Nostalgic item boom

This is a very classic school bag that junior high and high school boys in Japan used in old days. This is the pictures of the 50s. Interestingly in the 60s, flower people in the US loved to get it as Japanese souvenir. Now I hardly see school boys using this bag, but they say the bag is getting popular again as fashion.

Not only the bag, some old school items are so hot now. In Parco Logos Gallery, "School Item exhibition" is held. Wow, they are all items I hardly saw and used after school. That brings back memories! That midget lamp remind me that I really hate science class. :-)

Hmm I feel comforted by watching those old analogue items. People in the prime of life will feel the same as me and cause this nostalgic item boom. I wrote before about the school lunch restaurant being very popular for adults. And there are Kyushoku figure as collector's item like this and this. This is interesting ranking result "My favourite school lunch in my school days". The respondent to a survey would be over 30 years old.

1.Age-pan (fried bread) : The conspiracy "wheat strategy" of America :-p, school lunch served only bread for a while after WW2. Basically they were flaky square white bread with margarine. But the only fried bread were a little bit sweet. So kids were all happy in the day of Age-pan.

2.Milk in paper delta cone : To make clean up easier, we had an official hold way after drinking. I was surprised to know only one company products delta cone milk now.

3.Coppe Pan : No hum, no sausage, no vegetable. It was just bread. But still it was better than flaky square white bread with margarine. Since I could not eat them all, and we had to eat them all, sometimes I stash it away in deep inside the desk in the classroom. Then I used to find very hard white blocks later, but they did not get any mouldy, because they were so flaky!!

4.Freeze Orange: I heard to enjoy orange in off season, they are frozen. I liked it and it's delicious like sherbet. Try?

5.Soft noodle and meat sauce: to make tray service easier. We got boiled noodles packed into a plastic container and had to spread it into dish and put sauce by ourselves. But noodles were hard and couldn't unravel. So we had to CUT with a spoon to eat. Of course it was terrible food. I can tell you people pick this because of our common trauma. Actually my brother is traumatized because he threw up once at school. But so that we have to miss it, look! we can buy it online shopping.

Those are top 5. And guess what No.6 is ! No.6 is Fried Whale. Wow! Yes. We ate them at school lunch. We hardly eat it now , as it's very expensive.

By the way, this is a public elementary school lunch blog, some cooking updates. Hmm looks delicious and much better than I remembered.

Comments

[Ken Y-N]

Mari - about that goo Ranking page: there seems to be a lot of stuff there I could use for my blog, but one thing I can't see is how do they come up with the rankings? Are they from search counts or from people voting?

[Ken Y-N]

Mari - about that goo Ranking page: there seems to be a lot of stuff there I could use for my blog, but one thing I can't see is how do they come up with the rankings? Are they from search counts or from people voting?

[Cath Lee]

Hey!! I remembered drinking milk from the delta cone when I was little.

[Martin]

The tetra pak milk container is a Swedish invention, from Lund, my father's home town. The guy who invented that is the world's fourth richest man, and he is still inventing things. It was a fun photo you found, showing "the first tetra pak machine" in Japan from 1964, just before the Olympics.

I'm not sure I would feel so nostalgic about my school lunches! You describe it so well, this should be called, hmm, something like anti-nostalgia? Like, Renault 4 cars...