Horrific bento boxen

A sadly unsourced but utterly brilliant bento box of horror!

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I totally see it. http://cheezburger.com/6189420800
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I thought that the spamface was this guy.
  - puppybeard
    
    You’re both wrong. It’s clearly Tom Jones.
rattypilgrim

Face made of pink slime, yum! Just think how much this food was touched by hands to create this ugly mess, same goes for intricately plated food in expensive restaurants. Keep it simple and keep the hands off it as much as possible.
- http://twitter.com/cjporkchop cjporkchop
  
  You must not cook much.
  
  Think of how much hand/food contact occurs when…
  -kneading bread dough
  -peeling carrots or other fruit/veg
  -separating lettuce leaves for washing
  -sealing dough around fillings
  -cutting/slicing anything with a knife (the steadying/feeding hand)
  -cutting up or removing bones from meat
  -making tamales
  etc. etc. etc.
  
  Hands are the best tools for doing countless things in the kitchen. There is nothing unwholesome about using clean hands to prepare or plate food.
  - rattypilgrim
    
    I use my hands for all the things you listed. I’m talking about some restaurant environments where even the wait staff has to get in on the act arranging food on the plate. Then there are those places that are less than sanitary in the back despite what it looks like in the front.
    I didn’t use the word “unwholesome”. “Unsanitary” is all together different.
    - http://twitter.com/cjporkchop cjporkchop
      
      ”Just think how much [b]this food[/b] was touched by hands to create this ugly mess”
      Bento art is generally home cooking. Unless you think the food pictured was served in a restaurant, you seemed to take issue with the fact that it had been handled by human hands.
      - rattypilgrim
        
        You didn’t read my reply very well. Yes, I did assume it was a resto concoction. As I said, I have no problem with hands-on, especially from a home cook. I also said I use my hands to do all you outlined and more.
        P.S. I worked as a sous chef in a famous California winery so I know a little something about sanitation in the kitchen.
benher

So beautiful – it would almost be a shame to devour it.
- Smash Martian
  
  Horror-Bento would have no second thoughts about devouring you.
  Eat it quickly.
spejic

Ugh. Why do you hate your readers?
marukosu

The one on the right is pretty decent, but spam face is nothing compared to what the real masters can do: http://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/kasumin_yorosiku/folder/294369.html?m=lc&p=1
rocobo9

i think i’d have trouble eating the one on the right. just goes to show how important appearance is with food…