South Korea fabricated the origin of the army's hot pot, and the history relied on fabrication.
Did you know that there is a heartwarming story about the origin of the hot pot for the Korean army. It is said that a long, long time ago, a kind girl saw that a soldier standing guard was often hungry, so she quietly boiled the house's cured meat, vegetables, tofu and other food together and put it at the barracks door.
This is the story that the Koreans made up for the army hot pot, but according to the development of Korean dramas, whether this kind girl and the soldier ended up together? We don't know, but this story makes the Korean army hot pot full of human touch.
There is a history hidden behind the name "army hot pot". During the Korean War, South Korea's strong men were conscripted to fight, and the elderly, women, and children faced a lack of supplies because they had no physical strength to farm (no cattle, all by manpower), so that the average Korean family could not guarantee three meals a day.
However, the U.S. forces involved in the war were relatively well supplied by the United States, which allowed them to constantly shuttle between Japan and South Korea by sea vessels.
After World War II, the U.S. soldiers who participated in the war often ate various field supplies, such as Spam luncheon meat, and over time, they also began to get tired of it.
However, these foods were a rare delicacy for Korean civilians at the time. South Koreans working in the U.S. military canteen sometimes bring back some leftover food, while those who worked as coolies in the U.S. military camp and around the base would run to the vicinity of the U.S. military barracks to pick up the food, wash it and add kimchi, tofu and other cooking to form a "troop hot pot."
Over time, South Korea gradually developed under the dictatorship of Park Chung-hee, and new ingredients such as noodles, mushrooms, and instant noodles began to appear in the "army hot pot", which became a unique Korean cuisine, although there is still a gap compared to the Japanese "sukiyaki".
Once, in the Northeast, the "army hot pot" was once popular, accompanied by the "Korean Wave". However, there is no consensus on this food. Some people think that it is so simple to make that it only requires a packet of Korean hot sauce, some vegetables, ham sausage, and instant noodles, and even people with no cooking skills can easily make it.
Moreover, although the taste of "army hot pot" is mainly salty and spicy, it is not delicious, and people try it just in pursuit of freshness. However, there is a surprising fact about the diversity within the "army hot pot": these diverse ingredients are actually selected from the "swill bucket".
This news came from a classmate who was "engaged in daigou", she did not eat this kind of food in South Korea, and even had a psychological disorder because of it. When we asked some elderly Koreans in their sixties and seventies about the origin of the "army hot pot", they were vague, probably for "face-giving" reasons.
Rationing for the South Korean military has been a cause for concern, especially as kimchi has become a staple ingredient. In recent years, more and more young people have learned about the history of the "army hot pot", which has made the discussion in this area more and more low-key, and some people have even begun to make up stories to cover up the truth.
However, this practice of covering one's ears and stealing the bell only makes people doubt its authenticity even more. During the Korean War, it was unthinkable that civilian families would offer salted meat and tofu to strange soldiers.
If you make up such an absurd story, I'm afraid that even the Koreans themselves won't believe it, right?
Every nation has the trauma of history, and we also have that period when the whole people ate chaff, but this did not make us lose our self-confidence, but became the driving force for us to move forward.
Just like the Spring Festival now, the market is full of buyers, yesterday I went to buy dried fruits, the shopkeeper said: "Now the days are really good, how like we were at that time, according to the head, a person only half a catty of peanuts with shells."
Now, you can buy whatever you want. "Koreans do this only because they have an inferiority complex in their hearts, and the more they smear things, the more they will embarrass them in front of history.