When I was sick when I was young, my family would feed me some canned yellow peaches, which were cool and sweet, and I would feel much more comfortable after eating them. For many people in Northeast China, eating canned peaches when they have a fever or a cold has become a part of the treatment, and it can even be dubbed "Northeast Metaphysics".
First, when I was a child, I had a fever and caught a cold. In addition to prescribing medicine normally, the doctor also ordered me to eat canned fruit, actually because the canned fruit contained sugar. Sugar has diuretic effect, which is helpful to the recovery of the body, but at that time, sugar was very expensive, so canned fruit was used instead. For children, it is more likely to be a kind of spiritual comfort. Every cool and sweet bite is full of love and concern.
Second, besides replacing sugar, canned fruit is the "body double" of fresh fruit. In the past, fruits in Northeast China were rare, almost only apples, pears and peaches, which were difficult to transport and store. Therefore, canned fruit, which is convenient to store, sweet but not greasy in taste, and can supplement water, sugar and vitamin C, has become the first choice for the sick northeast people.
Third, the merchants at that time played the killer card of "Tujili" in propaganda. "Peach is homophonic with" escape "to ward off evil spirits, and eating canned yellow peaches can" escape ",so it spread. Since then, canned yellow peach has become a veritable "king of canned fruit" in Northeast China. Canned yellow peach is not only a nutritional product purchased when you have a fever or a cold, but "two packages of bad cake and two bottles of canned yellow peach" has become a small standard for many Northeast people to give gifts, adding a festive feeling to the table for birthdays and holidays.
Fourth, when the canned yellow peach in childhood passed through the years, it triggered a new wave today. What it aroused may not be the taste of food itself, but a kind of spiritual strength. In memory, it is a sweet reward when you are sick, a scarce snack when you are greedy, and an unrepeatable childhood taste.
However, for many people in Northeast China, canned peaches are still a spiritual comfort when they are sick.