a pork lunch bag

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photo from Hero Bags (herobags.com)

When I was in elementary school, I carried a battered metal Peanuts lunchbox to school. Each side had a cartoon strip, with Snoopy or Linus or Lucy pulling that football from beneath Charlie Brown’s feet. I must have read each comic a hundred times, as I hunched my head to eat tater tots or mealy hamburgers in fluffy white buns or another snow cone. Later, that lunchbox — dented, the handle falling off — held all my crayons, even the broken ones with the frayed labels. I think my parents still have it somewhere.

(I also swear I had a Brady Bunch lunchbox at some point, the happy smiley family all lined up in descending on that broad staircase. But there’s no photographic proof.)

There are a dozen lunchboxes I wish I had carried instead of the nerdy Snoopy box.

This one has just moved to the top of this list.

Hero Bags is now making a cotton sack lunch bag in honor of our favorite farm animal: the pig. And of course, what line drawing of the pig would be complete without the etched-out parts from which we get our pork?

It’s organic and made by a small business that practices fair trade. It’s not that expensive. It’s just the right size for carrying one of those now-essential metal water bottles.

Okay, that’s all lovely, but probably not necessary for you to be enticed. I mean, look at it. It’s a pork lunchbag.

You know you want one. If I were going back to elementary school this week, I so would be carrying one of these.

Order your pork lunch bag here.