GI Joe Plate

by NFCJD

GI Joe was everywhere during RAH era. This plate once had a mug and bowl that went with it but they are long lost in the sands of time. I’ve had this plate since I was 3 years old, I actually used to eat food off it when I was a toddler. It’s the only vintage era release Joe item I still have from my childhood. Good thing too because I’d never have thought to re-buy this like I did for so many of the toys once the internet became a thing. I didn’t even realize my parents had kept it till I uncovered it last year at my mother’s house. Before that, it had been a more than a decade, since I had seen it last being boxed up during the final PCS move my family made upon dad’s retirement from the US Army (he was an officer for 22 years). Then I found it again two weeks ago actually in the cupboard.

I wonder if my mother is planning to use it in the near future to feed my son Blake when she babysits him. Sure he’s only 6 months old now but it won’t be long till he’s eating food off normal kid dishware when he enters the toddler stage. And I feel proud. It would be awesome if my own kid used his old man’s GI Joe plate to eat his lunch off. I’m a lifelong Joe fanatic… my mother and father started me on it 30 years ago and this plate is proof… it’s their fault I’m still a nerd for America’s Moveable Fighting Man! Thanks mom and dad for buying it (and the toys) then and saving it for all this time.