Plate Series 01First filing · 25 each

Fridge filings

Six gouache plates from the index, cut to the size of a catalog card and magnetized. For the refrigerator door. Not a brand.

The series

What you are filing

Four of these hang on The Wire. The other two finish the same menu board. A quiet object for a loud appliance. Buy one plate or the set of six; either way you are not joining a club.

Watercolor of a Chinese-American restaurant storefront at dusk. Through the glass: empty tables, a neon OPEN sign, and a lit menu board.

ERI-M-01 · Plate 01

Habitat

Neon OPEN, dining room empty, menu board still lit. The test is run from the sidewalk before it is run at the counter.

2.5″ × 3.5″ · matte · edition 25

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Stacked takeout containers with Spanish size labels: Carne Peq. $8.50, Regular 5.45, Grande $8.75, 1/2 Galón $14.50, and boxes marked 2 P. and 10 P.

ERI-M-02 · Plate 02

Material culture

Carne Peq. Regular. Grande. ½ Galón. The sizes are the document. What they contain is dinner.

2.5″ × 3.5″ · matte · edition 25

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View from behind a takeout counter: stacked white boxes and round containers, a worker in an apron facing the kitchen, red menu boards on the wall.

ERI-M-03 · Plate 03

The kitchen aimed at

Stacked white boxes, one clamshell, the menu in red. The egg roll leaves here. Score it before it cools.

2.5″ × 3.5″ · matte · edition 25

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Red Spanish menu panel headed Aperitivos. Item 1 is Egg Roll, $1.50, listed with tostones pequeños and dumpling frito.

ERI-M-04 · Plate 04

Primary source

Item 1, Egg Roll, $1.50. Same card as tostones pequeños and dumpling frito. The island does not keep two cuisines.

2.5″ × 3.5″ · matte · edition 25

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Red Spanish menu panel headed Arroz Frito and Sopas. Fried rice in five sizes from Mini to Familiar, then sopa de pollo, huevo, and china.

ERI-M-05 · Plate 05

Arroz / Sopas

Mini. Regular. Grande. Medio Galón. Familiar. Then the sopas. The middle filing from the same board as Primary source.

2.5″ × 3.5″ · matte · edition 25

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Red Spanish menu panel headed Pollo Frito con Papas. Piece counts from 2 to 20, then sopa wonton and sopa vegetales.

ERI-M-06 · Plate 06

Pollo

2. 3. 5. 10. 20. Then wonton and vegetales. The right-hand filing from the same board.

2.5″ × 3.5″ · matte · edition 25

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ERI-M-SET · Plate Series 01

First filing — set of six

All six plates in one sleeve. Belly band reads Instrument No. 1 — Plate Series 01. Same edition count: twenty-five sets, or whatever remains after singles sell down.

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Field note — fulfillment Soft launch ships from the indexer’s desk after Sticker Mule proofs clear. Payment links are placeholders until Stripe is live. No cart. No account. No newsletter gate.

Specimens

Physical description

Format: 2.5″ × 3.5″ refrigerator magnet · matte face · flexible magnet back
Back stamp: Plate 0N — Title · eggrollindex.com
Edition: First filing of 25 per plate
Related: Field Kit (PDF) · Wire plate essays
Not included: scores, stars, stickers that say “I ♥ egg rolls”