It's middle school in the 90s or 80s and it's PIZZA DAY. Yay!

One of the square slices behind the counter has a bubble. The dough has somehow acquired an air pocket. It's huge. The size of a tennis ball.

Everyone is talking about "The Bubble"

How do you feel about the bubble?

@MCDuncanLab @llewelly

It quickly came to: "if you really want to have a bagged lunch you need to make it yourself."

I was excited to try!
It was a disaster!

I think I gave up after a few months. But the strange little plastic containers and boxes I found hung around in the kitchen for years.

Later I was obsessed with a "factory lunch" and using the old lunch pail that belonged to my grandfather when he worked in the mills.

That went a bit better.

@futurebird @MCDuncanLab @llewelly We were "suburban" middle class (the suburb had no urb), so we got metal lunchboxes. I had the Strawberry Shortcake one, but I really wanted a Star Wars or He-Man lunchbox. Not acceptable for "girls." Plastic lunchboxes came out during my short elementary career, with a built-in thermos. Not nearly as cool as the metal ones. Those are very cool to this day. I don't remember too many status issues over bringing a lunchbox vs. havinga ticket for a hot lunch. Either I was too autistic to notice, or the lunchbox flattened the sense of have-not.

@llewelly @MCDuncanLab

That sounds much more responsible. I didn't really have a planning skills to pack a lunch so I'd just... find things in the house, and around the house and put them in the box to figure out later.

@corbden @MCDuncanLab @llewelly

We had lunch boxes in elementary school. And I remember the plastic boxes coming out and thinking it was a major downgrade.

I think the selling point was you could put them in the dishwasher (but then the sticker would come off... sad times)

@corbden @MCDuncanLab @llewelly

We had lunch boxes in elementary school. And I remember the plastic boxes coming out and thinking it was a major downgrade.

I think the selling point was you could put them in the dishwasher (but then the sticker would come off... sad times)

It's middle school in the 90s or 80s and it's PIZZA DAY. Yay!

One of the square slices behind the counter has a bubble. The dough has somehow acquired an air pocket. It's huge. The size of a tennis ball.

Everyone is talking about "The Bubble"

How do you feel about the bubble?

@futurebird @llewelly

My older sister was a pain in the butt, at one point maybe when she was in 2nd grade she pitched a fit about what my mom made. Mom said fine 2nd graders make their own lunches. When I hit second grade that meant me too.

I ate peanut butter and butter sandwiches every day probably until 6th grade.

We also got a gross red delicious apple, and two chocolate cookies, which my sister was in charge of making, and I did get a milk card.

@futurebird @llewelly

My older sister was a pain in the butt, at one point maybe when she was in 2nd grade she pitched a fit about what my mom made. Mom said fine 2nd graders make their own lunches. When I hit second grade that meant me too.

I ate peanut butter and butter sandwiches every day probably until 6th grade.

We also got a gross red delicious apple, and two chocolate cookies, which my sister was in charge of making, and I did get a milk card.

@futurebird @llewelly

My older sister was a pain in the butt, at one point maybe when she was in 2nd grade she pitched a fit about what my mom made. Mom said fine 2nd graders make their own lunches. When I hit second grade that meant me too.

I ate peanut butter and butter sandwiches every day probably until 6th grade.

We also got a gross red delicious apple, and two chocolate cookies, which my sister was in charge of making, and I did get a milk card.

@MCDuncanLab @llewelly

I had the vague notion that a lunch should have such things. But I would end up with a can of creamed corn, a can opener, candied ginger from the back of the kitchen cabinet, a pack of hot chocolate, a thermos of water too cold by lunch to make the coco, a slice of white bread with thick slices of cucumber on it (since I read about "cucumber sandwiches" in a book but didn't know how to make them.)

I had this idea that it was a "fancy lunch"

It was awful.

@futurebird @llewelly

My older sister was a pain in the butt, at one point maybe when she was in 2nd grade she pitched a fit about what my mom made. Mom said fine 2nd graders make their own lunches. When I hit second grade that meant me too.

I ate peanut butter and butter sandwiches every day probably until 6th grade.

We also got a gross red delicious apple, and two chocolate cookies, which my sister was in charge of making, and I did get a milk card.

@MCDuncanLab @futurebird @llewelly Thankfully we had school lunches here, but if I'd had to make my own I 1000% guarantee that even though I don't even like peanut butter, I would have had it every single day just for the sheer lack of effort required to deal with it. And we didn't really have apples/etc lying around for me to toss in either.

That... is probably not healthy.

@corbden @MCDuncanLab @llewelly

We had lunch boxes in elementary school. And I remember the plastic boxes coming out and thinking it was a major downgrade.

I think the selling point was you could put them in the dishwasher (but then the sticker would come off... sad times)

@MCDuncanLab @llewelly

At least it amused my friends to watch me unpack the box (which I pretended someone else made for me) and explain how it was going to work.

@MCDuncanLab @futurebird @llewelly Requesting comment from older sister.

@futurebird oh no help this must have been excruciating in practice but it's so adorable in hindsight

@jgordon @futurebird @llewelly

Yeah neither her nor my mom are reliable witnesses when recalling which of them caused what family drama.

I’m sure there was an incident probably standard stubborn kid stuff, mom over reacted, sis over reacted and as a consequence my brother and I are making the only sandwiches 2nd graders can make somewhat reliably.

Although it is something of an art to get peanut butter on bread without tearing the bread, as I recall.

@jgordon @futurebird @llewelly

And why was it peanut butter and butter?

Could we not afford jelly? Was jelly too high in sugar?

We must have gone through so much butter because we all totally slathered it on.

Oh shoot it wasn’t butter, it was margarine. Was that cheap in the 80s?

@MCDuncanLab @jgordon @llewelly

"fruit preserves have too much sugar ... yes butter is much healthier?"

I mean, it's good I guess.