"Chaotian Pot" - not just a pot to the sky, there are also interesting things in it

Recently, a new "Chaotian Pot" snack bar was opened in the street house of our community. Every time I see it, I feel a lot of emotion in my heart. It reminds me of an interesting incident when I was in agricultural school more than forty years ago.

This incident, at that time, was a little humiliating, and today's young people may sound like a joke.

First, let's introduce what is the "Chaotian Pot".

"Chaotian Pot" is a local traditional dish, which originated from the folk market during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It is that the store cooks a full set of pigs' heads, hooves and offal in an iron pot with their own unique recipes. The soup in the pot is boiling and rotten, because the pot has no lid, people call it "chaotian pot". When eating, thin dough cakes baked using the traditional local method are rolled with chopped meat, rolled into a cylinder shape, and eaten by hand. Whatever kind of meat you want to eat, roll that kind of meat, or you can ask for a little bit of each meat. The shop is whatever you want. When the meat is rolled, a sauce made by the shop is also spread in the pasta. Most people eat bread and drink broth.

At that time, the "Chaotian Pot" was sold very specially, and if you wanted to eat the "Chaotian Pot", all you had to do when you entered the door was to say to the shop: I want two cakes, what kind of meat do I want. On how much it costs to eat a few loaves. No money for broth!!!

This story is an interesting thing about me and my male classmates eating "Chaotian Pot"...

At that time, our school was located on the eastern outskirts of the city, surrounded by farmland. The school is four or five miles away from the city, and it is a dirt road that is not too wide to go to the city. As soon as the car passed, the dust flew...

I remember it was a Saturday in November 1979. Our three good male classmates were idle and bored, so they walked to the city and wandered aimlessly. In fact, each of us has no money in our pockets. Going shopping, not buying anything. We can't afford anything. Just going to the city with the curiosity of a rural child, looking at buildings, cars, walking eyes...

Let's go around and shop...

Around eleven o'clock, we were walking on our way back to school. As I walked, I walked to a "chaotian pot" nearby, and at that time, my nose was so good that I could smell the smell of meat floating out of it. Ahhh—what a fragrance...

Because I was stupid all morning, everyone was hungry at this time... I can't walk my legs anymore...

We discussed it and decided to eat it.

At that time, the price of pork was seventy cents. Eat a "chaotian pot" for six cents, but each of us can't afford to buy a portion alone. The price is too expensive for us, but it is too hungry, what to do? In the end, the three of us decided to pool our money to buy a piece of cake. Everyone eats a bite to relieve their hunger, isn't it broth without money? We can drink more broth...

So we asked one of our classmates to buy it, and the other two took up a table in the northeast corner of the store, where there were few people. During this time, the two of us had already scooped three bowls of broth first, and we were embarrassed to bow our heads and drink it eagerly...

Because the three of us bought a cake, we felt a little embarrassed, so the two of us were not embarrassed to bow their heads, take turns to take a bite of you, and I ate this cake in one bite. And gulped down the broth. Oops! This broth is fragrant...

Although they all silently bowed their heads and drank the broth, the two people facing the boss lady at the door, while drinking the soup, were constantly, subconsciously, from time to time with the afterglow of the eyes to glance at the boss lady...

During this time, each of us has drunk about three bowls of soup, right?

In fact, at first, the fat lady didn't pay much attention to us. But gradually, she looked straight at us with her not very pretty eyes. Her face was getting uglier and uglier. Maybe she had slowly sensed that there was something wrong with the children, right? She must have remembered that these three children had bought a cake? But drinking broth is not big, huh? So there is such a thing? Although the broth is not very valuable, this tap water and coal are also bought for money! So, the hostess was annoyed. Screaming for the male boss to come and drive us away, swearing and grinning in his mouth...

So the three of us scrambled to run...

This matter, the three of us, during the school period, no one has ever mentioned it again...

alas! That year... We're not poor...