1. There is a package of biscuits that has been sitting on the sideboard for a long time. It is probably past its expiration date.

It is the most common "calcium milk biscuit" when I was a child, produced by Qingdao Food Factory, "Qingshi Brand".

In my impression, when it is time for children to add complementary foods at home, adults will pour a bowl of warm water, dip the biscuits in the water, soak them until soft and feed them to the children.

JASON bought the cookies.

He would buy a pack from the supermarket every once in a while.

I said: Don’t buy these biscuits. My daughter won’t eat them and I won’t eat them either.

He always said: If you don’t eat, I will eat.

In fact, he often forgets that there is a package of biscuits that he has opened and puts them aside. They become soft, damp, expire, and are thrown away by me.

When I saw the package of biscuits again during dinner, I said to my daughter: Actually, your father doesn’t like eating these biscuits either.

Because biscuits are a good and unforgettable thing that I ate as a child, they are "nostalgic food".

Comrade JASON did not comment, so I guess I was right.

2 same nostalgic foods are available.

My daughter didn't like to eat when she was a child, so her grandfather would often put some brown sugar in the porridge she drank as a temptation.

I was shocked when I saw it, fearing that her teeth would be damaged if she ate too much sugar.

At that time, I realized that "adding some brown sugar to porridge" was probably the rarest delicacy my grandfather had when he was a child, and brown sugar was a luxury product.

It’s the memory on the tip of my grandfather’s tongue.

3 Speaking of brown sugar.

Reminds me of what my dad said.

When children in rural areas fight, they will pick up a stone from the ground and use it as a weapon.

The child on the other side who is about to be beaten will say: Hit me!

You fight!

I broke my head and went to your house to eat "moon pulp dipped in brown sugar."

What is steamed buns?

Just peel off the outer layer of the steamed buns.

Thinking about that love and scene, looking back or imagining it after a period of time makes me feel happy, and it feels like "I love children the most, scoundrels".

4. My father and my mother eat very simply. Especially in winter, they often eat a pot of "slag tofu" for several days.

Zha tofu may be called "doufu zha" in some places. It is a dish made by crushing soybeans, peanuts, etc., and finely cutting vegetables.

In fact, our hometown is called "Doumozi" (Douyin, etc.).

This is also a type of nostalgic food.

My parents’ generation experienced the Great Famine in the early 1960s. The reason why my dad joined the army was largely because he could have enough to eat.

I have been hungry since I was a child, and having a full stomach is the most basic need.

However, the dregs of tofu that my parents ate in childhood definitely didn’t contain that much soybeans or peanuts. The “vegetables” inside were usually soaked dried sweet potato shoots.

When it comes out, it's a dark pot.

When I was a kid, I ate dregs of tofu (doumozi) made from elm leaves. The proportion of soybeans was already high, but in retrospect, I still found it particularly unpalatable.

Nowadays, sweet potato dregs and tofu are sold in local supermarkets and are rarely bought by young people.

When I was a student, every time I cooked this kind of dish at home, I would tell my mother: It felt like I was back in the old society.

She smiled and said: Do you know what the old society was like?

5 The old society I imagine is the feeling of eating dregs of tofu (bean curd, bean foam).

6Writing this, I think of my great-aunt.

She lived to be over ninety years old and passed away six years ago.

The way she misses her hometown is to eat pancakes rolled with sweet potato and dregs of tofu.

In the 1980s and 1990s, my second aunt often sent dried sweet potato seedlings all the way to Beijing.

7 What is there on the tip of my tongue that I miss so much?

Although we have experienced food and material scarcity, our generation has never experienced hunger or real poverty.

When I was in elementary school, my dad took me to visit a comrade’s house. I wanted to buy some candies as gifts in a department store, but the only department store in the county didn’t have any candies. I clearly remember buying hawthorn slices to make them.

Gift.

There is a primary school classmate named Pan Hong (haha, she also reads my official account).

She didn't originally have this name, but because she liked the movie actor Pan Hong, she removed the middle character of her original name and changed it to Pan Hong.

Her father works in the health and epidemic prevention department, and she often gives us hawthorn pills to eat.

Occasionally I think of hawthorn pills, the sour and sweet taste is actually a memory on the tip of my tongue.

8 On the table there are fried shredded potatoes with celery and kelp.

It is a dish that I often ate when I was a kid and that I often cook now.

Could it be - the memories on the tip of my tongue?

9. There are often many cooking details in Haruki Murakami’s novels.

No matter whether the protagonist is happy or sad, even if he is a loser in life, he still carefully prepares food for himself and his loved ones... This is life, right?

If you can treat the small matter of "eating" with your heart, you will have the strength and courage to peep into the life you want to see through.