When I was sick, I ate whatever I wanted, but now

With the passage of time, "Anling Rongsheng" has gradually retired, and "Yangkang" have returned to work and their lives have gradually returned to the right track. However, it seems that the influence of the virus on people has not completely subsided, and the decline of taste and smell sensitivity is one of them. Some netizens vividly described it: "It's like the blue light quality of 192×18 has become a low-definition resolution of 6×36." This undoubtedly greatly reduces the pleasure of dazzling rice. Others simply fight poison with poison, trying to awaken the taste with "killing weapons" such as canned herring, mustard and lemon.

In fact, with the gradual recovery of the body after recovery, most people can turn to a normal state without worrying too much, and there is no need to increase the burden on the mouth and stomach with irritating substances. When you feel entangled in eating badly, you might as well try to comfort your mind with the delicious food in your childhood memory and help your sensory system get back on track as soon as possible.

can you recall what you wanted to eat most when you were sick as a child? I'm afraid most of them are hard-won delicacies. Although it seems that these foods have faded their aura and are no longer so attractive, they are still indelible memory passwords in time.

197s: Home-cooked meals intertwined with warmth and bitterness

In 197s, China was still implementing the planned economy system, and was in the "ticket period" when daily necessities were supplied by ticket, and all the grain, oil, meat, eggs, non-staple food, daily necessities and textiles needed by residents in their daily life had to be purchased by ticket. Food stamps, which are closely related to eating, were once called the "second currency" because of their importance. When urban residents move their accounts for further studies and job transfer, they must simultaneously transfer the "food relationship", otherwise there will be no food stamps available. It was not until 1993 that food stamps officially withdrew from the historical stage.

food stamps. Source /Wikimedia Commons

In the memory of people who spent their childhood in that era, the food reward after illness basically came from the "small stove" specially opened at home, and white noodles with poached eggs were one of them. Sprinkle a little chopped green onion and add a few drops of sesame oil, and the soup can be completely drunk. This may have followed the "sick rice" in the army at that time. In towns, eggs are supplied by ticket, and the number is limited; In the countryside, eggs should be kept for necessities such as salt, which is called "chicken butt bank", and the preciousness of eggs can be imagined. Flour also has the difference between refined white flour and standard flour. The noodles made of low-priced standard flour are black in color, and the water will change color when cooked in the pot. Now it seems that there are certainly more nutrients that have not been lost from standard flour, but in the past, people who often ate coarse grains expected more from white flour.

canned tomatoes poured with boiling water. Photography /bychykhin, source /Adobe Stock idea

Some people will also recall the special taste of some "out-of-season" foods. Northerners relish the home-made canned tomatoes, and articles introducing their practices have even been selected into middle school textbooks. When tomatoes are on the market in large quantities in summer, fresh tomatoes are washed and cut into pieces, put into glass infusion bottles, cooked at high temperature and sealed, and kept until winter, so that the table is no longer full of Chinese cabbage and potatoes day after day, and occasionally a little bright color can appear. But if it's not sealed properly,