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A few days ago, at a business dinner, the customer chose a Hong Kong-style chicken hotpot with gelatin. During the dinner, all kinds of precious ingredients were cooked one after another, and the atmosphere was dense. I caught a glimpse of the humble lunch meat in the corner of the menu. Naturally, there is no lunch meat in that expensive hot pot. However, on the way back, my brain was completely occupied by it, completely ignoring the wing of the abalone I just ate.

As the most common canned food on supermarket shelves, lunch meat has an emotional foundation with almost everyone. In the era of lack of materials, lunch meat was once a treasure chest to cure a family. At the moment of material surplus, luncheon meat is more like a key to the past, a memory that always ripples on the tip of the tongue when recalling bitterness and sweetness.

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Canned food

Anyone who loves lunch meat knows the meaning of eating meat.

Among all kinds of canned meat, lunch meat has the most fans, probably because it knows how to exercise restraint and forbearance. No matter the smell or taste, more is fat and less is dull. For a while, I felt tired of eating. I used to look for lunch meat substitutes in the supermarket, such as canned braised pork ribs, such as canned steamed meat, which were either too tired or lost the original flavor of the ingredients. So in the end, I honestly returned to the original point. Since then, on my mobile dining table, only lunch meat can be called "Iron Bai Yueguang".

The king of canned food in China is the canned Merlin ham, which has been my favorite for many years. Because there is no starch, such a thick box of cans is almost pure meat, so a bright layer of aspic will deposit on the edge. When I was a child, I knew that it took a ceremony to enjoy canned food-this can was accompanied by a key to open the can, and there was a rectangular hole in the key. Find an easy-to-tilt iron piece and put it on the can. Pass the iron piece through the small hole in the key to open the can, and then roll along the grain. I was very careful at that time, for fear that the volume would come to an abrupt end in the middle. After the lid of the can was opened, the large piece of meat was still half exposed in Shimada Hanzo, and the smell of the meat floated out eagerly, with a thin layer of aspic on it.

As the essence of a pot of luncheon meat, aspic will always belong to me. My parents always say that cholesterol is getting higher and higher, but I secretly scraped a layer of shivering aspic on the hot rice that I had prepared for a long time. The aspic will melt quickly on the rice. When it gets hot, it will be sent to the mouth, and the rice particles will be wrapped in a thin oily fragrance, even if they are slapped.

After scraping the aspic, you eat meat, a whole box of canned ham, you don't have to cut it, you just have to dig it with a spoon. Stuttering in canned ham is the best. This is a skillful meat-eating experience. When you chew, you feel the smoothness and firmness of the meat with your heart, expecting the occasional graininess and fiber texture. This taste surprise will stimulate you to explore more, because you don't know what kind of food you will have next bite.

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A can of good lunch meat, know your taste advantage.

The history of canned lunch meat can be traced back to 1932. The earliest canned lunch meat was invented by Jay Homer (the son of the founder of Homer). A piece of meat made of ham, pork and starch is packed in a 12-ounce jar, which is convenient for storage and transportation, and can maximize people's heat and physical strength. Because it was introduced at a luncheon, it was named "lunch meat". There is another unknown anecdote about lunch meat. At the beginning of its launch, Hormel Company held a competition to promote the name of luncheon meat, and the winning name was SPAM (shoulder meat of pork and ham), which is now world-famous luncheon meat.

Speaking of the origin of lunch meat, in fact, due to the different proportions of starch and meat, lunch meat can be divided into three types: ham, ham lunch meat and lunch meat. Canned ham has the highest meat content, while canned lunch meat has the lowest meat content.

Compared with canned ham, canned lunch meat has higher starch content, which helps to shape the meat quality, keep moisture and make the taste firmer, so it is more suitable for light cooking. It doesn't need to be complicated, frying is its best destination, because it can stimulate the aroma of meat itself to the greatest extent.

Look at the national lunch meat map, and the more you go south, the more patterns you eat. Perhaps eating more beef and mutton, pork and pork products in the north is still developing in the south.

A box of original canned lunch meat should be reprocessed and cut into thin or thick slices according to the richness of the table on that day. Unlike buying meat at a meat stall in the market, you should be choosy. The meat at lunch is always fat and well-proportioned.

The fried lunch meat is tender, golden and slightly burnt, which is the most delicious place. Maillard reaction makes this lunch meat into the best state of "raw meat", which can be described by the word "sensuality", and you can even taste sexy in such a small plate.

Further south, Hong Kong people have added a Hong Kong-style element to the luncheon meat. I always imagine eating egg noodles while watching TVB. Later, I learned that this bowl of noodles seems simple, but in fact it is exquisite. "Rice" refers to sliced lunch meat, "eggs" should be fried to the heart, and protein should have a burnt edge. The name of tea restaurant is "Shengchun", and "Noodles" is Hong Kong people's favorite doll noodles.

Liang Wendao once wrote: "Nowadays,' meat' has become an indispensable part of the daily diet of many people in China. Not to mention how desperate it would be to eat breakfast, lunch, dinner and fast food in Hong Kong tea restaurants without "meat"! "

It was not until I went to Hong Kong on business that dinner was mixed, but I was in high spirits and there was always a bowl of egg noodles. Fortunately, the nights in Hong Kong are long enough. After dinner, at midnight, I really ate a bowl of authentic egg noodles alone in a small shop, which was my long-cherished wish.

Later, I tried to copy such a bowl of noodles at home, bought a pack of the first kind, and quickly picked it up after boiling for two minutes. The first one is more fragrant, elastic and refreshing. Noodles are tough, and they don't swell easily when cooked for a long time. Fry the meat and eggs in another pot. Lunch meat must be cut a little thicker and cut a few more knives to make the meat and oil contact more closely, so that the fried lunch meat will taste crisp. The rest of the oil is just used to make a perfect egg.

For me, the significance of eating egg noodles is that although it is only a bowl of noodles, it is not sloppy at all, and it can be regarded as a soul worth staying up late.

03 team Guo

Friends who have seen the Korean drama "Please Answer 1988" will never forget the scene of eating lunch meat in the positive wind. As the most delicious person in the whole play, I saw his chubby hands clenched into fists, and he dug out a large piece of lunch meat with a spoon and put it in his mouth. His face is covered with the word "really fragrant", like a pious meat pilgrimage.

TV series "Please Answer 1988"

The team pot in the cold wind exudes direct and strong charm, making people know that it is just a pot of canned food and instant noodles, but they can't avoid the saliva secreted in their mouths. I have to say that when the same ordinary food is presented in the form of a pot, you can make up a scene with sound and color in your mind before eating it. The sound of glug is like blowing the horn of fierce fighting, and people can't help but charge.

As a northerner, I always treat people here to a hot meal in winter. If I am a good friend, I usually choose the team pot. The main reason why I like team pot is that the process of eating team pot is similar to that of hot pot, and it is the best social interaction. Your eyes, nose, mouth and hands are all occupied by such a pot of red, so you must devote yourself to it. If you are a little careless, the noodles will paste at the bottom of the pot and the meat will become minced meat. Not only is the pot cold, but also the appetite is sluggish.

Lunch meat is definitely the protagonist of this feast, providing meaty lunch meat, which in turn absorbs the rich kimchi flavor in the soup. The cheese slices spread on it have already melted and wrapped every instant noodle evenly and wantonly. For a time, the flavor of cheese and meat mixed together, making people eat in a mess and have their hands full. This pot looks rough and bold, and it tastes comfortable. This is the perfect combination of fat and carbohydrate. Under the cover of heavy taste, it arrogantly defeated the defense line of reducing fat.

The more depraved, the happier.

Cai Lan wrote about the difference between caviar and black truffles, and also about team marijuana. It was in itaewon. After eating a pot, he commented "so much". But I was worried that I would be hungry when I got back to the hotel, so I ordered a bowl of white rice and took a sip of Tang Jing with a spoon. How can it be so sweet without thinking? It turns out that this soup is made of cow bones and bone marrow. We don't have to care so much about the team pot, but the team pot soup bibimbap is really a must, which is incomparable to eating instant noodles in the pot alone.

Nowadays, the choice of ingredients is becoming more and more exquisite, but I can't help but miss the approachable lunch meat, which is the password that we have engraved in our taste since childhood.

Lunch meat is not real meat, but I want to praise it. Whether it was fried in an aluminum lunch box the night before, the red soup in a hot pot swelled, or the cooked instant noodles covered the dim night, as the best supporting role, luncheon meat never usurped the role of host, but it always left a special place in your heart and mine. This is a fair satisfaction and an intimate relationship that turns your stomach.

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