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Former Morning Musume member Kaori Iida shared a kids’-meal-style homemade bento on her Instagram Stories on October 7, made at her children’s request. The lavish spread featured items like fried shrimp and shrimp pilaf, but rather than focusing on the bento itself, 5ch’s reaction veered into nostalgia for 2000s-era Morning Musume fan club bus tours — particularly the running joke that fans were only allotted “one fried shrimp per person” — along with memories of the group’s disbandment and graduation events, as commenters reminisced about the fan culture of that era.
Former Morning Musume Member Kaori Iida Shows Off Kids’-Meal-Style Bento Made at Her Children’s Request — Fans Gush “You Can Just Picture Their Delighted Faces” and “Great Colors and Nutrition Too”
Former Morning Musume member Kaori Iida updated her Instagram Stories on October 7, sharing a homemade bento she says she made at her children’s request.
◆Kaori Iida Shows Off Kids’-Meal-Style Bento
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
But it's only one fried shrimp per person, you know
Staff member: "Wait, you ate a fried shrimp?!
I have to question your character as a human being.
Do you have no common sense?!"
Now it's starting to look like a horror picture
But the kids are the ones who eat it
If it motivates her to make something nice, who cares
Huh? That's really not it at all
Not one whole banana — one slice
No wait, maybe even after
Congratulations, Kaorin! ("Kaorin" is fans' nickname for Iida)
and there's a gap, so it'll shift around
Must be at least 15 by now?
19 years. It'll hit its 20th anniversary next Tanabata (Star Festival, July 7)
Maybe they still haven't found their way out of life's maze
I heard the ghosts are holding their own meetup
Maybe the price was different? Never joined one myself so I wouldn't know
The tour cost 19,000 yen
One sausage for 19,000 yen is brutal
and the tour guide said, "Tanabata is the one day a year Orihime and Hikoboshi get to meet,"
then added something like, "You fans must be glad you got to meet Ms. Iida too."
Then someone suddenly said in a quiet voice, "Glad you finally found your Hikoboshi, Kaorin"
and everyone started murmuring before breaking into a chorus of congratulations.
There was no way I could say something like that myself, so I just looked down and swallowed hard.
I glanced over wondering what kind of jerk was spouting such fake sentimentality,
and the old guy next to me shouting congratulations was crying.
I cried too.
Kikkoman makes soy sauce, after all
Back then Kikkoman made a shochu called "Triangle," so they also sold oolong tea as a mixer for it
It just wasn't sold through normal retail channels
Iida — I can't even tell who this is anymore
Background and Key Points of This Topic
Comments about the bento itself were sparse — the real focus of the thread was nostalgia for 2000s-era Morning Musume fan club bus tours. Opinions split over whether to view the lavish bento as something made “for the kids” or as “Instagram-oriented staging.” Some also claimed the story about Kikkoman oolong tea was “probably made up,” but this is based on fact: the company was selling a shochu called “Triangle” at the time and distributed oolong tea as a mixer for it outside normal retail channels — it’s not simply an urban legend. The bus tour in question is said to have taken place around 2007, meaning it will mark its 20th anniversary next year.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] Former Morning Musume Member Kaori Iida Shows Off Kids’-Meal-Style Bento Made for Her Children — Fans Gush “You Can Just Picture Their Delighted Faces” and “Great Colors and Nutrition Too”.”
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