Isekai Ryouridou - Ch. 50 - What's the Secret of the Sweetness?!
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How does he know Vina Ruu, sees her, and in that same day thinks of eating anything but her?
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An entire chapter about learning that they buy sugar from the merchant? Oh, and a guy going crazy about food.
Thanks for the translation guys, but one small note...
Sweet alcohol is written as Liqueur, you're missing a U. The word is used so much that it's really noticeable.
Unless you wanted to write Liquor, but that's a spirit, which I don't think fits the story (without checking the RAW).
Anyway, either Liqueur or Liquor, but not Liquer.
Sweet alcohol is written as Liqueur, you're missing a U. The word is used so much that it's really noticeable.
Unless you wanted to write Liquor, but that's a spirit, which I don't think fits the story (without checking the RAW).
Anyway, either Liqueur or Liquor, but not Liquer.
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Consider the technology level of the world, at least that seen so far; that there is sugar refining is actually a pretty big deal. For the longest time jaggery was the only form of even partially refined sugar, do note, and even that was relatively recent, in human history; before that, it was just fruits and honey, and the former didn't have the high sugar levels that modern fruits do, generally, because of all the effort to make sweeter and sweeter fruits over millenia (much like how wheat and corn have changed drastically from the original grasses that formed their fruiting heads that we consume).
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Recall how adverse the people here are to trying new foodstuffs in general; furthermore, it's likely to be expensive given it's a monopolized foodstuff used for liquor, meaning not many people who might be willing to can likely afford to use it experimentally, either.
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He lives with Ai after all
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Ai might be a tougher nut to crack
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Don't forget about that sweet, sweet lead. I'm sure you already know but for anyone else that doesn't. Leadacetate was a lead based sugar that was used to sweeten wine in Rome. If I remember right wine makers would boil grape juice in pots made of lead, reducing it down to a syrup that would be added back into the wine. The rich and powerful would down this shit by the barrel. This of course caused lead poisoning and was likely the reason that so many of the uppercrust of the empire had more than a few screws loose.
I hope MC isn't about to get lead poisoning.
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Indeed! They used lead for a variety of things, especially piping (and thus why we call lead "PB" on the periodic table and call plumbers, plumbers; they are named for the plumbarii, who worked with plumbum, aka lead, to make water pipes), though the hard water that was piped through lead pipes or atop sheets of lead laid within aquaducts was a) primarily used for the public baths, and b) generated its own limestone scale upon the surfaces it travelled upon, and would soon after initialization passively barrier itself from the metal. They also were quite wary of lead in its other forms, too, so likely did not employ it as widely (at least, on its own) as we initially assumed, especially given that historical forensics show that the lead volumes in the bones of Bretons was even higher than that of Roman citizens.
As for boiling grape juice down to get defrutum or sapa, when they used copper vessels it was just fine; it was when they used lead that it became a problem, and they were the preferred vessel, as, "in the boiling, brazen vessels throw off copper rust, and spoil the flavour of the preservative" (Columella), though the use of a leady alloy to line the inner surface of such a vessel would also have sufficed. Boiling to one-third volume, as was typical, resulted in a whole gram of lead per liter, though this would be diluted quite a lot both in the wine it was sweetening, and then again in the carafes or cups of the drinker, as five to three and three to two ratios of water to wine were commonly employed to dilute it.
Anyone interested in more lead history of the Romans can find a great article on the topic here: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/leadpoisoning.html
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