Great time travel

Chapter 608 What is the real dark cuisine?

Chapter 8. What is the real dark cuisine?

All in all, after a communication full of screams, tears and hysteria, the five Bennet sisters barely figured out the status quo:

"... I already understand the general situation—although the main god system has collapsed, and there is no way to exchange reward points for equipment and bloodlines, but you still have to save up to 25 reward points per person to leave the system and return to the real world Right! Five people add up to [-]..."

The "big sister" Jane among the five girls.Bennet lamented, "...What a desperate number!"

"...Don't worry about this, we will try our best to help you get points. Before that, we have successfully rescued many people."

Wang Qiu comforted the time-traveling version of the five Bennet sisters, "...Although the number of 25 reward points is a bit too much, as long as everyone works together, it can still be obtained...but the premise is that you have to cooperate Well our work..."

"...Please rest assured, we will definitely cooperate with the work of the party and the government." The five Bennet sisters quickly expressed their views 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.

——In general, he entered this peaceful world with the mentality of an outing, so he rushed in rashly after only bringing two women with him.

Compared with the five Bennet sisters who have been here for several months, Wang Qiu, Ju Chuan Shizuka and Nan Lixiang, who have just arrived here, have not yet felt the inconveniences of rural life in the pre-industrial civilization era. They are very interested in seeing this exotic villa... Of course, they still insisted on expressing their respect and indifference to the three cups of tea full of strange smells served by the three old ladies in girlish skins.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth.Bennet impatiently put forward a lot of demands, hoping to get the fastest satisfaction.

"...Well, do you want tampons, toilet paper... and toothpaste and toothbrush?" Ju Chuan Shizuka recorded in a small notebook with a pencil.

"...Yeah, the days when the whole family wipes their poop with a rope, and brushes their teeth with a fresh branch every morning and evening, it's really broken!"

"...And...there are bras ♀ and panties?" Ju Chuan Shizuka blinked her eyes curiously and "ignorantly", as if she was looking at the curves under Elizabeth's clothes, "...is it in your The inside of the dress... is actually a vacuum?"

Elizabeth was immediately stared at a little shyly, "...No way, women in this era seem to be ruled not to wear pants, and there is nothing inside the petticoat. As for the upper body...the kind of corset that strangles people is better not to wear. Good! **** is going to be crushed..."

"...even underwear?" Ju Chuan Shizuka slightly exclaimed, "...doesn't that mean there is no place for sanitary napkins?"

Faced with Ju Chuan Shizuka's outspoken words that were so outspoken that she didn't pass her brain's questioning, 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 nineteenth century, it was considered extremely immoral for women to wear trousers, even if they were worn under skirts.At that time, the real ladies and ladies of the upper class in the West actually had bare buttocks under their skirts.The disadvantage is that when women ride horses, the lower body is likely to directly contact the saddle, resulting in various lacerations or abrasions. Therefore, those women who did not wear pants at that time had to ride with very troublesome side saddles, and rolled off if they were not careful.And dealing with menstrual issues is troublesome.The good thing is that if you want to have an affair secretly at the ball or reception, those ladies don't need to take off their clothes at all, they just need to lift up their skirts to do the work.In addition, there is another way is to let the man get under the skirt to lick... It is said that there are pet dogs...

"... Next... we need to give Mary a pair of myopia glasses?" Ju Chuan Shizuka continued to ask, belatedly skipping the embarrassing question.

"...she is highly nearsighted and can't see anything after breaking her last pair of glasses. I'm worried she's going to fall down the stairs."

"...This is quite dangerous. I have seen a person fall down the stairs before and broke his neck on the spot (see Volume [-])." Wang Qiu came over and interjected, "...But, our side Her base is not located in any big city, but on an island reef in the South China Sea. It is really inconvenient to get a pair of glasses in the city. Instead of going through such a hassle, it is better to cure her short-sightedness once and for all. "

"...Is this okay? Do you have the equipment to treat myopia with lasers?" Elizabeth asked suspiciously.

"...We have [Automatic Medical Kit] that can cure all diseases!" Wang Qiu replied, "...Strictly speaking, myopia is also a disease..."

Then, under the operation and treatment of the female doctor Ju Chuan Shizuka, Mary.Miss Bennet's high myopia recovered instantly, which made her overjoyed after being blind for a long time.But with the physical examination report displayed on the screen, Ju Chuan Shizuka couldn't help covering her mouth and exclaiming: "...slight nitrite poisoning, mercury poisoning, and a lot of other heavy metals and bacterial toxins... ...What did you feed her before?"

"... Nothing special? We usually cook and eat together... The difficulty is that there is a problem with the food bought from the town?"

So a group of people hurried to the kitchen to check, and saw several bags of flour and rice piled up on the kitchen floor. The latter is very expensive in England, where rice is not produced. Cheap.Then, in addition to the staple food, because there was no refrigerator in this era, and cans were not invented, so the side dishes are mainly bacon, salted fish and sausages that are easy to store at room temperature, and the only vegetables are onions and potatoes.Then came the odds and ends of butter, cheese, milk, tea, pepper, coffee, and sugar.

At first glance, there seems to be no obvious problem, but when it is checked with the magical props of Doraemon World, it is really creepy:

"...Either the harmful bacteria are seriously exceeding the standard, or it is rich in various heavy metals... Is what you usually eat food or poison?"

Ju Chuan Shizuka exclaimed with wide-eyed almond eyes, and Wang Qiu also shook his head repeatedly while consulting the relevant historical materials collected in advance by the backup expert team on the tablet computer, "... Sigh, is this the real British dark cuisine? Is it? You are simply taking your life to die!"

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——When traveling through medieval Europe, Wang Qiu and the others had fully experienced how "green food in the pre-industrial age" was hard to swallow.However, with the development of the times and the germination of the industrial revolution, the health level of the folk food in the British Empire has not improved, but has further declined, and even reached a state of madness in the eyes of modern people, "taking life to die" degree.

To put it simply, at least half of the various ingredients in the Bennet's kitchen are out-and-out poison...

First of all, let’s talk about the tea leaves that Mary, Kitty and Lydia, three old ladies in girly skins, have been obsessed with since they traveled here.Since ancient times, profiteers in the East and West have been taking great pleasure in adding leaves, hay powder and sheep dung balls to tea.The dark food processing industry of the British Empire in the era of the Industrial Revolution obviously didn't look down on such low-level means-the British profiteers at that time mainly added verdigris to tea, that is, copper sulfate, copper chloride and so on.It should be noted that the addition of patina is not mainly to increase the color of green tea. In fact, the consumption of black tea in Britain at that time far exceeded that of green tea, and profiteers also added patina to black tea for the 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, so the capitalists at that time made a solution of copper sulfate or copper chloride, sprayed it on the surface of the tea leaves and dried them. , In this way, copper ions can effectively inhibit the growth of fungi, so that the tea can be kept for a longer period of time.The patina is not easy to be found by consumers under the cover of dark tea leaves. Even after brewing tea, due to the confusion between dark tea soup and the inherent astringency of tea leaves, drinkers will only feel that the taste of tea is a bit weird. But couldn't figure out what was going on.

It seems perfect, right, but there is still a problem. The chemical industry in that era was far less developed than modern times. The patina that can be widely used in the printing and dyeing industry has remained high for a long time. If the patina is directly used in tea Let it go, it will definitely be a money-losing business.However, although everyone should not underestimate the morals of capitalists, but also do not underestimate their IQ—in order to solve this cost-effective problem, the capitalists of the dark food processing industry in the British Empire quickly found a solution. That is... using chemical waste! ! !

——As we all know, in the chemical industry, with the reaction of various products, there must be some by-products and waste materials. In order to obtain the maximum profit, capitalists will always find the "most suitable" use for them. The key is The most profitable outlet.

As for the waste of patina, it may be more appropriate to call it residue. It is a mixture containing copper, iron, lead, zinc and other metal salts. It is usually a black block and needs to be smashed with a sledgehammer before use. broken.The most important use of this block at that time was food additives, and the ingredients would be different due to the different origins of raw materials and production processes, so that after adding tea leaves, it would bring different "flavors" to the tea leaves - something to note Yes, the alchemy priests in ancient China used almost similar heavy metal materials to refine countless golden elixirs, and killed a lot of dignitaries, even emperors and queens.And the British in the era of the Industrial Revolution were taking pills every day...

For example, a grand tea fair was held in a certain place in the UK at that time, and various tea dealers took out their signature products to participate in the exhibition.For this reason, someone wrote an article with relish, saying that he had tasted hundreds of teas with different flavors in one day.However, it is a pity that soon after investigation, some good people found that most of the teas exhibited in this exhibition came from the same variety in the same region, were sold by the same dealer, and even came from the same merchant ship. ... Then, why do these teas from exactly the same source turn into varieties with different "flavors" after being packaged by a middleman once?The secret naturally comes from the necessary antiseptic additives of British tea at that time - verdigris waste residue.Due to the different content ratios of copper, iron, lead, and zinc in different patina waste residues, after adding them, they create different flavors of tea—I have to say, this truth really makes people want to go out throw up...

In addition to tea, the British black-hearted capitalists at that time also generally promoted the use of cheap antiseptic additives such as verdigris waste slag on peppers that were also in danger of mildew. The old method has been used since the Roman Empire, and the British profiteers after 2000 will naturally not forget the traditional craftsmanship of their ancestors.

However, patina, a colored antiseptic additive, also has its limitations in use. For example, milk, a white liquid, is not suitable. Anyway, those green and blue milks are mostly unsalable.Of course, you smart black-hearted capitalists also have their countermeasures-denden!Another toxic preservative, mercury salt, is here!Like the verdigris, in order to save costs, the mercury salts added to the milk at that time mainly came from the scraps discarded by the factory. The difference is that the scraps this time are white lumps...

Mercury salt has been widely used in ancient China for a long time. Warring States alchemists used it to make alchemy. In the tomb of Qin Shihuang, mercury was also used to embalm corpses, and it is naturally used in food. The antiseptic effect is excellent: add Mercury-salted milk will not go bad for decades, and the color is even better!If you think about China in later generations, if you just add some protein essence (melamine) to dairy products, you will already be criticized.But the profiteers of the British Empire actually let the common people across the country eat amalgam milk for hundreds of years!

As for whether a living person would be poisoned if they ate too much mercury... At that time, the safety standard for additives in the dark food processing industry of the British Empire was-as long as the additives of the dead were not eaten on the spot, they were qualified additives!Anyway, the average life expectancy was short at that time, especially the wage-earners, who generally died of exhaustion after working in the factory for less than ten years. Therefore, under normal circumstances, most consumers would never live to the day when heavy metal accumulation and poisoning occurred!

Although you conscientious capitalists of the British Empire have never cared whether your customers will suffer chronic poisoning from eating mercury salt milk, there is also an urgent problem that needs to be solved, that is, precipitation will occur because of the mercury salt in the milk. Soluble proteins will denature and settle after encountering heavy metals such as mercury ions.And the method used by the capitalists of the British Empire to deal with this kind of precipitation is also very simple-filter and separate the precipitation, and then make the dregs of the precipitation into cheese for sale. As for the filtered supernatant, it is naturally the milk to be sold.

Anyway, no one was able to measure the protein content in milk at that time, as long as the taste of milk can be tasted.But the capitalists have obtained two products at once, milk and cheese, and both of them contain high concentrations of mercury salts, have a long shelf life, and almost never spoil.As for the taste of this kind of milk, I 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 is even more desperate is that despite the addition of so many toxic mercury salts, milk at that time was still one of the important ways to spread tuberculosis.Why has so much mercury salt been added to milk, but it has not eliminated tuberculosis bacteria?This is because there is a capsule on the outside of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Under the action of heavy metals, the protein contained in the capsule will be denatured to form a dense protective layer, thereby protecting the bacteria itself from being killed, which is not the same as aluminum pots. The principle of rusting is somewhat similar.Under the technical conditions at that time, the most effective way to eliminate Mycobacterium tuberculosis was actually very simple, that is, to boil the milk. However, this would cause the denaturation of lactose in the milk, thus making the "milk taste change", which was not popular with consumers. welcome.

Therefore, urban civilians at that time drank antiseptic and poisonous milk with mercury salts, and rural farmers and manor owners drank fresh raw milk, and then they were knocked down and killed by tuberculosis, dysentery or cholera without discrimination—until the French biologist Louis.Pasteur invented pasteurization in 1864...

In addition to milk, mercury salts at that time were also commonly used as sugar additives. In addition to using its colorless and antiseptic properties, it also took advantage of its high sweetness: as long as a little mercury salt is added, it can Turning low-quality sugar that is not too sweet into high-quality sugar that is very sweet...however, it is definitely risky, because what is actually added is mercury salt waste residue, so no one can guarantee what is in it.For example, once, a certain manufacturer sold candy that was added with mercury salt waste from a certain mine, which poisoned many children to death, causing an uproar.However, this is not a problem of mercury salts, but because the cinnabar ore used to produce mercury salts contains too much arsenic, and using the waste residue there is equivalent to putting arsenic in sugar!As a remedial measure, the candy manufacturer stopped using the mercury salt residue produced in that mine, and used mercury salt from other places to add it to the candy for children to eat...

To sum up, in the British society at that time, drinking tea in an arty manner was of course equivalent to taking golden pills to die, and it was also unsafe to drink coffee instead.Even if you don’t add sugar or milk to your coffee, and just drink pure bitter coffee, it’s hard to guarantee whether the coffee beans have been sprayed with a patina...

Then, as another by-product of milk, the deterioration of butter also troubled black-hearted capitalists. In the era of the Roman Empire, the main strategy for preserving butter was to add salt, and a large amount of salt was added, but the effect was often still not good.In modern times, the capitalists of the British Empire finally discovered that the initial manifestation of butter spoilage is 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 at that time, because soda ash was used as raw material to make caustic soda, and soda ash at that time was mainly collected from natural salt lakes, and the cost was very high. At least it had to be sold for A pound of soda ash costs a pound of silver.Therefore, the budget-minded capitalists will not directly mix expensive caustic soda into the butter, they just soak the butter with the wastewater discharged from the soda plant-in this way, the oil contained in the butter will be produced under the action of caustic soda Saponification reaction produces sodium fatty acid to prevent it from spoilage... From this point, it can be concluded that the British people at that time were actually eating soap every day, or in other words, under the meticulous care of the capitalists of the dark food processing industry in the British Empire, they were eating soap every day. Enjoy cleansing care from the inside out...

After talking about the disgusting dairy products, the next thing is flour and rice, which are also rich in industrial toxins. The way to preserve flour in Roman times is to fumigate with sulfur, which can prevent mold, insects and whiten, but the problem is that the effect is not long-lasting. And it 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 a new type of food additive, sodium formaldehyde sulfoxylate.In addition to the basic functions of anti-mildew, insect-proof and whitening, it also has many advantages such as very little peculiar smell, and it will not kill people in a short time. So far: China is still cracking down every year on those illegal profiteers who learn from the experience of the British predecessors and continue to mix white lumps in the flour...

Then there are bacon, salted fish, and sausages. Everyone knows that they must be rich in nitrite. Apart from antisepsis, their biggest effect is to turn the meat red, which is unavoidable even in modern China.But the problem is that the British added nitrite to bacon at that time. It was too frenzied. For example, the bacon supplied by the Royal Navy was called "salt bones". , and it was as hard as a bone, so the chefs had to deal with it with axes and saws. God knows how much nitrite was added in it?

Even if nitrite is not considered, the production environment of these pickled foods is enough to make people daunting: the raw material warehouse is generally littered with garbage and sewage.Spoiled pork was rubbed with baking soda to remove the sour smell, and poisoned rats were shoveled into a sausage blender.Some meat was even littered on the floor, mixed with garbage and sawdust, allowing workers to trample and spit on it, leaving billions of tuberculosis bacteria behind.Moldy ham was shredded and stuffed into sausages; workers walked around on the meat buttocks and spit everywhere; poisoned rats were mixed into meat grinders... so many sausages that people eat are rich in "raw materials", Not only were rats mixed in, but rat poison was also mixed in...

Of course, pickled fish is scary to eat, so can the fresh meat in the butcher shop be reassuring?The answer is not necessarily - even fresh meat also needs to delay spoilage as much as possible, and there were no refrigerators at that time, so the only way to preserve fresh meat was to use chemical methods, that is, to soak it in the ammonia-containing wastewater discharged from the printing and dyeing factory.However, the fresh meat treated in this way will have a strong ammonia smell, which must be neutralized with the pickling wastewater discharged from the machinery factory, but the pickling wastewater mostly contains a large amount of copper, iron and other metals and appears gray-black, so In the end, it is necessary to rinse the blackened meat with a lot of water... In this way, after the three processes, the "fresh meat" can be shipped to major butcher shops in London for sale.

Therefore, unless it is an animal slaughtered in front of you, most of the fresh meat on the British market in this era is poisonous...

All in all, in this era of Britain, apart from vegetables and fruits, only eggs are regarded as conscientious food, guaranteed not to contain any Sudan red—if there was a great inventor who could make Sudan red at that time, he would have used it as a dye Sell ​​it and make a lot of money.

However, at that time there was no cold storage and no concentrated poultry breeding technology, so the price of eggs was much higher than in modern times, and at least the middle class and above could often afford them, while the poor had no choice but to find ways to raise their own hens.Then, the popular way to eat eggs in Britain at that time was to boil the eggs until they were half-ripe, sprinkle some salt and pepper to make a paste, and then eat them with bread. Boil them until they are fully cooked, or the salmonella in the eggs will leave you with diarrhea and dehydration to the point where you die...  

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Although from the perspective of social development, the above-mentioned insane move of the dark food processing industry in the British Empire still has historical and progressive significance. At least it prolongs the storage period of food, allowing capitalists to collect food from a larger range. To meet the basic needs of the urban population, especially to ensure the daily calorie intake of the early workers, so that they have enough physical strength to work as cattle and horses-as for the life expectancy, anyway, the workers at that time were also used as consumables by capitalists, They wouldn't be able to live for a few years... so as long as they don't get poisoned before they die from exhaustion, that's enough.

However, as modern women who are deeply influenced by the "green food concept", the time-traveling version of the five Bennet sisters really lack the courage and courage to test the poison themselves. Mental breakdown... After being rescued by Ju Chuan Shizuka, the five ladies suddenly realized that they all became vegetarians, and begged Wang Qiu and the others to hurry up and get more ingredients from the modern world. Get some sacks of rice, so that their poor stomachs won't suffer from the cruelty of the dark British cuisine...

For this, Wang Qiu, who was also trembling with fear, immediately agreed kindly... Then the Bennet family ate rice with vegetables for several months...

Compared with the poison of British dark cuisine, the harm caused by the heir to the property, Cousin Collins, to the Bennet family is almost negligible—according to the suggestion of the expert group, Wang Qiu and the others formulated a plan of "stealing the beam and changing the pillar" .

Thus, William, who had not yet become a pastor.Mr. Collins, with the desire to inherit a large estate and quickly become a rich man, took a stagecoach and rushed all the way to Longbourne Village. He had just walked into the door of Bennet's house when he was caught by a He was knocked down with a high-voltage electric baton, and then injected with anesthetics. He was locked in a small black room made in the basement with a "explosive basement", and the intelligence was interrogated by professionals.

Then, Wang Qiu put on colored contact lenses and a wig, disguised himself as Mr. Collins, and lived in the Bennet's house in a grand manner.

——At this time, Mr. Collins has no father or mother, and all the elders in the family are dead. He is like an orphan. Even if he loses news for a few months, no one will care.On the other hand, although the Bennet and Collins families are relatives, they had an extremely bad relationship in the previous generation in order to fight for inheritance. Nobody knew Mr. Collins.

Therefore, with the full cooperation of the five sisters of the time-traveling version of Bennet, this strategy of stealing identities has temporarily succeeded...

It didn't take long for the residents of Longbourn Village to know that Mr. Collins, who was scheduled to inherit the property of the Bennet family, was really a gentleman of high morals. In order to obtain the estate, he attempted to drive the Bennet sisters out, but graciously agreed to wait until the Bennet couple disappeared for seven years in accordance with the usual practice, and also gave the five sisters many gifts.

Of course, as a token of gratitude and return, the five Bennet sisters also retained Mr. Collins to live at home for a period of time, preparing to entertain him well—although according to the conservative social customs at this time, a young man lived in a group of single women. It seems a little bit out of dignity, but considering that the two parties are relatives and the house will belong to him, such a thing does not seem unacceptable.

Next, as Wang Qiu gained a firm foothold here, the re-opening of the Different World Hospital was also put on the agenda.

Among the terminally ill patients admitted this time, in addition to the citizens of the country, there is also a foreign friend...