#冬日生活打卡季#
Every year in winter, people in the northern hemisphere are busy, Chinese are busy with the Spring Festival, Europeans and Americans are busy with Christmas, and chicken is the favorite of people in the northern hemisphere.
For example, Chinese often have chicken on the table on Chinese New Year's Eve and Spring Festival, or on the usual solar terms, and Europeans and Americans especially like to eat turkey during the New Year's Festival.
Chinese love chicken so much, why is turkey that Europeans and Americans love to eat in winter, but not popular in China? In this regard, senior chef Lao Lin said: "Four reasons are very realistic, Chinese do not like turkey very much. ”
What are the four practical reasons? Let's take a look.
1. The taste is different
Chinese traditional festivals, such as the Spring Festival, usually use poultry, chicken, duck, fish and pork as the main ingredients, especially chicken, and there is a saying that "no chicken is not a feast", whether it is a traditional festival, or a wedding and so on, chicken is one of the most important dishes.
Chinese have hundreds of ways to make chicken, such as white-cut chicken, called flower chicken, dry pot chicken, yellow stewed chicken, soy sauce chicken, Huadiao chicken and so on.
Chinese are very fond of eating chicken, but the turkey that Europeans and Americans love to eat, is completely different from China's local chicken in terms of taste, the meat of the turkey is very woody, it tastes very dry, the juice is less, not tender enough, the Chinese who love to eat turkey do not recognize the taste of turkey, so everyone does not like to eat turkey.
2. Less breeding
With the continuous development of the domestic economy, European and American hamburgers, grilled steaks, coffee and other delicacies have become popular in China, and many businessmen have introduced European and American turkeys to China for breeding, hoping to achieve commercial success.
But in the end, it backfired, because the cost of turkey breeding is very high, first of all, the turkey has strong athletic ability, not only can fly but also jump, like an ostrich, can not be placed in the farm captivity.
Secondly, the turkey is large, the weight is more than 5 times that of ordinary chickens, and the turkey is particularly edible, the digestive system is strong, it can eat, drink and play, and the cost of raising a turkey is enough to breed more than 10 ordinary three yellow chickens.
Therefore, for ordinary farmers, it is not cost-effective to raise turkeys at all, and the same is true for farms, so turkeys are less farmed in China, the supply is small, it is difficult to buy, and there are fewer people to eat.
3. Price factor
Turkey is more expensive than poultry, in China's vegetable market, the price of a pound of a free-range chicken is about 20 yuan, and if it is a turkey, it is at least 80 or 90 yuan a pound, if it is of good quality, hundreds of yuan a pound is also common.
Therefore, in the Chinese market, turkey is only available in some high-end restaurants or hotels opened by foreigners, while turkey is not common in ordinary restaurants and ordinary family tables.
After all, the price of turkey is there, and for Chinese, instead of spending four or five hundred yuan to buy a pound of turkey to eat, it is better to spend one or two hundred yuan to buy local chickens to eat.
4. Regional differences are different
For example, Xi the southern coastal areas prefer seafood ingredients, the inland areas prefer chicken, duck and pigs, and the northern regions Xi are more accustomed to eating beef and mutton.
Different regional differences lead to completely different tastes of the food that people love to eat, and the turkey that Europeans and Americans love to eat is not good for Chinese and is not suitable for Chinese dietary taste.
Turkey is one of the common chicken varieties in Europe and the United States, turkey is an omnivorous animal, the amount of food is amazing, the breeding requirements are high, and the domestic three yellow chicken, local chickens such as free-walking chicken, breeding requirements are low, more suitable for the taste of Chinese.
Therefore, the turkey that Europeans and Americans love to eat has no market in China and cannot become popular.
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