People from different countries have different eating habits. We are used to eating dumplings during the Chinese New Year, mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, and rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival. Americans also have their own eating habits. They are used to eating on Thanksgiving and Christmas. Eat the so-called "big meal" - roast turkey.
Like the Chinese, the American family will sit around the table and enjoy the "lip and tooth enjoyment" brought to them by the turkey.
Chinese people have never concealed their love for food, and their stomachs are very tolerant. Foods such as pizza, burgers, caviar, wagyu, ostrich meat, crocodile meat, etc. are popular among older Chinese people who love food. The gourmets all accepted the orders.
Americans have a special liking for turkeys, and approximately 46.5 million turkeys are consumed during Christmas and Thanksgiving every year. So why is turkey, which is highly praised by foreigners, but no one cares about it in our country?
I think there are the following reasons:
First of all, for Chinese people, there are too many choices, there are too many delicious chickens, and turkey seems too unpalatable. . When Yao Ming first joined the Rockets, he also tried turkey meat, but later said he couldn't bite it and it had no taste at all.
Indeed, turkey meat is woody, dry, fishy, ??has little fat, is tasteless when chewed, and is a pity to throw away. It is four to five times larger than the chicken that is commonly eaten, often weighing more than 20 kilograms. No matter how you cook it, you can't get rid of the earthy smell.
Internet celebrity chef Wang Gang is also someone who has eaten, seen, and cooked. He once cooked a roast turkey. No matter how superb his cooking skills were, the meat was still not chewy. He later said that the turkey The meat was very chewy and not tasty at all.
In addition, compared with our country’s white-feathered chickens, the raising cost of turkeys is too high, and the meat yield is too low.
The cost of raising turkeys is expensive. You can buy an ordinary white-feathered chick for 1 to 3 yuan, while the price of a Nikola turkey chick has reached 20 yuan.
Compared with white-feathered chickens, turkeys are huge, require six times as much feed as white-feathered chickens, and require much larger living space. One turkey can raise four to five in the same space. For white-feathered chickens, the meat yield is about 20% lower than that of white-feathered chickens.
Most Chinese people do not agree with turkey meat at all, so it is difficult to sell turkeys when they are sold. You can’t even find a store in the country that specializes in cooking turkeys.
Furthermore, turkeys are very aggressive during the breeding period, much more aggressive than the big roosters in rural areas. When the breeders enter the chicken coop to work, they have to risk being kicked by the chicken's claws. Risk of being pecked by a chicken's beak. Turkeys are rather nervous and make cooing noises all the time. If the chicken farm is too close to the village, it will disturb the residents.
The stress response of turkeys is too strong. Thunder, wind, and firecrackers may directly scare the turkey to death. A chicken chick costs more than ten or twenty yuan, and the loss is very large. Finally, turkey is large and difficult to cook, and families with a small number of people cannot finish it.
Turkey’s huge size is not suitable for Chinese people to cook and eat. White-feathered chickens, native chickens, and black-bone chickens weigh several kilograms each. They can be fried and fried. A few people can cook them in one day. The cooking is very simple. People who don’t know how to cook can boil chickens in water, and then chop them into pieces and serve them cold. Incredibly delicious.
On the other hand, cooking a turkey weighing more than 20 kilograms is much more troublesome. It cannot fit in an ordinary small pot. The best way is to roast it whole in a large oven. A family of three can eat it for a week. It’s hard to finish the meal, and no one wants to eat fishy, ??woody, and dry turkey meat every day.
In fact, foreigners eat "turkey dinner" on Thanksgiving and Christmas to set off the holiday atmosphere. The atmosphere is greater than the actual use. They often throw away more turkey than they eat. many.
At this point, Chinese people are more practical. Tasty food and easy cooking are the most important. Therefore, Chinese people do not like to eat turkey. The year before last, China’s chicken production reached nearly 18.7 million tons. , while turkey production only reached 2,400 tons.
To sum up, there are many varieties of domestic chickens with many choices, easy to cook, delicious meat and superior to foreign turkeys in every aspect. If you can’t eat delicious domestic chicken, who would eat turkey?