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...because no other navy had encountered issues from feeding their crew a monotonous diet before. Maybe not this specific set of issues, but issues nonetheless.
by DuskStar 7y ago
...because no other navy had encountered issues from feeding their crew a monotonous diet before. Maybe not this specific set of issues, but issues nonetheless.
- ezoe 7y agoUntil very recently, traditional Japanese meal was consists of a bowl of rice, miso soup with some vegetables, and some vegetables. Because of religious and cultural reason(it was not that strong ban but most people follow it), Japanese at that time rarely eat meat.
- DuskStar 7y agoAnd what relevance does that have? That's not the diet the sailors in question had or the replacement diet that was proposed.
- masklinn 7y agoThe issue wasn't restricted to the navy, and was especially present in the urban upper class (including the imperial clan), so much so that it was nicknamed "edo disease" as polished white rice was much more easily obtained in Edo (given enough means) than in more provincials cities. Interestingly, early industrialisation made things worse: mechanical mills made the desirable polished white rice way more accessible to all.