2007-03-20 12:47:47 · 15 answers · asked by MrsFord 2 in Dining Out ➔ Other - Dining Out
Because you used to take stuff home for your DOG, not yourself.....
2007-03-20 12:50:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Take-out from a sit-down restaurant may be purchased to go or may consist of leftovers from a meal eaten at table; the container used for leftovers is called a doggie bag (or doggy bag). In some countries doggie bags are uncommon, and leftovers usually be thrown away, with the exception of most pizza restaurants, who will usually put the left over pizza in a box at your request.
2007-03-20 12:52:37 · answer #2 · answered by sexylittlemisstweetybird83 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I grew up in the 60s and leftovers were never offered for you to take home. It wasn't easy to wrap up spaghetti when the styrofoam take-out box hadn't been invented yet. ONLY if there were bones on the plate would they ask you if you wanted a doggie bag, and the bones were simply put in a little paper bag.
2007-03-20 14:42:46 · answer #3 · answered by Angelique 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The term "doggie bag" was first used by a dog who had an ugly wife.
2007-03-20 14:33:35 · answer #4 · answered by worldinspector 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
most likely one of these two things[use the one you like best]
1.)dogs' owners should have a daggie bag if they take them for a walk[get it? the dogs' go to the b-room on someones lawn"
2.) you take a daog for a walk and you can put a few treats in a doggie 'treat' bag
hope it helps
2007-03-20 12:53:20 · answer #5 · answered by pencil secks 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Restaurants used to offer a bag for your leftovers saying it could be for your pet, saving you the embarrasment of saying it was probably going to be your midnight snack or tomorrows breakfast.
2007-03-20 12:51:39 · answer #6 · answered by Reo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just a guess...but I say that people would want to take their bones, etc from the restaurant home to their dog. Then it turned into THEY wanted to take it home for leftovers.
2007-03-20 12:50:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
once you were done dining, instead of wasting food and throwing it away, you'd bag it up and give it to the dog
or failing that, a local homeless man who could use a meal
2007-03-20 12:55:39 · answer #8 · answered by TedRoy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the fact that sometimes people take their left overs for their dogs to eat. I think.
2007-03-20 12:50:28 · answer #9 · answered by tamara_cyan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the dumb bags they took back with them
2007-03-20 12:50:53 · answer #10 · answered by candy8 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋