Tin lunchboxes | TheaterFire

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REDDITSHITLORD@reddit

Knight Rider, BITCHES! But I was one of the few with a clunky metal box, and I was jealous of the plastic ones.

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---username_--@reddit

Me too! I still have mine. It's full of zip ties.

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I had a red plaid metal lunchbox with a matching thermos (Kool aid or juice). Lunch would be either a meat, a peanut butter or a cheese sandwich on white bread wrapped in cellophane or foil; a pack from Little Debbie; a twist of cellophane containing Nestle's Quik for the box of white milk .

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sewcrazeee@reddit

The Munsters

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Ineffable7980x@reddit

The Avengers!

Got to have multiple.

Was also rough on them.

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goonie_lover@reddit

Strawberry shortcake with the game board on the back.

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Conscious-Guest-8342@reddit

Muppets here also, Miss Piggy tho, I believe she was on a motorcycle… pink and purple glory!

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SnooApples4515@reddit

bingbongloser23@reddit

I still have mine.

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bingbongloser23@reddit

Planet of the apes.

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Buddy-Lov@reddit

I was switched from metal to soft plastic after slamming a kid in the head with it….he had it coming.

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Altruistic-Tank4585@reddit

🤷🏼‍♀️

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seab3@reddit

I had a Bobby Orr lunchbox with matching thermos.

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manuredujour@reddit (OP)

Canadian?

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seab3@reddit

Yep

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BigAndTall1968@reddit

"You guys got lunchboxes?"

...... miracle whip....

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jestingvixen@reddit

PB&J, strawberry, preserves so there were chunks of strawberry. Whole wheat bread.

I miss peanut butter. I started getting itchy about ten years ago, thought it might be best just to back away slowly. Last year, commercial bread* and I had to part ways.

Ok-Offer-541@reddit

I think there’s still some stuck to the roof of my mouth.

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C-romero80@reddit

Most of the time it was! In a brown bag. Sometimes pb and j, sometimes we'd get ham or turkey for the meat. On a very rare occasion I'd be allowed to buy the school lunch.

I did have a plastic care bear lunchbox but that was fairly quickly lost, hence the brown bags after that lol

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West_Consequence8145@reddit

That was me most of the time til I got the coveted Transformers box with the thermos in it.

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BigAndTall1968@reddit

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Switched to brown paper bags when I entered 7th grade and it was no longer socially acceptable to have a lunch box.

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Full-Veterinarian117@reddit

“You guys got paper bags?”

I had a tin Snow White one. It was purple with a forest, Snow White and critters. On the back was a game with a spinner. 🤔 I wonder who picked that out. I have a feeling it wasn't me. I don't think we ever played the game.

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manuredujour@reddit (OP)

Damn! Talk about rough.

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youdontlookadayover@reddit

Did no one else have the red plaid lunchbox/thermos?

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PaLuMa0268@reddit

I did

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eatmoregrubs@reddit

I did.

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phillymjs@reddit

I know I went through a few in grade school, but the only one I can 100% remember having was The Six Million Dollar Man.

I entered school a couple years into plastic.

My only licensed one was The Six Million Dollar Man. From there it was bagged, or plain license free plastic ones.

WhydotheycalluWacker@reddit

I had to google it but here she is. Polly Pal. Came with a pink plastic thermos!

Found one on eBay that has a Jaclyn Smith Charlie’s Angel sticker on the inside and it legit could be my old lunchbox 😂😂😂

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chi2ny56@reddit

Care Bears

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lalalinoleum@reddit

I still have my strawberry shortcake tin one from kindergarten. I wish I still had my Roger rabbit plastic one from when I was 10.
I have collected a few vintage ones.

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Wrong_Profession_512@reddit

Annie

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elphaba00@reddit

Me too! I think I was the only one in my school with that lunch box. Everyone else had things like My Little Pony, Transformers, Cabbage Patch Kids, GI Joe.

Prinessbeca@reddit

Aurochbull@reddit

I had one! Fucker was yellow and the stupid handle-strap-thing never stayed closed. I hated it so much.

My parents finally caved and got me the Fraggle Rock one that I begged for.

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twirlybird11@reddit

Me too! Mine was either brown or orange. Maybe both, as my mother was an avid Tupperware party goer/host.

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MaddytheUnicorn@reddit

Not the only one; my grandma was a Tupperware dealer and I had a Tupperware lunchbox!

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Serious-Beat-5909@reddit

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Tronitaur@reddit

I had a SPACE 1999 lunchbox. Metal. With a story.

One day in very early grades (1st? 2nd) I was on the bus going to school. I had the wheel well seat. A known awful (and big) bully tried to pull me out of the seat. I resisted, he started punching me. Over and over. I had no where to go. I yelled stop stop. He didn’t.

I put my mitten in his face with one hand. With the other hand I lashed out with my full of lunch lunchbox. I connected squarely with his head. hard enough to dent in the lid of my lunchbox.

Bully fell backwards into the aisle screaming and crying. Bus driver stopped the bus. Came back. Looked at me with no expression, said no words (he knew what was up) and brought the bully to the front of the bus. The seat closest to him to keep an eye on him.

I saved this lunchbox for a long time. Always looked at that dent as a symbol of courage.

I had 1776 Mickey cuz I started 1st grade in 1976. Kindy was half-day, so no lunch.

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FadingOptimist-25@reddit

Then when my brother stopped using his, I used it because Mickey was for babies.

He had Scooby.

Me, too! I would love someone to pack a lunch for me now

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vulcangod08@reddit

He-Man

My brothers had Scooby Doo and GI Joe

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manuredujour@reddit (OP)

Well, which one would win in a fight?

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Unhappy-Jaguar-9362@reddit

Gentle Ben

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manuredujour@reddit (OP)

This is a rare one

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bamagurl06@reddit

The only lunchbox I remember is the Osmonds.

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DustAfter@reddit

Agreed, Definitely gonna happen.

I don't really remember - maybe dukes of hazard. I do remember my brother and I using them as weapons during fights with each other. We switched to paper bags after that.

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a_guy_over_here@reddit

I think in kindergarten (maybe first grade?) I had a metal lunch box. I will never forget what it looked like - it was "Miss America"....just some generic made-up pretty woman (she was a brunette) all decked out with the crown, cape and flowers, with all the runners-up, smiling in the background. Bordered in hot pink. Now that I think about it, I never had a thermos....so I wonder if it was a hand-me-down from my sisters.

I was a total tomboy at that age and didn't want anything to do with princesses, Miss America or Barbie. I wanted to climb trees!

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MomsBored@reddit

I had KISS whoever wore the catlike face paint was on the front

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mamawoman@reddit

A-Team! I wish I kept it 😞

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YoKinaZu@reddit

A-Team! I wish I kept it 😞

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manuredujour@reddit (OP)

I want that one now

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divergurl1999@reddit

I had a Little House on the Prairie lunchbox but I never got to use the thermos. I was sent to school with a quarter to buy milk.

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manuredujour@reddit (OP)

Now that brings back memories!

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Extreme-Expression59@reddit

I had a Strawberry Shortcake lunch box

I had a He-man masters of the universe metal lunchbox.

Bugaloos & Cat in the hat

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mmfn0403@reddit

Ooh, lunchboxes! Very posh. I got sandwiches wrapped in either cling film or the waxed paper wrapper that the bread came in.

I remember asking for Kiss, but I got Scooby-Doo instead. Which was quite alright at the time.

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thisoldguy74@reddit

I was thinking it was Pigs in Space, but questioned it because that couldn't be real.

Lopsided_Antelope868@reddit

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saltydancemom@reddit

Strawberry Shortcake

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Prinessbeca@reddit

Me too! With chocolate milk in my thermos.

I had Holly Hobby too!

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Coppergirl1@reddit

Bobby Sherman baby!

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turtle0831@reddit

I had Indiana Jones.

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brendini511@reddit

The one time I had one, it was s Peanuts one. Most of the time we bought lunch.

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roseykrh@reddit

I had the Walt Disney School lunch box. The thermos always had sweet tea in it. My main lunch was peanut butter and jelly cut in half diagonally, a small sandwich bag of chips and a banana. My goodness opening that lunch box smelled amazing!

I still eat this meal quite a bit in my '50s. Lol.

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ennuiandapathy@reddit

I lived close enough to go home for lunch.

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canfullofworms@reddit

Here is a lot of our lunch box collection! (see one you had?)

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PebblesEatsPlants@reddit

Oooh, a fellow collector! I’ve got a few of those, but you have some really rare ones that I’ve never even seen in person.

I’ve got Archie’s, Duke’s, Chitty Chitty Bang Brang, Kung Fu, Flipper, Road Runner, Snoopy Dome, Pac Man, A-Team that I can see in your photo. Plus about 60ish others! I love them.

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BigFitMama@reddit

Paper Bag - my mom would only have gotten us one if it was in a ditch or the charity Xmas had one .

It was probably 3.50$ but we didn't have 3.50$

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Jed308613@reddit

Hot Wheels, Hair Bear Bunch, GI Joe, Fat Albert

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anothercynic2112@reddit

Planet of the Apes and Space 1999

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boybrian@reddit

Top tier. I had the Space 1999 one. My mother dried it in the oven too long one day though and it turned a bit dark. I think I brown-bagged after that. I also had a hand me down domed Apollo rocket one.

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