Cling film or tin foil?

Dave! · 02-02-2011 8:11pm #1

In primary school, what did you use to wrap/cover your lunch?

Obviously both have benefits, cling film keeping the package air-tight and bread fresh, and tin foil being able to double as a missile and/or football when you're finished with it.

Was there a social hierarchy spawned from, or perhaps just illustrated by, this dichotomy? It's a fact that cling film is not as cool as tin foil, so this must surely have been a factor in determining popularity or social standing.

So, which did you use? And how did it affect your life? I'm thinking of doing a longitudintal study to get to the bottom of this issue. Feel free to share any stories that you feel may be relevant.

Kiera · 02-02-2011 8:12pm

I honestly cant remember so it must not have been a big deal.

orourkeda · 02-02-2011 8:13pm

A Lunch box

JONJO THE MISER · 02-02-2011 8:13pm

:eek:Cling Film or Tin Foil, no recession in your house i see.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i · 02-02-2011 8:13pm

Where is the option for both?

TerrorFirmer · 02-02-2011 8:14pm

I always instinctively use tin foil. For the first time in my life, I'm now stopping to ponder.

iPlop · 02-02-2011 8:14pm

Sammiches DO NOT stay fresh and they get warm unless they're wrapped in tin foil.

MaybeLogic · 02-02-2011 8:14pm

I tried chasing the dragon on cling film one time, but it ended a molten mess.

That said, I can chew cling-film without causing an electric shock to my fillings.

Pros and cons.

Gummy Panda · 02-02-2011 8:15pm

tinfoil.

I hate cling film near food. I always felt tinfoil was fresher.

Azureus · 02-02-2011 8:15pm

In school, it was cling-film.

Now I spoil myself with tinfoil. Mainly because cling film annoys me! That and im cooler now :cool:

Ruu_Old · 02-02-2011 8:15pm

Brown paper bag or the wrapper from whatever sliced pan we had (Mr.Brennan)!

Opinicus · 02-02-2011 8:16pm

Tin Foil.

Cling film made my sandwiches sweat. Nothing worse than soggy sandwiches

inb4 inevitable soggy biscuit comment.

Gummy Panda · 02-02-2011 8:17pm

Kiera wrote: »

I honestly cant remember so it must not have been a big deal.

Thats cause you were a bully and stole the other kid's lunches!

cml387 · 02-02-2011 8:20pm

Ruu wrote: »

Brown paper bag or the wrapper from whatever sliced pan we had (Mr.Brennan)!

+1 there old bean.
None of your fancy cling film in our day.And jam sandwiches.Or maybe no jam, just butter.

MistyCheese · 02-02-2011 8:29pm

Ugh, I hate tinfoil!

PeterIanStaker · 02-02-2011 8:32pm

I was the guy who used to walk home for lunch. aka "The Freak"

Rockn · 02-02-2011 9:02pm

We got milk and sandwiches in primary school. And once a week... buns!

strokemyclover · 02-02-2011 9:09pm

Mainly tin foil but cling film had its advantages....when sandwiches were left under the desk over a weekend you could see a rainbow of mould explode as you threw the scrunched up sandwich at someone's head.

I was a very bored student at Trinity!

LambsEye · 02-02-2011 9:10pm

Tinfoil.

I had a big time nostalgia trip when I came home recently. I realised that I'll NEVER taste a taste like my lunch roll again. Because it has to sit in your bag for a couple of hours and ferment. Even if I put a roll in a bag and left it now, it still wouldn't be the same. It wouldn't be infused with the smell of my books and school and SLIGHTLY squished from being picked up and thrown down every few minutes.

Sigh.

My legend ma used to get up and make us fresh rolls in the oven in the morning. Same lunch every day:

Crusty roll loaded with ham and butter.
Club Milk
Piece of fruit.
Euro for a can of coke + crisps/chocolate bar.

F*ucking Delish wha.

Alter-Ego · 02-02-2011 9:12pm

LambsEye wrote: »

Tinfoil.

I had a big time nostalgia trip when I came home recently. I realised that I'll NEVER taste a taste like my lunch roll again. Because it has to sit in your bag for a couple of hours and ferment. Even if I put a roll in a bag and left it now, it still wouldn't be the same. It wouldn't be infused with the smell of my books and school and SLIGHTLY squished from being picked up and thrown down every few minutes.

Sigh.

My legend ma used to get up and make us fresh rolls in the oven in the morning. Same lunch every day:

Crusty roll loaded with ham and butter.
Club Milk
Piece of fruit.
Euro for a can of coke + crisps/chocolate bar.

F*ucking Delish wha.

Mammys boy!

I got a slap and some peanut butter smeared on a playing card.

seaniemoylan · 02-02-2011 9:13pm

still use tinfoil on my hang sangidges to this day:D

LambsEye · 02-02-2011 9:13pm

Alter-Ego wrote: »

Mammys boy!

I got a slap and some peanut butter smeared on a playing card.

Mammy's GIRL. I guess she was guilty because we'd no Da or sumink.

alwaysadub · 02-02-2011 9:38pm

Tin foil. Or my lunch box. Depending on whichever was handiest.

phasers · 02-02-2011 9:41pm

eh, a sandwich bag. Inside a pink lunchbox.

Ham sandwich (pb&j on a good week), carton of Amigo juice and a penguin bar. lunch of kings.

Dravokivich · 02-02-2011 9:46pm

phasers wrote: »

eh, a sandwich bag.

Used them too, still do.

EverEvolving · 02-02-2011 9:47pm

Tinfoil all the way. I have wasted too many precious minutes trying to unravel cling film, it drives me nuts when people don't unwrap it properly and you have to go searching for the start and unravel it around and around until it is an even sheet again.

ArtSmart · 02-02-2011 9:51pm

cling film hats get too messy after a while.

tin foil all the way.

Son Of A Vidic · 02-02-2011 9:52pm

Tin foil was the way to go, you could also put it on your head when needed to stop 'them' from reading your mind.

McChubbin · 02-02-2011 9:52pm

Use tin foil. Then when it rains, you can craft a dainty hat out of it.

Latchy · 02-02-2011 9:55pm

Always used aluminium foil roll on moi sammichjas and use to keep salads and just opened packets of food , like cheese and bacon ' fresh' .

JONJO THE MISER · 02-02-2011 9:55pm

McChubbin wrote: »

you can craft a dainty hat out of it.

Why aren't you a dainty little bugger.

Seren_ · 02-02-2011 9:56pm

phasers wrote: »

eh, a sandwich bag. Inside a pink lunchbox.

Ham sandwich (pb&j on a good week), carton of Amigo juice and a penguin bar. lunch of kings.

Amigo apple juice, the nicest drink EVAR!

Also, clearly sandwiches go in a sandwich bag. The clue's in the name.

LambsEye · 02-02-2011 9:56pm

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Why aren't you a dainty little bugger.

Dandy ass motherlover.

Crasp · 02-02-2011 9:57pm

cling film for burns, tin foil for protecting your thoughts...

McChubbin · 02-02-2011 9:59pm

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Why aren't you a dainty little bugger.

*doffs tin foil hat* A little from column A, a little from column B! :pac:

Abi · 02-02-2011 10:03pm

orourkeda wrote: »

A Lunch box

^ This

Bananna sandwiches and a flask of hot chocolate.

enda1 · 02-02-2011 10:05pm

Only realised when shopping for my own place though that tin foil is frickin' expensive! Don't use it much any more really, cling film's better, but a lunch-box's the best

Gummy Panda · 02-02-2011 10:10pm

Abi wrote: »

^ This

Bananna sandwiches and a flask of hot chocolate.

Ewww banana sandwiches

W.Shakes-Beer · 02-02-2011 10:13pm

Tin foil.

When you finished lunch you can then make a ball out of it and hook it around the classroom.

cml387 · 02-02-2011 10:14pm

Tupperware.

There, I've said it.

Latchy · 02-02-2011 10:17pm

Cling film just makes your food all mushy , after you've managed to prise it off .Foil is so fresh and even better if put into lunch or tupperware box

tfitzgerald · 02-02-2011 10:19pm

Cling film for me

Kiera · 02-02-2011 10:25pm

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Thats cause you were a bully and stole the other kid's lunches!

Maybe that was it

/only robbed the ones who had hanky bars tho.

//was that the name of them?

Dave! · 02-02-2011 10:29pm

Anyone have wagon wheels with their lunch?

I must have had about 1000 of these back in the day... got pretty sick of them...

reddevilfan · 02-02-2011 10:32pm

Ruu wrote: »

Brown paper bag or the wrapper from whatever sliced pan we had (Mr.Brennan)!

I got you there man, Brennans or Butterkrust wrapper... Damn i miss that butterkrust bread

3hn2givr7mx1sc · 02-02-2011 10:32pm

Tin foil all the way. We used to throw them at eachother after our sammiches.

Now we scrunch a load of them together to form one big ball and play keepy uppy with it.:pac:

Asphyxia · 02-02-2011 10:35pm

Tin Foil wins hands down! I find it great for when I'm cooking

I can line a baking try and no food gets stuck

biko · 02-02-2011 10:39pm

I went to a posh school, we got lunch served in a canteen

cml387 · 02-02-2011 10:45pm

biko wrote: »

I went to a posh school, we got lunch served in a canteen

Funnily enough,when I were a nipper (last century,and over in Blighty) having school dinner was a sign of poverty.You'd have to be poor to suffer what they served up though but.

iamstop · 02-02-2011 10:46pm

plastic bag normally or lunch box if I was lucky! There were 5 of us vying for 3 or 4 lunch boxes.

Latchy · 02-02-2011 10:48pm

cml387 wrote: »

Funnily enough,when I were a nipper (last century,and over in Blighty) having school dinner was a sign of poverty.You'd have to be poor to suffer what they served up though but.

biko wrote: »

I went to a posh school, we got lunch served in a canteen

/ Holds gruel bowl out

Please Sir ..........can I have some more ?

:pac:

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