Oishinbo - Vol. 26 Ch. 241 - The Taste of Edo

[MangaDex]

 

[Babymech2]

Thanks as always for the translation!

Part of the escapism here is living in a media industry where two journalists can, apparently, get paid to work full-time on food-related stunts and pat life-lessons (do they even write anything?), but the author made it a little too real here - what the hell do they actually contribute to the bottom line?

 

[Mugiwara325]

Thanks as always for the translation!

Part of the escapism here is living in a media industry where two journalists can, apparently, get paid to work full-time on food-related stunts and pat life-lessons (do they even write anything?), but the author made it a little too real here - what the hell do they actually contribute to the bottom line?

Every once in a while, we see snippets of Kurita or a begrudging Yamaoka doing work outside the Ultimate Menu. It can be assumed they're still contributing articles to the paper when we're not looking.

 

[TakesatoKeita]

Even before Yamaoka and Kurita were drafted into the Ultimate Menu project in the first chapter, Kurita had daily tasks to do, even as a new employee (and Yamaoka was surely as well, though we don't see it since he's a lazy oaf).

This way, it's safe to say that they both still have other tasks to do (both on- and off-screen) outside the project — the project surely can't be their only work, after all.