You know, once I got out of K-6 and found out no one was going to make eat that garbage; I used lunch as a free period and kept my lunch money as extra cash.
I bought tacos and a pop on the walk home and had money to spare.
Lunch consisted of a sandwich wrapped in waxed paper, an apple, and SOMETIMES a slice of cake, also wrapped in waxed paper, all packed in an industrial-grade black lunch box with snap closures and which opened up with a place to hold a Thermos bottle (though my mother never packed a Thermos).
No such thing as lunch money those days.
When I was in high school I’d buy a coke, a bag of Cheetos and spend the rest on cigarettes. lol