There is a topic on Douban: What is everyone’s favorite food on a hot summer day?

The heroes have the same idea, and the keyword that appears most frequently in the answer is watermelon.

Indeed, even Mr. Cai Lan called it "the gift of summer." But I want to add another dish, which is "sweet tomatoes" that is refreshing and delicious, and so simple that it does not require any cooking skills.

Zhang Hanyun has a song called "Sour, Sweet and Sour, That's Me". I always thought: Oh, isn't this song about this dish? ?

The usual method is to wash the tomatoes, peel them, cut them, sprinkle them with sugar, mix them evenly, put them in the refrigerator to chill for ten minutes, take them out and eat them.

When I was a child, there was no refrigerator at home and the house was rented. We share a yard with our landlord and several other residents. In addition to the boiled water for drinking, the water we use for washing vegetables and clothes comes from the pressurized well in the yard.

Groundwater is warm in winter and cool in summer. My mother always froze tomatoes in the well water in advance. Although it does not have the same effect as putting it in the refrigerator, in my childhood, I was able to eat such a plate of sugar mixed with sugar. Tomatoes, don’t mention how delicious they are.

After eating the tomatoes, there will be a lot of tomato juice left at the bottom of the bowl. The three of us, siblings, are always fighting to drink the juice at the bottom of the bowl.

Nowadays, we have gone our separate ways and rarely see each other throughout the year. During the Dragon Boat Festival some time ago, it was rare to get together. My mother also made the sugar-stirred tomatoes. With the refrigerator, it tastes even cooler and more delicious.

But in the end, after the tomatoes were eaten, none of us wanted to drink the remaining juice. Because after going to work, my weight has skyrocketed. For the sake of beauty, handsomeness, and health, naturally no one wants to drink another bowl of sugar water.

I scooped up a small spoonful with a spoon and gently put it in my mouth. In fact, it still tasted like when I was a child. However, perhaps because no one was fighting for it anymore, I didn’t expect that much anymore.

I am ashamed to say that for the eighteen years before I went to college, I always thought that besides using tomatoes as fruits or mixed with sugar, these two ways of eating them raw, the other ways were to fry them or make soups. .

It wasn’t until I was in college that I learned that tomatoes can be mixed with cucumbers, which was as shocking as “salty tofu curd”!

Because in my heart, tomatoes are always sweet and sour. The mixed cucumber is full of vinegar and garlic flavor. How could these two dishes appear on the same plate?

It was the first summer after going to college. After May Day, the weather was extremely hot. In order to lose weight, a roommate in the college dormitory bought cucumbers and tomatoes, as well as salt, vinegar, garlic and other seasonings. , you can see her holding a bowl of "tomatoes mixed with cucumber" at noon every day, eating with relish!

This way of eating is undoubtedly a dark cuisine to me. But after trying it, I found that it was not that unpalatable. It was just my psychology.

So, under her leadership, "tomatoes mixed with cucumber" became popular in our dormitory that early summer.

Don’t tell me, this way of eating actually helps you lose weight. I, with a net height of 166cm, have lost a stable weight of 98 pounds since high school, and have lost weight to 89 pounds. That summer vacation, when I came home, my mother saw that I was so thin that only my eyes were visible on my face, and my eyes were filled with distress. My younger brother laughed at me because my waist was not as thin as a telephone pole.

Years later, when I think about this, I actually regret it. No wonder I haven’t grown since I went to college. Blindly following my roommate to lose weight actually delayed my future as a "supermodel" (haha...)!

Among the three siblings, I became the shortest one.

Who told me to do it: 166cm tall and 98 pounds in weight, are you fat? Not healthy enough? How much weight did you lose? If you don’t lose weight and eat more, is there a chance that you can grow taller?

Mr. Chen Xiaoqing, the chief director of "A Bite of China", said in the book "The Best Taste in the World": "Many people in my memory can be replaced by a certain kind of food. This is Just like I have always used restaurants to mark geographical locations. ”

In fact, in my memory, more people use a song to replace it than a delicious food. But this is the girl who made "tomatoes and cucumbers" popular in our dormitory. Now, every time I see tomatoes mixed with cucumbers, I can think of her!

In the movie "Youth", the scene where Xiao Suizi eats tomatoes went viral. Jack Ma said on Weibo, ""Youth" really has the aftertaste of the tomatoes I ate when I was a child... There are every detail in it People in this generation can’t let go of their youth, feelings, and cries of frustration. Director Feng Xiaogang said: “The taste of tomatoes contains innocence, the summer of youth, and the throbbing of early love, and its juice remains. The taste on the lips is a memory related to youth.

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The light and refreshing taste of tomatoes mixed with cucumbers is a unique memory in my youth!

For me, there is a kind of childhood called tomatoes mixed with sugar. , it is always sweet, even if it is sometimes a little naughty sour, it is always happy and carefree; there is a kind of fragrance, called tomatoes mixed with cucumbers, which has mixed flavors, the "spicy" sourness is mixed with a touch of sweetness, A touch of freshness...this is probably youth!

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