The traditional method of sauce, giving duck tongue unique sauce flavor, meat is fat, tender and crisp. Mimic a mouthful of old wine sweat, bite a mouthful of duck tongue, absolutely can subvert your taste buds.

But Wenzhou people will duck tongue called "duck earn" ("earn" in Wenzhou dialect pronounced "near"), said to be in order to get a mouthful. Duck tongue of the "tongue", in the Wenzhou dialect pronunciation for "fold", have done business with the meaning of loss, taboo, so Wenzhou people read the duck tongue as "duck earn". Make money, is the fundamental Wenzhou people business.

This argument is actually not reliable.

Wenzhou dialect will be the animal's tongue image called "mouth near" (tongue of course, from the mouth of the nearest), such as "pig mouth near" is to refer to the pig's tongue. Now popular "Duck earn" said, should be "duck mouth near" simplified to "duck near", and then evolved by the good people for the same sound "Duck earn! ", make up a script for losing money and making money, giving the duck tongue to the color of folk culture - perfect!

For gourmets, it doesn't matter what the duck tongue is called, it is vital that the taste buds can feel the deliciousness.

Making duck tongue into a delicacy, Wenzhou people may be the originator, but human society has a long history of eating animal tongues.

Aesop, the famous fable writer of Ancient Greece, used to work as a slave for a nobleman when he was young. One day, the slave owner wanted Aesop to buy the best food on the market to entertain a group of honored guests, and Aesop gave a table of "tongue feast" - steamed tongue, smoked tongue, braised tongue ......

The slave owner was not pleased.

Aesop said: the tongue links us all together, is the key to science, the weapon of truth, the tongue can help us express love, we use the tongue to teach, persuade, admonish, pray, sing ...... so the tongue is the best dish.

The slave owner had no choice but to ask Aesop to buy the worst dish in the market the next day. Unexpectedly Aesop buys a bunch of tongues for another day, and the slave owner is dumbfounded.

Aesop said: the tongue is the source of all conspiracies, the beginning of all rumors and slander, the bane of all arguments. The tongue can lie, cover up, reverse right and wrong, slander people and insult them ...... So the tongue is the worst dish of all.

Aesop's "tongue feast" ingredients is what tongue, there is no way to investigate, it is estimated that it will not be duck tongue, will not shake the position of the originator of the duck tongue in Wenzhou.

But after all, they are all tongues, just as white, black and yellow people are people. When we are mimicking the old wine sweat, biting the duck tongue, and then think of Aesop's "tongue feast".

This is not only a feast for the taste buds, but also a cultural treat.

You can proudly tell others: what I eat is not duck tongue, but culture!

It's not just a feast for the taste buds, it's a cultural treat.