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On 2025-04-03 6:31 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:

> My mother bought Tupperware but I'm not sure she ever attended a 
> "Tupperware party".  She probably did when I was a kid in the 1960's.  I 
> do remember her giving me a Tupperware lunchbox around 1978 when I was 
> going to work in an office.  The same little red plastic "lunchbox" with 
> different sized containers that all fit inside appears in episodes of 
> the TV show 'Young Sheldon' which was set in 1989 or so.  I didn't keep 
> that lunchbox.  Perhaps I should have. ;)
> 
> Jill
> 
The late Barry Humphries (Aussie comedian - Edna Everage) maintained
that the phrase "to open one's lunchbox" was a euphemism for farting.