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Metal Lunch Box

Today, most schoolchildren and high schoolers will have a designated cafeteria to eat lunch with lunch ladies/men to serve thousands of meals to hungry students every school day. If you are lucky to live in a handful of states, like Colorado, both breakfast and lunch meals are fully free taxpayer funded meals. However, in this school house you will find that there is no place to prepare food, so instead most school children ate lunch at home, and who couldn't go home for lunch because it's just too hard to get back and forth, would bringing your lunch wrapped in a cloth, wrapped in oiled paper, a wooden box, or in this case a metal lunch box. Common meals at this time would include simple, low-cost meals like vegetable soup, bread, and milk, in the cities thai was expanded with pea soup, lentils, rice.

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