Current mood:	mmm...bento
Entry tags:	food

All over plastic lunch boxes
Every time I think I've seen it all, I see something new and stranger.

Over on bentolunch ss_biggie makes a post about how one of their members, thejenn1, has been selling bento lunch boxes from her website bentoyum. The fact that she is both a small business owner and writing articles about her viral marketing makes her...something. I don't know what. This sends the community into an uproar of scandal as people are not happy that she didn't tell them she was in business to make money.

thejenn1 posts in her defense and it snowballs from there. Sockpuppeting accusations, social experiments, just JELUS, and general outrage over if her being a business even makes a difference.

Sit back, pull up some sushi. Kinda small, but tasty, lulz.

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	lucky13 2007-06-23 05:01 am UTC (link)
	The bentou sets the lady is selling seem crazily overpriced -- Lube Sheep obentou boxes are stuff you find at the Japanese equivalent of the Dollar Store... (Reply to this)(Thread)

	whimsy_chan 2007-06-23 01:48 pm UTC (link)
	You can get them pretty cheap in the States, too, but only if you're on the coasts. The rest of us have to buy them from places like Bento Yum (which is fairly reasonable) or Ebay (where I've seen Lube Sheep stuff go for $10 or more, not including shipping). These people are making a hell of a lot of money. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jaseroque 2007-06-23 05:32 pm UTC (link)
	I was thinking, those are hyakkin bento, aren't they? I mean, at least the stuff from those stores is pretty durable, considering, but that's still a massive profit margin. ^^; (Reply to this)(Parent)

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