This has been doing the rounds (“again?”) on social media:
It is typically captioned:
ベントーヴェン
Bento-ven
The below ought to give you enough to understand the joke:
ベント
“bento”
Traditional Japanese lunch box holding rice or noodles and meat + pickled/cooked veg.
Beethoven
/ˈbeɪˌt(h)əʊvən/
A famous German composer and pianist
I am not sure where the image originated. I first saw it via a friend’s share of “笑ったらシェア！“, which apparently translates to “share when laughing” 🤔…
Tomorrow I will talk a little about the “ヴェ” characters in this image and the associated sounds in Japanese. They are something that are very important to know!
What a strange meme, I hadn’t heard of it before (:
By the way “笑ったらシェア！“ could arguably be translated more appropriately as “when you laugh (at something), share!”
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Nice! Thank you!
I wasn’t quite sure if this qualified as a “meme” since memes usually follow an established format whereas this is just a funny picture + caption, but I think the definition of “meme” is becoming increasingly loose XD
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