I did only when they had the stuff I liked. I think lunch was .75c and a “super” (extra entree) was a $1.25. I would give the student collecting the money a dollar and they’d give me a quarter back in change, which I’d give back to them and tell them I wanted a “super” lunch. I saved .25c with my elementary school scam. 😂
As I recall, it was just a quarter for the hot lunch in the 1960s.
A hot lunch was a quarter when I was in elementary school in the 60’s. That was before public schools became an industry, designed to extort as much money as possible from the citizenry, under the guise of educating students.
A quarter was just shy of a quarter oz of silver till 1965, so it sort of makes sense that it could buy a nice hot lunch. That much silver today is worth about $4.60.
My dad got a Dale Earnhardt thermos as a promo for selling Winston cigarettes or something when I was in grade school. He let me take it to school for lunch and I made a bowl of Ramen noodles and dumped them in before I headed to school. Apparently Ramen steeping in a thermos all day completely dissolves by noon and you get a bowl of some kind of chicken dust flavored gravy gruel. It was gross and the one time I tried that maneuver, back to school lunches for me.
I did probably look pretty cool with my Winston thermos and my neon yellow Joe Camel windbreaker going to the 5th grade. 1990’s gas station promo gear was the schiet.
I did only when they had the stuff I liked. I think lunch was .75c and a “super” (extra entree) was a $1.25. I would give the student collecting the money a dollar and they’d give me a quarter back in change, which I’d give back to them and tell them I wanted a “super” lunch. I saved .25c with my elementary school scam. 😂
As I recall, it was just a quarter for the hot lunch in the 1960s.
This would’ve been the late ‘70’s or very early 80’s. I turned 50 a week ago so youse guys are much older than I. 😁.
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I remember an Evel Knievel one with the skycycle pretty well. I also vaguely remember one of a roller coaster and Woody Woodpecker pulling the pin to the cars behind at the top of the first big hill. Never cared for Woody Woodpecker. No idea how I got it.
I pretty much had either peanut butter & jelly or Lebanon Bologna sandwiches. Every. Single. Day. We were too poor to buy school lunches and too rich to get free ones. My mom LOVES sandwiches, so we got them at home on weekends and summers too. I pretty much hate sandwiches to this day, over 35 years later.
Had a hand me down Scooby Doo for a few years in grade school. Then a Star Wars one and a few various other of the metal ones. I think my favorite was The Fall Guy. Still got them all on a shelf in my loading room. Might get one down and take lunch to work one day!
Can't tell you how many thermoses I broke..... and got in trouble for... good riddance
Those glass lined ones?
Heck yeah. Busted a good transformers one once.
Yep.... damn things, you would pour your milk out full of glass shards...... how did we survive that schit? and to top it off mom would chew your ass for breaking another thermos
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I don't ever remember having a lunch box so I called Mom. She said I never had one. I took a brown bag lunch to H.S., but now I feel left out. I feel I missed an essential part of my youth.
I probably would have liked a Yosemite Sam lunch box... or the mudflap girl. A Stihl chainsaw lunch box would have been cool as well.
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Had this one from K-8. Put an older kid’s teeth through his top lip with it after school one day. He deserved it but i still caught hang for it from parents and the school.
Had this one from K-8. Put an older kid’s teeth through his top lip with it after school one day. He deserved it but i still caught hang for it from parents and the school.
First 5 years I walked home for lunch. Lived 3 houses away. When my mother wasn’t home we ate at my buddies house across the street. His mom made fried bologna sandwiches for us. Middle school we had bags, I never saw a lunchbox. They had a rule you had to leave your lunch in your locker until lunch. Metal shop was next to the cafeteria and you always wanted to be first in line. I had a notebook with a zipper so I stuck my lunch inside it. Always first in line. A quarter bought chocolate milk and ice cream. Always bought my own lunch in high school.
I got three dimes per day...we were on reduced lunches...spent them on three krispy kreme donuts in the morning and skipped lunch and played outside. I basically still do the same today at work.