Decades ago in China, supplies were relatively scarce, and adults always thought of ways to supplement their children with some nutrition. Those nutrients, not to mention the nutritional value, only remember that they fill our delicious memories.
Children's Day is coming, let's reminisce about those childhood "high-grade nutrition products".
Eggs and dairy goats in the sixties
In the classic old movie "Fans" in 1963, after the pregnant woman in the delivery room gave birth to twins, the tearful mother-in-law and husband went to comfort her, and the ceramic teapot was filled with a pair of brown sugar poached eggs... My cousin, who was born in 1967, said that the grandmother in the countryside went to the city to see her newborn grandson, led a dairy goat, and wanted to give the baby and the baby milk to supplement the body...
Before the 1960s, the standard of health was "not getting sick.". Push open different doors, the dishes on each table are similar, the furniture of each room is similar, people's clothing is similar, and the desire for life is similar. Their ideal is simple: eat like a person. Most children in the 1960s, especially in the countryside, had never seen snacks for sale, and most of their "snacks" were dried sweet potatoes, fried beans and maltose. At that time, mothers supplemented their children with nutrition, which was nothing more than adding a poached egg; visiting the elderly and visiting the sick used eggs as nutritional gifts.
1970s malt milk, pagoda sugar, cod liver oil
In the 1970s, sweet and seductive malt milk essence quietly appeared in the homes of the post-70s generation. Tired of learning, when the mother will brew a cup of malt milk, quietly put it in the child's hand, to "supplement the brain". The naughty child took advantage of the family's lack of attention, secretly opened the jar, scooped it with a spoon, and saw the bottom of the jar while eating...
Pagoda sugar is a roundworm repellent medicine. At that time, the sanitary conditions were insufficient, and the state uniformly distributed anthelmintic drugs to children, so every family had pagoda sugar. Because of its sweet taste, in the era when there were few snacks for children, pagoda sugar became a "nutritious product" that children actively asked to eat. There is also milky white cod liver oil, which is not so much a nutrient supplement as a mouthful every day to relieve hunger.
Canned fruit and plum cake in the 1980s
In the early eighties, as long as the family had canned fruit, after dinner, the mother would announce that she was going to eat canned food, and the father would lazily lean back on the sofa and say, "I don't like this thing", but the eyes watched the mother take scissors to pry open the lid of the can little by little, feed the chickens, and take turns to divide the children.
At that time, logistics were not developed, and the canning factory processed the north and south fruits into canned goods for convenient storage. At that time, there were many kinds of canned food, including oranges, apples, sydney pears, pineapples, yellow peaches... If you are visiting a sick friend, carrying two cans of canned fruit must be indispensable.
In the movies of the 1980s, there was already a cream birthday cake, but the only cake with thick frosting on the market was sold, which was not what most people would buy. Once, on my birthday, my mom said that she would come back at night to buy me a cake for my birthday, and I stayed up all day until I came home from school. When I entered the door, my mother happily pointed to a plate of cakes, a plum-shaped chicken cake, and said, "This cake is real, and it is the same in the stomach." ”
Sesame Paste, Wahaha, Brain Platinum and their brainwashing ads in the 1990s
In the 1990s, the advertisement of southern black sesame paste was deeply rooted in people's hearts, and even if the taste of sesame paste was, it would remember the long shouting sound in the advertisement, and the doll wearing the melon skin hat stuck out her tongue and licked the sticky smile on the side of her mouth. In those days, gift-giving or home-keeping, that is, ready-to-drink, fragrant and delicious black sesame paste was an essential nutritious food for home travel.
The overwhelming brain platinum and Wahaha ads became a TV spectacle. Under its radiation, nutrition for the elderly and children has also entered the "brain supplement era", and the ensuing phenomenon of childhood obesity has gradually become common. Today, people have advanced from the "eat enough" requirement many years ago to the pursuit of "eat well". Natural and simple fruits and vegetables, dairy products, and grains have become the nutritional choices of the new era.