French: barquette (in this context)English translation: food container 
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Tech/Engineering - Food & Dairy / Patent for a Food Container | | French term or phrase: barquette (in this context) | Hello everyone,
This term comes from a Patent Application I am translating. I am not sure what it means in this context. I understand that it means "little boat" in the pure sense, but I can't imagine that that is the correct translation for this context.
If you know what it should be, please let me know.
Context below:
Procédé de fermeture d’un récipient pour produits alimentaires, notamment du type <<barquette>>
Thank you very much in advance.
Laura |
| | Clarification request(s) and responsewriteaway: 11:47pm Oct 16, 2007: is it for a particular type of food product? generally speaking, it's a container but it does depend a bit on what it's for. For example if it's for margarine, it's a tub.
Juan Jacob: 11:51pm Oct 16, 2007: Not "little boat". This is a barquette: http://www.sicoberry.com/pic/BARQUETTE%20750G%20FRAMB.jpg
writeaway: 11:58pm Oct 16, 2007: http://www.mlshop.fr/categories-courses-domicile-beurres-dou... at the bottom are photos of beurre en barquette
Isabelle Berquin: 11:58pm Oct 16, 2007: ... or these: http://www.abc-pack.net/default.php?cPath=1_31
Several types of food containers are called barquettes.
Isabelle Berquin: 12:00am Oct 17, 2007: ... or these: http://www.abc-pack.net/default.php?cPath=1_31
Several types of food containers are called barquettes.
Isabelle Berquin: 12:01am Oct 17, 2007: Do you have any details on the type of lid/seal used in this process? It may help decide on the best wording.
Laura Hastings: 1:31am Oct 17, 2007: Answers for Writeaway and Isabelle - No, this is a patent as noted in the original query. It is not for any particular company, like advertisement. But it seems like Matthew has it figured out. "Food container" is what it is!
Thank you very much,
Laura
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| | food container | Explanation:
Hello,
barquette = récipient pour nourriture
It's just a food container |
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MatthewLaSon
United States
| Note from asker to answererThanks, Matthew. I am sure you got it right.
I appreciate your help!
Laura
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| food container
Explanation:
Hello,
barquette = récipient pour nourriture
It's just a food container
| MatthewLaSon
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| Note from asker to answererThanks, Matthew. I am sure you got it right.
I appreciate your help!
Laura |
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Asker: What? Food on an airplane? Not anymore!! LOL.
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| tray, punnet, etc.
Explanation:
Just two examples of different kinds of "barquettes".
The packaged meat you get in your supermarket will come on a flattish polystyrene tray, usually white, sometimes black. That is a barquette.
Also, the strawberries you buy in the fruit section of the same supermarket will come in a deep, clear plastic (polysomethingelse) container, a punnet, also a "barquette".
If you feel peckish on your way home from the shops, you might stop to buy some chips/fries from a hole-in-the-wall place. They will probably be in a container of the same kind as the strawberry punnet. "Et une barquette de frites, une!"
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Note added at 43 mins (2007-10-17 00:23:45 GMT)
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I'm not sure "food containers" of the Topperwear (name 'disguised'!) type are considered to be barquettes. I, at least, tend to think of "barquettes" as being disposable.
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Note added at 47 mins (2007-10-17 00:27:42 GMT)
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Just realized your container has a lid, but none of mine have, so far. Well, when I get pine nuts, they come in two kinds of barquette: one is sealed with a plastic film which, when pierced/removed, makes the barquette good for nothing but the rubbish bin; the other has a clip-on lid and can be re-used, though it is flimsy. I get shaved Parmesan, taboulé, coleslaw and a number of other things in a similar container with a clip-on lid.
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