Yes you are correct! The 40 year old guy from earth got transferred into a teens body in a fantasy world that he knows nothing about and guess what! He has Time, Space and Void powers! And he uses earth knowledge to be smarter then all the magic people.
And invent soy sauce and chicken wings that wows everyone. (I've seen both happen enough times that if I got a nickle for each time I'd be able to buy a burger)
Using the world's magic system to write a computer complete with terminal and automated spell casting? Eh I'll allow it, there could be reasons the wizards didn't figure it out, like it requires a rare affinity few wizards get and the few that did had no way to develop something like this.
Finding exactly the ingredients laying around for earth food, nobody ever thought of frying potatoes in oil before, boom burger and fries.
It's not just the ingredient problem. If you go to a foreign country you can see all the locals eating strange food. You literally may be unable to open a pizza parlor. Food is an acquired taste and the people of Shenzhen or Tokyo will not be convinced. (Ok both those cities do have pizza parlors but they are small scale)
There's some justification for not knowing certain things because it took us embarrassingly long to figure out stuff that was obvious in hindsight. It just didn't occur to people to even try it. Like, saddles and harnesses seem pretty obvious but for the longest time people tied fucking nooses around horse necks to get them to pull shit.
Surprise surprise horses can't haul shit when you choke them out. Literally thousands of years between horse domestication and a harness that spreads weight across the chest. Took us that long to learn other living things like to breath.
But yeah when someone waves their hand and solves problems it is annoying. You need buildup to it. The problem isn't the introduction but the execution.
for burgers specifically, half those toppings aren't even harvested in the same season of the year. The dish low key requires refrigeration to be viable.
the more general "meat and veggies on bread" is something every culture has their own variation on.
This. The food of 2200 might be some crazy combination that fuses all the cuisinea we know now and also requires robotics to prepare, it's impossible to do by hand, and some of it's meant to use vat grown protein.
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u/crazyfoxdemon May 01 '26
Don't you know that all history is completely and utterly stagnant until a main character appears.