On Sep 11, 5:03 pm, Mark Thorson > wrote:
> See it he
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ150160034451
>
> Is it really a lunch box? It has two compartments,
> which could be for two components of a meal.
> Why else would you have two compartments?
>
> It looks something like a dabba, but in ceramic
> rather than metal.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawa...-tech_and_lean
>
> Except the dabba appears to have three compartments,
> and to be much bigger. And more rugged.

It looks like a lunch container from the early part of last century,
that laborers carried every day to the job.

N.