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Every lunchtime, I get my sandwiches out of my sachel, I unearth my tea mug from the drifts of paper that have engulfed it over the course of the morning, and I settle in for lunch at my desk. In order to avoid getting TOO many crumbs on tomorrow's top secret presidential briefing, I sort of lay out
the cling film (or food wrap, or whatever it's called wherever you are) into a makeshift plate, which is then scrunched up and chucked in the bin when I'm replete.
This is most undignified.
I'm thinking: sandwiches often come in those cardboard wedge-shaped boxes. With a little bit of extra material, and some blue printing on the inside, we could have a sandwich container which unfolded into an elegant Ming dynasty plate (or cardboard simulacrualula... thing which looked like one). Then I can have my luncheon on a nice faux-plate instead of a lumpy bit of cling film.
Ming Plate
http://www.gothebor...dex-china-marks.htm
Eat your sandwich off a picture of two Chinese guys who are sad because their chess pieces have been stolen [Osomatic, Feb 07 2007]
This would fold up nicely
http://images.moomi...sS4PfZbvCSBec%2ClIA
[moomintroll, Feb 08 2007]
Nice box
http://www.flickr.c...hardspics/49047908/
I'd like to get sandwiches in one of these [hippo, Feb 08 2007]
fold flat travel plate/bowl/cup
http://www.orikaso.com/
fold it into a box for your sarnies, then at work re-fold it into a plate! [TheLightsAreOnBut, Feb 08 2007]
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I just get food everywhere. I doubt even this would help me, but I'd use it if it looked good. |
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It could have a ceramic frog on the side with a computer-controlled nanobot tongue that snatches crumbs out of the air. |
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Can you add a link to the kind of Ming plate you'd want it to imitate? I only associate Ming with vase, not plate, so I'm not sure I'm imagining the right plate. |
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when it gets dirty would it be Minging ?
(this may not be well understood
outside of UK land) |
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long live the uk! (i know, i know, the republic of ireland doesn't count. but we can pretend.) |
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Well, it's still within The British Isles, even if it's outside the United Kingdom. |
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Thanks {Osomatic] - perfect. |
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Alternatively, we could go for a nice red-and-white gingham stripe, and make like it's a picnic blanket. |
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But there's a fatal flaw with this idea... "I get my sandwiches out of my sachel", and "I sort of lay out the cling film" imply that you bring in home-made sandwiches (as I do), yet "cardboard wedge-shaped boxes" are associated with shop-bought sandwiches, so you'd still be stuck with your manky bit of clingfilm while your less frugal work colleagues would be unfolding their origami-like faux-Ming cardboard marvels. Otherwise an excellent idea. |
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Okay, well, maybe I would buy sandwiches if they came in attractive, internally-printed fold-out plateboxes. |
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To be honest, although I aspire to make my own sandwiches, I normally end up buying them anyway. And they normally come in those plastic wedgeboxes. Disappointment all round, really. |
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My girlfriend did exactly this for an art project at St. Martins. I am therefore obliged to confess how brilliant an idea it is. [+] |
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I might have guessed it.Anyway, on the grounds that that doesn't qualify as Widely Known to Exist, I shall leave this posted. |
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I'd much rather have a Ming The Merciless lunchbox shaped like the anoying flying drone, with built in sound effects and a moustache attached to the flask. I can think of nothing more dignified. |
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[blessed]Gordon's alive?[/blessed] |
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//Anyway, on the grounds that that doesn't qualify as Widely Known to Exist, I shall leave this posted.// |
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Absolutely, otherwise I would have mentioned those 3 dreaded, much-acronysed words that all we bakers fear... |
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Definitely not widely known to exist, and in my opinion a viable commercial product. |
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Mmm.. Peanut butter and jam sandwich on flexibility board, when finished, play flexibility chess. The knights being crumbs of cheese and the Queen, paper thin ham [+] |
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Have you ever put tea in your sachel? |
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