I still remember when I came home from school in primary school, I always liked to buy sausages outside the school gate. A small oven, with a striking red shell, inside which a heated tube rotates, drives the sausage to rotate on it.

A burst of meat fragrance and a drop of glittering oil light, with several big characters "Taiwan Province Hot Dog" pasted on it, attract every parent who leads their children to buy one for their children as a snack after school.

Strolling in the street, I believe everyone is familiar with the hot dog sausage in the small newsstand, the school gate and the pedestrian street. I will eat one or two more or less. A sausage, two dollars, crisp outside and tender inside, when waiting for the bus or passing by, I will definitely buy one to cure my stomach.

Extremely affordable

Although everyone has different tastes, the north, the south, the west and the east have their own favorite foods. But for sausage, from primary school students, to young people who have just stepped into work, to middle-aged greasy uncles, it has a very high acceptance. The national snacks of a generation are almost everyone's memories.

From the "Taiwan Province hot dog" when I was a child to the "Volcanic Rock Sausage" today, this two-dollar barbecue sausage has always occupied a corner of the cooked food.

This is definitely related to the price that is close to the people. Even at the peak of pork price-24 yuan a catty of pork in 216, when the barbecued pork bag of the vendor's aunt rose to 3 yuan each, the sausage can still maintain a close to the people price of 2 yuan.

However, while enjoying the delicious sausage, have you ever considered: What kind of meat is this two-dollar pink one?

What kind of meat is in this 2-yuan sausage?

According to some people in the industry, a more formal manufacturer may use chicken, etc. Generally, the main ingredients are mouse meat and cat meat (what? With cat meat? Cats are so cute, why eat cats! ), chicken breasts, chicken skin, duck skin, and a filler to reduce costs-starch;

Other manufacturers may use fox meat, mink meat and so on. Because these meats come from farms, most farms only need fur, and meat is cheaper. I'm not calm when I hear this, mink is not so expensive! You can't afford mink, but you can eat mink meat.

some friends will ask, mink meat, fox meat and so on, why does it still smell like pork? There are still many differences between these meats and pork, right? Why can't you eat them? In fact, these sausages are all added with pork essence, and it is basically impossible for people to distinguish between smell and taste. No matter what kind of meat, adding a little of this will smell like pork ~

Think about it, if you don't stew or roast meat at home without spices and seasonings, you basically won't smell a lot of meat. The aroma of street sausages is particularly strong because of the addition of flavors and spices.

In addition to the essence, a large amount of preservatives will be added to the sausage, because artificial meat products need preservatives to prevent Clostridium botulinum from producing botulinum toxin and prolong the shelf life of meat products.

some merchants also add nitrite to make meat products more tasty. Generally speaking, if nitrite is added according to national standards, it will not cause harm to human body. However, there are some small workshops in the market that are overused, which is dangerous.

Moreover, the small sausage roasters of street vendors have been on for a long time, and the nutrients in the meat have been destroyed by long-term heating.

Although it is so unbearable, people in China love it.

Although it has been reported many times in the news, some "black-hearted" manufacturers try to reduce costs and earn more. For example, fox meat is included in the raw materials, and a lot of additives are added. It was also included in the blacklist of "junk food" by mom and dad.

However, in the face of hunger, fragrant spices and hot temperature, the bite is crunchy, and such national delicacies are powerless for both young and middle-aged people.

How much do people in China love sausages? According to the China Food News ten years ago, the market size of sausages is estimated to be over 16 billion, and the annual sales volume is 1.8 billion, which is enough to go down in history.

At the beginning of the 21st century, the monthly demand for sausage raw materials in mainland China is nearly 1, tons, which is 5 times that of Taiwan Province. Luo Rongmao, a Taiwan Province food expert at that time, lamented: "The development track of Taiwan Province sausage in the mainland is simply a miracle."

But compared with the huge sales, the quality of sausage is not flattering. Because for most people, snacks are generally used to overcome mouth addiction, and taste, cheapness and convenience are the most important. Therefore, low cost and low price mean low threshold.

After lowering the price and quality, most of the cheap "Taiwan Province hot dogs" on the market now are hardly genuine pork.

Because, an obvious gap is that all the friends who have been to Taiwan Province know that the price of sausages sold on the street in Taiwan Province will be around 2 yuan.

The authentic Taiwan Province sausage is made by pouring pork into the casing and grilling it with an open fire. But now we can see that the "Taiwan Province sausage" in the oven machine has added a lot of artificial meat and starch. Except that the casing is chewy, the meat inside has no meat flavor except the "delicious" additives.

According to a news report, a food producer in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province said, "The ingredients for sausage are too messy." When they check the sausage, they will spit it out after two bites, and even gargle.

Even in 216, after eating three sausages, Xiao Cheng, a 15-year-old from Hubei Province, suddenly vomited and suffered from abdominal pain in the middle of the night, and he was put into a coma with a high fever, and was rushed to the ICU for emergency treatment. Small liver and kidney organs were seriously damaged, which was diagnosed as sepsis and septic shock by doctors.

and the origin of the disease is eating spoiled sausage. Botox, Escherichia coli, etc. contained in sausage can easily lead to infection if people overeat.

The sausage is so bad that it will eventually be out of history

However, in fact, in the era when the average price of milk tea has moved towards high-end consumption in 2 yuan, the sausage of two yuan, even if it keeps cutting costs and using inferior raw materials, is doomed to be out of history.

Because after 8/9, the main force eating this food has grown up and their health awareness has increased, we will find that there are always three or four sausages in the sausage roaster in the street store, and no one has ever bought them. The status of sausage is gradually replaced by Guandong cooking and chicken chops.