Everyone knows that the food cultures of the East and the West are very different. The most obvious one is naturally the difference in the diet between China and other countries. Because China’s diet is very rich, there are many that cannot be regarded as food in the eyes of foreigners. Things are very popular in China. So many Americans find it very strange after they travel to China.
Chinese people’s attitude towards food has always been to try their best to make it delicious, which is why many foreigners are unable to do anything about it, but the Chinese are able to turn it into gourmet food. One American couldn't figure out: We all use this kind of stuff as industrial raw materials, why the Chinese are rushing to eat it.
What he said is actually sugarcane. I believe most people have eaten sugarcane. This kind of food has a history of many years in China. Basically everyone knows how to eat sugarcane. But Americans are different. Most Americans are relatively unfamiliar with sugar cane. Even people who have seen sugar cane do not regard sugar cane as a food at all.
Because sugarcane is too hard for Americans, it is difficult to remove the outer skin, and even if it is removed, the inner flesh does not taste good. Therefore, in the United States, sugarcane has only one role, and that is to use it as a raw material for the sugar industry to produce sucrose. This is also in line with the consistent style of Americans, which is to industrialize most of the food production.
In fact, if enough people come into contact with sugarcane, some people will still use it as food, but the sugarcane in the United States is directly sent to the factory to be processed into sugar after it matures. This is like food such as trotters and pig offal. American pigs are also slaughtered uniformly by slaughterhouse machines, so many Americans have never seen food such as trotters and pig offal at all. Although the industrialized production method of
improves efficiency, it also makes it difficult for most Americans to access more food materials. Moreover, once a link in the industrial chain has problems, it is very likely that the entire industrial chain will fail. Will stagnate. This is also a relatively bad part of the American diet.
