The child bought two bottles of canned fruit, one with oranges and one with yellow peaches. I was quite surprised to say that it is summer and there are so many fresh fruits, why do I still buy canned fruits? The child said that he had not eaten canned fruit for a long time and suddenly wanted to eat it.
Nowadays, there are a lot of fresh fruits all year round, but few people buy canned fruits. However, canned fruits are still a delicious food that my children and I will fondly remember. When I was a kid, during the Chinese New Year, relatives would usually bring two gifts to each other, a pack of generous biscuits and a bottle of canned fruit. There are also a packet of white sugar and a bottle of canned fruit. These two things went from my house to my uncle's house, from my uncle's house to my aunt's house, then from my aunt's house to my second uncle's house, and most likely from my second uncle's house to my house again.
The biscuits and cans were packed in the yellow satchel, and the owner rode the 28 bicycle , listening to the owner's tuneless tune, and moved forward happily. When it arrives on the table in the main room of a family, it will be placed on the table for a few hours, and then it will be put into the yellow satchel again and continue to ride on the bicycle. After a few days of turbulence, I smelled the pork stewed vermicelli from several restaurants, and it will probably return to my table in the end. But we still couldn't eat it, and we watched with eager eyes as it was locked in the cupboard by our mother and kept for emergency use. Maybe grandma was not feeling well that day, and relatives who were in confinement or sick would have to visit her. The cans were the first to be taken out of the cabinet, put in the basket together with the eggs, and then rode off on the 28 bicycle.
However, as long as there are cans in the cupboard, we still have hope of eating it. Especially when I catch a cold, have a headache, feel sad, and lie on the kang and don’t want to get up. Children don't pretend to be sick. At this time, my mother took out the cans from the cabinet, poured them into small bowls, and fed them to us with a small spoon. Take a bite of sweet and cool orange slices, and then drink a mouthful of sweet soup. The sweetness from the throat goes directly to the stomach. It is so comfortable, as if the high fever has subsided all of a sudden. This is really more effective than any pills. Psychotherapy helps a lot.
When my children were young, I often used canned fruits that I thought were delicious as rewards. If they behaved well, I would buy a two-yuan bottle of canned white grapes from the small supermarket at the door. When I got home and opened it, we both felt sore. I finished the whole bottle happily, and I felt as happy and unsatisfied as if I had eaten delicacies from the mountains and seas. The bottle with the handle buckle was used as a water cup and could be used for a long time. Gradually, this prize no longer works, because it is not a rare thing in the eyes of the child. Thinking about it carefully, I also burst into laughter. In this era of abundant materials, supermarkets are full of dazzling products, who would be rare for a two-yuan can. Some people also say that there are too many additives in cans and that eating them is bad for your health, so I don’t buy much of them.
I don’t know since when, the canned white grapes that cost two yuan in the supermarket were replaced by the canned grapes that cost more than ten yuan. It was completely different from what I remembered, and I also lost interest in buying it.
The child was eating the canned oranges he just bought, and he fed me a spoonful of it. The orange slices were slightly bitter and the soup was very sweet. The child looked at me and suddenly said, why are the canned white grapes I used to eat when I was a kid no longer available? The canned food is still delicious. It seemed that the can was still in his memory, and I felt happy, as if I had a resonance.
