# Which School Lunchbox Did You Have? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 1, 2007, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413 "2007-12-01T02:44:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Shawn1767](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shawn1767](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shawn1767)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/21 "2007-12-01T04:29:50Z")
Three of my old lunchboxes survived Hurricane Katrina: Evel Knievel, Six Million Dollar Man and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I still have them. They are far from mint condition though. A little rusty around the edges, but in generally good condition. Before those, I had the Disney character Schoolbus that was metal, but shaped like the traditional construction worker lunchbox, but painted to look like a school bus with Disney characters looking out the window. When I was in 2nd grade, I put that lunchbox down at the table and then sat down. Evil Regan made me get up because she had “saved” the seat for someone else. I got up and picked up my lunchbox without securing the top (where the thermos was stowed) the thermos fell out and when I opened it, there were shards of glass sticking every which way in my chocolate milk. Oh well… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/22 "2007-12-01T04:30:07Z")
I had a rectangular tin lunchbox with a Naval submarine theme. Matching thermos bottle, of course. I’m pretty sure it was from Aladdin, because who else was making lunchboxes in 1963? Be nice if Aladdin would post images of all the old lunchboxes they marketed back in the day… ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/23 "2007-12-01T04:33:06Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Adam-12, on [this](http://www.retroland.com/pages/retropedia/schooldaze/item/1594/) page. [/QUOTE] Me too. Except my parents were too cheap to spring for the thermos. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/24 "2007-12-01T04:46:50Z")
I had a “Men Into Space” lunchbox covered with Willy Ley designs of what a REAL spaceship should look like. Ever since I have been disappointed by what NASA produced. Where is the art? Where is the COOL? The freakin’ Space Shuttle is the freakin’ fuselage of a freakin’ DC-3 with freakin’ stub wings and freakin’ covered with freakin’ tiles like a freakin’ floor. A FLOOR! Sickening. Not a war criminal, either. NASA backed the wrong German. ---
**Author:** ![Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@Speaker\_for\_the\_Dead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Speaker_for_the_Dead)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/25 "2007-12-01T05:00:57Z")
A purple Aladdin Lunchbox with pseudo-thermos. Like [this](http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/pict/3200870896144040_1.jpg), but with Aladdin on the cover. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/26 "2007-12-01T05:11:20Z")
I had [this Cabbage Patch lunch box](http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/7730/cplbes2.jpg). Yay. My lil’ bro actually had a Thundercats lunchbox, but I can’t find one that looks like his. FWIW, he also had a sweet [Bravestarr](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bravestarr) beanie cap. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/27 "2007-12-01T10:31:12Z")
Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace. This summer when we were in Washington, DC, we visited the National Air and Space Museum. At the entrance to an exhibit about aviation in WWI and its place in popular culture, they had a display of Snoopy-as-Flying-Ace artifacts. I pointed and excitedly told the young flodnaks: “Look there! I HAD THAT LUNCHBOX!” And the best part was that two total strangers behind us chimed in: “ME TOO!” 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/28 "2007-12-01T10:54:37Z")
I had a black domed lunchbox. It looked like [this](http://www.lunchboxes.com/dome.html), except the thermos wasn’t as cool looking as the one in the picture. I was just thrilled that I wasn’t using leftover paper bags of varying sizes any more. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/29 "2007-12-01T11:15:03Z")
I had a Hot Wheels lunchbox, but since I never actually brought lunch to school, I carried Hot Wheels cars around in it until I got one of [these](http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Hot-Wheels-Redline-Tire-24-car-carry-case-1968_W0QQitemZ140183205125QQihZ004QQcategoryZ2500QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting). ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/30 "2007-12-01T11:19:02Z")
I had the [UFO TV series](http://cgi.ebay.com/1973-UFO-METAL-LUNCHBOX-THERMOS-C9-FANTASIC_W0QQitemZ200178703656QQihZ010QQcategoryZ1410QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting) lunch box. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/31 "2007-12-01T11:24:32Z")
I had [Little House on the Prairie](http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-1978-Little-House-On-The-Prairie-Metal-Lunchbox_W0QQitemZ230194653768QQihZ013QQcategoryZ7270QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem), [The Waltons](http://www.vahistorical.org/sva2003/waltons.htm) and [Grizzly Adams](http://cgi.ebay.com/1977-GRIZZLY-ADAMS-LUNCHBOX-THERMOS-IN-NM-COND-W-TAG_W0QQitemZ280177953581QQcmdZViewItem) for sure. I’m pretty sure I also had [Holly Hobbie](http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-1972-holly-Hobbie-Lunchbox-Thermos-Unused-MINT_W0QQitemZ230198001267QQihZ013QQcategoryZ7270QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem). I know I must have a had a couple others as well. My folks bought us a brand new lunch box each year for grades 1-6. I never got the same one twice. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/32 "2007-12-01T11:45:44Z")
Being the worlds most forgetful child (I once walked home from school, putting my bag down to retie my shoelaces then walked the rest of the way home without my bag), I was relegated to a lifetime of plastic bags instead of lunchboxes. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/33 "2007-12-01T12:16:44Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] Adam-12, on [this](http://www.retroland.com/pages/retropedia/schooldaze/item/1594/) page. [/QUOTE] Same here. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/34 "2007-12-01T12:28:48Z")
I had one of the old-school construction type lunchboxes. I think it was made of aluminum. Later I got an insulated high-tech one (either Coleman or Rubbermaid, can’t remember.) ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/35 "2007-12-01T14:04:06Z")
I had a Peanuts lunch box, if not [this one](http://webpages.charter.net/snoopyo/lunch%20front.jpg) then one very similar. I would have to see the back and sides but mine had several Peanuts comics there that I would remember. This would have been purchased in the late 1960s or 1970 at the latest. I remember the glass inside the Thermos broke eventually so I had to use a different one after that. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/36 "2007-12-01T14:44:08Z")
[QUOTE=the Lady] Me too. Oh god, did I hate that lunchbox. The only thing worse was when my mom would make me bring soup in the ugly yellow thermos. That ended the day the class bully dumped my tomato soup on me. [/QUOTE] _whimpers in sympathy and remembered pain_ It’s okay. _wipes tear away_ We made it through, and…we have each other now! They can’t hurt us anymore! _breaks down sobbing_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/37 "2007-12-01T14:46:37Z")
A brown paper sack. The only time I ever took my lunch to school was when we went on field trips. ---
**Author:** ![Lily](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/97f17d/32.png) [@Lily](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lily)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/38 "2007-12-01T14:50:09Z")
He- **MAN!** It must have been among the last of the metal lunch boxes to be made. The thwang it made when hitting someone was gorgeous. Mine still has a perfect imprint of my brother’s head on the front. ---
**Author:** ![Pithy\_Moniker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8dc957/32.png) [@Pithy\_Moniker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pithy_Moniker)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/39 "2007-12-01T14:58:18Z")
I had a metal Knight Rider lunch box. A couple of years later I got a plastic Super Mario Bros one. I’ve pretty much been a nerd all my life. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/40 "2007-12-01T15:20:19Z")
I had a **Lancelot Link, Secret Chimp** lunchbox!! The box itself lasted for several years, but one year I dropped the thermos, they had glass insulation in those days which shattered into a million shards, so I had to throw that away. I can’t believe I didn’t try to keep it somehow. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413.md?page=3)