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the_silent_child
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Only from my anime knowledge I know that it is common for people to bring their lunch to school. I've also seen a list being passed around with breads to choose from or there is a bread line of some sort. I don't really understand what that is. Could someone explain that? Also, I've seen where they are either eating in the class room or on the roof of the school. Is that normal? The last part I was wondering about, was if they have cafeterias or not. Thanks!
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frentymon
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They do, and it's really crowded and people shove to get their food. Or so I've heard, anyway.
I think it's an extension of the cafeteria, and they offer selections that normal bakeries would.
That's common no matter what country you're in... |
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fighterholic
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Japanese schools and their lunches work in a variety of ways. When I went to Japanese elementary school, we had no cafeteria, but the food was all brought to us for lunch time and what they brought was what we got for that day. Needless to say what I didn't like I just wouldn't eat it. Sometimes middle schools will have cafeterias, but mine didn't. So we had to bring our lunch to school. That was a problem at times when I was having to survive on 1000 yen a week and expected to buy my lunches for five days a week with that amount. So sometimes I even went without eating. But there were days when I got lunch to take to school.
My high school had a cafeteria and a koubai. I don't know how you would translate that to English, but that's the place that sold all the nice varieties of bread. Anpan bread, Cheese-Mayo Bread, Tuna Bread, etc. etc. Or you could bring your own lunch and not have to worry about spending money if your mom made you lunch. When I was having to live in Japan by myself for six months, my friend's mom made me bentou for the whole semester, worrying that I might run out of money or starve. And her bentou was good. I gained a good ten pounds eating those everyday the whole semester. |
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dormcat
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The concept would be similar to a hot dog STAND, except 1) it has a stationary storefront and 2) it sells breads instead of hot dogs.  As far as I know they sell some other forms of food as well, such as milk and juices. It's basically a micro-sized convenience store.
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fighterholic
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And a little less expensive than what they would charge at a regular convenience store as well. |
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frentymon
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And of course curry bread, I think I ate 8 of those in one day when I was in Japan. |
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fighterholic
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Whatever you do, you have to make sure you buy a curry bread when it is fresh, not packed like sitting on a convenience store shelf for a couple of days. Fresh makes a whole world of difference, the bread just makes your mouth water, and spicier the curry, the better 
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Brand
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Perhaps those of you who have hand bread in Japan could explain further on the differences between the bread they eat there for lunch and such, and the sliced bread we eat here in the states?
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LuckySleven
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Pretty much everyone above already answered the questions. Here where I got to high school we do have a cafeteria but I don't like to buy my lunch from there because all the stuff there is high in calories. I do occasionally by my lunch from there but it's only when I really hungry. I don't bring/make lunch to bring to school so basically every weekday I starve, it's even worse when you don't eat breakfast either. Also the school I got to is right across McDonald's, Subway and some other restaurants/stores that I forgot the name of. Most people would buy their lunch from there and eat outside on the bleachers if it's not cold or raining. Also we don't have access to roof but if we did there would be problems (Anyone heard of Fight Club?).
It's basically bread with exotic flavors unlike the conventional white/whole grain bread here in North America. |
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fighterholic
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Well, for the most part, bread over here would go through a factory, processed, baked, sliced, and then shipped out in huge quantities. A lot of times the good tasting bread that people will like to get are hand made and hand baked, which you could say makes it taste better. I remember back in high school when the truck would deliver bread, they would bring the anpan on the pan from the oven it was used and the obasans would bag them right there. That's what made that particular type of anpan so good. |
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frentymon
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Posts: 2362 Location: San Francisco |
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While bread is a staple item in the west, it is not in Asian countries, so they're free to do pretty much whatever they want with it. Even the most basic bread is usually found in a form of a sweet, cakelike bread (like banana bread but without the banana), and a lot of their breads have filling inside them, both sweet and nonsweet fillings can be found; you can find Onion Bread with an onion filling, Curry Bread with a curry filling, Anpan with red bean paste, Melon Bread with a pseudo-melon filling, etc. There's also other types of bread that are flavored but not filled, which are rather hard for me to describe, one such such example being "Sunrise". Anyway, think along the lines of muffins, danishes, banana bread, mini-pizzas, etc. In Japan you would consider them all "bread". |
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mistress_reebi
Posts: 735 Location: Canada |
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In grade school here we had to eat lunch in our classrooms because only high schools had cafeterias. I've never been to Japan before, but I saw on Kelly Osbourne: Turning Japanese that students (I think it was an elementary school) served lunch for other students in the classroom. ooo a bread stand! My high school cafeteria (I only ate the food like once a year) was overpriced for junk food and the healthy food was there but either just as bad or the cafe ladies didn't make it. (No one bought the healthy food) I heard they made their fries "fat-free" the year after I left and no one wanted to eat them. |
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the_silent_child
Posts: 145 Location: Florida |
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Okay. I think I get the bread thing now. Thanks everyone for explaining. How about the roof though? Is that a common place to eat?
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Key
Moderator
 Posts: 18589 Location: Indianapolis, IN (formerly Mimiho Valley) |
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I've heard from various different sources that students having access to the school rooftop is far more common in anime than it is in real life in Japan. (It would be utterly unthinkable in the States.)
What I'm most curious about are these pastries which look like round loaves with a hot meat filling, kinda like a Hot Pocket or stromboli, which you see pop up in many, many different anime series. What are they called? |
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KyuuA4
 Posts: 1363 Location: America, where anime and manga can be made |
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