The snacks at the patent office

Nachosaurus, the Fantastic Fruit Holder, pretzel spoons, and other real snack-related inventions

Hello, Snackers. Let’s have fun with technical diagrams!

That’s a snack stadium, obviously.

Many years ago, when I was ten or eleven, my friend Raj and I invented a fruit holder to go inside lunchboxes. To the untrained eye, it looked like a strip of cardboard that had been carefully folded in eight (I think?) sections, with the top and bottom bits slig…