The lunchbox that will change your life
This evening my boyfriend sent me a link with instructions to check out all the worthless crap that Amazon.com is peddling in their "Kitchen Gifts Under $50" section. Innocently I clicked on the Zojirushi Mr. Bento Stainless Steel Lined Lunch Jar in Silver, because I am a sucker for anything with "bento" in the title, and because I have a weird fascination with unusual lunchboxes (my padded red Hello Kitty sack with matching thermos lies dormant in storage somewhere, eagerly awaiting the moment when it will again be able to undertake the twin tasks of transporting my lunch and undermining any workplace assumptions that I am a mature, professional employee).
I don't know why, but my eye travelled down the Amazon page to the user review section. Someone named "Wordsmith" has posted a lengthy review extolling the virtues of this lunchbox. Wordsmith's hard work demands a larger audience! Please, read the review and tell me whether or not this is a hoax. If it's not, then by God we should all place our orders now, because this lunchbox promises to increase our popularity as it decreases our body fat, AND it will help us become "more good-natured and less surly".
Less surly?? Clearly, then, I too could benefit from a Mr. Bento. Maybe we should all order them and write Amazon to tell them how much our lives have improved.
You go first.
I don't know why, but my eye travelled down the Amazon page to the user review section. Someone named "Wordsmith" has posted a lengthy review extolling the virtues of this lunchbox. Wordsmith's hard work demands a larger audience! Please, read the review and tell me whether or not this is a hoax. If it's not, then by God we should all place our orders now, because this lunchbox promises to increase our popularity as it decreases our body fat, AND it will help us become "more good-natured and less surly".
Less surly?? Clearly, then, I too could benefit from a Mr. Bento. Maybe we should all order them and write Amazon to tell them how much our lives have improved.
You go first.
posted by cindym at 1:19 PM
13 Comments:
First reaction: you're kidding me! Because I now have too much vacation time on my hands, I read Tara Thomas' review, too. I think I'd better put in orders with Santa for all of my loved ones. Who knew that a lunch pail could change lives? Hello Kitty, yes, but Mr. Bento?
Wow, it makes me want to eat more than a yogurt and apple for lunch!(How was Nancy and Strasbourg? Hope you enjoyed your well-earned mini-holiday!)
Cindy,
Just reading the review enabled me to quit smoking and get a raise! Think how perfect my life will be when I order one!
Amazing. My hair is fuller and shinier, and my fingernails just grew a quarter inch and French manicured themselves. I think I'll have to order at least five.
Damn I was just beginning to embrace my surlyness, and now there's a cure?
ok, if i can lose 10 pounds by buying a lunch box, damn then order me 10 of them. Although I have trouble enough cooking a 4 course meal at home, how would i ever do it for a take away lunch? Who cares actually, I still want it.
These were very common when I was very young in SE Asia --- most kids at my (private, catholic) school had thermos-like lunchware that had different compartments for food.
When we moved to the US, I missed the kind of meals that my grandmother used to prepare --- a cellophane-wrapped bologna sandwich and some random fruit in a brown paper bag is a far cry from the warm rice + meat and vegetables w/ sauce that used to be my lunch.
All the hype from the reviewers aside, these sort of things are very useful if you want to save money but still have decent food at work or school.
i hear the Zojirushi Mr. Bento Stainless Steal Lunchbox cures cancer and enhances virility.
For $50 I hope it somehow prepares the meal -- I'm sure it does! He just forgot to mention that in all his rambling. But, it's not for me...I have a Mickey Mouse head lunch box (somewhere).
Great! So you guys are on board? Maybe I can get the exclusive rights to be the sole importer of the Mr. Bento...
And did I forget to mention that there's a lavender-colored Ms. Bento as well?
All you ladies out there, behold:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000246GB6/qid=1135285100/sr=8-1/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-2346172-7479909?n=507846&s=kitchen&v=glance
i'm totally sold! more so with the other long comment than the comical wordsmith one. the lavender one comes in a purse! is that saying that lavender is for girls only?
OK, tease me with the cute little MS bento in lavendar only to find this message at Amazon:
Availability: This item is currently not available.
Apparently, there is a fan club.
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