Comments on: Dabbawallas and Tiffin Tins http://www.onions-to-lilies.com/2007/07/dabbawallas-and-tiffin-tins/ Personal Evolution Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:52:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: srivathsav http://www.onions-to-lilies.com/2007/07/dabbawallas-and-tiffin-tins/comment-page-1/#comment-62 srivathsav Sun, 10 Feb 2008 14:05:46 +0000 http://www.onions-to-lilies.com/2007/07/dabbawallas-and-tiffin-tins/#comment-62 well , lik how everyone gets excited reading bout dabbawallas, i too got.......but one thing which amazed me is the fact dat the organization is able keep the dabbawallas motivated and make dem work day in and day out and dat too in a city lik mumbai which has got all d variabilities.......hats off to these guys....... well , lik how everyone gets excited reading bout dabbawallas, i too got…….but one thing which amazed me is the fact dat the organization is able keep the dabbawallas motivated and make dem work day in and day out and dat too in a city lik mumbai which has got all d variabilities…….hats off to these guys…….

]]> By: Ajo http://www.onions-to-lilies.com/2007/07/dabbawallas-and-tiffin-tins/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Ajo Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:39:43 +0000 http://www.onions-to-lilies.com/2007/07/dabbawallas-and-tiffin-tins/#comment-14 From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffin" rel="nofollow">the Wiki page</a>, the line from Grose, defining <em>tiffin</em>: ' "Eating or drinking out of meal time, disputing or falling out; also lying with a wench, A tiff of punch, a small bowl of punch" '. You [He] wrote: "I quite like the thought of being “He” now forever." As you wish! From the Wiki page, the line from Grose, defining tiffin: ‘ “Eating or drinking out of meal time, disputing or falling out; also lying with a wench, A tiff of punch, a small bowl of punch” ‘.

You [He] wrote: “I quite like the thought of being “He” now forever.”

As you wish!

]]> By: He http://www.onions-to-lilies.com/2007/07/dabbawallas-and-tiffin-tins/comment-page-1/#comment-13 He Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:07:38 +0000 http://www.onions-to-lilies.com/2007/07/dabbawallas-and-tiffin-tins/#comment-13 I quite like the thought of being "He" now forever. I quite like the thought of being “He” now forever.

]]> By: He http://www.onions-to-lilies.com/2007/07/dabbawallas-and-tiffin-tins/comment-page-1/#comment-12 He Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:06:49 +0000 http://www.onions-to-lilies.com/2007/07/dabbawallas-and-tiffin-tins/#comment-12 Wow, never heard of it. But I like the thought of it. "Tiffin" sounded like a Hobson-Jobson word, and I'd heard it before in England, but the Wiki page traces it to Grose, a fabulous volume. Wow, never heard of it. But I like the thought of it. “Tiffin” sounded like a Hobson-Jobson word, and I’d heard it before in England, but the Wiki page traces it to Grose, a fabulous volume.

]]> By: Ajo http://www.onions-to-lilies.com/2007/07/dabbawallas-and-tiffin-tins/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Ajo Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:08:35 +0000 http://www.onions-to-lilies.com/2007/07/dabbawallas-and-tiffin-tins/#comment-11 Very good point -- and one I didn't mention, though I was aware of it. Though I imagine that those poor old mothers did, in former times, rise in plenty of time to make both breakfast and lunch for everyone in the house! (Or someone did, at any rate.) Packing a tiffin certainly gives her a bit more time to perform these critical functions for her hungry household. Now the issues are a little different -- the number of dabbawallas has apparently remained constant at about 5,000 or so over the past 10 years, after decades of continuous growth. Fast-food and working wives are rapidly changing these eating patterns, and may eventually eliminate this venerable profession. Not to anyone's great advantage, may I say. Home-cooking versus fast food? No contest, to be sure. Very good point — and one I didn’t mention, though I was aware of it. Though I imagine that those poor old mothers did, in former times, rise in plenty of time to make both breakfast and lunch for everyone in the house! (Or someone did, at any rate.) Packing a tiffin certainly gives her a bit more time to perform these critical functions for her hungry household.

Now the issues are a little different — the number of dabbawallas has apparently remained constant at about 5,000 or so over the past 10 years, after decades of continuous growth. Fast-food and working wives are rapidly changing these eating patterns, and may eventually eliminate this venerable profession.

Not to anyone’s great advantage, may I say. Home-cooking versus fast food? No contest, to be sure.

]]> By: Vishmom http://www.onions-to-lilies.com/2007/07/dabbawallas-and-tiffin-tins/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Vishmom Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:50:12 +0000 http://www.onions-to-lilies.com/2007/07/dabbawallas-and-tiffin-tins/#comment-9 Re dabbawallas/tiffinwallas: Some people seem not to have read the original article, which pointed out that the great advantage was not that you didn't have to carry your own lunch but that you could get home cooking while it was still hot (or at least warm)and it was unlikely that your poor old mother was going to rise early enough to make your lunch to carry anyway. Re dabbawallas/tiffinwallas: Some people seem not to have read the original article, which pointed out that the great advantage was not that you didn’t have to carry your own lunch but that you could get home cooking while it was still hot (or at least warm)and it was unlikely that your poor old mother was going to rise early enough to make your lunch to carry anyway.

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