世論 What Japan Thinks

goo Ranking looked at what food items people would be surprised to find in their bento lunch box.

Demographics

Between the 2nd and 6th of August 2013 1,046 members of the goo Research monitor panel completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.0% of the sample were female, 24.3% in their teens, 24.8% in their twenties, 25.0% in their thirties, and 26.0% in their forties. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

Given a Western palate and sensibilities (and of course being vegetarian), I find the concept of bento pretty unappetising, being used to warm food. I personally would be suprised to find this in mine:

And this is quite shockingly Westernised, although I could eat this:

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I’ve never eaten a convenience store bento (boxed lunch) as I am yet to see a vegetarian offering; the best I did when I was single was a Lawson’s tomato pasta, which was particularly disgusting. However, that doesn’t seem to bother many people in this survey from MyVoice into convenience store boxed lunches.

Demographics

Over the first five days of June 2009 15,023 members of the MyVoice internet community successfully completed a private online questionnaire. 54% of the sample were female, 2% in their teens, 14% in their twenties, 36% in their thirties, 30% in their forties, and 18% aged fifty or older.

The actual title of this survey, and coincidentally the name of a sadly deceased (the blog, not the blogger!) gaijin blogger’s blog, is the commonly used abbreviation, conbini bento.
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