Fusionware Workplace Dish Set by Vessel
by TreeHugger on 03.21.05
If you’re bringing lunch to work, you’ve got two choices: brownbag it, with lots of wasteful, single-use plastic cutlery, or take some combination of Rubbermaid or Tupperware products, which don’t exactly flaunt your style. Or try this third option, which you can see undressed in the extended post. It reminds us of something astronauts would use (if they weren’t confined to a diet of dehydrated pellets and dried ice cream). You’ll have the best-looking lunch in the cafeteria. $39 USD ::vessel [by KK]
NASA's quite proud of the meals astronauts eat. It's pretty far from dehydrated pellets, and that freeze-dried ice cream is pretty tasty. And if we ever get around to launching a mission to Mars, NASA will have to come up with some pretty good organic food production systems, since launching enough food for a 2 year mission is prohibitive.
For less stylish but more affordable solutions, you might check out a well stocked asian grocer. Following from the obento lunchboxes, Japanese and Korean manufacturers make a wide variety of lunch-toting solutions that vary in cost, style, and capacity. Most contain a compartment for a spoon or chopsticks. The most expensive models consist of a vacuum insulated canister that can house 3 or 4 mini tupperwares. For your four varieties of pellets.
mmmmm... ...pellets....