I guess someone could have been trying to translate "corn" and not very aware of basic culinary history. Clearly not someone who has to deal with people yelling about potatoes in fantasy. (Corn and potatoes are both new world foods that wouldn't have existed in China at the time the poem was written)
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Re: 187. 黃鳥 - Huang Niao
Date: 2021-04-16 06:16 pm (UTC)I guess someone could have been trying to translate "corn" and not very aware of basic culinary history. Clearly not someone who has to deal with people yelling about potatoes in fantasy. (Corn and potatoes are both new world foods that wouldn't have existed in China at the time the poem was written)