Oishinbo - Vol. 16 Ch. 143 - The Worries of a Western Food Chef

[MangaDex]

 

[brndndss]

were both humans, our palates do not differ

i feel like thats just untrue. tastes and preferences differ greatly across races

 

[Mugiwara325]

i feel like thats just untrue. tastes and preferences differ greatly across races

Yeah, it's a bit of a bold claim. Kariya seems to believe there's an objective 'good' flavor, and any personal preferences are just the person not awakening to that flavor yet.

 

[Aut0nym0us]

Yeah, it's a bit of a bold claim. Kariya seems to believe there's an objective 'good' flavor, and any personal preferences are just the person not awakening to that flavor yet.

Author sometimes just miss ngl. Best thing to say is he... tried

 

[d_a_renoir]

Still mad the guy is doubling down on the thing about chablis pairing with oysters is bad. Like, sure, my info on why it actually is good is from another manga, but come on now. This is just arrogance at this point.

 

[Mugiwara325]

Still mad the guy is doubling down on the thing about chablis pairing with oysters is bad. Like, sure, my info on why it actually is good is from another manga, but come on now. This is just arrogance at this point.

For what it's worth, I don't believe what he's saying either, despite translating it. It feels like he's putting an entire country's worth of people under the bus for 'following the trend' instead of the more likely possibility that different cultures have different tastes.

Oishinbo's world works on the principle that taste is objective and people cannot say something is bad when they know it's good. As long as we recognise that this is not how reality works, I don't mind visiting this space every so often.

 

[d_a_renoir]

For what it's worth, I don't believe what he's saying either, despite translating it. It feels like he's putting an entire country's worth of people under the bus for 'following the trend' instead of the more likely possibility that different cultures have different tastes.

Oishinbo's world works on the principle that taste is objective and people cannot say something is bad when they know it's good. As long as we recognise that this is not how reality works, I don't mind visiting this space every so often.

Yeah, not you. The author. Like, for the most part I can ignore the author's snooty comments about food, but every now and then there's just something in the chapter that comes across as really annoying.