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Through this super long standby break, I found that more and more kitchen gods were unlocked around me, cold skin, egg tarts, fritters, cakes to arrange clearly, of course, for the development of food, Chinese is also leading, you think, the first person to eat crab, he is how much courage he mustered to discover this delicious ah.
But there is one species of poultry that has escaped the enthusiasm of Chinese foodies: turkey.
What comes to mind when you think of turkey? Is it the huge tempting chicken on the American Thanksgiving table every year? Or Disney's oversized ham worth $80? Chinese foodies are so unimpressed with turkey that when they think of turkey, there are only two words that come to mind, Thanksgiving and Disney.
So why isn't this chicken named "Turkey" that is not on fire in China Chinese appetite?
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Turkey, scientific name Tu Sui chicken, English name: Turkey, this word is now translated as turkey, but in the earliest it refers to the beaded chicken, in the 16th century, the beaded chicken was introduced to Europe by the Turks, hence the name.
Around the same time, turkey was also brought to Spain, and then turkey quickly expanded to other european countries, and in the 1550s, turkey was first used to refer to turkey, and at that time, some Europeans even thought that turkey was a kind of beaded chicken.
Interestingly, in Turkey at that time, the Turks called the turkey hindi, which means India, and it was widely believed at the time that the New World was the eastern part of Asia, and the chickens from North America were of course chickens from India.
So at that time, the Americans called the turkey "Turkey", the Turks called the turkey "India", and the Indians...
Indian: We don't know, we don't dare ask.
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Everyone now knows what the turkey looks like, but as early as many years ago, we have not seen, or even know this breed, and now, in fact, there are some people who have not seen the turkey untreated, the turkey we see in the supermarket or store, generally are processed, feather to the visceral frozen products, and the real turkey, does not look good, so from the beginning the turkey can not be raised as an ornamental bird, you see people's peacocks, because they look good directly into ornamental animals, People eat and drink well, and they are not worried about being killed and eating meat, and their appearance determines their fate!
Although turkeys were popular throughout Europe by the end of the 16th century, turkeys that really entered China were very late. In the early days, people wanted to transport a thing from the west to the East, the road was very far away, at that time the aviation industry was not developed, mainly to see the navigation, transport goods took months or even years, and compared to the turkey, which needs to be transported alive food, potatoes, corn and onions and other crops, more suitable for being transported to the East as a commodity in exchange for supplies, if the turkey is transported, it is also necessary to feed the turkey on the way, so the cost is too high.
It was not until 1821-1850 that the turkey officially landed in the mysterious land of the East, and at that time the turkey was introduced to the East, not for Chinese to eat, when some British people brought turkeys to breed in the Zhoushan Islands, especially for foreigners in Shanghai.
The short introduction time, coupled with the special offering, has prevented Chinese chefs from studying the practice of turkey in depth.
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Due to congenital defects, the meat on the turkey is completely tasteless, I don't know if you have eaten white boiled chicken breast, chicken breast actually has no excess taste, but it still contains some fat. But turkey meat is not the same, turkey meat fat content is very low, meat fiber is very coarse, itself has no taste, meat is still dry, can only be cured with seasoning to solve this problem, and with the volume of turkey, want to marinate through a turkey, the time is very long, usually takes more than 6 hours.
Turkey is very large, pickled turkey, not suitable for cooking, not suitable for frying, only suitable for roasting, but Chinese not every family has an oven, even if there is, you also need to always pay attention to the progress of roast turkey, the fire is small, roasting too long will be very dry, the fire is large, the roasting time is not enough, the skin is burned, the turkey is not yet cooked, it is really difficult to master the heat, so making turkey is a very troublesome thing.
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In addition to the late introduction and the difficulty of production, of course, the most important reason is that turkey is not suitable for the taste of Chinese, and it can even be said that even foreigners do not like turkey very much.
The fat content of turkey is very low, which leads to its meat must not be delicious and tender, and the meat of turkey can be described in one word as "chai". The turkey leg sold in Disney is already the best part of the turkey, and Disney will also pickle according to the taste of Chinese tourists, marinate in advance to make the turkey leg more smooth and tender, even so, there will still be tourists to reflect that the turkey leg is really not as delicious as imagined, too hard.
And some Chinese who have eaten a turkey meal say that in addition to the turkey legs, the other meat on the turkey is too dry, almost like chewing cardboard...
And in China, roast chicken, roast chicken, grilled chicken, smoked chicken, Wenchang chicken, white chopped chicken, black bone chicken, which is not better than turkey? Chinese foodies really don't buy it.
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You don't look at every Thanksgiving, every family will put a big turkey in the middle of the table, in fact, many foreigners put the turkey just for the festive atmosphere, they will not even move the turkey, turkey than Thanksgiving, more as food, but a sense of ceremony. Surveys show that 86 percent of Americans eat turkey at Thanksgiving dinner, and it is expected that the people of the United States will eat fifty million turkeys on a Thanksgiving Day.
It may not be accurate to say that it is "sweet chicken", Americans usually consume turkeys relatively large, but more uses are used in recent meat, which translates to lunch meat.
Because turkey is low in fat and low in cost, you can find turkey breast sandwiches in almost all fast food restaurants in the United States, and many American families generally buy processed turkey meat for breakfast and lunch, not because it is delicious, purely because it is convenient.
Chinese not to raise turkeys, on the one hand, because our country's chickens are really delicious, on the other hand, the Chinese people generally do not have much acceptance of cold food, like sandwich salads, often use turkey meat food, the vast majority of people are still not used to eating, so in China, turkeys have no market, no market, no one raises it, of course, it can't be hot.
Friends, have you ever eaten turkey? Do you think it's delicious?
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