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In the land of the motherland, we have tasted a lot of delicacies, all types of chicken, can become a delicacy on the table, but have you noticed that turkey is a rare food.
When I was a child, when I watched "Cat and Mouse", I was drooling from the big turkey leg in it, and begged my mother to buy one for me, although I didn't buy it in the end, but "Turkey" has always left a deep impression on me.
As food, turkeys are significantly larger than local Chinese chickens, produce a lot of meat, and are not a difficult animal to feed. So why hasn't it been noticed by the Chinese people and not raised by many people?
Chinese people who love chicken
First of all, it can be determined that not liking turkey is definitely not a problem of Chinese people, on the contrary, we love chicken very much, and there are unique chicken practices throughout the country.
For example, in Guangdong, the most famous and common chicken method is "white-cut chicken", and almost all local people have white-cut chicken at Chinese New Year's Eve dinners and banquets.
Moreover, the method of this dish is also very simple, that is, simply steam the chicken, retain the original flavor of the chicken as much as possible, and then pair it with some prepared dipping sauces to complete a dish.
However, it should be noted that Guangdong white cut chicken pays great attention to the quality and freshness of the ingredients, and most people use carefully cared for local chicken to make it, so it can be said that the quality of the environment in which the chicken grows determines whether the dish is good or not.
In the remote Xinjiang region, the more famous chicken method is "big plate chicken", due to the relationship between religion and geography, the local people can eat relatively little food, such as chicken this large number of delicious ingredients, Xinjiang people make it into "big plate chicken", but also show their understanding of the ingredients.
In terms of practice, the practice of Xinjiang Dapan Chicken is similar to Sichuan's spicy chicken, which is a delicacy made by cutting chicken thighs into small pieces and completing them with chili peppers, which tests the chef's grasp of the heat and the processing of the size of the chicken.
In Sichuan, the practice of chicken is inevitably inseparable from chili, so Sichuan people have developed a combination of chicken and chili pepper "saliva chicken".
Unlike Sichuan's spicy chicken, this dish focuses on the ingredients, and like the white-cut chicken in Guangdong, the chicken is steamed to lock in the flavor of the chicken, and topped with a special spicy sauce.
This dish also has a requirement for chicken, and if you want it to be delicious, the chicken needs to be fat and lean.
In addition, there are some chicken practices that are very popular in various places, such as "shredded chicken", "roast chicken", "roast chicken", "called flower chicken", "fried chicken" and so on.
These are available everywhere in the country, and the requirements for chicken are not so high, but there is also a need for chicken that is not very chai.
In fact, any chicken practice has certain requirements for meat quality, so does turkey meet the Chinese' requirements for chicken?
Big turkey
Let's first take a look at the photos of foreign turkeys, from which we can clearly find a characteristic of turkeys, that is, they are large and too big, almost 3-4 times the size of normal domestic chickens.
Such a large body size is one of the expectations of many people for turkeys.
Think about it, too, such a big chicken can, there must be a lot of meat, if it is cultivated in a large area in the country, maybe it can reduce the price of chicken, so that everyone can realize the freedom of chicken.
And there is so much turkey meat, it must be very enjoyable to eat.
That's right, the above guess is correct, turkey does have a lot of meat, but its taste may not be satisfactory, simply put, it is very firewood, tasteless and stuffed teeth, turkey meat is not easy to absorb the soup, even if you put a lot of seasoning, the chicken has no taste.
This will definitely be disliked by housewives, after all, in China, almost every family cook chicken soup, if the chicken soup tastes bad, it will definitely be disliked.
For example, I once followed a blogger who tasted the turkey legs sold in Shanghai Disneyland and gave a high evaluation, indicating that turkey meat can be cooked in a special way.
To make turkey meat taste better, chefs need to spend more time on turkey, use more complex ways to prepare it, and make very few dishes.
After tasting it, many people feel that turkey meat tastes much worse than domestic chicken, and the poor meat quality makes chefs need to spend more effort to process the turkey, which tests the chef's skills.
For most home cooks, they are tired of cooking, so why choose ingredients that are so difficult and not very tasty?
In the past when there was a shortage of grain and meat, why didn't the mainland introduce turkey with more meat?
Water and soil complaints
There is a good saying: the south is orange and the north is orange, and the turkey may not be able to grow so big when it comes to China, and it may not be able to adapt to it.
As a species born in the Americas, turkeys have enough living space, but in the mainland, most rural chicken pens are not so large, and if you breed turkeys, you need to arrange the breeding site reasonably to create more space.
But once they have such a large space, instead of raising turkeys, farmers should raise animals of higher value.
In addition, turkeys are more difficult to breed than domestic chickens, and there is no habit of breeding turkeys in the mainland, so if you want to breed turkeys, you have to find a set of suitable methods to make their lives better, so turkeys have harsh environmental needs.
There is also the fact that turkeys have a stronger personality than domestic chickens and are more difficult to feed.
Domestic chickens in the mainland are generally docile, and it is rare for chickens to fight and die between chickens, but turkeys are different, and they often fight between their own kind, causing unnecessary economic losses.
And the physical strength of turkeys is much better than that of domestic chickens, and turkeys are not so easy to control for farmers.
At present, only a small number of farms in China specialize in raising turkeys, which are exclusively supplied to some restaurants, and it is not so easy for people who are interested in turkeys and want to eat turkeys to buy turkeys.
epilogue
The quality of the turkey itself is not good, so it has no sales market in China, and naturally there is no breeding.
Most of the popularity in the West is related to their religious customs, and for Chinese people, the chicken on the table on Chinese New Year's Eve and the chicken soup cooked by their mothers when they are sick can resonate more spiritually.
Therefore, if you have eaten chicken since you were a child, you can only try the taste of turkey meat, and it is difficult to let the turkey replace the place of the chicken in your heart. What do you think of turkeys?
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