Alas, over the years, my mouth has been spoiled by all kinds of colorful delicacies, and some people are stunned to complain and say, "The meat is not as fragrant as before, and the vegetables are not as delicious as before." As soon as these words came out, it was like putting an anachronistic hat on modern agriculture. But on a deeper level, isn't it just a little bit of pity for those good times?
When I was a child, the stomach of every family was only cooked with meat during the festival, and who could forget the smell of meat that made people happy? At that time, as soon as the pot sounded, the noses of adults and children could turn to the kitchen sensitively. But ah, I have to ask, was it really the meat that was good, or were we so hungry at the time? Oh, after all, the smell of meat is rare.
If you eat meat today, you can satisfy your cravings any day, the conditions have improved, and your life is slippery. But this gluttonous insect is too lazy to think about it because it eats too easily. Where to find the itchy anticipation?
And the matter of the vegetables, all the food in the stomach was picked by my mother in the field when I was a child, it was really fresh, and now I have to wait in line for the dishes of the laborious farmhouse. We have to thank agricultural technology for sending pumpkins to Antarctica and ginseng to the desert, but in this blossoming flower, we have unconsciously lost something.
So, to put it bluntly, our taste buds are tied with good memories, and we can't pull them out. But you say that the quality of grain and vegetables is not good now? I don't think so. What we eat now is not only worthy of the stomach, but also worthy of the mirror and the scale.
But there are still people who can't let go of the good of the past and dislike the food in front of them. This is not only a lack of taste, but also a change in lifestyle and the times.
Urbanization, fast food, self-propelled supermarkets, and the life of running all the way have flattened our intimacy with the land. The joy of picking vegetables and planting trees has brought higher expectations for quality.
We must always cherish the fruits of the harvest on the dinner table and be grateful for the gift of life. In fact, the food of this era is not necessarily bad. As long as we light up the inner lighthouse of taste, we will definitely find the endless flavor.
Eh, as the so-called flowers bloom differently, the water flow is different. Memories and reality, from time to time to beat the side drum, maybe you can also play new tricks.
Although we may never be able to find the unique "aroma" of food in the past, it does not mean that the taste of the present has no meaning at all. In the convenience and abundance of modern life, we can re-learn to discover and cherish that taste, and renew the relationship between food and memory.
Keep the memory, not the reality: When reminiscing about the past food memories, we might as well try to understand and appreciate the current food culture. The taste of food may have changed, but change does not mean that it has deteriorated, and modern food, which is both delicious and nutritious, is also worthy of our awe and taste.
Have you ever felt such a change? Are our taste buds innovating, or are the food itself changing?