Min Shengyu
Chinese have a special preference for animal offal. Our people prefer animal offal more than their bodies. Often, the meat is not necessarily very like to eat, but the scraps such as the hoof under the water are more popular. Needless to say, the offal of pigs, cattle and sheep is not spared, even the offal of birds such as chickens, ducks and geese. I thought, how do you turn the chicken intestines? Nowadays, duck tongue, duck intestine, chicken treasure, goose intestine and other things are occasionally on the table of high-end restaurants. In addition, we are also happy to eat what to make up for. People with kidney deficiency eat all the way to the genitals of animals.
The last time a certain brother invited me to Donggang Haiying for dinner, I realized that he was not paying for it, and then I realized that I was rubbing rice. The leader of the guests was the center-back. He loved duck intestines, and he ordered four portions, which were in barrels and in large quantities. In fact, eating steamed buns in white is not a light weight. However, I don't think it's appropriate to impose my hobbies on diners.
Braised pork offal is a flavorful snack in Zhongwei. The center-back man gave me a clamor, saying that it was very beautiful, I had eaten it, and the taste did not dare to compliment. I've always thought that pork offal shouldn't be stewed. Stir fry ok. For example, in my hometown, I eat pig intestines, rarely fried, and most of them are made into blood sausages with pig blood. Here's how. Add pig blood to buckwheat noodles, oil residue and various spices, pour into the intestine and cook, the intestines can not be filled too full, and in the process of cooking, it is necessary to use an awl to deflate on the intestinal wall, otherwise the casing will be broken. After cooking, the blood sausage is cut into slices and fried in oil, which is very delicious.
Regarding the leader eating miscellaneous pieces, there is a passage that says that a leader goes to the hotel to eat money and meat, you eat it, he also makes it bad, wants to tease the waitress from the countryside, and asks: "Servant, do you know what this is?" The servant was too ashamed to say the words "donkey begging" for half a day, and when the leader put the money and meat in his mouth, the servant said slowly: "It is the thing that was put into the donkey." ”
Although most of the offal is unclean, it is not a container for animal feces, or a tool for excretion, detoxification, and urination. Such as gastrointestinal, kidney, liver and so on. Although they are tinkering around in the feces all day, they are industrious and intelligent Chinese people are worthy of their ingenuity, and they can always turn waste into treasure, turn decay into magic, and turn stinky baking into incense. This situation is probably "washed cleaner, cooked more deliciously"
Some people say that Chinese eat fragrant, foreigners look dirty, this is not Chinese barbaric, but the food culture of different countries, the national conditions are different. Chinese poor and accustomed, so I am reluctant to throw away these things, and it is still a mouthful of food anyway. Doing and doing, making flavor. So, we have a miscellaneous complex.
It is said that Chinese workers who come to Israel to work pick up chicken wings and chicken feet from the wet market every day. People there never eat this stuff. Foreigners are stupid. In our opinion, if nothing else, chicken wings and chicken feet should be good things. It can be seen that in the development of food sources, foreigners are far less creative and intelligent than Chinese.
When I was a child at home, my father killed sheep and pigs, and I was on the sidelines. According to this common casual anatomy class, I still know a lot about animal offal. In recent years, with the improvement of living standards, we are paying more and more attention to our own miscellaneous pieces, you see the organ physical examination, liver, liver, spleen and kidneys, heart, lungs and intestines. Blood sugar, blood lipids, blood pressure. Everybody cares.
Maybe I've experienced too much poverty and hunger. Our eating habits are always not very good, in rural parlance is dirty mouth, everything wants to eat, dare to eat anything, eat and eat their own offal out of the problem. For example, what we call wine culture is actually the most serious damage to the body. However, we also said well, drinking alcohol hurts the liver, smoking hurts the lungs, and not drinking alcohol and not smoking is sad.
Many people around us quit drinking, often because they drank the offal badly and really couldn't drink it. The one who persuades the wine to say, just a few cups, drink it down can die? Your life is life, our life is not life. In Chinese social occasions, sometimes without drinking, you may be insulted.
From big fish and big meat, eat sea plugs. Eating until now, become cautious. Don't dare to eat anything. Someone would also say: Beware of your lack of life. Every year after the physical examination, my miscellaneous pieces always have a little problem. I asked the doctor of the unit, what should I pay attention to in terms of diet? He said he could eat whatever he wanted. You have to listen to the doctor's life.
It's us doctors, who he never pays attention to. Usually do not pay much attention to diet, do not like to eat vegetables, just eat noodles. And the amateur life habits are not good, and the smokers are addicted to gambling. And often joke that "life is like a dream, grasp the nonsense". The year before, this old man had bowel cancer. The situation has been bad lately, and it is said that it has spread to the liver, lungs and all the debris. Yesterday, after drinking, a colleague said he called someone to play mahjong. I didn't fight, but I heard that he was dating someone, and I wanted to come to the old man for a few days, so I gladly went there, and I thought that this was also a kind of hospice care. In the center of his family's attic was a mahjong table with a carpet underneath, and good cigarettes and good tea served.
In fact, Chinese's mouth is inseparable from the miscellaneous, but in his bones he looks down on the miscellaneous. People often swear at people with miscellaneous pieces. This kind of scolding is worse than directly greeting the other party's parents and ancestors. It is not enough for some people to scold the chowder, but also to call people a dog chowder, if you add a modifier, it is: donkey chowder with wolf heart and dog lungs."
From eating animal offal, to discriminating against offal, cursing people with chops, to caring for one's own chowder. Our miscellaneous complexes never seem to change. Of course, what we advocate now is to eat animal offal carefully and protect your own offal.
Writers' Profiles
Min Shengyu (a special writer of this platform) is a native of Yanchi, Ningxia. Columnist. He is good at essay reviews, football reviews, art reviews, etc. He is a member of the China Critics Association and a director of the Ningxia Writers Association. Published seven essay collections, including "Rejecting Solemnity", "Urban Shepherd", "One-Man's Criticism", "Min Zhuang Fireworks", and "Discipline Yourself".