Chopsticks, Third Generation
date: label: date made
content: ca 2010s
name: label: maker
content: Advanced Fresh Concepts Franchise Corp.
notes: label: Description
content: These wooden chopsticks packaged in a green paper slip-cover are the third generation chopsticks for the Advanced Fresh Concepts Corporation. The new logo on the third generation packaging is a white oval containing a printed “AFC Franchise Corp.” in the center, and a blue wave on the left. Like the second generation chopsticks package, a large white italicized “Sushi” is printed in the center of the paper slip-cover.
label: Description
content: The corporation’s decision to manufacture disposable chopsticks is intended to provide a more authentic sushi eating experience. Chopsticks are versatile utensils but require skill, and are particularly useful in picking up fine garnishes. These types of disposable chopsticks are often widely distributed and used for packaged lunch at supermarkets in Japan, holding not only a convenience value but also a cultural one. The lack of instructions or directional images on these chopsticks assumes the consumer to have enough knowledge of its use.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Business
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content: Work and Industry: Asian Pacific American Business
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content: Food
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content: Sushi
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.0182.08c
label: accession number
content: 2012.0182
label: catalog number
content: 2012.0182.08c
objectType: label: Object Name
content: chopsticks
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (part material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 1 1/8 in; 20.32 cm x 2.8575 cm