ANTI-THEFT LUNCH BAGS

The Anti-Theft Lunch Bags created by product designer Sherwood Forlee are resealable plastic bags for carrying food. They look very much like your average sandwich Ziploc with one major exception: the giant green splotches on either side of the bag. The splotches are in organic shapes, meant to resemble moldy growth. Forlee's idea was to create a bag that would discourage others from taking what it isn't theirs.

The idea is funny and may work the first time a person encounters it. However, after a few times one of two things will become clear to the potential food thief: this is fake, or (worse yet) this person is disgusting. It is an amusing product to by once and try, but beyond the short-lived laughs, the Anti-Theft Lunch Bags don't bring anything new to the table. Unless you are person who is committed to quirkiness, it would make more sense to stick with the classics. For the same price of 25 of Sherwood's Lunch Bags, you could walk out of Target with 300 Ziploc bags of the same size.