Why is turkey so popular in the United States that it is largely unpopular in China? Speaking of Chinese food, it has to be mentioned that the recipes of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Chinese spicy hot, sour soup dumplings, leek boxes, scallion oil cakes....
These foods make foreign players sigh that this is much more delicious than the kimchi eaten at the previous Winter Olympics in South Korea, but when it comes to eating, China dares to call it second, and I have never seen other countries call it first.
Turkey is not popular in China
But our protagonist today is not Chinese cuisine, but American turkey. I believe that students who have studied in the United States will definitely see this thing at the dinner table in the United States when they celebrate Thanksgiving.
But in the face of American turkeys, our country's foodies are discouraged, what is going on?
Speaking of Chinese cuisine, from small porridge and small dishes, as large as the whole table of Manchu and Han, an eggplant can play eighteen martial arts, even if it is an invasive species, China can also give him artificial breeding.
But in the face of turkey, Chinese foodies really don't know how to deal with it, in terms of taste, it is really unpalatable, and it is not as good as our own poultry.
American Turkey
The key is that the American turkey is still a big thief, and if it can't finish eating, I don't know how to deal with it, if I am lucky enough to be on the Chinese table, I am afraid that I will have to eat for another month, and this whole turkey may be wiped out.
It is reasonable to say that the American turkey looks very large, compared to the pheasant that survives in the wild, the meat is more substantial and the nutrition is more abundant, but in terms of taste, why is the meat quality of the turkey so woody?
The turkey looks larger, the meat is more boneless, and because the American turkey is too large, the turkey meat fiber is coarse and loose, and the fat content is very low.
Know that our own broiler chickens have five percent fat content, while American turkeys have two percent fat content.
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It is not like our own poultry chickens, which can be slowly grown by placing them in a designated cage.
Due to their large size, American turkeys need more space for turkeys to "run freely", which also shows that turkeys are expensive to raise.
In this way, buying a turkey is not as good as killing a poultry chicken, but why do Americans have a soft spot for turkeys?
Why the United States likes to eat turkey
Why is turkey so popular in the United States, where almost no one looks at it? Speaking of American turkeys, we have to mention one of their holidays, Thanksgiving.
Everyone must also know that the United States has only been founded for a hundred years, and its historical and cultural heritage alone is certainly better than that of a thousand years ago, and the United States is still a typical immigrant country.
However, when it comes to thanksgiving in the United States, we have to mention the history of the United States, mention the history of the old hairdresser, have to mention the European country of Britain, friends who have studied history know that medieval Europe was very dark, why say so?
In medieval Europe, there were many countries where most of the power of life and death was held by the church, so some Englishmen secretly left England by boat in order to get rid of the control of the church.
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They were drifting at sea for several months, only to find that they saw america, so they landed in the americas. Although the Americas were not developed at that time, they did not have much problem in feeding themselves.
By the time the English arrived in the Americas, they were penniless and in desperate need of some food to feed themselves, or they might die.
Since native Americans grew some grain and raised poultry, the native natives discovered the Anglicans and did not drive them away.
Instead, they were taught how to grow grain and raise poultry, and the English made their home here.
Aboriginal
Among them, the Aborigines taught that these English people raised poultry with turkeys, and the American people thanked the local Natives for their help, and every Year on Thursday in November as Thanksgiving.
In this way, the English people officially became a member of the American immigrants, but the good times were short-lived, the land of the Americas was set footed by more and more countries, and the happy life of the local indigenous people became a "hell life".
Later, some immigrants began to attract a large number of troops to the Americas, and the local indigenous people suffered a large number of massacres, which is really a typical revenge.
This is also the reason why there should be a turkey on the Thanksgiving table in the United States, and I always feel that Thanksgiving day is celebrating the new life of the United States. But do Americans really like to eat turkey?
Do Americans really like to eat turkey?
Speaking of turkey, Americans really love and hate him because they have to eat it, but they probably don't like it very much, and the most critical point is that turkey is too big for them to eat.
Then there may be friends to ask, will Americans also throw away the turkey that can't be eaten? According to our Chinese foodie thinking, this kind of unpalatable thing can only be thrown away immediately and said goodbye.
Or put away something that is not delicious, and take it out to eat a little at a time when you eat, otherwise you will always feel uneasy.
In fact, when it comes to this, the attitude of Americans to turkeys is the same as that of us Chinese foodies, who eat the legs and wings of turkeys on Thanksgiving Day.
Turkey meat
The rest of the Americans might eat a little, and most of the rest might boil into porridge and eat as a side meal, basically a big turkey would take at least three or four days to eat.
In this way, most Americans still don't like turkey very much. But not only the United States in the world has Thanksgiving, Canada also has Thanksgiving, but they do not eat turkey, why does the United States refuse to give up?
In fact, this is related to the history of the United States, after all, Thanksgiving is a major festival in the United States, just like our China's Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival.
We have the iconic mooncake during the Mid-Autumn Festival in China, the Dragon Boat Festival has standard zongzi, and the turkey on the Thanksgiving table in the United States is similar to the mooncake and zongzi, which is the symbol of the festival.
American Thanksgiving Table
In addition, Americans especially like to eat meat, and it just so happens that turkey is also particularly large, which is in line with their habit of eating meat, and because there is more meat, it is more convenient for them to use knives and forks.
The reason why the United States attaches so much importance to Thanksgiving is that the establishment of their country has a lot to do with it, and without these native Americans, even those immigrants cannot make their home in the United States.