Similarly, he demonstrated groundlessness of a popular superstition at that time that certain combinations of foods like "eel and pickled plums" and "tenpura (Japanese deep-fried dish) and watermelon" would kill you, by collecting people and actually ate those combinations in front of them. |
同様の主旨で、当時の人が食べ合わせ(「うなぎと梅干」、「てんぷらと西瓜」など)を食べると死ぬと信じていた迷信に対して、自ら人を集めて食べて無害なことを実証したことがある。 |