Posted on 01/20/2022 10:05:57 AM PST by mylife
When I first started working from home, I was thrilled to have access to my kitchen to get creative with lunch. I was filled with inspiration and energy, wowing myself with fresh, complex, joyful meals. But like many I burned out quickly, and my extravagant lunches soon became a tub of hummus and a bag of baby carrots.
Just as I was at my lowest point of sad lunches, I sought inspiration on TikTok and YouTube. As I scrolled through food content, my algorithm introduced me to folks making bento, beautifully packed lunchbox-style meals of Japanese origin, for themselves and their loved ones. “In Japanese culture, bento is thought to transmit the feelings of the preparer to the receiver through food,” says the Japanese American TikToker Tiffoodss, who makes bento videos. “When bento is packed with love, that care is communicated to the receiver upon eating the bento.”
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hold the kitteh...
A friend of mine.. when I was 19 (he was to.. we went to school together) was homeless with me in New Hampshire he introduced me to the concept of “communion”.
Bento is like communion, but communion goes further. When I eat with my friends and family we now take “communion”. Not in the catholic church sense, but we regard that food and drink and the occasion we sit together to eat it as important.
The preparation I go through to cook is part of communion. I’m the cook in my house.
thanks for some new ideas to feed my 92 year okasan!.
Bullshit. The people that are paid minimum wage in bento factories that sell millions each day convenience stores do not first think of passing “love” to convenience store owners or customers. The food quality is great, but philosophizing about it is…stupid, and lefty kook bullshit.
agreed
Is this simular to the Cajuns sucking squirrel heads they packed in their lunch?
I have had many delicious ones it beautiful lacquered boxes but now they are basically boxed lunches on a train.
Heres yer McCrap...
I know a Tx guy who did that! popped em on the head with a butter knife!
Ama ebi, anago and toro.
Yum.
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no taco? ;)
I told the japanese, “in mexico they gut the sea urchin, throw it away and sell the shell for a peso”
they literally wept
Well the article said “when” they’re packed with love. Your examples would fail that qualifier.
I do not like uncooked shrimp or sea urchin at all, but unagi, anago, cooked ebi, kani, yaki tamago, some kinds of sashimi, Ikura, and many more types of sushi are delicious. I eat a combini bento or other prepared combini meal every day for the last two years since I work at home these days and have a nice 7-11 across the street. :)
One coonass did such on a oilfield location.
The quality is better than the bean burritos?
no Lawson’s?
Yessir
Hi.
I gotta stop coming to these threads.
I always end up hungry.
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