WORKING LUNCH, 2022
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The meal deal is the friend of the worker who has little time to make their own lunch, and outsources their sandwich-making to a factory. The triangle sandwich in a standard meal deal comes from two sandwiches stacked on top of each other and then sliced diagonally: so you’re actually eating two halves of two separate sandwiches. To eat a meal deal is to share a sandwich in solidarity with another worker, somewhere else.
But the speedy convenience of the meal deal also led, in part, to the shrinking of the lunch hour, which has now been reduced to half an hour in many offices. The sandwich allows you to eat with one hand and continue working with the other. ‘Working Lunch 2’ is a desk tidy stores your meal deal at your desk with your other office stationary, so you never need to leave.
The meal deal is the friend of the worker who has little time to make their own lunch, and outsources their sandwich-making to a factory. The triangle sandwich in a standard meal deal comes from two sandwiches stacked on top of each other and then sliced diagonally: so you’re actually eating two halves of two separate sandwiches. To eat a meal deal is to share a sandwich in solidarity with another worker, somewhere else.
But the speedy convenience of the meal deal also led, in part, to the shrinking of the lunch hour, which has now been reduced to half an hour in many offices. The sandwich allows you to eat with one hand and continue working with the other. ‘Working Lunch 2’ is a desk tidy stores your meal deal at your desk with your other office stationary, so you never need to leave.