lunch pails
Workers' food carriers
Lunch pails are containers for carrying a packed meal, especially to work or school.
The term evokes an earlier industrial era when factory workers and miners brought their midday meals in metal pails.
In American sports culture, lunch pail describes blue-collar work ethic: a lunch-pail team that wins through effort, not flash.
- mealtimeDesignated eating period
- foodConsumable nourishment source
- sandwichFilling between bread slices
- storageSpace for keeping goods
- portableAble to be carried
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- blue collarhard hat, blue collar, blue-collar jobs, factory work, manual labor
- urban neighborhoodsboutiques, galleries, row houses, cafes, bungalows
lunch pailsexpense accounts
Tracked work-related outlays
business lunches · power lunches · catered meals · eating out · white-collar
lunch pailsbrown bags
Plain paper carriers
plastic bags · bento boxes · Tupperware · plastic containers