# I miss lunchboxes. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 12, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667 "2005-08-12T00:45:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wheelie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b4bc9f/32.png) [@wheelie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wheelie)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/21 "2005-08-12T12:45:05Z")
I had a _Yellow Submarine_ lunchbox. I wonder what they’re going for these days. A friend of mine recently bought a _Ramones_ lunchbox, in metal. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/22 "2005-08-12T13:20:47Z")
A good Yellow Submarine can go for $100 or more. (Sold mine for around that). I’m always checking out Ebay for an Emergency! lunch box, but can’t really justify the 50 bucks or so for one ☹ I remember having Get Smart and Laugh In. Everybody remember the sound of the thermos, after you’ve dropped it? Nice Martini-shaker sound, that signaled you killed it. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/23 "2005-08-12T13:26:24Z")
> [@Podkayne](#): > > In 4th grade I got a kick-ass Return of the Jedi lunch box that I used all the way through grad school. 🙂 Was it the red one with the Ewoks on the front? 'Cause that’s the one I had. Currently, I have a metal Star Trek:TOS lunchbox that I use as a purse. I can’t find the thermos, even though I know it came with one. I probably left it somewhere. I believe the same thing happened to my Dukes of Hazzard thermos in kindergarten. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Podkayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Podkayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Podkayne)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/24 "2005-08-12T14:42:51Z")
> [@Draelin](#): > > Was it the red one with the Ewoks on the front? 'Cause that’s the one I had. Nope. The trim is blue. The front has Luke holding a blaster in Jabba’s palace with some Gamorrean Guards in the background. The opposite side shows the Death Star hovering menacingly over Endor, with a Star Destroyer and some TIEs in the foreground, with an even more menacing Darth Vader in the background. The thermos was light blue, with Wicket on it. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/25 "2005-08-12T16:37:39Z")
I had a Knight Rider lunchbox. It was **awesome**. ---
**Author:** ![Wintermute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@Wintermute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wintermute)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/26 "2005-08-12T17:44:42Z")
I know we got new lunch boxes every year, but the only one I remember carrying was my _Charlie’s Angels_ lunch box. It was cool. I blame drink boxes for the death of the thermos. ---
**Author:** ![Alma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Alma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alma)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/27 "2005-08-12T18:26:37Z")
> [@hillbilly queen](#): > > Remember the generic red plaid one? And how you felt kind of sorry for the kid who had to carry it. Man, I still have that red plaid one somewhere. I think it has legos in it. The other one we had was The Partridge Family. Even though the show had been over for years by the time we got to school age. Hopelessly uncool. Now, my SO has a nifty blue plastic The Tick lunchbox with its own thermos, which I snatch for coffee as often as I can. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/28 "2005-08-12T18:27:36Z")
Mine was a Disney lunch box, but with the domed lid. It was painted to look like a school bus with all of the characters on board. I inherited it from my brother, who had carried it in the early 1960s. I distinctly remember knocking it off my desk in Ms. Emert’s first grade class. When I got to the cafeteria and took it out I heard the glass and thought, “Wow, Mom put ice in my Tang.” You can imagine my surprise when it turned out to be shards of glass. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/29 "2005-08-12T19:43:10Z")
Here are two good links: [One](http://www.platesplus4kids.com/searchresult.aspx?categoryid=6) and [two](http://www.lunchboxes.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Cherry2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cherry2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cherry2000)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/30 "2005-08-13T03:33:03Z")
hehe… man, does this thread bring back memories. I actually had a Hair Bear Bunch lunchbox…and if I recall correctly, a Sigmund and the Sea Monsters lunch box. And yes, I am a member of the broken thermos club as well 😃 I also remember when I was in junior high almost our entire school rallied together to protest the school lunch prices going up by bringing our lunches. It was almost a contest to see who could bring the strangest ones…and it was hysterical to see the entire football team carring Strawberry Shortcake ones 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/31 "2005-08-13T03:41:11Z")
> [@Khadaji](#): > > [two](http://www.lunchboxes.com/) What am I, chopped liver? :dubious: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Giant\_Spongess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@Giant\_Spongess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Spongess)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/32 "2005-08-13T03:56:30Z")
I had a plastic “Rescue Rangers” lunch box (yeah, I’m young). I, too, remember that particular smell, especially the sour milk part. My dad always made me clean the thermos when I accidentally left it at school overnight. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/33 "2005-08-13T05:40:23Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > I had a butter-yellow Cabbage Patch Kids lunchbox. They were the real dolls, posed as though they were playing tug of war over a big, blue “puddle”. On white sand. I had that one too, for one year at least. Those plastic ones didn’t seem to be able to withstand more than a year of the abuse they get from young kids. The Cabbage Patch Kids one is the only one I remember though. I think that next time I’m over at my parents’ I’ll have to take a look to see if any are still kicking around anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Ragiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6de8d8/32.png) [@Ragiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ragiel)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/34 "2005-08-13T06:51:49Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#): > > [This page](http://www.lunchboxes.com/index.html) has some lunchboxes, though none of the plastic ones I remember. They have some plastic ones, but they latch on top instead of on the front. > > Check out the [Last Supper Lunchbox](http://www.lunchboxes.com/supper.html). Make every lunch your last. Or this strange [Geisha Girl Lunchbox.](http://www.lunchboxes.com/greenhormetl.html) Read the description, you’ll see what I mean. :dubious: > And here’s metal [Strawberry Shortcake](http://www.lunchboxes.com/straw.html) one. Whee! > > They also have a vintage section. Not bad. Most of the good ones are sold out. ☹ I’m strangely tempted by the Grateful Dead one. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/35 "2005-08-13T09:05:49Z")
I had a Roy Rogers lunch box, but I’m an old fart. Several of my classmates were sharecroppers kids and carried their lunches in lard pails. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/36 "2005-08-13T14:23:49Z")
> [@LouisB](#): > > I had a Roy Rogers lunch box, but I’m an old fart. Several of my classmates were sharecroppers kids and carried their lunches in lard pails. When I was a kid I had a ‘Buffalo Bill and his Pal Jingles’ lunchbox. Apparently this was a TV programme that went off the air well before I was born! Now I have an _Evil Dead_ lunchbox with a matching Thermos. (Yes, I used it when I had a job.) ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2005, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667/37 "2005-08-13T15:27:30Z")
> [@hillbilly queen](#): > > Domed lunchboxes were cool. Yeah, the first one I ever had was the [Walt Disney School Bus.](http://www.lunchboxpad.com/home/history/boxstory/images/22.jpg) Other boxes were added over the years (I’m the oldest of four kids), but the School Bus “came out of retirement” more than once. I remember my sister had a Jungle Book and that one brother opted for a _Rat Patrol_ – when my mom calls next week, I’ll ask if she remembers (or even still owns) any others. > [@](#): > > Remember the generic red plaid one? And how you felt kind of sorry for the kid who had to carry it. Well, there was a girl named Jean who was in my grade. Her parents were from Scotland, and she carried her plaid pail with pride! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-miss-lunchboxes/316667.md?page=1)