Lunch box shopping?

August

The choices go well beyond Dora the Explorer, superheroes and various other commercial characters, “reports Associated Press.”:http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070808/LIFE/708080345/1005 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.

The 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.”:http://www.lunchboxes.com/supper.html 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”:http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/18/health/ap/main2491385.shtml 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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