After years of summer barbecues and winter dinners at each other’s houses, I have finally come to understand that nobody actually owns these plastic food containers we all have. There is just a pool of them that exists in the universe and, from time to time, various ones will come to visit our kitchen and then move on.
I took a proper look at the shelf-full of food storage boxes in my pantry recently and realised with shocking clarity that I didn’t actually buy any of them. Not only this, but the ones that I have bought aren’t here.
We haven’t talked about this before, but we all know how this works. I take my homemade salsa round to yours and we don’t quite fi nish it that night, and it feels rude to take it home again, and no-one can be bothered tipping salsa out of one container into another probably identical container at leaving time, so the whole shebang belongs to you now.
This story is from the February 07, 2023 edition of New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
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