Status Updates From 昨日的美食 5

this official translation has zero desire to provide any sort of translation note ever huh

Blurb: "for mature readers - in the true sense".
Story: skimmed milk wasn't on sale on Thursday as usual.

Checks.

"Beautiful boy like Gilbert".

If ever I doubted whether I'm in any way 'well-read' in (certain type of?) manga, it's cast aside by picking up on references like this. (Whether one'd care for it or not).

Glad they didn't make it obvious to this character however. It'd been a bit stretching of disbelief that an adult career man would have instant familiarity of such genre specific anecdote from a complete stranger.

哇沒幾本時間就跳了三年

Hey, corn and egg soup. My mom made this all the time.

Ah. Looks like what is being referenced as "Song of the Wind and Trees" is generally translated The Poem of Wind and Trees (風と木の詩 Kaze to Ki no Uta).

Kenji tells Shiro about his abusive drunk dad and how he abandoned the family but keeps coming back to extort money from his [useless, imo] mom and how this is causing legal problems.

The he apologizes for even bringing it up because it isn't worth mentioning. Shiro agrees.

Shiro, you really are a terrible boyfriend sometimes. Good thing you can cook.

Tororo = grated Chinese yam.
It is mucilaginous when grated and can be used as a binding agent (for okonomiyaki batter, for instance).

And no, Google, I did NOT mean Totoro.