Show Notes Episode 366: Full Metal Lunch Box

This week Host Dave Bledsoe is brown bagging it for lunch, meaning he is drinking cheap scotch out of a brown paper bag in the park. (Again) On the show this week we tell you about the Ultimate Status Symbol of the 1970’s School House: the lunch box!

Along the way we learn that young Dave had a very disturbing lunch box when he lived in the Deep South. (Though he denies it, he definitely had a Klan Lunch Box) Then we dive right into that most American of Americana, the Lunch Pails that built America! From their humble beginnings as a container for carcinogens and cookies to their heyday as a metal masters of a growing nation, men carried a god damn lunch pail and it was filled with love! (And strong black coffee!) Then we explain how the Baby Boom built a lucrative market for a kerosene lamp subsidiary to make millions from all those privileged children. (Boomers had it all!) Finally we talk about all the wonderful things on our lunch boxes when we were kids and why you had such cheap plastic crap. (Hint: Capitalism!) We also do some thinly veiled allegory that is relevant to life in today’s United States.

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Citations Needed: 

SPEAKING PERSONALLY; THERE'S MORE THAN NOURISHMENT IN A LUNCH PAIL

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/19/nyregion/speaking-personally-there-s-more-than-nourishment-in-a-lunch-pail.html

The History of the Lunch Box

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-history-of-the-lunch-box-98329938/#:~:text=Around%20the%201880s%2C%20school%20children,children%2C%20came%20out%20in%201902

Beyond The Pail: NPR Unpacks The History Of The Lunch Box

https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/10/31/495218823/beyond-the-pail-npr-unpacks-the-history-of-the-lunch-box

Metal Lunchbox History

http://theinventors.org/library/inventors/bllunchbox.htm#:~:text=Metal%20lunchboxes%20were%20banned%20in,head%20injuries%20were%20being%20reported

Were Metal Lunch Boxes Really Banned?

https://www.mashed.com/369759/were-metal-lunch-boxes-really-banned/

Uncited Additional Reading

https://groovyhistory.com/sixties-tv-themed-lunchboxes-that-all-the-cool-kids-had

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/69230/vintage-1970s-lunch-boxes-revisited-when-pop-culture-ruled-playground

https://www.workandmoney.com/s/valuable-lunch-boxes-1d5ea8d287444f7f

https://www.lunchbox.com/pages/a-brief-history-of-the-lunch-box

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunchbox#In_the_United_States

https://blog.ciachef.edu/the-lunch-box-remembered-the-history-of-the-lunch-box/

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