21st Century Schizoid Spam

Posted by Sid Smith
17 Sep 2008

When the site owner heard of a recent new trend called "chara-ben" (a lunch box with a meal decorated like a character), he decided to  make one for his daughter.  Although a typical "chara-ben" would try  to reproduce a popular character for children (Disney, Teletubbies,  or whatever), he didn’t follow the norm: "Damn!  I can’t curry favor  with kids!  If you are a man, you gonna rock!  I mean, ROCK!  I’m  gonna make a manly, rock ’n roll lunch!"  Two hours later, the "Court"  lunch appeared in front of the eyes of his daughter, who got obviously  intimidated by it.  Thus, for some educational considerations, he didn’t  force her to have it and ate it himself.  His last word: "After all, I should’ve curried favor....  I wish I could see her smile...."

Ingredients:

We recently featured a news item about this epicurean extravaganza...

taken from this page and asked if anyone could translate. Tan Mitsugu kindly offered this summary:

Spam (skin)
Egg white (eyes & teeth)
Ham (skin & eyes in a different color)
Seasoned laver (black parts)
Mayonnaise (under seasoned laver)
Rice (base for all other ingredients)

Thanks also go to Takahiro Unno who went the whole hog with this translation

"Character Box Lunch" seems to become popular on the street.

If you are an ardent reader, are there a lot of people who think “How if Sato-Ken* cook Character Box Lunch?”?( It doesn’t think at all.)

* owner of this blog.

Well!I try to make "Character Box Lunch"!

“Wow!Dad, What character will you make? “

“Sugar Bunny?”

“Draemon?”

Aro* was excited with expectation getting stars in her’s eyes.

 (Sato-Ken’s daughter)

“You idiot!”

I don’t wanna make Box Lunch try to gain Child’s favor!

If you are a man,it’s a Rock!Rock!

I’ll make Rock Box Lunch showing one’s manly spirit!!

And still cooking little by little for 2 hours....

 It’s finished!

Well.

It’s cute Snoopy Lunch Box.

There is full of dream for man!

Well!I’ll show you the way of my life,Aro!!

It names...

“In the Lunch Box of Crimson King “!!

Oh...What’s...?

Kyueeeeeen !*

Kyuweeeeen !

Kyuweeeeen !

(*an imitation sound of guitars)

It’s a album jacket of King Crimson’s 1st album ,

In The Court Of The Crimson King” !

Umm...

No...

Haha, It’s natural that you eat this.

It is bad from an educational standpoint,so Dad let’s eat this.

Face is made Spam,Eyes and Teeth is egg.

For color gradient,Ham was used.

Black part used Nori*.

(*dried laver seaweed)

Spread Mayonnaise under Nori, so it’s a very good taste Box Lunch !

Oh, Don’t make a face like that.

I’ll make Sugar Bunny’s Box Lunch!

So,let’s eat!

But I should have to make a Box Lunch ,which try to gain Child’s favor...

I want to see happy face of my daughter...

If you think “What a foolish Dad!”, throw a vote this blog for ranking..




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