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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.

I remember a couple, one red ,white and blue shaped like mail box. The other one was some Charlie Brown theme.

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.

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. 😁.

Me too, until I lost it somewhere. Like, in a day, or so.

A used brown paper sack is all we could afford. Had to return it to mom so she could pack the next day’s lunch in it.

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.

Sloppy Joes?

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!

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

I got free lunch because I was poor.

Ate hot lunch or a bag of chips.
Then beat feet down to the smoking area with my dugout and pinch hitter on the sly.

The late 70,s and early 80,s were fugging great in high school!!!!!

Just went thru this thread .

LMFAO at some of the post!!!

Some of ya had a rough time growing up .


Waldo in the back of the bus van halen video type of stuff I am imagining....

LOL!!!!

Brown paper bag my friend the only way to lunch.

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.

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.

I can see the teeth marks.

We ate school lunch, never had a boomer box.

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.