The unit canteen makes "eggplant sauce fish", and each time it will fill a few more pieces, not because of the taste, but only for memory.
In the 80s, when I was in middle school, I loved the "canned fish in eggplant sauce", and the "Dandong State-owned Factory" came out the best, and I could reimburse a whole bucket by dipping the steamed bun alone. At that time, although the conditions at home were good, my parents changed their patterns all day long to make all kinds of "big dishes", green vegetables, pastries, etc., for fear of growing up, I lacked nutrition. But even if there is no lack of mouth, it is still a fresh luxury such as ham and canned food.
I have unforgettable gastronomic memories at every stage. For example, during the school year in Baoding, the "Korean side dishes" and "Sichuan Dan dan noodles" near the school were the most tempting. Every weekend, two sisters from the same dormitory would go out together, and some of them were responsible for buying flatbread and Korean side dishes; they also bought melon seeds and fruits; and the remaining one paid for noodles. We concentrated our purchases on the dinner table, and the cost of three people was basically equal. This aa system of eating, eat a lot of tricks, both to relieve hunger and save money.
A person is outside, there are many places to use money, you need to be careful, and if you have savings, you will spend it during the holiday. Buy a gym ball for your dad, a hairpin for your mom, or a fountain pen for your brother. When my relatives are not around, I learn to be grateful, and whenever I think of my parents' goodness, I will cry. Bring back the gift, the parents are happy, will stuff a few more dollars when they leave.
In order to save money on living expenses, students will bring dry food from home for a week at the beginning of the school year. Remember the surprise that the meat cube fried sauce brought to the dormitory people. Every night after self-study, eating steamed buns with fried sauce, in addition to eating happily, you can also eat sweet. In order to eat her people's good food, my mother became our mother, and her father became our father. When the phone is told to the parents, the things to bring back from the holidays are more abundant.
Because I ate the big persimmons that my mother "collected", in the year of graduation, my classmate Dashan Leng wanted to go home with me first, saying that I went to see "my father and my mother", which shows that there were many hungry girls at that time. The lack of materials has made the thirst for food straightforward, and even now, when I see those foods again, I still can't help but be affectionate, although I have eaten them tastelessly.
A colleague's food memories are different from mine, and the food that impressed him back then, now he doesn't even look at it. When he was a child, his family had many children, and only his father made money, and his diet was mainly corn, sweet potatoes, cabbage, and turnips. Although these coarse grains of the past have been transferred into today's nutritious delicacies, he does not even look at them, and specializes in picking up big fish and meat to eat. When I was a child, I ate green vegetables and fried meat every day, not to mention, every week there were fish and meat to relieve hunger, so I did not eat coarse grains, and now my favorite is radish, cabbage, sweet potatoes, corn and other coarse grains. Every time we ate at the same table, we ate a sense of age, a topic, and memories.
The people take food as heaven. For good food, everyone, each stage has different memories. No matter whether it is good or bad, you can't put it down after experiencing it, no matter how you look for it, there is no original feeling and taste. Although it is a delicacy, it is reflected in the characteristics of that era and the mood it had at that time.
Text 丨 Zhang Hong
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