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Post by gramasue on Feb 23, 2022 16:01:29 GMT
Most restaurants use small Styrofoam containers now to put the food in when you want to take it home, but I still call that a doggy bag.
It's not usually necessary to actually say you want a doggy bag, though, as your server will come to your table and ask if you'd like to take the rest home. I answer "Yes, please".
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Post by workingclassdog on Feb 23, 2022 17:08:43 GMT
Apparently I haven't said it enough.. just about a month ago, I said I am going to need a doggie bag and all three of my kids (who are 26, 25 and 13) looked at me like I lost my mind. I couldn't figure out what the heck they were looking at me weird for. I think I must say I need a 'to go box', but I know I used to say "doggie bag"... I have no idea when that changed.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Feb 24, 2022 0:00:24 GMT
Just out of curiosity I typed "doggie bag" into the search feature on Amazon. As far as I could scroll, the results were only poop bags. Not a single to-go container or bag for food showed up.
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Post by katlady on Feb 24, 2022 1:00:30 GMT
Just out of curiosity I typed "doggie bag" into the search feature on Amazon. As far as I could scroll, the results were only poop bags. Not a single to-go container or bag for food showed up. I think that is because there is no specific “doggy bag”. It is just whatever the restaurant uses to bag up leftover. It is just a saying to indicate leftovers.
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Post by katlady on Feb 24, 2022 1:03:53 GMT
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Post by myshelly on Feb 24, 2022 1:15:32 GMT
From the 70s. The 70s. 50 years ago.
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Post by bc2ca on Feb 24, 2022 1:29:30 GMT
I think that is because there is no specific “doggy bag”. It is just whatever the restaurant uses to bag up leftover. It is just a saying to indicate leftovers. We rarely ate out growing up and cleaned our plates when we did, but I babysat for a family that often came home with something wrapped in foil to look like a swan.
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Post by katlady on Feb 24, 2022 1:35:54 GMT
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Post by crazy4scraps on Feb 24, 2022 2:51:39 GMT
From the 70s. The 70s. 50 years ago. Yeah, we get it. Anyone born before 1970 is ANCIENT. Practically a fossil. 🙄 I’m going to go sit in my rocker now and take a nap.
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Post by FuzzyMutt on Feb 24, 2022 3:11:20 GMT
I call the bags I carry around the neighborhood to keep my dog welcome, and **doo** kind deeds for other dog owners poo bags. Take out boxes, I just call containers. But, to be fair, years ago, I started carrying a little container in my bag if I knew I would be going somewhere I'd likely take home leftovers. Rarely do I do that! I just don't like to use the foam so many places use. But, please indulge me with a memory <3 I don't feed my dogs human food, or think anyone should. But. My Grandma saw it different The last few years we got to enjoy time with her, she LOVED nothing more than going to Ponderosa for lunch, getting the buffet, adding a steak to it for a couple dollars with her Sr discount, and enjoying the buffet with whoever she was with. When the steak was ready, they'd always bring it, and a potato in a little to go box (this was her thing!! They knew her!) and she'd take the steak and go to someone's house with a dog that she knew would enjoy it. Family dogs, friend dogs, all dogs. Visit while said doggie got their feast, then go home with her baked potato that she'd have for dinner. I really think in her mid 80's this was her absolute favorite way to spend a day. I went home a few weeks ago. Ponderosa is closed in that town. But I went to a diner for breakfast, and separated out half my bacon and one of my eggs, and immediately put it in my little container. Stopped by her final resting place, and dropped it in the woodline. I hope the squirrels showed up to make her smile. Because that's what she'd do. Man. I miss her.
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Post by cmpeter on Feb 24, 2022 4:58:44 GMT
I would think you needed a container to take leftovers home. I just texted my 21 year old to ask what she thought I would need if I asked for a doggie bag and she k ew. Nether of us is very old or country.
At a restaurant I would ask for a to go box.
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Post by katiekaty on Feb 24, 2022 9:54:29 GMT
First smile I have had since 345 this afternoon, thanks! I always think of barking puppies in a doggie bag and hope that’s what I get when I asked for one at a restaurant! My sons always fake bark at me when I ask!
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Post by melanell on Feb 26, 2022 1:21:13 GMT
Like others, I don't actually ask for a "doggie bag" from my server. I just ask for a container. But at home, or among friends/family, I will refer to that container as a "doggy bag". Waste bags one uses to clean up after their pet are just "poop bags" or "waste bags" if I'm trying to be less gross.
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