The Spring Festival in 2024 is just a few days away, and there are only two days left for the New Year's Festival in Weinan. Walking in the New Year's Festival market, all kinds of food are dazzling, and when we select and buy food, we hear the shouts of merchants from time to time "the taste of childhood" and "the taste of mother".
So what is the "taste of childhood"? I think people born in the 50s and 80s should remember it vividly. That is the steamed steamed bun of my mother, which can be chewed without vegetables, and there is always a faint wheat fragrance when chewed; the sweet potatoes cooked by my mother are fragrant and sweet, and the slag will be dropped when you bite into it; when my mother cooks, the corn cob baked in the pot stove is fragrant; the cakes baked by my mother with cornmeal are sandwiched with green chili peppers, and the persimmons that my mother bought for us always have a thick layer of white frost......
One day, we suddenly grew up, only to find that the steamed buns, corn cobs, persimmons, sweet potatoes and other things we ate no longer have the "taste" of childhood.
The steamed buns we eat three times a day taste like beef tendons, the persimmons we eat have turned into flour, and the corn cobs we eat have no fragrance...... And wheat, sweet potatoes, corn, persimmons and other varieties that are closely related to our lives are still there, and my mother is still there, and the craftsmanship and techniques of production have not changed, but there is no "taste of childhood". Because of the "qualitative" changes in the ingredients used to make food, various additives are widely used in food processing, and the yield of various crops has increased after improvement, but it does not have the taste of the past.
Generation after generation of people who grew up sighed that the taste of their childhood was gone, and they could never go back to the era of pure natural and additive-free food!
As a result, many middle-aged and elderly people are no longer satisfied with just eating while living day by day, they begin to miss the "taste of childhood" and begin to look for "the taste of childhood", and some businesses have also taken the opportunity to launch a variety of "childhood taste" commodity ingredients. Sellers of steamed buns say that their steamed buns are the taste of their childhood and the taste of their mothers; those who sell pastries and sweets say that the food and candy they process are the taste of their childhood; the flour sold in supermarkets of all sizes is also impressively printed on the packaging bag of flour that is "pure natural without any added wheat flavor", and the price is several times higher than that of ordinary flour; even the sellers of sweet potatoes and corn on the cob also shout that their agricultural products are also the taste of childhood.
Overnight, we seem to have found the memories of our childhood and smelled the taste of our childhood! However, after eating, we always feel that there is still a lot of gap between the taste of our childhood, and the "taste" made by our mother is far from it!
In 2024, on the basis of the continuous improvement of our material life, we can enjoy more food that "tasted when we were young"!