We are all familiar with the word "hospitality". In recent years, "Hospitality Shandong" has become louder and louder, and the brand has become brighter and brighter.
We Linyi people are also warm and hospitable. When guests come to our home, we will go all out to entertain them, even if we bankrupt our family and property. It is simply a "bloody response".
I feel bad if the host is not good at etiquette, I feel bad if the guests don’t drink well, I feel bad if they don’t eat enough, I feel bad if I don’t sleep well, and I feel bad if the guests don’t have fun.
In short, in short, we Linyi people always think better and better, do our best but still feel dissatisfied and indebted, and we still complain when we see off guests. "The hospitality was not good and the drinks were not good" or something like that.
We are all familiar with "delicious" and it is not difficult to understand. I think this word has at least three meanings.
When we see this word, the first thing we think of is "delicious" food and the feeling of deliciousness. tasty.
Eating is the most important thing in the world, and eating delicious food is the first enjoyment. Having delicious food and eating delicious food are also part of the people's yearning for a better life.
“It’s delicious!” “It’s so delicious!” “I’m so greedy!”
In daily life, people often communicate about delicious food, delicious feeling, and delicious food. surprise.
The second meaning of "delicious" is "greedy", which is one of the shortcomings that people look down upon.
In the public opinion environment in rural areas, if anyone has the reputation of being "greedy", it will be bad, and it will be difficult to find a partner.
Because, "delicious" is often associated with "lazy to cook". If you are greedy and lazy, if you are lazy to cook, you will not be able to live at all. Who would dare to want it?
As the old saying goes, eat and drink as much as you can. In other words, food and clothing should be consumed according to one’s ability.
The "greedy" public opinion dislikes the poor and loves the rich. Some people eat delicious food every day and say they are greedy all day long, but no one calls them greedy. This is because people have money and can afford food.
Some people get the reputation of being "greedy" by inadvertently saying it because they are poor and cannot afford to eat.
Nowadays, there are many "foodies", and some people regard themselves as "foodies". They are obsessed with eating delicious food, walking around the streets and alleys to find delicious food, and eating delicious food all over the world. " reputation.
This is because people are "delicious" but not lazy, they eat well and cook well, they can eat and do well, they work hard, and their career and family support are not ambiguous or delayed at all.
The third meaning of "delicious" is that there is a wide range of food to eat, and you can eat it if you dare to eat it.
As a Linyi native, I admire the delicious food of people in some places. They eat snakes, cats, bats, pangolins, rats, etc.
Because what they eat, we Linyi people generally don’t eat.
Look at our Linyi people, they are also delicious. In addition to the common chicken, pig, beef, mutton and dog, we Linyi people also like to eat:
Flying birds in the sky, such as turtle doves, pheasants and other birds.
Things jumping in the grass, such as grasshoppers.
Insects found on trees, such as mantises, hanging ghosts, cicadas, bean bugs, tussahs and other insects.
Animals that run on the ground, such as hares, buffaloes, scorpions, etc.
Things that swim in the water, such as fish, shrimps, turtles, eels, etc.
Things buried in the sand, such as rice clams, etc.
Those dug from the soil, such as cicada monkeys, sweet potato pupae, etc.
Those that burrow in the mud, such as loaches, river mussels, etc.
Those hidden in wood, such as woodpeckers.
To sum up, the delicious food of Linyi people is mainly reflected in the following aspects:
Eating chicken is expensive. Linyi people are famous for eating chicken. There is a joke that "not a single chicken can leave Linyi alive."
There are many ways to cook chicken, including fresh, spicy, tender, fried, stir-fried, stewed, roasted, and boiled. One hundred people fry chicken, and there are a hundred ways to fry chicken. One hundred fried chicken restaurants have one hundred kinds of fried chicken specialties. Everyone talks about their own merits.
When there is a wedding and guests come, they serve wine and kill chickens for food. The first dish is chicken, two fish and three dishes. Chicken is the worthy first course.
Linyi people pay special attention to specialties when entertaining guests, and eating chicken is also the first choice.
Eat sheep as a supplement. Linyi people also like to eat mutton, drink mutton soup, and eat mutton to nourish the body. I ate chicken and drank too much wine the night before, but the next day I felt relieved after sweating with a bowl of mutton soup.
Especially in summer, people in Linyi eat Fuyang. That day, the mutton soup restaurant was bustling with people, and it was hard to find one.
We Linyi people never complain about the bad conditions when drinking mutton soup, and we are not afraid of a few flying insects. As long as the mutton soup is authentic, we can drink it while squatting on the roadside, sweating profusely and panting slightly.
And look at it, those who drink mutton soup are either brightly dressed or in suits and leather shoes, either beauties or handsome men, or high-ranking officials or nobles. That mutton soup is not something most people drink often.
Eating pigs is common. Linyi people are also fond of meat, and the most common food they eat is pork. People in Linyi also make pork in a common way. The more sophisticated ones are pan-fried rolls, Sixi meatballs, Qingshui meatballs, etc. made for rural wedding banquets. There are not many whole pig restaurants that really do it well.
Eating insects is a treasure. What we Linyi people like to eat most are insects. Insects are high in protein, low in fat and low in cholesterol, making them an ideal protein for poor people.
Linyi is located at 34 degrees to 36 degrees north latitude, with four distinct seasons and abundant "insect" production.
Among them, there are three kinds that are collected for guests:
The first is mountain water buffalo, which costs five or six yuan each, and ordinary people cannot afford it unless they catch or buy it themselves. Freeze in the refrigerator. If you can eat this, you are so lucky.
The second is the cicada and the cicada monkey. Now it’s seventy or eighty cents apiece. In summer, people buy part of it and fry it when guests come.
The third is Hu Bangzi, also called Xian Chuangzi. These flying insects are transformed from grubs in the ground. When fried in oil, they become crispy and fragrant. During the summer nights, the wanderers come out in concentrated concentrations for a certain period of time and fly everywhere, staying mainly on the leaves of bushes. People caught them and kept them. There used to be many in my old home, but now they are almost gone.
In my impression, in the past two years, only in Junan can you eat squid.
Yes, in recent years, with the use of pesticides and fertilizers, there have been fewer and fewer bugs, so naturally they have become more and more rare and valuable.
The eating habits of a place, including what they like to eat and drink, are the result of people’s historical choices for thousands of years, and are relatively in line with dietary laws.
Not eating from time to time. The delicious food we Linyi people eat are all local, seasonal products. The water and soil support the people, and the products support the people.
Delicious food is both a weakness and a motivation, and hospitality is both an inheritance and a culture.
Well done is not as good as talking well, and eating well is not as good as doing well. All worries, difficulties and problems can be solved by eating good food.
Linyi is delicious and hospitable, and it is worthy of its name. Linyi is very hospitable, so there will definitely be delicious food.