In the aforementioned "Sanseiroku," it also said that 'eating soba is custom of a lower class and while being hard up, I am still Hatamoto (a direct retainer of the shogun) and did not eat soba before but, in recent years, I finally started to eat it,' explaining that even poor Hatamoto did not stoop low enough to eat soba way back then.
前述の『三省録』でも「下賎のものは買ひて食ひしが、小身にても御旗本の面々調へて（＝買って）食ふことなし、近年いつとなく、調へて食う様には成りたり」と記して、かつては生活が苦しい小身旗本でも蕎麦を食べるような事はなかったと記している。