Fess up...who had a "Theme" lunch-kit as a kid....?

[truckemup97]

Mom said the school lunch was nutritious and inexpensive, and I would eat it or starve. If I had had a lunch box, it would have been the brown paper variety. We were poor.

 

[Xfuzz]

Man...the thermos things brings back memories along the the soda wrapped in tin foil.
I had a buddy...little dude from across the tracks, named Matthew who happened to be black.
One saturday we went fishin and I took the lunch kit.
Thermos was loaded with chicken noodle soup. and the wrapped coke....few chips/cookies and such.

We shared lunch and Matt asked about the thermos and I explained how it kept cold drinks cold and hot soups hot.

His reply..."How do it know" ?
I was lost...we caught a few fish...

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

I had one called "The Satellite" (1958). Wish I still had it.
Of course, you took your lunch to school and traded with your friends. When your mother asked how was lunch, you said "Fine."

 

[murphman]

Daniel Boone and Tarzan. Man, I had forgotten all about those.
In addition to their obvious uses to keep the sandwiches, Hostess Ho-Ho's and a drink in, those old lunch boxes were great equalizers, too. Even the big sixth graders could be tamed by a third or fourth grader swinging one of those metal lunch boxes...

 

[jcall]

Man that brings back some memories. I had G.I Joe and Hot Wheels.

 

[Bassamatic]

My early grade school years were in 53-55 and I definitely remember my Roy Rogers lunch box with thermos. It had Roy and Trigger on the front.

 

[3rd Gen Neal]

When I was in 4th grade ('83-84) I had a KISS lunch box. It had the Destroyer album cover on it. Yes, I was a rocker at an early age, although I can't stand that band anymore.

 

[ditrina]

Hiii Yooooow Silver AWAY!!!!!!

 

[Muley Gil]

I wanted a Davy Crockett lunch box, but missed by a few years. I did have a Dan'l Boone one though.

 

[Iggy]

Old Thermos jugs had a glass liner, I usually managed to break mine a couple of times a year jumping my horse across the crick or off some bank.

My Mom had a supply of replacements on hand.

I remember sure being disgusted to get to school and find my Levi jacket was soaked and sticky with spilled chocolate milk or soup or something.

A Levi jacket was a real status symbol to a ranch kid back then.
I was really proud when I was big enough to have a real blanket lined Levi Jacket. That was the ultimate cool coat for a kid. It was just like the ones the cowhands in the bunkhouse wore.

A spoiled lunch was one thing but a sticky Levi jacket was not cool at all.

My horse wasn't too thrilled about the flies that collected on a chocolate saddle blanket either.

 

[parallel]

Mine was the loyal New Orleans Saints Fan themed lunch kit... a brown paper bag.

 

[smith revolver cop]

Mid-1960's-
The Munsters!

 

[David LaPell]

Star Wars, and then Dukes of Hazard

 

[S/W - Lifer]

I'm sure I did but I'll be danged if I can remember what it was. That's getting on toward 60 years ago.

What I do remember was the smell, and those nasty 2 cent bottles of warmish school milk.

Phew, take me back to the MRE thread.

 

[624 Fan]

Late 70s I had the Kung Fu lunchbox. Good memories of lunchtime and seeing all the great artwork on all the other kid's boxes. Loved Star Wars, Emergency, Scooby Doo, Goober and the Ghostchasers, Fat Albert, Space 1999, etc. I recently picked up a book with photos of all the old lunchboxes and it is very entertaining!

 

[bshepherd]

I had a Rat Patrol lunchbox in 1968-69 timeframe. Later I remember I had one of the plain black round top versions. They were bigger, could get more in it.

 

[Lubbock Louie]

Much after my time....but I have a Mork and Mindy one I got at a garage sale.

LL

 

[AJW]

Fantastic Four.

 

[rewster]

Brown paper bag.

 

[Noah Zark]

My lunchbox was heavy brown kraft paper and said "Kool Karry" or something like that in blue lettering with icicles. The markets used to put half-gallons of ice cream or boxes of frozen vegetables in them. One bag would last me about six weeks.

Noah