# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Tikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5daacb/32.png) [@Tikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tikki)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/61 "2007-12-03T20:20:21Z")
I know we went though a string of lunchboxes as kids but the only one I remember had Twiggy on it. Since I was kind of chunky, I got teased about it the first time I brought it to school. I hadn’t gone on the shopping trip when it was bought for some reason and I think it was my brother’s mean idea to get it for me. Or my mom’s dippy way to “encourage” me to slim down. ---
**Author:** ![Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@Harriet\_the\_Spry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harriet_the_Spry)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/62 "2007-12-03T20:23:09Z")
I had the Disney Robin Hood lunchbox and still remember it fondly. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/63 "2007-12-03T20:23:32Z")
Snoopy. Way cool dog house with the thermos that fit under the lid. Loved that box. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/64 "2007-12-03T20:26:57Z")
None. I ate the crap the school served and liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/65 "2007-12-03T20:52:27Z")
[the Partridge Family](http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Hollow/4131/partr.gif). No wonder I got beat up in gym class. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sublata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Sublata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublata)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/66 "2007-12-03T21:08:30Z")
[QUOTE=Shawn1767] 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. [/QUOTE] I had the same one, i.e., [this](http://cgi.ebay.com/1960S-WALT-DISNEY-SCHOOL-BUS-METAL-LUNCHBOX_W0QQitemZ280178035474QQihZ018QQcategoryZ1410QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting). On one side there was a depiction of Bambi carrying that very same schoolbus lunchbox. I’d go around reciting, “…and on that lunchbox, there’s a Bambi carrying a lunchbox, and on **that** lunchbox, there’s a Bambi carrying a lunchbox, and on THAT lunchbox…” It blew my little mind. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/67 "2007-12-03T23:35:26Z")
I had a metal Dukes of Hazzard lunchbox, one of [these](http://collectibles.about.com/od/priceentertain/ss/PGdukes080905_7.htm), but I don’t recall which one exactly. Then I had a plastic Empire Strikes Back [one](http://cgi.ebay.com/Star-Wars-ESB-Vintage-Empire-Strikes-Back-LUNCHBOX_W0QQitemZ200176699813QQcmdZViewItem). Round about third grade (circa '82), lunchboxes were no longer “cool” so it was paper bags for the rest of my school career… ---
**Author:** ![stanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@stanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stanger)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/68 "2007-12-04T03:43:08Z")
Back in the early 60’s, I had a Roy Rogers lunchbox. The curved top worked real well with the design of the box being a covered wagon. It was steel, but it didn’t prevent me from dropping it the first week or so I had it and breaking the glass in the thermos. I kept the thermos in it anyway since it fit so neatly up in the top curved part of the box. ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/69 "2007-12-04T05:12:44Z")
I had a red plastic **ALF** lunchbox, complete with a big-ass ALF thermos which took up half of it! ---
**Author:** ![LilShieste](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@LilShieste](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilShieste)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/70 "2007-12-04T05:46:58Z")
[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] I had the exact same lunchbox back in elementary school. My thermos met a particularly nasty end, though, when I tried to reheat some leftover spaghetti with it in the microwave. ☹ LilShieste ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/71 "2007-12-04T16:29:42Z")
I had the red plaid lunchbox The Six-Million Dollar Man lunchbox … and the Super Friends lunchbox (on which Green Arrow’s beard was incorrectly depicted) ---
**Author:** ![spifflog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/72 "2007-12-04T17:43:35Z")
Had a Wild Wild West lunch box, with a white thermos. Not sure why, but I thought the thermos being white was sooooo cool. ---
**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/73 "2007-12-04T18:07:02Z")
I had a metal [strawberry shortcake](http://www.primetoystore.com/Toys%20for%20sale/lunchboxes/strawberryshortcake.jpg) lunchbox in kindergarten. I wish I still had it! ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/74 "2007-12-04T20:10:38Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] 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. [/QUOTE] Did it also have a pic of three snowtroopers posing around a big tripod mounted gun? Because I had that one and loved it. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/75 "2007-12-04T21:33:21Z")
A brown paper bag. For 12 years. Thanks MOM! ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/76 "2007-12-04T21:39:07Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] None. I ate the crap the school served and liked it. [/QUOTE] My grandmother ran the elementary school cafeteria. So me & my sibs got our lunches free! The food was pretty basic southern style–not bad. Plus fresh bread, baked every day, with plenty of government surplus butter. I remember being sorely disappointed by the Jr High cafeteria. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/77 "2007-12-04T21:46:30Z")
I had [The Bionic Woman.](http://www.brainburst.de/lunchbox/bionic.jpg) I absolutely loved that lunchbox, but for the life of me I have no idea what happened to it. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/78 "2007-12-04T22:12:32Z")
When I was a kid in the 1950s, I was very proud of my [Annie Oakley lunchbox](http://www.mortalwombat.com/Special/AnnieOakley_Lunchbox.jpg). ---
**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:** [December 4, 2007, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/79 "2007-12-04T22:19:42Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] When I was a kid in the 1950s, I was very proud of my [Annie Oakley lunchbox](http://www.mortalwombat.com/Special/AnnieOakley_Lunchbox.jpg). [/QUOTE] Oh, man, I would’ve loved that one. Instead, I got [this red barn thing](http://www.tias.com/cgi-bin/google.fcgi/itemKey=1923140760) with a silo thermos. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413/80 "2007-12-06T20:09:26Z")
[QUOTE=Gordon Urquhart] _Six Million Dollar Man_ lunchbox, which I had the foresight to cover with a set of _Star Wars_ stickers. Both of which are now significantly reduced in resale value. Oh, well – at least I can relive the memories of having a cool _Six Million Dollar Man_ lunchbox that was covered with _Star Wars_ stickers. [/QUOTE] You must have been a popular kid with a lunchbox like that! (only half kidding!) I had the Evel Knievel lunchbox, after I saw the eBay commercial I figured they would be worth a lot now. Not really. I also had the flywheel-powered Evel Kneivel motorcycle, that thing had rubber tires and would really move! I also had Six Million Dollar Man and Yellow Submarine (think that was a hand-me-down from one of my aunts.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-school-lunchbox-did-you-have/428413.md?page=5)