Canned lunch meat is a kind of canned compressed minced meat. Usually it's pork.
The lunch meat is cut into slices and can be eaten with bread, and the hot meal of egg noodles is also delicious. Canned foods are easy to eat and are also easy to preserve due to the fact that pork is placed in sealed jars.
Usually eaten at picnics, lunch meat is a must-have military food in the military.
Luncheon meat was born in New York during the Great Depression in the 1930s, when people could not afford meat. Merchants have introduced this kind of mixing meat and additives, such as potatoes, corn juice and soy milk, into cans, named "lunch meat".
It's cheaper than beef and pork, and it's cooked and canned to eat. Lunch meat accompanied New Yorkers through the economic crisis, and the mention of it reminds people of the difficult times of the Great Depression.
At present, the number of canned lunch meat production and processing enterprises in China is relatively large, there are hundreds, from the perspective of the nature of enterprises, there are mainly private enterprises, state-owned enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises.
Among them, private enterprises occupy the main body of the market, and some old state-owned enterprises have become private enterprises through mechanism transformation. At present, there are still a few foreign-funded enterprises in the market.
From the perspective of regional distribution, at present, domestic lunch meat production and processing enterprises are widely distributed, and the main areas are Shanghai, Shandong, Henan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Guangdong and other places, and the regional concentration of enterprises is not high.
China's well-known meat lunch meat canned food brands (companies) include Merlin (Shanghai Meilin Food Co., Ltd.), Gulong (Xiamen Canning Factory), Yurun (Jiangsu Yurun Company), of which Shanghai Merlin Meida Food Co., Ltd. produces canned fruit, canned slippery mushrooms, canned lunch meat and so on. Products are mainly sold to Japan, Germany, France, Spain, South Africa, Taiwan and other countries and regions.
But the domestic consumption level of canned lunch meat is not very high, perhaps this has an important relationship with our living standards, living habits and hobbies, Chinese have always liked to cook this self-sufficient life.
Moreover, China's territory is vast and its regional development is uneven. Therefore, compared with developed countries, the per capita consumption level of lunch meat is very low. However, with the continuous improvement and improvement of people's living standards, along with the changes in living habits and hobbies, the consumption level of Chinese will be greatly improved. Therefore, the capacity of China's domestic market is still very large.
With the continuous improvement of the level of the people, there are higher requirements for the hygiene and safety of food, because food is directly related to people's life and health, and the production of enterprises will become more and more standardized.
Lunch meat is already a delicious dish now, and there are a variety of recipes on our tables.