People usually “brown bag” — In North America, the “brown bag” is a symbol for the meal you bring to lunch at work, typically in a brown paper bag. Lunch boxes are mostly used by schoolchildren to take packed lunch from home to school. In France, most large com¬pa¬nies have their own cafe-te¬ria, where low-cost meals (usu¬ally subsidized by the com¬pany) are served to employees. Alterna-tively, French can use their “ticket restaurants”, company-subsidized meal vouchers. In Canada, no such luck. The best you can hope for is a non-subsidized vending-machine and if you don’t want to waste money and gain too much weight, you’d better start packing your own lunch!