Noba's red eggplant

Once upon a time, Noba was a lonely village with few people. The coppice forest spread, and people lived by making vegetables mainly in the fields.
The children in the village were always fine, and when the sun finally returned home, they were all black.
"Today, I found a rabbit. "
"At all, I thought I would do it in my scissors, but I got away again."
"He's quick, if you go into the Rabbit Valley, quickly,"
The Rabbit Valley is a valley where the Rabbit is good.
The children also helped the house with plenty. Above all, the younger brother at the end of this house goes out to the field for some reason. Because the bright red eggplant was growing.
When there weren't many foreigners in Japan yet, many foreigners came in from the port of Yokohama and came to live there.
And it was decided to make vegetables that are indispensable for Western cuisine here as well.
While working in the field, his younger brother was fascinated by the rare red eggplant. I can't imagine what it tastes.
Red eggplant turns red day by day from green. But neither my father nor my mother had to eat, just because it was an important crop to buy in Chinatown.

Agricultural area in Noba

Other Western vegetables were also made, but the most wanted to know was the taste of red eggplant.
One day, at last, when I stripped the red eggplant hanging heavily, I gapri ...
"Oh,"
The smell of blue juice overflowed in my mouth. He spited out in a hurry, but it seemed that the smell of the throat and the back of the nose had stuck.
The two older brothers, who were looking secretly at their younger brother, laughing, "I did it."
Did your younger brother be surprised at his first taste? Not only this younger brother, but also the two older brothers, no one who had once bitten it, never tried to eat it again.
It was when most people all over Japan did not know tomatoes yet. The people of Noba village quickly tasted the tomato, which was called "red eggplant".

It is a story recorded in "Old Story of Hometown Konan 50 Episode".
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