Pack lunch.

[Jannilindlands]

I want to scream when I see or hear "pack lunch"!

It's a regional thing.
Pack Lunch
Packed Lunch
Pack Up
All the same thing.

it’s definitely packed lunch🤪

But the “ed” is not always clearly pronounced which is why I assume in some areas pack lunch has become common.

Definitely packed lunch but my Lincolnshire relatives always refer to it as a "pack up"

For me that's normal? I guess I associate it with school. So it could sound a bit childish?
What else would you call it?
'my sandwich/ leftovers'?

@BobbyBiscuits I think the OP is saying should be packed lunch, not pack lunch.

@afaloren but it depends where you live 😁

Surely it depends what you actually mean? I say snap, or pack up so I've no skin in the game but my dad says pack lunch because as kids their lunch was in their pack. Eg, their rucksacks, pack meaning bag, not "packed."

I don’t disagree @Needmorelego just clarifying for the PP.

Packed lunch is correct for me, but pack lunch makes sense to. Aa lunch to go in a pack, rather than a lunch that's been packed, but it all makes sense.

See also: boxed set, which for 99.9% of the population now is box set, I think.

Text/texted, ditto. To my dying day I will carry on saying 'I texted him' or more likely 'I sent him a text'.

Where does snap come from?

I totally agree about boxed set and the past tense of text being texted.

I hate this too! See also 'drop kerb' - arrrrrgggghh

Snap is used in the East Midlands. It comes from the metal box miners used to carry their lunch underground. So common in mining areas.

'Pack lunch' is NOT regional. It's just wrong.

'Pack-up' is regional, and technically grammatically correct.

Why is pack lunch wrong?
It's a lunch that's come from your pack, meaning your bag. It's nothing to do with it being a shorter version of packed.

Hahaha, I just read this on a post and cringed!

Your lunch is packed (in a box, a bag, a flask), so it's a packed lunch.

Conversely: lots of road signs giving warning of forthcoming roadworks now say 'ADVANCED NOTICE'. I've never seen one offering 'BEGINNERS' LEVEL NOTICE'.

Similarly in other areas of the world you've got bag lunch, brown-bag lunch, sack lunch and box lunch.

If you're using pack lunch as a shortened version of packed lunch then fine, you're incorrect, but it's also used in various forms to mean lunch you've brought with you in your bag.

My dad called it a snap box. South Yorkshire.

Devils advocate - can’t a box set be a set of boxes?

also, it’s packed lunch as we don’t commonly refer to our bag as a pack. If we are talking about what we carry our things in , By it could be a rucksack or satchel lunch for me but not a “pack lunch”

That’s because the sign is giving you advanced warning of planned roadworks. It’s warning you in advance

It’s not ‘advanced’ notice though. It’s ‘advance’ notice or ‘advance’ warning.

Yes, it's warning me in advance. Until very recently, that has always been written as Advance Notice, not Advanced Notice.

Not sure, but I know the words 'piece', 'dockey' and 'snap' as alternatives to 'pack-up', 'packed dinner'.

I think my Mum's Cambridgeshire cousin used the word 'dockey'.

Ooooh, dough cake and cheese and cold tea with grandad.