Adults--did your mother put ice packs in your lunch?

[mudman]

No ice packs. When we went on school trips my mom would send a can of soda as a treat and cover with aluminum foil to keep it cold

Oh my! My mom did this too! I thought my siblings and I were the only ones who's mom did this. I joke with my mom till this day about this. What the heck did the foil do anyway???

My mom also tells us that when doing errands it was unheard of to bring a stroller or carriage into the store or bank for instance. She would leave us in the carriage/stroller outside. In those days, who would want to take someone elses kid??? It's amazing we survived our childhood isn't it?

I also remember hiding in the "way-back" in the compartment of our station wagon to get into drive in movies for free.

What a GREAT thread! I've enjoyed this trip down memory lane.

 

[bookgirl]

Nope no blue ice back in the dark ages, but then again we were vary rarely allowed to bring a lunch (a hot lunch was so much better for you ). But when we did bring lunch it was usually peanut butter, chips, a can of pudding, and if we were really lucky a can of soda (but usually we bought a milk). So no cold needed.

 

[Bluestars]

We used to not only bring Kool-Aid and eat it dry like you mentioned, but we also used to bring boxes of Jello and eat that with our licked fingers!!

Yes, I remember my friends bringing boxes of jello to school. We would eat them during the movies in class. Remember those old projectors? I never brought jello because my mother only bought healthy items and would add juice to gelatin.

 

[Mikelly1221]

No ice packs here, and Mom wouldn't put mayo on my ham sandwich, only mustard. I had milk in my Thermos, though, and it was cold at lunchtime.

 

[tinkntraining]

We used to not only bring Kool-Aid and eat it dry like you mentioned, but we also used to bring boxes of Jello and eat that with our licked fingers!! One day I made the mistake of trying to eat a package of Kool-Aid that did not have the sugar pre-mixed into it---that was NOT good. Yes, we all had colored fingers, tongues and lips

For a while all the craze was eating pomagranates (sp). It was cool to eat because it had all those seads with juicy stuff around it. We would just suck the juice off, then spit out the seads.

Did anyone ever have classmates that would stand against a wall and put their hands around thier throat until they passed out? I never did that, and I never knew if it was real or not. Did they really pass out, or was it all for show? What a dumb thing to do!

I loved Marathon bars, and what was that white nouget bar? I'm having a lot of flashbacks...

My parents, even though we never wore seat belts (even when they were available) insisted we have the doors locked. They were more worried about someone swinging the door open and kidnapping one of us kids while at a red light than if we got killed in a car accident. Oh, the memories!

OMG! I totally forgot about the jello! We did that, too. I'm surprised our teeth didn't rot -- the white candy bar, was it a Zero bar?? I loved, loved, loved the Marathon bar. So much candy for your money, huh?

Just wondering, if u don't mind sharing, where did you grow up? Wondering if the jello/kool-aid thing was a regional habit. I grew up in Maryland.

 

[Stacerita]

Im surprised many of us did not get sick. Our kids have it so good.

 

[tinkntraining]

Im surprised many of us did not get sick. Our kids have it so good.

Yep. And I don't miss a day of reminding them of that fact!!

 

[Stacerita]

Yep. And I don't miss a day of reminding them of that fact!!

Neither do I.

 

[Kycha]

Nope. No ice packs. Mainly because I don't think they had them back then. At least they weren't made to fit in a lunch box. My mom would freeze drinks and put them in our lunch boxes sometimes. I didn't pack lunch much though. Our school lunches were pretty decent...until high school. Then it was the salad bar, mostly.

 

[allison443]

we were not allowed to have chocolate in 1973! white milk only, so my mom would put a pill bottle full of Nestles quick in my brown paper bag so we could make our own. Sr. Saint Michael was not impressed.

Oh my gosh! We did the same thing back in the early 70s in Catholic school! A little yellowish-brown pill bottle...
I haven't thought about that in a long time!

 

[ghessone]

Nope. Actually used to travel in the back of our full sized van with a blanket spread out and playing with my toys....now my kids are strapped into their seat like their on a rocketship to space!

 

[Kath2003]

Nope, and I survived

 

[paintnolish]

Heck, no...I had tuna salad sanwiches in a brown bag. They were oh so soggy and warm by lunch!

 

[bookgirl]

We had a truck with one of those short metal shells on the back. My brother, step brother and I rode from Oklahoma to Mexico (week vacation okc to san antonio to Houston to South padre to mexico then back home) in the back of that truck, in summer. Luckily they bought us each a bean bag to sit on and the shell had a 2foot by 1 foot window on each side to let in a little air. What's funny is all I remember about that trip (the travel part) was that I had to listen to my brothers portable 8 track the whole time...but hey I knew all the words to Cheap Tricks Live from Budakon album by the end of the vacation.


When I was born my mom put a baby blanket on the console next to the driver and laid me on it and drove with one hand on the wheel and one hand on me. My brother (three years older) rode standing on the hump in the back seat floorboard.