Cover news reporter Gou Chun intern Zhong Kunliang
In the eyes of many people, "Wax flavor" seems to be equivalent to "New Year's taste", and recently in Chengdu, "New Year's taste" can be felt in advance. It's still a full three months before the Spring Festival, but on the streets of Chengdu, many shops have hung rows of sausage bacon.
On October 29, in order to explore the reasons behind the "early" of selling sausages this year, the reporter visited Chengdu's "sausage street" - Xinkaisi Street. Some merchants said that their stores began to prepare sausages in large quantities after the National Day. Why did Chengdu sausages start selling in large quantities in October? The reporter inquired.
Affordable price
Sausages are reduced by a third
The reporter visited and found that in Xinkaisi Street, many butcher shops have been hung with sausages of various flavors.
"Our sausages have slightly spicy, medium spicy, special spicy, five spices..." In Chengdu to sell sausages for 20 years in the small ma ge shop has a variety of flavors of sausages, he told reporters, this year's dried finished sausages began to sell 40 yuan / jin, although the recent pork prices have risen slightly, sausage prices have also remained at 45 yuan / kg, last year's most expensive sold to 68 / kg. The on-site production site of buying meat is calculated to be 21 yuan / jin, and last year it was more than 30 yuan a catty.
Xiao Ma Ge introduced that this has a lot to do with this year's meat price, "Now the meat price is cheap, although it has rebounded from the previous lowest time, but it has been much cheaper than in previous years." Little Ma Ge introduced that last year and the year before, the most expensive time for pork was more than 30 pounds.
Mr. Bai, the owner of another butcher shop, also said, "The price of sausages this year is much cheaper than last year, mainly because the price of pork has dropped." He introduced that the price of sausages in the store is divided into two types due to the quality of pork, white pork 40 yuan / catty, black pork 45 yuan / catty. Compared with last year, the price fell by about 20 yuan / catty. Although the time of selling sausages in large quantities is relatively early than in previous years, the business is particularly good, and Mr. Bai can sell about 700 to 800 pounds of sausages a day.
Sell early
Weather Affected by various factors such as meat prices
"As soon as the National Day is over, we start preparing sausages in large quantities." Xiao Ma Ge told reporters that last year's large-scale preparation of sausages was about the end of November and the beginning of December, and this year was more than a month ahead.
He introduced that a very important part of this is the maturity of the weather and cold sealing technology, after the National Day, the temperature is reduced, the production of sausages will not deteriorate, coupled with the maturity of cold sealing technology, the production of sausages is no longer as obvious as before, as long as the temperature is controlled below 16 ° C through refrigeration and other technologies, it can be successfully produced.
"In addition, the price of meat is cheap now, sausages are also cheap, and some customers are afraid that the price of meat will rise later, so they also want to buy in advance."
Xiao Ma Ge told reporters that today's sausages are sold earlier and earlier, and even throughout the year. Among them, in addition to the increasingly mature technology, the most important reason is that the sausage has gone from Sichuan to the whole country. "In the past, only Sichuan people ate, so they had to wait until it was cold and eat after the Spring Festival after the winter solstice." Now the people of the whole country like to eat, and people in the north and south want to taste it. ”
60%
Outsiders become the "main force" in buying sausages
The reporter visited and learned that in addition to the physical store sales, online sales have also become an important channel. Many customers from other places will buy online, and the merchant will receive the order, make the sausage and then draw it into vacuum packaging and mail it.
Little Ma Ge told us that in recent years, only 40% of locals have bought sausages in his shop, and 60% of foreigners have been purchased.
There is a regular customer in his shop, Grandma Wang, who is 68 years old this year. Grandma Wang speaks an authentic Chengdu dialect and makes purchases in the xiao ma ge shop. Grandma Wang has been working in Chengdu since graduating from university and has been working for more than 30 years. Recalling the first time she ate sausages, she said, "Exceptionally tasty! I still don't like to eat slices, I like to eat the whole thing after cooking! ”
After that, Grandma Wang would take a little with her even when she went out. "When I was young, I went to Beijing to climb the Great Wall, I was very tired, so I took the sausage out of my bag and ate it, and everyone around me envied it, and I told them that this was a specialty sausage from Sichuan!"
Grandma Wang's sister lives in Beijing, and when her sister was alive, she would buy nearly 1,000 yuan of sausages every year at Xiao Ma Ge and send them to her. She told reporters that she just took her sister to the Xiaomage shop two days ago to buy sausages, "They like spicy flavors, our family likes to buy Cantonese flavors, mainly grandchildren like." ”
The reporter learned from the mouth of Xiao Ma Ge that in the taste choice of sausages, there are also regional differences: northerners generally prefer slightly spicy tastes, and southerners prefer medium spicy tastes.
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