NATIONAL PACK YOUR LUNCH DAY
National Pack Your Lunch Day is celebrated by many people across the country on March 10th of each year. It is a day to pack your own lunch and take it with you to work, school, on a picnic, to your friend’s house or where ever you are spending the day and enjoy what you have made and packed yourself.
From Wikipedia: ”A packed lunch (also called sack lunch or bag lunch in North America) is a lunch prepared at home and carried to be eaten somewhere else, such as school, a workplace, or at an outing. The food is usually wrapped in plastic,aluminum foil, or paper and can be carried (“packed”) in a lunchbox, paper bag (a “sack”), or plastic bag. Lunchboxes made out of metal, plastic or vinyl are now popular with today’s youth. Lunch boxes provide a way to take heavier lunches in a sturdier box or bag. It is also environment friendly.”
** Mickey Mouse was the first licensed character to appear on a lunchbox in the year 1935.
** The 1950 Hopalong Cassidy lunchbox was the first lunchbox based on a television show.