The
'Great British Menu' has a lot to answer for:
eateries take note, people want plates, not boxes, garden spades, miniature
picnic benches or flat caps - apart from the difficulty trying to eat from these,
how are they properly cleaned afterwards?
Therefore
I'm not sure how I feel about a new trend that's taking off in South East Asia
(www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-34610320).
For
they have created food with faces - now I'm not keen on this, I don't want eyes
looking up at me from my plate - but more than this, they've moulded it into
little cute creatures with even cuter faces.
It's
called 'character bento', and is part of the 'kawaii' trend, meaning cuteness,
which is seen throughout Japanese popular culture (I guess 'Hello Kitty' falls
into this category also).
But
it's not for children, in a bid to get them to eat their greens or similar.
No,
this is for adults - grown human beings make these little creatures for their
packed lunch at work, but photograph them before consumption and put them on social
media for the world to see, admire and comment upon.
Now
making husband's pack-up falls into the category of household tasks I perform (which
is fine by me - I haven't washed a car since I married him).
But
I can just imagine his reaction if I constructed him a lunchbox of cute little
animals made of rice, vegetables and dough instead of his usual doorstep
sandwiches. I don't think he'd be
congratulating me on my creativity and skill!
However,
I did see a picture of a pyramid of coloured bread rolls which consisted of
four Winnie the Poohs at the bottom, with three Eeyores, two Tiggers and what I
can only imagine was meant to be Piglet balanced on the top.
I
wondered if this would be a suitably challenging 'Bread Week' task for next
year's Great British Bake Off?
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