The history of the 'square box' of Chinese food that everyone has seen at least once
When you watch American movies or dramas, you may see take-out boxes of Chinese food. This box, which is rarely seen in Japan, is a popular take-out container for Chinese food in the United States. So why on earth did square takeout containers become popular in the United States? A movie `` The Truth About Your Chinese Takeout Box '' that approaches its history has been released.
A square container that you may have seen in American movies and dramas.
This is a take-out container used in American take-out Chinese restaurants.
Although takeout containers are recognized as common sense in the United States, they are actually not used in countries other than the United States. However, according to an editorial staff member who has been to Canada, square takeout containers are also used in Canada.
The square takeout containers are said to have been inspired by origami.
The origin of the square takeout container is said to be a paper bucket patented by Frederick Weeks Wilcox, an investor living in Chicago, in 1894.
The paper bucket that Mr. Wilcox obtained a patent was made by folding a sheet of paper and was designed to prevent water from leaking.
At the same time that Wilcox patented the paper bucket, large numbers of Chinese immigrants were flooding into California.
The purpose of most Chinese immigrants to California was
Time flies from the gold rush to post-World War I California. At that time, the center of the world's economy shifted from Europe, which had been devastated by World War I, to the United States, and the United States entered an era of housing construction boom and mass consumption. In California, many people moved to the suburbs, and this triggered the opening of many Chinese takeout restaurants in the suburbs, run by Chinese people who had settled in California after the Gold Rush.
At first, a pure white container was used, but...
In the 1970s, a graphic designer drew a pagoda and developed a takeout container with the words 'Thank you' printed on it.
With the advent of containers that clearly identified Chinese food, square takeout containers spread throughout the United States. In addition, it seems that square takeout containers are not used in China, the home of Chinese cuisine.
In Japan, Daiso seems to be handling square boxes.
I got everyone's coveted 'white box of detectives eating Chinese food in Hollywood movies' at Daiso pic.twitter.com/8tMwTGlmRM
— Kuroshio @10/16BZW (@zaneiken13) September 19, 2016
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