Mr. Bento Porn

It’s just a Flickr group. Calm down.

Upon receiving an invitation to dine out for an Indian lunch, I tried to recall the name of the tradition in India where lunch food is prepared at home or by street vendors and then delivered in small metal boxes to people’s places of work. Dabbawala or Tiffin Wallah was the term that escaped me. I’m not sure if my memory has been jogged properly and that could be the wrong term. The thought process, faulty or not, lead me to discover something more useful than knowledge…a cool gadget.

The tool you saw if you clicked on the Flickr group link is Mr. Bento. It strikes me as a better way to quarantine edible glutenfull items while traveling in mixed company. The mix of folks being those who are tolerant of wheat and those who are intolerant - of wheat. As a bonus prize which will serve to entertain me all afternoon, I found Mr. Bento and his cult. See the pretty snapshots …