Henkelmann
A Henkelmann (also Döppen , Düppe , Kimmel , Knibbel or Mitchen ) is the colloquial term for a now rather uncommon container made of sheet metal (partly enamelled ), in which working people used to pack their food prepared at home in order to transport it to the workplace without being able to warm up in a water bath or under the action of steam.
history
The handle man was invented by the miners and developed into the ultimate storage device for the workers' meals. It was widespread until the 1950s and 1960s. In larger companies, for example, it was also common for workers to have their morning meals heated up in the canteen for lunch. When there was a short distance between home and work, the wives of the workers also prepared the food at home and brought it to the company for lunch in the Henkelmann (which was wrapped in cloth or newspaper for better insulation) for lunch.
description
Common contents were simple meals such as soup or potatoes, vegetables and sauce. The concept was formed by the handle - the handle - with which the container is held and usually also closed. Some handle men also had several containers that were stacked on top of each other and held together by the handle. Appropriate handle pots for transporting food have been part of the personal standard equipment of soldiers for many decades . In military parlance in Germany, however, they are not referred to as Henkelmann, but as cookware .
Dialectal names
In the Bavarian dialect , the terms Bitscherl and Menagereindl are sometimes used.
India
In Mumbai , the similarly designed Tiffin crockery (Tiffin box) is used by the Dabbawalas delivery service .
Transferred use for similar things
The memory of the specific shape of handle men is strong enough to be used again and again to describe the shape. For example, the so-called 100 dollar laptop with a bracket was referred to in a 2007 report by Deutschlandfunk as the Henkelmann for more education . In addition, the term is used as a descriptive nickname for radio recorders or the Cologne Lanxess Arena .
Another example is the designation of an officially nameless bridge in Oberhausen as the Henkelmann Bridge , because children there brought their fathers' food to the company.
Related terms
- Lunch box
- Food carriers, food can carriers
- (Insulating, iso) food vessel
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Letter H on deutsch-bairisch.de
- ↑ http://www.dradio.de/dlf/sendung/computer/651623/
- ^ The Henkelmann Bridge, Oberhausen ( Memento from April 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).