Isekai Henkyou Meshi - Vol. 5 Ch. 37 - Speskith Acqua Pazza

[riflow]

I like that his teacher very succinctly told him off for treating the food culture of their area rudely. It's one of those things that doesn't happen so often in isekai stories.

 

[Lenasien]

is that the same bald master on the end or its someone else xD

Spoiler: Well

another person actually, and this old man (previous diner owner) still alive though. So there will be a chapter to visit him later

 

[max120651]

Makes me wonder what madlad went and thought to eat pufferfish. The amount of edible meat isn't really much and if you mess up the prep you're likely to kill someone whether yourself or....someone else...

Hol up, what's the chance fugu became a thing because some assassin pretend to be a chef and serve it to customer but he nat 21 it and perfectly removed all the toxin gland so the target survived and even praised the flavor?

im gonna reply with a reply found in r/askhistorian since it makes sense to me

"I imagine the first people to prepare and eat fugu followed the same sorts of methods used to test if a wild grown plant is safe to eat. It is common in both plants and animals for some parts to be poisonous while others are not, so you first separate the food item into it's constituent parts. In the case of a plant, you would separate the roots, the stems, the leaves, any fruit, seeds, etc. In the fugu, you separate the flesh from the different organs. You must then test each portion of the food item individually. You can begin by rubbing the item on your skin, to see if there is a contact reaction, as with poison ivy. After waiting a few hours, if there is no reaction, you proceed to the next step: touching the food to your lips, and tasting it with the tip of your tongue. You must do this for at least several minutes. If there is no negative reaction, you can place the item in your mouth without chewing. If after several minutes of holding it in your mouth there is still no reaction, you can then chew the item. If after chewing a small piece of the item for several more minutes you still notice no reaction, you can proceed to swallow it. Now, you should wait at least 8 hours to see if there are any further adverse effects, while consuming nothing else that might confound your results. If you were to do this with different pieces of fugu, you should be able to determine which are suitable for consumption and which are not. If you followed these steps with the fugu liver, you would likely never get to the swallowing stage, or even the chewing stage, as the high concentration of toxin would quickly numb your lips and tongue. It is by this slow process of trial and error that you can safely determine what is edible and what is poisonous."