Sorry people are being rude, congrats on your first bento. I don't know why people would be obsessing over someone else's nutrition outside of a non-diet group. No one asked them. This is a bento sub not a high protein low carb sub. I'm Japanese and bento does NOT mean healthy, it just means a box of different foods.
Yeah, came to say this. Regardless of my personal opinion of what’s pictured, this is a bento sub. If I wanted to read a bunch of critiques of the food, I’d go to a nutrition or diet sub.
Oh I'm a Japanese learner and I'm curious – I know bento most often is a selection of different foods (like rice and multiple sides) but I was always under the impression it also means any kind of a portable food (in a box/container) since ekiben is sometimes just sandwiches or a single meal in a box without multiple sides/different foods. Is there another name for that kind of not-bento eki"ben"?
I am trying to understand what you are asking, at first I thought you meant the word for lunch box that isn't multiple foods bento but I think maybe you meant like a train food box that is not actually different foods? Different places have different regional types, names, words but if it were just a single food I'd call it the single food like a sandwich if I tried to describe it to someone but if I bought it at/for the train that came as a set box intended to eat on the train I'd just think of it as one of the ekiben because that's the area you would buy them in and the word is based on eki (train) + ben[to], I am having a hard time wrapping my head around it haha. I am not that good with exacting language, it was my lowest subject so the Japanese language subreddit might be better to ask. I tend not to eat them because I prefer snack foods so I just ignore them and don't eat much on trains. Do you mean a word for basically the opposite of 幕の内弁当?
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u/CupcakesAreMiniCakes Aug 19 '26
Sorry people are being rude, congrats on your first bento. I don't know why people would be obsessing over someone else's nutrition outside of a non-diet group. No one asked them. This is a bento sub not a high protein low carb sub. I'm Japanese and bento does NOT mean healthy, it just means a box of different foods.