I was watching a Japanese news clip, one person on the street says:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgY1BPzNQqY> 15:39-15:47

今日はしんどいなと思って、(夕食は)お弁当屋さんでと思って、いっぱいのってるものをみんなで、ああじゃないこうじゃない言いながら食べたいなと思って。

ああじゃないこうじゃない: It is not like this, it is not like that. 言いながら食べたいなと思って: I
think I want to eat while saying

But how do I put them together? I can't figure out what the person is trying
to say.
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Help with translation ああじゃないこうじゃない
Grammatically, you can think it's ああじゃないこうじゃない **と** with a quotative と
omitted. (Inclusively) Or, ああじゃないこうじゃない works adverbially to describe what is
being said (like **なんのかんの** 言いながら).

In terms of meaning, your translation should be fine. It just refers to the
various stuff on the bento. The person says that she wants to eat bento
talking with others about the stuff in the bento, 'this is X, and this is Y'.
(Often, the ingredients in bento can be hard to tell what they are mostly
because it is finely chopped and then cooked in (often) thick sauce).
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ああ and こう are often used together to refer to unspecified trivial things (like
"this and that" in English, but usually ああ comes first in Japanese). See:
[What does まわりであーだこーだ mean in this
sentence?](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/18708/5010) So
ああだこうだ(と)言いながら食べたい would just mean "I want to eat (this bento) while
chitchatting (with my family)". The actual topic is unspecified, and it may or
may not be the bento itself.

She actually said じゃね (slangy contraction of じゃない) twice in this interview,
but did you notice she pronounced them with a rising intonation? So the
literal meaning of this part is more like this:

> ああじゃね？ こうじゃね？  
>  Isn't it like that? Isn't is like this?

This means she wants to talk about something fun and constructive with her
family, not try to deny everything.
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