How White Rice Mysteriously Threatened the Japanese Military and Caused a National Emergency

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[@SnugglyAdams1616161616]

No ÙwÚ

[@flybalbu]

10:13 Riceeeeeee

[@Dracopol]

Westerners are unaware of the outer shell of a coconut, either. They only see the brown fuzzy one. The bulky inedible green husk is hacked off so that more coconuts can be transported. But this husk is great to float a seed over entire oceans and plant coconut trees all over the tropics, it did not have to be spread by man.

[@Dracopol]

@Midnight Empress Respect! Are they caught in the quarantined cities? Seems drastic to me, and China is not the most honest for medical communication.

[@strategicgamingwithaacorns2874]

@Linfamy Why does this "Edo sickness" remind me of Pelagra?

[@youcantata]

Fun fact: Takaki is the one who is responsible for bring food "curry" to Japanese diet. He tasted the Indian curry sauce first time when he studied medicine in UK, which was part of UK navy ration food diet on board. So he introduced the curry with rice recipe to Japanese navy diet. It turn out to be effective prevention and treatment against the dreaded Edo sickness, too. And after the WW II war, the curry with rice recipe slowly invaded Japanese home and kitchen by veteran navy sailor cook. Nowadays, "curry rice" become national home food of Japan. Japanese people eat curry rice once a week, at least.

[@thanakonpraepanich4284]

Three questions; 1. Was nikujaga stew the early attempt to put more calories and protein into sailor's diet so they will become bigger and stronger, but curry become more popular? 2. Yokosuka style curry of today come with green salad and a glass of milk. Did IJN serve milk to seamen for extra nutrient or this is a postwar thing? 3. Some curry fans claimed you need to put some beef stock into curry to make a proper Navy curry. Is that a leftover habit from British naval cooking?

[@alisonjones5175]

Oh god I’m getting some strong Unit 2 from New Horizons energy from this post🤣🌸

[@nihilvox]

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 I only know the answer to #1 - iirc, one of the Japanese admirals had studied modern naval tactics in Britain, and really enjoyed beef stew while he was there. Nikujaga was concocted by a chef trying to reproduce the admiral's favorite foreign dish.

[@shingshongshamalama]

Thank you Takaki for Japanese Curry. Honestly one of my favourite things to cook AND eat.

[@jonathantan2469]

They even sell a Sonic the Hedgehog themed curry... and it's dark blue.

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

"Deaths drop to 0%" GOD DAMN IT. *restarts Plague Inc.*

[@Linfamy]

😂

[@Dracopol]

I especially like it in Plague Inc. when Greenland and Madagascar refuse to be infected in Zombie mode, or other countries ban shipping, so you develop the Zombie strain that bloats from putrefactive gases when they die, and other Zombies build rafts out of the bodies...bye, bye, Madagascar and Greenland!

[@Linfamy]

@@Dracopol devious

[@Jobe-13]

The 225677th Fragment of the Man-Emperor of Mankind 😂

[@davidtitanium22]

@@Dracopol wait, I thought in zombie mode you can just wait for the zombies to walk under the sea... or wait for a random body to wash ashore

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

"Army doctors accused the Navy doctors for being deluded" Classic Imperial Japanese branch rivalry.

[@AnnaMorimoto]

@matthew styles Yes, well when the army is blinded by ambition, so much so that it shoots down and actively thwarts everything the navy does...

[@dubuyajay9964]

Why didn't the Emperor use his Divine status and threaten them with mass seppuku if they kept squabbling like children?

[@AnnaMorimoto]

@@dubuyajay9964 That's not how emperors work in Japan. They have mostly been used as a figurehead, to lend credibility to whomever is ruling at the time. During the Meiji era, power was in the hands of an oligarchy, called the genro. Emperor Meiji might have had some say in the matter, but I doubt it. Also, Emperor Meiji was in his late 50s at the time. He was getting old. He died in 1912 from illness.

[@dubuyajay9964]

@@AnnaMorimoto Then how was the Shogunate disbanded if the Emperor is so weak?

[@AnnaMorimoto]

@@dubuyajay9964 OK, lets try explaining the whole Meiji restoration. The shogunate was losing power and support. The provinces of Satsuma and Choshu formed an alliance to work towards overthrowing the shogunate. Under such pressure, the Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigned. Pro-imperial nationalists, mostly from Choshu and Satsuma staged a coup d'etat, procalaiming 15 year old emperor Meiji as their leader. A new government was formed, and the new imperial army, mostly Satsuma and Choshu soldiers, fought the Boshin war against the ex-shogunate army to strip Tokugawa of his remaining power. The new government was run by an oligarchy called the genro, mostly consisting of leaders from Choshu and Satsuma.

[@NikkiM.]

"Scurvy is caused by the lack of loyalty on a pirate ship." These are the facts history books leave out.

[@bombintheseeinq]

haha yep

[@the_hanged_clown]

and don't forget the lack of pirates have summoned manbearpig. and Epstein didn't kill himself

[@campkira]

you need a vitamin.. today somepeople either don't beilve or just eat too much...

[@brandonmckinnon836]

👍😆

[@funveeable]

Like all diseases, if the cure isn't politically useful, it won't just be buried, but a campaign to slander and treat it as the enemy will ensue to make sure the disease stays as prevalent as possible.

[@Rynewulf]

One of the weirdest things about scurvy? The cure was accidentally found almost as early as people first became aware of scurvy itself, but was forgotten due to lack of understanding. In the late 1400s/early 1500s Portuguese voyages to east Africa and India, it was noted that sailors would get sick after too much time at sea or away from shore. It threatened and even killed off some expeditions, but some were saved by an accidental stop off in modern Tanzania. A stop full of lots of naturally occuring fruit trees. Later leaders noticed the convenient location and food so made it a regular stop off point, but as bases in India got set up and better tech and familiarity allowed for more direct sailing to India, they stopped going there and the scurvy returned

[@Linfamy]

Interesting!

[@MelbaOzzie]

Actually, the Vikings knew all about scurvy and its prevention/cure. That's why the Vikings always had barrels of sauerkraut on board every ship. The sauerkraut cure/treatment was also known to the East India company, and its ships were required to stock up on it on every voyage. The British Navy was aware of these facts, but in typical idiocy of intellectuals, found this somehow unacceptable and ignored this knowledge for hundreds of years. Sauerkraut was eventually reintroduced after the lime cure was "discovered" by a British aristocrat; discovery by aristocrats was OK, discovery by Vikings was not. "Science" is littered with this kind of idiocy.

[@artspectrum2421]

@@MelbaOzzie egyptology still suffers from this and a lot of the old science still plagues our understanding of the world. Yeah, i am one if those open minded dudes that think the pyramids were not built egyptians, hence no hieroglyphs, they were literally scared to grafitti on them.

[@MelbaOzzie]

@@artspectrum2421 Actually, the problem is far more profound and widespread than you allude to. "Science", as we know it, has long since become a political activity in support of various political agendas. Whether we talk about "climate change", or "Covid" or numerous other hot button issues, you can be sure that real science is at the bottom of the heap of things considered. Any real science that contradicts the narrative quickly vanishes and is never heard from again. This occurs in all branches of "science". Referring to egyptology, it is clearly obvious that an advanced civilization occurred in the Nile Valley and delta long before the dynastic Egyptians appeared on the scene. Similarly, it is equally obvious that a world wide advanced civilization existed on earth long before the start of the Younger Dryas period around 10,500 years ago. It is also obvious that survivors of this civilization seeded civilization in Mesopotamia, South America and other parts of the world. Without their intervention, humanity would still be no more than hunter gatherers. However, "science" as we know it, has a vested interest in maintaining numerous fictional narratives. You challenge those at your peril. Consequently, it seems trite but it is true, that most of what you think you know is probably wrong.

[@laurenmary9296]

@@MelbaOzzie I like your style, but stop using quotes around words or topics, like: science, coronavirus, or climate change. It makes it sound like those things don't actually exist as facts. Sure, they've all been skewed by big money agendas, but science is still scientific, coronavirus is still a virus, and climate change is still.... well, fuck - real as fuck. Just ask Otzi The Iceman.

[@georgewashington938]

I heard stories of Native American's suffering a similar sickness in the winter time. It is called rabbit starvation which is caused by not having enough fat in their diet. In some areas during the winter, the primary food available was rabbit, which is very lean.

[@tilasole3252]

Thanks for this. Do you know which tribes by any chance? I just got lost in a rabbit hole of research.

[@georgewashington938]

@@tilasole3252 Sorry, I don't know which tribes. I came across this info while reading about raising rabbits. My assumption would be the tribes in the north east and north central US. These are places that have both hard winters and environments that support large populations of rabbits.

[@blackknightjack3850]

No, that's protein poisoning which is quite different. Like you said, the problem was that rabbits were ridiculously lean and therefore were mostly protein with no fat to bond to. That's why survival experts recommend you not eat too much rabbit. It's also why I started looking up the fat content of livestock.

[@georgewashington938]

@@blackknightjack3850 right - I wasn't saying it was the same thing, but a similar in the sense that an imbalanced diet can be a problem is a variety of ways.

[@budld2498]

@@blackknightjack3850 would rabbit starvation possibly be the name of the sickness from before people knew what protein was and rabbit starvation is the same as protein poisoning

[@unclenogbad1509]

Takaki may have been a fan of Western medicine, but around the same time, a Hungarian medic by the name of Szemmelweis was having an equally hard time (and for similar reasons) convincing fellow doctors of the need to do something simple - washing your hands. Especially when going straight from the dissection of cadavers in the mortuary, to the labour ward. You'd have thought someone would have twigged this sooner, but...

[@kawaiiskeleton297]

Like many traditions, the long-standing practice of leaving bodily fluids and infectious matter on your hands is a hard one to shake🤷🏻

[@unclenogbad1509]

@@kawaiiskeleton297 Yes. And I wouldn't want to shake those hands, either.

[@saberwarthog]

About Scurvy, there is another type of food than lemons / agrums that was used in many western navies to make sure no sailors were sick : Sauerkraurt ! It's full packed of vitamin C, and it could be stocked much easily in barrels and kept for a longer time on the boats than lemons.

[@muhammadnursyahmi9440]

Hmm, now i wonder about the invention of Kimchi too. Perhaps ancient Korean knew about relationship of not having vegetable (vitamin C sources) and scurvy occurances?

[@CAMSLAYER13]

@Muhammad Nursyahmi it was likely coincidental, it just happens to last a long time and thus makes good travel food

[@sarahgray430]

The one drawback of saurkraut is that it also causes severe flatulence, which is highly flammable.

[@dimasakbar7668]

Chili contains plenty of vitamin c, but for some reason, chili sauce had only low amount of vitamin c. I guess having some condiments can also go a long way for people of yesteryears

[@lamehick7511]

@@dimasakbar7668 The thing with vitamin C is that it is extremely volatile. It is easily destroyed by heating it up. So only uncooked and fermented foods can contain actually worthwhile amounts of it.

[@The_Practical_Daydreamer]

Christiaan Eijkman was a dutch doctor who was sent to study beriberi in the East Indies. The chickens in the army camp he worked at had developed symptoms similar to the soldiers. It was the camps practice to feed them left over rice ment for the soldiers. A new cook came and refused to waste good food on sick birds. Another source of feed was procured, and they started recovering. Eijkman changed the soldiers diet to match, and they recovered. Later on, this lead to the discovery of vitamins. Cool, huh?

[@chronicandironic8701]

Here’s a thing for scurvy: If you out at sea You finna need vitamin C

[@LadyCoyKoi]

People would be surprised that scurvy still exists to this day. Though that disease/disorder is shown mainly in obese people who avoid eating citrus fruits.

[@theautisticartist9370]

This is why I’m glad my mother buys tons of oranges all the time. Scurvy does not sound fun, and I don’t think a child would survive.

[@davidbryden7904]

@@LadyCoyKoi so , rich white men ? Lol

[@robertyoung5785]

The British navy actually ended up using limes because the have a longer shelf life. They got the nickname of "limees" (sp).

[@jameskellar3026]

Was looking for this post. Pretty sure they ended up issuing lime juice daily

[@ieuanhunt552]

That is also why rum cocktails often have lime in it. Because they put it in the navy rum rations.

[@SlavicCelery]

@@ieuanhunt552 Similarly, mixing gin with tonic and lime = scurvy/malaria treatment

[@MrAranton]

I thought they switched to limes because they didn't want to keep importing lemons from the continent and limes were a citrus found in their colonies. In fact: When they switched they didn't realize limes contain significantly less vitamin C than lemons and ran into scurvy issues again...

[@JTA1961]

same thing with kraut's... but that's not "Germaine" to this topic 😂

[@turtlepenguinXkizuna]

I foolishly let my guard down and “they were barley in time” gave me a coughing fit. DAMN YOU!! 😂

[@Linfamy]

snuck it in there at the end XD

[@bombintheseeinq]

@@Linfamy haha

[@vakvanya1]

"The Edo disease was made up by Takaki to sell more Barley!" - the japanese military, probably, at some point (maybe not). Also Kanto Region

[@UnintentionalSubmarine]

The Edo Disease is made up by Big Barley!

[@lordpowell3788]

Lols big barley i like how there's an evil big anything big oil, big tech, big electric, big soda, big water, big apples. Haha xmass is propped up by a conspiracy between big trees and big lights.

[@Mephitinae]

@@lordpowell3788 Big Trees is paying MrBeast to plant trees, so they can sell more Xmas trees. Big Soda is sponsoring the Olympics, so people will think that soda is a part of a healthy lifesty... no wait, they actually do that :(

[@lordpowell3788]

@@Mephitinae Are you implying that there's something wrong with that and that because they do it it must be a conspiracy is that action the definition of a conspiracy. Toilet paper companies plant 2 trees for everyone harvested for toilet paper to ensure that they can continue selling product in the future is that a conspiracy where do you draw the line is a plan that's not known by the general public a conspiracy. There's literally nothing wrong with what you just said. If the regular persons too ignorant to recognize patterns in their life that's their problem

[@danaroth598]

Around this same time, Americans in the South were grappling with pellagra, another B vitamin deficiency disease. (Essentially: if you want to use corn/maize as a staple food, you need to treat it with lime or something similar, because the niacin (B3) in corn isn’t nutritionally available otherwise. Native peoples in the Americas did this, but when Europeans adopted it and started exporting it all around the world, they didn’t understand why that was important.) There was a pretty similar pushback once a researcher figured out why so many people who had corn-based diets kept getting sick. Researchers figured out vitamins were a thing shortly after germ theory became widely accepted, and at the time there was a widespread tendency to believe every disease was infectious. Plus it says a lot of uncomfortable things about a society when their poor keep getting sick because they can’t afford variety in their diet....

[@Linfamy]

Interesting!

[@danaroth598]

LagiNaLangAko23 Cassava is mostly dangerous if you’re already malnourished and you aren’t cooking it thoroughly. That’s true of a lot of food. There’s trace cyanide in sweet almonds, broccoli can interfere with the absorption of iodine, tea can interfere with the absorption of calcium, etc. etc. Almonds, broccoli, and tea are still healthy despite that. Just, you know, try to eat as varied a diet as circumstances allow and things will tend to balance out.

[@absalomdraconis]

Sadly, figuring out the corn-based diet was causing pellagra didn't get rid of it, the economic collapse of the agricultural system of the time (I believe it was because cotton was leeching soil fertility faster than it got restored) did.

[@WildBillCox13]

Thanks for weighing in, Dana.

[@neoqwerty]

@@danaroth598 Only tangentially related to diets, but another tricky one: milk isn't good for calcium, because you burn calcium to absorb proteins and milk has more protein than calcium. So the "drink your milk" thing is bs for calcium, it'll make you deficient in that instead.

[@JasperJanssen]

“Takako later revealed that he would have committed ritual suicide if the experiment had failed”. Well, duh. That is what “he promised the emperor” means. He staked not just his career but his life on being right. Otherwise it would have been an assurance, not a promise.

[@gateauxq4604]

Fortunately he was a smart man and wasn’t just right but SUPER RIGHT. Any scientist would die to get almost 100% cconfirmed test results and lowered the mortality rate to 0

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

White rice? Of all things, white rice? I eat a decent amount of white rice in a month and I've never even heard of this. I'm learning so much from this channel.

[@Vivi-lm7wd]

Me too!

[@kikyamart8749]

It's not the rice it's the lack of nutrition.... That's why vegans slowly starve to death and have alot of the same issues as these soliders

[@sennaka]

White rice produced now is fortified with the missing vitamins (thiamine) that caused the problem. Along with whatever you eat.... So you're fine.

[@andreirafaelalias7438]

Dude, Im asian. We eat white rice in all three meals in a day. And I didn't know about this. Wth

[@vincentlee7359]

Well. The White rice back then was processed to get the fluffy soft rice. However, it lacked nutrients, specifically B12. Imagine ONLY eating rice alone. Today depending on the brand of rice will have the rice fortified with nutrients.

[@rosswebster7877]

Kanto Region. Thanks again for another great little known story from Japanese history! Reminds me of a similar story in Vienna around the same time where there was a hospital that had a maternity ward with high infant/mother mortality rates. One doctor suggested that the staff practice hand washing after every delivery. For this suggestion the doctor was fired from the hospital. He would go on to start his own clinic which had record successful deliveries, while the older hospital continued to have high fatalities for several decades.

[@Linfamy]

I love stories like that! =D

[@jonathantan2469]

Unfortunately that Viennese physician Dr. Semmelweiss ended up in a lunatic asylum, after his former coworkers conspired to have him declared mentally unstable.

[@hananokuni2580]

I think his name was Ignaz Semmelweis. He is famous for his germ theory and his recommendation to maternity ward workers to wash their hands frequently to prevent the transmission of the pathogens responsible for the death of many a woman giving birth at maternity wards. Unfortunately he died in an insane asylum from gangrene of a wound received during an altercation there.

[@ABCantonese]

BeriBeri is a disease that would've been cured with some Peri Peri, though I don't associate Japanese food with spice... That would've cured the Edo sickness, named after the biggest city of the region that it is located in, the city that would become the future capital of Tokyo, that region being where Taira no Masakado once created his mini-state: Kanto

[@Linfamy]

Oh look at you connecting the video topic to the quiz answer ;)

[@ABCantonese]

@@Linfamy Why yes, of course! And gong hey fat choi, are you going to do a video on Japanese new year?

[@Linfamy]

@@ABCantonese that'd be a good idea... if I had any planning skills 😅

[@ABCantonese]

@Random username Don't know and didn't matter since they didn't exist in Japan.

[@ABCantonese]

@Joakim von Anka Wait... WHAT?! Wow, they really were poor, or cheap... Won't even buy soy sauce... Come on, soy sauce and rice is like a childhood delicacy. Not to sure they are out at sea. Go fish. These guys had prime sushi real estate! That better be some damn good white rice.

[@ilianceroni]

7:20 well… what a kinky Pikachu we have here!

[@prophetkat]

Like chance the rapper but less deadly 🤣

[@kyleglenn2434]

I remember my mother telling me a slang term for Beri-beri was itai- itsi. It means pain pain, not a pleasant way to go.

[@campkira]

don't had that problem when you are in big family.. all vitamin covered...

[@lyncharles4856]

Smugness still plauges Japan today and even more so in their legal system.

[@storiesmore2451]

? ??

[@gooseintheshell1290]

Many Japanese professionals seem to struggle to entertain new concepts, it's quite frustrating to see firsthand.

[@artspectrum2421]

Yeah the conviction rate there's crazy

[@yoface938]

@@artspectrum2421 it’s because in practice they can jail you without trial indefinitely so they keep you locked up until you submit a admission of guilt.

[@GeraltofRivia22]

@@artspectrum2421 but also a bit misleading. Most cases don't make it to trial.

[@ella_komiya]

Can confirm as someone living in Britain, British food isn’t the best.

[@dubuyajay9964]

"WHERE'S THE LAMB SAUCE!?"

[@lyncharles4856]

Gordon is your only culinary saving grace

[@user-vh7ki7xu7o]

Ella Komiya shut....up

[@ella_komiya]

Phuck Onyou - a Yorkshire pudding with a sausage and gravy. Jellied Eel. Mushy peas. Pickled onions with chips. Cauliflower baked with melted cheese. Boiled vegetables for a roast with just a bit of salted water. To name but a few.

[@user-vh7ki7xu7o]

Ella Komiya we moved to us. Now it’s all cardboard with GMOs and blended chicken pieces and cherry coke

[@CrayvenCarnage]

Heard a similar story that happened in the southern US. Except it was from eating corn that had been processed which removed some of the vital nutrients.

[@emperortbw402]

Quite the opposite in fact, pellagra was caused by a lack of processing. Corn is naturally quite nutritious, but a lot of that nutrition isn't readily digestible, so in mexico and the American gulf south corn was boiled in an alkali which made niacin and other nutrients easier to absorb. In the early 20th century, the gulf south began importing cheap unprocessed cornmeal from the midwest which displaced their own alkali processd hominy thus causing pellagra. This also happened earlier in europen countries which adopted corn as a staple crop, but failed to import the traditional methods of preparation.

[@wetcanoedogs]

@@emperortbw402 Wonder Bread......

[@hpdpco6634]

Niacin deficiency

[@askhowiknow5527]

It’s funny how in the past more nutritious food tended to be lower class

[@htoodoh5770]

Unfortunately not always.

[@traceyrossmann2989]

I know I'm late. This man was a legend! Absolutely legendary to have such a profound impact on so many people. The fact that he pushed fo what he knew was right, and basically staked his life on it. Thank you for teaching me about this awesome human being!

[@WildBillCox13]

The PIkachu recharging picture earns you x100 Interwebs.

[@Linfamy]

😅

[@KyoushaPumpItUp]

and a possible demonetization

[@bombintheseeinq]

@@KyoushaPumpItUp woah...

[@clairemariep.garciano4613]

The power of rice compels you!

[@Pers0n97]

The number of death from that "decease" in the army was insane. Thanks for the knowledge.

[@MrOlgrumpy]

It was actually lime juice used,hence the yanks nickname of "Limeys" for the British

[@Linfamy]

At first it was melon, then they switched to lime ;)

[@Linfamy]

Pika! ChuUuUuUuuuu..

[@zoneminh]

So YoU HaVE ChOsEN DeATH?

[@bearrett_8783]

Pika! ChuUwU

[@Linfamy]

@@bearrett_8783 ...uwuwuwuwu...

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[@dogocatostudios8719]

@@bearrett_8783 uwuwuwuwuwuwuwu

[@samuelkearns3521]

Love this channel it’s so informative and funny

[@Linfamy]

And I love this comment

[@auscountryguy30]

Costed??

[@Linfamy]

@@auscountryguy30 lol oops

[@samuelkearns3521]

@@Linfamy Thank u

[@bombintheseeinq]

no i dont

[@Lilitha11]

This is what happens when you have poor leadership and poor management. All they think about is reducing food cost and making things cheaper but you are most definitely spending far more treating all those injuries than the improved food would cost.

[@psyxypher3881]

"We abuse chibis in the interest of learning." [draws surgical tools] Where do I sign up?

[@Larkinchance]

Good writing! Your pieces are educational, informative, entertaining and at times, very funny...

[@trextraining7116]

Dude, you are awesome! Thank you for being on the planet.

[@CaRaMeLlDaNsEnShOw1]

Annnnnnd this is why I love this channel. I love history and I dont think I would have ever learned this if not for this channel.

[@Linfamy]

Woohoo!

[@williamfavre4239]

Very very instructive video i knew nothing about :D And I would be very curious to dig deeper in medical history ^^: I would love to see one the cases of Goto Shinpei and Noguchi Hideyo :))

[@killeanmcchesney5138]

Good job very informative, keep up the great work bud.

[@internetuser3578]

This was wicked informative. Cool

[@anastasiap6253]

I know about different kinds of rice(like wild, red and forbidden) and I had a discussion about beriberi in Biology class :) Props to the doctor for pushing through and showing the snobs who is boss ;)

[@Nine-Signs]

Pregnancies are often a shock to most Japanese as the first notice that Japanese families get of the near arrival of a child is a large fruit appears.

[@theresawebb8164]

You crack me up!!!! Your sense of humor is so awesome I wish that you would run your own stand-up comedy. Hilarious & informative!

[@THETRIVIALTHINGS]

I learnded something today. Tank you!

[@marvinkitfox3386]

4:21 Stargazy pie... didn't help, it just made the Cooks start dying mysteriously. . . here i had a small...episode, and after righting my chair and wiping the spit off my screen, i had to rewind...

[@Linfamy]

lol YES! And sorry about the mess.

[@molybdomancer195]

As someone with a Cornish mother I must defend star gazey pie. It has an interesting back story and the village of Mousehole celebrates this annually

[@LadyCoyKoi]

Ironically enough... today brown rice is more expensive than white rice. Though the free food centers still hand out bags of brown rice, which I prefer due to the flavor being more intense than the plain white rice. My favorite rice though is Jasmine rice. I just love how it scent spreads through the house. Anyways, rice is my favorite food, so seeing this video and learning more about its involvement in history fascinates me. Thank you so much.

[@roninbushida1180]

Hey great video! I really enjoyed it!

[@Linfamy]

Thank you ;)

[@gordonsmith4884]

Informative and so very funny. Brilliant!

[@nicholashodges201]

Given the number of times this sort of thing has happened, you would think that the medical profession would have learned some humility, and to listen to outsiders. This video has played out on every continent in nearly identical ways. It has also played out w germ theory, several drugs and treatments. Expertise bias is kind of frightening...

[@JTA1961]

Beri~Beri true.

[@aceofswords1725]

Follow "the Science" lol.

[@jonathantan2469]

"If we lock down for just two weeks, we will stop this disease in its tracks"

[@mathiasbartl903]

This sort of stories are basically used to justify whatever quackery.

[@funveeable]

Humans choose not to learn. The reason humans always repeat history is because they either choose not to learn, or actually want it to repeat because they think the people who failed the first time were just bad and that they can do it better.

[@_PM__]

Masakado's mini-state was in the Kanto region. Thanks to this channel, my knowledge of Japanese history is way more than it should be for your average non-Japanese person.

[@Linfamy]

Glad you like the vids =)

[@gabrielpesantes2856]

@Linfamy love your channel

[@Linfamy]

Love your comment ;)

[@LucasDonValeur30]

I luv ur channel bro keep it going

[@chanbaekshipper9513]

12:57 They where "barley"(barely) in time.

[@Linfamy]

😂🤦‍♂️

[@AnxiousFly]

Yeah, I can really relate to that. I tried to tell some friends of mine who are living in the African bush, they could simply dig a hole for their trash, so the animals wouldn't die from eating it anymore. They just refused bc they said that wasn't the way they were doing things.

[@JTA1961]

that sounds like a lot of garbage to me...😂

[@AnxiousFly]

@@JTA1961 na, mostly just plastic bags. Everything organic is fed to the animals and they barely consume a lot of plastic packed things.

[@yahavfruchter2517]

Nice video. Luv ur vids

[@Linfamy]

😁👍

[@justlife7356]

When history gets better with linfamy 🙏🤘

[@divyanshushete5772]

Kanto Region is the answer. I always wanted to know how and when all these deficiency diseases were found and cured. Thanks for Info.

[@macnutz4206]

It is funny how similar ideas appear in different people. I grew up in Alabama, in the south east portion of the States. I am ancient of days. I remember my mother saying, many times that "brown bread is for poor people". Brown or whole wheat bread virtually disappeared from grocery stores in the south until just a few years ago. My mother's ideas about brown bread and poor folks was around for a long time. My mother had gotten the idea in the 1930s. In the sixties, she still held that opinion.

[@Linfamy]

That's interesting! Nowadays, I always eat wheat bread. White bread is so bland.

[@macnutz4206]

@@Linfamy Yes, that has changed. I don't remember the last time I bought a loaf of the white bread. Its not only bland, it melts like paste in your mouth. I cringe to remember the "Wonder Bread" garbage I grew up on.

[@cindybarham1780]

I really enjoy your program

[@Linfamy]

Thank you!

[@honobuyonezawa2054]

​@@Linfamy7:59 so glad 😂😂😂 i enjoyed this

[@billsummy2412]

That was very interesting Thank you very cool :-)

[@historysquad]

When you said "Pikachu" it heard like you're recording an ASMR video

[@Linfamy]

Welp, time to start a second channel

[@alexissey4023]

Linfamy That would be interesting.

[@bombintheseeinq]

YES DO IT

[@dorylavetta423]

9:51 I can't breathe....I can't breathe....!!! 😂😂😂😵💀🤣🤣🤣❤

[@Linfamy]

😅

[@jwhite9923]

I love these videos! So informative, I think masakado "accidentally" conquered Hitachi region.

[@WildBillCox13]

Liked and shared. Was already subscribed.

[@Linfamy]

Woohoo!

[@JankieHands]

I've been asian my whole life and i didnt know rice wasn't white and didn't come in bags with elephants on it

[@AbundantCheez]

I wonder if that has anything to do with School lunches in japan serving Mugi Gohan (Barley Rice) all the time

[@InauguralAgate6]

Masakado created a mini state in the Kanto region- and speaking of the Kanto region that crazy Pikachu was lookin' slicc cuz ur drawing skills have gotten mad gooder ❤️❤️

[@jojor9766]

In America there was a very similar case with pellagra which is a different vitamin B deficiency. Like your story it was a battle between an outcast doctor and the medical establishment.

[@MrCoach1957]

“Costed” really?

[@ghewins]

Linfamy, I would very much appreciate a video that addresses how various traits of Japanese culture cam together to produce a lust for empire that almost destroyed Japan

[@bajogeez]

13:14 He conquered shimotsuke and kozuke and claimed him self emperor or something like that, it’s also worth mentioning that he used to have control over the kanto region

[@shaeperritt6994]

Apple crumble and custard is amazing thank you.

[@viiiderekae]

Haha i grew rice as a house plant X3 I found some whole rice grains after some prayers in the temple. brought some home. I found an old ice cream container and filled it with dirt and water and planted the seeds. They grew and i replanted them. After like a few months they produced the grain. And i did it all in my bed room X3 I managed to get 1 harvest from it. But i didnt have the means of processing it.. so it ended up pounding it into flour Xp

[@vielenkaat497]

my stroke riddled grandma can spell better than you

[@viiiderekae]

@@vielenkaat497 try typing on a phone with tiny letters. They are just typos Rude ass.. cannot mind your own business

[@WingMaster562]

Here's a tip in case you get another harvest. You can remove the rice husk without any machine, you just need a wide circular basket, aka 'bilao' here in Philippines. I remember the older folks and farmers here do it. First, they would dry the rice through exposure to air or sunlight, then using a bilao they would thresh the rice over and over then manually pick the husks away as well the unwanted dirt and stones. Some video references for ya: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6LIZoawfd57gNE kzbin.info/www/bejne/rmWYk2CplL6an5o

[@BuildingCenter]

It's official: Linfamy confirms that the Impossible Burger is Soylent Green.

[@Linfamy]

The world needs to know

[@DiscoChixify]

They’re really good hot, but when they get cold they don’t quite taste right

[@thats_a_human_person1478]

Hello! Interesting video

[@Linfamy]

thank you ;)

[@MrGregory777]

I subscribed because of this video 3 years ago

[@notyue3747]

Im asian and i eat rice everyday but when we ate at a japanese restaurant their rice is hella delicious! Idk whats the difference tho but if that rice can kill me well 😏

[@inthefade]

Buy high quality rice, cook it in a pressure rice cooker. Source: I work at a poké bowl restaurant and our rice is superb.

[@joestrummer4106]

There’s generally more rice gluten in Japanese rice than other types

[@OmarSlloum]

answer to the question: In the Kanto plain

[@Chris-ut6eq]

I could barely contain my excitement in learning that one can not live by endosperm alone!

[@Sprecherfuchs]

Barley Baron, what a badass name! And Taira no Masakado had his ministate in the Kanto region

[@Rohit-uy5xv]

I saw this sickness in one piece 😂

[@bearrett_8783]

Military: *Exists* White rice: Imma end this man's whole career.

[@halfbakedblake]

The Pikachu noise you made is now my notifications sound. Thank you.

[@Linfamy]

nooo

[@huanquocmanh416]

You should do a video about japan military inner rivalry

[@user-du8wu1ym7e]

The Army suffered a lot of leg damage because Ogai Mori criticized the Navy's theory of rice food. Beriberi, it was known as Edo disease. It is a disease that does not occur in rural areas. If you eat brown rice, you won't suffer from Beriberi

[@eri7-11]

if i eat brown rice i can't poop! Even I drink lots of water, even a small amount of brown rice! Poop you brown rice!

[@user-du8wu1ym7e]

@@eri7-11 It's just that you don't eat high-fiber foods. It's too obvious

[@magnvss]

Never underestimate the stubbornness of the Japanese, even today. Thing are "like they have always been" (even if this is untrue) unless a huge event or a huge pressure subjects them to change. Even their writing system is a sign of this.

[@muhammadnursyahmi9440]

You weren't wrong there. There's still Japanese companies that adamant that you fax documents to them, even though the prevalence of PDFs thesedays.

[@EvilGrin]

"Happy as Pikachu in a battery factory" really made my day...

[@unknownz1238]

Imagine you study your whole life on stopping a disease and you find a cure and then you are to be told that you're "not legit enough" for you be taken seriously because you didn't work at this one place.

[@Linfamy]

I'd be so mad that I'd save the entire military

[@thedoruk6324]

Infected food items are the *best* way to destruct entire communities ! 💀

[@Linfamy]

Speaking from experience?

[@ADeeSHUPA]

The DORUK hmm

[@nomblob5592]

Linfamy China atm. They eat bats which is one of the most common vector for disease thus... Corona aka C-virus as the RE community called it

[@thedoruk6324]

@@Linfamy Corona virus from literal infected bat flesh: allow me to introduce myself(!)

[@Linfamy]

Arrrr!

[@FarayukiDiro]

Finally I get to finish listening to the whole vid and not falling asleep. Not your fault tho Lin, I tried listening to this before sleeping

[@Linfamy]

XD

[@DamonNomad82]

When I first heard of beriberi, I was a kid in the mid 1990s, and there was a fairly popular cereal called "Berry Berry Kix". I used to joke that beriberi was caused by eating too much of that kind of cereal...

[@patmcnamara9081]

There was also a doctor in Dutch Indonesia that had the same issue by feeding the prisoners at the penal colony he was responsible for they return to health

[@angelkitty11]

Yep, Christiaan Eijkman!

[@rumpelpumpel7687]

and while the prisoners got sick from malnutrition, the chickens that were roaming the prison yard did not show signs of it, because they got fed the left-overs from the rice whitening process/or just brown rice along with other left-overs from the kitchen. So he compared the chickens diet to the prisoners diet and eventually cured the prisoners so they could life a long healthy life behind bars xD (at least thats what we were taught in 7th grade)

[@duchi882]

White rice is a staple food for Asians I can't imagine what else I'd be eating if not Rice

[@Linfamy]

Do you eat rice by itself? :p

[@duchi882]

@@Linfamy, no but a food isn't usually considered complete without the rice. :)

[@GhostOfBr]

@@duchi882 if you consume some protein to go with rice it's alright. Rice is not the problem. It is the lack of variation.

[@idraote]

As was bread for Europeans. White bread, because brown bread is for the poor (people used to think). Only, brown bread is rich in nutrients while white bread makes you fat. I eat brown rice and it is delicious. If Asian governments wanted they could encourage the use of brown rice.

[@dithiasofyan6648]

Just eat cassava, sweet potato, taro, or corn

[@theautisticartist9370]

TIL brown rice not only tastes better than white rice, it’s also more nutritious.

[@fadlya.rahman4113]

This fact also explain the high mortality rate of Allied prisoners in Japanese POW camp. The prisoners were given exclusively rice diet. The Japanese guards also receive only rice. But the guards cultivated a small vegetable plot to add to their rice diet. Also, a major source of atrocities of Japanese Soldiers against the native Pacific Islanders was a dispute over a farming land.

[@azazzelx]

Well, since they're ganged up in a metal floating object, their are other ways o get some 'milky protein shake' 😏

[@thedorku9500]

For some reason, I thought your profile pic looked like a mugshot

[@Linfamy]

Someday, probably :p

[@thedorku9500]

@@Linfamy I'll bail you out if it happens

[@Linfamy]

@@thedorku9500 deal!

[@guygirard4274]

I love your humor . A

[@creanetor]

I've been eating white rice (including other kinds of rice), and I didn't know it would be a problem if not for the varied meals I had.

[@eri7-11]

C its happening on a whole new level today, so many in the world eat a lot of carbs and sweets these days, can deplete B vitamins too.