WTF is a lunchbucket Democrat?

[TrogL]

CTV was interviewing Tom Clarke who said Biden(?) was a lunchbucket Democrat.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Blue collar, I think

[valerief]

2. Blue collar, maybe?

[cali]

3. blue collar dem.

[wuushew]

4. blue collar

n/t

[KittyWampus]

5. something from the 19th fucking century, I think. Before paper bags

[Frances]

17. I am getting old because I remember lunch buckets

and as old as I am, I was not born in the 19th century.

There was a time when workers (and students) took their lunch in what today would be called recyclable containers.

These metal containers (and later plastic ones) saved money because you used the same one for years, plus they offered better protection of your food.

[KittyWampus]

18. you mean lunch boxes? a lunch bucket is a bucket. no hinges, no thermos

it's a bucket!

[Frances]

22. You are right

The lunch bucket preceded the lunch box. Didn't coal miners use the lunch bucket?

Thanks for the pix.

[AbbeyRoad]

27. I think it's the environment you came out of too

I'm not that old and I know about lunch buckets. My grandfather carried a lunch bucket with him to the coal mine. My dad carried more of a lunch pail when he worked in the mine and later in the factories when the mine went idle. When my brother and I went to school, we carried a lunch box. So yeah, there are lots of containers to carry your lunch in. :)

[djkevvy]

6. Blue collar?

I think they mean a blue collar, every man's man.

[d_b]

7. right here

[Frances]

23. One of my favorite photos.

Thanks for posting it

[d_b]

24. yw

[blondeatlast]

8. Blue collar, union. nt

[DesertRat]

9. Blue collar

Once upon a time, a lunch-bucket voter is one who works at a construction or factory job and totes along his or her afternoon meal in a pail of sorts. It’s a cute way of saying “blue-collar.”
http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/lunchbucket_limbo.php

[book_worm]

10. usually blue collar, working class--takes a lunch bucket to the job

[greguganus]

11. It's the new special at Cracker Barrel. n/t

[smiley_glad_hands]

12. Blue Collar/Union.

[lonestarnot]

13. Cheaper to bring your lunch in a bucket than eat out and we make less money than white collar tievs

[Drunken Irishman]

14. I don't think it's been said in this thread: Blue Collar Democrat.

;)

Mostly, New Deal Democrats.

[OwnedByFerrets]

15. I feel so old to know

what a lunchbucket is.:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[tech3149]

32. My thought exactly!

I'm sorry these young whippersnappers don't get taught history anymore. Even if they don't learn it in school, they could ask their grandparents how things used to be.

[Cleita]

16. One who isn't an elitist?

Man those pubs are confused. Their widdle labels aren't working for them anymore.

[AbbeyRoad]

19. someone who carries a lunch bucket to their shift at the plant or the mine

blue collar workers like my grandfather, uncles, dad, etc.

[apocalypsehow]

20. Someone like my Dad, who hit the floor every day at 6 am for thirty-two years

and installed furnaces in the winter and fixed air conditioners in the summer twelve hours a day six days a week so he could put his kids through college. That's who they are.

[Fearless]

21. This...

[pnwmom]

25. Blue collar and often a union member. n/t

[polichick]

26. I still have my grandfather's silver lunchbucket - it's very cool!

[tech3149]

34. just don't sell it on ebay

You won't know how much you'll miss it till it's gone.

[polichick]

35. I won't - it even has an old fashioned glass-lined thermos! :)

[doc03]

28. A lunch bucket democrat would be blue-collar

worker like myself that works in a manufacturing plant and instead of going to Applebees for lunch and cocktails carries his lunch to work. That would be my definition.

on edit: Today most of us use a plastic grocery bag or a small plastic cooler.

[npk]

29. So he was basically calling him an "old fashioned liberal"

I mean that's how I took it.

[SoxFan]

30. Basically, yes

On PBS, one of the talking heads said the speech was reminiscent of Hubert Humphrey, a quintessential lunch bucket Democrat.

[doc03]

31. Very few are what you would call a liberal

more than once. More of a Reagan Democrat I would say, people in the rust belt states where Obama doesn't fare so well.

[Beregond2]

33. When I was a kid,

they were often referred to as lunch buckets; those metal boxes with a rounded top that the thermos fit into. My dad always carried one. I had a "Gunsmoke" lunch box, even though I hated westerns. Another attempt to turn me straight I guess; lol!

[slackmaster]

36. I'm a Chinese Restaurant Democrat

One from Column A, two from Column B, with five or more you get free egg roll.