Chapter 3 Section 3 Hometown on Taste Buds

People's habit of relying on food may exceed language. The so-called local pronunciation has not changed, and that is before there is a unified standard pronunciation. The same Chinese characters are pronounced differently in different regions. Today, there is a unified phonetic alphabet across the country. With modern media, Putonghua has become more popular. If you go to big cities such as Shanghai, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Tianjin, and Chongqing, they are still cities with dialects, and the local accents are not changed, but they can also be bilingual or polyphonic, especially If you are a young student, you will be educated in Mandarin at school, so you are much more likely to change it, at least to change its dialect.So, what about taste?A young man has left his hometown and lived outside for decades, his accent is completely Beijingized, and he still has infinite memories of the ordinary food in his hometown. Brother Cheng Shaoguo of the "Wenzhou Evening News" said that before going to Beijing, he called Mr. Lin Jinlan to ask him what he wanted to bring, and Mr. Lin Jinlan only said he wanted to bring Yusheng.Lin Jinlan was originally from Wenzhou, but I always thought he was from Beijing.Yusheng, octopus and shredded radish are mixed with salt, and red yeast rice is added. It is raw, and it is difficult for outsiders to taste its beauty.It is said that people in Wenzhou took it overseas, and the detection alarms of European and American customs often sounded. When they were taken for testing, the bacteria exceeded the standard by 3 million times. The inspector is like seeing an alien: can this be eaten?Ah, can this be eaten too?When Wenzhou people take Yusheng overseas, they wrap several layers of plastic bags to prevent customs detectors from detecting it.

can eat.Wenzhou people have already cultivated the enzymes to digest this kind of bacteria in their stomachs, and they also have the taste memory of fish raw, which will not be bleached by the years, and will not be erased by time.I have eaten raw fish, it is very salty, slightly bitter, slightly astringent, slightly fishy, ​​and it tastes like stale protein. It produces deep nostalgia.I think this has nothing to do with whether I am from Wenzhou or not. Its internal factor is that I did not eat it in my childhood, which is very important.I spent my childhood in the south of Jiangxi, and I like to eat a kind of tamales. The cooking method of this kind of tamales is completely different from that of Hubei. It is sliced ​​pork, dipped in salt water, wrapped in fine rice flour and put into a large earthen bowl. After a few days, the oil seeped out, put it on a dustpan and put it on the roof tiles to dry.The more days of drying, the better. You can also use an iron pan to bake, until the oil completely penetrates the rice noodles, and the outer layer of rice noodles is slightly burnt, which will have a different taste.Because I am obsessed with this kind of steamed meat with wax flavor, I don't like to eat other meats, especially lean meat.The taste I liked in childhood can no longer be changed, it cannot be formatted from the heart.Therefore, the sense of taste is the lifelong taste recognition system provided by the hometown to the disciples, and it is the coincidence of the products of the hometown and the depths of the humanistic soul.With this system, it consciously resists Kexiang from entering the deepest part of the soul like a firewall.

People have a persistent sense of taste, and the taste of sticking to their hometown is longer than eternity.People are middle-aged and old, especially.The old people's obsession with taste also hopes to be passed on to the next generation and the next generation. Using taste to maintain local family ties is one of the most effective ways in the subconscious.This is not like the slogan of Cantonese women: If you want your husband to go home to sleep, you have to tie his stomach.Cantonese women practice soup making very utilitarianly, which is an auxiliary means for their love warfare.Yes, you can not love me, don't you love a good pot of soup I make?Cantonese women don't like red makeup and love soup.However, blood relatives are different. A grandmother may feed her favorite things to her grandson or granddaughter, such as her favorite fermented bean curd, bean paste, pickled radish or potato chips and other small things. Taste dependence occurs, so when he is in middle school or college, he will definitely mention "grandma's sour radish" and so on in a certain composition, but is this good?I don’t like the dualism anymore, that is, black and white, if it’s not good, it’s bad, if it’s not bad, it’s good, things in the world shouldn’t be so simple and absolute, but I feel that children The pure taste buds should not be covered with strange, especially stale flavors, which will cause his taste orientation to deviate from social values, which will accumulate into stubborn taste paranoia, and his personality will be withdrawn.Children's sense of taste, this initial stage of life, should taste healthy, fresh, nutritious and comprehensive food, this taste will be accumulated for a lifetime.

However, the sense of taste still belongs to the hometown, and the hometown is a kind of enzyme. In the growth process of life, the initial taste will become the happiest taste in life.As an omnivorous human, the adaptation to the taste environment is far stronger than those of monophagous animals, but human beings still retain a little bit of focus, which maintains their hometown and family from both physiological and psychological aspects.Hometown, perhaps on the taste buds.