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What lunch box did you have - what was in it?

My 2 faves were first for kindergarten: a black plastic Barbie box that was patent leather-like shiny and then a pink -and-white gingham with a big ice cream cone on it! I usually had pbj or bologna or oval spiced ham on white bread with mustard. Hate oval spiced ham nowadays. If I had the lunch meat version, I would smash potato chips on the sandwich. Usually, early in the week were the best lunches right after weekend grocery shopping before all the snacks were gone. Disgusting warm milk in the thermos. I can still smell it. I went to grade school in the '70s and remember loving Snack Pack puddings. They were in a metal can with a pull tab top that almost took the finger off one of my friends during lunch. Total bloodbath - you would NEVER see anything like that now!

kwhytehappy at 12:19PM on 06/03/08

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Do you use/like Liquid Smoke?

Have some since we blended family cabinets...it's scary, but a little like a car wreck: I'm curious and on more than one occasion have held it and unscrewed the cap just to see what would happen. But now Simon's link to "weakly genotoxic in vivo" may have cured me for good. Yikes!

kwhytehappy at 4:34PM on 05/16/08

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Really good cooking/recipe blogs

Here is a very ambitious and informative website. I don't always eat this way, but find it enjoyable to check it out occasionally. Very pleasing photos too.

http://cook-aunaturel.blogspot.com/

kwhytehappy at 2:06PM on 05/13/08

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What lunch box did you have - what was in it?

My mom sometimes put spaghetti in my thermos. People thought it was weird but I liked that better than the sandwiches... I had Snoopy, Peanuts, maybe G I Joe (when she wasn't paying attention and switched mine with my brother's)... I had Sanrio ones as well before Sanrio was cool... bah.

I still have lunchboxes... only now we call 'em bento and I try to put as little food as possible in to them, lol. http://feistybento.blogspot.com :)

feistyfoodie at 12:42PM on 06/09/08

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What lunch box did you have - what was in it?

I must have had more than one along the way, but the only lunch box I can remember had the Harlem Globe Trotters on the side. Not with photos of the team though. They had their own Saturday morning cartoon in the 70's instead. I still think it was "supercool" and wish I still had it. What was inside was not so wonderful. PB&J on pepperridge farm white bread. I still like pb&j but not after its sat in a locker for 3 hours and the jelly has sunk into the bread. Baloney wasn't too good but held up better somehow.

I remember coveting a classmate's Josie and the Pussycats lunch box as well.

redcat at 6:20PM on 06/06/08

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What lunch box did you have - what was in it?

@Susquehanna: I had the same Mork and Mindy lunchbox, but in orange. This was 1981. In Grade 2 I got a Thermos brand Garfield lunchbox and then in grade 4 the cool thing was to have an insulated bag. The first one I had was red and white but then I got a silver coloured one with "Survival Kit" printed on it.

A typical lunch was saltines w/butter or pb for morning snack; pb and honey sandwich, cut up apple wrapped in wax paper and either homemade baking or two Dare Chocolate fudge cookies. With the hard plastic lunch boxes I usually got apple or grape juice in the thermos but by the time the insulated packs came along, I was buying a carton of milk at school. 40 cents, either white or chocolate. That was the only thing you could buy at school; the milk guy would drop off a couple of cases and someone would set up a table in the foyer every day.

Then in grade 7 we moved and I was only 2 doors down from my new school so I could go home for lunch and eat Zoodles and watch Gummi Bears on TV!

blush at 3:16PM on 06/06/08

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What lunch box did you have - what was in it?

@Susquehanna: Totally hear ya on being judged about lunches. I was (still am) really good about fruit, so anything was game. I used to LOVE prunes. One day, my mom packed them for me as my fruit. Needless to say, that was the last day they were packed. Haven't had them in a while, but I still like them.

@Chelley: I WANT TO GO!! I think I had everything NKOTB at one point. Pins, posters, clothing, purses, puzzles, etc...

What or who is Holly Hobby?

I had metal and plastic. Rainbow Brite, Barbie, a Butterfly one-my fave (shocking, I know), She Ra,and Wonder Woman. It usually contained either a pb&jam, ham/turkey and cheese, tuna with any type of fruit, ssips drink box or homemade iced tea and pretzels or if it was a cookie day (rare)-exactly 3 (but only Oreos or Homemade Choco Chip). I used to hate it when she would make homemade turkey/chicken salad sandwhiches-I just didn't like it. I would always ask her why and she said it was good for me. All I wanted was soda (not allowed in our house) and Lunchables-apparently that was too much to ask for, since I NEVER got either one.

Butrflygirly at 1:33PM on 06/05/08

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What lunch box did you have - what was in it?

@britt and Chelly: I had the NKOTB lunchbox as well! It was orange and tacky as hell. Man, I looked cool with it though! My best friend and I will be seeing NKOTB in KC, MO this November. After nearly 20 years I finally get to see them in concert!

Kristin H at 12:34PM on 06/05/08

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What lunch box did you have - what was in it?

I went to a school that had "hot lunch" in the cafeteria every day so, no lunch box for me. What i do recall, however, are the faces and sweet attitudes of the people (two ladies and a man) who worked in the lunch line... The adage about " always be nice to the lunch lady" is so-o-o true! I recall trading plates with a classmate one day when we wanted each other's chicken- i always got this huge breast , she always got a thigh and when the sweet lunch lady( who prolly thought she was helping a kid out) saw that trade, well, needless to say i was getting just a wing from thereon. I can remember being envious of the kids who brought thier lunch, though; they always had thecoolest simple stuff like a pbj or a tuna salad sandwich and some chips.

hobcat57 at 2:59PM on 06/04/08

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What lunch box did you have - what was in it?

I had a purse lunch box too! It was Josie and the Pussycats,and predictably, the thermos broke right away. I was so sorry when my mom switched to brown bags - I had to carry the same one for about a month. My mom also re-used the tin foil she wrapped my sandwich in (or should I say, half a sandwich - she was obsessed with our weight) all week. She always gave me homemade cookies, but they got smooshed into crumbs, and the crumbs got lost in the wrinkles of the old tin foil. And there's that distinctive, strange smell of lunchboxes that is oddly acrid...

chari at 1:00PM on 06/04/08

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What lunch box did you have - what was in it?

Heart of Glass....Meatless Fridays..back in the 60s the Baltimore County school system still deemed Friday as meatless per the Pope. No meat on Fridays! So..it was fish sticks or (my favorite to this day) grilled cheese & tomato soup!

RichardCrystal at 12:56PM on 06/04/08

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What lunch box did you have - what was in it?

I grew up in the 60's. I had a metal Jetsons lunchbox filled with a Velveeta and mayo sandwich (no crusts) or brunschwager and mayo. I'm surprised I'm still walking around with clear arteries! I resorted to packing my lunch after "the incident" in my Cathelic school cafeteria. We had to take everything offered in the lunch line and HAD to eat all of it. I couldn't stand the Spam surprise, so I stuffed it into my half-full milk container. Fr. Ken was standing at the tray deposit area shaking milk cartons to catch sneaky little girls like me who were throwing out food. I finished my lunch that day under Fr. Ken's scrutiny. You haven't lived until you've eaten Spam poached in milk! I carried my lunch from that day forward.

Josdean at 11:51AM on 06/04/08

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What lunch box did you have - what was in it?

Never had a box ;~( My parents were hot lunch proponents and delivered a quarter to me every morning. I traded that in for a tray and a place in line. The meals got a little more expensive as time passed but I could probably count on one hand the number of times I carried a "lunch sack" in my twelve years of schooling. I ate cafeteria style through college and still find myself in lunch lines throughout town, forty years later... I've heard the horror stories of school lunch programs but I always seemed to luck out with good cooks and well prepared/planned menus. Yes, I know the difference...

czken at 9:14AM on 06/04/08