Lunchpail Tales


Shanan writes:

"My first lunchbox was Scooby Doo, some time around around 1978? Then I had Garfield at some point.

But my all-time favorite was my Star Wars lunch box. It had R2D2 and C3PO on it. I think my mother still has it...

"The only particularly cute story that I remember about lunch as a kid was the horrible Army-Cheese sticks they used to serve at my elementary school. We were supposed to eat everything they gave us, regardless of whether or not we liked it. It usually wasn't too hard for me, because I was never a picky kid. But those cheese sticks would end up in some rather unusual places (under the benches on the playground, in other kids' lunch plates after they choked down their own). And they would never advertise when they were going to serve it...it was like Russian Roulette. You go to school with lunch money and a handful of ideas of what to do with the cheese if and when you get it..."