[Peace will be here soon]

Is this sharing lunch thing new? I don`t recall this when I was a kid.

I never had any desire to share my lunch with my classmates. They put a hand on my PBJ sandwich, they got a smack upside the head. And if I had a chocolate chip cookie, it wasn`t going anywhere but in my stomach.

It sounds like the schools own doing with their share and be nice atmosphere they cram down the kids throats.

[onja]

I'd give it free to my friends but for all others I'd trade and get foods I liked.

[CounterCounterCulture]

Is this sharing lunch thing new? I don`t recall this when I was a kid.

Mmmm, no. At many schools kids would bring sacked lunches and there's a natural inclination to share/swap items. Even when kids all ate cafeteria food, there'd be some things some kids wouldn't eat and swapping would take place there too. So for example, I ended up eating other kid's spinaches.