[en] A variant of the one-dimensional 'toy model' for QCD of Horowitz et al. is presented, which uses a density dependent rather than the many-body force originally proposed by Lenz et al. Our approach suggests, already within the RPA framework, the occurrence of a phase transition simulating the one from quark to hadronic matter, similar to the transition foreseen by Horowitz et al. However our force is easy to handle in three dimensions as well, but in such a case, of course, the correspondence between our and the 'toy model' remains to be verified. (orig.)