American carp is actually an exotic species. Because it has no natural enemies, it has formed a trend of flooding in the United States. Why do Americans not eat so many carp is mainly due to several reasons. First of all, there are too many thorns in carp, and it is often necessary to spit them out when eating. In western etiquette, it is very impolite to spit them out after food enters the mouth, and it is also a kind of embarrassment to the owner. Therefore, in the United States, fish are generally eaten without food, mainly marine fish, and in the United States, marine fish has formed an industrial chain, which is very popular among the public. In another case, in the eyes of Americans, fish living in freshwater lakes are all fish that are seriously polluted by the environment. They think that eating this kind of fish is extremely harmful to the body, and even in the eyes of some Americans, carp is a toxic food. It may even kill you after eating it, and there is no way to deal with carp in the catering industry in the United States, which leads to the bad taste of carp. Many Americans will think that this carp is too fishy to eat after eating the carp cooked by their local chefs, and some even think that this species is a poison, and eating too much will lead to death.

1. Dining etiquette determines that Americans don't want to eat carp

Unlike China, which regards carp as the four major fish, Americans are very unnatural when using carp. They think that carp has too many thorns, and it is very impolite to spit thorns in the process of eating. In addition, the different dining tools of Americans also promote this phenomenon. When Americans eat, Basically, they use knives and forks, and the tolerance of American table manners is particularly low. Unlike China, who uses chopsticks to pick out fishbones easily when eating, and we don't think it is rude when others spit, Americans are generally used to using knives and forks when eating food, and knives and forks are very unfavorable for picking out fishbones from carp, so many western gentlemen refuse to eat freshwater fish for their own etiquette problems.

Second, American chefs have no ability to handle carp

Another important reason why Americans don't want to eat carp is because of its taste problem. American chefs in catering industry are basically not as skilled in handling carp as chefs in China. They are as simple in handling freshwater fish as they are in the way of marine fish, so that the fishy smell of carp is often heavy, so they serve it to American users without removing the fishy smell, so that they feel this kind of fish.

Third, American experts visited China to learn how to treat carp.

The origin of American carp is mainly due to the serious river pollution and eutrophication in the United States in the 1971s, which led to a large number of cyanobacteria. The United States wanted to dispose of these plants, so it introduced herbivorous carp from China. However, because carp had no natural enemies there, it proliferated in large numbers, which led to this phenomenon. However, some aspects of carp treatment by American catering chefs, So some time ago, American experts came to China to learn how to make delicious carp, so as to meet the demand of the American market and form an industrial chain, so as to reduce the pressure of American carp on the ecological environment and turn the threat of the United States into a commercial guarantee.

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1 First of all, it is the cultural difference between China and the West. For us, carp is a native species in Asia. We have been eating Dongdong since our ancestors, and we are proficient in braising, steaming, frying and frying. But for Americans, carp is an exotic species, and it was introduced at the end of the twentieth century. They feel strange about this fish, and they have no experience in handling it. Moreover, in fact, Americans just started to introduce carp to control river water pollution, not as food. It' s just that they didn' t expect carp to breed so quickly at first. < P > The most important thing is the difference in eating habits. In fact, Americans only eat finely processed meat products, and it is best to eat them directly or with a little treatment. Like chicken, duck, fish, pig, beef and mutton, bones need to be removed, viscera removed, cleaned and bagged, or pickled and can be put into the oven directly, or even cooked and canned directly. So you can see that there are only deep-sea cod and deep-sea salmon in western restaurants such as KFC, McDonald's and Pizza Hut, because foreigners are basically not picky.

3 In fact, Americans have been working hard to "eat Asian carp". For example, the American government is actually promoting the advantages of carp, such as low price, high protein and low mercury content, but the viscera and thorns of carp are difficult to handle. In fact, there are some Americans who eat carp, but they are relatively small, and most Americans can't cook it. Moreover, at present, the industrial chain of this piece has not developed, and the carp meat processed by the existing processing chain is not delicious, so the road of "eating Asian carp" is still a bit difficult.

As for the problem that has been rumored on the Internet that Asian carp can't be eaten because of heavy metal pollution in the river, it seems that there is no specific report to confirm it.

In the United States, heavy metal pollution is serious, and heavy metals will be deposited on the bottom of the water, which happens to be a benthic fish. It seems that it is natural for carp to exceed the standard of heavy metals. But in fact, there are no reports or experiments to prove that these fish themselves really exceed the standard of heavy metals. On the contrary, the public health department of Illinois once publicly announced that it advocated people to eat Asian carp, and suggested that the mercury content of Asian carp was even lower than that of tuna. Personally, it is not true that Americans don't eat carp because of excessive heavy metals.

Then a partner will definitely say that someone on the Internet specially sent Asian carp back from the United States to eat. It tastes terrible, just like eating dirt. Here, I want to clarify that what Americans call Asian carp is not what we think of carp, but actually a general term for all kinds of grass carp, bighead carp and silver carp. Besides, the fish are so big, so the fish can not be rough. And it's frozen fish mailed from the United States, which is even worse.

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