Lunchables, Other Lunch Packs Reviewed
5 Comments Published by Joel October 4th, 2006 in Food. Share This
I love Lunchables. Introduced by Oscar Mayer in my middle-school years, they played a part in a defining moment of my 7th-grade ostracization when I unwittingly ate a stacked cracker topped with a lump of quivering mucus. I was told it was mustard and held fast to my innocence, but it didn’t prevent me from being labeled “the weird kid that ate a loogie.” Soon I was eating whole sheets of notebook paper for a dollar.
How delicious are they, though? (Lunchables, not loogies.) Coins of meat product floating in a soup of greasy water, rich slices of oily cheese, and cold, damp crackers; It’s a testament to the putrescence of late ’80s school cuisine that these were considered the pinnacle of mid-day eating every time it wasn’t “cubes of pepperoni pizza day.”
It seems Lunchables are really bad for you, though, filled with high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, and enough sodium to turn your stomach into a lifeless Dead Sea. The new varieties lack the simplicity of a stacked cracker with mustard, offering up travesties like chicken chunks onto which a Pop Rocks-like powder is to be slathered. Bring back the mustard and the tiny chocolate after-dinner mint!
Are any premade lunches worth buying? [Slate via The Consumerist]
I can’t eat cheese food or any cheap lunch meat other than salami (har). But seriously, i cant. it makes me hella queasy. i vote thumbs down. just go to the deli, get the good stuff, and buy some friggin ziplocks.
Regardless of how they taste, or how they are for your body… they’re horrible for the environment! Look at all the packaging used for such a small amount of bad food. Blech.
But I miss the oringinal condiment package. It was a single hand thing that you sqqueezed together… They bought the rights for it from a guy who had wanted to sell it to NASA… No joke.
Lunchables as a food? I think it is a status symbol. PB&J is much better.
Just wondering if instead of lunchables, if there is a comparison out there of pre-made/microwavable meals/soups. I like to grab them when they go on sale at the store because I can only make sandwiches and go out to eat so often. It is nice to switch it up with a hungry man or can of soup. Any recommendations?
I like Lunchables. I still eat them to this day and I’m in college now.
Back in school I was always happy when my mom would buy these for me, because otherwise all I’d get for lunch was a peanutbutter sandwich (no jelly) and a drink. Usually water. Whenever I whined to her she just said “I don’t know what else to make you!” So eventually I started getting pizza lunchables and taco lunachbles.