Hello everyone, it's time for "Tao Ge Blind Vernacular" again, today to give you the world's stinkiest food, maybe not one of them, that is, canned herring. No one should know about this stuff, right?
If anyone still does not understand, I have a sentence of science popularization: it is very smelly, about 20 times the odor value of stinky tofu, and 60 times the odor value of ordinary stinky socks.
However, such a terrible dark dish, actually sold 900 tons of global sales every year, equivalent to almost 3.6 million cans, is there a problem with the buyer's taste, or is there another reason?
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As early as 700 years ago in the Netherlands, a Dutch fisherman named William Pokerszone discovered that as long as the head, bone and internal organs of herring are removed and then marinated in salt water, the meat of the fish can be preserved for a long time.
This epoch-making invention, in the 14th century, before the advent of refrigeration technology, opened the door to wealth for the Dutch, who no longer worried about the corruption of herring, and went all out to catch herring in large quantities and dump it on exports to neighboring countries.
The prosperity of the port of Rotterdam also originated from the sea freight trade, of which this salted herring was indispensable, in the 14th century, the population of only one million in the Netherlands, up to nearly 200,000 people engaged in herring-related industries.
Nourished by herring, this small country with only tens of thousands of square kilometers, low-lying and sparsely populated, forged a commercial empire through seafaring trade.
This technology quickly spread throughout Europe, and after the gang of goblins clearly realized the value of herring, they said, This is a good thing, I want it!
Therefore, in the history of Europe, the Netherlands, Germany, Britain, Denmark, Sweden and other countries have broken out wars for herring resources or fisheries, although the scale is not large, but it can be seen that Europeans have a special love for herring.
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The way these European foreigners eat herring also has its own characteristics, and before our protagonist, the heavyweight biological and chemical weapon, the canned herring, appeared, herring was actually an acceptable food for humans.
For example, the country of origin, the Netherlands, generally chooses fresh, even if it is salted, it will not be too exaggerated. Herring itself is a fish species with a high fat content and a high fat content, which must be full of meat (refer to the bluefin tuna belly).
Therefore, when the Dutch eat, the tail of the fish is up, the head of the fish is down, directly into the throat, do not chew or chew a small number of times, with the onion directly raw swallowing.
The polite English gentlemen liked to put herring in wheat flour and butter and bake them together into pastries, which, despite their ghostly appearance, were at least cooked compared to the raw swallowing of the Dutch.
Herring pastry of the Englishman
And decent Germans eat herring, it is much more normal, smoked or fried, with some vegetable shreds embellished, a bit of Western food.
Fried herring for the Germans
Denmark, which is rich in fairy tales, is also extremely romantic about herring, they like to mix herring with a variety of vegetables, white vinegar, minced garlic and onion rings, and must be accompanied by a glass of wine, the taste is not to be ignored, at least visually OK.
Herring in danish vinegar sauce
However, from Denmark further northeast to Sweden, the style of painting suddenly changed, obviously only a few hundred kilometers apart, but the herring was made into a taste of common indignation - canned herring.
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In fact, this can not all be blamed on the Swedes, as a country close to the Arctic Circle, there is no sun in the year for several months, and the fish in the summer are put into the winter. Can only be pickled, this pickling is more than half a year, can the taste of the out be good?
Although the taste is strong, but the good villains let the Swedes have food to eat in the cold winter, moreover, the Swedes not only invented the canned herring on the road of dark cuisine, but also jumped out of the three worlds of pickled petrels are also their masterpieces.
Directly sewed about 100 petrels into the stomach of the seal, threw it in the wild, and after a year, the seal belly was cut open and the petrel was directly plucked and eaten raw.
There is no appetite when you look at it
Therefore, in the long history of human development, people always consider living first, and then consider whether it is good or not, just like our Chinese stinky tofu, at the beginning it was not unbearable to waste, the result "Huh? It tastes good."
Today's Swedish people live a rich life and have no need to worry about food and clothing, but this gratitude engraved in their genes during the blood drinking period makes them still have great kindness to the canned herring - it is already that taste, they should eat it.
The world's 900 tons a year, 800 tons are all done by the Swedes, but the Swedish people have not directly opened the lid and eaten, which is no different from using bibimbap. They usually choose to take the canned herring out and spread it on a shortbread, along with the spicy ingredients such as onions, which can be neutralized after all.
Of course, a little more elaborate, will be mixed in the salad, on the top of the basil leaves, pine needles, anyway, the common spices in Western restaurants are sprinkled on top, salad dressing, qi live, but also with a bottle of good vodka, in short, must use extremely choking ingredients to neutralize the smell of canned herring.
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Sweden's demand for canned herring is large, does not mean that they really love this thing, after all, the top note is super stinky fart, the middle note durian pile, the back tone stinky socks mixed with stinky tofu. So for swedes, the symbolic and commemorative significance of consuming canned herring is greater than the desire of the tongue.
This can be seen in their government's ban on canned herring – Sweden's major airlines have banned canned herring from being brought to the cabin. Also, in residential areas, it is forbidden to open canned herring, you can eat it, go to the wild party, no one cares.
Well, today I will nag here, I am Tao Brother, love fishing can talk, like to pay attention to me.