November 23, 2011

Tin Lunch Boxes.

I had a Lancelot Link Lunch Box; Lancelot Link was one of the top agents of A.P.E. (Agency to Prevent Evil), a secret organization that protected the world from evil wrongdoers. I was the big brother and my little sister Denise Marie had a Partridge Family Lunch Box; We had a dream that we'd go traveling together We'd spread a little loving then we'd keep moving on Something always happens whenever we're together We get a happy feeling when we're singing a song.

posted by vapidave 12 years ago
  • And who didn't want a Little House on the Prairie lunchbox?
  • I remember Lancelot Link. My dreams were shattered when somebody told me it wasn't actually the chimps talking...
  • I don't remember what lunchbox I had, but I vaguely remember having one. I think I had one without any sort of advertising on it. I remember it being rusty. I definitely recall drinking from a thermos. Awful. I went the paper bag route around the second grade or so. I would have my lunch in a brown paper bag. It would include a sandwich (buttered bread, mustard, and a slice of boiled ham, bologna, or pickle loaf), a sandwich bag with a small amount of potato chips (I don't even know if they sold those single serve small bags back then), three cookies (almost always either Chips Ahoy or Oreo), and an apple or a small box of raisins. I would also get money for milk. I remember that milk was 8 (skim), 9 (regular), or 10 (chocolate) cents. It was that way for a few years, and then one year it jumped to 25 cents for milk. What the hell caused milk to go up over 250 per cent in one year?
  • Lessee.... I had a stupid red plaid metal lunchbox, a CrackerJack lunchbox, and one stupid vinyl red one that fell apart so fast all I remember is the duct tape, not the design. Since all my lunch boxes were so lame, I frequently played kick the box on the way home from school. Remember how wonderful your lunchbox was Monday morning when you forgot to take it home on Friday afternoon? Bleah! Wow, 'nockle, you got chips AND a cookie? Mine was either/or. The thermos was always disgusting in those lunch boxes. Everything was always lukewarm. Mom used to send soup in winter with the loving idea that it would warm my little tummy. Instead, it was just scummy and nasty. Milk was worse. Not to derail, but I loved Lancelot Link. And the Red red red red Rose commercials.
  • "I frequently played kick the box on the way home from school." Wow, I thought only my fellow students at Latona Elementary in 1970's Seattle played that. The goal of "Kick the Box" for us was to make the lunchbox slide (not tumble) on one side for the greatest possible length. Both my Lancelot Link and my Six Million Dollar Man thermos became fancy tin cans as a result of that game.
  • Hooray for "Kick the Box" Slide that sucker all the way to the stop sign!