though.

Rice, miso soup.

Corn soup, it is definitely a thing in Japan, and you can even buy it in vending machines during the winter.

That's crazy; I have never seen a soup vending machine before.

Pineapple, salmon.

Salmon in their school lunch, what is going on?

Kanage, which is, uh, Japanese fried chicken.

Some hijiki, there is usually a vegetable.

And we got milk.

I don't know about her, but I'm ready to swap; she could take this.

Yeah, I wanna swap.

I didn't want to swap.

Salmon.

Not bad.

Gonna go for the tater tots first.

It's still frozen.

All right, I'm gonna just go burger.

That's not a burger, that's what's called a sloppy Joe.

The hamburger's deadbeat brother.

- Do you wanna try a bite of this space burger? - I'm all right on the space burger.

I don't wanna take it from you, you know, that's you main part, I want you to be able to finish that.

It's pretty good.

I could eat this everyday; this is great.

I wanted to find out what kind of meat it was.

I took a bite, I still don't know.

It's probably beef?

I don't think we could get a turkey burger in, like, a US school lunch.

It could be a Beyond Burger.

No, definitely not.

You know the salad is not that bad.

It tastes better than it looks.

Okay, it's probably the dressing.

Probably the dressing.

So, what's all in this?

So, that doesn't look like a vegetable.

This one is made by yam.

- What is this thing? - Konnyaku.

- Have you ha... had, like, a boba? - Yeah.

So this is gonna be, like, gelatin or something?

Sort of, yeah.

It's actually really good; they are delicious.

- It's kind of sweet, saucy. - I'm just gonna say Japanese lunch is kicking America's ass right now.

What does it taste like?

I was thinking it would be like a seaweed or something.

But it tastes more like a sautéed vegetable that I just haven't had before.

I really haven't had these in a while, so...

It's so good.

This is good hijiki, I don't even know what good is.

So, now I know I got the good one, it's gonna make it taste better.

- So, what you do is you dip the carrots in the ranch. - ... the carrots in the ranch.

I'm not gonna lie, this Japanese fried chicken might give Kentucky a run for its money.

So, see also, you see how she went in with the fork.

An American's not going in with the fork.

We're going in fingers, just get in there.

Kind of interested to see what this corn soup is talking about.

That's good.

Yeah, the miso soup is amazing.

It just seems like they take a lot more care.

Right, it takes more time.

This is, like, a nice light but filling lunch.

I'm gonna have to say, I guess I was just ignorant to the fact that Japan had amazing school lunches.

Out of everything that I sampled, I'd say the corn soup, the hijiki, and, like, the Japanese fried chicken was amazing.

That was a good lunch that I would make for myself on, like, a Saturday.

If I had kids, I would rather them be eating that lunch.

I still love Japanese lunch, that was, like, so much dedication.

It made me so happy when I was a kid.

Yeah, I am all about the Japanese lunch.

Definitely feels like home, although, I do like tater tots.

There you have it. Japanese lunch with a side of tater tots, everybody's happy.