Anti-Theft Lunch Bags: Lunch's Last Line Of Defense

The Huffington Post  |  By Posted: Updated: 05/16/2012 9:34 am

Anti Theft Lunch Bags

We've all been there: spend your morning making the perfect sandwich, walk over to the office fridge with a growling stomach around lunchtime, only to discover it's gone. Now there's a way to fight back against hungry co-workers. Introducing Anti-Theft Lunch Bags.

Designers at “the.” have created Anti-Theft Lunch Bags -- a fun spin to make your lunch look less like a delicious concoction and more like a molded, inedible piece of food headed for the garbage bin. For $8, you receive 25 plastic sandwich bags with strategically placed green splotches on the surface, to make the contents inside look like something no one would want to steal, let alone eat.

The two people behind the. are a male and female duo named Sherwood and Mihoko, respectively. Many of their products are cheeky redesigns of everyday products, like Speak-er, a speaker shaped like a comic’s dialogue bubble or the Large Pocket Shirt, a T-shirt with a seriously oversized front pocket. Availability for all their items are limited, so the two can quickly make and sell any new, weird ideas that pop into their mind.

Five percent of the lunch bag proceeds will go to Freedom From Hunger.

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We've all been there: spend your morning making the perfect sandwich, walk over to the office fridge with a growling stomach around lunchtime, only to discover it's gone. Now there's a way to fight ba...
We've all been there: spend your morning making the perfect sandwich, walk over to the office fridge with a growling stomach around lunchtime, only to discover it's gone. Now there's a way to fight ba...
 
 
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dbrett480
10:03 PM on 05/17/2012
Won't people just throw these away? I know I would.
lofttypeofaview
I pledge allegiance to the poor!
01:35 AM on 05/17/2012
After looking at that, I think I found a new diet plan!
03:31 PM on 05/16/2012
The cheaper way is to just eat a moldy lunch.
03:24 PM on 05/16/2012
As a gag this would be funny, but in reality, your lunch may disappear MORE OFTEN with these lunch bags. Every company I've ever worked at that had a lunch room (with fridge) inevitably had some (sometimes self-appointed) that would ensure old spoiled food didn't fill up the fridge. Typically because fridge space was at a premium. If stuff looked clearly spoiled, frequently it would be thrown away no questions asked. So good luck with these :)
03:42 PM on 05/17/2012
haha that is EXACTLY what I was going to say. yeah it won't be stolen it will just be THROWN AWAY even more often than it was stolen :-)
01:45 PM on 05/16/2012
very clever
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corkery
I could've been somebody not like the bum I am now
01:44 PM on 05/16/2012
Like one person said get one of those thermal lined lunch bag and keep it near you. I stopped some guy in my office from stealing my sweets with the help of chocolate flavored ex-lax, I just made smores with the laxative and left them slightly hidden behind my monitor on my desk. That stopped him dead in his tracks, plus he quit talking to me which was an added bonus.
01:41 PM on 05/16/2012
People who steal their co-workers' lunches are nothing but parasitic scum of the earth and should be fired if they are caught doing it.
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Milash
My microbio is fabulous
01:30 PM on 05/16/2012
What kind of ingrate would steal their co-worker's lunch?
02:24 PM on 05/16/2012
You'd be amazed, we have it happen every week.
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Milash
My microbio is fabulous
02:30 PM on 05/16/2012
Last year one of my co-workers brought in a post-Thanksgiving turkey sandwich for lunch and someone took it.  It just blows my mind that people could be so blatantly selfish and rude.
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Nic the wonder puppy
When life throws lemons, throw them back
01:27 PM on 05/16/2012
how much longer until you start blaming the dog?
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mrelmo
improvise, adapt, overcome...
01:03 PM on 05/16/2012
Yum! I'll have a little penicillin with my sandwich...
12:58 PM on 05/16/2012
last year's news, reported today on huffpo. nice work guys...
12:56 PM on 05/16/2012
So when you go to get your lunch and it's gone, you can turn to your coworker who will say, "I cleaned out the fridge and threw all the moldy stuff away."
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kkoie
12:53 PM on 05/16/2012
Ingenius! If I had the unfortunate fate of getting my lunch stolen regularly, I'd seriously consider buying these.
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Bike Commuter
No More Hurting People
01:30 PM on 05/16/2012
For the $8 you would spend on a month's worth of bags, you can buy an insulated lunch bag and a cold pack. Permanent solution.
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seeing11s
There is only one of us
12:47 PM on 05/16/2012
Bring your lunch in a cooler and keep it near you.
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Nick Harteau
12:47 PM on 05/16/2012
Can someone please explain to the editors that an apostrophe is not used to pluralize?

"Bag's?" Where do people who do this get their degrees from? Honestly?
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corkery
I could've been somebody not like the bum I am now
01:03 PM on 05/16/2012
I've read the article and didn't find one instance that "Bag's" was being used except for the caption above the image and that was probably tossed in by the graphics department. You're just a little too picky.
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Kristin Talbott
One should always be a little improbable.
04:01 PM on 05/16/2012
One would think that basic spelling, punctuation and proofreading skills are actually part of the job description for those in the graphics department, given how sometimes they actually do have to work with words as well as photos.
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Bike Commuter
No More Hurting People
01:35 PM on 05/16/2012
Ah, the greengrocer's apostrophe. One of my favorites.

FYI, right below the picture section there is a link that says "suggest a correction". If you submit it, they will usually make the change quickly.