{"id":258,"date":"2008-05-01T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.cottee.org\/2008\/05\/bento-box\/"},"modified":"2008-05-01T06:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T06:23:00","slug":"bento-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottee.org\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":">Bento Box"},"content":{"rendered":"

><\/a>I have a long list of items I like to complain about regarding England. One of my favourite is food. I don’t subscribe to the common misconception that there’s nothing worth eating in England – there is. But generally you have to make it yourself or pay a lot of money. There’s a chain of sandwich shops the North West called Philpotts <\/a>and they do wonderful sandwiches and you pay for that. Where we currently work there’s one place that does sandwiches. Their idea of variety is brown or white. Anyway – back to Japan where I am currently sitting.
<\/a>Left is a standard bento box picked up from the local convenience store. This is actually one of my favorites as I’m such a greedy guy. My in-laws here view these are being frankly low cost rubbish but they’ve never tried getting a cheap lunch in the UK. Within the box you get (deep breath and in no order)
Fish, Potato Croquet, Hamburger, Rice, Seaweed, Chicken, Sausage, Potato Salad
Chikuwa<\/a>, Potato Salad, Pickle and Spaghetti. You’ll also get it heated up if you want but I eat mine cold. There’s a huge amount (I only ate about 2\/3 of it) and it tastes great. The cost of this is 460 Yen. At todays exchange rates that’s \u00a32.23. <\/p>\n

Still, try getting a decent cheese sarnie here.<\/p>\n

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>I have a long list of items I like to complain about regarding England. One of my favourite is food. I don’t subscribe to the common misconception that there’s nothing worth eating in England – there is. But generally you have to make it yourself or pay a lot of money. There’s a chain of sandwich shops the North West called Philpotts and they do wonderful sandwiches and you pay for that. Where we currently work there’s one place that…<\/p>\n

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