In India meals are usually carried in round metal cans which are called tiffins or tiffin boxes.  Sometimes also called dabbas pronounced dbaas.
I have seen them by the thousands, all across India and eaten from them many times!

Yes, for the Aussies and Kiwi's its already Friday.

Steve

On Apr 11, 2013, at 6:25 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:

> anyone who gets bothered about endless similar posts on some silly thing..
> Just learn to 'ignore'. . not like it'sa personal note you must deal
> with or anything like that.  Dreck is everywhere.
> 
> Glad to know friday has started somewhere.
> 'Enzedd' ..clever. Us 'melicans would write 'enzee' .
> 
> /"Tiffin/ is lunch, or any light meal. It originated in British India,
> and is today found primarily in Indian English."
> Didn't know that.
> and it's also a Motorhome brand.
> 
> friday-ly !
> S.
> 
> On 4/11/2013 2:33 PM, David Beierl wrote:
>> At 05:14 PM 4/11/2013, Gene P wrote:
>>> (With apologies to anyone who cares this has gone on so long we've
>>> perhaps made it Friday thru brute force) ...
>> 
>> You may stop holding your breath.  It's 0430 Friday morning in Saigon
>> just now.
>> 
>> Of course to be absolutely unassailable you have to move to
>> Saigon...or Kaliningrad if you're feeling stingy.  Yoshi gets a free
>> pass, and our members in OZ and Enzedd are already having breakfast
>> or morning tiffin.
>> 
>> Yrs,
>> d
>>