# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![delphica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9a140/32.png) [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/41 "2007-12-01T15:36:45Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] I had the obnoxious [orange Tupperware](http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:HqXu7AF-CET4cM:http://thumbs.ebaystatic.com/pict/110151542996_1.jpg) lunchbox, with matching orange milk/juice cup (with lid), orange sandwich box (with lid), snack box (with lid), and a huge helping of shame and humiliation. I would have killed puppies for a Thundercats lunchbox. [/QUOTE] I _coveted_ that lunch box – I dreamed of having little boxes for all my food that neatly fit into the big box. It’s just so _organized_! Instead, I had a [Nancy Drew](http://www.nancydrewsleuth.com/nancydrewlunchbox.jpg) lunch box. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/42 "2007-12-01T15:54:05Z")
Happy Days. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/43 "2007-12-01T16:37:28Z")
I remember having a metal G.I. Joe lunchbox (from the '80s cartoon series), but the one I still have sitting in a box somewhere is my '86 [Transformers](http://cgi.ebay.com/1986-Hasbro-Transformers-Metal-Lunch-Box_W0QQitemZ300176801642QQihZ020QQcategoryZ156474QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting) metal lunchbox. Unlike the one in the link, though, mine still has the thermos. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/44 "2007-12-01T16:48:34Z")
I remember having a beautiful wicker lunch box with a red and black plaid thermos inside. Later I had a metal Holly Hobbie lunch box. I also remember a bionic Woman lunch box, but I think it belonged to one of my classmates. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/45 "2007-12-01T16:49:19Z")
Double post, sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/46 "2007-12-01T17:09:36Z")
[QUOTE=SkipMagic] I remember having a metal G.I. Joe lunchbox (from the '80s cartoon series), but the one I still have sitting in a box somewhere is my '86 [Transformers](http://cgi.ebay.com/1986-Hasbro-Transformers-Metal-Lunch-Box_W0QQitemZ300176801642QQihZ020QQcategoryZ156474QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting) metal lunchbox. Unlike the one in the link, though, mine still has the thermos. [/QUOTE] Haha, I had both of those too! The inside of an old metal lunchbox is the oddest smell in the entire world. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/47 "2007-12-01T17:17:51Z")
Peanuts by Charles Schultz ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/48 "2007-12-01T21:09:09Z")
I remember having a “Land of the Giants” lunchbox. Moronic show, but I was eight. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/49 "2007-12-01T21:21:55Z")
I had a number of lunchboxes, but the one I remember is a red “101 Dalmatians” one that I used for two years. ---
**Author:** ![Millit\_the\_Frail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Millit\_the\_Frail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Millit_the_Frail)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/50 "2007-12-01T21:29:35Z")
Pee-Wee’s Playhouse! It was Rubbermaid, I think, and purple. I might have had others at different times, but that’s the one I remember best. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/51 "2007-12-02T01:23:14Z")
I had a Donny and Marie lunchbox exactly like [this](http://cgi.ebay.com/MINT-Donny-and-Marie-Osmond-Vinyl-Lunchbox-LOOK-1976_W0QQitemZ320188226647QQihZ011QQcategoryZ14011QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) one when I was in the sixth grade. I can’t believe there are still any others out there! ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/52 "2007-12-02T02:07:36Z")
My [Disneyland](http://www.micechat.com/forums/showthread.php/score_check_out_my_vintage-82160.html?amp;) lunchbox was exactly like this one. It was a hand-me-down from my much older brother or sister who mom and dad took to DL before I was born. Some kids want to see Micky Mouse…not me, I was mad to ride a monorail and a submarine! (yes I DID finally get to go to Disneyland while I was still young enough to enjoy it all) ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/53 "2007-12-02T02:12:00Z")
I had a Donny & Marie (Osmond) with matching thermos, followed by a Nancy Drew. I was very cutting-edge the next year, with a plastic Garfield lunchbox, the very first year they were made. I was so hip. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/54 "2007-12-03T19:37:24Z")
[QUOTE=RikWriter] Happy Days. [/QUOTE] Me, too! Thought I’d be the only one… ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/55 "2007-12-03T19:44:38Z")
I had an _Empire Strikes Back_ lunchbox, until this kid at school constantly made fun of me because of it (calling me Yoda, etc.). The only time I ever faced daily, perpetual “harrassment” (I put the term in quotes because it was fairly mild in retrospect, though aggravating and very troubling for me at the time). Long story short: my parents got involved, then the principal, and it turned into a bit of a hoo-doo. I bag lunched it from then on. ---
**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:** [December 3, 2007, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/56 "2007-12-03T19:49:50Z")
My first lunchbox had Atom Ant on it. Then some kid stole it out of the lunchroom. I found it several weeks later in the woods, smashed with a big rock. ☹ After that, I had an Archies lunchbox. ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/57 "2007-12-03T19:50:11Z")
I had the Tupperware lunchbox, but I think mine was Harvest Gold instead of orange. My family also had this [Fat Albert lunchbox](http://cgi.ebay.com/FAT-ALBERT-THE-COSBY-KIDS-LUNCHBOX-THERMOS-CARTOONS_W0QQitemZ280179477885QQcmdZViewItem). ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/58 "2007-12-03T19:51:07Z")
I had a Brady Bunch luchbox when I was in 1st-2nd grade. I had an ecology lunch box in 6th grade. (?) The Brady Bunch was a metal square one and the the other was plastic, (very ecological, huh?) green and shaped like the construction worker style with the ecology flag on it. ---
**Author:** ![NailBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecae2f/32.png) [@NailBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NailBunny)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/59 "2007-12-03T19:59:01Z")
**The Secret of Nimh**. After I accidentally briefly switched mine with a boy (!) at school who had the same lunchbox, my mom printed out ny name with a label-maker and stuck it to it. Nowadays I collect odd metal lunchboxes. I have Lenore, the Evil Dead, and Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/60 "2007-12-03T20:09:36Z")
I had a Jabberjaw lunchbox. > **[Jabberjaw](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberjaw)** > > Jabberjaw is an American animated television series created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears and produced by Hanna-Barbera which aired 16 original episodes on ABC from September 11 to December 18, 1976. Reruns continued on ABC until September 3, 1978. > Jabberjaw, a 15-foot amphibious great white shark, is the drummer for The Neptunes, a rock group made up of four teenagers—Biff, Shelly, Bubbles and Clamhead—who live in an underwater civilization. Jabberjaw and The Neptunes travel to various underwater ... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413.md?page=4)