Koushaku Reijou no Tashinami - Vol. 1 Ch. 7

[someloveno3]

I find myself looking forward to each diary of a concerned imouto at the end XD 😂

 

[Megane2426]

"It's too hot to grow crops"

AHAHAHA

 

[StormSen]

Oh boy... here we go.
The isekai woman found the cacao. Chocolate industry inbound.


@AMetroid : Yeah, it is seriously unrealistic... but there are three things worth considering:
#1. She is living in an otome game world... so this is a confirmed oversimplified world written by people who probably don't know shit about agriculture.
#2. Hypothetically speaking, a world where beans and fruit have somehow developed naturally along lines encouraged by selective breeding in our world isn't completely incomprehensible... provided there is some sort of biological advantage to it.
#3. The crops could have been selectively bred by a past civilization which has since had to leave the land, and then a new population moved in, unaware of the remnants of the old... by which time the crops might have gone wild...

1) Domestication generally makes plants less viable in the wild then their wild versions. So, it doesn't happen naturally, since it would fail natural selection. E.g. wild almonds are poisonous in order to keep them from being eaten.
2) If a civilization domesticated it, but then disappeared, likely it would revert back to it's wild form -- again because of natural selection.

The other annoying thing here is the assumption that locals are idiots. In actuality people living in these sorts of conditions are extremely knowledgeable about what is and is not safe to eat -- simply because for many, many generations they've tried eating everything.

Other annoying thing is that these worlds just happen to have the same flora as our world, rather than their own distinct flora. (Contrast things like corn, tomatoes, etc. that were present in the new world but not old world landmass.)

Of course, it's a trope for these sorts of stories. But that doesn't mean that we don't get to complain about it.

(And yes this reply is three years late.)