Comics settling on the subject matter of office worker often showed a situation where a husband going bar-hopping until late at night bought and brought a box lunch of sushi in order to pay his court to his wife.
サラリーマンを題材としたマンガでは、夜遅くまで外で飲み歩く亭主が、妻の機嫌を取るために寿司の折り詰めを買って帰るという姿が描かれる事もしばしばあった。