My hometown is a coastal city in Shandong. My normal eating habits have made kelp my favorite side dish. Sometimes my mother doesn’t want to cook, so she just eats kelp. Eating steamed buns alone is a pretty delicious meal for me. The snacks I ate when I was a kid all included packages of dried kelp shreds. They were already very salty, with some fine grains of salt sprinkled on top. The taste was actually not that great, and it was still not as good as fresh kelp shreds. But because It is easy to carry and cheap. It was considered an ideal snack at that time. Many students around us also brought this. It was the salty taste that attracted us. In fact, it had no other taste. It was a bit spicy, but we were still able to make it. Finished a small package of dried kelp shreds.

For me when I was a child, eating dried kelp shreds was nothing unusual. Pour the packaged kelp shreds into a small bowl, and then eat them with chopsticks. It's a common thing. I don’t quite understand that my ability to tolerate salty taste when I was a child was not as good as it is now. But at that time, I could eat such salty kelp shreds without eating any dry food. My parents also told me that they said it was too salty. He ate it dry and stuffed a piece of pie into my mouth.

Later, when I was in boarding school in high school, I lived on campus longer than at home, so I didn’t eat much dried kelp shreds. However, the school’s canteen sold the kind of kelp shreds with soup. , it can also be regarded as a kind of snack that I personally like to eat. It has the same characteristics as the previous dried kelp shreds, that is, salty and a little spicy. After lunch, I usually take a lunch break. At that time, I tear open a pack and eat by myself, sticking out my tongue saltily to find water, and taking another mouthful.

At that time, I never thought that such a common snack would be missed so much today. Now that the university is in the Northeast, you can hardly see kelp in the cafeteria. The canteen does not sell dried kelp shreds, but they sell a kind of kelp head, which is a very thick piece of kelp. This completely overturned my understanding. It was my first time When you eat it, you still think this is kelp? Because I have always felt that shredded kelp is the most authentic and normal form, and the taste of the kelp head has been made by various seasonings and it no longer smells like kelp. It is really not as good as the one eaten at home.

Then when I went home last summer vacation, my mother’s friend bought the kind of packs of kelp shreds that I had eaten when I was a child. After eating them, I felt they were very delicious and told my mother that I If you want to take a few bags back to school, you can eat them yourself or share them with your roommates. My mother promised that I would go shopping with your aunt next time, and then the summer vacation passed, and I only ate it once, and I haven’t eaten it until now. That kind of taste is still familiar to my taste buds when I was a child. Salty, spicy and fresh are intertwined. At that time, it was a bit unclear.