From "Couple Scrap Pieces" to "Couple Lung Pieces" —— Little-known Origin of Couple Lung Pieces

As we all know, the couple's lung slices are a well-known snack in Chengdu in Sichuan, which was founded by Guo Chaohua and Zhang Tianzheng. After the public-private partnership, the Guo couple merged into Chengdu Catering Company, and the company registered the "Husband and Wife" brand trademark for "Husband and Wife Lung Tablets". Through the efforts of the company for generations, the workmanship and formula of the husband and wife lung tablets have been continuously improved, and the husband and wife lung tablets have become one of the 23 Chinese time-honored brands of Chengdu Catering Company, the largest catering enterprise in Sichuan, and have successively won Chengdu Famous Snacks, China Time-honored Brands, Chinese Famous Snacks and Chinese Famous Snacks.

But this is only the approximate origin of husband and wife's lung films. If it is not old Chengdu, it can't really be detailed. As everyone knows, "husband and wife lung slices" were not originally called "husband and wife lung slices", but called "husband and wife waste slices". The historical origin of the couple's lung slices is little known.

It is said that near Chengdu, there is a place where ethnic minorities live in Chengdu, especially many Hui people. Because these ethnic minorities believe in Islamic religion or their own customs, they don't eat pork, and beef and mutton are the bulk meat consumed there. Moreover, they usually only eat beef and mutton, and they usually discard the internal organs. Every morning, after chanting by a religious Islamic butcher (we in Sichuan are called "Knife Craftsman"), the cattle are slaughtered and divided, and the meat is sent to the market for sale. The cleaned internal organs are abandoned in a corner of the slaughterhouse and piled high.

At that time, there was a young couple, the man named Guo Chaohua and the woman named Zhang Tianzheng. When they saw that all these abandoned internal organs had been thrown away, they felt it was a pity that the young couple had nothing to do anyway and were indulging in their livelihood. So they went to the slaughterhouse in the early morning, rummaged through the piles of internal organs, took some useful ones home, carefully took them out, cooked them in a pot, and after several experiments, mastered the temperature just right. Then carefully cut, picked, cut, cut and processed with a knife, it really makes the tripe white and tender as paper, the tongue reddish as birch, and the scalp transparent and yellowish, and it is matched with the seasonings carefully matched by the husband and wife, such as red oil, pepper, sesame oil, monosodium glutamate, excellent soy sauce and fresh celery, so the "lung slices" cold-mixed have red and bright colors, soft and waxy taste. At that time, where the poor people in Chengdu lived together, the Guo couple's cold beef offal, because of its low price and delicious taste, was not only welcomed by the poor who wanted to eat meat but also sought after by the citizens who loved its delicious food, and soon became famous. Because its raw materials are picked up from the abandoned internal organs and cut into thin slices during processing, it is called "waste slices", and because its husband and wife go into battle together, it is preceded by the word husband and wife. Later, this dish became more and more famous.

After the public-private partnership, the Guo couple merged into Chengdu Catering Company. The company felt that the word "scrap" was not very pleasant, and changed the word "scrap" into the word "lung" and registered "husband and wife lung slices". This is the origin of the name of this famous dish in Chengdu. This dish has beef tongue, beef heart, beef tripe, and beef scalp. Later, beef was added, but there was no beef lung, so it was called "lung slice".

Mr. Chongyang, Chairman of Chengdu Catering Company, Sichuan Province (executive director of China Cuisine Association, director of the National Institute of Functional Technology Appraisal, vice president of Sichuan Cuisine Association, president of Chengdu Cuisine Association, and a famous Sichuan cuisine theorist) wrote "Husband and wife lung slice shop, an old Chinese brand" in the book "Ode to the elegance of Sichuan cuisine", which he has worked hard for half his life. Husband and wife have been married for 60 years, and now they are developing more gracefully. Taste is the common people, and love spreads all over the world. There is a saying: lung slices are not lungs, taste delicious, spicy and fresh; Husband and wife get along well, taste harmony, and love each other forever. Beautiful couple, quick lungs. " Therefore, this is why the "husband and wife lung tablets" have no lungs.

This is the origin of husband and wife lung tablets.