Jitsu wa Ore, Saikyou Deshita? - Vol. 12 Ch. 81 - The Silent Complain

[Jarkko]

We don't force anyone to eat surströmming. We force them to smell it, and then we challenge them to eat it or laugh at them for being wimps.

Yeah but imagine how absurd it would be when the isekai'd Swedish person digs the fermented/rotten fish out of the ground and everyone cums because of the smell and taste. It's kind of a funny image, at least to me, since it's so absurd. As is the idea that someone would miss it that much to recreate it and boast about its greatness.

Just the idea of people from other countries acting like Japanese isekai protags is funny. The only countries that could realistically pull it off would be Italians and The French since they're so snobby and particular about their cuisines.

 

[AnotherDuck]

The only countries that could realistically pull it off would be Italians and The French since they're so snobby and particular about their cuisines.

Italians are so easy to piss off because of that. "We usually have ketchup to our pasta. We like to have pineapple on our pizzas, and one of the most popular pizzas is kebab pizza."

 

[macewolf]

We pride ourselves in our food, but in a different way. Our food is good because it comes from many different cultures around the world, immigrants importing their cuisine and adapting it to what's available. We don't think "we're the best at food" because there is hardly anything truly original in the US that wasn't influenced by the outside. Think of literally any food in the US and you can point to a path outside of it. We're proud of our melting pot, but its a different pride than Japan's extremely overinflated opinion of itself. (Yes its ironic to say that our pride is better than Japan's pride, but its so tiring to see this over and over)

you forget USA and our Bar b Q

 

[SilverMagnus]

the only culture that doesn't do that is american culture

I mean we could do some soul food, creole/ Cajun, barbecue, Tex-Mex, Southwestern cuisine, and other flavors at them. We would honestly be straight in an Isekai so long as we can get some spices and a little time. We definitely going to need some form of hot sauce though.

 

[Goldenzeal]

Glorius nippon food and soy sauce.
it was only a matter of time...
Still, considering this whole story is just a giant meme....
Its a perfect fit...

 

[xiaxueyi]

There's a fine line between showing a bit of pride in your culture/nation's dishes and using said dishes as tools specifically to express their self-perceived superiority over others. I'd like to think most other cultures don't cross that line.

Not to mention this kind of thing rarely crosses over from in-person conversation to published fictional works... except in modern isekai.

And regardless of whether or not that's true, cultural grandstanding and posturing is always annoying because it's almost always obvious when it's being done. The author may not have went too egregious in this one – MC missing his homeland's dishes is not unreasonable – but we still have the uninitiated foreigners being instantly amazed and swayed over the moment the food enters their tastebuds as if they just consumed the nectar of the gods.

To people who can appreciate it, tamagoyaki and sashimi might well be the nectar of the gods though. Whenever I went to japan I ate them every single day.

Also their rice and soy sauce, even vinegar is superior to Asian slop. That is coming from a person living in SEA where people supposedly worship our food too.

Their standard 1-2 dollar tofu is also the silkiest thing one can eat and the best part is it’s cheap.

 

[xiaxueyi]

it's always funny when they first time eating Japanese food be like
"OOhhh my, this is the tastiest food ever. even this is my first time, tofu so good, soy sauce so goood"
like their tongue is Japanese tongue.

I've eating sushi, wasabi, soy sauce for the first time didn't react like that even I like japannese culture
it's just straight YUCK

different cases when I eat Pizza, straight YUMMY

Sashimi >>> pizza, you have certified trash taste sir. Nothing wrong for people to like fast food tier food more than proper food though

I like hawaiian but it is not even comparable to the typical convenience store sandwich or soba.

 

[xiaxueyi]

Besides America? America claims to be best at everything. Food specifically isn't that much, but there's still a fair amount of it.

And we don't do it here in Sweden. We know our native food is simple and bland to a lot of people, especially Asians and South Americans. But we also like the natural flavour of the stuff we eat, rather than have to add a ton of spices to it. We also like to steal things and make it our own, like kebab pizza.

What we do like to do is force-feed people some of our more unique treats and laugh at the reactions.


My first reaction was, "This is candy." There's so much sugar in it.


They have to have their standard reactions. It's mandatory.

If your rice or sushi tastes like candy you went to a bad store. It’s supposed to be more about the texture than a rich explosion of flavour

 

[xiaxueyi]

Ah yes, the mandatory chapter as dictated in law by the Japanese Tourist Board stating that Japanese food is far better than any slop any other country, real or fictional, could ever create. The small mercy was it was only one chapter, not an entire volume-long arc like some other manga.

I am honestly surprised there is three pages worth of vitriol dedicated to hating on food propaganda seeing that I never saw such comments in my 20+ years of being a weeb. But marginally understandable if commenters don’t like the food to begin with.

 

[galaxia9]

I am honestly surprised there is three pages worth of vitriol dedicated to hating on food propaganda seeing that I never saw such comments in my 20+ years of being a weeb. But marginally understandable if commenters don’t like the food to begin with.

It's just funny the way most ikekai series will at some point introduce Japanese food and have everyone who ever tries it delcare it the greatest thing ever. If even one person's reaction was "eh, it's not for me" it would look more realistic but when every single person praises it the way they do, it looks so hilariously forced. Hence my comment about it being a Japanese Tourist Board mandate to big up the country.

 

[AnotherDuck]

If your rice or sushi tastes like candy you went to a bad store. It’s supposed to be more about the texture than a rich explosion of flavour

I wasn't talking about that.

 

[xiaxueyi]

I wasn't talking about that.

You quoted a post that went

It never cease to amuse me how they show westeners falling in love at first sight with japanese food when the most common reaction is "this is fucking disgusting" to stuff like sushi, nato, soy sauce or sashimi.

So if not then do clarify what is the “candy” referring to sir

 

[AnotherDuck]

So if not then do clarify what is the “candy” referring to sir

Some meat dish? Was a long time ago. I do remember people saying that's how it's actually supposed to taste.

Rice is just rice, though. Kinda boring.