Meaning
A hot meal packed in a foam or cardboard box — bought from a cook-shop or vendor, or catered for an event or a school outing. 'Box food' or 'box lunch' typically means rice and peas with a meat, or fried chicken with festival, boxed up to carry away. The everyday takeaway meal of working Jamaica.
Examples
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Buy a box lunch from di cook-shop.
Buy a boxed meal from the cook-shop.
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Dem serve box food at di funeral.
They served boxed meals at the funeral.
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Rice an peas wid chicken inna di box lunch.
Rice and peas with chicken in the boxed meal.
Origin
From 'box' + 'lunch'; a boxed takeaway meal. See [[cook-shop]], [[lunch-money]].
How it’s used
A boxed takeaway meal ('box food'); from a cook-shop or catered. See [[cook-shop]], [[lunch-money]].