In Pamela’s School Snapshot she mentioned that most kids in Argentina do not eat lunch at school. 
In the U.S., having a lunch break during the school day is standard, and for many years peanut butter and jelly – or “PB&J” – sandwiches were the lunch of choice. I, for example, carried a PB&J sandwich (white bread, crunchy peanut butter, strawberry jam) in my Strawberry Shortcake lunch box every day from first through fifth grade.
Nowadays, PB&J aren’t quite as popular as they used to be because so many kids have peanut allergies. Some schools even have a “peanut free zone” in the lunch room. photo by Dan Zen
When Pamela was back in Argentina during a recent school vacation (she’s currently teaching in North Carolina, USA), she brought a jar of peanut butter. Pamela then sent us this short video of some of her 7th students in trying peanut butter for the first time.
How do you think Pamela’s students liked PB&J?
Question: What do students typically eat for lunch at your school?
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Yes, peanut butter is definitely a culturally acquired taste. It took me a while to like it when I first came to the US (I was 16), but then I just fell in love with it. I could not have enough of peanut butter sandwiches. And every summer my American host mom visited me in Romania, once I returned to my country, she would bring me huge peanut butter jars. It was then my brother’s turn to taste it, make a funny face, and then fall in love with it. Same with my friends.
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