European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes August 1985 hot dog in thermos by Kominicki staff writer Joseph Soucey was always the envy of our third Grade class because his Mother would pack his lunch Box with a hot not a cold hot dog left Over from some weekend but a steaming hot tied on a string and floating in a thermos full of hot a Bun on the a Little packet with All the a bag of chips the rest of us got Peanut butter on Salami was considered a very Good a second grader at the Babenhausen elementary school had a hot dog for lunch on tuesday but it was i am sorry to hot and dangling on a string in her it was cold and already in the wrapped in tin toil Shu seemed to be enjoying it most of the kids had Ham and cheese on some with most with ugh i unch boxes also called lunch pails but not at my school Are decorated with television and movie themes these the Knight rider and Star wars among there were several cabbage Patch kids lunch a few some photo by Peter Jaeger its Tough to Trade a Sandwich for another but sometimes cookies will swing a Rainbow a Pink Panther and when did the Pink Panther have kids my first lunch Box had a rounded top and was printed to look like a with you guessed it thermos As a i had one celebrating the americas first nuclear i do not know what a Metal lunch Box Cost in but cafes gets for one a 1960s thermos had a Glass liner that would break whenever the lunch Box was in my this happened at least once every two and always before rendering the contents a thermos today is made of it has a drinking spout and As far As i could we always traded As much of our lunches As possible on the principle that someone else would always taste we even did straight trades my Peanut butter Sandwich for your Peanut butter there was a Little trading going on in but not kids today seem to have More control about what goes in a lunch Box in the first my Mother never gives me things i dont like because i Tell her not a third Grade girl told a fourth grader explained the Art of trading lunch you can Trade cookies for a and sometimes you can get cookies for a drink or a Candy but its Tough to Trade a Sandwich for anything except another he and a cheese and Mayonnaise you cant Trade that for if you get cheese and Mayonnaise you got to eat a first grader was sitting off to one seriously working on two Ham and cheese Are you going to eat both those i maybe ill Trade he and what would you Trade it for id Trade it for a he said the same kid was Rushing out to did you finish both those i called after youre going to grow up to he american teens with a european look photo by Lynda Sparks Dave Spradling and Robin seniors at Heidel Berg american sport the latest by the stars and stripes whats the new look in Backoo school clothes overseas for american the Mere question will rate you As coming from the other Side of the where do you think those teens have been whats in is what is big in Europe a Classy not a classroom american teens dress pretty much like their i style european though you May be Able to spot american oldies out there in the crowd in Madrid american teens blend no those in the fashion know buy whats hot right now it is lots of lace seen in under blouses and hawaiian or tropical Flower baggy styles and Short pants including skintight Toreador or Loose midcalf Blue jeans Are still but tight jeans Are at that the word from Manon a Canadian teenage student at Georges Vanier High school in Are pierced according to another Lahr Steve who returned to school this year sporting Ive seen at least 20 people with them in the last three he he thinks German kids were first to adopt the flashy plastic costume particularly big earrings and Bunches of and wide belts worn Low on the hips Are other styles that Are widely for girls the bigger the the More said tera Kitchings of Rhei main Junior also super in Are Chickies or new Yorks those Are oversize shoelaces in stripes and Bright colors worn with Tennis its a trend that originated in the United states with break dance movies and has been picked up they Are worn by both girls and boys but Are More popular with the who color coordinate their shoelaces with their it makes your shoes look says Jerrell Young of Rhei main Junior in Scott Luff a 14yearold eighth grader sports fat and faddish untied White and Blue shoelaces in his there Luff red noting that nobody ties the you just fasten pm up and tuck pm Sandra a High school student in says there int really any one the she is to put together whatever you can Cindy also of says that adds up to new you Cyndi Lauper and All of Harens was decked out in midcalf length White pants and a White Cotton Blouse accented by a wide Black Black earrings and Black said 12yearold Valerie Linch of Naples Junior you have to dress weird like its the new whats out of style dressing up for the first Day of for one Bilinda Prater a Sophomore at Stuttgart american High school in says nobody does its not she claims that it was pure Accident that she and fellow Sophomore Alanda Lacy showed up wearing Matching White dresses with Bright yellow and Blue also seen As not in by Many students Are cafes they just dont make they for the modern they Are not explains Heidi Sandlin of Rhei main Junior Mary Beth Goodridge of Heidelberg High school noting that teens overseas Are sporting fashions that wont be seen by american teenagers for another year or she still set the to her that Means being overseas Means being fashionably ahead of the control bulling to this report were staff writers Mary Hladky and Tracy consumer editor Mary Nell Dan Wollam and Joseph Maria Naples Bureau Dave Bureau Chuck Munich Bureau Jean Blob org Bureau Joe Bremerhaven