Grilled Eel

2007.01.06 0:30

Grilled eel is a very hot dish, but people always eat it at midsummer. They eat it to prevent from accumulating summer fatigue. People don't eat it in winter, as if they forgot the dish is hot. For many years people usually had eatn it in winter because it is a very hot dish, naturally.
One day one eel trader complained about it and asked Hiraga Gennai(Japan's invention king 1729-1779), 'Eel can't sell in summer at all, could you tell me how to sell it in summer?' When Gennai started telling that the grilled eel is effective to prevent summer fatigue to the general public, people believed and enthusiastically started eating grilled eels. Now almost all people have the grilled eel in one particular day which correspond to the midsummer day.
But instead people stopped eating grilled eels in winter. Gennai did his job. He successfully replaced eel's consumption from winter to summer.
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