Chapter 17 Ben chicken

The first time I heard the word "Benji" was in a restaurant in Hangzhou the year before last, when I was ordering food. Nian: If the person who said "Benji" was not a well-know acquaintance, I would have thought it was a practitioner in a certain industry introducing himself. In fact, in addition to "Ben Chicken", there are also "Ben Duck" and even "Ben Potatoes" in restaurants in Hangzhou. At this point, it seems really necessary for me to make a brief comment on this matter. up. "Ben" is the root, and Kinoshita is Japan; It is said that it is authentic with chicken.What is authentic chicken?According to the original, original and original method of raising chickens - that is, broilers raised by "free range".All the "later" products of modern chicken farms are the end of the "original chicken".Duck or potatoes, and so on.

It is generally believed that the "original chicken" is more delicious than the "end chicken", and the former has more "chicken taste", which tastes dead but alive, because of the great difference in the quality of life between the two. Spend a lifetime in an environment with better air quality, and often walk in the countryside with better air quality, and often find all kinds of pure natural food just around the corner during the walk; the "last chicken" eats animal feed with antibiotics all day may have been polluted), and survived in a dark cage—some chickens, although they are still alive, are already dead. This kind of living environment is not worth mentioning.

Chicken farmers and chicken eaters are more fond of talking about the happy life of "the chicken". Let's take a look at the famous French chicken that won the AOC honor mentioned in Peter Mayer's book "Eating and Understanding France" "Blue-footed nobleman": "After five weeks in a central temperature-controlled egg incubator, the chickens are released outside, where each chicken enjoys an average of at least ten square meters of grass. After nine to twenty-three weeks, their food is provided by nature (worms, insects, small snails), plus a little artificial diet including corn, wheat and milk. In the next few months, the When it was time to fatten them up, they were moved into large spacious wooden cages and fed two generous meals a day. Apparently, this is the secret of why these chickens are so fat."

"The embroidered feathers turn over the grass, and the red beak pecks the flowers back." Regrettably, the so-called "stocking" is not completely let go. Enjoying the life of whistling together in the mountains and forests and walking in the rivers and lakes all his life.In contrast, Ruoyan's "Moji" was sentenced to life imprisonment, and "Benji" was nothing more than a lifelong prison, a larger cell, or some extra time for his good performance. If the "last chicken" is a dead body, the "original chicken" is a dead body. "Life is movement". The reason why the "basic chicken" has a higher life value than the "last chicken" is also due to exercise.Of course, the purpose of the chickens actively participating in the movement is not for the chickens themselves, but for the people, people-oriented.Therefore, "Ben chicken" is called "free-range chicken" by Cantonese people who have always been known as "actionists"-this does not mean that other chickens soar in the sky or swim on the water all day long, but relatively For the same kind who were deprived of the natural right to "walk the ground" in the cage.The movement of the rooster is based on walking, as evidenced by a poem: "There is no need to cut the red crown on the head, and the whole body is white and walk to the future" (Tang Yin's "Painting Chicken"), it is clear that Shi Shiran will come by "walking".However, if we really want to go back to the source, the "free-range chicken" is actually a kind of "last chicken", because wandering in the garden is by no means the true nature of the chicken.Although the chicken originally from China and India is a kind of winged bird that is not good at flying, and the breeding of this kind of bird began in the Yin and Shang Dynasties, but according to ancient documents, the ancient chickens, both in posture and mentality, were very different. It is much higher than today's "walking chickens", because they often fly up, and "walking" seems to be just a run-up: "Lianqu is also reconciled to people, and they come to live in the garden tree without waiting for the cage" (Lu You), " Drive the chickens up the trees, and start to hear the firewood gate" (Du Fu), and a little earlier, see Han Yuefu: "The chicken crows high on the tree top, and the dog barks deep in the palace".

The future looks at the present, and the present looks at the past.sad husband! The bird flu in 2004 ended with the killing of 9 million chickens.In the year of the monkey, chickens are killed, and chickens are killed for monkeys. However, it is time to think about the relationship between us and chickens. When we eat chickens, we must not only eat live ones, but also strive for excellence. The culprit who detonated this terrorist incident.The perpetrator is not a chicken bomb, but a human bomb.The popularity of Zha Chicken has not diminished so far, but the taste of chicken has gradually disappeared. It is nothing more than getting it at hand, cooking it as you like, and eating it deliciously.The deliberate pursuit of raw materials not only negates cooking as a skill, but as far as chicken is concerned, it also destroys its "ordinary" essence as a daily food.

At the end of the movie "Mozart", Salieri spread his hands in the corridor of the lunatic asylum, and said with compassion: "Mediocrity everywhere. I forgive you mediocrity all over the world." Say, it's better to encourage each other.I have been a human being for half my life, and I have eaten chicken for half my life, and my attitude towards chicken has become more and more popular.Li Yu talked about the merits and demerits of chickens, saying: "When the sky dawns, it will be clear if it is reported or not".This is also the attitude.Therefore, whether it is the original chicken or the end chicken, as long as it is cooked properly, even the hard frozen chicken can be chewed.Wanting to know the root and the end of the chicken is more absurd than investigating the chicken crossing the road.Eating chickens is the same principle, that is to say, there are no absolute good and bad people in the world, only good and bad people. Similarly, there are only bad chickens in the world, and they are not destined to be bad. eat chicken.