Isekai Shokudou Episode 8 Discussion

4kicks said:
As for the price of the box of cookies, I don't think Shia was wrong in her estimate for the price of that tin. For the same thing to be made on the other side, they would have needed a skilled craftsman/painter and advanced metallurgy and metal crafting techniques to produce the tin by hand with that level of precision which can be seen at a glance. Diving deeper; the box itself would have likely been made of aluminum, which at one point cost more than gold because of how difficult it used to be to make in the past, where even Napoleon III would have aluminum cutlery to show off how rich they were. Aside from the metal box, the cookies would have been made with plenty of sugar, something also very expensive in the past where only the wealthy could afford. If the other world follows the template of medieval to Renaissance fantasy, then the points above would have likely put it right up there with other expensive luxury goods. I'm guessing it only cost 1-2 silver coins because the other world's currency is likely made of higher precious metal content than the cheap substitutes+virtual bank promises that we rely on nowadays. That--and because aluminum and other cookie ingredients would have been cheap on this side, being only expensive to us because of the hand-made by pro bakers/patisserie + limited batch factors.