This year’s Oscar, "Parasite" is a well-deserved dark horse. It has won four awards for best film of the year, best director, best original screenplay and best international film. This is also the first time that Oscar has The "Best Film of the Year" was awarded to non-English films. "Parasite" successfully made history. The film director Feng Joon-ho fought to become a god.
This is a film about the gap between the rich and the poor. The director portrays the contrast between the lives of the poor and the rich in a perfect way: the rich live in luxury villas, and the housekeeper takes care of everything, even the most expensive dog food for pets; The poor live in a dark basement, and they have an indelible smell. A slight rainstorm can wipe out the whole family...
But, are the poor born poor? it's not true. From the dialogue at the beginning of the movie, we can know that the real reason why the protagonist Kim's family became poor is the investment bubble of "Taiwan's old taste cake shop".
Wenguang (the housekeeper before the rich) was not poor at the beginning. They also owed a large debt due to their failure to invest in the "Taiwan Castella Cake Shop" in their early years and fell into this situation.
In fact, they all said the same thing. The "cake incident" of actually happened in Korea.
01. What is the "Taiwanese old-fashioned cake"?
The ancient taste is the meaning of "the taste of the old" or "the taste of childhood" in the Hokkien dialect, with the image of "reminiscence" in it. There are some cake shops in Tamsui, Taiwan that serve this kind of "old-fashioned cake", which is more delicate, soft, and simple in materials. It is a local traditional specialty food.
Since 2016, a chain cake brand called "Daiwang Castella" turned out in South Korea. Their family claimed to be making "Taiwanese old-fashioned cakes", which is essentially a cake imitating Taiwan's Tamsui. The shop has nothing to do with the shops in Taiwan. (This behavior itself is not a problem, because "Taiwanese cake" is not a registered trademark, it is just a food name, of course anyone can make it.)
"King Castella" cake shop
The brand expanded in the form of franchise stores. At that time, the expansion speed was extremely fast. More than 800 stores were opened in a few months. It was loved by young people and became a frequent visitor of Instagram.
But a few years later, the brand was exposed to "food safety issues" and has since been devastated, which led to successive closures of stores. What exactly is
"food safety problem"? We checked the relevant information, and the result was a bit annoying...
02. What food safety issues have been exposed?
exposed "food safety issues" is a TV program called "Food x FILE". During the program, the reporter visited on the spot and found that the cake making process was not as previously thought. The "problems" mentioned in the
program mainly have the following three points:
- In the cake making process, no butter is added, but a large amount of vegetable oil (canola oil) is added. This is inconsistent with the image of a "healthy cake" that people expected.
- did not use fresh shelled eggs, but used liquid egg liquid instead.
- In the ready-mixed powder of cakes, it is found that food additives such as emulsifiers and leavening agents are contained.
Taiwanese media's report on the matter
A Taiwanese media spoke out the Korean people.Attitude to this matter: "The good castella in our minds should be a combination of fresh eggs, milk, butter and flour, but in the hands of unscrupulous merchants it has become a combination of food additives."
03. This Is it really a "food safety issue"?
From the point of view of food practitioners, the three so-called "problems" have nothing to do with "food safety". They are simply "crimes of desire".
Let’s take a look at the "edible oil" item first.
Most cakes need cooking oil in the process of making. On the one hand, edible oil can improve the texture of the product and make the cake softer, on the other hand, it can also make the structure of the cake more stable and prevent collapse during the baking process. Whether you use butter or canola oil, as long as you want to make a delicious cake, the oil content cannot be too low. The oil content of ordinary cakes is about 5%-12%, which is not too small.
In addition, if canola oil is used instead of butter, it is a healthier choice in terms of nutrition. Because butter contains a lot of saturated fatty acids, and canola oil contains much less saturated fatty acids than butter, it is healthier in terms of fatty acid composition.
The second line is the ratio of canola oil fatty acids. The penultimate line is the ratio of butter fatty acids
. I don’t know what to say about "egg liquid".
Actually replacing fresh eggs with egg liquid is a general trend under the standardization of the food industry. As long as uses the same brand of egg liquid, it can ensure that the cakes of each chain store are as consistent as possible. This is a good thing for chain companies and consumers.
In addition, because the egg liquid is produced in large quantities in the factory, the control of raw materials and processing is stricter, and food safety is more guaranteed. If fresh eggs are used, the raw materials are not so controllable, and it may not be so easy to ensure food safety.
Korean egg liquid product
In addition, the use of egg liquid saves the process of beating and beating eggs, saving precious time for making cakes. For the cake shop, all this time is actually money! Besides, the process of knocking and breaking eggs may also increase food safety risks and quality risks (such as the risk of foreign objects such as eggshells being mixed into cakes).
No matter how you look at it, egg liquid is a better choice. In countries other than South Korea (China, European and American countries), egg liquid is also very common.
QC: In short, if I were the owner of a cake shop, I would also use egg liquid instead of eggs. The last one of
is even more puzzling.
Why can't the cake mix contain food additives? Food additives like emulsifiers and leavening agents are very common in the baking industry. Like edible oils, they help to improve the texture and stability of the product and make the cake more delicious. There are some food additives that are common even in home baking, such as baking soda and baking powder. These are "leavening agents." It’s so common at home, so it’s not useful to put it in the store?
The cake mix used in the store at the time, the food additives are marked with red lines
. There is no report that there are "excessive, over-used" additives in Castella cake shops, that is, they use These food additives are completely legal and compliant. The reason for being criticized is entirely because of people's misunderstanding of food additives and the imagination of "natural food".
is here to reiterate our point of view: food additives are the soul of the modern food industry, and legally used food additives are harmless to the body. They can make food more delicious and have a longer shelf life. Why should we reject them?
04. Double irony
Since it is not a food safety issue, is it a publicity issue?? For example, will there be such a possibility: the business uses "pure natural, without any food additives" as a selling point, and additives are found later. If this is the case, then the behavior of this program is at least a "face-slap".
However, unfortunately, we did not find any claims about "natural" from the business. After the TV show
was aired, most Koreans from then on believed that this cake shop was a "black-hearted merchant" and used additives to "substitute good" and refused to buy their products. This can only be understood as a lack of understanding of the food industry and lack of understanding of food additives, resulting in irrational panic. We are very familiar with this scene of
.
Starbucks uses cochineal red pigment, saying that people "use bug carcasses as raw materials";
Subway uses bread improver azoformamide, saying that they "use rubber soles with anti-knotting salt";
z123040zz123040zz Potassium ferrocyanide, said to be "very toxic";
diarrhea after eating spicy, blame the pepper essence;
because of the inferior cooking package incident, the entire "cooking package" industry was killed by the whole "cooking package" industry zz
z2 Misunderstanding. These are also things we have experienced before.
Sometimes, the media that does not know the truth can always play a role in "pushing the flames" in a timely manner, guiding the public to the opposite of the food industry.
The film "Parasite" itself is full of irony and reflection on the gap between rich and poor. But if you look closely at how the gap between the rich and the poor in the film is caused, it turns out that one of the reasons comes from the public's distrust of the food industry.
This is simply double irony.
Reference
1) Korea Star Daily-Once an internet celebrity delicacy was exposed, don’t waste money next time you travel
https://www.koreastardaily.com/tc/news/92191
2) Sanli News Network-Imitation Freshwater Old-fashioned Cake The Korean chain store "King Castella" was exposed to unnatural
https://www.setn.com/News.aspx?NewsID=233262
3) Liu Binyang. The role of fats in baking[J]. Food Science, 1988, 9( 10).
4) Fat secret
https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/usda/sponge-cake?portionid=61595&portionamount=100.000
5) Bilibili-"Parasite" in the "Parasite" in the "old taste cake" stem
https ://www.bilibili.com/read/cv3283849/
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