Comments by "Xyz Same" (@xyzsame4081) on "Life Where I'm From" channel.

  1. One girls stowing away her stuff wore a skirt and tights - but I assume it was filmed in the cold season.
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  2. Nice video - did you notice how they prepare the food fresh and inhouse ! - And "even" the teachers eat the same food as the children. Why wouldn't they - you bet the food its good and valuable nutrition-wise. They do not have one large kitchen with lots of industry style meals and then send off the containers to various homes schools, and hospitals. I assume the soup is also made from scratch not using some "packages" with whatever the food industry choses to sell. - The Japanese are very much into quality, also quality of food. - Of course that way of providing for food looks more expensive if you just take into account the numbers - and not the benefits (like getting kids accustomed to HEALTHY food - note how there are no sweets around. and I am sure they do not have soda selling vending machines etc. in that facility). If the children get sweets it is some extra, they do not dangle the sweets before them all day. If you do not take shortcuts and prepare the food fresh then it is more time consuming for the kitchen staff. And you bet they have relatively high labour costs - Tokyo - all the cities - have high costs of living and the wages must keep up with that. (they don't do the "homeless" thing in Japan either. Not like the U.S. where they are quite complacent about mentally ill or low income people ending up on the streets because they cannot afford the rent). So that means even the lower income bracket must be able to AFFORD the rent. And that makes the costs of labour for freshly produced food higher. The Japanese can't spend their money on cars or big homes - they simply do not have the space. So they spend on quality articls and quality food.
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