Every era has snacks of each era, and now tell netizens that dates are estimated that most people have not seen, let alone eaten.
But in the 1960s, dates were a snack for many children, not expensive, sweet, and even eaten as candy.
In a recent chat with his old father, his father happened to mention a snack he ate as a child, Iraqi dates, and he said that the dates were particularly sweet and tasted good.
I used to hear that it was imported from Iraq, so in the countryside it was called Iraqi dates. At that time, the price was not expensive, and adults liked to buy it back for children to eat, because the sweetness was high and could replenish body sugar.
I vaguely remember that eating dates when I was a child was really a pleasure, and it was a good memory in my childhood memories. He sighed again, why is it that such a good thing cannot be seen now? For this reason, I have deliberately consulted the information to make some understanding.
Dates are also called Iraqi dates or "desert bread"
Although there is a date word on the name of the date, it is not a date, and it is not related to our common red date, but it is very similar to our red date in appearance, so people generally call it a date. In fact, dates are the fruit of palm plants, which is a veritable palm fruit.
Date palm trees have a long history and a long history of consumption in the Middle East, with a harsh growing environment, strong hardiness, and even in desert areas.
It is widely popular in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and other regions, and due to the backwardness of the local economy, dates have been developed into an important cash crop and exported in large quantities.
In the 1960s, the mainland imported a lot of it, which is why my old father was able to eat dates when he was a child.
So why don't you import a lot of dates now, and why have you faded out of people's vision?
First, the dates are too sweet
Dates contain several times more sugar than regular dates, even sweet enough to stick to the teeth. Some people will say that sweetness is not good? In the era of material scarcity, sweetness is indeed good, and it can replenish a lot of sugar in the body.
But now in the era of abundant materials, things that are too sweet are generally unbearable, and the red dates produced by the mainland are moderately sweet and taste better.
Because the dates are so sweet, the taste will be poor, giving people a sticky feeling. At the same time, people now generally do not lack sugar, sugar acquisition methods are more diverse, there is no need to find a bad taste to obtain sugar alone.
With the improvement of modern people's health awareness, things that are too sweet are also prone to diabetes, so the consumer group of dates in the market is not much at present, and most of the people who still insist on eating dates have also become a feeling.
Second, it is said that dates are suspected of infecting hepatitis
This news has not been verified, but there have been rumors in this regard in the folk, and it is this rumor that has caused many people to be afraid to eat dates.
In fact, this is just a rumor, the real reason should be that in that year, dates were the ideal reserve grain. High energy density, resistance to storage and other advantages, so a large number of imports, used to refine sugar. However, now that the sugar reserves are sufficient, they have been completely replaced by sugarcane sugar beet refining sugar, so there is no need to import large quantities.
At the same time, the natural environment of the mainland is not suitable for large-scale planting, and the price of dates is not high, which cannot achieve higher economic benefits, and there are not many consumer groups.
Therefore, in recent years, dates have gradually become a very niche food, a small amount of imports, uncommon and normal. However, some e-commerce platforms are still for sale, but the price is not cheap, and those who want to miss that taste can try it.
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