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[shoekitty]

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@THEY CallMe Mr Wilkes wrote:

I broke a "Thermos" on numerous occasions by treating the lunchbox roughly.

You could hear the glass by shaking the container.

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@THEY CallMe Mr Wilkes   lunch boxes were hype, and the excitement lasted for a couple weeks.  They were a pain to carry around, I always forgot it at school, so,etimes for days. Then one never made it passed a week or more without breaking the thermos.  Yes shattered inside. 

[CarolinaGirl88]

I did in elementary school. The only two I can remember are The Partridge Family and Donny and Marie. I loved those lunch boxes! Starting in 6th grade (we called it junior high, they call it middle school now) lunch boxes were no longer the thing to do. From then on it was the paper bag. In high school there was a separate line where we could get milk shakes and fries for lunch. They were delicious!

[Desert Lily]

I always walked home for lunch. We lived a block away from the elementary school. My mom would have Kraft mac & cheese, or smoked chub fish from the Sausage Kitchen store, or buttered noodles, or just a bowl of plain white rice waiting for me. (she was not a great cook Lol) 

I ate lunch on a chair in the living room with a TV tray while she watched As The World Turns. If I went home for lunch to a friend's, I always envied what her mother served.

Once a month, I ate lunch at school because I was on the Student Council 4th-6th grade. I carried my lunch in a brown bag. It was always Oscar Meyer liver sausage on Wonder Bread and a Suzy Q - favorites of mine then. The school provided milk for the meetings.

[Bonkers1]

@Linda0215 

The good old carton of milk - I always got chocolate.

[Bookplate]

Yes, also plaid.  I usually had some deli meat (salami, liverwurst etc) sandwich and it was unrefrigerated for three to four hours woth no ill effects!  I can't imagine doing that now.  Is the lesson here that they don't make bologna like they used to?!

[Tinkrbl44]

I never wanted a lunchbox and had that conversation a few times with my parents. 

They thought all the other kids would have them, which they did.

I wanted to carry my lunch in a brown paper bag that I could throw out after I ate.  Nothing to have to carry home every day.  

I also thought carrying a lunchbox was childish. 

Yes, I realized even then that I was a child, not wanting to be childish.  That didn't matter.  Carrying a lunchbox was not for me.

I did, however, make a bit of a deal when selecting my pencil box and notebook.  

[Linda0215]

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@Bonkers1 wrote:

@Linda0215 

The good old carton of milk - I always got chocolate.

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@Bonkers1 Oh, you were lucky! We didn't have chocolate milk at my school, but if it was offered, that would have been the highlight of my day!

[Laura14]

I still use one every day to bring my lunch to work. 

[Linda0215]

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@Bookplate wrote:

Yes, also plaid.  I usually had some deli meat (salami, liverwurst etc) sandwich and it was unrefrigerated for three to four hours woth no ill effects!  I can't imagine doing that now.  Is the lesson here that they don't make bologna like they used to?!

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@Bookplate Right?!  My sandwiches were never refrigerated either and I would have ham or bologna.  On Friday's tuna salad.  Tuna salad!  I don't think my mom was consciously trying to kill me.  😂

[eadu4]

I did ad well. Grew up in Northern Vt. The elementary school did not have a lunchroom and since we lived just inside the 1 mile mark we had to walk to school then home for lunch then back for afternoon session then home again. Winters were cold as girls were not allowed to wear pants until the 4th grade, so no lunchbox was needed for me until we moved to NH when I was in the 5th grade and they had lunchroom. I brown bagged it then. Usually peanut butter and fluff an apple or fruit cup and some cookies or ii got lucky mom would make whoopie pies yummy