After being ridiculed at school, I became a neo-luddite, and brown bagged it.
Posted on 05/17/2024 4:07:12 AM PDT by DallasBiff
How many of you actually had one of these as a kid: iconic, metal lunch boxes that were slightly rusted, often dented, and blazoned over with pictures of your favorite band, TV show, cartoon, or teen heartthrob? If you were born after 1985, chances are you did not! The National Museum of American History says this year saw the production of the last of the metal lunch boxes. What was on it? Sylvester Stallone as Rambo!
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After being ridiculed at school, I became a neo-luddite, and brown bagged it.
I had the snoopy doghouse lunchbox... would still use it today if I had it
Mine was red plaid.
One of Mine was Alvin and the Chipmonks. Also had a Combat lunch box
Beverly Hillbillies... wish I still had it. You’ve got to have the thermos too though; all I would have to do is sniff the inside of that lunchbox to be taken back to St. Mary’s Grade School, Georgetown SC, 1964
howdy doody here.
Sounds like the one I also had: red Scotch Plaid.
A fair guess is once ‘taxpayers’ were paying for ‘free’ lunches the metal lunchboxes just simply went extinct.
Gunsmoke. 1972 in south Alabama.
Wish I still had it.
RLTW
Yeah. We were cool. (And the thermos matched, right?)
Probably not. A plastic shopping bag was just less labour intensive and it was re-usable.
They called you Flipper, Flipper! LOL! Yea, I see how you got ridiculed for that. You’re on FR so you turned out alright.
Fireball XL-5
I had the Snoopy doghouse too, used it from around 1974 to 1976.
I had the Snoopy doghouse too, used it from around 1974 to 1976.
I was at a store yesterday when an employee walked in with his lunch in a vintage steel lunch box.
ditto
mine was also red plaid
I carry an insulated blue lunch box now. For a couple of years, I have kept my eyes open for an insulated plaid lunch box but have yet to come across one. I have always loved plaid.
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