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The story
In a thread titled “Give me food-porn pics” on 5ch’s Nanidemo Jikkyou G board (livegalileo), one user began handing out their own personal scores to every dish photo posted, and the thread took off. Favorites like tenshinhan (crab omelet over rice), homemade fried rice, and rice bowls repeatedly scored far beyond a perfect mark — a mysterious “120,000 points” — while dishes the poster didn’t recognize or simply didn’t like got harsh scores like 15 or 41. The scores swing wildly, based entirely on the poster’s own subjective taste with no consistent rules.
What people said
85 points. I don't want to eat this many carbs
Pig slop that'll wreck your stomach. 15 points
My homemade tenshinhan (crab omelet over rice)
120,000 points. Looks amazing, I want to eat it right now
86 points. Too fancy for someone like me, so a slight deduction
45 points. Not something you just wolf down ("washa washa" = eating messily/heartily)
Hate to admit it, but I like this kind of thing
120,000 points. Want to eat it right now. Would've scored even higher with some tempura on the side
Worthless. Stone-cold zero
Want to dig right in. 92 points
120,000 points. Want it in my mouth right now
120,000 points. Want to pop it in my mouth right now
Depends on what's actually on offer at the buffet — 66 points
Don't need the fried pork. Just the bowl alone gets 120,000 points
If it's not the mini size, 83 points
The slice on the right looked like watermelon, so 41 points
Want to stuff my face with it right now. 120,000 points
Want to eat double the amount right now. 105 points
Don't know what this dish is called, but it looks delicious, so 120,000 points
120,000 points. Deliver this to me
Want to shove it in my mouth right now. 120,000 points
Background and Talking Points
“Meshi tero” (food terrorism) is internet slang, born on 5ch and social media, for images or posts that powerfully trigger the viewer’s appetite — a staple request genre on livestream-discussion boards. In this thread, rather than people simply posting photos back and forth, things took off because one poster — apparently a regular — kept handing out their own personal “scores” one after another. There’s no consistent standard behind the scoring: dishes to the poster’s taste, like tenshinhan (crab omelet over rice) or fried rice, repeatedly earn scores far beyond a perfect mark — “120,000 points” — while dishes they don’t recognize get coldly low marks. Worth noting: this is playful, exaggerated “joke scoring” based purely on personal likes and dislikes, not an assessment of actual nutritional value or cooking quality — most of the comments amount to little more than gut reactions like “I want to eat this right now” or “I want it in my mouth.” Some exchanges that mocked the poster’s own appearance rather than the food itself were left out of this article.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nanidemo Jikkyou G) thread “Give me food-porn pics.”
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