Sadly no. After Shin rejects her she cozies up to Shin's little brother, Ren, exploiting that he has a thing for big sis type girls. She ends up an actress at Shakespeare's theater after a failed Villainess confrontation event trying to blame all the bullying by 2nd Prince Ren's Fan-girls on Shin and Serea, when Shin and Serea had done their best to stop any buillying.
Boku wa Konyaku Haki Nante Shimasen kara ne - Vol. 2 Ch. 8
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The Japanese love their mayo, even though it’s not even a Japanese invention/thing.
You know...ketchup would be a good one. Easy to make and improves the taste of a fair few foods, though no plastic squeeze bottles will suck.
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Everyone's talking about the marrying and kissing as kids. Here I am wondering why there's unprotected hand holding, and uncensored at that. How shameful.
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They always import that disgusting topping, it's always second to soy sauce in order of creation.
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No, that's something the romanticised version of royalty wouldn't do. The actual royalty of the time period, roughly speaking, would do it, regardless of where they stood on the morality scale.
Moonwalk... Seen it once before, I think. It doesn't make sense that she would know how to do that, though, since she was "frail". Unless she only had bouts of illness but was healthy in between.
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I wish more mangas who love to introduce this kind of foods (the ones who fry stuff, using a ton of expensive oil) would point out how unrealistic that the restaurant makes money at all.
If you market to commoners, who are by definition poor and can't afford oil. There is no way you can have a restaurant with that many clients buying stuff even nobles would struggle with.
Also in those days oil was heavily stocked up by countries, as it was one of those food that can be easily stored for later use during winter. You wouldn't just use it to fry stuff, and sell it cheap enough for commoners to enjoy.
Then again, I guess it's the "game force" at work, but they should make it an actual point and not just ignore it.
If you market to commoners, who are by definition poor and can't afford oil. There is no way you can have a restaurant with that many clients buying stuff even nobles would struggle with.
Also in those days oil was heavily stocked up by countries, as it was one of those food that can be easily stored for later use during winter. You wouldn't just use it to fry stuff, and sell it cheap enough for commoners to enjoy.
Then again, I guess it's the "game force" at work, but they should make it an actual point and not just ignore it.
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From the last panel on page 13, it looks like the oil is from a rapeseed. All I can say is: those better be mustard plants. Other varieties of rape are somewhat toxic, with the sole exception of canola, which is a hybrid first bred in the 1970s.
Rapeseed oil which is from neither of the safe plants will make you sick if the oil is used in higher quantities, and all of these foods the "heroine" is introducing are deep-fried.
Apart from mustard seed oil, rapeseed oil was very common in ancient, medieval, and pre-modern Europe outside of cooking. (So oil lamps, treating wood unlikely to touch food, and even oil paint.) Our only records of people using it in cooking mention it in reference to dire poverty… and note that it can make people ill even when used sparingly.
Part of the problem here is that people tend to assume that pre-modern cooking oil is only olive oil… which is absolutely false. It was the most important cooking oil in the Mediterranean and an important cooking oil in the Middle/Near East. However, you also had other vegetable oils available depending on where you were (the most important of these are grape seed oil, sesame seed oil, mustard seed oil, flaxseed oil, poppyseed oil, and cottonseed oil). (Our male lead mentions that oil is expensive in his country, not generally. So, a [comparatively] local issue.)
A far better comparison would be salt or heated water.
Both rock and sea salt require a lot of labour to obtain; Medieval and Early Modern Europe had constant labour shortages. Additionally, without refrigeration, you need to preserve your food, and most methods of preserving food require salt. (In some cases sugar might work instead, but before people began cultivating beets for sugar, that was far more expensive than salt. People didn't begin to cultivate beets for sugar until the 16th century, and the higher-yield sugar beet cultivar dates to the 18th.)
Heating water requires devoting fuel to the cause. Unlike East, South, and Southeast Asia which all have bamboo to assist, Europe did not have fuel to spare, especially not quickly renewable fuel. Since drinking water was not reliably clean, most beverages had at least some alcohol in them to make it safe to drink — most of what was drunk had such low alcohol contents that most non-Muslim countries today would not classify them as alcohol legally (things like kvass, kefir, kumis, and amazake, as well as medieval "small ales" and the like). As for bathing, that requires a large amount of heated water and, during most of the year, well-heated interiors. Additionally, outside of facilities specially designed for bathing, without modern plumbing you had to move all of that water into a tub yourself. As a result of all of these problems, people would usually eschew bathing and instead "wash" — in modern terms, take sponge baths — daily. Premodern and early Modern interiors often have a separate piece of furniture, the washstand, entirely for the purpose of washing oneself without immersing the body in water.
(There's another anachronistic myth for you, people who are not in dire straits having little to no personal hygiene. Firstly, European hygiene was poorest in the 17th and 18th centuries, not Antiquity or the Middle Ages, which both had a plethora of bathhouses about. Secondly, regardless of century, most people would wash daily, bathe periodically, and wash their undergarments — meaning any clothing which directly touched the body — almost daily. Basically, the "unwashed masses" one hears about referred to people who were, in modern terms, refugees, homeless, or enduring drought/famine; obviously not the normal state of things. As for the stench mentioned or supposed, that was the combination of poor waste disposal — the biggest problem — and having so many horses, mules, donkeys, and cattle about.)
And, yes, it absolutely would be great to have a story address someone attempting to introduce modern methods or approaches to seasoning food, cleaning, drinking, or dressing, and for these to either be abandoned or backfire due to not being feasible from the perspective of resources, expenses, or even safety.
Rapeseed oil which is from neither of the safe plants will make you sick if the oil is used in higher quantities, and all of these foods the "heroine" is introducing are deep-fried.
Apart from mustard seed oil, rapeseed oil was very common in ancient, medieval, and pre-modern Europe outside of cooking. (So oil lamps, treating wood unlikely to touch food, and even oil paint.) Our only records of people using it in cooking mention it in reference to dire poverty… and note that it can make people ill even when used sparingly.
You've got a really good point here, except for one thing: in the real world, oil was not expensive historically.
Part of the problem here is that people tend to assume that pre-modern cooking oil is only olive oil… which is absolutely false. It was the most important cooking oil in the Mediterranean and an important cooking oil in the Middle/Near East. However, you also had other vegetable oils available depending on where you were (the most important of these are grape seed oil, sesame seed oil, mustard seed oil, flaxseed oil, poppyseed oil, and cottonseed oil). (Our male lead mentions that oil is expensive in his country, not generally. So, a [comparatively] local issue.)
A far better comparison would be salt or heated water.
Both rock and sea salt require a lot of labour to obtain; Medieval and Early Modern Europe had constant labour shortages. Additionally, without refrigeration, you need to preserve your food, and most methods of preserving food require salt. (In some cases sugar might work instead, but before people began cultivating beets for sugar, that was far more expensive than salt. People didn't begin to cultivate beets for sugar until the 16th century, and the higher-yield sugar beet cultivar dates to the 18th.)
Heating water requires devoting fuel to the cause. Unlike East, South, and Southeast Asia which all have bamboo to assist, Europe did not have fuel to spare, especially not quickly renewable fuel. Since drinking water was not reliably clean, most beverages had at least some alcohol in them to make it safe to drink — most of what was drunk had such low alcohol contents that most non-Muslim countries today would not classify them as alcohol legally (things like kvass, kefir, kumis, and amazake, as well as medieval "small ales" and the like). As for bathing, that requires a large amount of heated water and, during most of the year, well-heated interiors. Additionally, outside of facilities specially designed for bathing, without modern plumbing you had to move all of that water into a tub yourself. As a result of all of these problems, people would usually eschew bathing and instead "wash" — in modern terms, take sponge baths — daily. Premodern and early Modern interiors often have a separate piece of furniture, the washstand, entirely for the purpose of washing oneself without immersing the body in water.
(There's another anachronistic myth for you, people who are not in dire straits having little to no personal hygiene. Firstly, European hygiene was poorest in the 17th and 18th centuries, not Antiquity or the Middle Ages, which both had a plethora of bathhouses about. Secondly, regardless of century, most people would wash daily, bathe periodically, and wash their undergarments — meaning any clothing which directly touched the body — almost daily. Basically, the "unwashed masses" one hears about referred to people who were, in modern terms, refugees, homeless, or enduring drought/famine; obviously not the normal state of things. As for the stench mentioned or supposed, that was the combination of poor waste disposal — the biggest problem — and having so many horses, mules, donkeys, and cattle about.)
And, yes, it absolutely would be great to have a story address someone attempting to introduce modern methods or approaches to seasoning food, cleaning, drinking, or dressing, and for these to either be abandoned or backfire due to not being feasible from the perspective of resources, expenses, or even safety.
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