Join the Tiffin revolution, and the growing band of people taking their lunches to work, picknick and potluck parties in a trend and environmentally friendly way. Tiffins are dishwasher safe and freezer safe, and can also be used directly on stoves or campfires.
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Tiffin is lunch, or any
light meal. The word originated when Indian custom superseded the British practice of an afternoon dinner, leading to a new word for the afternoon meal. It is derived from the obsolete English slang tiffing, for “taking a little drink or sip”. When used for “lunch”; it is not necessarily a light meal. In South India and in Nepal, the term is generally used for between-meals snacks: dosas, idlis, etc. Outside South India, like Mumbai, the word mostly refers to any packed lunch, often light lunches prepared for working Indian men by their wives after they have left for work, or for schoolchildren by their parents. It is often forwarded to them by dabbawalas, sometimes known as tiffin wallahs, who use a complex system to get thousands of tiffin-boxes to their destinations. Tiffin often consists of rice, dal, curry, vegetables, chapathis or "spicy meats". In addition, the lunch boxes are themselves called tiffin carriers, tiffin-boxes or sometimes tiffins.
