/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.20473632]

Why did Bentos never take off in the west?

[Anonymous No.20473731]

>box of food
>box of food Japan

It's literally just a deeper tray of food that you get in a prison or a cafeteria
Or a tupperware container, those things exist dipshit

[Anonymous No.20473740]

>>20473632
>What are lunchables

[Anonymous No.20473755]

>>20473632
i still use my Zojirushi Mr. Bento. But regular lunch boxes and thermoses are simply american trvdition, and poorfags will never stop using paper and ziplock bags and have overwhelming marketshare.

[Anonymous No.20473762]

>>20473632
Used to be a thing.

[Anonymous No.20473763]

?
Something similar is common in my country, but we don't call it bento because we're not weebs.
If by "West," you mean the anglosphere, then that's because speaking English as your primary (let's be honest: sole) language renders you allergic to produce so while one compartment might have meat, the others would just be empty.

[Anonymous No.20473799]

what's that thing swedish people do for lunch where they are not allowed to leave their work desk and they only eat like 1 slice of bread

[Anonymous No.20473800]

>>20473632
It's called a lunch box.

[Anonymous No.20473802]

>>20473632
American bento is like a sub and chips

[Anonymous No.20473815]

Probably at the end of the day comes down to zen Buddhist influence vs Christian influence

A belief in living a life of balance which includes taking breaks in the afternoon vs a living a life where depriving yourself of things is seen as a virtuous quality (but then secretly you binge on those things you deprive yourself of when nobody is looking)

[Anonymous No.20473831]

>>20473815
>living a life where depriving yourself of things is seen as a virtuous quality (but then secretly you binge on those things you deprive yourself of when nobody is looking)

that's every religion on earth

[Anonymous No.20473855]

>>20473831
It's not really a matter of how the religion is practiced though, it's the way the religion moves into secular society

Whether you are a Christian or not the legal system and social expectations you have when you live in a Western nation is based on Christianity
Weird sex stuff isn't frowned upon in the shinto-buddhism of Japan and they have brothels, and under age gravure idols
The religion informs the society

This will extend to things as simple as lunch time
Taking a long lunch break is slothful, it's sinful, it's shameful
Stuff your face with a day old sandwich out of the company vending machine and guzzle another 16oz of coffee then get back to work
In fact eat while you work, take a bite in between each paragraph you type

[Anonymous No.20473882]

>>20473855
>Whether you are a Christian or not the legal system and social expectations you have when you live in a Western nation is based on Christianity
>>20473855
>Taking a long lunch break is slothful, it's sinful, it's shameful
>Stuff your face with a day old sandwich out of the company vending machine and guzzle another 16oz of coffee then get back to work
>In fact eat while you work, take a bite in between each paragraph you type

That's not christianity doing that. it's capitalism, regardless of religion. if your boss could deny you a break, he would.

[Anonymous No.20473922]

>>20473632
No gfs/wives to make them for us

[Anonymous No.20473957]

>>20473763
>one compartment might have meat, the others would just be empty
no. they would ALL be filled with meat, defeating the purpose of bento

[Anonymous No.20473985]

>>20473632
A "bento box" large enough to satisfy a typical american would be impractically large, and these individuals are not carrying around what amounts to a full size army ruck sack just for their lunch. It's much more logistically feasible to not bring food anywhere and simply order bulk slops from a location near their place of work or recreation.

[Anonymous No.20473996]

>>20473632
American's don't have problems with different food touching eachother. Tupperware is cheaper and easier than your ching chong child plate.

[Anonymous No.20474013]

>>20473799
It's called Being A Cucked Scandinavian Faggot Whose Entire History Was Tens Of Thousands Of Years Of Irrelevancy Five Centuries Of "Gibs Me Dat" And Back To Irrelevancy For Another Thousand Years.

Just slap some umlauts and hergenborgens in there and say the entire thing like you've got both testicular tortion and someone squeezing your balls.
Fuck I hate the Swedish.

[Anonymous No.20474019]

>>20473632
???

[Anonymous No.20474023]

>>20474019
>NOOOOOOOOOOO those are for babies! I need my japanese big boy lunchbox

[Anonymous No.20474089]

>>20474023
That's the thing, why are bento considered fine for all ages but box lunches are only suitable for children?

[Anonymous No.20474094]

>>20474089
The thing that gets me is whats in them. Am I just supposed to eat my pasta or rice cold or do I have to take all the fruit out first before putting it in the microwave?

[Anonymous No.20474116]

>no bento box copypasta yet
4chan is a skeleton corpse and yet the bugs are still chewing on her bones

[Anonymous No.20474125]

>>20474116
Can the copypasta be Pinky (that's Japanese for pink) or any girl color?

[Anonymous No.20474132]

>>20473632
Because they are designed around rice, fish and other stuff people in the west don't regularly eat

[Anonymous No.20474137]

Because a pb&j is easier

[Anonymous No.20474300]

>>20474089
jews wanted to discourage goyim from idolizing the blue collar workers who used lunch boxes, and discourage women from proactively taking care off their family's meals. you will consume the over priced slop and not prepare your own meals at home.

meanwhile in hightrust japan, your wife or mother is expected to do her duty as the caring female lead of your family and provide you with your daily meal in a convient reusable container.

[Anonymous No.20474314]

>>20474300
Give it a fucking rest dude

[Anonymous No.20474337]

>>20474125
>Pinky
PINKU!

[Anonymous No.20474528]

>>20473632
Have you never seen an American food tray? The ones with a main rectangle, 4 squares, and a silverware sliver on the side? You should, Steve MRE uses one to display shit, that is required viewing for /ck/.

This shit is literally standard for schools, prisons, military, and various "cafeteria" style places.

Americans are shit at cooking for themselves, so anything from home will be corpo slop (Lunchables) or a brown bag with a basic sandwich and maybe a fruit or some shit. If you are lucky a thermos of soup or stew. Like this shit here: >>20473762

>>20474019
These are technically semi-new as corps monetized the new fitfag meal prep shit.

[Anonymous No.20474537]

>>20474089
American lunchboxes used to have cartoon characters and other capeshit on them, therefore it gets the stigma that lunchbox = kids, despite adults bringing lunchboxes to work all the fucking time. Same with cartoons = kids. Kids watch them, therefore cartoons = kids, doesn't matter that R18 cartoons exist. Normies are pretty fucking dumb (all that lead back then), hence the correlation = causation error shit with them.

[Anonymous No.20474538]

>>20474132
>stuff people in the west don't regularly eat
>rice, fish
???

[Anonymous No.20474560]

>>20473632
American women can't cook

[Anonymous No.20474573]

>>20473632
Fucking bland

[Anonymous No.20474594]

>>20474538
Case in point >>20474019
The only rice and fish an American might eat is maybe like some griller mahi-mahi with rice pilaf or risotto. Hardly an every day meal.

[Anonymous No.20474766]

>>20474594
Not even kind of true but you can think what you want

[Anonymous No.20475094]

>>20473632
because
>jap wives get up at 4am to cook bentos like this for their loved ones
>western wives are lazy cunts that sleep in and spend $12 on a 1800kcal starbucks milkshake instead, then call men sexist for asking them to make lunch for their kids

[Anonymous No.20475120]

>>20473799
Who knows or cares?
What kind of faggot isn't "allowed" to leave at any time?

[Anonymous No.20475125]

>>20473632
I only make benthrees. Bentos are like cringe.

[Anonymous No.20475127]

>>20473632
Americans don't know how to cook rice that doesn't come in a microwaveable bag

[Anonymous No.20475129]

>>20473632
Not enough required daily corn syrup content.

[Anonymous No.20475166]

>>20473632
lunchboxes have existed since forever, you put food inside and eat them later usually for lunch, japan didn't came up with the idea of bringing your own food to work/school

[Anonymous No.20475172]

>>20473882
this is only true in minimum wage shitholes, most places, even larger corporations realize that breaks enable you to work harder and longer

[Anonymous No.20475183]

>>20473632
They literally did.

[Anonymous No.20475200]

>>20475127
Yes we do

[Anonymous No.20475214]

>>20475183
Those aren't ready to eat though. They're more like take-home-and-cook meal kits.

[Anonymous No.20475220]

>>20473632
never had a lunchables?

[Anonymous No.20475267]

>>20474766
Name 2 fish and rice dishes that an average person might consume

[Anonymous No.20475268]

>>20475220
>lunchables
>four ritz crackers and two mini bologna slices

Great meal

[Anonymous No.20475278]

Because they're fucking tiny and most of the calories are made out of rice

[Anonymous No.20475304]

>>20475267
Sardines and rice
Asian fried rice

[Anonymous No.20475313]

>>20473632
>Why did Bentos never take off in the west?
Women aren't waking up an hour before their kids to make breakfast
Also rice just makes things easier, since you can set it up before you sleep and have fresh rice ready for breakfast and/or lunch boxes, reducing the effort and time needed.

[Anonymous No.20475333]

>>20475267
Salmon and rice was extremely common for me growing up, as were trout/bass and rice, catfish and rice was a restaurant thing but I grew up in the northwest and catfish don't live there so it was less common. There's tons of fish in America and rice is pretty common everywhere

[Anonymous No.20475444]

>>20473632
It's called a lunch box.

[Anonymous No.20475451]

>>20473632
American parents expect the govt to raise, feed and educate children all just because they work a 9-5 and can't do it themselves.

[Anonymous No.20475575]

>>20474314
>>20474314
Absolutely seething at the undeniable truth right here >>20474300

[Anonymous No.20475798]

>>20474019
it's like if an alien had to assemble a lunch by themselves after only a single verbal description of what "lunch" is

ayy lmao girl dinner

[Anonymous No.20475826]

>>20473632
If I can't assemble it in less than 10 minutes in the morning then I'm not interested.

[Anonymous No.20475836]

We have glorious Nordic semi-communism so we never had lunch boxes, but buffets of slop in school with Jamal the son of the war criminal.

[Anonymous No.20475996]

>>20473762
Yes I have seen these lunch boxes in the 1940s tom and jerry cartoon, it used to air on cartoon network back in the 2000s

>>20473632
>Why did Bentos never take off in the west?
Because americans value convenience over everything else. Why take lunch from home when you can buy?
Here in india we used to have these cool stainless steel lunch boxes but they are not very popular with children anymore (children prefer bright coloured plastic boxes). With adults, they are still quite popular

[Anonymous No.20476026]

>>20475996
I used them in the 80's and through the 90's to take my lunches to school. Nothing like having molten hot soup for lunch in January.
I had that set in paticular.

[Anonymous No.20476049]

>>20474594
Are you from fucking Navada?
I would take chowders, home smoked brook trout,
Gumbo baked haddock. All kinds of shit.
Wild game when available, like moose chili or deer stew.
Mabey you're just under 25?

[Anonymous No.20476052]

>>20475267
Baked haddock and pilaf
Lobster risotto

[Anonymous No.20476463]

>>20476049
Nobody is from Navada since no such place exists.

[Anonymous No.20476480]

>>20474300
dubs of truth

[Anonymous No.20476490]

We do, we just put them inside a insulated lunch box to keep them cold.

[Anonymous No.20476507]

>>20474089
I bring a lunchbag to work every day, you're just an insecure little baby boy

[Anonymous No.20476606]

>>20473632
>Switch rice out with bread
>It's now a disassembled sandwich

[Anonymous No.20476613]

>>20474594
incredibly weak bait

[sage No.20476637]

I’ve been living off of eggs and toast for breakfast (sometimes salsa and tortilla chips) and three granola bars with an apple for lunch.

For dinner I usually get something way better or just steak and rice.

Is there anything wrong with this eating routine? I don’t snack between meals and I’m not very hungry in the first place.

[Anonymous No.20476671]

>>20473632
Because most americans now don't eat multiple things for their lunch. They get one entree like a sandwich or salad with meat or meat and rice and veg.

Before and possibly only tradies who still get packed lunches made, they'd get breakfast packed with coffee. Their lunches would be an entree, maybe a soup, fruit, and water/juices. Chips/crackers and candy snacks are included.

[Anonymous No.20476744]

>>20473632
nips fook off

[Anonymous No.20476849]

>>20476744
>American Hot Dog
I've never seen hot dogs in a jar in America once in my entire life

[Anonymous No.20478061]

>>20475996
>here in india
shit in a toilet instead of the street ranjesh, you foul niggerchink

[Anonymous No.20478065]

>>20476744

[Anonymous No.20478079]

>>20475996
I thought that was a 50 gallon drum of food until the guys hand came in

[Anonymous No.20478088]

>>20478079
Maybe he's just a really big guy.
>4u

[Anonymous No.20478102]

>>20473985
Lowest T

[Anonymous No.20478113]

>>20473632
I'm looking for a bento box, it cant be pinku (that's Japanese for pink) or any girl color. It has to be of 2 or more kotoba (that's Japanese for 2 compartments) and has be be chibi (small) sized. And has to be really kawaii (cute). Also It has to be about 10-20 bux. And you have to post pics of it first (i want to make shure it's kawaii). And it would be nice if it came with matching chopstick holder (WITH chopsticks).

OH! and it CANNOT have any cartoon pictures, or be made out of plastic. It has to be made of ceramic, or something like that. Also it would be nice if it was made in japan. and not in china or corea (Korea) or whatever. I have found a bento box similar to the one im describing in e-bay, but it was 1 kotoba, and i don't want my gohan (rice) to touch my other things (it can get wet and i would not like that, plus 2 compartments looks more kawaii).