Can y'all see my want/reading/already read section in my homepage? Cause I clicked "hidden" on activity settings but it doesn't hide it. It used to hide it but now it's visible even though I clicked on "hidden".
The beginning was so hilarious only to be fucked up by that fucking sob waste of space
The refined sugar we now know and love, had such a long history. The affordable sugar we have today wasn't so affordable back then, especially in Europe. It was a luxury, a rarity that only the high class can afford.
There are two types of sugar that comes from plants that are largely produced today. The most well known is sugar cane that comes from "the south". They mentioned southerners, and they're probably referring to Asians, specifically in India because that's where the sugar cane was first refined into sugar. The other one being sugar beets. However, for the longest time, sugar cane was the only sugar source in the world.
When sugar was first introduced to Queen Elizabeth I, she instantly loved the sweet taste. Before sugar, the only sweetener they had were honey or barley. So this "sweet salt" or "white gold" as Europeans called it, became a symbol of luxury. It was so rare that only the high class could afford to get it. Sugar became an introduction to capitalism.
They could not cultivate sugar canes in Europe because the plant needed a hot and humid environment to grow, like the environment in india and Brazil. Therefore they could only get sugar by importing from other countries.
Wars were fought because of sugar, someone (I forgot who) wanted to monopolize the sugar importation and tried to block the imports to other countries.
Years and years later, a German Chemist discovered that sugar beets had the same sugar that sugar cane have, sucrose. They tried to extract and refine it to look like the sugar crystals but had no luck. But this was a start. They finally found a sugar plant that their environment can handle. They introduced it to the US and the americans successfully managed create refined sugar from the sugar beets. Which was an amazing discovery.
So, from my understanding, in this manhwa, the reason why the sugar beet plant can cause wars is because of how rare sugar is. By successfully cultivating the plant, they can make sugar not out of sugar canes but from sugar beets. They could make tons and tons of money just by producing sugar!
Alright, that's what I know. You can research more if you are curious. What I have shared might be incomplete or wrong. But the gist is that sugar can make you a lot of money. Money is economy. Economy is political. Capitalism and monopolizing the rights to sugar is very political.
I haven't audibly laughed because of a manhwa for so long. Man that felt great
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They're still kids ffs, stop asking who tf the ML is. I just wanna see the father-daughter relationship again now that the dad is back.
But I can't get over how they all look high because of the shading and color of their eyes
"Why does it feel like I haven't seen you in a while?"
Why does this dialogue feel like Leo's also asking us.
Can you recommend sports manga/manhwa?
I've already read a few famous ones like haikyuu, bluelock, ballroom e youkoso, ao ashi, kuroko no basuke and such. Much appreciated if it's completed! (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
Damn, Ines, you literally took my breath away. I gasp for air at your words. And Carcel is just so damn sweet. I want, I need, but I can't <- my single hopeless romantic ass
I wasn't in the right headspace when reading this. I wasn't planning on emotionally sobbing at 5 am. This was a quick read and the translations aren't the best (it's bearable), the ending also felt rushed imo (but I guess cancer is just like that sometimes, you'll never know when your body will give up).
Please recommend completed manhwa (specifically manhwa) with genres like reincarnation/murim/action/adventure. Little to no romance please. I just really wanna read something completed. Preferably with 9.4 rating and above.
Man, the grip I have on mangago being one of my life lines is honestly concerning but it's keeping me alive. Lmao. The site was down and I was just panicking, thinking of all the mangas/manhwas I've been reading. This isn't the first time I experienced the site being down, and the thought of this not being available is making me feel all kinds of emotions. I don't like reading on other sites except for a few scan group sites. ╥﹏╥
Please please please, if mangago is down, don't put it on social media, don't tweet about it, don't ask why is it down. Let's just hope for the best. Because we might get another time where comments weren't available because of "THAT" issue. Or worse, iykyk. I don't even wanna speak about it. Also, for the Love of all that is holy, stop posting this on t!kt0k. If you're gonna post, remove the translations and don't link this site.
My feelings are the same even after rereading this. I remember desperately looking for volume 2 back then when there was no translated version yet. I found a scan group who translated it but I couldn't find the chapters. And I went to forums after forums only to find out they locked their works and disbanded. I love this so much ╥﹏╥
Has anyone come across a manga/hwa/hua that has a 9.9 rating in this site besides solo leveling? If you know any, can you give me links? I'm curious to see what kind of stories out there with 9.9 ratings, especially if they have a lot of reviews. I've seen a few 9.8 but I've only seen one 9.9