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Kaori Iida (45), former member of Morning Musume, posted six photos on her Instagram showing a week’s worth of homemade bento boxes she made for her children. She wrote that the post “might help prevent menu overlap,” and the photos packed with a wide variety of side dishes drew attention — but rather than commenting on the bento itself, most of the reactions on 5ch dug up the oolong tea and banana episode from her 2006 “wealth-gap bus tour” fan event, turning the thread into a reminder of just how persistently a nearly 20-year-old bit still gets brought up.
Kaori Iida shares a week’s worth of homemade bento for her kids — daughter’s “favorite character” makes a cameo: “The daily nutritional balance and variety… it’s really impressive!”
Kaori Iida (45), former Morning Musume member, updated her Instagram on the 18th, showing off a week’s worth of varied homemade bento boxes for her children.
Iida wrote, “It’s such a nice, warm Sunday~ Between errands, I always end up thinking about tomorrow’s menu and bento while I shop — it’s become part of my daily routine. Here’s a roundup of last week’s bentos. Might help prevent menu overlap!!” along with six photos of bentos packed full of a variety of side dishes.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
No matter what article comes out, it always ends up being about the bus tour and Kikkoman oolong tea anyway, so it's the same result every time lol
Add a few more vegetables.
"posting about cooking."
What washed-up people do:
"write trash talk about celebrities online."
And the tea was Kikkoman.
it seems a bit too high-calorie for kids.
keeping the content exactly the same so fans can relive the nostalgia.
If that's the case, then yeah, that's pretty normal.
Those are the kids from back during the bus tour days.
Fuku Suzuki
Kenji Sakaguchi
Kaori Iida
What's the first one about?
That essay of his really is a masterpiece. lol
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Nozomi Tsuji shares a whole "memo" of homemade bentos for her first-year-high-school eldest son🍱
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Is the smiley-face rolled omelet becoming a regular side dish?🍳
"I work hard to make it every day!"
It's Suntory, right!?
Background and Context of This Topic
Kaori Iida became a fixture of 5ch’s running jokes after a 2006 fan event called the “wealth-gap bus tour,” where she handed out banana pieces cut down to tiny portions and served unbranded oolong tea (actually made by Kikkoman) — behavior fans at the time slammed as “stingy” and “cheap.” Nearly 20 years on, with some commenters even pointing out that next July marks exactly the 20th anniversary, that old material still dominates. Even with this wholesome bento post, the thread follows the same pattern: references to the old “bus tour” and “Kikkoman oolong tea” jokes pile up before anyone even gets to discussing the actual bento. Genuine reactions to the bento itself (comments on nutritional balance or how brown the food looks) make up only a small slice of the thread; the real focus is almost the question of “how long is this old joke going to keep getting dragged out?” Words that might seem random to readers unfamiliar with the backstory — banana, oolong tea, amniotic fluid, and so on — all trace back to this old episode.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geinou Supo Sokuhou+) thread “[Entertainment] Former Morning Musume member Kaori Iida shows off a week’s worth of homemade bento for her children: “The daily nutritional balance and variety… it’s really impressive!”“
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