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Thanks for the notes as always. I had wondered if there really was a foreign rakugoka that this story was based on because there was a similar plot in another manga with an Italian person.

It's like Yamaoka said, at the very least it's reputation issue. If someone died while training at the Gourmet Club, even if they did it to themselves, it'll still damage the club. The apprentices like Ryozo and the girl all live there while they train, so the club probably has more...

It's good that the kid learns that milk can taste good, but it doesn't fix the problem that the school provided milk taste bad. Unless maybe Tomii tells his wife and calls the school to stop pestering the kid to drink it.

The ginseng and root acting like its alive is so funny 😂😂😂

Yeeeah, this case is so forced. Mirrors are often used in tricks, but this one is where it feels like it's pushing it. The original Japanese is 茜色 akane-iro. Akane is Rubia Argyi, which is part of the "madder" plant family (or, the Rubia genus). This is the exact shade of red: Aside from...

That is true, the difference is minor enough. Rather than when or how Rikyū made the negative comments about the host, though, what I was thinking more is the difference of Rikyu actually eating the melon before leaving. In the old manuscript he respected the host (or at least the food)...

This is so cute 🤩

Oh no, your wording is fine. I only added that salt part as a general comment on the subject of Rikyu. This one was in the Ala Carte books and in the past while I was talking to someone about it, they had thought that it meant Rikyu just didn't want seasoning at all. About the watermelon story...

Uh, there's no need to freak out about the nii-san. in various countries in Asia, including Japan, it's very common to call an older person with family-like address. Like neighbours or close family friends. Even if they're strangers, sometimes. It's just for respect. If the person is relatively...

Ok, either there was a variation of the melon story that was different, or Oishinbo's author is actually surprisingly bad at samurai anecdotes. I know that in another chapter about salmon he screwed up another story. In the story that was commonly told, Rikyū didn't reprimand the person who...

The authors seem to do really good research about the food! There were a bunch of stuff that I had been curious about and when I looked them up they all tend to really check out in reality.

Unless the raw really says so, I really don't think that guy was mad that the wine wasn't regifted to him. It kind of feels more like "If I knew the wine ended up here, I'd have come sooner/more often".

Yeah, what I thought the fox was saying was "Sorry for making you think it was a curse". But since the text didn't say that, I guess I was wrong.

Tomii just casually starting to smoke like that gave me a shock LOL, since that had looked like a formal dinner meeting. I guess maybe in Japan at the time that might be normal? I've never seen anyone smoke in a formal meeting like that around where I like/work. Smoking is considered part of the...

Yeah, I figured the mature bulls might have tougher meat or something, but Kaibara said all bull beef have less flavour somehow, and that includes the steers shown in the manga, and I can't find anything about that. All comparison that I've seen online only talks about the fat content and...

Is what Kaibara said about beef being better from female cows correct, though?

Don't tell grandma not to cook! That will make her sad.

I tried to look it up and according to Japanese comments, the mom and dad are legally divorced. They're just still very friendly with each other.

I went back to chapter 11 and you are right. I misremembered and thought Sohei completely got it wrong and that there was never any curse. My bad.

I'm guessing the yokozuna was asking for the ara fish, but Oohara misunderstood? Because that one panel had him asking like "isn't ara just the guts of the fish" or something.