Why do Northeasterners like to eat pickles, while Southerners basically don’t?

I am from Yunnan and have lived in Northeast China for 39 years. Compared with the 18 years I lived in my hometown, Northeast China has surpassed the concept of my second hometown.

When I first arrived in Northeast China, I found that Northeastern people especially love to eat pickles. In addition to beans, celery, and leeks, there are also green onions, Chinese cabbage, radish, cucumbers, eggplants, etc. Etc., all garden vegetables can be dipped in sauce. At that time, I was very curious. As a vegetable that southerners must eat cooked, why do Northeasterners eat it with gusto when dipped in sauce? Later, when I lived in the Northeast for a long time, I often ate with friends from the Northeast, so I tried to eat pickles. It is true that "you don't know if you don't eat it, and you can't throw it away once you eat it." From then on, a life of eating pickles was formed. Habit.

Why can you eat pickles in the Northeast, but no one eats pickles in the south? This is not the difference between southerners and northerners, but the difference between southern and northern climates, which leads to the question of whether southern vegetables and northern vegetables can be eaten raw. In the Northeast, although the winter is very cold, the Northeast has four distinct seasons, a dry climate, and sufficient sunshine, so vegetables can easily produce sugar. Northeastern vegetables have a sweet taste when eaten raw. And what about the South! Although winter is not as cold as the Northeast, it is cold and humid, and the other three seasons are also rainy and humid. This causes the vegetables to be more vaporous and the sugar is not easy to accumulate. In addition to being brittle when eaten raw, they have no sweet taste and even have a bad taste. Therefore, although I have developed the habit of eating pickled vegetables in the Northeast, I never eat pickled vegetables when I visit relatives in my hometown.

As the saying goes, where the soil and water support the people, many southerners who have never been to the Northeast cannot imagine the environment in which Northeastern people live when they hear that the temperature in the Northeast is more than minus 30 degrees Celsius. When they heard Northeasterners eating lettuce with dipping sauce, their eyes widened in astonishment. In fact, no matter where they live, human beings have the wisdom to survive.

The winter in the Northeast is very cold, but the buildings in the city have heating. It is icy and snowy outside, but as warm as spring indoors. The conditions in rural areas are slightly worse, but there are fire beds. In winter, the family sleeps, dines, and chats on the hot Kang without feeling cold at all. Eating "dip pickles" is a living habit developed by Northeastern people in the unique climate environment. It is proof of the sweetness of vegetables produced in the black soil. Northeast is my second hometown. I love Northeast and I also like to eat pickles.

Let’s answer it. There is no doubt that dipping pickles is a unique dish in the Northeast. It means eating vegetables raw and then dipping them in miso. The miso can be meat or eggs. The vegetables can be cucumbers, lettuce, etc. Green onions are essential. This way of eating raw is unacceptable to my southern friends, because southerners generally like to eat cooked food, and green onions are also used as supplements and will not be eaten directly as a dish

But, this is Jia Zhi Honey , Yi’s arsenic. If you ask a Northeasterner, nine out of ten people will love to eat pickles. In fact, Northeastern pickles can also be cooked, not all raw. Friends from the South can give it a try next time.

We usually eat cooked spinach, eggplant, potatoes, etc. Spinach needs to be blanched in water, and eggplant and potatoes can be steamed. Steam the eggplant, potatoes and rice together. Steam the eggplant for twenty minutes, and steam the potatoes and rice for forty minutes. The time to steam the potatoes should depend on the size of the potatoes. Steam until the skins of the potatoes are open and the flesh is split, and there is no hard core when pricked with chopsticks. When eating, use chopsticks to separate the eggplants and potatoes, add the ingredients for dipping into the sauce, and never eat the whole thing directly with the sauce.

In addition, you can make your own vegetable rolls as a diet food.

The method is to cut lettuce, green onions into shreds, green peppers into shreds, carrots into shreds, garlic into shreds, cucumbers into shreds, dried tofu into appropriate sizes, blanch it in boiling water, and it will taste like shredded pork with makijing sauce. , just roll up various ingredients and smear it with miso or beef sauce, it’s very convenient

(xtm) Why do Northeasterners like it? Eat pickles, but southerners basically don’t eat them?

The subject said that Northeastern people like to dip pickles, which reminded me of my college life. There was a group of classmates in the next dormitory who were not in the same major. Several of them were from the Northeast, specifically Heiji. I still can’t tell clearly whether they are from Liao or Gada, but when it comes to their eating habits, I can briefly chat with you;

First, let’s talk about pickles, Northeastern soybean paste. It is similar to the Doubanjiang we can imagine, but the actual taste may be much better than Doubanjiang. Back then, I saw them eating green onion dipping sauce, and it was indeed Doubanjiang. The specific reason is simple. I actually bought it in Wuhan, Hubei. There was a popular song that was widely sung in those years: "Northeasterners are all living thunder fronts". Several Northeastern children on campus were particularly lovable because of their accents. , almost everyone in our grade doesn’t know them;

When we go to the cafeteria to eat, we all go there with a lunch box. When they go to eat, in addition to the lunch box, there are green onions and bean paste. , and the three of them also ate and slept together. In the years when I was studying, I never saw the three of them separated;

According to popular sayings, the three Northeastern children, in Our university campus is considered an Internet celebrity, so green onion dipping sauce has become the eating habit of many students;

In the eyes of our southern children, green onions are seasonings, except for the twelfth lunar month when we eat some green onions when frying bacon. , in other seasons, there is almost no time to eat green onions, but in the years when I was in college, I would occasionally take a green onion from them and eat it with their bean paste. I feel that all meals should be It can be cultivated;

A person is nurtured by the soil and water. If I, a young man who has lived in the South for a long time, one day settle down in the Northeast, I will probably eat green onions with dipping sauce for every meal, because , the taste of that thing is really good;

Today I saw this question from the questioner: Why do people in the Northeast like to eat pickles, but people in the South basically don’t? Many years ago, I also asked my college classmates. Although they could not explain the specific reasons, they could still find clues from the climate, geographical environment, and agricultural production of Northeast China. The following is my opinion sharing :

1. First of all, let’s talk about the historical reasons. The Jurchen people who emerged in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty were later renamed the Manchu people. Doenjang is a traditional delicacy of the Manchu people;

2. From agriculture From a planting perspective, there are endless soybeans and sorghum in the black soil of the Northeast. Soybeans are the raw material for Northeastern soybean paste. Soybean paste is a condiment that the Manchus eat all year round. It can be said that the Manchus eat it with every meal all year round. Doenjang is indispensable. It is said that this eating habit was left behind by Nurhachi when he was fighting in the north and south;

3. Northeastern doenjang can adjust the saltiness of food and may replace it to a large extent. Part of the salt, because in the past historical dynasties, salt was more expensive than rice, and it was common for ordinary people to not be able to afford salt. Every Manchu household made soybean paste and ate it with every meal, which can confirm this view from the side;

4. Let’s talk about the relationship between the eating habits of Northeastern people who like to eat miso and the natural climate. The climate in Northeastern China is very suitable for the growth of soybeans and can produce relatively high-quality soybeans. Its quality can be said to be the best in the world. It is relatively good, and the most important thing is that the yield is huge. Preservation of too many soybeans is a serious problem. Therefore, the custom and tradition of making doenjang has been formed. The delicious doenjang is very delicious with various vegetables and can be eaten raw. That is inevitable;

5. The natural climate in the Northeast makes the fresh vegetables in the Northeast particularly valuable in winter. With miso, eating all kinds of fresh vegetables raw

Vegetables are the most suitable. After all, in the eyes of Northeastern people, frying these vegetables and eating them is a bit of a waste of ingredients;

6. The weather is cold in winter, and green onions are more commonly eaten in winter. In the eyes of southerners, sauce may contain chemical fertilizers, but in the Northeast, where the weather is cold and vegetables are grown, pests are less likely to occur, so everyone is particularly at ease when eating it raw;

At the end of writing, I still want to A few words, let’s take the scallion dipping sauce as an example. Maybe in our south, scallions are almost never eaten raw. The reason may also be that the natural climate affects the quality of scallions, but in the cold Northeast, the quality of scallions may be more fresh and tender;

Let me give you a simple example. Hubei is rich in lotus roots. I especially like pork ribs and lotus root soup, which has a glutinous texture. However, lotus roots are also grown in places other than Hubei, and most of them taste the same. It has a crispy texture, low starch content, and is not as glutinous as it is glutinous. It is closely related to the natural climate and other aspects;

In a fruit shop in Yunnan, I actually saw a section of lotus root lying on various Next to the fruit, and the price is not cheap. After asking, I found out that the local lotus root is the fruit in the local area due to the natural climate;

There are many things that we would not have thought of unless we saw them with our own eyes. It’s hard to believe, but most of the time it’s natural selection. Only by constantly changing ourselves to adapt to nature can we survive. The reason is simple when you think about it, just to survive;

During the Chinese New Year last year, I went to the house of my cousin who was married to the Northeast, and found out that her husband’s family likes to eat pickles. My cousin told me that basically every family in the Northeast likes to eat this way. I ate it. After a few bites, I felt it tasted pretty good

Then my cousin told me that she was quite curious when she first came here, but after eating it for a while, she got used to it and said it was mainly vegetarian dishes from the Northeast. The properties are much better than those in the south. Basically, the vegetarian dishes in the Northeast are fatter and tenderer, and have a certain sweetness. They are much more delicious when eaten raw

Another saying is that in the Northeast Over there, basically starting from children, if they are hungry, they will eat a green onion with dipping sauce to fill their stomachs. However, there are also other vegetarian dishes. In other words, the practice of eating vegetarian vegetables with dipping sauce in the Northeast begins with children. It’s become common

When I came back from my cousin’s house, I brought some of their miso soybean paste to dip it in pickles when I returned to my home in the south. I have to say something here, the miso from the Northeast Doenjang is also very fragrant, and it tastes very good when dipped in vegetarian vegetables.

But when I got home, I went to the market and bought some green onions and cucumbers. When I was dipping it in the sauce, I found that here we The vegetarian dishes here taste far less delicious when eaten raw than at my cousin’s house in the Northeast. After a few bites, I couldn’t eat them any more, so I had no choice but to stir-fry them.

Friends from the South, come here When I visit Northeast China as guests, I never order Zhanjiang cuisine for them, which is a specialty of Northeast China. Because I know people in the south will not be willing to eat this kind of lettuce.

Moreover, this kind of lettuce dipped in sauce has no taste. They think that eating it like this is not nutritious. But for us Northeasterners, we think that every autumn when all kinds of vegetables come out, we will eat a meal of lettuce rice wraps, which is the same concept as eating it with lettuce. In autumn, the cabbage matured, and the cabbage leaves also took on the shape of a large cabbage leaf. Then I didn't use the mashed potatoes and pickled green onions piled with steamed rice. Put it together in the cabbage leaves, and then add those condiments. When you eat it, it is really fragrant. It is especially suitable for the appetite of our Northeasterners and is also a delicacy of our Northeasterners.

Delicious food on the table, good taste. In addition, when the wild vegetables come down, or when the baby lettuce, baby cabbage, or spring comes out, we will fry a pot of sauce. Then use these side dishes. It's really delicious when dipped in sauce. Although southerners don't like this taste, Northeasterners like it very much.

1. First of all, eating habits

The traditional northern peoples have a nomadic production method. They like to collect, fish and hunt, as well as farm and animal husbandry. In the process of collecting, fishing and hunting, raw food has slowly become a It is customary to eat cucumbers, radishes, peppers, green onions, garlic, lettuce, coriander, etc. raw, with the soybean sauce that northerners like, which is very delicious. The planting industry in the south is relatively developed and the cooking is relatively sophisticated, so southerners prefer to cook various vegetables and eat them hot.

2. Growth characteristics of food ingredients

The winter in the north is cold, and many insect eggs are frozen to death during the winter. Therefore, vegetables in the Northeast often have less insect pests and less pesticides. There are also few. In the past, the Northeast was vast and sparsely populated, and many high-quality vegetables tasted very good when eaten raw. The climate in the south is hot and humid and there are more insects, so vegetables in the south are more risky to eat raw than in the north.

3. The problem of sauce

The soybean sauce in the north is a deeply fermented sauce. The protein in the soybeans produces a delicious flavor during the fermentation process, and also produces a kind of sauce. Many southerners are not used to the special smell. This kind of sauce is fried in oil, and eggs, peppers and other ingredients are added to make it more fragrant. However, some southerners cannot accept it when eaten raw.

In fact, the dishes eaten with sauce in the north and south are still different today. The northerners eat so delicious, they will think that the vegetables grown in the black soil in the north will be more delicious, such as what they eat The onion and garlic may not be as strong as those in the south. Later, I was lucky enough to go to the north and eat it once on a business trip. The dish was still the same, but the people who eat it are different from different regions.

The southerners may not be able to accept the delicious food from the north, but the southerners may like the taste of A as honey and B as arsenic. Or it may be the difference in location in the land that causes the difference in taste between the north and the south. For one person, the north is a black soil with fertile soil, a good environment for growing vegetables, and rich nutrients. Vegetables that can be eaten raw have high vitamin content, but more than half of the vitamins are destroyed when the vegetables are cooked.

Therefore, edible raw materials of fruits and vegetables are more nutritious than cooked foods. For example, the fresh seafood from Guangdong is not tolerated by the Northeast. The sweetness from the South and spicy food from Sichuan are not popular in the Northeast, but now the dining tables are almost the same between the north and the south. Every place has its own unique things. We all live in China, just like brothers and sisters in a family. Is it necessary to hate each other? Just like a family with different tastes, everyone has his own preferences for radish and cabbage

Last Sunday, I went to the vegetable market for a walk. I bought meat and vegetables. When I was about to walk back, I found a store selling green onions. The green onions were removed, leaving only the white ones. When I found out it was 2.50 yuan, I bought some. The eldest sister He said: If you don’t like this, there are also ones with green onion leaves, which are also 2.50. I said it’s okay, since I eat them with dipping sauce, and then use them to make dumplings. The eldest sister was happy and speechless. I asked: Are you from the south? She replied, yes, from Sichuan. But I emphasized that she has been in Dalian for more than nine years. I asked her if she was used to it? She said she was not used to food. She always brought chili peppers, peppercorns, and bacon from her hometown in Sichuan, but she particularly liked the climate in Dalian, which was neither cold nor hot. I have already bought a house in Dalian.

I’m not used to people here eating lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, radish, green onions, coriander, and cabbage hearts. . . . They can all be eaten raw, and some are dipped in soybean paste, so why not stir-fry them? All I can say is: I ate it this way when I was a kid. It’s delicious, crispy, fragrant, and goes well with rice. When talking about cooking, she praised the rice from Northeast China. She said the rice from her hometown was not oily and was watery. It turns out that she used to eat wontons instead of dumplings during the Chinese New Year in her hometown. When she came to Dalian, she made dumplings every three days and ate them. Instead, she found the ones stuffed with pickled cabbage to be the most delicious, and she also accepted dipping them in garlic sauce.

In fact, the difference between the north and the south is not that big now. Today's young people like to try more. The north and south are transparent, and they can eat from all directions. Come to whatever is good, unlike us born in the 1970s who remember the old taste.

I am from the Northeast. Growing up, I have always heard that when preparing meals at home, the most common method is to fry eggs with sauce, wash a few cucumbers, green onions, and radishes, and dip the whole thing into pickles instead of stewed chicken. Mushrooms, pork stewed vermicelli, etc. In fact, in the Northeast, the most common and most common dish is dipping pickles.

Why do Northeasterners love pickles the most? I am still relatively young, so I can only figure out one or two of them. As we all know, the climate in the Northeast is extremely cold in winter. Vegetables here are very scarce in winter. Sauerkraut, Chinese cabbage, and potatoes become the main foods in winter. When the freeze is lifted, vegetables Gradually, there are more vegetables, and everyone can’t wait to try them. The best way is to eat them raw, which is the freshest. Coupled with the unique aroma of Northeastern miso, eating vegetables alone is a bit bland, so pair them with Northeastern miso. It has some taste. This is the eating habit of people living in the Northeast.

In the south, there are fresh vegetables all year round, and sauces are not very popular, so eating vegetables raw and dipping them in sauce is not widely accepted. They would rather steam, cook and eat them. Vegetables are fresh.

In the Northeast, there are many types of pickles, including radish, cucumber, coriander, steamed eggplant, sauerkraut, cabbage, and wild vegetables such as mother-in-law. In my impression, all vegetables that are not poisonous can be dipped in pickles. Sauce it.

I think that the high humidity and high temperature rivers in the south are densely covered with germs in the raw water. If it is used to water or wash vegetables, the vegetables will be contaminated with germs and parasites. Many germs, parasites and even It's serious. If schistosomiasis is not sterilized by high temperature, it is easy to get sick or even die. It becomes a habit to choose the lesser of two evils over time. In the north, eating raw vegetables has so many benefits that it has become a habit.

The tofu skin in the Northeast is particularly thin and delicious. When growing vegetables in the Northeast, top dressing is applied under the roots. In the South, it is poured directly on the leaves. The weather and climate in the Northeast are also suitable for eating like this. Northeastern people also like to eat cold dishes in winter because it is too hot at home to eat hot meat and vegetables, which is a bit irritating and they need cold dishes to cool down.

When I was in high school, a classmate from the south came to me. They didn’t eat lettuce, but after eating Northeastern rice dumplings, they fell in love with pickles! I think the pickles are quite attractive! Friends from the south can give it a try! To be honest, people in the Northeast are bold and bold, while people in the South are gentle and delicate. When it comes to food, northern food is more rugged, and I always feel that the main theme is to fill the stomach! Most people in the south like to be more particular about their food, and no matter what kind of food they eat, it is much more refined than in the north!

I like to eat pickled vegetables. I have worked in the South for more than 30 years. In the South, I will never eat pickled vegetables. I won’t talk about the ingredients of the sauce. What we eat in the Northeast is soybean sauce, which is mainly vegetables. The pickles we eat must be seasonal vegetables from farm gardens. We cannot accept the fertilizer used in vegetables in the south. Don’t say that we dare not eat them. Raw or cooked food is rarely eaten. The soil and water support a person, and pickles can only be eaten in the Northeast. And it must be local farm cabbage.