Friday Favorites: Have you seen these?

Until last September's post about Jodie Foster vs. Sin City, this was the most commented entry I had made here at Culture Kills, as it did seem to hit a nerve with people.

Originally posted on May 25th, 2006, this entry is about those ubiquitous Chinese Food Containers that you see in the movies and television that I still haven't seen out in the wild, nearly two and a half years later. Maybe I never will.

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Ok, this is a little thing, but it has been bothering me for a while now.

Has anyone ever had Chinese Takeout from the above type of container. I see them all the time in the movies and on TV, but never in my life have I ever encountered them. Not once, and I've eaten a lot of Chinese food in a lot of locales.

Maybe it is a regional thing or something... like I live in the only place in North America that doesn't have those neat little white cardboard boxes. Maybe I am missing out on part of the experience by only being exposed to styrofoam containers and metal serving dishes. Would my subgum wonton taste better coming from a miniature cube of cardboard? Perhaps I will never know.

Could it be that these owners keep those delightful little packages of joy for their clients who rent huge loft apartments on fast food wages and on occasion find themselves sucked into huge adventures that work themselves out over an hour or two's worth of retelling. I know my life certainly doesn't work that way.

Well, at least it won't until I get the phone company to finally give me that 555 number I've been clamoring for.

Tags: chinese food, containers, pandora, evil, its made from people, 867-5309