Nowadays, few people like to eat canned food, thinking that putting frozen fruits and vegetables in the refrigerator will produce nitrite, just like leftovers. During the time of the epidemic in Shanghai, experts refuted rumors that such concerns were unnecessary, because nitrite substances depend on bacteria, and processing and storing frozen fruits and vegetables at low temperatures is like "freezing" fruits and vegetables. Therefore, the nitrite content of frozen and fresh fruits and vegetables almost.

For an old man like me who is close to 100 years old, it is difficult to see traces of cans when visiting relatives and friends. If I carry a few bottles of cans to my relatives and friends, I am afraid that very few people will accept them in their hearts. They may think that this person is pedantic and unreliable.

There are mountains of fresh food in supermarkets nowadays, but every time I walk through the canned goods aisle in the supermarket, I still stop and think about it. More than 30 years ago, cans at that time were great gifts. When asking for help or visiting patients, cans made their debut and were placed in the most conspicuous place.

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At that time, canned food was divided into two categories: canned fruit and canned meat. Fruits include oranges, peaches, hawthorns, grapes, and coconut meat. Canned meats include lunch meat and various pickled fish. My favorite canned fruits are yellow peaches, and I love all canned meats. As long as there was canned meat at home, I would look forward to having guests at home, and then I would pry it open and pour it out to serve as a side dish.

The most delicious lunch meat I have ever eaten was at my old best friend’s house. There was no food in the refrigerator, so she cooked a pot of fresh porridge, opened a can of luncheon meat, cut the meat into thin slices, and dipped it in hot sauce. It was delicious.

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Later I traveled to Europe and the United States and was not used to Western food. I finally tried hot pot and blurted out: "It would be great if there was luncheon meat." My friend actually bought it in a Chinese supermarket. When I get a can, something I usually don’t like to eat at home turns out to be a treasure in a foreign land. The person who picks up the luncheon meat slices from the pot at night has an expression on his face like he has found a pearl from the deep sea.

I like to eat canned anchovies, but later I was replaced by canned hairtail. Buy a can of hairtail fish and fry it yourself with lettuce to compete with other restaurants.

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On days when it was impossible to go to the market due to the epidemic, canned goods became a life-saving straw. A small box of canned Xinjiang diced tomatoes can instantly turn into tomato scrambled eggs, tomato egg noodles and tomato risotto. My old best friend recommends Yunnan Dehe’s Big Crispy Canned Beef. This time-honored brand was once inscribed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen as “Drinking and Food Virtues”. The shiny beef cubes can be eaten cold or stir-fried. My old best friend’s recipe is to pour out all the canned beef and cook it. Open, take out another pot, add green vegetable leaves and beef and mix together to make simple beef noodles.

In the 1994 classic film "Chungking Express" directed by Wong Kar-wai, a lovelorn police officer eats expired canned pineapples every day, but his girlfriend never looks back. "Fresh and fresh, what's fresh? That's the kind of person you are. You are greedy for the new and forget the old. Hey, do you know how much effort it takes to make a can of pineapples?" He asked the female clerk's line and "I don't know when. At first, there was a date on everything, saury would expire, canned meat would expire, and even plastic wrap would expire. I began to wonder, what else in this world would not expire? "These monologues. , making people laugh and feel sad at the same time. Both canned food and life have a shelf life. It would be better if the canned villain in Zheng Yuanjie's fairy tale is eloquent.

In the past, my family could not afford canned food. I smiled and said, "It's great to be injured. If you are injured, you can eat canned food." At that time, my family had red circles in their eyes. From then on, no matter how tight the family's finances were, my family would always buy me canned food, and I was soaked in the sweetness of canned food for 30 years. Each can is moistened with the tenderness of time, and hardships are turned into sweetness. Until my loved ones leave, I will continue to smile and move forward even after being sad.

In fact, not to mention that people who love canned food are old. The young people in my family said: When they are sick and have almost no appetite, they most want to eat canned mushroom meat sauce with porridge!