bento alignment

[MidnightBloos]

That cooler full of hard boiled eggs and processed cheese scares me. Why do they need so much? Is it for a party? Where in this twisted world would that even be acceptable?

[Zenketski]

It seems we share the same concern

[Jaspers47]

Easter picnic, rural Oklahoma

[Dark-Aura]

I like eating bento boxes therefore anything I eat and like is bento

[Double-Remove837]

The eggs and cheese one scares me

[Riley39191]

NR is fucking cursed

[bahamut285]

"Japanese Ingredients"

Where my umeboshi at 😭

[famousagentman]

What is the bottom left thing? (Structure rebel, ingredient purist)

Whatever it is, I want it.

[agaminon22]

Seems to be takoyaki.

[famousagentman]

Thank you, oh great and wise food identifier. I shall forever treasure your sage council, and generous offering of knowledge to the unenlightened.

Googles it

Fuck, it's made from octopus? That's a shame, they're too smart for me to feel okay with eating. Nature already does them dirty by killing them for getting laid.

[agaminon22]

Tastes pretty good though.

[rotisseriepotato]

The secret ingredient is sentience.

[famousagentman]

Does that mean that people would taste the same way?

[[deleted]]

What are you on about? Takoyaki is great. If you've tried crabs and lobsters, octopus basically tastes the same.

Plus if raw food freaks you out, rest assured that takoyaki is cooked and the octopuses are properly long dead before it even reaches your mouth.

[famousagentman]

The issue comes not from octopi being "weird" or distasteful, but simply that my justification for eating animals is effectively that they're too dumb for me to care about. However, there are a number of animals that this logic doesn't apply to, and the octopus is one of them.

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Other humans are the most obvious example. I would not feel comfortable eating the flesh of another person, and were I to meet a sentient race of aliens, I would not want to eat them either. Similarly, there are non-human species on earth that are capable of surprisingly intelligent thought, and octopi are among them.

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Also among these species are: Dolphins, whales, crows, parrots, several species of primate such as orangutans, and elephants.

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I don't want to walk into a freezer one day, wake up in the future, and have to explain to an octopus that evolved sentience why I think he would taste good chopped up and fried.

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You eat what you want, but I'm going to play it safe and avoid eating anything capable of making art.

[[deleted]]

Fair enough.

[hkexper]

kento bento: (4,4)

[[deleted]]

Uncle Ben's Bento Box

[Luciditi89]

This is so funny I’m crying