Eating and drinking games

...In the dark, with the lights turned off, each person would throw the ingredients they brought into a large pot of boiling soup, then, groping around in the dark, scoop up the ingredients and eat them. This was a popular game among students in the Meiji and Taisho periods, and Masaoka Shiki often enjoyed this event at the publishing house of his haiku magazine Hototogisu.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "eating and drinking games" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…灯火を消した暗やみの中で，めいめいが持ちよった一品ずつの材料を大なべに煮立てた汁の中に投じ，ころあいをはかって暗中模索してすくい上げて食べるという飲食遊戯。明治･大正期の書生たちが盛んに行ったもので，正岡子規も俳誌《ホトトギス》の発行所などでしばしばこの催しを楽しんでいる。…

※「飲食遊戯」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

出典｜株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第２版について | 情報