Chapter 8: What is the real dark cuisine?
All in all, after a conversation filled with screams, tears and hysteria, the five Bennet sisters managed to figure out the current situation: "I have understood the general situation.
Although the main god system has collapsed and there is no way to exchange reward points for equipment and bloodline, we still need to save up to 50,000 reward points per person before we can leave the system and return to the real world, right?
Five people That adds up to two hundred and fifty thousand.”
Jane, the "eldest sister" among the five girls. yznnBennet said with a lamentation, "What a desperate number."
"Don't worry about this.
We will try our best to help you get points.
We have successfully rescued many people before this."
Wang Qiu comforted the five Bennet sisters in the time-travel version, "Although the number of two hundred and fifty thousand reward points is a bit too much, as long as everyone works together, we can still get it.
But the premise is that you have to cooperate with us." work” "Please rest assured that we will definitely cooperate with the work of the party and the government."
The five Bennet sisters quickly expressed their stance in unison.
After completing the basic communication and reaching a preliminary consensus, Wang Qiu and his two Ji friends visited the house with great interest.
Generally speaking, he entered this peaceful world with an outing mentality, so he rushed in with two women.
Compared with the five Bennet sisters who have been here for several months, Wang Qiu, Marikawa Shizuka and Nan Lixiang, who have just arrived, have not yet felt the inconveniences of rural life in the pre-industrial civilization era, but are looking forward to visiting and traveling.
With their mentality, they were very interested in seeing this exotic villa.
Of course, they still insisted on expressing their gratitude to the three cups of strange-smelling tea served by the three old ladies in girlish skins.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth.
Bennett couldn't wait to put forward a lot of requests, hoping to be satisfied as quickly as possible.
"Well, you want tampons, toilet paper, and toothpaste and toothbrush," Shizuka Marikawa wrote down in a small notebook with a pencil.
"Yeah, the kind of days when the whole family shared a rope to wipe their poop and broke off a fresh branch every morning and evening to brush their teeth.
It was so depressing."
"Then I need a bra and underwear."
Shizuka Marikawa blinked with a confused and curious look on her face, as if she was looking at the curves under Elizabeth's clothes, "Is there actually a vacuum inside your dress?"
Elizabeth was immediately stared at and felt a little shy, "I can't help it.
It seems that women in this era are not allowed to wear pants, and there is nothing underneath the petticoat.
As for the strangulating corset on the upper body, it is better not to wear it."
Squashed.”
"Even underwear is included."
Marikawa Shizuka exclaimed slightly, "That means there is no room for sanitary napkins."
Faced with Marikawa Shizuka's direct and direct question, Elizabeth's fair face suddenly blushed as if she was about to bleed.
What many people don’t know is that in Western European and American countries, until the first half of the 19th century, it was considered extremely immoral for women to wear pants, even under skirts.
At that time, the real ladies and gentlemen in Western upper class society were actually naked buttocks under their skirts.
The disadvantage is that when women ride horses, their lower bodies are easily in direct contact with the saddle, causing various lacerations or abrasions.
Therefore, those women who did not wear pants at that time had to ride with a very troublesome side saddle, and they could roll off if they were not careful.
And dealing with menstrual period issues is troublesome.
The good thing is that if you want to have an affair secretly at dances and cocktail parties, those ladies don't need to take off their clothes at all, they just need to lift up their skirts.
In addition, there is another way to let men get under the skirt and lick it.
It is said that pet dogs are also used.
"Next, I need to give Mary a pair of glasses for myopia."
After knowingly skipping that embarrassing question, Marikawa Shizuka continued to ask.
"She is highly myopic and couldn't see anything after breaking her last pair of glasses.
I was worried that she would fall down the stairs."
"This is quite dangerous.
I have seen a man roll down the stairs before and break his neck on the spot."
Wang Qiu came over and interjected, "However, our base over there is not a big one.
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It’s not a city, but an island in the South China Sea.
It’s really inconvenient to get glasses in the city, so it’s better to cure her myopia once and for all.”
"Is this okay?
You have laser equipment to treat myopia?"
Elizabeth asked doubtfully.
"We have an automatic medical kit that can cure all diseases," Wang Qiu replied.
"Strictly speaking, myopia is also a disease."
Then, under the diagnosis and treatment of female doctor Marikawa Shizuka, Mary...
Miss Bennet's pair of highly myopic eyes recovered instantly, which made her extremely happy after being blind for a long time.
But as the medical examination report was displayed on the screen, Marikawa Shizuka couldn't help but cover her mouth and exclaimed: "Mild nitrite poisoning, mercury poisoning, and a lot of other heavy metals and bacterial toxins that you have never seen before.
What did you feed her?"
"It's nothing special.
We usually cook and eat together.
The difficulty is that there is something wrong with the food we bought from the town."
So a group of people hurried to the kitchen for inspection and saw several bags of flour and rice piled on the kitchen floor.
The latter was very expensive in the UK where rice was not produced, and the former was not available because it was finely sifted refined flour.
Cheap.
Then, in addition to the staple food, since there were no refrigerators in this era and canning had not been invented, the side dishes were mainly bacon, salted fish and sausages that were easy to preserve at room temperature, and the only vegetables were onions and potatoes.
Next there are odds and ends such as butter, cheese, milk, tea, pepper, coffee, and sugar.
At first glance, there seems to be no obvious problem, but when I check it with the magical props in Doraemon World, it is really creepy: "Either the harmful bacteria are seriously exceeded, or they are rich in various heavy metals.
Is what you usually eat food or poison?"
Marikawa Shizuka exclaimed with eyes wide open, while Wang Qiu also shook his head repeatedly while checking the relevant historical information collected in advance by the support expert team on his tablet, "Oh, is this the real British dark cuisine?"
You are risking your life for death."
When they traveled through medieval Europe, Wang Qiu and the others had fully experienced how "pre-industrial green food" was hard to swallow.
However, with the development of the times and the emergence of the industrial revolution, the healthiness of folk food in the British Empire has not improved, but has further declined, and has even reached the point where modern people think it is crazy and "risking life for death". degree.
To put it simply, at least half of the various ingredients in the Bennet kitchen are outright poisons.
First of all, let’s talk about Mary, Kitty and Lydia, three old ladies in girlish skins, who have been thinking about tea since they traveled through time.
Since ancient times, profiteers in the East and West have been happily adding leaves, hay powder and sheep dung balls to tea.
The dark food processing industry of the British Empire during the Industrial Revolution obviously looked down upon such low-level methods.
At that time, British profiteers mainly added patina to tea, namely copper sulfate, copper chloride, etc.
It should be noted that adding patina is not mainly to increase the color of green tea.
In fact, the consumption of black tea in the UK at that time far exceeded that of green tea, and profiteers also added patina to black tea, with the main purpose of preserving quality and preventing corrosion.
The reason for this is that in the humid climate of the British Isles, tea leaves are prone to mildew.
Therefore, the capitalists at that time prepared a solution of copper sulfate or copper chloride, sprayed it on the surface of the tea leaves, and then dried it. , in this way, copper ions can effectively inhibit the growth of fungi, allowing the tea to be kept longer.
The patina is not easily discovered by consumers under the cover of dark tea leaves.
Even after brewing into tea, drinkers will only feel that the taste of the tea is a bit weird due to the confusion between the dark tea soup and the inherent astringency of the tea leaves.
But couldn't figure out what was going on.
It seems perfect, right, but there is another problem.
The chemical industry of that era was far less developed than modern times.
The price of patina, which can be widely used in the printing and dyeing industry, has remained high for a long time.
If the patina is directly put into tea If you let go, it will definitely be a losing business.
However, although we should not underestimate the integrity of the capitalists, we should not underestimate their IQ.
In order to solve this problem of cost-effectiveness, the capitalists in the dark food processing industry of the British Empire used their brains and soon discovered the way to crack it, that is Use chemical waste As we all know, in the chemical industry, with the reaction of various products, some by-products and waste materials will inevitably appear.
In order to obtain the maximum profit, capitalists will always find the "most suitable" use for them.
The key is to maximize the profit. sales.
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The waste material of patina, perhaps more appropriately called residue, is a mixture containing copper, iron, lead, zinc and other metal salts.
It is usually in the form of black blocks and needs to be smashed with a sledgehammer before use. broken.
The most important use of this lump at that time was as a food additive, and the ingredients would be different depending on the origin and production process of the raw materials, thus adding different "flavors" to the tea.
It should be noted that, The alchemy Taoist priests in ancient China used similar heavy metal materials to refine countless golden elixirs and killed a lot of dignitaries and even emperors and queens.
The British during the Industrial Revolution were taking pills every day.
For example, a grand tea expo was held somewhere in the UK at that time, and various tea dealers presented their signature products to the exhibition.
For this reason, some people happily wrote articles saying that they tasted hundreds of different flavors of tea in one day.
However, unfortunately, some good people soon discovered through investigation that most of the teas exhibited at this exhibition actually came from the same variety in the same region, were sold by the same dealer, and even came from the same merchant ship.
So, why do these teas from the same source turn into varieties with different “flavors” after being repackaged by a middleman?
The secret naturally comes from the patina waste, an essential preservative additive for British tea at that time.
Because the content ratios of copper, iron, lead, and zinc in different patina wastes are different, after adding them, it creates different flavors of tea.
I have to say that this truth really makes people want to go out and vomit.
In addition to tea, the British black-hearted capitalists at that time also generally promoted the use of cheap antiseptic additives such as copper green waste residue on pepper, which was also in danger of mold.
In addition, it was natural to add a lot of sawdust and stone powder into the pepper.
This was It is an old method that has been used since the Roman Empire.
Naturally, British profiteers two thousand years later will not forget the traditional craftsmanship of their ancestors.
However, patina, a colored preservative additive, also has its limitations in use.
For example, white liquids such as milk are not suitable.
Most of the green and blue milk cannot be sold anyway.
Of course, all the smart black-hearted capitalists also have their countermeasures.
Another toxic preservative, mercury salt, made its debut.
Just like patina, in order to save costs, the mercury salt added to milk at that time mainly came from factory scraps. , the difference is that this time the scraps are white lumps Mercury salts have been widely used in ancient China.
Alchemists during the Warring States Period used it to make elixirs.
Mercury was also used to embalm corpses in the tomb of Qin Shihuang.
When used in food, it naturally has excellent antiseptic effects: Added Milk containing mercury salts will not deteriorate after being stored for decades, and the color will be better.
Think about China in later generations, and just add some protein melamine and other things to dairy products, and it is already There was a flood of curses.
But the profiteers of the British Empire actually let the people of the country eat amalgam milk for hundreds of years.
As for whether living people will be poisoned if they eat too much mercury?
At that time, the safety standards for additives in the dark food processing industry of the British Empire were that as long as the additives were not eaten by dead people on the spot, they were qualified additives.
Anyway, the average life span of people at that time was short, especially for the working class. , generally working in a factory for less than ten years will lead to exhaustion, so under normal circumstances, most consumers will not survive the day when heavy metal accumulation accumulates and poisons them.
Although all conscientious capitalists in the British Empire never care whether their customers will suffer chronic poisoning from eating mercury salt milk, there is still an urgent problem that needs to be solved, and that is the precipitation that will occur because of the mercury salt in the milk.
Soluble proteins will denature and settle when encountering heavy metals such as mercury ions.
The British Empire capitalists' method of dealing with this kind of precipitation was also very simple: filter and separate these precipitations, and then make the precipitated dregs into cheese for sale.
As for the filtered supernatant, it is naturally the milk to be sold.
Anyway, no one could measure the protein content in milk at that time, as long as it tasted like milk.
However, the capitalists suddenly obtained two products, milk and cheese, and both contained high concentrations of mercury salts, had a long shelf life, and almost never spoiled.
As for the taste of this kind of milk, you can't be too particular about it.
In the eyes of modern people, I'm afraid it's more appropriate to call it swill.
What’s even more desperate is that despite adding so much toxic mercury salts, milk at that time was still one of the important ways to spread tuberculosis.
Why are so many mercury salts added to milk yet unable to eliminate tuberculosis bacteria?
This is because there is a capsule on the outside of the tuberculosis bacilli.
Under the action of heavy metals, the protein contained in the capsule will denature and form a dense layer.
The protective layer protects the bacteria themselves from being killed, which is somewhat similar to the principle that aluminum pots will not rust.
Under the technical conditions at that time, the most effective way to eliminate Mycobacterium tuberculosis was actually very simple, which was to boil the milk.
However, this would cause the lactose in the milk to denature, thus causing "the taste of the milk to change", which was very unpopular with consumers. welcome.
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Therefore, urban civilians at that time drank antiseptic poisonous milk with mercury salts added, while rural farmers and manor owners drank fresh raw milk, and then were struck down and died by tuberculosis, dysentery or cholera without distinction until the French biologist Louis.
Pasteur invented the pasteurization method in 1864 In addition to milk, mercury salts at that time were also widely used as sugar additives.
In addition to taking advantage of its colorless and antiseptic properties, it also took advantage of its high sweetness properties: as long as a little bit of mercury salt was added, it would be Turning low-quality sugar that is not too sweet into high-quality sugar that is very sweet.
However, doing so is definitely risky, because what is added is actually mercury salt waste, so no one can guarantee what ingredients are in it.
For example, one time, a certain manufacturer sold candies that were added with mercury salt residue from a certain mine, and poisoned many children to death, causing an uproar.
However, this is not actually a problem with mercury salts, but because the cinnabar ore used to produce mercury salts contains too much arsenic.
Using the waste residue there is equivalent to putting arsenic in sugar.
As a remedy, candy manufacturers stopped using the output from that mine. mercury salt waste residue, and use mercury salts from other places to add to candies for children to eat To sum up, in the British society of that era, drinking tea in a fashionable manner was equivalent to taking a golden elixir to commit suicide, but drinking coffee was equally unsafe.
Even if you don’t add sugar or milk to your coffee and only drink pure bitter coffee, you can’t guarantee whether the coffee beans have been sprayed with patina.
Then, as another by-product of milk, the deterioration problem of butter has also troubled the black-hearted capitalists.
During the Roman Empire, the main strategy for preserving butter was to add salt, and add a lot of salt, but the effect was often still poor.
In modern times, the capitalists of the British Empire finally discovered that the first manifestation of butter spoilage was acidification.
Well, to suppress acidification, just add caustic soda, that is, sodium hydroxide, to neutralize it.
But there is another problem here.
Sodium hydroxide was one of the most expensive chemicals in that era, because making caustic soda required soda ash as the raw material.
At that time, soda ash was mainly collected from natural salt lakes, and the cost was very high.
At least it had to be sold.
The price of a pound of soda ash and a pound of silver.
Therefore, budget-conscious capitalists do not directly mix expensive caustic soda into butter.
They just soak butter with wastewater discharged from alkali-making plants.
In this way, the fat contained in butter will undergo a saponification reaction under the action of caustic soda. , generate fatty acid sodium and prevent it from spoilage.
From this point, it can be concluded that the British at that time were actually eating soap every day, or in other words, under the meticulous care of the capitalists in the dark food processing industry of the British Empire, they enjoyed soap from the inside every day.
Cleaning and care outside the home After talking about the disgusting dairy products, next is flour and rice, which are also rich in industrial toxins.
The method of preserving flour in Roman times was to use sulfur fumigation, which can prevent mold and insects and whiten, but the problem is that the effect is not long-lasting, and it will Leaves an unpleasant sulfur smell.
The capitalists of the British Empire naturally wanted to improve on the basis of their predecessors.
After several generations of painstaking research, they finally discovered Diaobaikuan, a new food additive called sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate.
In addition to its basic functions of preventing mold and insects and whitening, it also has many advantages such as very little odor and the ability to eat without killing people in a short period of time.
It is really the best choice for processing rice and flour in the dark food industry of the British Empire, and it has been used ever since.
So far: China is still cracking down every year on those unscrupulous businessmen who learn from the experience of their British predecessors and continue to mix white lumps into flour.
Then there are bacon, salted fish and sausages.
As everyone knows, these must be rich in nitrite.
In addition to preservatives, its biggest function is to make the meat red.
Even in modern China, it is not exempt from this custom.
But the problem is that at that time, the British went too crazy in adding nitrite to bacon.
For example, the bacon supplied by the Royal Army and Navy was called "salt bones".
The advantage was that it could be preserved for more than half a century, but the disadvantage was that it was not only very salty. , and it is as hard as bone, so chefs have to use axes and saws to deal with it.
God knows how much nitrite is added to it.
Even if you don't take nitrite into account, the environment in which these pickled foods are made is daunting enough: garbage is littered in the raw material warehouse and sewage flows across it.
The spoiled pork was rubbed with soda ash to remove the sour smell, and the poisoned rats were shoveled into the sausage mixer.
Some meat was even littered on the floor, mixed with garbage and sawdust, and workers trampled and spit on it, leaving behind hundreds of millions of tuberculosis bacteria.
Moldy hams are minced and stuffed into sausages; workers walk around and spit on the butt of meat; poisoned rats are mixed into meat grinders.
So many of the sausages people eat are rich in "raw materials" and not only mixed.
Rats were killed, and rat poison was also mixed in.
Of course, pickled fish makes people feel wary when eating it, but can fresh meat in a butcher shop make people feel at ease?
The answer is not necessarily.
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Even fresh meat has the same need to delay spoilage as much as possible.
At that time, there were no refrigerators, so it was difficult to preserve fresh meat.
The only way to produce meat is by soaking it in ammonia-containing wastewater discharged from printing and dyeing factories.
However, the fresh meat treated in this way will have a strong ammonia smell, and it must be neutralized with pickling wastewater discharged from the machinery factory.
However, the pickling wastewater mostly contains a large amount of copper, iron and other metals and appears gray-black, so Finally, a large amount of water is needed to rinse the blackened meat.
After these three processes, the "fresh meat" can be shipped to major butcher shops in London for sale.
Therefore, unless the animals are slaughtered in front of you, most of the fresh meat on the British market in this era is poisonous.
All in all, in Britain at this time, apart from vegetables and fruits, only eggs were considered conscientious foods, and they were guaranteed not to contain any Sudan red.
If there had been a great inventor who could come up with Sudan red, he would have sold it as a dye to make money.
Big money went.
However, since there were no refrigeration conditions or centralized poultry raising technology at that time, the price of eggs was much higher than today.
At least the middle class and above could afford to eat them regularly, while the poor could only find ways to raise their own hens.
Then, the popular way to eat eggs in the UK at that time was to boil the eggs until they are medium-ripe, sprinkle some salt and pepper to make a paste, and then eat them with bread.
However, even if the time traveler is laughed at by others, it is best to eat the eggs.
Cook them until they are fully cooked, otherwise the salmonella in the eggs will cause diarrhea and dehydration until you die.
Although from the perspective of social development, the above-mentioned crazy actions of the dark food processing industry in the British Empire still have historical and progressive significance.
At least it extended the storage period of food and allowed capitalists to assemble food from a larger range.
Meet the basic needs of the urban population , especially to ensure the daily caloric intake of early workers so that they have enough physical strength to work as cattle and horses.
As for lifespan, anyway, workers at that time were used as consumables by capitalists and could not survive for a few years, so as long as It is enough to prevent them from being poisoned before they die from exhaustion.
However, as modern women who are deeply influenced by the "green food concept", the time-travel version of the five Bennet sisters really lacks the courage and courage to try poisons themselves.
Instead, after learning that the kitchen is full of poisons, they all After suffering a mental breakdown and being rescued by Marikawa Shizuka, These five ladies suddenly realized that they all became vegetarians, and they begged Wang Qiu and the others with tears in their eyes to quickly get more ingredients from the modern world, at least a few bags of rice, so that their poor stomachs would no longer suffer.
Suffering the cruel abuse of British dark cuisine Wang Qiu, who was equally trembling with fear, immediately agreed and the Bennet family ate vegetable rice for several months.
Compared with the poison of British dark cuisine, the harm caused to the Bennet family by the property heir, Cousin Collins, can almost be ignored.
According to the suggestions of the expert team, Wang Qiu and the others formulated a plan to "replace the pillars".
So, William, who had not yet become a priest.
Mr.
Collins, with the desire to inherit a large estate and quickly become a rich man, took a stagecoach and made a dusty journey to the village of Longbourn.
As soon as he walked into the door of the Bennet house, he was greeted by a He was knocked down with a high-voltage electric baton and immediately injected with anesthetics.
He was imprisoned in a small dark room made of an explosive basement and was interrogated by professionals for information.
Then, Wang Qiu put on contact lenses and a wig, disguised himself as Mr.
Collins, and moved into the Bennet house in a grand manner.
At this time, Mr.
Collins has no father or mother, and all the elders in his family have died.
He is effectively an orphan.
Even if he loses news for a few months, no one will probably care.
On the other hand, although the Bennet and Collins families are relatives, their relationship was extremely bad when they were competing for inheritance a generation ago, and it has reached the point where they have no contact with each other until they die.
Therefore, there is not even one family near Longbourn Village.
No one knew Mr.
Collins.
Therefore, with the full cooperation of the five time-traveling Bennet sisters, this strategy of secretly changing identities was temporarily successful.
It didn't take long for the residents of Longbourne Village to know that Mr.
Collins, who was scheduled to inherit the Bennet family's real estate, was really a gentleman with high moral standards.
After arriving in Longbourne Village, not only did he not rush to In order to obtain real estate, he attempted to drive the Bennet sisters out, but generously agreed to follow the usual practice and wait until the Bennets had disappeared for seven years.
In addition, he also gave many gifts to the five sisters.
Of course, as a thank you and reward, the five Bennet sisters also asked Mr.
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Collins to stay at home for a while and prepared to entertain him well.
Although according to the conservative customs of the society at this time, a young man lived in the home of a group of single women. , seems slightly undignified, but considering that the two parties are relatives, and the house will be owned by him, such a thing does not seem unacceptable.
Next, as Wang Qiu initially gained a foothold here, the reopening of the hospital in another world was also put on the agenda.
Among the terminally ill patients admitted this time, in addition to domestic citizens, there is also a foreign friend oshow7: