Among the various cultural conflicts in the human world, the most likely to cause trouble is food conflicts. Due to regional or religious customs, various human groups have different food cultures.
The act of eating is actually very personal. My delicacies may be your dung. Every nation has some dark dishes of its own.
Due to the influence of customs and religion, Europeans also have many dietary taboos, such as not eating offal and blood, which are unclean things according to Christianity.
If Liu Dadao and others served the queen a plate of hairy blood, there might really be a fight today.
Pets are also not allowed to eat. Ingredients such as cats and dogs are also small-scale regional ingredients in China. The dragon-tiger fight that Liu Dadao formulated in his previous menu is an absolute taboo.
If cat meat and snake meat were served on European tables, all of them would probably vomit today.
There are other things such as animal heads and hooves, which are also not edible!
An occasion like a state banquet is very strict about rules, so after Xiao Letian discussed with the Duke of Newx in the morning, he removed all the ingredients related to religious taboos from the menu.
But there is another kind of dietary taboo, which has nothing to do with religion, but is just a matter of habit.
For example, Europeans rarely eat freshwater fish. This is because Europeans are not good at cooking this kind of fish and dislike the earthy smell and many spines.
At the same time, Europe has a long coastline, and the two oceans of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic nourish them, giving them an extremely rich harvest of seafood.
Now that there are larger and more delicious sea fish to supplement protein, freshwater fish has naturally been abandoned from the menu.
There is also pork. Since the animal husbandry in Europe is very developed, it is easier for people to obtain red meat such as beef and mutton. Therefore, pork that is rich in fat and tastes greasy has become a food exclusive to the poor.
This is very similar to China's eating habits before the Northern Song Dynasty. Before and including the Song Dynasty, people regarded mutton as the most delicious. Although beef was delicious, it was related to farming, so slaughtering was prohibited.
At that time, nobles and rich people were proud to eat mutton and ashamed to eat pork. Pork was an ingredient that only poor people would taste.
Europe is actually similar at the moment. The areas where pork is more popular are economically underdeveloped areas, such as cold Northern Europe, including Prussia and Ukraine where people are still very poor.
It’s funny to say that I remember that when Xiao Letian’s Lotte Matheson sold bristles to Europe, they did market research. At that time, the two major production bases for bristles in the world were China and Ukraine and other regions in Northern Europe.
These are areas where eating pork is relatively popular, so naturally there are abundant bristles for sale. It can be said that the most indispensable tool in the Age of Discovery is bristles.
This is no joke. Currently, bristle products around the world are at the forefront of the munitions lists of various countries. The United Kingdom reserves bristle as a strategic material because they have the most powerful navy.
In addition to pig bristles, another delicacy is river crab. Europeans never eat river crab. In fact, the fundamental reason is because this little thing is ugly and has little meat. Europeans who are clumsy do not have the patience to peel it. River crab meat.
It's troublesome to feed them giant sea crabs, so they prefer huge lobsters that can be eaten directly by removing the shell.
River crabs, pork, freshwater fish...such ingredients do not offend Europeans' taboos, but just make them unaccustomed. Therefore, Xiao Letian resisted the pressure of the Duke of Newcastle and still retained the menu of these ingredients.
Secret braised fish, crab stuffed with orange, Shijia sauce recipe...these are the three gift packages Xiao Letian gave to Europeans.
Xiao Letian is still very confident in these three dishes. He believes that as long as the guests present, especially the queen, taste these delicacies, it will not matter if they know the ingredients of the ingredients.
But I didn't expect that the trouble was everywhere, and Montauban actually exposed the details of these ingredients with just one word.
If you just eat it without knowing it, the delicious food will naturally have an amazing taste. When the ingredients are announced, these nobles will be more accepting.
But at this moment, the dishes have just been served, and only a few people have tried one or two kinds. Most people, including the Queen, have not had time to start. When Montauban made such a noise, the atmosphere suddenly became awkward.
The more noble a person is, the more pretentious they are. When they heard that the ingredients for these three dishes were actually low-class food that they would never touch on daily basis, everyone present put down their knives and forks and looked at Xiao Letian with strange expressions.
The Duke of Newcastle's heart that had just been relieved suddenly rose to his throat again. He was thinking that if the Queen refused these three dishes, then the entire main course series would be completely useless. No matter how delicious the final dish was, Then this banquet is not a success.
By then, the business of Chinese restaurants will be greatly affected!
what to do? Xiao Letian, why are you so stubborn? I told you not to let you serve these dishes but you kept insisting. Do you really think that there are no Chinese experts among these guests?
France and Tsarist Russia are trying their best to trouble you. Aren't you deliberately sending ammunition to them?
The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became awkward. The queen was not angry, she just put down her knife and fork and looked at Xiao Letian with a smile. Just when Xiao Letian was about to explain, the Russian special envoy Ivan, who was sitting next to Montauban, suddenly jumped up and shouted arrogantly. shouted.
"Barbarian from the East! Are you using such lowly food to insult the respected Queen?"
"Pork in our great Tsarist Empire is a despicable ingredient that is only eaten by despicable serfs. If you provide it to the Queen, it is a challenge to the empire on which the sun never sets!"
"You cowards, you saw the Queen being insulted, but not one of you opened your mouth! I blush for you, I'm ashamed of you!"
"Xiao Letian! I'm here to fight with you, for the honor of the Queen and the Tsar! Do you dare!"
I really don’t know how the tsar chose this envoy. He was really an ignorant, arrogant and violent man with muscles that even reached his chest.
Many British nobles and high-ranking officials made Ivan blush, but these foxes were very cunning, so few people fell into his trap and fell into his tricks.
Just then, there was a bang on the table in the corner. Someone slapped the table, and then he stood up and cursed, "Bagayalu... If you want to fight with my father, you have to get past me first!"
"Death fight! Fight to the death!"
Hyōtaro jumped out, but his short body contained volcano-like energy. In his eyes, the godfather who gave him his surname was the sun in his heart and the pillar of all his spirit.
He had noticed this stupid Russian pig since yesterday. Although Montauban hated him, he still used words to bully the head of state. When it came to things like bickering, his godfather really didn't fear anyone.
But Ivan, a stupid pig, actually repeatedly asked to fight with his godfather? Damn it, my father is a scholar, okay? Can he fight with you?
"Death fight! Do you dare to write a life-or-death declaration of war? Grandpa, I will accompany you..."
After speaking, there was a clang, and the carefully crafted ceremonial knife was slapped on the table, and the entire banquet scene was filled with murderous aura.
