Shandong people always eat garlic vigorously, and they just need it.

In Shandong, garlic is cruel to you

There is a saying in the culinary world: "Shandong cuisine costs 1, yuan, while garlic monopolizes Xiao Jiu thousand". Small garlic cloves are eaten by Shandong people in various ways: raw and roasted, fresh garlic is pickled in sweet and sour garlic when it is on the market, and laba garlic is pickled in cold winter.

Although Shandong people love garlic like life, onion, as a symbol of Shandong people, seems to be a representative symbol of Shandong people. Onion is not only a common and basic condiment for Shandong people, but also a basic dish in the diet structure of some Shandong people. A onion in the left hand, a steamed bun in the right hand, and pancakes with green onions are some people's favorites.

Pancakes with scallion dipped in sauce are a kind of food that many Shandong people like to eat.

So when the painter represents the image in the painting area, a Shandong man holding pancakes with scallion becomes the image symbol of Shandong people. However, the reason why Shandong onion can be eaten directly alone is because it is different from other small fire onions. The onion is thick and long, and it is the size of a rolling pin. It is slightly spicy, slightly sweet, crisp and delicious.

In addition to garlic, most Shandong dishes also use onions to enhance flavor and taste. The methods of frying, frying, frying, grilling and roasting all use onions, especially the dishes with strong onion flavor. For example, sea cucumber with onion and tendon with onion are classic Shandong dishes.

Why do you love garlic

This preference for onion and garlic is very regional, which some Shandong people can't understand. Many people in other parts of this country don't touch onion and garlic at all. Although it's just a taste difference, because of the unique aroma of onion and garlic, lovers can't stop, but disgusting people avoid it.

quite a few foreigners regard eating raw onion and garlic as an indecent habit, and even many comments on the Internet ridicule Shandong people for bringing their own biological weapons. They really can't understand, onion and garlic smell smoky, and the smell can't be dispersed for a long time after eating. Why do Shandong people love onion and garlic so much?

China is a big garlic country. Domestic garlic accounts for more than half of the garlic industry, and more than 76% of the garlic in the world is produced in China. The garlic in China mostly comes from Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan and Hebei.

When it comes to garlic, Shandong comes second, but no one dares to say first. Shandong is the largest garlic producing area in China. There are two officially recognized garlic towns, Cangshan and Jinxiang, one in Shandong and the other in Shandong. People in the two places, who are born from the same root, often argue over who can represent garlic better.

jinxiang garlic, for example, registered the garlic trademark "jinxiang garlic" with local characteristics in the Millennium. At the same time, garlic in Jinxiang County of Shandong Province has been exported to more than 16 countries and regions.

Shandong people can be divided into two categories: those who eat garlic and those who eat jinxiang garlic abroad.

Shandong people's habit of eating garlic is related to the local abundance of this kind of food.

Shandong is rich in garlic, especially jinxiang garlic in Jining and Cangshan garlic in Linyi. In terms of quantity, jinxiang garlic alone accounts for one-tenth of the national garlic production, and the juice is delicious, crispy and delicious, which is more valuable for medicine. It is rumored that Hua Tuo, a magical doctor, used it to treat patients with throat obstruction, which can be described as "garlic".

The garlic in Cangshan (now called Lanling County) is also delicious, and there is a solemn and stirring "Song of Garlic Bolting in Heaven". In Mo Yan's pen, the world-famous "white juice garlic bolt" carries the hope of farmers' harvest, while the rotten garlic with "spicy smell" hides a history of love and hate.

and the temperament of the people in the garlic country, just like the garlic grown in this soil, is simple and honest on weekdays, buried underground and silent; Once regarded as "sheep and horses" slaughtered, it rose to the ground and fought against fate, leaving a generous and tragic epic.

In the poor old days, a few steamed buns were eaten with raw garlic after a day's work, which was the way for the old Shandong people to survive. This taste memory is rooted in thick soil and inherited from blood.

In the agricultural society, self-sufficient farmers naturally eat what the fields are rich in. This eating habit has been passed down from generation to generation through the dishes on the family table, forming a relatively stable taste system in the area.

In addition, the eating habits of an area are usually related to the geological climate. Shandong is located in the north temperate zone. Winter is cold and long, and the frost-free period is short. In winter, there are fewer kinds of edible vegetables. With its strong vitality, fecundity and easy storage, green onions and garlic can maintain adequate supply in all seasons.

In addition, the weather in the north is dry, easy to sweat, and there is a lot of electrolyte loss in the body, so people often feel "tasteless and weak", so the dishes are rich and salty. Under the heavy taste diet, it is far more common and acceptable for northerners to eat onions and garlic than southerners.

garlic has been integrated into the blood of Shandong people.

Getting along with each other day and night makes many Shandong people have a special plot about onion and garlic. No matter how many delicacies you eat outside, you will still miss the taste of scallion burritos and noodles with garlic in your hometown, and even be often reminded of homesickness by this pungent fragrance. The relationship between this kind of food culture that likes to eat onions and garlic and Shandong people's personality characteristics is mutual.

There is a saying in China on the Tip of the Tongue: "No matter how far you walk, in people's minds, only the taste of hometown is familiar and stubborn. It is like a taste positioning system, one end is locked in a different place thousands of miles away, and the other end is always tied to the hometown deep in memory. "

this is the home of Shandong people, and it smells like garlic!