The traditional sauce-making method gives duck tongue a unique sauce flavor, and the meat is tender and refreshing. A sip of old wine and a bite of duck tongue will definitely subvert your taste buds.

But Wenzhou people call duck tongue "duck earning" ("earning" is pronounced as "near" in Wenzhou dialect), which is said to please people. The "tongue" of duck tongue is pronounced as "folding" in Wenzhou dialect, which means losing money in business and is taboo, so Wenzhou people pronounce duck tongue as "duck earning". Making money is the foundation of Wenzhou People's Bank.

This statement is actually not reliable.

Wenzhou dialect vividly calls the animal's tongue "near the mouth" (of course, the tongue is closest to the mouth), for example, "near the pig's mouth" refers to the pig's tongue. The popular title of "Duckbill Earning" should be simplified from "Duckbill Earning" to "Duckbill Earning", and then evolved from a good person to a homophonic "Duckbill Earning". It is necessary to compile a script that makes money and shouts, and give the duck tongue a folk culture color-perfection!

For gluttony, it doesn't matter what the duck's tongue is called. What matters is that the taste buds can feel delicious.

Wenzhou people may be the ancestors of delicious duck tongues, but human society has a long history of eating animal tongues.

Aesop, a famous fable writer in ancient Greece, was a slave of nobles when he was young. One day, the slave Aesop bought the best food in the market to entertain a group of distinguished guests. Aesop gave a table of "tongue banquet"-steamed tongue, smoked tongue and braised tongue. ...

Slave owners are unhappy.

Aesop said: The tongue is the key to science and the weapon of truth. Tongue can help us express our love. We use it to teach, persuade, discipline, pray and sing … so the tongue is the best dish.

The slave owner had no choice but to ask Aesop to go to the market to buy the worst food the next day. I didn't expect Aesop to buy a bunch of tongues, and the slave owners were dumbfounded.

Aesop said: The tongue is the source of all conspiracies, the beginning of all gossip and the chief culprit of all arguments. Tongue can lie, cover up, reverse right and wrong, slander and insult people … so tongue is the worst dish.

What kind of tongue is the ingredient of Aesop's fable "Tongue Banquet"? It's hard to know. It is estimated that it will not be duck tongue, and it will not shake the status of Wenzhou duck tongue.

But after all, it's all tongues, just like white people, black people and yellow people are all people. Think about Aesop's Tongue Banquet when we sweat profusely in wine and bite the tongue of the sauce duck.

This is not only a feast of taste buds, but also a cultural enjoyment.

I can proudly tell others: I didn't eat duck tongue, I ate culture!