Why does turkey, a long-lasting dish in foreign countries, have no place on the Chinese dining table? If it tastes bad, how do Americans eat 45 million turkeys in one Thanksgiving?
my country's dining table can be said to be the most tolerant place. As long as you are delicious, you will have a place. However, turkeys rarely appear on the dining table. Few people even know that we also breed turkeys. The most critical point is of course that it is unpalatable. The famous football star Yao Ming once complained that this thing tastes like cardboard. The chicken of the turkey is dry and woody, and the taste is very bad. All our chicken-related dishes pursue the word "tender", which is extremely inconsistent with our taste, so basically no one eats it, and not only us, foreigners also don't like to eat it. For example, Guo Jierui, a video blogger from the United States, once said that he prefers to eat Peking duck. There is also a very basic problem, that is, turkeys are generally very large, equivalent to three or four times the size of ordinary chickens. Just what kind of pot is used for cooking is a question worth thinking about. In this case, why do Americans still eat turkey?
What kind of charm does the dry and dry turkey have that makes Americans willing to buy it even though they clearly don’t want to eat it? To them, turkey means dumplings during the Spring Festival and mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is a traditional food. For Americans, the two most important holidays of the year are Thanksgiving and Christmas, and turkey is eaten during these two holidays. This comes from the dark history before the founding of the United States. In 1620, Britain A group of Puritans fled to America and established a new home with the help of local Indians. It was at this time that turkeys were served on American tables. Later, a special Thanksgiving Day was set up to thank the Indians. However, after that, the Indians were almost slaughtered by them, and the feeling still continued. The tradition of Thanksgiving is actually a bit of a joke.
With the development of the times, the tradition of eating turkey has gradually spread to Europe in the United States. Turkey is even used as a staple food in Christmas dinners. Of course, it is not All turkeys are like this. Before Thanksgiving, there are usually two turkeys, which will be pardoned by the president and live until death. But unlike our dumplings and moon cakes, turkeys are not delicious. In the early pioneering period, they were quite delicious when they were hungry for nine meals in three days. Now they are not willing to let Americans eat them.
After eating turkey for more than 300 years, haven’t we found a way to make it taste better?
? Even now, the preparation of turkey troubles many chefs. Some people say that turkey is unpalatable just because it is difficult to cook. But if it can be really delicious, it will not be eaten only once or twice a year. And not only them, but Chinese chefs are also helpless about such a tricky thing. The main reason is that turkey itself is not delicious. Okay, let’s think about how many delicious chickens we have made, Sichuan’s spicy chicken, Guangdong’s white chicken, and Hainan’s coconut chicken. Which one is not a nationally renowned delicacy? Unfortunately, turkey is hard to describe. Having said that, why do we think that turkey must be delicious and in line with Chinese tastes? In fact, this thing is so deceptive.
Whether it is the "Tom and Jerry" I watched when I was a child, or the turkeys in various American TV series today, the idea is that they are all feasting on the turkey, which gives people a very strange feeling. It feels very delicious, but after actually tasting it, you will feel that it is nothing more than that. It is this psychological gap that makes us even more indifferent to turkey. By the way, friends, after watching so many film and television works and animations, do you have any food you want to eat the most? Anyway, Xiaotian has always wanted to eat the big steak in "Tom and Jerry".
