--- title: American Kids Try Breakfast Food From Around the World: Video description: Most of them would rather just stick to cereal canonical: https://time.com/3704867/american-kids-breakfast-foods/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-11T15:48:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:02.779Z og:title: Watch American Kids' Hilarious Reactions to Breakfast Foods From Around the World og:description: Most of them would rather just stick to cereal og:url: https://time.com/3704867/american-kids-breakfast-foods/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt70da6bb3e3c0161d/69877e9f06f2c15f00333e73/screen-shot-2015-02-11-at-9-38-38-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-02-11 at 9.38.38 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch American Kids' Hilarious Reactions to Breakfast Foods From Around the World twitter:description: Most of them would rather just stick to cereal twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt70da6bb3e3c0161d/69877e9f06f2c15f00333e73/screen-shot-2015-02-11-at-9-38-38-am.png?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch American Kids' Hilarious Reactions to Breakfast Foods From Around the World ## Video: Should I Eat Pizza? [Watch (HLS stream): Should I Eat Pizza?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/NvpgAWn5.m3u8) (1:39)  _Published 2015-02-12. You might be surprised that four out of five health experts give pizza the thumbs up. But don’t be fooled: these are not greasy thumbs._ by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 11, 2015 3:48 PM UTC  by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Feb 11, 2015 3:48 PM UTC Young kids are notoriously picky eaters — especially when it comes to unfamiliar food from other cultures. To see just how picky American youngsters really are, YouTube channel [Cut Video](https://www.youtube.com/user/watchcut) teamed with online food community [Kitchenbowl](http://www.kitchenbowl.com/). They gathered a bunch of kids, invited them to try breakfast foods from around the world and then recorded their reactions. As you can probably imagine, the kids are not _super_ receptive to the foreign foods. They’re particularly perplexed by the spicy Korean breakfast and by the fact that Dutch people eat chocolatey toast in the morning. (They’re pretty on board with that idea, though.) Watch the kids’ hilarious (and slightly insensitive) reactions above. _Read next:_ [_Hungry Planet: What The World Eats_](http://time.com/8515/hungry-planet-what-the-world-eats/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ### See the 10 Healthiest Cities to Live in America  Honolulu, Hawaii Best Place for Lifelong Health The heavenly climate helps, but the key to well-being here also includes enviable health care and a rich cultural tradition of looking out for one another. Colin Anderson—Blend Images/Corbis  San Francisco Bay Area, Calif. Best Place for Eating Right. The "farm to table" movement began here. 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