What does the rural saying "It's better to feed a dog than tofu to drink" mean? Can't you drink tofu with alcohol?

Many farmers in rural areas like to have a drink or two. My grandma also often drinks a little wine. My grandma keeps several cans of wine she brewed in her room. Soaked in mulberry wine, red date wine, and Nianzai wine. Especially during festivals, there are many people at home. They even want to have a few glasses of wine and talk about home affairs.

Why does the rural saying "It is better to feed the dogs than tofu to drink" appears? This is mainly the experience gained from the farmers' life practice. Why do farmers like to drink a few glasses of wine, especially during small gatherings?

My grandma said that I can sleep well after drinking wine at night. This is mainly because wine can promote people's blood circulation and have the effect of removing rheumatism. Many elderly people have poor blood circulation, their tendons are prone to pain, and most of them suffer from rheumatism. Therefore, it is also beneficial to drink a little wine occasionally. But don’t drink too much alcohol. Drinking too much will have a bad impact on the internal organs of the body. At the same time, don’t choose to drink in the morning and early morning, because drinking at this time can easily damage our liver and brain.

When drinking, there will be some side dishes to accompany the wine. Without the side dishes, drinking will be tasteless. And tofu, known as "plant meat", has gradually appeared in people's snacks. Tofu is delicious and cheap. There are many ways to cook tofu, so it can be said to be the best choice as a dish to accompany wine.

Although, tofu has many benefits as a snack. However, in terms of human relations in rural areas, if your relatives and friends come to your home for a gathering, but you serve a few plates of tofu, it will make others think that you are stingy and not generous. Serving tofu to guests makes you look shabby. Because we all know that tofu is very cheap. A piece of tofu costs 50 cents, and a few yuan of tofu can make several dishes. At the same time, tofu can be tasted all year round and is very common. Therefore, there is a saying that "it is better to feed a dog than tofu to drink."

Nowadays, we are no longer as particular as before. The most important thing about the food that goes with wine is that it should be delicious. Everyone’s taste is different, so it is difficult to satisfy everyone. And tofu is something that almost everyone loves to eat. Moreover, there are many ways to make tofu, which is suitable for men, women, old and young. Therefore, tofu often appears in dishes that go with wine.

There is a saying that drinking a few glasses of wine less often can rejuvenate the blood vessels, not to mention shouting and drinking at self-organized banquets in rural areas or at hotel tables. Isn’t it said that there is a wine culture? Wine is inseparable from people's lives. Not to mention those people who love wine as much as their lives, use wine to relieve their sorrows, and use "wine to settle everything". Whenever you drink, you always have to have a few dishes to go with the wine. There is a common saying in rural areas: "It is better to feed a dog with tofu than with wine." That’s too extreme to say! As everyone knows, there are many dishes with tofu as the staple food on banquets and hotel tables in rural areas, such as fish-flavored tofu, cabbage stewed tofu and so on! Aren’t those sitting there drinking wine and eating dishes made with tofu? Could it be that there was a mistake? Or is the second half of that saying meant to hurt others?

In fact, the original meaning of "Tofu is better for drinking than feeding a dog" is that tofu has the effect of sobering up. After eating tofu, you will easily wake up after being drunk. No matter how much wine you drink, it will be in vain! Friends who understand this principle will also say this saying when we get together, which means it is meant to be ridiculing!

How can you say that eating tofu can sober up? There are indeed substances in wine that are harmful to the human body, and acetaldehyde is contained in wine. It is on the list of carcinogens published by the World Health Organization's International Cancer Research; Alcohol in the human body goes through the conversion process of alcohol → acetaldehyde → acetic acid → carbon dioxide and water, and each step requires the participation of different enzymes in the human body. Acetaldehyde is an important substance that produces anesthesia in our bodies.

Tofu is very rich in nutrients, among which vitamins B1, B6 and amino acids are the most abundant. The B vitamins and glutamic acid can decompose acetaldehyde, reduce the amount of acetaldehyde absorbed by the body, and excrete it from the body. Therefore, drinking alcohol and eating tofu can not only sober up but also reduce the harm caused by drinking.

However, tofu is a food made from "deeply processed" soybeans. Do you have any personal experience that if you eat too much soy products, you will feel bloated, burped, and always feel heavy in your stomach? If you drink beer and then eat tofu, it will increase even more, which is very harmful to the stomach.

You must know that tofu is only a "dish", not a "dish". Dishes such as cold cucumbers, cold fungus, and stir-fried river shrimps with chives are the best dishes to go with wine.

Therefore, drinking wine and eating tofu is okay, but it is not a good combination. Try to eat as little as possible before drinking. It is best to eat a little more when you are drunk so that you can sober up. But we can’t take the meaning of “Tofu with wine is worse than feeding dogs” literally.

With the continuous improvement of living standards, rural living customs have also undergone great changes. Various food ingredients are increasing day by day. For example, soy products have different production methods across the country, and tofu is basically no longer made with brine paste. From this perspective, the old saying in rural areas that "it is better to feed dogs with wine than tofu" is flawed and needs to be corrected.

They say curiosity killed the cat, but I am very curious, and I have to figure it out if I don’t understand. I often eat it as a side dish at morning gatherings, but I never noticed anything unusual. Whether it is stewed tofu, braised tofu, roasted tofu, or chicken chop and tofu, it will be consumed together with other dishes to go with wine on the wine table. No one has any abnormality when eating tofu. I just feel like tofu can’t be served as a side dish with wine. It’s monotonous and bland. It needs to be paired with other meat and cold dishes, at least some peanuts.

Later, after experiencing more, I gradually understood the true meaning of this saying. It is indeed better to feed a dog than tofu to drink. This is indeed what the old people said in the past. Today's elderly people generally don't say that. Of course, there are tofu on a table. If you like it, there are other dishes to choose from, whether you like it or not. I can no longer say what will happen if I drink a mouthful of tofu.

It’s better not to explain the truth, it has a sense of mystery, and it’s easier to say it than farts. Tofu with wine is worse than feeding dogs, which means two things:

Although tofu is the meat of the poor, everyone has loved it for thousands of years, it is cheap, nutritious and delicious. But in the past, the rules were that my family was eating high-end delicacies, but they couldn't use it to entertain guests. We also know that our guests also like tofu and eat tofu as often as they do at home.

This phenomenon is a bit convoluted. Why can’t we serve guests with tofu even though we know they like to eat it? The truth is this. One of the virtues of the Chinese nation is to treat guests better than yourself. This is the tradition of Guangshan. When guests come, they should serve them with the best food. Even if there are no conditions, they should prepare a table of good dishes. There is an old saying in the local area: "If you have no money, even if you take off your pants, you still have to get a piece of meat to entertain guests." It means that when guests come, the family has no money to buy meat for cooking, so even if they take off their pants and sell them, they still have to buy meat and entertain them as much as they want. A good person doesn't take off his pants and sell them for meat.

According to this folk custom, you know why you can’t use tofu to entertain guests. Because it is obvious that the tofu dish is not done attentively, and the guests are not valued or respected. If you put yourself in the other person's shoes, the guest would also think so, and he would obviously feel slighted. Hence the saying, it is better to feed the dog with tofu than with wine. If you feed it to a dog, the dog still knows it is good, but if you pay for it and offend others, it is really not worth the loss.

When entertaining guests to drink, everyone is willing to enjoy themselves and not get drunk. But there is also a reason that is difficult to say out loud, that is, the wine cannot be wasted.

Especially for drinkers, they don’t want to see fine wine being thrown away and wasted. Drunkards are even worse. One drink is the best thing to do. However, there is a lot of waste in the wine shop, most of which occurs in drinking competitions. Sprinkle the wine secretly, pour out the wine and replace it with water. What I want to talk about here is not that, but about expanding your drinking capacity. I could drink half a catty of wine, but I couldn't drink more than half a catty without getting drunk; I could drink it all in one sitting, but I could continue drinking after a while when I sobered up. With this phenomenon, no matter how willing and generous the master is, he will still feel a little uncomfortable and unhappy to see such a scene. Originally, I could fulfill my friendship as a landlord with a bottle of wine and a meal, but this meant that I had to finish one meal after another, wasting wine and time. So I can't express this idea clearly, so I feel uncomfortable. What causes this?

Drinkers all have this experience. After a round of drinking, they feel dizzy and refreshed. Then they have a bowl of candied eggs or sour soup noodles, and then a cup of tea without finishing it. The drunkenness seems to have passed and they can continue. drink. This is the function of rock sugar poached eggs, a direct hangover cure. Tofu has this function. If you don’t believe me, you can try it. You will feel dizzy after drinking half a kilo of alcohol. If you stew tofu and drink it with wine, you can drink at least two taels more. Where did the extra two taels go? It was indeed resolved by tofu.

The reason is very simple. High-protein foods can decompose and absorb ethanol. This explains why peanuts are the best dish to go with wine. They are full of flavor and small in size. One peanut can soothe the alcohol irritation in your mouth and can be fully reflected in the wine you drink. It is not like tofu that goes well with wine. You only need to drink half a catty of it. Reflect three liang.

I have heard this saying from the older generation before. Sometimes when friends get together for a drink, if someone orders tofu, someone will joke and say, "Tofu goes well with wine." , as the old saying goes, it’s better to feed the dog.” It is estimated that after hearing this, many people will think that tofu and food are incompatible. You cannot eat tofu while drinking, or it is not advisable to drink while eating tofu. Is this really the case? Can't you eat tofu while drinking?

In fact, this old saying passed down by the ancients does not mean that tofu cannot be used as a dish with wine. The original intention is that it is best not to eat tofu when drinking alcohol, that is, do not use tofu as a dish with wine. This is because tofu has the effect of sobering up. If you use tofu to accompany the meal while drinking, you will not get drunk easily, and the wine you drank in your stomach will be relieved. Isn't this equivalent to drinking in vain? Therefore, there is an old saying: "It is better to feed a dog than tofu to drink." So does this old saying from the ancients make sense?

There is a certain reason why this old saying has been passed down. And current science can also explain that eating tofu while drinking does have a certain hangover effect. We all know that no matter what kind of wine it is, it contains alcohol. If you want to relieve hangover, you can only use alcohol dehydrogenase. As long as this ingredient is contained in products or foods, it can relieve hangover. The main component of tofu is soybeans, which are rich in protein peptides. When combined with alcohol, it will produce alcohol dehydrogenase and water, so it can achieve the effect of hangover.

Friends with life experience should know better that foods rich in carbohydrates and vitamin B have a certain hangover effect, because they can affect the speed of alcohol absorption in the human body. Tofu contains such ingredients, so eating tofu while drinking will not only have a certain sobering effect, but also reduce the harm caused by alcohol to us. Regarding the hangover effect of tofu, Chinese medicine also agrees. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that tofu is sweet in taste and cool in nature. It has the effects of replenishing qi, promoting body fluids and detoxifying. It can be used to treat symptoms such as red eyes and thirst, and can detoxify sulfur and soju. It can be seen that eating tofu while drinking does have a certain hangover effect.

In ancient times, there was a saying that "it is better to feed dogs than tofu to go with wine." In fact, it also has another meaning, that is, using tofu as a dish to go with wine is relatively shabby, reflecting the host's inability to entertain guests. thoughtful. It can also be seen from many films, television and literary works that the best dishes to go with wine are hard dishes, such as beef, chicken, duck, fish, etc., while tofu can only be used as a side dish with drinks and dishes, so No matter how much you drink, you won’t get drunk easily. Wouldn’t that be equivalent to “feeding the dogs” all the delicious food and drink?

Dear friends, now you understand. It's not that tofu can't be used with wine and food, but that tofu has the effect of sobering up. The next time you drink, you might as well eat tofu as a side dish. This can not only relieve hangovers, but also slow down the damage of alcohol to our bodies. Why not kill two birds with one stone?

There is a saying in the countryside, "It is better to feed the dogs than tofu to drink." This sentence is quite interesting. As we all know, when drinking alcohol, there must be some appetizers. For us northerners, the appetizers do not need to be rich. It can be a plate of peanuts, a plate of boiled edamame, or even a few slices of ham. Where does the saying that tofu cannot go with wine come from?

In fact, tofu is not good for drinking because it is incompatible with wine. On the contrary, tofu contains an ingredient that can relieve hangover. Eating some tofu before and after drinking can protect the liver and reduce the damage of alcohol to the liver. How can we say that it is better to feed dogs than to drink such a good drink? In fact, this is also related to the wine culture.

Our country’s wine culture has a long history, is extensive and profound.

Ancient poets couldn't write good poems without wine. Nowadays, no business can be concluded without wine. When friends are happy, they drink together to talk and talk. When they are unhappy, they use wine to drown their sorrows. There are rules and customs in drinking, and you can't drink recklessly. . For us Shandong people, drinking is a etiquette, and the wine table culture permeates every aspect of work and life.

At the wine table, if the table is full of "drinking heroes" and everyone has a full glass, but you act like you are staying out of it, everyone is drunk and I am sober, I'm afraid it won't work. Even if you are not good at drinking, you should at least have a correct attitude. If you can drink, drink until you die. If you can't drink, drink until you die. Otherwise, you will look down on the other person. You can drink and vomit, and drink again after vomiting, but you can't come up. If you just say you can't drink, others will think that people like you are not worth dating, and they won't be friends with you, let alone do business with you.

This is the same as "it's better to feed a dog with tofu than to drink". If you play tricks when drinking, pour wine, eat hangover candy, or order tofu to relieve hangover, in the eyes of people who really love wine, All these are "side doctrines" and should not be tolerated. If you want to drink, you have to fight for your strength, open up the battle, show your true skills, and see who can drink who down first. This is really the wine table culture here. Therefore, if you order tofu while drinking, others will think that you don’t really want to drink. In their eyes, tofu cannot be used to accompany wine, and it is best to have simple and crude dishes to accompany wine.

In fact, it cannot be denied that drinking can sometimes add to the fun, but we must also consider our own health and drink lightly rather than drink too much. Since tofu is such a good hangover appetizer, why not have a plate of tofu with your meal, which will not ruin the atmosphere and protect your liver.

China's drinking culture has a long history. The Chinese people's culture of persuading people to drink can be said to be the "treasure" of the wine culture. On the Chinese drinking table, there is nothing that can't be done, only that they don't want to do, so in China , the market for beer, liquor, and red wine is very broad. At the same time, China's wine culture has also driven the rapid development of related industries, such as the tofu we are talking about today.

"Tofu is better to drink with wine than to feed dogs." From the perspective of the "big wine bag" small farmers, it means that drinking with tofu is not as good as eating with dogs. The implication is that drinking with friends and eating tofu It seems very shabby and not as good as what a dog eats. In fact, this is just a narrow understanding. The ancients must have found this sentence to have its true meaning. Let’s talk about why most people drink wine with tofu.

The cysteine ??in the soy protein of tofu is a major amino acid, which can detoxify the acetaldehyde poison. After eating tofu, the acetaldehyde poison can be quickly discharged, and the tofu contains B12 is also the main substance after alcohol metabolism, which can reduce the burden on the heart and liver, so tofu is basically a must-order dish on the wine table. It can not only relieve the paralyzing effect of alcohol, but also reduce the burden on the heart and liver.

There are many ways to make tofu on the wine table, but if you think about the effect of hangover, cold tofu is generally better, because if the tofu is cooked, the amino acids in soy protein contained in the tofu will It will decompose and is not very effective in relieving hangovers. Therefore, it is recommended that the tofu on the table can be made into cold tofu, such as: tofu with green onions, preserved egg tofu, tiger skin tofu, etc. These are some very delicious cold tofu recipes. .

In rural areas, there are many etiquette rules about eating and entertaining guests. It is useful for you to understand them; as the saying goes, "It is better to feed a dog than tofu with wine" when there are guests at home. When drinking and eating together, don’t cook tofu and serve it to the guests. It will look stingy and the guests will be embarrassed. Maybe next time they will be embarrassed to come to your house to have a drink and chat with you; the following is a detailed analysis :

Xiangju Xiaocaijia is located in the southern countryside. In the past, rural people's life was relatively hard, and they usually had little meat to eat. They usually ate various vegetables grown at home and bean sprouts made by themselves. , tofu and the like, and sometimes fried soybeans and scrambled eggs. Meat is only eaten every few days on market day, otherwise meat is only eaten on certain festivals.

Of course, if there are guests at home, there will be meat to eat, because it is a relatively important day when there are guests. Parents will buy more pork to eat, and sometimes they will kill ducks. Or kill a chicken to eat, and also stir-fry a few vegetables, which is quite a hearty meal, but there is no water tofu in these dishes.

Tofu is the most common in our rural areas in the south. Even my mother who lives in the countryside can make side dishes. She makes it every once in a while and eats it. If you want to eat it, buy it because you are usually busy with farm work and have no time to do it. ; In fact, tofu refers to the white cube-shaped water tofu, which is very tender and has a lot of water. One pound of soybeans can make about 4 pounds of water tofu. It is not bragging that a pound of tofu contains more than half a pound of water. Yes, there is a local saying in our hometown: "A pound of tofu is eight taels of water, everything you eat is water, you will lose money if you buy it, but you will make a profit if you sell it." This means that tofu contains too much water.

Tofu is generally made from soybeans. Although tofu is highly nutritious and rich in protein, amino acids and other nutrients, and is known as "plant meat", it contains too much water and the color For nothing, it seems too shabby to serve guests with tofu. It’s not like guests come to the house every day. It seems that there is nothing at home to cook for the guests. The guests will be embarrassed to eat such a dish. Maybe next time I don’t dare to come, for fear of increasing your burden.

In addition, when guests come to visit, men usually drink and chat. Of course, there are a few dishes to go with the wine, and the dishes to go with the wine are usually small stir-fries with relatively low water content, which are more durable and less filling, such as Common dishes to go with wine include fried peanuts, fried pork liver, fried chicken wings, fried small fish, fried shrimp, etc. After all, wine itself is very watery, and if you eat tofu with so much water, you will feel full without eating much, so what else can you do? Drinking and chatting for hours.

So there is a certain truth in the rural saying that "it is better to feed dogs than tofu to go with wine"; and although tofu (water tofu) is not suitable as a dish to go with wine, oiled tofu with better color and taste is still Yes, a dish like fried tofu stuffed with pork is a favorite dish for many people to drink with wine. It is full of color, aroma and flavor, and the method is simple. Just add the sauce and mix the stuffing, then fill each fried tofu and finally steam it.

In rural banquets, tofu mixed with spring onions is a popular cold dish and snack throughout the country. Mapo tofu and shrimp paste tofu are two famous hot dishes. In terms of matching meat and vegetables, tofu is a very respectable vegetarian dish. Moreover, there is a substance in tofu that can relieve hangover. Tofu dish is a good accompaniment to wine. Very scientific.

Listen to an old saying here and you will understand! This sentence is "Hu Rigui, Hu Rigui, a pound of tofu and 12 taels of water." One pound here is the previous 16 taels, that is, 12 taels of the sixteen taels of tofu are water! The beans themselves used to make tofu are not worth much. Add in the costless water, which shows how cheap this tofu is!

So if the host simply uses tofu to serve guests with wine and food, it proves that he is being "rude" and does not serve hard dishes such as various kinds of pork, beef and mutton to accompany the wine. That means there is no sincerity!

In the past, people's material life was quite scarce. It was not easy to eat a piece of meat, and it was also difficult to eat a meal of white noodles. When we were children, only when important guests came home, the host could also eat a delicious meal with them. Usually it was just red noodles mixed with some white noodles and it was a good day. When eating meat, it was during the New Year and festivals. Only when grandma, grandpa, uncles, aunts or the like are important guests, who come only a few times a year, can they have a meal of meat.

With such customs and habits, if the guests arrive at home and the host simply serves tofu to entertain the guests instead of the food as a side dish, it would mean to look down upon the guests! The guests are not treated as distinguished guests, so the guests will have the saying and idea that "it is better to feed the dog than tofu with wine"!

Nowadays, times have changed, and people are willing to eat vegetarian meat even if they eat meat. In the past, people did not want to eat corn flour steamed buns, red flour dough, and oatmeal and mung bean noodles, but now they are regarded as rarities. Tofu banquets are popular in some places, even at state banquets, because of the health-preserving and hangover-relieving effects of tofu.

“It’s better to feed a dog than tofu to drink.” I think the reason why I say this has something to do with the living standards of previous eras. In the difficult years of the past, meals in ordinary rural families were very simple. Cabbage, potatoes, pickles and tofu were probably the mainstream food all year round. Especially tofu, every village has a tofu shop. If you want to eat tofu, you can exchange some soybeans for a few pieces of tofu and you can eat it for a while. Therefore, in previous eras, tofu was a common ingredient in the lives of poor and lower-middle peasants.

However, it would be inappropriate to invite people to your home for dinner and cook a tofu dish. Since you are inviting people to dinner, you need to make the scene bigger and the food better. In this case, I must be preparing some relatively good dishes that I usually don't want to eat. At this time, serving tofu on the table is a bit of a curse. Isn't this looking down on people? Therefore, there is a saying that "it is better to feed a dog than tofu to drink."

But things are different now. Living conditions have improved. In addition to more precious ingredients such as seafood and sea cucumbers, other chicken, duck, and fish are actually very common. Moreover, people are paying more attention to eating now. For example, when it comes to the combination of meat and vegetables, and the lighter the soup is served at the end, the better. At this time, a plate of tofu mixed with green onions or preserved egg tofu can be placed between the chicken, duck and fish, which can not only adjust the greasiness. The taste also has a light taste, which is very delicious when drinking.

The above are some of my views on this issue. Please forgive me if there is any inappropriateness.