The replacement of the doggy bag

[Benjamin Barrett]

Just a niggle, but I don't find "doggy bag" a truncation of "doggy doo bag" (I would say "poop"), but an attempt to find a reasonable way to refer to these bags that have just recently become so common.

I think "poop bag" is the most apropos for explanation, but something else is needed for normal use. I would like to propose "gong bag," based on "gong farmer."

Benjamin Barrett
Formerly of Seattle, WA

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On Mar 7, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Victor Steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In a sketch about his wife not paying him enough attention, Jimmy Fallon
> said his wife and the dog were out for dinner and he was hoping they
> would bring home a Jimmy bag. I've always considered use of "doggy bag"
> for carry-out leftovers to be standard whether it was intended for dogs
> or people.
>
> The new meaning might be a truncation, of sorts, for "doggy doo bag.
> Both meanings appear to have been verbed ("He's dog-bagging it.")
>
> There's a third, deliberately ambiguous meaning -- a carry bag to keep
> lap dogs in.
>
>     VS-)
>
> On 3/6/2014 10:04 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:
>> It seemed to me as a child that my grandmother used the word "doggy bag" as a euphemism for "a bag for me." (When she had a dog, she also used it to mean a bag for the dog.)
>>
>> In my experience, buttressed by asking two people in the restaurant industry, people don't really use this expression much any more. They ask to get the rest to go.
>>
>> If it's true that this expression is indeed dying out, I wonder whether it's because there is a higher level of acceptability in society for taking uneaten food home.
>>
>> While looking on Google Images shows that this expression has not yet died out, it also shows that the "doggy bag" has taken on the meaning of a dog poop bag.

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