Back in my day, leftovers were called lunch.
That was it. No fancy name. No special container. No recipe blog telling you how to “reinvent” last night’s chicken. If we had spaghetti for supper, we had spaghetti for lunch. If there was roast left over, you heated up some roast. If there wasn’t enough left for everybody, somebody ate a peanut butter sandwich, and nobody filed a complaint.
Nowadays, fo…