{"id":270,"date":"2013-08-10T23:03:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T23:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/ephemera\/?p=270"},"modified":"2020-11-11T16:23:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T05:23:24","slug":"the-lunch-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/the-lunch-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"The lunch bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lunch-bag-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-271 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lunch-bag-1.jpg\" alt=\"The lunch bag\" width=\"425\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lunch-bag-1.jpg 425w, https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lunch-bag-1-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not your everyday bag although, in many respects, it is indeed just an ordinary brown paper bag \u2013 but with foil on. I don\u2019t recall having seen this combination before when munching my way through a multitude of sarnies and salads. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever had cause previously to pause and acknowledge the foiling on my lunch bag. Perhaps I just don\u2019t eat at the right places.<\/p>\n<p>It is an odd pairing though. Foiling is still <i>the<\/i> marker for a hint of luxury or class, on everything from wedding invitations to chocolate boxes. People keep foiled stuff, almost as if the shiny bits really were valuable. So why put it on one of the most ephemeral of all paper products \u2013 the lunch bag? Typically this lasts no longer that the time it takes to scurry back to one\u2019s desk and rip it open with the haste of a caveman slicing into a dead deer. The bag is instantly disposable, one step away from being food waste. It\u2019s barely even paper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lunch-bag-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-273 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lunch-bag-2.jpg\" alt=\"The lunch bag\" width=\"468\" height=\"567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lunch-bag-2.jpg 468w, https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lunch-bag-2-247x300.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And yet this one has foil. It is a product of the popular <a title=\"misschu\" href=\"http:\/\/www.misschu.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">misschu<\/a> Vietnamese tuckshops (yes, I was there for the lemongrass beef salad) and is promoting a new eatery with a focus on potatoes (that shiny blob is meant to be two potatoes, I think, not a golden turd). The bag is produced by <a title=\"Gispac\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gispac.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Gispac<\/a> (\u2018we are bags\u2026\u2019), an Australian bag maker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Shredded-paper-grey-sm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-513 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Shredded-paper-grey-sm.png\" alt=\"shredded paper\" width=\"200\" height=\"158\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not your everyday bag although, in many respects, it is indeed just an ordinary brown paper bag \u2013 but with foil on. I don\u2019t recall having seen this combination before when munching my way through a multitude of sarnies and salads. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever had cause previously to pause and acknowledge the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1053,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/1053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deadreal.com.au\/dead_paper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}