There was a time when life was kind to kids at lunchtimes, with e-numbers, cheap crisps, fizzy pop and more
It's nearly back to school time for the kids, which means making a mad dash for a uniform they're only going to ruin after a week's wear and stocking up on rubbish stationery.
So it's times like this when we start to feel all nostalgic and look back at our times in the classroom. We've already looked at the cereals and chocolate bars of our childhoods, but now it's time to remember ALL the lunchtime staples that we just couldn't function without.
Away with the wholemeal bread sandwiches, seed and nut snacks, and vegan options of modern day madness.
From the chocolatey goodness of a Penguin bar to the sugary hit of a cherryade Panda Pop (only on a Friday, of course), let's welcome back everything that was bad (but so good!) for us.
Food items you definitely had in your packed lunch at school
Food items you definitely had in your packed lunch at school
1 of 11Penguin bars
Feeling peckish? Pick up a Penguin. And oh how we did. And we all know the best part was reading out the joke printed on the fold of the packet.
2 of 11Cheese slice (usually in a sandwich)
Remember when mums weren't frowned upon for using white bread, dollops of butter and cheap cheese slices? Ah, to live in ignorance bliss once more. A popular alternative was the cheese triangle.
3 of 11Space Raiders
10p used to take you so far, right? These tuck shop favourites made our tongues numb with pickled onion flavouring and we wouldn't change a thing about them.
4 of 11Sunny D
More e-numbers than you'd find in Willy Wonka's factory*, these mini Sunny D bottles of syrupy 'orange juice' gave us life for those afternoon lessons. But did you prefer the California or Florida flavour? (Yeah, there was a difference, apparently...)*Not a fact, just a wild guess.
5 of 11CLUB
If you like alotta chocolate on your biscuit, join our...CLUB. So simply yet so delicious - all chocolate, orange or fruit flavours were welcome in our box.
6 of 11Billy Bear Meat
Meat with the pair of a face 'printed' through it, which was then sliced up so it could sit in our sandwiches. Maybe this one's worth leaving in the past, eh?
7 of 11Pringle Pop Box
Because it would have been MADNESS to take a whole tube of Pringles to school, we just had to get our hands on these little Pringles Pop Boxes. The only problem? They didn't hold enough, in our opinion.
8 of 11Dairylea Lunchable
What was a lunch box without a Lunchable in it? Absolutely rubbish, that's what. Crackers, ham and cheese were an unbeatable lunch combination and HOW FUN was it stacking them up to make mega crackers?
9 of 11Choc Dip
We never quite managed to work out the perfect ratio of chocolate dip to bread stick, but we had fun trying.
10 of 11Fruit Corner
This is a classic lunchtime snack that's still going strong in schools over the nation. Did you tip the sauce and mix into the yogurt? Or did you scoop the yogurt with a spoon and sip into the fruit sauce? It tells you A LOT about a person.
11 of 11Panda Pop
If your parents were feeling particularly giving - perhaps on a Friday - they might have sneaked a Panda Pop into your lunch box. Unfortunately for your teachers, they are the ones who had to live with the hyperactive aftermath.
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