There was a smell of meat, and there was a drop of glittering and translucent luster. On it were written several big words "Hot Dogs in Taiwan Province Province", which attracted every parent who led their children to buy one for their children as a snack after school.
Strolling through the streets, I believe everyone is no stranger to hot dog sausages in small newsstands, school gates and pedestrian streets. I will eat one or two more or less. A sausage, two yuan, crisp outside and tender inside, when waiting for the bus or passing by, I will definitely buy one to cure my stomach.
Extremely pro-people price
Although everyone has different tastes, they all have their favorite foods. But for sausages, from primary school students, to young people who have just stepped into their jobs, to middle-aged greasy uncles, their acceptance is very high. A generation of Chinese snacks is almost everyone's memory.
From the "hot dog in Taiwan Province Province" when I was a child to the "volcanic sausage" today, this 2 yuan barbecue sausage has always occupied a corner of cooked food.
This must be related to the price that is close to the people. Even in the peak period of pork price-2065438+06, a kilo of pork in 24 yuan, when all the vendors' barbecued pork bags rose to one in 3 yuan, sausages could still maintain the people-friendly price in 2 yuan.
However, while enjoying the delicious sausage, have you ever considered: What kind of meat is this 2 yuan, pink?
What meat is in this two-dollar sausage?
According to some insiders, more formal manufacturers may use chicken and so on. Generally, the main ingredients are mouse meat and cat meat (what? With cat meat? Cats are so cute, why eat cats! ), chicken breast, chicken skin, duck skin, and a filler to reduce costs-starch;
Other manufacturers may use fox meat, mink meat and so on. Because the meat comes from farms, most farms only need fur, and meat is cheaper. I'm not calm when I hear that, mink is not that expensive! You can't afford mink, but you can eat mink meat.
Some friends will ask, why do mink meat, fox meat and so on still smell of pork? There are still many differences between these meats and pork, right? Why can't I eat it? In fact, these sausages are all added with pork essence, and it is basically impossible for people to distinguish between smell and taste. No matter what kind of meat, add this, it's pork ~
Think about it, if you don't stew meat, burn meat and add spices and seasonings at home, you can't smell a lot of meat. The aroma of street sausages is particularly rich, because flavors and spices are added.
In addition to essence, many preservatives are added to sausages, because artificial meat products need preservatives to prevent Clostridium botulinum from producing botulinum toxin and prolong the shelf life of meat products.
Some merchants also add nitrite to make meat products more tasty. Generally speaking, if nitrite is added according to national standards, it will not cause harm to human body. But some small workshops in the market are overused, which is dangerous.
Moreover, the street vendors' small sausage ovens have been on for a long time, and the nutrients in the meat have long been destroyed by long-term heating.
Although it is so unbearable, people in China like it.
Although it has been reported many times in the news, some "black-hearted" manufacturers earn more in order to reduce costs. For example, there is fox meat in the raw materials and a lot of additives are added. Also included in the "junk food" blacklist by mom and dad.
However, in the face of hunger, fragrant spices and hot temperatures, a bite is crunchy, and such ethnic food is powerless for both young and middle-aged people.
How much do people in China love sausages? According to the China Food News ten years ago, the market size of sausages is estimated to be over 654.38+0.6 billion, with annual sales of 654.38+0.8 billion, which is enough to go down in history.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the monthly demand for sausage raw materials in Chinese mainland was nearly 10,000 tons, which was 50 times that of Taiwan Province Province. Luo Rongmao, a food expert in Taiwan Province Province at that time, lamented: "The development track of sausages in Taiwan Province Province in the mainland is simply a miracle."
But compared with the huge sales, the quality of sausages is not flattering. Because for most people, snacks are generally used to overcome mouth addiction, and taste, cheapness and convenience are the most important. Therefore, low cost and low price means low threshold.
After reducing the price and quality, most of the cheap "Taiwan Province hot dogs" on the market are hardly real pork.
Because, an obvious gap is that friends who have been to Taiwan Province Province know that the price of sausages sold on the streets in Taiwan Province Province will be around 20 yuan.
Authentic Taiwan Province sausage is made by pouring pork into casing and roasting it with open fire. But now we can see that the "Taiwan Province Sausage" in the oven machine has a lot of artificial meat and starch. In addition to the chewy casing, the meat inside has no meat flavor except the "delicious" additives.
According to a news report, a food producer in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province said, "The ingredients of sausages are too messy." When they check sausages, they will take two bites, spit them out and even gargle.
Even, in 20 16, Cheng Xiao, who was 0/5 years old in Hubei/kloc-0, suddenly vomited and had abdominal pain in the middle of the night after eating three sausages, and was promoted to ICU for rescue. Small liver and kidney organs were seriously damaged, and doctors diagnosed sepsis and septic shock.
The origin of the disease is eating bad sausages. Botox, Escherichia coli, etc. If people eat too much, the caffeine contained in sausages can easily lead to infection.
Sausages are so bad that they will eventually quit history.
But in fact, in the era when the average price of milk tea has gone to high-end consumption in 20 yuan, two-dollar sausages are doomed to withdraw from the historical stage, even if the cost is continuously reduced and inferior raw materials are used.
Because the main people who eat this kind of food after 80/90 have grown up and their health awareness has increased, we will find that there are always three or four sausages in the sausage roaster of the street grocery store, and no one bought them in the past. Sausages are gradually being replaced by Guandong cooking and chicken chops.