Tensei Shite Inaka de Slowlife wo Okuritai - Ch. 62 - Where is the Rice?

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I can't believe my country isn't even on the list. . . Even though it was our staple food.. seems like it was true that we are no longer agriculture nation
 
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oooh, we finally leave for a journey? i hope we'll see some action, and not the lazy kind.
 
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We are sorry japan man, your rice is in another castle country.

OTOH wouldn't it be easier to just grow your own rice rather then depending on inports? With all the abilities the MC was born with it should be a relatively simple process to set up a rice patty close to the river and train a few farmers to grow it for you.

Not only does growing his own solve his rice fetish, but also enriches the diet of locals.
 
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Thank u always for ur great work...
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That's one hella long distance...
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OTOH wouldn't it be easier to just grow your own rice rather then depending on inports? With all the abilities the MC was born with it should be a relatively simple process to set up a rice patty close to the river and train a few farmers to grow it for you.
His region climate n the field r not suitable for the paddy to grow + he still need to find the paddy seed first + fine tune the paddy seed so it can grow on his region climate n field + teach the farmer to grow it, if he grow the paddy from the seed till harvest using his magic = more troublesome thing coming to him...
 
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And now we come to the part where I dropped the novel. :( I was actually hoping for more filler.
 
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Weren't Italians pretty into rice? I'm sure they didn't just import it from Asia and grew it themselves.
Always annoys me that Japan will portray European inspired isekai worlds, which are really obviously just blatantly straight up Europe, but then also do things like portray the natives there as so unhygienic that that the idea of bathing has never crossed their mind, or so stupid that IF they do happen to have rice, they'll only give it to animals and not think it's fit for consumption (despite only needing to cook it, compared to wheat which needs to be milled etc)

(that said, there is some basis for europeans being unhygienic, as after the black plague, there was a very strong belief that bathing was the cause of it, thus europeans took a lot less baths for a period of time. Though the isekais always just portray the people as too stupid or uncultured to think of washing themselves rather than having any reason for it)
 
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Weren't Italians pretty into rice? I'm sure they didn't just import it from Asia and grew it themselves.
Always annoys me that Japan will portray European inspired isekai worlds, which are really obviously just blatantly straight up Europe, but then also do things like portray the natives there as so unhygienic that that the idea of bathing has never crossed their mind, or so stupid that IF they do happen to have rice, they'll only give it to animals and not think it's fit for consumption (despite only needing to cook it, compared to wheat which needs to be milled etc)

(that said, there is some basis for europeans being unhygienic, as after the black plague, there was a very strong belief that bathing was the cause of it, thus europeans took a lot less baths for a period of time. Though the isekais always just portray the people as too stupid or uncultured to think of washing themselves rather than having any reason for it)
haha yeah.
And don't you love the trope were they come into an obvious european fantasy world, and somehow, the cooks don't know how to make anything good.
Like everything is bland, they somehow never use even salt.
 
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And don't you love the trope were they come into an obvious european fantasy world, and somehow, the cooks don't know how to make anything good.
Like everything is bland, they somehow never use even salt.
Whatever world it is, they lack the knowledge the MC possesses. Regardless of whether it's something they should know.

Salt is like the national spice where I live (Sweden). But the blandness is usually justified by claiming Europeans didn't have some specific spices that are ubiquitous in Japan. Which completely ignores the large variety of foods with strong tastes that can easily spice food up. A lot of roots are both spicy and nutritious.

It's also ignoring that a lot of food, cooked properly, isn't bland even without any additions, let alone just salt. It just tastes bland to people who've burned out their taste buds with too much spice, or to people who have no idea how to cook without their spices. Unlike Medieval Europeans.
 

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