Oh wow, Beverly Hills 90210, you were peak cool!!

Plastic too. Mine were My Little Pony, though. I’m so lame. 

I wish I remembered!! I do remember when we got older, like fourth grade on, we used reusable nylon bags that somewhat resembled the classic brown paper bag lunch sacks. 

I can’t guarantee it but I would put money on having had a plastic Little Mermaid lunchbox. Then, by the time I got to middle school, I was too cool for one and just brown paper bagged it like a buzzkill. We kill our own joy far too early in life. 

I was a bring-my-lunch-to-school kid (I also got dropped off by my parents rather than take the bus, so I really didn't take advantage of the public school system) and one of the best things about that was getting to pick out a lunchbox every year. 

I always had the plastic ones rather than the metal ones (I can still smell that plastic tbh) and had an array of pop culture lunchboxes over the years. In no particular order, I remember having: Care Bears, The Simpsons, Jurassic Park, New Kids on the Block and, best of all, Beverly Hills 90210, a show I had never actually watched I just knew it was cool. That's right, I was a lunchbox poser!

Which lunch boxes did you carry as a youth?

The lunchbox(es) you carried as a kid

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