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.-- moomintroll, Feb 07 2007 Ming Plate http://www.gothebor...dex-china-marks.htmEat your sandwich off a picture of two Chinese guys who are sad because their chess pieces have been stolen [Osomatic, Feb 08 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] ASDA Sandwich Boxes http://boingboing.n...ich-boxes-that.htmlBaked! Hoorah! [DrBob, Aug 05 2009] I just get food everywhere. I doubt even this would help me, but I'd use it if it looked good.-- wagster, Feb 07 2007 It could have a ceramic frog on the side with a computer-controlled nanobot tongue that snatches crumbs out of the air.
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.-- jutta, Feb 07 2007 when it gets dirty would it be Minging ? (this may not be well understood outside of UK land)-- xenzag, Feb 07 2007 rofl@xenzag.
long live the uk! (i know, i know, the republic of ireland doesn't count. but we can pretend.)-- we_dont_eat_them, Feb 07 2007 Thanks {Osomatic] - perfect.
Alternatively, we could go for a nice red-and-white gingham stripe, and make like it's a picnic blanket.-- moomintroll, Feb 08 2007 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.-- hippo, Feb 08 2007 Okay, well, maybe I would buy sandwiches if they came in attractive, internally-printed fold-out plateboxes.
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.-- moomintroll, Feb 08 2007 My girlfriend did exactly this for an art project at St. Martins. I am therefore obliged to confess how brilliant an idea it is. [+]-- theleopard, Feb 08 2007 I might have guessed it.Anyway, on the grounds that that doesn't qualify as Widely Known to Exist, I shall leave this posted.-- moomintroll, Feb 08 2007 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.
[blessed]Gordon's alive?[/blessed]-- marklar, Feb 08 2007 //Anyway, on the grounds that that doesn't qualify as Widely Known to Exist, I shall leave this posted.//
Absolutely, otherwise I would have mentioned those 3 dreaded, much-acronysed words that all we bakers fear...
Definitely not widely known to exist, and in my opinion a viable commercial product.-- theleopard, Feb 08 2007 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 [+]-- skinflaps, Feb 08 2007 Have you ever put tea in your sachel?-- bungston, Feb 08 2007 [+] nice one.-- FlyingToaster, Aug 04 2009 Hadn't seen this idea previously but you'll be glad to know, moomintroll, that someone went and baked this idea. Strike one for the 'bakery! (linky). Footnote: They probably didn't know about this idea at ASDA but I don't see why that should stop us from claiming it anyway.-- DrBob, Aug 05 2009 random, halfbakery