The 10 worst lunch boxes ever -- and what they say about the kids who carried them

Too funny! You always invite me to see life through a different lens. Keep writing!

and to think I only had a plain plaid lunch box (which I loved btw)!

I held my breath, anxious and frightened that my purple Donny Osmond lunchbox might have made the cut...

OMG!! I have the Rambo one. Yard sale $5.

I would have loved Donny Osmond. I had a holly hobbie one.

I'm pretty sure my mom hated me, but I had a Hanna-Babera lunchbox with that lispy yellow cat/cougar/feline thingy front and center.

Talk about taking me back to my childhood. I'll take one of those!!!

Talk about taking me back to my childhood. I'll take one of those!!!

Wow dude that is like way cool. I think I like it!

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You're a fraking R-tard.

The Rambo lunchbox is the best lunchbox EVER.

You're obviously too young or too feminine, probably both, to understand how cool Rambo was back in the day, and therefore always will be.

Your a fabulous writer. I love how you can take a single thought or item and turn it into a wonderful visual story that takes us back in time and challenges our thinking. I'm just glad I didn't have a blank lunch box!

wow! so funny! I didn't know american kids care about the luch boxes. In japan, our lunch boxes are too small.

you cant win with these bloggers.
rambo is the shit!

I still have my Annie Oakley (circa 1955) lunch box. I do not, however, have the thermos. Almost no one has a thermos from that era. The thermoses had glass liners and every kid was fated to drop their lunch box and kill the thermos in the process. Rare was a thermos that survived a fall. The crash of a breaking thermos was a familiar sound back in the day, a sound that has not been heard for a few generations now. Other elementary school traditions that have changed with the times: "snorting" the notices that were mimoegraphed just before dismissal time and eating paste. Could some one please tell me why they put mint into children's paste?

I agree with DasCorCor.

The RAMBO lunch box is thee best lunch box EVER. Just like RAMBO it is tough as nails, in fact mine is still on active duty to this day. It serves as an impenetrable fort for miscellaneous nails, screws and bolts in my garage.

The rest of the list is decent but something is seriously wrong with you if you're putting down RAMBO. That's down right unamerican.

Rambo is awesome! There is absolutely nothing wrong with that lunch box. #1 isn't bad, and only you would interpret #2 like so, which leads to an incredible let down at the end of your article.

I like that Metric lunchbox!

Rambo sucks. We need to do a top lunch box list and put the Empire Strikes back at #1.

You put your cafe logo at the bottom of every picture.

But I bet you didn't take the pictures and you stole them from eBay or somewhere else online instead!

Rambo is awesome!!

I own that metric lunchbox!

Funny, and yet very sad, since I had the metric luchbox. Enduring "indian burns, titty twisters, and swirlies" . The abuse all makes sense now. Had I know the source of the attack-the-nerd responses, I would have pitched the damn thing.

I want Rambo one.

Cool! anted to download it by means of http://filesmixx.com/ - one of rapidshare search engines, but failed to find. Is it available at some other resource???

I have two from the Jurasic Park movie marked Biohazard. I think they were pulled off the market.

How about this one? Remember Gentle Ben?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dana_e1/2686767175/

While in Elementary school, I had a mickey mouse head lunch box. It was far....far worse than any other lunch boxes I have ever seen, and has thus scarred me for life.

I had a weird matching red Tupperware lunch box/set. I think I would have wanted a Starsky and Hutch lunchbox. Or maybe Wonder Woman?
I think the Campus Queen one says, "Future Tri Delt bitch already getting practice alienating other girls", and I kind of love the Metrics one...

Many may not remember that David Letterman had a morning show early in his career. One particular stunt he pulled still occupies my mind (unfortunately).

The show would be interrupted for news updates, starring the very dour Edwin Newman. After one of those, Letterman reached under his desk (with Newman watching) and unfurled the "sure to be a hit with the kids Edwin Newman Lunchbox", plastered with Eds face. Ed didn't even crack a smile, which made it all the more hilarious.

I still have my Annie Oakley lunch box with the thermos. I think my bro. still has his Wild Bill Hickock. Good memories.

lol @ fishes causing diabetes.

funny and yet sad

I had a a orange lunch bow with Danger Mouse on it holding a bomb from green-back. so cool

I'd carry the rambo one.

I liked this better when I read it in the book Lunchbox: Inside and Out by Jack Mingo and Erin Barrett

http://www.amazon.com/Lunchbox-Inside-Out-Jack-Mingo/dp/0060595191/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1251114819&sr=8-5

Funny...I always had a plain cheese sandwich in a brown paper bags. What does that tell you?

LOL Those are some great lunch boxes.
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OMG.... I just remembered having the Rambo Box!, i also has a TMNT one too at one point.

These are way too funny - thank you!
That hideous 'campus queen' one gives me flashbacks.

How about doing a piece on the best new lunch bags. I vote for the pork lunch bag by Hero Bags! http://www.herobags.com/porklunchbag.html

I had only two lunch boxes during my elementary school years, both very cool. My first one was a Six-Million Dollar Man lunch box. My second one was an NFL-themed lunch box, with the NFC team helmets on one side and the AFC team helmets on thhe other side.

interesting article.

I never had a lunch box. I just got one when I reached my High School. Really.

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I remember the good ole days of the lunchbox! I think I had a Scooby Doo lunch box back in the day. Back to my e-juice venture!

Thanks for posting those.

Didn't have a lunch boxs as a kid :)

I had that metric system lunch box! I don't remember too many indian sunburns from those days, but then again I was nearly a meter-and-a-half tall in the sixth grade!

When i was in school, I had a mickey mouse head lunch box. It was far worse than any other lunch boxes I have ever seen, and has thus scarred me for life.

Those are some great lunch boxes. I just remembered having the Rambo Box!, i also has a TMNT one too at one point. thanks for sharing.

What's wrong in these lunch boxes... There is absolutely nothing wrong with that lunch box. #1 isn't bad, and only you would interpret #2 like so.

The thermoses had glass liners and every kid was fated to drop their lunch box and kill the thermos in the process.

Hey, I was six when I watched "Laugh-In" and I understood it. Big deal.

I'm pretty sure my mom hated me, but I had a Hanna-Barbara lunchbox with that lispy yellow cat/cougar/feline thingy front and center.