What's for lunch?

Hot Lunch or Cold and the lunch boxes they came in.

SCHOOL LUNCH

The cacophony of the school cafeteria, one million sounds blended into one:
Children's Voices
Some unlucky kid dropping his tray, clatter of the tray, plop of the food
A fist fight
Laughing
Jeering
Cheering
School yard stories and legends (some kid telling about the food fight of 1983, all heads look up to the ceiling at the unidentifiable globs of food hanging suspended for eternity)
Slurping
Chomping
Guzzling
Cash register chinging
Silverware clanking on trays
The sudden pop of a milk carton
More laughter
The stern voice of the lunch lady, "You throw that and it'll be detention for a month".

HOT LUNCH

If you went to school at all chances are you spent a considerable part of your childhood in the cafeteria. The majority of which may have been in the lunch line or at least it seemed like it. After finally getting your food, it was a mad scramble to snarf it down to save some time for recess.

Lunch line

What'll it be pal?

Hamburger and crinkle fries?

Enter something I like to call carpet pizza. It was a strange food that was basically cardboard with cheese and sauce giving it the exact weight and feel of carpet. For some reason the kids at my school loved it and couldn't get enough. We even dipped it in ranch dressing.

I can tell you right now carpet is not to be found on the food pyramid; we ate it anyways.

Corn dog and Tater tots?

Chow Mein? Well a picture of school cafeteria Chow Mein is not very appetizing so I will spare you and save your lunch from coming up. Mystery Meat falls into the same category, just add gravy!

Tomato soup, Melted Cheese Sandwiches (I would say grilled but I don't think they really were), Meatballs, Burritos, Tacos, Chili, Fish sticks, Turkey Dinner, the list goes on and on of lunch menu possibilities.

One last choice - regular milk or chocolate, the choice is really simple. I'm not sure why they even stock regular.

Have your lunch ticket or token ready or be prepared for the boos and hisses from the line anxiously waiting behind you.

Animals at a feeding trough have been more civilized.

COLD LUNCH

Sacks or Lunch boxes

A sandwich, apple, box of raisins, chips and carrot strips fairly standard fare. Mom... where's my Twinkie? At least a Fruit Roll Up , c'mon mom throw me a bone.

Golden cake of goodness with sweet creamy filling.

Hostess Cupcakes, a piece of heaven with chocolate icing on top with that cool swirl that was so very difficult to peel off in one piece.

Dried fruit blended into a paste then steam rolled flat, delicious!

String Cheese, cheese you could peel like a banana!

Chip Variety packs, thank you Frito lay.

At the end of the week there was only one flavor left the one nobody wanted.

Ole faithful, the original of school lunch sandwiches, the Peanut Butter and Jelly
or PB & J for short. However for those who were allergic to peanuts (like me) it was Bologna and Cheese.

Some kid's mom would always pack a veritable smorgasbord of food. The cornucopia that was his sack was a never ending supply of nutritious treats and enough trading material to barter for practically anything on the table he wanted, a king of lunchendom.
"Trade you my milk for your brownie? No way Jose! How about my whipped fruit dessert for two string cheeses and your orange? Done and done my friend, fork it over".
If unable to trade satisfactorily there was always resorting to the dirty underhanded tricks known to all. "Hey look you guys they're fighting over there" pointing frantically! "Where?" as the whole side of the table turns to look. Blindingly swift movements, a blur of thievery. No fight, table turns back around "Hey! Where is my peanut butter square and chocolate milk?" Outrage as the culprit licks the square "Already licked sorry!" Now there really will be a fight. Also "Look she's eating her boogers!" worked just as well. The wiser kids or former victims never turned without a firm hand on the chocolate milk and just a quick glance and the distraction technique.

Most moms however were either too tired to care or too late for work and packed anything and everything leftovers or not into your lunch. Mom would be up at the crack of dawn to pack your lunch trying to peel one bleary eye open far enough to not spread mayo on the counter top and actually hit the bread. Woe to the child of the sleepy mother who accidentally left the cellophane wrapping on the processed cheese slices before inserting them into the sandwich.

The really unlucky kid opened his lunch and all he found was a can of Vienna Sausages and a note from mom "Sorry, love mom" from the mother who had overslept. Don't worry though someone would always give up their celery sticks and your best friend would give you a cookie.

To wash it all down:

Squeezits fruit drinks with a plastic bottle with a twist off top. Two squeezes and in gush of sugary liquid it's gone.

HI-C fruit juice boxes with a little bendy straw to insert. Just like the milk cartons you could inflate them with air when empty and stomp on them for a satisfying boom.

The old thermos standby filled with Tang maybe? Kool Aid? V8? You will never know until you taste it, down the hatch it goes. Your Thermos was part of your Lunch Box set. Marketed for children with every form of known media possible. From movies to TV shows,video games to dolls, etc on each side of the box. They came in either plastic or metal. My mom preferred metal after the broken lunch box incident. I actually did too, confident that if some kidnapper tried to snatch me on the way to school or to the bus stop one smack upside the noggin with my metal lunch box, wielded like a club swung with all my tiny might on the short arc my arm could provide would cure him of his foolishness, and he would look elsewhere for an easier target.

Metal Pac Man Lunchbox

Plastic A-Team Lunchbox

What did you have on your lunchbox?
Some of the ones I remember:

The Dark Crystal

E.T.

Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi

Gremlins

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Heathcliff

Masters of the Universe

Masters of the Universe side two

Strawberry Shortcake

Pete's Dragon

Secret of Nimh

Thundercats

Two of the lunch boxes I still own:

Dragon's Lair

Universal Monsters

Until next time, I hope you come back hungry for more.

Comments

You know, I'm not suppose to tell this, but I need to get it out of my head. When I went to Mars Elementary School of 1988, the lunchroom wasn't like yours back on Earth. All they were serving everyday was Goolosh, the yuckiest food of all Mars school lunches. So I decided to being packed lunch. Oh yeah, and you have to be quiet in the lunch room; we're not allowed to talk, sing, kiss, whine, slurp, burp, fart, laugh, cry, armpit noises, scream, yell, cheer, or rap. FYI: I am NOT from Mars, I am an Essganee from Essgo has been selected to go to Mars school, because they think I was the smartest, pretty stupid of these martians uh?

I hated plastic lunchboxes, they were cheap pieces of crap. Most of mine were metal (fortunately). I had the pacman & heman ones you posted, plus I had a snoopy one, a transformers one, and a couple others that I forget. The metal ones always lasted way longer than the school year & I would use them to store various things like legos or pencils. I had 1 plastic lunchbox in 1st grade. It was dukes of hazzard & it was one of those double-decker style ones. The thing didn't even last a whole school year before the bottom split.

We didn't get much choice with the school lunches. There was usually a choice between 2 main dishes, and sometimes a choice of dessert (and of course the milk flavor), that was it. I really didn't like any of the food the school served, except popsicles & mashed potatoes & gravy (I loved novemeber, that's when we always got taters & gravy). I would only get a school lunch when they were serving one of those items, and I would trade everything else on my tray for either said items or more chocolate milk. As lunch time approached, other kids in class would come up to me to start arranging the trades. The teachers would stop us when they saw us trading, but we would just eat the given item from our own tray before trading. If the teacher didn't see the actual trade & didn't see 2 of the same item on one tray, they were clueless.

Lunch never had any connection to recess in any of my schools. Lunch was a fixed time, you went to the cafeteria at a certain time, took your trays/trash up at a certain time, then went back to class at a certain time. It made no difference at all how fast or slow you ate. Additionally, recess was almost never right before/after lunch. They spaced it out (presumably to keep kids from getting restless by having to sit still for too long).

Also, tickets were always taken at the beginning of the line in my schools, never at the end.

One of my fav activities at lunch were milk carton canons. Use your pencil to jab a hole in the empty carton, stick the straw in the hole, stick paper in the straw, slam your fist down on the carton & watch the paper fly.

I don't even eat lunch at school.
By the way, very good and interesting article.
P.S. twinkies have an indefinite shelf life; just wanted to share that.

lol our lunch was certainly not like yours...we would either bring our own lunch from home or we would get 3 dollars to buy 2 slices of peporoni or cheese pizza, or we could mix it up...it was every wednesday..lol...high school had more variety though.

Carpet Pizza was the best! And who can forget soggy Chicken Nuggets? I used to only get Minute Maid juiceboxes in my sack lunch, but on the rare occasion that I got a Squeeze It, I was in Heaven!

SQUEEZEITS! They always made me sick but I loved them anyways.

I told my friend about some of the food at summer school being awful a long time the last time that I was there and he said. "Yeah,Tell me about it!!"

When I went to summer school eight years ago, some of the school food was really horrible and it was all they had. I didn't have any lunch most of the time all because of my family's behavior and the school food services' behavior. My whole family didn't listen to me when I told them that food they had in the school cafeteria was awful and they did the same thing that my teachers did when I was little which was make me eat it. I learned from one of my teachers when I was in high school that one of the students went to summer school felt the same way that I did about the school food. I was picky when I went to the Houston Zoo with my class is why I wasn't eating and somebody asked" Hey little girl! Why aren't you eating your lunch. I answered rudely "Because I'm not hungry!" When we got back to school, my teacher asked me "You didn't eat your lunch huh?"
I didn't answer her.

HOLY MOLY YOUR ARTICLES ARE GREAT!

great article. i too had the carpet pizza at my school. i thought it was horrible, but everyone else loved it. i took my lunch on pizza day (every friday). its great to see the old lunch boxes. i had the e.t., pacman, a-team, he-man, gremlins, indiana jones, and multiple star wars ones. as well as others. why so many, you might ask? we beat the shit out of them by beating the shit out of each other with them. i probably went through 4 or 5 each grade. we threw them, kicked them, etc. good times. i got a couple stitches from taking a shot to the head with a metal one in the 2nd grade.
my favorite food day at my elementary school was lasagna day!

Great article! I remember that rectangle shaped "carpet pizza" like it was yesterday and how horrible it tasted. At my elementary school the Salisbury steak always came with hair on it. I couldn't agree with you more,bloodmist, pigs in a blanket were awesome! The same can be said for chicken nuggets and that macaroni ( even though it did stick to your tray). There were some occasions in elementary school when I would bring a cold lunch. My grandma got me a Where's Waldo lunch box and my brother had an X-Men one. In Junior High I never brought my own food b/c they gave us Little Caesars, Sunny-D and ice cream cakes. High School was pretty much the same.

Some kid I knew brought chocolate inside out cake. His mom made a chocolate cake from scratch to die for. His mom would dutifully wrap it just as jango describes each week. The poor kid probably only got to eat it once a month though because word of mouth quickly spread and it was the hottest trading commodity on the lunch table. Some of the offers he got were just too tempting or ludicrous to pass up. Being one of his best friends I usually ended up with it as friendship with a heavy slice of guilt along with whatever I had to barter usually cinched the deal. Once a month however his mind was set and he would refuse all offers and eat his cake even if you laid down cold hard cash he would pass on his day to eat cake after all his mom made it for him he would say.

Mmmmmm....freedom, funny!

Everybody had carpet pizza...and of course its a conspiracy, the gov't does a lot of school lunch programs...for example, the week of and about two weeks after 9/11 and the snide French remarks, my school called "French fries", "Freedom fries". Mmmmm...freedom.

Logan.. I had an A-Team and Duke's Of Hazzard lunch boxes.

The pizza must be the same all over the place.. Ill bet there is a company that has been producing that crap for the last 30yrs...LOL

Best thing within this article is the use of terms..

I can't tell you the last time I "snarfed" down my food..LOL

Great Article...
Cheers!

Has anyone ever had "Inside Out Cake"? Well, usually if your family made a tasty Duncan Hines, Pillsbury, or Betty Crocker cake with frosting the night before for after dinner dessert you would definitely be guaranteed to get a small slice in your lunch the next day. But here's the dilemma...how can you safely transport that awesome cake in your lunch to school without the frosting getting stuck to the top of what ever you're storing it in? Simple. Take a slice of that delectable cake and cut it across the top and make two halves: one with frosting and one without. Then, you flip the frosting side over and place it on top of the non frosted side and ta-da! You have an aesthetically pleasing travel version of your favorite cake. Yellow cake and red velvet cakes were the best...mmmmmm!!! ^_^

Great and original article. My school has carpet pizza too. I always hated that stuff, but everyone at my school gleefully dunks it in mayonaise mixed with ketchup. When I was in third grade there was a fad called extreme eating. I was a 'prophet of gloom' at that time. Kids would dare each other to mix two different foods and then eat it (lollypops and ketchup, etc.). My friend and I just dipped our Ruffles in ketchup. I never had metal or plastic lunchboxes or thermi (soft Pikachu bag and Minute Maid juice boxes). But now I'm bringing retro back. I have a soft Pinky and the Brain lunchbox (with thermos), a plastic Animaniacs one (also with thermos), and a metal Beatles tin tote. I love the Beatles one, but last year everybody kicked it and now it's all dented. =/ But I haven't given up on my efforts yet.

You were lucky. At my elementary school we only had the choice of white or chocolate milk on Fridays. M-Thur it was only white 2% milk for us.

we have that exact same carpet pizza at school too! wierd its like a consperacy!

Ah, yes! The Slimer Hi-C's were the greatest.

You should have mentioned Lunchables, Those things were the greatest ^_^. Squeezits pwnt also.

great article. The myths and legends of "the 1983 food fight" and looking up at the cieling really got me. We used to tell the same stories. We also had the same cardboard pizza AND dipped it in ranch. I personally was a big fan of the hamburgers and hotdogs that were offered every day.

eg you'll lucky the scholl food at my scholl was nasty only ate it once and vgot sick we had this thing called texas straw hats I wouldn't even touch

I remember two of the lunch boxes I had (they always broke or got lost) one was my little pony and my last one ever was american gladiators

good article very informitive

that sums it up, pal. I have to eat that carpet stuff almost every day at school....
But on a scale of 1-10, i rate this article 11.

That brings back some memories. Usually I brought a sandwich. Early on one of my parents would make them, later on I made them myself. Sometimes I'd take something in a thermos, usually dinner leftovers if it was some kind of caserole or pasta dish, soup or a Chef Boyardee thing.

None of the public schools I went to had cafetirias. My highschool did. I didn't usually get anything from there except for sometimes the chicken burgers, I'd usually just bring something or go over to the nearby plaza.

I never bought hot lunch the whole time I was in elementary, middle, and high school. In elementary school there was a scary lunch lady, and even after I didn't go to that school anymore, I didn't want to buy lunch.

Those metal lunch boxes were the best. You have pics of the ones I had. Gremlins, Temple of doom, and Empire. Part of lunch time for me was looking around the table to see everyones metal lunch box. They were cooler then the plastic ones cuz some had scenes from movies. If we hadn't scene the movie yet we would speculate what the scenes were about while we ate. Then others who actually seen the movie would tell their extended versions of what the scenes were about........Great article!

Actually, NLogan, don't feel bad about forgetting Lunchables, as they sort of came out too little too late for my generation.

Personally, I felt this was Oscar Mayer's answer to the problem you mentioned where parents would forget to make a child a proper lunch, or just didn't have time preparing a lunch. Because overlooking the basic Lunchable pack, the school-designed ones contained the essentials, the entree, snack, dessert and drink.

From rumours I had heard similar to your trade-off and Lunch wars, Lunchables were indeed a hot commodity, esp. if the school menu was less than appetizing. I recall once my co-worker's cousin used to take two Lunchables to school. One as the decoy, while the other was her real one, because you did have these wiseguys pilfering these wondrous boxes and wolfing them down before you realized you've been hosed out of your lunch.

Sometimes I'm kinda glad I missed the Lunchables area of school. XD

what an original idea for an article good work man.

good article! I wonder what company makes carpet pizza.

i had the mask lunch box back than

Ah yes that carpet pizza, good times. And Squeezits were awesome too.

As great as Fruit Roll-Ups are, the description in the above article is perfect. . . dried fruit blended into a paste. . .

Is there any more appetizing word than "paste"? Many of the foods we longed for were made from some sort of paste or another. . .

As for the "carpet pizzas". . . they were the greatest thing of ALL time to eat, one Friday a month. Usually served with shoestring potatoes (which made perfect "birthday candles" in the pizza), applesauce, peanut butter cookie, and milk.

Twenty years later, I'm in a bowling alley snack bar with about fifteen friends and I see someone eating a "school lunch" pizza! I lost my mind, ran up to the girl at the counter, and ordered two. We ended up ordering all they had left. . . .GREAT, great stuff!!! I'd love to buy a truckload of them. . .

You, my friend just hit the nail on the head. xD I remember all of this in perfect clarity. From playing bouncy-ball catch with the chicken nuggets to my Madeline tin lunch box to being one of those unfortunate kids who happened to get some canned mystery meat like Vienna Weenies in their lunch box.

I miss Squeezits.

I actually loved the "carpet" pizza. I didn't buy lunch in school that often, but that was one thing I would actually get. Pizza Day was usually on Friday, if I remember correctly. *Sigh* I kind of want a slice of that pizza, now.

String cheese was awesome, too. I didn't get to have it much though, but a friend would share it with me occasionally, and I remember being fascinated by it as a kid - wow, cheese that you can peel. Fun times, haha. :p

Ah... Squeezits rocked. Too bad they aren't around anymore... the only thing similar to them are those horrid Kool-aid Blasts. Nowadays for lunchtime at school (I'm in 10th), I just bring a protein bar and buy some Skittles at the concession stand and wash it down with either Diet Coke or Vitamin Water. Yep. Really delicious. XD I always had PB&J in elementary because I hated/currently still hate lunch meats.

For my lunch, I had a tuna fish sandwich, pudding, milk and celery sticks. Some days I had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with carrot sticks.

Wow, we used to bring our lunches to school since the school didn't have a cafeteria at the time. Then again, I went to elementary in the mid-late 70s. The only thing we brought was milk.

In Jr high, it was the same thing, pretty much.

High school, we had off campus lunch and I used to walk to Taco Bell every day for lunch. Those were the days.

I was a cold-lunch kid, but they passed out schedules of what they would be serving in the cafeteria on which days, so I got to pick perhaps four or five hot lunches each month.

While I'm glad you mentioned the kid whose mom always packed a freaking picnic basket, you forgot to mention the kid whose mom packed nothing but desserts; in elementary school, I knew a kid who came to school every day with a lunch consisting of nothing but a pudding snack, a fruit roll-up, some kind of chocolate cookie, a snack cake, and some "fun size" candy bars. Even as a little kid, I thought that was a head-shaker.

I want a squeezit!! Carpet might be considered a grain so it does fall in the pyramid. Good ol' lunch days! I actually preferred regular milk.

For the most part i was a hot lunch kid, for whatever reason.I actually for the most part liked cafeteria food, even the carpet pizza i found at least to be edible.Pigs in a blanket kicked ASS!I dunno, i think it was all pretty tasty since it was all full of fat and not at all good for you, i'm sure.I pity the kids these days that have cafeterias trying to be more "healthy", i really do.And later on as you went into middle school and high school, sometimes you had the choice of Pizza Hut or Taco Bell right in the school.Sweeet.

I did have cold lunches at times, and a few plastic lunch boxes with the cool official Thermos mugs.The only one i can remember clearly having was one based on The Real Ghostbusters cartoon.Slimer was displayed on the mug prominently.Lunchables were always an excellent lunch, i still eat Lunchables to this day.

I had a Popples lunchbox. It was yellow. I loved that thing. Wonder where it got to....

CLEVER AND LOVE THE LUNCH BOX PICS. HAD A FEW OF THEM, MOTU AND THE MONSTORS. I ALSO HAD A SILVER HAWKS ONE

Nuts! I totally forgot Lunchables. I really did mean to include them in this article. Thanks for reminding me Rad. I remember they came with this little container of Dijon mustard you could squeeze onto your "sandwiches". We always used it to squirt some on peoples car windows from about one foot above the glass. The color the little spice dots and the perfect splat technique made for an excellent faux bird dropping. Man I would be pissed if someone did that to my car today. I was a mean little turd.

i want a the empire strikes lunch box.

sick article again.

I miss the old rectangle pizzas that were or still are served at any average school cafeteria. Other than Hamburgers or Pizza, I also liked the Hot Dogs, Cream Turkey (during thanksgiving season), Salsbury Steak, Speggheti, Chicken Pattie, Chicken Nuggets, and many other foods that were served.

I always saved the deserts and the chocolate milk for last.

God, how nostalgic! I remember I had a DuckTales lunchbox. By the way, you forgot Lunchables.

Every Friday was Pizza day at elementary school. We had the "carpet" pizza, but it was good!

Every Tuesday was hamburger/cheeseburger day. Those cold, soggy burgers, ick! I can still taste those horrible things.

High School...all about off campus lunch!

i will always have fond memories of the pizza I had in elementary school
and I will always love the fake hamburgers they served

XD @ the vienna sausage! thats what everyone would put in the earthquake kit EVERY year! im SO glad we never had to use it!

mmm carpet pizza...and poor kid with the cold-as-the-can vienna sausages. i know u can eat em as they are but cooking them is WAY better.

i also remember, when we had a maid, (in the philippines that was pretty much what completes the family line up btw imho

) she would wrap my sandwiches in KLEENEX...ugh...and thats why i never make "baon" ever again...that and food aint good when its lost its freshness after a few minutes

Yes, you never see metallic lunchboxes anymore, just the plastic ones, and the funny thing is, there were MANY rumours as why they were discontinued.

One had to be the whole lead paint issue, like you're going to really lick the paint off your lunch box, other was they were prone to rust and get into the food. The other one was kids were using them as weapons whenever someone demanded milk money. Texans kids never fooled around.

You rarely saw lunchbags, lunch boxes were sort of the fashion to school kids back in the Seventies and Eighties. Mainly because you weren't allowed to bring other items to school, unless it was for show and tell, and even then.

Amazingly, the Thermos was the most remarkable innovation with school lunchboxes because those things literally held up against anything.

Yes, I do recall the carpet pizzas, as well as the processed semi-cooked meat patties for hamburgers, and the instant mashed potatoes.

The only thing I hated about lunch time, whenever they served something you hated and didn't consume everything on your plate, you ALWAYS had the snitch rat you out for not eating and your teacher forcing you to eat your food.

Once that happened to me when I was seven, and I was so pissed, I actually left the school grounds and didn't come back. Naturally my Dad found out since he worked as a teacher at the Middle School across the street and got onto me.

Afterwards, however, the teacher told students if I didn't eat, not to tell her and make an issue of it.

Before my Dad retired, he started wondering what they were feeding kids in school lunches because nowadays with all this nutrious stuff they offer, you're better off with the carpet pizza and puck-made hamburgers.

Anyhoo, I do recall when entering Middle and High School, cafeteria meals were replaced by a snack bar type alternative, where you could choose purchasing something there if you didn't like the menu. I recall before Taco Bell started with those taco salad bowls, my High School had them with the ground beef, cheese and sour cream. Used to buy those during the Winter Season, since it was the closest thing to a hot meal.

Great article, btw. Defintely brought back memories of how school lunches used to be, as well as lunch boxes.

i had an oragne transformers lunch box wiht a transformers holigram on it. and it came wiht little toy food inside to and a little toy thermous.

I had the pac-man and the Indiana Jones lunchboxes, along with The Dukes of Hazzard and Charlie Brown!!!!!

I loved cardboard pizza. It didn't taste like cardboard to me, though.

To me, high school lunch was better. In my 11th and 12th grade years, you could actually choose from several different types of food as opposed to just the one. I almost invariably chose the pizza, which tasted great. I could even get pepperoni on it, too. We also had soda machines in the cafeteria as well. I'd usually bring soda from home, but occasionally I would get a Yoo-Hoo out of the machine. It was then off to the library to bury myself in a book for a half-hour or so before it was back to Hell...er, class.

Cardboard pizza is awesome!

And so is that STAR WARS lunchbox. I wanted one of those so bad when that movie was the hottest and newest thing in town.

I don't know what lunchbox I ended up with...can't remember anymore. But, I know it wasn't the BEE GEES; because that kid got made fun of all the time (even though I personally thought the Bee Gees were pretty good).

Why did they get rid of anything that we loved then, dalmation? Because grown ups rule the world and while a good portion of it is marketed towards children, children don't get to decide, only money does. A sad time but good memories. Like in your article though, not everything now is bad.

Why did they discontinue Squeeze-its?

Yeah, the only thing that sucked about packed lunches is the way moms packed them for you. No offense, but either way: packed lunch or cafeteria, you just ate what you got. I remember at my school, they always had a menu for the month, so I'll know what days I'll want to go to the cafeteria and what days I'd want a packed lunch.

OH GOD IT'S THAT TEKSOQP LADY AGAIN

Oh and whatever happened to Squeeze its?! Those commercials were funny...SQUEEEEEZE THE FUN OUT OF IT! :-D

Love this article! How creative!

I remember "carpet pizza" as well. And liking it. That'd be the only time I'd get hot lunch is "carpet pizza" days. Oh and when we had Domino's Pizza days too. My school actually would get Domino's pizza for lunch or McDonald's cheeseburgers for lunch and they'd give us a bag of potato chips with our McDonald's cheeseburger. It was so freakin' awesome! And I remember hearing rumors that the jr. high and high school got to choose between pizza and McDonald's for lunch.

I had a My Little Pony, New Kids On The Block cartoon, Beauty and the Beast lunch boxes.

I was allergic to peanuts once too. I always ate bagged lunches, but I didn't have a lunchbox. I still use a lunch box today and I'm in College now. (Cafeteria food is just expensive.)

Thanks dude, now you have made me hungry.

I had the He-Man lunch box.

Hell yeah School Lunch. The nasty square pizza's people used to dip in mayonaise or mustard. I never ate school lunch in my life. But I witnessed everything you put in here.