Heraclitas states that war, or at least friction, depending on your translator, was the father of all things. It is both disconcerting and reassuring, then, to find out that something as chummy, friendly and innocent seeming as a lunch box was in fact a commodity given life and meaning from the fierce competition between Hopalong Cassidy and Roy Rogers...

Next we will find out that jello was the outcome of research into making munitions grade glue...