There are usually 30-40 children in a class.
There were about 40 when I attended primary and junior high schools.
Children were often devided into 5-6 smaller groups to do some activities, such as cleaning school, making something in art class, and eating school lunch.
It is basically fun to chat with friends, eating school lunch.
But for children who has a poor apetite and for anyone faced to food they don't like, it was time of agony.
At school lunch, every child is given the same portion.
They are told to finish it.
What is more, they are told that they can't go playing unless everyone in their group finishes his/her lunch.
Some girls were slow to eat. They were demanded to eat faster, faster, by naughty boys. They sometimes wept.
Poor girls!
School lunch of our days (30 yrs ago) was far from tasty.
Every child has something he/she can't eat, doesn't he/she?
For me, too much hard boiled egg whose yolk became green was difficult to eat.
It made me sick that boiled eggs riminded me of chicks.
I was once growing chicks bought at a stall at the fete of a nearby shrine.
Scrumbled egg wasn't difficult to eat though irrational.
At that time, sometimes we were fed whale meat.
It was cooked different ways, fried or boiled, basically.
It made me sick too.
My mother never cooked whale meat, so it was totally unfamiliar taste to me.
Now, whale meat is a rare thing, it is never served at school lunch which is poorly financed.
In a small number of places where there is a long tradition of whaling, people may like it, but in most of places they don't.
UK tvs seem to often show exaggeration.
It is apparent that samurailand people eat too much "tuna".
