Posted on 05/17/2024 4:07:12 AM PDT by DallasBiff
How many of you actually had one of these as a kid: iconic, metal lunch boxes that were slightly rusted, often dented, and blazoned over with pictures of your favorite band, TV show, cartoon, or teen heartthrob? If you were born after 1985, chances are you did not! The National Museum of American History says this year saw the production of the last of the metal lunch boxes. What was on it? Sylvester Stallone as Rambo!
(Excerpt) Read more at mashed.com ...
6 million dollar man and Star Wars here. by 6th grade (1982) i had transitioned to a brown styrofoam box with a plastic frame that held an ice pack-it was new and fancy and I could carry food that was friendly to my allergies.
In 1966 I had the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. I remember putting rocks in my thermos bottle, not knowing that the interior chamber was glass.
I remember that one. I can’t remember any of the lunch boxes I had.
Bingo. I never had one, it was brown bagging K-12. K-8 no cafeteria, you ate at your desk and got a 5-cent milk. HS food sucked. Not allowed off campus either.
You guys got lunch in school?
So did I!!! But, stopped taking my lunch to high school because our cafeteria food was soooo good (pizzas, hamburgers and French fries, chili con carne and homemade yeast rolls whose smell wafted through the hallways all made from scratch by amazing school lunch ladies who had nonstop smiles for us as they gave us a little extra ‘because we looked especially hungry today’! 💖)
Mine had a sticker with a picture of a FB-111, out of Lakenheath, with a mushroom cloud, saying Warsaw Pact Central Heating. Needless to say, it was not exactly politically correct.
Mom packed lunches
the rich kids got cafeteria lunch
Had a rat patrol lunch box, like many things I wish I still had😂
I had a Munsters lunchbox with matching Thermos.
My mom had it on the electric stove one morning packing my lunch, and somehow the burner got turned on and burned a black spiral into the back side.
After that, lunchboxes of any sort became “uncool” so I just brown bagged it after that.
Ih had plenty of them with a corresponding thermos. Always knew it was broken glass inside when it sounded like ice chips in water...
I think it had to do with plastic being cheaper to make. Free lunches came later.
Mine was a pre-Pebbles Flintstones one.
Ahhhh, that little matched thermos was cool, too.
That same plaid box was what was passed down to me from my older siblings, each in turn. I remember is smelled weird, so I just brown bagged my bologna and cheese on Wonder Bread, and an apple or banana instead.
That’s the one. And it had cold fried egg sandwiches (with mustard) in it about every day.
Used mine on a bully more than once.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.