9 Mistakes In Stephen King Books You Never Even Noticed
4. Cujo - Lunch Boxes Magically Transform
Cujo, published in 1981 is a psychological horror which centres primarily on a rabid dog. The name Cujo is based on the nom de guerre of Willie Wolfe, one of the men responsible for orchestrating Patty Heart's kidnapping and indoctrination in the Symbionese Liberation Army.
The main characters in Cujo are the Trenton and Chamber families, both of whom are terrorised by the dog and the effect its bite has on humans, primarily causing them to murder. In a lighter and more inconsequential moment, Donna Trenton prepares a lunch before taking her car to the Chamber's to get it fixed. Before going, she packs a snack in a metal Snoopy lunch box, along with “green olives and cumber slices in foil”.
Not long after, however, the box has become a tupperware dish, and rather than the olives and cucumber slices being wrapped in foil they're wrapped in saran wrap. It's a rather small mistake, sure, but one that's odd to come across in a Stephen King novel, and it's even stranger that both descriptions are only about twenty pages apart.