Magical muscle memory can make a good warrior shoot a hundred shots, but it has undergone thousands or thousands of hard training; but there is a magical memory that only needs to be once, even after decades, as long as an opportunity can be unsealed. This memory is the memory of taste, and the key to awakening this memory is scattered around us and is slowly dissipating in the long river of history.
In 1999, I first weighed a "mung bean cake" in a cake shop on the street of Yibin Junlian as a gift for my grandfather and grandmother's birthday, and when I was in junior high school, I couldn't resist the temptation of food and secretly tasted a piece, but who ever thought that this taste made me pursue it for 20 years. In the past 20 years, I have tasted all kinds of mung bean cakes, none of which are that taste, I thought that the original "mung bean cake" had become an eternal memory, but by chance, I tasted this taste again in a very inconspicuous shop on the streets of Yibin, and inadvertently even my eyes were wet.
After eating all the "mung bean cake" in Yibin, I couldn't find the taste of the past
It turned out that the original name of "mung bean cake" should be "chao cake" (maybe it wasn't called that at the time), and I remember it was slightly yellowed compared to mung bean cake. Compared with the current pastry, the market is already very narrow, because the people who like to eat pastries are relatively young, have no cognition of this old food, and have no feelings, because people of this age as @ Yibin Xiaosheng are already the tail of that era.
Talking to the boss, she told me that these old foods are still served in workshops, but due to the small number of diners and the relatively primitive production process, once the pastry chef seals the skills because of his age or body, the production will stagnate. Due to market reasons, few apprentices followed to learn to make old food, so the time was long, the craft was gradually lost, and some old food became the discarded products of the times. This may also be the sadness of most of Yibin's old items. Here I have listed several old foods that impressed me and enjoyed them with you.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">01</h1>
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > several old foods that are memorable</h1>
1. Cypress Creek Tide Cake - the key to awaken my dusty memories for 20 years
Xiao Xiaosheng likes to swim, so he has met some like-minded friends, one of whom is a native of Yibin, who likes to eat old food, and when he went to buy it by chance, he found Baixi Tide Cake, smelled its fragrant food, and immediately remembered the past of the village 20 years ago.
Cypress Creek Tide Cake
Because the money I bought at the "mung bean cake" at the Junlian Cake Shop was earned by my own "hands", when I and another playmate caught a cauliflower snake while playing by the river, sold it to the snake dealer to earn the "first bucket of gold" in my life (of course, I certainly don't dare now), and gave my grandfather and grandmother a birthday gift for the first time in my life, so I was impressed.
2. White-skinned peanut candy - a luxury to eat in the New Year
White-skinned peanut candy in my hometown is a luxury food that can only be eaten in the New Year, when adults generally put their own fried rice candy, salted peanuts, melon seeds and white-skinned peanut candy in a large jar filled with lime, block the mouth of the jar with newspaper, and press it tightly with heavy objects such as bricks to prevent moisture.
White-skinned peanut candy
These New Year goods are not casually eaten, only when relatives come home to "leave the household", they will take them out to entertain, and they will eat with them. Therefore, when it comes to the New Year, we all yearn to either go out with our parents or have relatives come to my house to play.
3. Fish skin peanuts - the capital that was once bragged
Speaking of fish skin peanuts, it goes back to when I was in elementary school, when I went into the city with my parents and bought a little fish skin peanuts, because my family lived in the countryside, many children had never seen too much of the world, so this kind of peanut became my bragging capital.
Fish skin peanuts
I tell you that the skin of the peanut is made of shark skin in the sea, brought back by a relative of so-and-so (fiction) at the seaside, and only the coast is sold, ushering in a bunch of envious eyes.
4. Sand kernel soft cake - singing the taste of the heart is too soft to eat
I remember when Ren Xianqi sang too soft and very red, my cousin's family just bought karaoke, our family was invited to eat, after the meal everyone sang together, sand ointment became a song snack, because the heart of the soft cake is also very soft, and just singing the song of the heart is too soft, so the impression is also very deep.
Soft cake with sand kernels
5. Tile pancakes - not only tengu can eat the moon
This tile is not a tile for rural housing construction, but a kind of round cake that has been suppressed very thinly. At that time, we played this game and chewed it out of different shapes, which can be like the sun or like the moon, so everyone can do it, but why is my moon very small every time?
Tile pancakes
In the memory of the past, there must be many old foods, but most of them have left our sight, but there are empty memories, but there is less carrier, which only increases regrets.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">02</h1>
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > case around you - the survival of old food</h1>
Should old foods really be eliminated by the times? Chengdu around me gave an excellent answer.
In the wide and narrow alleys of Chengdu, you will find a variety of old food, some hawkers selling on the roadside, some shops integrated with a variety of old food together with the sale, and some beautiful packaging to take away.
Chengdu's wide and narrow alleys make old food a business card
When a place establishes the brand value of cultural tourism, whether it is a new thing or an old food, it will have its market, there will be a stage for display, its audience will expand because of the crowd gathering effect, and even young people who have no cognition and feelings about old food will try and accept it under the infection of the atmosphere. And once there is a market, there will be an industry, and the skills will be passed on, which is the charm of cultural diffusion. And isn't Yibin's old food lacking such a platform?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">03</h1>
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > give old foods a chance, and they release effects far more than 1+1=2</h1>
This morning, Cuiping District will hold the opening ceremony and investment promotion meeting of the "Sanjiang Welcome Huike Guanying" Guanying Ancient Street Investment Center.
Guanying Ancient Street Investment Brochure Content
Among them, the investment brochure Chinese leisure part, covering Yibin souvenir projects, our traditional cognition, Yibin souvenirs are generally Yibin burning noodles, Shuanghe cold cake, Lizhuang "three whites", Hongqiao pig er, Gouache, etc., these more common specialties in reality Although the popularity is high, but as a long-term attraction for tourists to play scenic spots, the tolerance of local specialties is too narrow, why not give old food a chance, extend the depth and width of local specialties, give tourists a nostalgic and novel experience?
The effect of old food + new specialties is far more than 1 + 1 = 2
It may be difficult to be elegant in terms of visual effects for the time being, but as long as there is such an opportunity, the visual and taste impact brought about by this old + new model will definitely bring a deep impression to the majority of tourists. As long as there is a market, it can be like the effect of Chengdu's wide and narrow alleys, driving one industry and achieving cultural inheritance, and the energy they bring is far more than 1+1=2.
Xiao Xiaosheng is a nostalgic person, but also a rational person, whether it is out of respect for the history of food culture or the consideration of commercial value, I am very optimistic about the future prospects of old food. I want to save them, I have nothing to do with selfishness, I prefer that the history carried by Guanying Street has a stronger foundation. I hope that these good memories will no longer be dusted off, and I hope that their shelf life will be longer and effective.
If you agree with my point of view, please click to forward, let more friends who care about Yibin pay attention to Yibin old food, let them return to their rightful place.