100%, I think by 3rd grade the lunchbox was WAY not cool.I too had a Dukes of Hazzard lunch box in my younger days then in high school I brown bagged it!
Awesome. It looks like your parents got their money's worth.I was an 80's kid. Here is my grade school lunch box. I carried this thing from Kindergarten through sixth grade and I still have it. The thermos is around somewhere. I've yet to find it in my parents stuff.
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OoRAH!!Y’know them ham & mothers cook up real nice, but the best was the spaghetti where when you opened the top of the can and put it on a squad stove, the spaghetti column would levitate itself in a column up and out of the can!
When we were out on an OP, I never served my Marines the case face up; it was always upside down and pick one.
Trades were authorized at the discretion of both parties!

Oh, Schitt! I’ve still got 2 cases of brown bags in the basement!OoRAH!!
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Chicken ala king (AKA: barf ada king)
Frankfuters, beef (AKA : midget d**ks and shoestrings) because they where viennas with a pouch of shoestrings potatoes.
Oatmeal cookie bar (AKA: oat buttplug)
Grunts have a twisted sense of humor, I know, and I wont apologize
They started in turd brown bags. Towards the end for me ( 9 years) the MREs in the tan bags got WAY better I do have to capitulate.
And the Rat Patrol for me as well
And that Kraut Hauptmann emigrated to the States after the war, changed his name to Victor Newman and moved to Genoa City, Wisconsin.One of my favorite shows as a kid--- still airs on Saturday nights.
Tony
Hope nobody left a tuna sandwich in thereI found a box of toys with my old lunch box in it. This is from about 1958, I think. I guess there might have been Mickey mouse etc at the time. I just had plain red.
Oooh, that's a purty cats eye. I remember playing marbles on the playground in 1st grade. Pee wees, jumbos, steelies, puriesEnder. You are a genius. I opened it. I'm rich. Edited pic to add Blue Horse points View attachment 7611View attachment 7612