Food served at kid's parties in other countries?

[Anonymous]

So many people just default to pizza for lunch or dinner time At birthday parties. It's so common that if someone suggests doing sandwiches (just saw this in another thread) everyone immediately says "just do pizza"

It made me wonder what they serve for food at kids parties in other countries. Would love to know if you have been!

[Anonymous]

I am Jamaican and we serve Jamaican food at kids parties, adult parties, all parties! There is always lots of delicious food for anyone who comes through the door.

[Anonymous]

In Brasil it’s pão de queijo, pasteis, maybe feijoada, definitely cakes

[Anonymous]

Jamaican here again. A sample of food might be rice and peas, stew chicken, fish fritters, salad, patties, etc.

[Anonymous]

I am Indian and we lay out a traditional Indian feast. Items will vary depending on regional preferences.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know how young it goes for kids parties but when I lived in Japan for teen parties, bbq was common (not quite like American bbq but somewhat similar).

[Anonymous]

For kids parties, there is always a birthday cake but no actual meals, since the parties are not scheduled for meal times.

Hosts might put out "snack foods" so basically fruit, sandwiches (very simple cured meats, cheeses, nutella, paté, etc on baguettes), chips, and maybe a few bowls of gummy fruit candies.

The birthday cake is traditionally a homemade icebox cake (chocolate wafer cookies layered with whipped cream and put in fridge overnight to solidify into a solid object that can be sliced). IF it's a regular sponge/chiffon cake, people usually order that from the bakery, there is not much of a home baking culture ime.

[Anonymous]

In Mexico we have a big spread of food and it varies by family and location but carne asada and tamales and common in my circle.

[Anonymous]

From what one experienced attending my friends' parties for their kids, they just serve adult/ regular food. There's (more than) enough for everyone, even adults

[Anonymous]

I'm French and before coming to the US, I'd never heard of the Default Pizza Order concept. People in France serve a variety of finger foods, traditional cake or maybe fruit tart. I always wanted strawberries at my March birthday party, which drove my mother crazy. Sometimes there are cut-up pieces of savory tarts like flammkuchen from the Alsace region, or provencal tomato tarts (with less mustard maybe, since it's for kids), which I guess would be the pizza equivalent, except the host makes them, instead of ordering them.

[Anonymous]

Weird in other counties Birthday Cake is not a flavor

[Anonymous]

From the book I Don’t Know How She Does It, kids parties in London sounded very similar foods to those at US kids parties

PS - I never served pizza at my kids’ parties bc they didn’t like pizza. I served a variety of snack foods and cake (the parties were not at meal times).

[Anonymous]

^^That book (I Don’t Know How She Does It) was a funny read!

[Anonymous]

Op here....thank you for the info! I am now dying to be invited to a birthday party in Brazil and Jamaica 😁

[Anonymous]

Which other countries have the tradition of a “kids party” in the way it’s talked about here, where parents invite a group of kids, without their siblings, and then parents are in attendance more as servants than guests, and don’t eat and aren’t even expecting age appropriate food.

As opposed to a party where one invites and feeds parents and their children.