Canned food hides people's wisdom-don't worry about food, everything that flies in the sky, runs on the ground, swims in the sea and grows on trees can be processed into cans; You can also enjoy it at any time, especially on the land of China. When a variety of ingredients meet fresh cans, the delicacy will be shielded, and people can enjoy the delicacy on the tip of their tongue anytime and anywhere.
In a special period, canned food is the first choice for people to hoard goods. Source: vision china.
This kind of food that spans time and space has become a delicacy on people's table in a special period.
Recently, some netizens in Guangzhou exposed the materials they received in the closed control zone, and the canned lobster sauce and herring received attention and discussion. "I especially want to eat canned lobster sauce and herring from time to time." The onlookers in Guangzhou couldn't help but discuss it.
Netizens in the northeast are not convinced. "In our place, canned yellow peaches can cure all diseases. You can eat it when you have a cold. You will get over your cold after eating the canned food. This is estimated to have cured countless children in Northeast China. "
On social platforms, netizens have been evaluating canned food and sharing where canned food tastes best.
China is the largest canned food producer in the world. According to the survey data of Tianyan, there are more than 48,000 canned-related enterprises in China (the name or business scope includes "canned food", and the status is in camp, surviving, moving in and moving out). In terms of regional distribution, Guangdong Province has the largest number of canned-related enterprises, exceeding 1.5 million; Followed by Hunan Province and Shandong Province, there are more than 3,000 related enterprises.
One side of the soil and water support one side. China's food culture is extensive and profound, and each region has its own unique food taste. Different cans represent taste bud memories in different places.
Then, the question comes: where is the most popular canned food? Time Weekly reporters selected 19 kinds of the most popular canned food in three regions: North China, South China and East China. According to statistics, the monthly sales volume of online stores is close to 20,000 cans, among which there are three kinds of cans with the highest sales volume in various regions-canned lobster sauce in Guangdong, canned military products in Hebei and canned lunch in Shanghai.
South China: side dishes with flowing water, fried lobster sauce and shad.
Guangdong is one of the origins of canned food in China.
/kloc-In the late 20th century, the Pearl River Delta rose as "Lower South Asia". People are far away from home to work and start businesses. Considering that they will miss the taste of their hometown when they go out, their families want them to take away the shad rich in their hometown.
In order to preserve the taste of fresh fish, the best way is to fry the shad until golden brown, and then soak it in a crock filled with lobster sauce, which can keep it from spoiling for a long time. They can put this hometown flavor in their luggage and taste it in the distance.
Homesickness of wanderers has become a business opportunity. According to the Records of Guangzhou, Guangzhou Xiang Canning Factory was established in 1893, and the first canned lobster sauce and herring was born.
Later, Xiangji changed its name and became a Guangdong cannery in 1958, producing canned lobster sauce and herring. The trademark "Eagle Money" registered by the factory in Hong Kong has also become a childhood delicacy that Cantonese people never forget, and "Eagle Money for a hundred years, creating lobster sauce and herring" is a much-told story.
Douchi and shad are both Guangdong specialties. When they collide and blend, the authentic Cantonese flavor is born. This can also be used as a reward for vagrants after their hard work outside, relying on this can of lobster sauce and shad to comfort their fatigue and homesickness.
Nowadays, lobster sauce herring has become a household necessity for many Cantonese people. "Every summer, when I don't feel greasy food, I will cook some rice porridge with a box of canned lobster sauce and squid, which will greatly improve my appetite." Ying Zhou, a Cantonese, told the Times Weekly reporter.
Open the thin box cover, which is covered with the oil juice of lobster sauce. It is a shad with the flavor of lobster sauce. Fried fish bones don't need to be boned, but the more you chew, the better it tastes.
Fish has no fishy smell, but the layers of meat taste are richer. It tastes crisp, tender and tough, and every bite is full of lobster sauce, which is even more delicious than the freshly fried lobster sauce shad.
Put a bite of lobster sauce in your mouth and feel the process of chewing and melting lobster sauce between your teeth. The fresh flavor of fish and the sauce flavor of lobster sauce are intertwined, which is enough to make people say absolutely.
Douchi and shad are both Guangdong specialties. Source: vision china.
Mr. Cai Lan, a gourmet, once said, "It's freezing cold. When you are hungry, there is absolutely nothing more wonderful and satisfying than a bowl of hot white rice with a piece of lobster sauce and shad. "
On the Cantonese menu, canned shad with black bean sauce can not only be served with rice porridge and white rice, but also become a top-grade dish on the table with a little processing.
The most common way is to dilute the oil in the canned oil lettuce with douchi and shad. The sauce flavor of douchi can cover up the faint bitterness of oil lettuce. The entrance is refreshing but not monotonous, and the taste is rich but not greasy.
In Guangdong, almost every Cantonese restaurant has a fried wheat herring with lobster sauce. Just like the farmers stir-frying meat in Hunan cuisine, whether this dish is full of wok gas can reflect the level of the chef in this restaurant to some extent. After all, this is a unique memory of the local people.
"Half a can of black beans and shad fried wheat vegetables. When I was a child, my grandparents used to cook for me, and they also picked up all the shad for me to eat. " This smell is also the smell of Ying Zhou's childhood.
East China:
There are happy events at home, and there must be lunch meat.
In the memory of people in the Yangtze River Delta, canned lunch meat is essential.
Canned luncheon meat was originally imported. 1937 was born in the United States, and was originally positioned as military food. After World War II, a little richer families in Shanghai often asked people to buy canned lunch meat left by the army.
As a result, this kind of canned food named "meat" has become popular in Shanghai because of its Q-bomb taste and unique flavor.
From 65438 to 0957, Shanghai Meilin Canning Factory invited Slovak experts to produce the first batch of canned lunch meat in China. Because of the high price, not many families could afford it at first.
Actor Chen Chong once wrote in Weibo that he was still 18 years old in 1979. When he made the film Little Flower, he envied the actors in the same crew having canned lunch meat. "Maybe I must be very happy to have lunch meat on my eighteenth birthday."
In Shanghai in the 1980s and 1990s, there were happy events at home, and a well-cut lunch meat became an essential dish.
At that time, it was almost the same etiquette to entertain guests with a plate of lunch meat as it is now to serve hard dishes such as chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep.
With the deepening of reform and opening up and the rapid development of economy, canned lunch meat has entered more ordinary people's homes.
In a family, it seems to be the father's privilege to open the canned lunch meat. Because the old packaging needs to open the lid with a small key at the bottom to buckle the whole lunch meat, the whole process needs strength. When my father opened the package, a unique smell of meat came to my nose, which made people swallow saliva unconsciously.
Lunch meat is often paired with eggs. Source: Weibo screenshot
How to prepare lunch meat has become my mother's next task. Beat an egg, soak the lunch meat slices in the egg liquid, then pick them up and put them in the pot, and fry them until they are slightly golden on both sides.
The last step is to pour in hot soy sauce or ketchup. Lunch meat soaked in egg liquid has crispy skin, tender and smooth inside and richer taste. The taste of eggs and lunch meat blends together, fragrant but not greasy.
In the era of abundant materials, the Yangtze River Delta canned more local delicacies, whether it was braised pork ribs, braised pork with plum vegetables, braised bamboo shoots in oil, baked bran with Sixi, ribs lotus root soup and so on. People can easily cook a home-cooked dish by taking out a few cans at will and heating them a little.
North China:
Canned hard-core meat, the king of energy
When the canned map goes north, we have to mention the canned braised pork that fascinates North Chinese.
In the TV series "Spring Breeze in Ten Miles Is Not as Good as You", Zhou Dongyu, an actor in military uniform, feasted on a can of braised pork for the camera and tempted the audience while eating: "If you don't eat, it's not that I won't give it to you." After the TV series was broadcast, this can was searched wildly by netizens.
Canned braised pork was formerly a canned military product specially designed for the army.
From the packaging of cans, we can see the military characteristics-military green and black are the main colors; The original packaging is sealed, without a pull ring, full of military flavor; The most telling thing is that a can of meat is full. For military materials, meat is an important energy source and the foundation of physical strength.
As a result, all kinds of energy-rich meat foods were packed into military cans, such as beef, lunch meat, braised pork, hooves and so on. Combined with the practice of braising in soy sauce, energy food is formed, which satisfies the luxury of eating meat in the north.
Fat and thin braised pork and hooves, large pieces of solid beef, mellow lion head ... every time you open a can, you will sigh that there is too much meat. When the meat eater saw this can, he probably couldn't walk any further, so he couldn't wait to send it to his mouth when he opened the lid. White meat soaked in oil, a bite, soft meat, full of satisfaction.
Netizens pour canned braised beef and potatoes into a small pot for cooking. "It smells good!" Source: Weibo screenshot
If you are a little patient, you will choose a bowl of hot rice, put canned food with juice and meat on it, crush the meat and stir it evenly with the rice. Oil juice wraps every grain of rice, which can be called a meal artifact.
What's more, canned meat is the main ingredient, with chopped green onion, potatoes, eggplant, noodles, etc. Stir-fry, and wait for the smell of gravy to penetrate into the dish for five minutes, and a sumptuous dish is finished.
People who are baptized by the culture of "food first, not from time to time" think of canned food that has been dusty for a long time in a special period. But it is these cans that have become the most gratifying food in a special period.
Of course, in a special period, merchants consider more comprehensively than you: some canned merchants put on shelves various military foods such as individual self-heating food, individual ready-to-eat food, normal-temperature collective food, and compressed dry food. Among them, the emergency survival food set claims to meet the life energy needed by a family of three 15 days.