If you eat dumplings without soy sauce, you will go to jail. What does that mean?

If you eat dumplings without soy sauce, you will go to jail. The story of being sent to jail for eating dumplings without dipping them in soy sauce. To avoid suspicion of regional discrimination, specific place names are omitted. In the 1990s, somewhere in northern Inner Mongolia. At that time, Inner Mongolia's economy was very backward. The economy of many places was initially driven by immigrants from the south who repaired watches, sold leather bags and sold small household appliances.

A southerner came to discuss business. For dinner, I went to a small restaurant alone, with a side dish and a plate of dumplings, thinking about business in my mind, and ate in silence without harming people or animals. It is really the most ordinary scene. After eating and paying the bill, go back to the hotel to sleep, a socialist harmonious society. The only difference is that the local food has a strong taste. Most people eat dumplings with soy sauce, but the southerners eat dumplings without soy sauce.

The seven or eight people at the next table were guards from the local prison, celebrating the newly promoted leader. The leader went to the restroom during the banquet. He passed by this table, glanced at it, walked over, and then came back. With a drunken sideways glance, he asked, "Why don't you eat dumplings without dipping them in soy sauce?"

Here is a joke. In that era, the food in prisons was low in salt and tasteless. Prisoners, especially repeat offenders, ate prison food all year round, and the food tasted very bland. Because the prison guards knew some of the prisoners' habits, they instinctively thought that he looked like a habitual criminal based on his eating habits.