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[–] zainitopia@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

you guys were getting lunchables?!?!

[–] aaaa@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was thinking "what do you mean unprepared?" If you had Lunchables, that WAS being prepared!

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I was too broke for lunchables. I got the free school lunch tickets though. Damn, lausd had the goods shit back then.

[–] reverendz@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I used to bring jam and cheese sandwiches from home. You read that right, jam and cheese.

[–] ambuscador@thelemmy.club 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bologna and American cheese sandwich. I don't think I saw my first lunchable until high school.

[–] blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only kids I knew that had lunchables turned out to be middle class rich preps lol. The fuck they have to worry about going to school?

[–] McJonalds@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

anyone can be bullied or just get hurt playing as a kid. as an adult, having money, phone, wallet, keys, maybe a backpack with anything you may need, you don't really have any worries other than having to be prepared.

[–] DigitalController@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm 31....used to have lunchables a ton when I was in grade school, holy heck I grabbed one the other day and either the quality is much lower or I had some bad taste as a kid 😂

[–] Numuruzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Wermhatswormhat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

It is 100% both. I also still sometimes grab the pizza lunchables as a 32 year old man. Every single time I’m like “this is going to be an awesome snack” and then when I’m done the post-lunchable clarity kicks in and I’m sad and a little disgusted.

[–] digitalgadget@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were never good. Dry, stale crackers. Tiny, slimy meat circles. Salty cheese cubes that taste more like a chemistry experiment than cured cow's milk. As kids our palates are motivated to salty fatty food with much less regard for flavor.

Now, if you want Lunchables for grown-ups, get yourself one of those cheese and cracker platters from a nicer grocery store. Pastrami, salami, pepper jack, gouda, and sesame or butter crackers. Delicious.

[–] ScrewTheHole@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Prosciutto, salami, garlic coil, gruyere, Gouda, a nice aged cheddar and some Brie. Breton garden vegetable crackers. Now you've got a snack.

[–] QTpi@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I do this for lunches at work and call them grown up lunchables

[–] Perfide@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

Both, but mostly the bad taste as a kid. They're not that much worse now than they were before.

[–] Sideral@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Well I was prepared with my gameboy 😎

[–] tryagain@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Zoomers in the comments like "wtf is an mp3 player"

[–] curryandbeans@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Just my walkman, a lovingly curated mixtape and me against the world

Ah yeah the first years of anxiety

[–] W1Z_4RD@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

By the time lunchables showed up in the stores im our small town I was a Jr in high school and was driving over to burger king for $1 whoppers for lunch. Didnt have my first mobile phone until I was forced into getting one for work in 2005...