Mazumeshi Elf to Yuboku gurashi - Vol. 1 Ch. 5 - Bazaars and Merchants

[MangaDex]

 

[Sheeplet]

Thank you for the translation!

 

[Sem]

Boy better get royalties for that

 

[eviljackspicer]

I'LL TAKE YOUR ENTIRE STOCK

 

[Akabane]

He should just tell that fat guy he'll adopt him and he can eat delicious things everyday and I bet the fat guy would be like father I've missed you so. Also whats up with "you won't get away this time"?

 

[linglingdabomb]

Thank you for the translation

 

[Rak25]

Thanks for the translation guys!

 

[yote12]

 

[SteveJust]

I still want to know why an entire civilization does not know how to cook at all.

 

[zalagires]

That bread looks delicious

 

[CalamityCallout]

Ooo mysterious

@SteveJust plot. A very incredibly extremely dumb stupid plot. Entertaining though. But oh so incredibly fucking stupid and nonsensical.

 

[UltimaX]

Is it real that you can make mozzarella cheese just milk and Lemon juice? For me it came out as cream cheese or just cottage cheese.

 

[Catsuey]

@UltimaX
pretty sure you also need rennet, but maybe that fictional fruit is also a source of it (how did he know that beforehand? 🤷‍♂️)

Something to note is that you can make cottage cheese (which the chapter describes) without rennet, but it doesn't really melt like mozzarella

 

[drunkenhobo]

@SteveJust After the Great Food Delivery App collapse of 2060; civilization scramble to make food by dumping everything into instant pots and that's how future generation make food

 

[SteveJust]

Mozzarella cheese requires rennet, enzymes used to coagulate milk, to make solid cheese. Home made mozzarella is a thing but he's missing half the ingredients.

 

[100thlurker]

You want me to believe that steppe nomads not only never made dumplings, they've NEVER MADE CHEESE?

 

[Nep]

@SteveJust Because of culture, wealth and maybe freak coincidences.

Notice how most western vegetables end up as salad while the Chinese have more fried vegetables

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. Meanwhile the Indians somehow managed to get their spinach dish to end up like a sauce

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.

More extreme examples would be casu marzu (also known as maggot cheese) which probably started off as an incident and kopi luwak, which is created appparently because some poor people REALLY WANTED to try the then new thing called coffee and decided to use partially digested coffee beans since they can't get their hands on fresh coffee beans.


Based on this particular nomadic Elven culture. Each tribe has a 'specialty'. For the MC's tribe, it was milk. The merchant guys have bread and the wedding guys have tomato. These are the only "edible" things because they are produced. They have an abundance. Things like meat and vegetables on the other hand are more scarce.

Also the people who waste food gets the axe. This is likely because they don't actually have enough food variety for a balanced diet. (e.g Not enough carrots. Can't experiment on carrots.) As a result, there is not much of an incentive to experiment with food.

As for the things they have an abundance of, they probably ended shifting to the mindset of not trying to fix something thats not broken.

 

[humbleoverlord]

@Nep here's the thing tho, on earth, the use of spice (outside of the source of spice) is start in central/middle east country, which have culture similar with the elf, who have a hotter climate where food is hard to preserve. The earlier spice trade in South East Asian is actually between SEA, Middle Eastern and North Africa country way before European reach Asia, in fact those Arab trader is the one who introduce spice to European.

 

[Say]

@humbleoverlord here's the thing spices grow mostly in humid places like India or SEA countries.
But we don't know shit about the actual geography of the world here they could as well be in an isolated desert with no contact from other countries or at least limited trade.

 

[crazybars]

He really cut the cheese here.

🙃