A meal would be wrapped in a handkerchief. David Shayt, curator of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, states that "Some of our earliest examples, from the 19th century, were woven baskets with handles. Since the 19th century, American industrial workers have used sturdy containers to hold hardy lunches, consisting of foods such as hard-boiled eggs, vegetables, meat, coffee, and pie. With increasing industrialization resulting in Americans working outside the home in factories, it became unfeasible to go home to lunch every day, thus it was necessary to have something to protect and transport a meal.
However, popular culture has more often embraced the singular term lunch box, which is now most commonly used. Use of lithographed metal to produce lunch boxes in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s and 1980s gave way in the 1990s to use of injection-molded plastic.Ī lunch kit comprises the actual "box" and a matching vacuum bottle. The most common modern form is a small case with a clasp and handle, often printed with a colorful image that can either be generic or based on children's television shows or films. It has most often been used by schoolchildren to take packed lunches, or a snack, from home to school. The concept of a food container has existed for a long time, but it was not until people began using tobacco tins to carry meals in the early 20th century, followed by the use of lithographed images on metal, that the containers became a staple of youth, and a marketable product.
In the United States a lunchbox may also be termed a lunch pail, lunch bucket or lunch tin, either as single words or paired. It is commonly made of metal or plastic, is reasonably airtight and often has a handle for carrying. spelling lunchbox) refers to a hand-held container used to transport food, usually to work or to school.
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