Lard enamel cup

A long time ago, there was always an inconspicuous enamel cup next to the kitchen stove at home with the number 180 written on it, which was the number when my father was studying.

This cup has been there as long as I can remember. Even if the bottle of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar is changed over and over again, this enamel cup always sits firmly in the center. Besides, the things in this cup are not often used. Maybe it hasn't been covered for a week, but it always has its uses.

At that time, meat was not available every day, and vegetables were the most important. If you have guests, you can't ignore them. One or two meat dishes are essential. It's useful to eat the rest of the dishes fried or sleepy. It is also quite obvious for the owner to fry plums in a pig frying pan as cabbage. Wait until the next morning after the guests leave, take out the leftovers from the pot and fry the lard. This breakfast also seems to add fragrance.

I can't digest this lard fried rice. I don't know why, there is always a feeling that I can't swallow it because of greasy. In the local language, it is called "nao". In fact, not only lard, beef and sheep soup and chicken soup are slightly thicker, but I have instinctive nausea. As for the fat meat that my elders regard as delicious, I avoid it. I didn't get used to it until 14 and 15 years old, and I was able to eat high-fat food. I wonder if your friends have similar experiences?

As for refining lard, I'm afraid it's a long memory. My lard is just to make up for the fat when I have no meat to eat on weekdays. It is not difficult to eat meat every day now, and refining lard is superfluous.

In addition, this enamel cup, now all kinds of supermarket porcelain stainless steel utensils are very delicate, but I'm afraid this enamel utensil is hard to find. However, the enamel washbasin of earlier years is still durable for twenty or thirty years. Enamel is not complicated, that is, a layer of enamel is coated on the outside of metal parts, which makes enamel parts have many advantages. For example, compared with metal parts, enamel has no rust and corrosion problems, wok cooking will rot soon, and aluminum pot cooking will eventually be eaten by people, so enamel is much more durable and safer. Compared with ceramic utensils, enamel has a metal base, which is resistant to falling and collision, and is more convenient to transport, carry and use. So painting slogans such as the most glorious labor will naturally become a symbol of socialism.

Socialist enamel is to distinguish it from those flashy and cheap capitalist porcelain, so we call capitalist porcelain sub-porcelain. The ancients said it well and asked if you had porcelain. I am a porcelain worker.

After the reform and opening up, the most important thing is that people's aesthetic orientation has changed. Rural architecture also pursues foreign flavor, using Roman columns and laying tiles. However, the gradual disappearance of enamel with strong public color, the development of stainless steel technology and the wide application of ceramic products have crowded out the domestic market of enamel products. As a result, manufacturers gradually turned to export, changed enamel, and went overseas to compete with foreign porcelain.

Lard and enamel cups are universal memories of the times when materials are not abundant, and they are historical symbols in the process of people's pursuit of development and prosperity. Although we may not use them often today, we will still miss them. It is they who have witnessed the blue road of this country, who have helped this country grow step by step, but they are still reminding everyone not to forget where we come from.

Do you ask me if I own porcelain? I am an enamel shirt.