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Choosing Food Service Containers Los Angeles For You

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By Brenda Roberts


Making decisions about what sort of containers to use for serving food is tricky. It is often a matter of weighing convenience against "greenness", or being kind to the environment. Choices also depend on the type of use, type of food, temperature at which it will be served, and many other factors. Thinking about food service containers Los Angeles immediately conjures up images of buying hot dogs and beer at Dodger Stadium.

Dodger Stadium, home of the LA Dodgers, is a metonym of Elysian Park and of Chavez Ravine. Why should these three expressions be metonymous? The terms, Dodger Stadium, Chavez Ravine, and Elysian Park may be used interchangeably to refer to the same place. Elysian Park is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, while Chavez Ravine was named in honor of Julian Chavez, a late 19th century city councilman. Don't let the new millennium confuse you. The 19th century was the 1800s, while the 1900s were part of the 20th century.

Those of you who are not still scratching your heads over who the heck was Julian Chavez may well be asking yourselves what is a metonym, and why has nobody ever mentioned it before. A metonym is an expression, name, or a word that is used in place of something else. An equally acceptable metonym for Dodger Stadium might just as well be Elysian Park.

Elysian Park sounds like a grand name for a modest neighborhood with less than 3,000 people with low incomes. The title elevates it by virtue of being associated with emotionally significant Dodger Stadium and historic Chavez Ravine. In its favor, however, it has the distinction of housing the first Catholic high school to open in the city of Los Angeles.

Established in the first quarter of the 20th century, the school takes its name from Archbishop John Cantwell, its founder. A private parochial school for college prep, the pupils at Cathedral are all boys. The institution is sufficiently significant to have been named a monument of historic and/or cultural significance in 1984.

It is tempting to speculate on whether Julian Chavez and Archbishop Cantwell were ever contemporaries and whether they ever may have met. They are geologically linked. Could they be temporally linked? This is highly unlikely. Chavez was born in the state of New Mexico in 1808 and died in Los Angeles in July 1879. Cantwell, on the other hand, was born in Limerick, Ireland, in 1874 and died in Los Angeles in 1947. They would have experienced a five-year period of time, between 1874 and 1879, when their paths could have crossed. Chavez could have served as a babysitter for the future Archbishop.

Unless they are made of photodegradable polymers or other self-degrading material, plastic food containers are never the green choice. They last forever and inevitably find their way into waterways, where they pose a threat to wildlife. On the other hand, plastic can be molded to any shape and they offer better protection to delicate foods, creamy desserts, for example, than paper-based packaging.

Fast foods that are served on-site don't need the extra protection of plastic. Here, paper will do. Restaurants that package their delicacies for carry-out require materials that retain heat and can survive traveling from the point of sale to the customer.




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