Various Notes...

[Megan]

> 
> << Actual: Plastic around sandwiches
> Translation: What's up with that? >>
> 
> Heh, do you mean the Clingfilm? Clear plasticy thing that Ron's
sarnies are 
> wrapped & squashed in? That's there cos that's what us English
people wrap 
> our lunches in... Annoying stuff as if it so much as folds it sticks
together 
> and is a pain to get apart & the more you try the more it sticks and
you end 
> up with a big lump of plastic unfit to wrap anything in. Grrrrrr....
> 
> Sara

We use that, too (SaranWrap--like you said, only fit to use once & a
pain to unwrap!).  Maybe she means in contrast to the sandwiches being
in paper bags?  Well, then we wouldn't see what was inside, silly! :-D
Dunno.

-Megan (who thinks the thing with the sandwiches was rather pointless
as there were no other references to the Weasley's poverty so it was
kinda awkwardly executed)