# What lunch box did you take to school as a kid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2013, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141 "2013-02-02T19:55:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/21 "2013-02-02T22:12:47Z")
Star Wars: [http://www.serioustoyz.com/LotDetail.aspx?lotid=3539](http://www.serioustoyz.com/LotDetail.aspx?lotid=3539) I thought it had been thrown out years ago, but it turned out that one of my siblings had taken it as kitschy decoration for her apartment. A couple years ago I found it in a box of stuff when I was helping her move and stole it back. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/22 "2013-02-02T22:25:29Z")
[Six Million Dollar Man](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1186/3173394774_986a0d51ba_z.jpg) (Sigh) Really wish I would have kept that damn thing. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/23 "2013-02-02T22:25:40Z")
This [barn lunch box](http://media-cache0.pinterest.com/upload/55380270388280815_DSFuWNAf_c.jpg) with a silo thermos. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/24 "2013-02-02T22:34:47Z")
In first grade, I had a Garfield lunch box, which I think is [this one.](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://img0.etsystatic.com/006/0/6930097/il_fullxfull.359398888_h9fh.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.etsy.com/listing/105171035/vintage-garfield-lunch-box-and-thermos&h=1125&w=1500&sz=412&tbnid=8hUe8D09YZixQM:&tbnh=95&tbnw=126&zoom=1&usg=__WGx3ZsEVmczhLCgTNIHCU6ievP0=&docid=h03GgxbW8HOmaM&sa=X&ei=4pMNUdDMKZTlyAHvhYCIBQ&ved=0CF4Q9QEwAw&dur=2678) I don’t remember what I had the next couple of years, or if I even had one at all. ---
**Author:** ![NGC2024](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f475e1/32.png) [@NGC2024](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NGC2024)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/25 "2013-02-02T22:42:51Z")
Mine was Pigs in Space and boy did I love it. > **[64 Pigs In Space Metal Lunchbox](https://yque.com/lunchbox62.html)** I can still remember the smell as I opened it, which was a mix of old sandwich and rotten milk from the constantly leaking Thermos. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/26 "2013-02-02T22:47:44Z")
I can remember two, a [Chitty Chitty Bang Bang](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CuFbQZPeH04/T0gDEuJ2NYI/AAAAAAAABD8/833wMC7RnCQ/s1600/1968-%2522Chitty%2BChitty%2BBang%2BBang%2Blunch%2Bbox....jpeg&imgrefurl=http://www.thethirdboob.com/2012/02/friday-fun-finds-vintage-lunch-boxes.html&h=428&w=570&sz=93&tbnid=UYH7fIU4mZq3XM:&tbnh=92&tbnw=122&zoom=1&usg=__VGUXxrS5tg_OrdtHDGh2AMPxFR8=&docid=gJcfbmAebBuS_M&sa=X&ei=8pUNUb-oMYfn0gGA6oHACw&ved=0CEkQ9QEwAg&dur=490) and a [Play Ball](http://www.etsy.com/listing/104576790/vintage-play-ball-lunchbox), which had magnets with which you could play a game. I hadn’t thought about the Play Ball box in years, but recognized it immediately. Thanks for bringing back the memories, **Idle Thoughts**. ---
**Author:** ![PSXer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@PSXer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PSXer)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/27 "2013-02-02T22:51:05Z")
I had a Barney lunch box and some mean kids made fun of me for it ): ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/28 "2013-02-02T23:10:38Z")
I bought my lunch. When I did bring a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, it was in a brown paper bag. Too bad I never had a lunch box, if I did and had kept it, I could sell it for big bucks to an antique shop! ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2013, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/29 "2013-02-02T23:15:06Z")
The first one I had was Peanuts. [![](https://collectpeanuts.com/Collection/ImagesW/Lunchboxes/IMG_3850.jpg) ](https://collectpeanuts.com/Collection/ImagesW/Lunchboxes/IMG_3850.jpg) Then I got a Space:1999 lunch box. > **[53 Vintage Metal Lunchbox Space 1999](https://yque.com/lunchbox53.html)** ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/30 "2013-02-03T00:13:16Z")
I can’t remember my earliest lunch boxes. By the 4th grade I had a black metal lunch box. My biggest problem was constantly breaking the glass thermos. My folks finally bought a metal thermos for me. Usually had peanut butter and banana sandwiches, chips, and a cookie in my lunch. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/31 "2013-02-03T00:45:46Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > Then I got a Space:1999 lunch box. Do did Gene Roddenberry’s son. 🙂 I did a bag and sometimes bought lunch after the submarine lunch box. Some bastard much larger than I brushed his dandruff off into my bought lunch once. He is still on my list of “Folks I’d Like to See Hanging from the Main Street Bridge by Their Fingernails”. Put my hell on a finger and say, “I’m thinking of a number between one and five billion.” ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/32 "2013-02-03T01:44:00Z")
Paper sack. ---
**Author:** ![zombywoof](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/9e8a1a/32.png) [@zombywoof](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zombywoof)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/33 "2013-02-03T01:44:26Z")
NFL helmets (wasn’t interested in football then, and am not now…thought the team from Baltimore was called the Colts as per my lunchbox until I heard about these “Ravens” playing in the Super Bowl the other day.) ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/34 "2013-02-03T01:52:06Z")
Mom stitched up a cloth lunch bag which ISTR had big orange dot outlined with yellow circles. Too ugly to steal. One day at lunch, one kid asked, “Why do you always eat you lunch on homemade bread?” I could tell, sneer notwithstanding, that he was jealous. (It was Rhodes brand frozen bread dough, baked up every day or two, and it was far better than most of the other crap, even though we let it rise way too much.) ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/35 "2013-02-03T01:56:13Z")
I had the “Skotch Ice Tartan” lunchbox [http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-red-plaid-Aladdin-lunch-box-thermos-REDUCED-2-01-23-/190702831508?pt=LH\_DefaultDomain\_0&hash=item2c66c64794](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-red-plaid-Aladdin-lunch-box-thermos-REDUCED-2-01-23-/190702831508?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c66c64794) ---
**Author:** ![slightly\_askew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@slightly\_askew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slightly_askew)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/36 "2013-02-03T02:05:23Z")
[Wags and Whiskers](http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1196977) We had a basset hound when I was little that looked a bit like the puppy on the lunch box. I’m sure that’s why I picked it. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/37 "2013-02-03T02:25:01Z")
I had an [Atom Ant](http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/lunch-boxes/images/2695018/title/atom-ant-vintage-1966-lunch-box-photo) lunch box, until some jerky kid stole it ☹ Then I had [The Archies](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-1969-Archies-Lunch-Box-and-Thermos-by-Aladdin-Beautiful-Graphics-/160913417270?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25772fe436&nma=true&si=e4g2vmKGVot%252BrKX8Bdvrguum1Wk%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557), until the thermos broke. Then it was [The Roadrunner](http://www.ebay.com/itm/Road-Runner-Lunchbox-Original-/321002077476). After that I started buying my lunch. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/38 "2013-02-03T02:39:17Z")
> [@slightly\_askew](#): > > [Wags and Whiskers](http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1196977) We had a basset hound when I was little that looked a bit like the puppy on the lunch box. I’m sure that’s why I picked it. Cool. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/39 "2013-02-03T03:03:48Z")
> [@zombywoof](#): > > NFL helmets (wasn’t interested in football then, and am not now…thought the team from Baltimore was called the Colts as per my lunchbox until I heard about these “Ravens” playing in the Super Bowl the other day.) Assuming I’m not being whooshed… When you were a kid, the Baltimore NFL team probably _was_ the Colts; the Colts moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis in 1984. The Ravens came into being in 1996, when the Cleveland Browns franchise relocated to Baltimore, but left the Browns name and records behind (to be taken back up by an expansion Browns team a few years later). As for my lunchboxes: I had several; the ones I distinctly remember were for the TV shows [Emergency!](http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg272/mschlags/5.jpg), and [Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids](http://img2.etsystatic.com/000/0/6062470/il_fullxfull.238000062.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![ASanders](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asanders/32/3367_2.png) [@ASanders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASanders)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2013, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/40 "2013-02-03T03:24:44Z")
Partridge Family, to feed into my David Cassidy obsession. I still have it; for some reason my mother kept that over all my other childhood detritus. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141.md?page=3)