"Yan Ping Anthology" - Eating canned mushrooms

When I was ten years old, there was always something good to eat at home. What impressed me was the sugar cube packaged in a carton box, the kind of sugar that is now used to add sweetness when drinking coffee, which melts in the mouth for a while, but it is sweet. Before going to bed, my brother and I always begged my mother to eat a sugar cube, and my mother loved us very much and always agreed to our requests.

When I was a child, I was very well-behaved and obedient. I remember once, my mother held a can of tin box for us to eat, and my brother never wanted it again after taking a bite, and I also felt that this can was not delicious, and I did not want to eat it. Mom said that this is the canned mushrooms that Dad bought, and we have to eat it, otherwise Dad will be unhappy and will not buy us delicious food in the future. I heard my mother say these words, and knowing that my mother was very embarrassed, I forced myself to swallow the mushrooms into my stomach, and there was a lot of soup in the canned bottle, which was worse than the mushrooms. At that time, I thought, delicious things can be eaten in a while, how can I always eat things that I don't like to eat?

The canned mushrooms are white, larger than quail eggs, astringent and fishy. Remember that the can logo is blue, and there are many white mushrooms printed on it, which looks quite appetizing. I don't understand how such a bad thing can be eaten in cans! It's really incomprehensible. I hadn't eaten this kind of can before, and I hadn't seen this tin canned mushroom in an iron box for 7 or 8 years.

I struggled with the matter of eating canned mushrooms for many years. After joining the work, I also searched for canned mushrooms that I had eaten several times, always trying to find out. I wandered many times around selling canned food, never finding the canned mushrooms I remember. Later, when I was eating at a restaurant, I finally found the mushroom that I had eaten as a child. After a detailed inquiry, I finally learned that this mushroom is called mushroom, which is a kind of dish, which is made into canned food for easy transportation and preservation and storage, and the mushrooms in the can are raw and can only be bought in places where dishes are sold.

Finally found the canned mushrooms, the answer is also found! But I still don't understand, why does my mother eat canned mushrooms raw? This answer was also found many years later. It was only after I had children that I dispelled my doubts. Because my sister is 11 years younger than me, the time period when I ate canned mushrooms raw, it was when my mother was pregnant with my sister, she was attracted by the trademark on the canned mushrooms after seeing the canned mushrooms, and she bought it back when she wanted to taste it, and she didn't know how to eat it, so she came to an open can to eat.

Later, eating canned mushrooms was confirmed by my mother.