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Mr. Wen丨 Shi Shu
Editor丨Mr. Shi Shu
<<——Preamble——>>
"If you've eaten these kinds of fruits, your children are now in high school."
The common fruits we see everywhere now are apples, pears, mangoes, cantaloupe, etc., but in the 80s, these things were in demand, do you know what adults and children ate at that time?
As a child who grew up in the countryside, although the fruits I ate when I was a child were not expensive and did not look very good, the taste of those fruits is still fresh in people's memories.
However, with the passage of time, everything in the world is changing, and these childhood flavors are now gradually disappearing from people's sight.
Let's take a look at these fruits that were popular at the time and are now exposed to age, several of which you have eaten.
<<·——Kamato——>>
Although it is also called peach, it is not the grape that we are familiar with growing on the grape shelf, it is a woody plant of the family Myrtaceae, which is also an exotic fruit, originated in Malaysia, India and other places, and was introduced to Middle-earth through the Maritime Silk Road.
The peach itself has a unique aroma, also known as fragrant fruit, which can be used to make jam, candied fruit and other sweets after processing, and is one of the more common fruits in the 80s.
The peach also has an alias called "bell", after it is ripe, the flesh will be automatically separated from the core inside, once a breeze blows from the tree, it will make the sound of a bell, crisp and pleasant, and if you squeeze it hard, you will hear it explode.
After the peach is ripe, its flesh tastes sweet and delicious, and the aroma is also very strong, it is very popular with children at that time, people who like to eat sweets, after feeling the taste of the peach, will definitely fall in love with it, and its price is not high.
It's just that almost no one will grow it now, and after the peach bears fruit, if it is not treated in time, it will attract mosquitoes once it goes bad, so this fruit is no longer common.
In the 80s, everyone knew about Pu Tao, from the elderly to the children, so we had to admire its charm.
<<·——沙瓤西红柿——·>>
With the development of today's era, there are more varieties of tomatoes that we see in our daily lives, from their size to their brands, and there are all kinds of them, which are impossible to see.
However, the tomatoes sold on the market now, whether they are fried or eaten raw, have a bit of a difficult taste, and they are not as good as the ones they used to eat.
But the most memorable thing is the sand tomatoes, which have a rustling texture and sweet taste, which makes people linger, and I heard that eating more can also cure diseases.
The biggest feature of sand tomatoes is the sand pulp, tear the skin lightly, you can see the fine rustling flesh inside, and the full pulp, when I saw it when I was a child, I had to eat one raw.
The taste of the sand tomato is really very good, I can only say, I can't forget its taste after eating it once, the memory of its thin and juicy skin, a simple rub, a bite of the flesh and juice are very full, imagine the feeling of taking a bite of it bursting in your mouth, is there drooling?
However, the yield of tomatoes is limited and difficult to preserve, which is not conducive to the sale of fruit farmers, so in order to make higher profits, growers have started to grow improved varieties, but the taste is far less than it.
It's just that there are fewer and fewer real sand tomatoes now, and those who have eaten it can only taste it again in their memories.
<<·——“黑美人”退隐——·>>
I don't know if you still remember that there is a kind of watermelon with black skin, in the countryside in the 80s, there was no refrigerator or freezer, and in the summer when the heat was unbearable, the adults in the family would throw the fruit into the well to give the fruit a "cold bath".
The most famous of these is the chilled black-skinned watermelon, which is mainly grown in the southwest of Shandong Province and has a long history of cultivation, and its quality is ensured by mature technology.
The black-skinned watermelon is very large when it is ripe, and the flesh is also very large, his skin is black-green, the appearance is beautiful, and there is a common name "black beauty".
I still remember eating black-skinned watermelon once when I was a child, the flesh is very delicate, the juice is rich, and the taste is also great, it really kills the child next door, but why can't I see the black-skinned watermelon with so many advantages now?
The black-skinned watermelon is very demanding for the living environment, and a large amount of manual processing of the seeds is required, which undoubtedly increases the cost of input, and its profit is relatively low, so there are fewer and fewer melon farmers who grow black-skinned watermelon.
In addition, there are more and more new varieties of watermelon launched later, and the gap between it and it in terms of texture and taste is getting smaller and smaller, so that people gradually give up the purchase of black-skinned watermelon.
Now the black-skinned watermelon is facing the "sniping" of all kinds of new varieties on the market, and it seems acceptable that it will decline from the status of people's hearts because it has not prevailed in terms of price and taste, so do you miss the black-skinned watermelon when you were a child? Have you ever eaten ice cold in well water?
<< -- The Golden Memories of Lai Grape -- >>
There are many people who don't know that Lai grape is actually a bitter gourd genus of the Cucurbitaceae family, although it looks very similar to bitter gourd, but the two of them are different, not only do they not have the astringent taste of bitter gourd, but they are even sweet.
Nowadays, this kind of fruit that we used to eat often has become obscure and difficult to find, just like the memories of the past in our minds have slowly become blurred and gradually disappeared.
In the 80s, there were still people who planted a little in their yard, and when the grapes were ripe, they were also very popular with children, after all, there was no child who did not like to eat sweet things.
In particular, the frozen Lai grapes taste soft and similar to the jelly we eat now, but it is easy to have stomach trouble after eating too much.
But now we have rarely seen this fruit, this is because the appearance of the grape is really indescribable, the nodulous fruit is easy to remind people of bitter gourd, and the second is that its edible rate is relatively low, often lost more than eaten.
<<·——甜杆——·>>
When it comes to sugarcane, everyone should know, but if you want to say that the sweet poles should be unfamiliar, those who say they are not strangers will expose their real age, and this sweet crop should be a good memory of the post-80s.
Sweet rod is also called "second generation sugarcane", living in the north of the 80s friends should be very familiar with the sweet rod, although its skin is more prickly, but it can't stand it delicious.
It's just that it's hard to eat anymore, and the sweet stalk is eaten in the same way as sugar cane, and you can eat it by biting off the skin, but it looks a little thinner, and the appearance is also the turquoise color of the plant.
In fact, the sweet stalk and the corn stalk look quite similar, but there is no corn fruit, and even the inexperienced people can't tell which is which, but unfortunately now because our living conditions are getting better and better, few people in the countryside have grown this crop.
<< - the reason for the disappearance - >>
Because of the harsh cultivation conditions and the lack of sufficient supply, the costs and benefits generated by these fruits are completely disproportionate, and now that people's living conditions are getting better and better, they no longer need these things to act as "snacks", so there are fewer people growing them.
Another reason is that there are more and more types of fruits that can be replaced in the market now, and there are even specially imported fruits, and consumers are facing more types, so these fruits of the last era have also been eliminated by the market with serious "involution".
These fruits are now gone, but we have always had a nostalgia for them, and it is undoubtedly a good thing that new varieties of fruit are constantly appearing to satisfy our quest for quality and taste, and also to improve the yield and quality of the fruit.
<<·——Conclusion——·>>
These once common fruits, perhaps they are no longer the protagonists of our lives, but the good memories and unique charm conveyed by them are still alive in our memories.
I hope that in the future, we can also cherish the past, let these fruits in our memories last forever, and let their stories be passed on.