Chicken excrement cake, duck excrement incense, mouse excrement, nuts ... how to name them is not serious?

11 combination of excrement, urine and fart

As the name implies, this cake is obviously made of chicken excrement and rattan. Chicken excrement and rattan are washed with clear water, ground, dried in the sun, ground into powder together with glutinous rice, mixed with brown sugar, kneaded into dough, pressed with a cake grid or pressed into cakes with different shapes, and steamed for eating.

It's a long story.

Paederia henryi is a perennial vine. In Compendium, it is recorded that: "If you rub its leaves and smell it, it smells bad. I don't know what its proper name is, so people call it stinky vine." This kind of plant was called "chicken excrement vine" because of its bad smell. Later, when the "Flora of China" was included, chicken excrement was really indecent, so it was homophonic and its Chinese name was changed to "chicken excrement vine". Chicken excrement cake is named because it uses chicken excrement rattan powder.

Shit candy is made of maltose mixed with soybeans, peanuts and other raw materials. It is said to be a traditional snack in Sichuan and Chongqing.

Eat shit candy, get lucky, and give gifts. Lin Chi-ling once received shit candy from fans | Screenshot of Weibo

The name of shit candy is said to come from the shape of golden maltose, which is cut into small pieces, just like a dog shit. Now it has gradually evolved into a "traditional snack" in many places, which is generally sold to tourists as a local specialty in tourist areas.

a kind of Chaoshan kungfu tea, which is regarded as a kind of Phoenix Dan Cong, belongs to oolong tea. The tea leaves are large and compact, with dark brown and oily color. The brewed tea soup is golden in color, mellow in taste, very sweet and resistant to brewing. The first-class Tieguanyin tea is fragrant after seven soaks, while the duck excrement can reach more than ten soaks. It is said that this kind of tea was first introduced from Wutai Mountain. The introduced plants were planted in a soil called "duck excrement soil" (yellow loam mixed with a certain proportion of chalk soil), and the tea produced was very fragrant. When asked about the name of this tea, tea farmers casually said that it was called "duck excrement fragrance", hence the name.

so where does duck shit smell?

It is also called "Yanjin Jujube", and it is also called "nose dirty" in Shanghai. This snack is a childhood memory of the 81s and 91s, and it is a very cheap snack. It is small particles about 1 cm long, dark brown and black, and looks like a mouse excrement or a snot girl, hence its name.

Rat excrement

The main raw material is dried tangerine peel. When it is put in the mouth, it feels salty and sour at first, and then it is the special sweet taste of licorice. It is a snack suitable for children to relieve boredom in that era of lack of materials.

Bullshit nuts are a little famous food in Tianjin, and nuts are the appellation of peanuts in Tianjin dialect. Bullshit nuts came from a shop selling dried fruits in Wuqing Huanghua Flower Shop, and now it has spread to the third generation, among which the second-generation shopkeeper nicknamed them "Bullshit". Because his fried nuts taste good, people named them with the shopkeeper's nickname.

Why can't Tianjin people name their food without dogs?

Bullshit nuts seem simple, but in fact, they are very particular: peanuts are sea peanuts with full fruits; The sand used for frying peanuts must be river sand taken from Yongding River Hetao, which is of moderate thickness; Pickled peanuts have a secret formula with more than a dozen seasonings; When frying, the heat is also very important. When the fire is big, the peanuts will be burnt. When the fire is small, the peanuts will not be fragrant. When frying, they must be stirred uniformly, so that the peanuts can fully contact the sand to ensure that the heat is uniform and the heat is appropriate.

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Bring your own flavor

A kind of food in Shanghai, although it is difficult to associate with delicious food just by its name, is actually a kind of pancake.

is it really not a pancake dumpling?

Compared with the pancake gizzards in Tianjin, the foot-wrapping cloth is made of refined white flour instead of coarse grains, and it is made by dry baking without oil when spreading the flour cake. When spreading the flour cake, it is sliced without scraper, with proper fruit or fried dough sticks sandwiched in the middle, and the sauce brushed is also different from that of northern pancakes. With the development, there are many different versions of foot cloth. It is hard to say which is authentic and which is heretical, as long as it suits your taste.

This is a home-cooked dish in Taiwan Province, with different versions in different places, but the three unchanging ones are minced meat, pepper and lobster sauce. Nowadays, it is more popular to cut garlic seedlings (also known as young garlic shoots or garlic moss) into small pieces, cut peppers into small pieces and stir-fry them with minced meat, or adjust what dishes to add according to your own taste. The characteristics of flies' heads are spicy and delicious, especially for meals. They can also be used as toppings for noodles or with rice congee.

fly head

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unintelligible but attractive

A specialty snack in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, which is said to be named after the mace that ghosts often use in Japanese legends, is said to be quite popular in the local area. The method of making this snack is very simple: peel the sweet potato and cut it into small pieces, mix it with rice flour and sugar and divide it into a small ball, then steam it. Ghost steamed bread looks translucent and tastes sweet, and people who like sweets can't resist it.

still cute?

There is a shop called Meihuatang (ばぃかどぅ) which sells ghost steamed bread.

It turns out to be tomatoes mixed with sugar ... The name of the dish is very vivid. The bright red tomatoes are like fire. When piled up, they are volcanoes. When sugar is sprinkled on the top, it is like snow.

It snows in the volcano

This is also a dish with a fascinating name, which is actually fried minced meat with vermicelli. Because when you pick up fans with chopsticks, you will often pick up a few minced meat, just like ants climbing up from the trunk, so it is named "ants climbing the tree".

Ants Climb Trees | Douguo Food Network Netizen Doo

References:

[1] Shanghai Common Chinese Herbal Medicines Compilation Group, Shanghai Publishing House May 1971

[2] Chinese Snacks Ma Shutong, China Tourism Publishing House February 1988

[3] Traditional Taiwanese Cuisine. Paddy publishing co., ltd. October 2117

[4] Sichuan snacks Sichuan snacks compilation, Sichuan Science and Technology Press August 1988

[5] Flavor snacks.