Chapter 61 Chapter 61 Revisiting Pepper and Democracy

One day when I went to the newly built McDonald's in front of my house, I saw a group of children coming in and out, which was very lively. The manager and foreman of this McDonald's shop were dispatched, directing the tables, laying out French fries, and playing music, just like Daqing. I drank coffee , watch quietly.After a commotion, a group of children sat around the table and suddenly sang "Happy Birthday to You", which turned out to be the birthday of an 8-year-old child.This... is McDonald's?This is the world-famous McDonald's culture? I can't imagine a Sichuan restaurant doing something like this, and it's obviously impossible for customers to ask for special services.Suppose a person from Sichuan wants to say that Sichuan-style restaurants are not fast food, but McDonald's is fast food.However, I would like to reply, why does Sichuan flavor not have fast food?The most important thing is, why doesn't Sichuan flavor have a form and delicious dishes to give an 8-year-old child a lifelong happy memory?As far as I know, there are some small items in the Sichuan flavor series that children love to eat, such as rice wine glutinous rice balls, dandan noodles, sour radish sticks, pickled peppers, etc., and children also like chili foods, which is reflected in the fact that they do not dislike Master Kong instant noodles. Spicy beef in seasoning.

Is democracy just a form of voting and rules?Obviously not. Democracy is a concept of equality between people that is integrated into daily life, and it is also the foundation of business in the spirit of business.As far as I know, the Chinese have not put forward such a concept of establishing a business, which is distance.Therefore, I became an out-and-out Sichuan traitor.Including people from Sichuan, the managers of Sichuan-style restaurants I have come into contact with always tell me a background that I will never believe: they are authentic and their spiciness is the highest.In fact, Sichuan cuisine is a public cuisine, and no one has a patent monopoly in it, and the authenticity is just a reactionary one. They try to explain that they have achieved a monopoly in technology, because they are authentic!Authentic means exclusive, and means that others are pseudo-Sichuan, which has been suspected of defamation.

I know the fact that in this area of ​​Beijing, the spiciness of Sichuan-style cuisine has been greatly reduced, and a compromise has been made to make Beijingers acceptable, but this is very general, including the famous Sichuan-style chain Jinshan City that I have eaten, and even There is no spiciness level in such a well-known restaurant that is quite successful. Customers have no choice but to passively accept the formatted spiciness provided by the restaurant. There was even a dispute because they brought a bottle of wine. It is not a violation of some public principles. For example, McDonald's does not allow smoking, but the restaurant charges a corkage fee, which is as high as 50 yuan, which is more expensive than the wine I brought.

In fact, we have been living under the dictatorship of chili peppers, and Hunan cuisine is slightly better. This may be because it is not as closed as the land of abundance in the basin, but it is not true democracy, but Hunan cuisine is not as spicy as Sichuan cuisine. Pepper fish head is a brand dish, so people usually don’t have to worry about not being able to eat it, but Maoxuewang makes people feel that this is a long-standing practice of chiliism in the Sichuan Basin, and it is more rude than Hunan bandits!Fortunately, the footsteps of the progress of the times are faintly coming. E cuisine has already considered this aspect. The lady foreman will take the initiative to ask: how much pepper to put... Can say this sentence, it is so reassuring, the society is moving towards Moving in the right direction is indeed the case. We have waited a full 20th century for this sentence.

But we still have to be vigilant today. I think that on the issue of eating chili, neo-authoritarianism may bring damage to the democracy of the new chili, because they always replace the spiciness of the whole people with their personal love of eating chili. The opposite of Confucius' words: give to others what you want.From a cultural point of view, it may take the first half of the 21st century to dilute this "what you want, give to others." If it can be successful, it is a blessing.