Just Bento

I had no idea school lunches were so ubiquitous! We don't have them here in New Zealand - if you want a bought lunch you just buy what you want from the school tuck shop or the corner dairy (convenience store) or wherever. When I was small a lunch monitor used to collect the money of the kids who were buying their lunch and take orders to the closest shop at about 9.30am, and a big box would get delivered at lunchtime with all the orders in it in paper bags. I used to be allowed bought lunch on Mondays because there was no fresh bread in the house for sandwiches; it would never have occurred to Mum to make anything else. And even my bought lunch was usually "two egg sandwiches, a doughnut, and a bag of chippies". All for 20c - it was a long time ago. Not very healthy either, now that I think of it.

Thanks for the explanation. I thought Bison was a Street Fighter II final boss xD

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Up until High School, my lunches were mostly Mexican food or leftover donburi from eating out the night before. In HS, our family had financial issues because of medical bills, so I got the free school lunches which consisted of stuff I wouldn't feed to a hated enemy. On more than one occasion, my friends and I bit into a burger to find the interior to be green. For those of you who don't eat beef, it is supposed to be a brownish-grey inside of a hamburger. Just goes to show that you'll eat anything if you are really hungry.

(In defense of the burger, I must say that homemade burgers are really good, fast food sucks, and school lunch burgers should be composted. I'll probably post a recipe for an Open-faced Bison-burger* with goat-cheese and 'maters in the Non-Japanese recipes thread.)

* For folks not from North America, A bison is a native and wild relative of cattle and oxen, it tastes WAY WAY better than beef. A Picture:
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=Bison&gbv=2&aq=f&oq=&a...