I can't even use smaller words

[madbaker]

Me: "I'm going down the street to a box-lunch place."
Puzzled cow-orker: "What's that?"
Me (non-plussed): "It's a place... that sells lunches... in boxes."

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[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

"They sell lunches ready-to-go".
Box-lunch is a phase I don't hear often anymore.