"The cook doesn't steal, the grain doesn't harvest" has existed since ancient times, and its source is unknown. Modern origin: Xiangdusheng's cooking. I know that in the old society, the catering industry was called "hard-working", and there were many words to denigrate this industry, but some of them were true portrayal.
There is also a saying that the cook has no food and the environment is not good. This statement is also quite interesting.
"The cook doesn't steal, and the grain doesn't harvest", although seemingly referring to the cook, actually refers to a kind of human nature. Correspondingly, there is a saying that "kill pigs and sheep, and the cook will taste them first". While clarifying this social reality, these words also reveal some helpless and obscure truths.
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The proverb "the cook doesn't steal, the grain doesn't harvest" has a long history. Throughout the ages, there have been countless similar things, and there has never been a lack of various measures to curb the theft of cooks, but no matter how you guard against such things, you can't fundamentally eliminate them. Therefore, in the workplace, the level of dealing with such things according to people's needs reflects the wisdom of leaders to some extent.
Although "the cook doesn't steal, the grain doesn't harvest" is a proverb, it also has great wisdom. This proverb often comes from people's self-mockery of life or helplessness to social injustice. Like the "street nursery rhymes" that often appear in novels, it is an indispensable part of folk life culture.