# 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:** 5
**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 4, 2013, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/81 "2013-02-04T18:38:00Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > [And the reverse side.](http://www.serioustoyz.com/LotImages/3/MClbxUncleB_lg.jpeg) Solo’s smilem make me wonder if Mad Magazine didn’t provide the art for the lunchbox. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/82 "2013-02-04T19:28:59Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Solo’s smilem make me wonder if Mad Magazine didn’t provide the art for the lunchbox. Never mind that, I’m wondering how they fit in that _car_! Perhaps it’s bigger on the inside… ---
**Author:** ![That\_Don\_Guy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/that_don_guy/32/538_2.png) [@That\_Don\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/That_Don_Guy)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/83 "2013-02-04T20:09:46Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > I used a paper bag. So did I - pretty much every day from the first day of first grade (where I went to school, kindergarten either ended before lunch or started after lunch) until I graduated from high school, and there was a period in college when I did the same thing (because I had classes from 11 AM to 2 PM, and my dorm’s meal plan included a “brown bag lunch” option - the only problem was, pretty much the only thing you could make was a bologna sandwich). One strange thing: my elementary and middle schools didn’t have cafeterias, but when they offered hot dogs for sale twice a month, I bought lunch; however, my high school had a cafeteria, but I didn’t buy a single lunch for all four years. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/84 "2013-02-04T20:14:48Z")
Don’t remember any one in particular but my favorite type was the ones you could play a game on, that had a spinner where you’d move your marker down the path or somesuch. Of course the spinner always got broken in a week but hey. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/85 "2013-02-04T20:55:41Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Solo’s smilem make me wonder if Mad Magazine didn’t provide the art for the lunchbox. You have a good eye. It was Jack Davis: There were plenty of other (occasionally odd) projects along the way, including the “Wacky Plaks” card series, trick “Pip Squirt” squirting pens, game box covers (for Milton Bradley and Parker Brothers), the **“Man from U.N.C.L.E.” lunchbox** , monster tattoos, greeting cards, “Red Lobster” restaurant placemats, and a 7-11 coffee cup giveaway. > **[Hana189: Situs Game Bertema Candy Terlengkap](https://www.crazycampsongs.com/)** > > Hana189 merupakan situs game yang punya game bertema candy terlengkap dengan pola permainan yang mudah di mainkan dengan beragam perkalian hadiah yang besar. ---
**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 4, 2013, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/86 "2013-02-04T21:08:25Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > You have a good eye. It was Jack Davis: Dear Lord, I don’t know to be proud or ashamed…Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/87 "2013-02-04T21:11:03Z")
> [@koeeoaddi](#): > > This [barn lunch box](http://media-cache0.pinterest.com/upload/55380270388280815_DSFuWNAf_c.jpg) with a silo thermos. I had that one! 1st or 2nd grade, then hot lunches cooked in the real live school cafeteria. My older sister had The Munroes. An obscure western. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/88 "2013-02-04T21:18:55Z")
I first had [DC superheroes](http://aparofan.blogspot.com/2009/01/super-friends-lunch-box.html), then later I had my dad’s [metal lunchbox](http://pugpaw.com/Josh/img/lunchbox.jpg), then I moved on to paper bagging it. ---
**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 4, 2013, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/89 "2013-02-04T21:40:12Z")
> [@Sattua](#): > > And when I was in high school in the late 90s, they locked us in the cafeteria. There weren’t even hall passes–if you had to be in the hall during a class or lunch, you had to be with a staff member. Led to a lot of kids throwing up in classrooms. Most teachers began to keep water coolers in their rooms. When I was in elementary school in the 70s, we walked home for lunch every day and returned to school in the afternoon… different times. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/90 "2013-02-04T21:43:55Z")
Brown paper bag - my mom made us reuse one for a week - we could toss it on Friday. Otherwise, with 5 kids in school, you go thru a lot of bags. ---
**Author:** ![osme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/df788c/32.png) [@osme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/osme)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/91 "2013-02-04T22:17:24Z")
I had the Atom Ant lunchbox and my brother had the Fess Parker as Daniel Boone one. I really wanted The Osmonds and/or Donny and Marie a few years later. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/92 "2013-02-04T22:24:21Z")
I had one of [these Battle of the Planets ones](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.greatestcollectibles.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/1979-Battle-of-the-Planets.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.greatestcollectibles.com/1979-battle-planets-lunchbox-thermos-rare-collection/&h=300&w=400&sz=40&tbnid=I9Tsoy8pGcz4kM:&tbnh=94&tbnw=125&zoom=1&usg=__DNw_Tsb9BS6PWV3_1j3XvJs8re8=&docid=KAZ-Ofg_90ZYRM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cjQQUaW_LPKx0QGwxoGoAg&ved=0CEQQ9QEwAw&dur=1731), and several others, but I can’t really recall any of the others too well. ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/93 "2013-02-04T22:44:59Z")
The two I remember were The Partridge Family and Emergency! ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2013, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/94 "2013-02-04T23:26:26Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > [Six Million Dollar Man](http://farm2.staticflickr.com/1186/3173394774_986a0d51ba_z.jpg) > > (Sigh) Really wish I would have kept that damn thing. My brother had that one and still does including the thermos. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/95 "2013-02-05T03:38:35Z")
Wow…I guess I’m the only [Campus Queen](https://www.google.com/search?q=campus+queen+lunch+box&hl=en&safe=off&sa=X&tbo=u&tbm=isch&source=univ&ei=330QUdeeE6HD0QGwr4CABQ&ved=0CDAQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=685) in the bunch 😃 UT~ ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/96 "2013-02-05T05:49:21Z")
I lived only two blocks away from school, so I almost always went home to lunch (1960s). The handful of times I took a lunch, it was in a brown paper bag. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/97 "2013-02-05T06:13:50Z")
When I was about to start 1st grade, my mom had me pick out a lunch box. I used [this Earth Day/Ecology lunchbox](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5mxw-sYc_F0/SiS72hS0-1I/AAAAAAAAgWI/BCQ0sv-4uF8/s400/ecology1.JPG) for a couple of years, then I switched to brown paper bags, folding and re-using the same one usually for about a week each. BTW, is that the same one you had, **ducati**? ---
**Author:** ![AngelSoft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angelsoft/32/440_2.png) [@AngelSoft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelSoft)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/98 "2013-02-05T06:59:58Z")
[Popples!](http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/1/7/0/9/2/9/9/webimg/606017228_tp.jpg) I dunno why since I never liked them that much, but I remember loving the lunchbox. Funny enough, I still have my stuffed Popple XD I probably love it more now than I did as a kid. ---
**Author:** ![James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@James\_Otto\_Sweet\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/James_Otto_Sweet_Heart)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/99 "2013-02-05T15:44:45Z")
^^^ I used to have a trash can with the Popples all over it! 🙂 🙂 🙂 God bless you always!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 Holly P.S. I had forgotten about them until you brought them up. 🙂 🙂 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FloatyGimpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/floatygimpy/32/7750_2.png) [@FloatyGimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FloatyGimpy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141/100 "2013-02-05T16:09:14Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Oh…god. > > The worst. The absolute worst. My mother hated me. Everyone had Strawberry Shortcake or Care Bears or Transformers. The coolest kids had brown paper bags with grease stains on the side. Not me. Nope. I was the loser. > > Yep. The [Tupperware Lunch Box](http://www.flickr.com/photos/vintagegoodness/3048918107/). They called it “red”, but it was freaking 1970s Ugly Ass Orange. > > Excuse me, I need to go crawl under the covers and rock myself to sleep now. I had one of those, I loved it! I went to a private, religious school and all us little girls were obsessed with Little House on the Prairie so we all started bringing our lunch in metal pails like the Ingalls girls. Everything had to be wrapped in tea towels. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-lunch-box-did-you-take-to-school-as-a-kid/649141.md?page=6)