In the field, in the ground, and even in the landscape pool of the city, this gray and autumn thing may not attract your attention, thinking that it is just an ordinary field snail. Maybe you'll also think it's a nuisance to kick it away. But the home of this humble gadget is not in china.
Its home is as far away as the tropical and subtropical regions of Central America, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, which are thousands of miles away.
We used to think of it as a high-protein food, so since the 1980s, when it was introduced to China by Brazilian Chinese, it has been quickly artificially introduced to Guangxi, Fujian, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang and other large areas of China.
However, no matter how many foodies we have in China, no matter how inclusive we are about food, not many people can swallow this thing called "Fushou Snail", let alone like it.
This is because the taste of Fushou snail is not bad, the audience in the market is low, so Fushou snail is abandoned by farmers in the wild, farmland, we thought that this "foreign household" just came to China, left the breeding ground, and certainly did not live long outside.
But soon it was discovered that the Fushou snail, which was supposed to die all naturally, did not die, and it flourished in wet places such as farmland and streams.
Crops such as rice, sweet potatoes, vegetables and other crops are the main food sources of Fushou snails, so the harm to crops, especially rice, is extremely serious, and the annual loss to agricultural production on the mainland has reached 300 million US dollars. And with the spread of Fushou snail, the losses caused are still increasing year by year.
Fushou snail is also a carrier of disease and parasites, and studies have shown that there can be as many as 6,000 parasites in a Fushou snail. However, in the countryside, some people are convenient, and the method is improper when cooking Fushou snail, raw or undercooked, which will have serious consequences, because its parasitic lung worms can cause fatal meningitis, and the blood sucking worms carried can cause skin allergies.
But in one country in the world, Fushou snail has become a demon that no longer endangers the environment and everyone shouts and fights, but a "fragrant feast" that everyone holds in the palm of their hands.
This country is "India"! In "clean and hygienic" India, people flock to it as a delicacy. Is it true that Indians have been baptized by the water of the Ganges and are not invaded by poison? Even Fushou snails are not afraid!
Everything has their reasons, because India is a country that believes in Islam, the atmosphere of religious belief is particularly strong, the vast majority of Muslims are vegetarians, their number accounts for more than forty percent of the Indian people, so for cattle, pigs, horses and other large livestock they not only do not eat but also have the custom of worship, such as cattle, Indians can treat it as a god, even when the epidemic is particularly serious, but also ignorant to think that cow urine, cow dung can cure the new crown virus, popular.
That doesn't eat meat, or doesn't eat meat very often. In terms of diet, there are many rules and taboos. So, where does the protein that Indians consume come from?
Due to the huge disparity in India's economic development, the gap between rich and poor is huge, in New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai and other cities, slums are across the street from the urban area, a huge number of poor people, they can not afford to buy chicken and other food or rarely buy, so in the usual diet, they gradually focus on exotic species---- Fushou snail.
Because the Fushou snail has strong reproductive ability and adaptability, mating can breed thousands of eggs at a time, and this snail is large and meaty, high in protein content, even if the taste is not good, but in order to eat protein and can not eat other meat, so the Indian people also have to eat it.
And because of the large base of poor people in India, the population density is high. This leads to the huge consumption of Fushou snails in India, usually not only can you see Indians go down to the field to collect Fushou snails, but more incredible is that there are people breeding Fushou snails to supply the Indian market, so it actually inhibits the spread of Fushou snails, so Fushou snails have become transformed into economical and affordable "fragrant food" in the eyes of Indians.
And India, which has been the home of spices since ancient times, traditional condiments such as star anise, cinnamon, coriander, and mustard are still loved to this day. Therefore, Indians like to stir-fry Fushou snails together with various condiments, and then add curry to make Fushou snail curry rice. Spices and condiments can cover up the bad taste of Fushou snail, and second, they can aggravate the taste of the dish to make up for the taste of less meat and less meat. It has also become a very special dish and is very popular in India.
At this point, some people will question whether the Indian physique is immune to the parasite of fushou snail. Why are so many people infected on the mainland, but in India have not heard the news of the infection of the parasite by fushou snails?
This brings us to mention the Indian cooking method in the movie "Wrestle It! In "Daddy", we can learn about some Indian food customs, that is, the food they cook is usually a variety of paste-like things, like what mashed potatoes, vegetable puree, these are because Indians have the habit of boiling the ingredients and cooking them thoroughly. And this drunken man does not mean the habit of drinking, but indirectly kills most of the parasites in the body of the Fushou snail, so there are few examples of being infected by the Fushou snail in India.
After understanding the example of Indians cooking Fushou snails, we should actually reflect on the way we eat Fushou snails. In the mainland Of Southern Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions for the fushou snail eating, the most popular is the fried Fushou snail, like to spit out the snail meat with the mouth, think that it is particularly tasteful and interesting.
As in India, we also mask the original taste of Fushou snail with spices such as hot sauce and pepper. But the problem is that the time for us to fry fushou snail is particularly short, generally it is put into the pot for one minute, and some even only have tens of seconds, and it does not take out the meat of fushou snail, so it is particularly difficult to cook the fushou snail thoroughly, and then it is impossible to completely kill the parasites in the shell. The remaining parasites enter the human body directly from the mouth, causing various diseases and bringing irreparable disasters to families.
In fact, to put it bluntly, our cooking customs are not suitable for the outsider fushou snail, and the reason why people can adapt to it in India is to master the heat when cooking fushou snail, and the cooked food is the safest.
So in ordinary life, we can not in order to pursue the taste and convenience, reduce the cooking time of the ingredients, in addition to the Fushou snail, we should cook each ingredient to achieve its safe and edible degree, put an end to hunting, unsafe cooking methods, responsible for their own health!
Author: Flying Dutchman Proofreader: Xiao Wan