29-sai Dokushin wa Isekai de Jiyuu ni Ikita......katta - Vol. 4 Ch. 19

[MangaDex]

 

[electro_neanderthal]

Why do so many protagonists cling to rice like it's the world's greatest food? I've grown up with it (and its various types) and it's not that special. It's a staple food, and we ate it every other meal or somtimes every meal because it was cheap. From just rice to Texas hash and everything in-between. But I'd never treat it like isekai do. It makes no sense to me.

 

[Tonytakanawa]

@electro_neanderthal
Idk, all I can say is "tastebuds, man." I grew up eating Japonica and Calrose rice and I 100% would be just like an isekai MC if I were away from it for too long. Bread, pasta, potatoes, etc I could live without if I needed to, but I'd go crazy without rice.

Edit: tbf tho, most other types of rice other than Japonica and Calrose are mediocre at best and to expect another world to have anything as tasty as those strains would be ludicrous

 

[0riginal]

Holy crap. A trash isekai/fantasy that didn't use the name Sebas for the butler. What is the world coming to.

 

[Kshatria]

i'd rather have fat juicy steak though

 

[Julian117]

This guy... rice and chopsticks!?! You live in a fantasy world and you obsess over magic and to make chopsticks (the inefficient fork)

Also, Marle is officially bipollar. This crazy person started the chapter complaing that she has been sitting around in a castle for 10 days. The first day she gets out of it she complains that the hero is not taking it too fast? Beach, you have been sitting on your butt for 10 days doing pretty much nothing.

 

[hidgepidge]

Of course the next person in his harem is a little girl. This author sucks.

 

[androgynous]

Well,I can understand him! As an Italian I eat pasta every day as a first course! So I would definitely be overjoyed to find fresh pasta in another world!

 

[dokidoki]

Oh wow a JP author that actually realizes the workplace in their country is OMEGA shit and actually talks about it, wild but in a good way

 

[electro_neanderthal]

@electro_neanderthal
Idk, all I can say is "tastebuds, man." I grew up eating Japonica and Calrose rice and I 100% would be just like an isekai MC if I were away from it for too long. Bread, pasta, potatoes, etc I could live without if I needed to, but I'd go crazy without rice.

Edit: tbf tho, most other types of rice other than Japonica and Calrose are mediocre at best and to expect another world to have anything as tasty as those strains would be ludicrous

So, I tried japonica—specifically the calrose subtype—and while it is good, it's pretty much on par with the smooth white rice (the one with the noodle-like texture), just in a different way (like how both a Porsche and a Rolex are good, but in very different ways).

I'll just leave it up to different taste buds, as I still don't get the die-hard reaction to rice in manga. Thanks for trying to explain, though.