Jughead Bento (351)

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Today I’m having what I’ve decided to call “Costco Quesadillas” because everything in it except the onions are from Costco. The tortillas, bell peppers, rotisserie chicken, and pepperjack cheese are all from Costco. Actually, even the strawberries, peas, and ketchup are from Costco too, now that I think about it. LOL!

What’s that you say? Why is this a Jughead bento? And why haven’t I done a LOST bento to help them celebrate their 100th episode? Well… I put that under the cut because I didn’t want people speed viewing the images on my blog and suddenly deciding I’m a warmonger.

I’m a big fan of Archie Comics, so it amuses me greatly that the hydrogen bomb, which will be a prominent figure in tonight’s episode of LOST, is named Jughead.

Okay now, don’t laugh. Seriously.

No really, stop laughing.

Yeah, it looks terrible. For your information, it’s INCREDIBLY hard to get nori letters to stick to flour tortillas, even after loads of licking. I know, gross, but I was desperate. It’s supposed to say “Happy 100th LOST” but after the damned ‘a’, ‘p’, ‘y’, ‘L’, ‘O’, and ‘S’ kept curling up and looking stupid, I removed them in a rage. The 100 was behaving, so I let it stay, but as a result this bento looks only quasi-LOST. In the ketchup I have uncooked alphabet pasta. I’ll just eat em or pick it out of the ketchup. Cute idea, though, no? I’ll have to do that again sometime.

Anyway, no need to worry about me bombing bentos. Oh wait, I just did. My point is, I hope no one takes offense to this bento. It’s modeled after a TV show with a bomb in it! I know my co-worker Kaolian will love this though. He’s always after me to make a bento with destructive things in it.

The Jughead is made out of nori and green soy paper. The nori was to make it look darker and it was the same size as the soy paper until I wet it to try to get it to stick to the soy. That failed massively and then the nori shrank. The yellow parts are made out of bell pepper.

Can’t wait to watch tonight!! Woohoo! If you haven’t heard of it yet, be sure to check out Jorge Garcia’s (Hurley) blog, Dispatches from the Island.