We used to use a metal lunchbox with cartoons on it. And my mom made my lunch in the morning. School had a line for a little hamburger, charged 50 cents for it.
Yeah. I brought something every day. Lots of
times it was a piece of light bread with a
blob of ketchup and a single piece of baloney.
Sometimes a "dessert " of a couple of saltines
with a bit of peanut butter
And the little thermos bottle with a
bit of koolaid or lemonade
They had free lunches back then,
but the kids that had the tickets
were ashamed to let anybody see
them with one.
And they rang a bell to allow for
a minutes worth of prayer