Oishinbo - Vol. 22 Ch. 198 - The Oddity in The Food Composition Tables
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Imagine now, and there are still people that just go with the bullshit "JUST EAT HEALTHY FOOD BRO", yeah try enjoying stuffing yourself just to get the RDA, and thats just for surviving, keeping your system just okay.
Doesn't help farmers are gonna use them herbicides..less hassle and all that. The things we lost in the name of progress and instant gratification, my man.
I find it strange that the restaurant uses nuoc mam since this is a Thai restaurant after all. Nam Pla is what Thais call their fish sauce. Nuoc Mam is Vietnamese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam_pla
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nước_chấm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam_pla
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nước_chấm
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Yup! I should've made a note somewhere but I'm glad you caught it.
I think Kariya calls it nuoc mam out of convenience, since it's largely the same thing, and that's the name he's more familiar with.
Minor spoiler but, in a future chapter, Kariya does mention nam pla in line with nuoc mam, so he must've learned the distinction later in his career.
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Honestly I can personally attest to vegetables just somehow tasting different for who knows what reason. Back in the day when I was a kid, spinach from the market always taste nice and fresh, but as an adult I noticed there's a difference in the taste even though we've been getting it from the same guy who swears they do it organically.
Some days it taste great just as I remembered, other days it taste bitter and just awful. It's exactly like Oishinbo depicts, and I don't know if that's just me not really caring about the taste of food as a kid, or if something really did change. I can't darn well go to their farm to take a look.
The nutrition issue is something else entirely. Knowing Kariya often fumbles his claims just annoy me, though, I have to just always tell myself to ignore them and enjoy the cooking content.
Some days it taste great just as I remembered, other days it taste bitter and just awful. It's exactly like Oishinbo depicts, and I don't know if that's just me not really caring about the taste of food as a kid, or if something really did change. I can't darn well go to their farm to take a look.
The nutrition issue is something else entirely. Knowing Kariya often fumbles his claims just annoy me, though, I have to just always tell myself to ignore them and enjoy the cooking content.
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Yeah, the thing about Kariya's science is that he often has the correct pieces, but jumps to conclusions without sufficient evidence or scientific rigour.
Using this chapter as an example, the numbers he lists out are true, and in a qualitative sense, I'd believe that the vegetables from 40 years ago taste different than the vegetables today, but then he attributes that to pesticide use with his only evidence being indirect correlation. It's a bit sloppy, but it also reminds us that a thorough understanding of the scientific process isn't something that's guaranteed among the greater populace. And so, I use my Gourmet Notes to educate.
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Appreciate the notes as always- very well expressed I think. Personally, I know just enough about agriculture to know its over my head. it might be the breed of spinach that became more popular was more hardy, but at the expense of taste. But theres also no denying pesticide use got kinda intense in the 80s....
either way, I appreciate having these moments contextualized.
either way, I appreciate having these moments contextualized.
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