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We use plastic boxes for takeout. Asians - modern and historic - used banana leaves. South Americans often wrapped food in corn husks. Did premodern Westerners have an equivalent disposable "takeout" container they would have used when getting food from a street vendor or when lacking plates?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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