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The packed lunch

Poll - Total Votes: 6

Piece

Snap

Scran

Pack up

Packed lunch

Bait

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In the days before take aways and coffee shops everywhere, lunch was often sandwiches and snacks in a Tupperware container. What did you call it?

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SomeMichGuy · M

We called it HAGGIS because THAT's wot tru Scots eat, as you shood well know!

😉

Seriously, my Mother made lunches for mysister and I and we carried them in lunch boxes, for the first several years.

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SomeMichGuy · M

@Lugwho I was literally laughing/crying at your last response!

It's sort of like saying

A "Whatcha got today?"

B "...frog sandwich."

[sandwich moves, leg sticks out]

A "Ummm...your frog seems alive."

B [frowning] "Yes, it does."
[Takes a heavy textbook and hits the sandwich a great SMACK echoing through the now-silent lunch area]
[smiling now] "Problem solved; thanks for that. Mind passing the salt?"

SomeMichGuy · M

@Lugwho I meant normal for HIM? LOL

Lugwho · 61-69, M

@SomeMichGuy I think Spud was always a bit unpredictable

BlobbyMcBlobface · 100+, M

My Gran, who was Scottish, called it a piece. I call food scran but a packed lunch is always bait.

Lugwho · 61-69, M

@BlobbyMcBlobface My wife is from Northern Ireland and calls it a piece. Not sure I've heard bait before.

exexec · 70-79, C

Lunch in a brown paper bag designed specifically for lunches. I was instructed to bring the bag home so we could use it all week.

Lugwho · 61-69, M

@exexec Very frugal

ninalanyon · 61-69, T

Lunch.

yestestvennaya · 22-25, F

The consumerism is terrible. Why can't they make their lunch? Why do they get coffee from shops? They can't have flask?

Lugwho · 61-69, M

@yestestvennaya Don't mention bottled water
I don't know how I survived childhood with so little fluids

ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M

Just called it "lunch", and less likely Tupperware than simple aluminum foil.

V00doo

This is so northern 😬

Packed lunch

Lugwho · 61-69, M

@V00doo The poll options were a bit rushed. Of course it should be dinner not lunch 😉

Musicman · 61-69, M

If it was to school or work it was either lunch or a packed lunch. If it was the weekend and the family was involved then it was a picnic.

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