The Invention

Our dirty dish situation is out of control. Every day, we load piles upon piles of dirty dishes, glasses, travel mugs and Gladware in the sink.

The biggest contributing factor to this smelly mess is our frugality: Since all three of us bring our lunches to work/school, it generates a lot of dirty food containers. Each of our lunches usually consists of an medium-sized entree container and a small fruit container. In addition, I usually pack myself oatmeal for breakfast, which creates yet one more dirty container. When you multiply this by three people, it really adds up.

Here's a more conservative example of our daily dish mountain:

So, K and I were talking about this situation when I had a bright idea --  what if we were to invent edible container? "This could be a million dollar idea," I told K. "Just think about all of these families, having to wash loads of dishes every day. Imagine a container that you can eat...kind of like a bread bowl, except it would be in a form of a container."

K was skeptical, but he played along: "How would you design it so that liquid doesn't spill out?"

Me: "Well...I'm not sure about liquid, but we could design ones that hold dry stuff. Like meat and veggies."

K: "Hey, I have a perfect name for this invention!"

Me (getting excited): "Really? What?!"

K: "We can call it a hamburger. Or a sandwich. Oh, wait...I think those names have already been taken."

Ass.