Chapter 13: Im the Only One in a Different Genre (2)
The act of consuming monsters was a new concept, only incorporated into human culture 300 years ago.
Monsters are usually grotesque creatures, with hideous forms, and most times their flesh exudes a pungent stench.
Before new culinary techniques were invented, monster meat was usually processed into compost to feed livestock, or it was simply treated as garbage.
But all changed 300 years ago.
A great famine struck the continent, entire villages starved while the nobles only sought their survival. Faced with such a dire situation, a starving person might even resort to eating dirt.
That was the turning point.
For the sake of survival.
Many brought monster carcasses onto the chopping block.
For the sake of survival, they endured the disgust, tolerated the stench, and tried numerous forms of cooking monster meat.
At the end of those dark days, monster meat became a valuable source of food.
Of course, for most nobles who had never experienced the famine, it remained a vile and unpleasant food source, consumed only by the poor or desperate.