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Lunch box shopping?

August
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The choices go well beyond Dora the Explorer, superheroes and various other commercial characters, reports Associated Press. There is a widening assortment of insulated, container-carrying, anti-microbial, purse-like totes for sale along with the familiar boxes. “Character lunch boxes” make up a third of the market nowadays, after once dominating it, says AP.

lunchboxshop_1963_7217714.jpegThe newer products are geared toward lunch-carrying adults as much as children, apparently. And I have to wonder if the retro models are geared more toward the adults, too. I noticed this one sitting in the window of a shop called Sign of the Times in Nyack, and pictured here at www.lunchboxes.com. It’s a portable “Last Supper.”

By the way, there are safety issues to consider also. If you’ve bought lunch boxes with vinyl liners, you might want to look at this AP article about lead content and testing procedures.

This entry was posted on Monday, August 13th, 2007 at 5:46 pm by Leah Rae.
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