@cacada shared his latest shock in the delicious food group of the big list, "Just said to my Guangdong friend that I ate one or two sides, and she asked me how much one or two it was, and I knew that I didn't use 'two' anywhere else!" ”
One or two vegetarian pepper miscellaneous sauce, two or two chicken mixed noodles, three or two beef noodles... "two", the basic unit of Sichuan noodle restaurant, almost every family writes so. For every additional one or two, the price increases by about two dollars.
Outsiders look confused, eat noodles outside, and are more accustomed to "servings" as a unit. Strange knowledge points, @Eating quickly arranged the new topic of the big list: "What son? Only Chengdu eat noodles according to the "two" selling?? ”
Other questions that have spawned are also quite confusing.
Dumplings, hand-pickers, knife-cut noodles and other common noodles that need to be boiled with water, in Sichuan restaurants, the basic unit is still "two". However, chutney powder and fat intestine powder rarely use "two", mainly according to "large portions" and "small portions".
Obviously, they are all powder, and the unit should be unified according to theory. @Blowing Wind said that in Mianyang, rice noodles are "two numbers" in selling. Across provinces, a friend in Guangxi said that in their Guilin, restaurants, the unit of rice noodles is also "two".
When you think about it, the unit of "two" is indeed quite suspicious. Two-two is more than one-two, two-to-one number is twice as large, why isn't the price twice as expensive? The noodle shop owner's answer is that noodles are not valuable, and the expensive ones are spices.
Every time you cook noodles, don't see the master weigh and then cook, all by the feel of the estimation of cooking, you said two, what is the two, how heavy? One or two equals 50 grams, and every time I eat one or two, I feel more than one or two, what's the matter?
"Why use two", it is difficult to reach the owners of the noodle shop
We set out with the main question, "Why is it called one, two, two, and two, not a big portion?", and decided to look at the noodle shop owners who deal with noodles all day long, and they are clear and unclear.
Liao Ji Old Noodle House Street moved to the location near the current Wangfu Street, one or two sides 10 blocks, two two 12 blocks, three two 14 yuan. I feel that three or two is not enough, and I need more amount, and I don't add money to the noodles, and I charge three or two dollars uniformly.
Add extra money to the cheeks; one to three or two, the portions are different, and the size of the bowls of Liao Ji's old noodle restaurant is also different, which is a common practice in Chengdu noodle restaurants. The time to sell noodles is less than ten years, and the boss and his wife said that according to the calculation of two, this is to save.
Indeed, compared with the size of the portion, seeing the numbers makes you feel more intuitive about the amount of noodles you are about to eat.
The boss added that Chengdu people like to order everything when they eat noodles. The measurement method that implies "two" is to comply with the needs of Chengdu people who are delicious and like to taste more.
There are several Jiangsu people in the collar seat, in their local area, noodles are sold according to the number of copies, regardless of size, the price is uniform. Less noodles, more noodles, need to agree with the boss in advance.
Neijiang noodles have been sold for more than ten or twenty years, and it is still unclear why "two" should be used.
On the price list, after the two, the size of the portion is also added as a comparison, which is very much for the outsiders who come to consider. "Before a lot of customers came to eat noodles, said one or two, two two, we did this."
On Huaxing Street, the century-old Huaxing Street omelette noodles, when they reopened on the afternoon of April 17, 1983, had to spend 2 dimes on two sides, but they were not necessarily able to eat it if they had money.
At the Golden Banquet Noodle Shop, the owner Xiao Cao asked his mother, but her mother still had no answer. "My mom opened in 1990, when one or two 4 corners 5, two two 5 corners 2, three two 7 corners."
When the Golden Banquet Noodle Shop was first sold, it was sold in the specifications of one-two-two-two-three- Xiao Cao's mother remembers that in the eighty years, it was common to eat noodles with food stamps.
The relationship between the "two" units of food stamps and noodles is an important clue.
Food stamps???!!!
More than a hundred years ago, Fu Chongji's "Chengdu Overview" recorded the prices of some foods in Chengdu's street markets.
Soba noodles, six texts and eight texts, divided into large meat, small meat; vegetarian noodles, six texts per bowl; fried sauce noodles, 16 or 24 texts per bowl; sweet water noodles, 16 texts per bowl, and 6 texts per bowl for the pickers.
You see, almost all of them are in bowls, and have nothing to do with "two". The use of "two" as a unit was mainly born in the context of buying things and relying on tickets in the era of "planned economy".
Photo / Fan Jianchuan
If you want to eat noodles outside, money and food stamps, you have to have both. In the 1980s, a bowl of vegetarian noodles sold by widow's mother-in-law Chen at that time was 8 cents + two or two food stamps.
Two or two food stamps + a few dollars are the standard for eating a bowl of noodles.
The two-two portion will be appropriate. One theory is that under the food stamp system in the 1970s and 1980s, the national ration was 24 pounds per month, and each person was 8 taels per day. Three meals a day, one bowl and two, and there is still leftover. If you eat a bowl of three 3 quantities and eat more than the standard, it will definitely be troublesome.
Back to the question of why the two or two eaten are more than the two or two thought. The "two" in food stamps refers to the weight of unprocessed grain. In the Chongqing area of Sichuan, boiling noodles love to use water leaf noodles with water, and when water is added, it will definitely appear more.
Dumpling shops near the wide and narrow alleys also marked the number of grams, one or two exceeded 100 grams.
Now, mainly in the Sichuan-Chongqing region, the unit of "two" noodles is still used to this day. Elsewhere, noodles are eaten by size.
By default, one or two is a small portion; two or two equals a medium portion; three or two equals a large portion. In terms of specific portions, each family is slightly different, but come to Chengdu to eat noodles, this formula can still be referred to.
I don't recognize the word "two" anymore
In the era of the prevalence of food stamps in the last century, people of a little age in the Shanghai area knew that in the 60s and 70s, a bowl of Yangchun noodles on Hankou Road got two or two grain stamps + 1 dime and 1 cent.
In the memory of Xiao Lou in Shanghai, he always asked his mother for a dime, went to the most lively Longchang intersection on Haizhou Road, and ate 8 cents a bowl of Erliangyang Spring Noodles. "Three or two Yang Spring Noodles is 1 cent 2 cents."
Now, Shanghai's Yangchun noodles do not use "two" as a unit, and do not use large or small portions. Old shops like Yi Guihe also use only one "share" word, which is especially difficult for outsiders to judge whether this part is more or less.
"Big and small portions" and "two", Chengdu noodle restaurants are now also in use
After all, the "two" units of noodles are used in fewer and fewer places. But the other "two" in food can still be retained. There are "two" in different places.
Qingfeng buns in Beijing are sold according to "two", not one; roasted wheat in Inner Mongolia is also sold according to "two". Usually, in Baotou, one or two is six, and in Hohhot, it is eight.
Hehe's hometown is in Hebei, and they baoding Shijiazhuang a famous gourmet beef cover cake, and they have to say "two" when ordering.
"One two two two" is to order one or two beef, two or two cakes. Two and a half pounds is two or two beef, half a pound of cake. The meat is in front, the bread is in the back, you can't say the opposite, saying the opposite will make a joke.
The difference in the use of "two" is also easy to be mistaken in terms of the corresponding size. For example, Lanzhou people eat beef noodles in Lanzhou, from small to large, it is said that they come to a large bowl or a small bowl.
Eat sour soup dumplings at Lanzhou Zhengning Road Night Market, if you see the size of the portion, according to the expected portion, you will pay the price of eating. The small portion is four pairs, with 18 dumplings. In Chengdu, we usually eat two or two, and 12 is enough.
Suddenly, do you find that you don't know the word "two" anymore?