Talk about eating tomatoes at night.

There is such a topic on douban: what is everyone's favorite food in hot summer?

Great minds think alike, and the key word with the highest frequency in the answer is watermelon.

In fact, even Mr Cai Lan called it a "summer gift". But I want to add another dish, that is, "tomato mixed with sugar". It tastes refreshing and delicious, and it is so simple that it doesn't need any cooking.

Baby Zhang has a song called "Sweet and Sour is Me", and I always think: Oh, this song is about this dish! ?

The usual practice is to wash tomatoes, peel them, cut them into pieces, sprinkle them with white sugar, stir them evenly, put them in the refrigerator for more than ten minutes, and then take them out for eating.

When I was a child, there was no refrigerator at home, and the house was rented. We share a yard with several tenants such as the landlord. Besides drinking boiled water, the water we use for washing vegetables and clothes comes from the pressure well in the yard.

Groundwater is warm in winter and cool in summer. My mother always freezes tomatoes in well water in advance. Although it can't achieve the same effect as that in the refrigerator, Dumex didn't want to mention it because I could eat such a plate of tomatoes in syrup when I was a child.

After eating tomatoes, there will be a lot of tomato juice left at the bottom of the bowl My brother and sister always fight over the juice at the bottom of the bowl.

Nowadays, we have already gone our separate ways and seldom meet each other all the year round. It was rare to get together after the Dragon Boat Festival some time ago. Mom also mixed sugar with tomatoes. With the refrigerator, it tastes cooler and more delicious.

It's just that none of us want to drink the juice left after eating tomatoes. Because after going to work, this weight has soared. For beauty, handsome and health, naturally no one wants to drink another bowl of sugar water.

I "sweetly" scooped a small spoonful with a spoon and gently put it in my mouth. Actually, it still smells like a child. However, perhaps no one has called again, and my heart is not so expected.

I'm ashamed to say that in the eighteen years before I went to college, I always thought that besides mixing fruit or sugar, the other two ways to eat tomatoes were frying or making soup.

I didn't know until I went to college that tomatoes can also be mixed with cucumbers, and the shock index is no less than "salty tofu brain"!

Because in my heart, tomatoes are always sweet and sour. Mixed cucumbers are all sour and garlic. How did these two dishes end up on the same plate?

It was the first summer after graduating from college. After May Day, the weather was extremely hot. In order to lose weight, a roommate in the university dormitory bought cucumbers and tomatoes, as well as seasonings such as salt, vinegar and garlic. Every day at noon, I can see her holding a bowl of "tomato mixed with cucumber" and eating it with relish!

This way of eating is undoubtedly a dark dish for me. But after trying it, I found it wasn't that bad. Everything is just my psychological function.

So, driven by her, in the early summer, "tomato mixed with cucumber" was popular in our dormitory.

Needless to say, this way of eating really loses weight. I, the net height 166CM, has been stable from 98 kg in high school to 89 kg. That summer vacation, when I came home, my mother saw that I had lost weight, and my whole face only showed my eyes, which were full of heartache. My brother laughed at my waist, which is not as thin as a telephone pole.

Many years later, I remembered that I actually regretted it. No wonder I didn't grow taller when I went to college. Blindly following my roommate to lose weight has actually delayed my future as a "supermodel" (hehe …)!

Of the three brothers and sisters, I also became the shortest one. Who made you do it? 166CM tall and 98 kg in weight. Are you fat? Not healthy enough? What kind of fat have you lost? If you don't lose weight and eat more, will you grow taller?

Mr. Chen Xiaoqing, the director of China on the Tip of the Tongue, said in the book The Best Taste on Earth: "In my memory, many people can use a certain kind of food instead, just as I have always been used to using restaurants to mark geographical locations."

In fact, in my memory, there are far more people replaced by a song than by a delicious meal. But this girl who made our dormitory popular with "tomatoes mixed with cucumbers" is one. Now I can think of her every time I see tomatoes mixed with cucumbers!

In the movie "Fanghua", the scene of Xiaosui eating tomatoes is on fire. Ma Yun said in the Weibo, "Fanghua is really as memorable as tomatoes eaten as a child ... there are youthful, sentimental and frustrated voices, and every generation can't lock it up and let it go." Director Xiaogang Feng said: "The smell of tomatoes includes innocence, summer as a teenager, and the throbbing of the seeds of love. The taste of its juice on the lips is a memory related to Fanghua. "

Tomato mixed with cucumber, the light and refreshing taste, is not a unique memory of my youth!

As far as I am concerned, there is a kind of childhood called tomato mixed with sugar, which is always sweet, even if it is naughty and sour sometimes, it will always be happy and carefree; There is a kind of youth called tomato mixed with cucumber, which has a mixed taste and a touch of sweetness and freshness in the "pungent" acid ... this is probably youth!

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