/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>17880971
>ignorant of the fact that yeast products, cheese, and fermented fish existed thousands of years ago in Europe
Brought and consumed by Japanese immigrants, first discovered in Japan, described as "umami" when Europeans still lived in caves.
the Japanese had NO WORD for this taste before Ikeda Kikunae's discovery of glutamic acid's interaction with human taste receptors.

>Oh, yeah, and glutamic acid was actually discovered half a century earlier Karl Heinrich Ritthausen. Ikeda just discovered its unique interaction and named it "umami".
More brainwash American-focused datekeeping. Japan discovered it in the true equivalent of the 400s BC, but because they recorded dates differently; Americans confused the year of one emperor for another; thus resulting in mistranslations (Europeans are incapable of learning Japanese)