If you’ve ever gone to heat up your lunch at the office and discovered some cubical jockey has already done that for you… and left you nothing but the mushrooms from what was last night’s spaghetti and meatballs, then give this a try. Maybe… Experimental Meal – Consume At Own Risk, Biodangerous – Yesterday’s Leftovers, or Nuclear Waste – Eat and Glow …will stop them from pilfering your lunch. OK, doubtful as we all have that one coworker that will eat a packet of hot Chinese mustard, an entire ball poin pen, or even nuclear waste for a 25 cent bet. “Heck yeah I’d eat that for a quarter.”
You get three containers in a set (13.5 oz, 20 oz, 33 oz) and each has a nifty dial to set the date so you know when it was put in the fridge. This way the food doesn’t actually turn into what the label says it is. After 89 days in the fridge, chicken and dumplings starts to look a bit gnarly. Heck yeah I’d eat that for a quarter.
$8.99 from Think Geek
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Those wouldn’t stop the true food thieves, they’ve all seen the same thinkgeek catalog. The thing I saw that I liked was the moldy sandwich ziploc, it has the mold baked right in the plastic. Perhaps if placed in a regular lunch sack that would scare them off. Except they look so real they might gross out the rightful owner too.
PS. I like your name. Except how do you unfork? Is there a linux command to do that? What does it do, just immediately kill the child process?
Of course the next step is to get fake mold made of some innocuous and tasteless substance and put it directly on the sandwich if they catch onto the moldy bag trick. But really, those forking geek food thieves, like hackers, will stop at nothing. And then we might set up honeypots in the office fridge too, delicious foodie looking things that spray indelible blue paint all over them if opened or something.
@colleen — The moldy ziploc is very cool, seen it somewhere, but like you said — I think it might spoil lunch. Or somebody might toss the sandwich — and your fancy ziploc.