How long has it been since you had a home-cooked meal?

If you haven't been to Changsha during the holiday, you may never know that migrant workers who are resting are willing to queue up for a cup of milk tea for 2-3 hours.

This is probably the charm of Changsha-or the charm of the food city.

But there are also the same group of people who went to other cities with the mentality of "filling their stomachs", but regretted it again and again at the dinner table.

On social networks, such cities are called "food deserts". These cities may have good cultural and natural landscapes, but the delicious food they eat locally makes people instantly understand why parents always want to go abroad with instant noodles.

So on the second day of the holiday, we sorted out the cities called "food deserts" in Weibo, and let's see which cities are dissatisfied with which foods.

Which cities are called "food deserts"?

The top names in the "gourmet desert" list are big cities with developed economies. This is also easier to understand. Because these big cities have a large number of residents and floating population, the number of discussions and complaints is relatively large, and they are also at the top of the rankings.

Among the 10 "gourmet deserts", there are seven or three open cities in the north and south.

In the whole desert group, due to its huge leading position in Beijing and Hangzhou, it has formed an independent brand-Desert Brothers.

How cold and angry are these two desert brothers? Probably in the 2 1 century, everyone had a big appetite. When everyone was clamoring to lose weight, people living in this city were annoyed and angry because they couldn't grow meat.

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Beijing has roast duck, Hangzhou has Dongpo pork and China cuisine. Other cities that have been criticized as "gourmet deserts" also have their own famous dishes, but they are still unfortunately on the list.

What foods will hinder it? From the large-scale complaints, we found the "target" people in the Internet food industry.

What are the most serious China foods that netizens spit out? They are traditional snacks from all over the world. These "hidden foods" often appear in the dilapidated Syrian alleys in Gourmet Raiders, which often make tourists from afar stunned.

Snacks complained about are usually divided into two categories. One is "How can you do this" unqualified snacks, such as Regan Noodles without sesame sauce; The other is local food that foreign tourists can't accept, such as soybean milk and tripe, which are the favorite foods in old Beijing.

When did you realize that this was a "food desert"

By analyzing netizens' complaints about Beijing and Hangzhou, we can actually sum up everyone's complex emotions about "food shortage".

Take Beijing as an example. Everyone's complaints about Beijing focus on certain foods, such as braised pork, roast duck and fried noodles. Although in the eyes of local people in Beijing, these foods are all local representatives, in the eyes of foreigners with different tastes, these foods are not very convincing.

Liu Chun, a media person, also discussed Beijing snacks from an outsider's perspective on Weibo. In Weibo comment area, fried liver, preserved fruit, pea yellow and other foods have become the target of public criticism.

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Taking Hangzhou as an example, everyone's criticism of "hangzhou dishes" mainly focuses on the ignorance of the taste of the cuisine. For example, popular Hangzhou dishes are light, sweet and sour. You can see some common expressions "I don't want to lose weight, Hangzhou is too bad" and "How to eat sour and sweet?" Was it eaten? "mouth"

Sure enough, the reasons for being fat in this world are the same, but there are countless versions of the reasons for being thin. It's just that being forced to starve to death is particularly miserable to lose weight.

Judging from the comments of netizens, they came to Hangzhou all the way and found that the more popular the place, the more difficult it was to eat delicious food. Because of the lineup of the old brand new Bailuyuan restaurant and the three-step street shooting by the lake, everyone has mentioned it many times.

This description full of scenes makes people feel a little chest tightness.

In the keywords of Beijing and Hangzhou, we also found the scene of "takeaway". The word "gourmet desert" is not only the evaluation of a city by foreign tourists, but also the heartfelt sorrow of people living in this city every day.

Migrant workers who are hollowed out by work every day always want to restore their blood by a good meal. However, whether it is the tangled meal selection process or the last meal is not delicious, it is inevitable that people feel that the food in this city is really not friendly enough for people living here.

This has also led to all the holidays as a reason for them to travel or go home to explore food. Life in the distance is called life, and life in front of us is just a part-time job.

In the comment area, we also found many local residents attacking a city. "I have no desire for life", "the most ordered takeaway is salad" and "takeaway is IQ tax" ... The disappointment brought by a city is probably the most painful life sentiment in the lowest-key words.

From these words, we can also see people's expectations for food and the contrast brought by reality.

When young people are attracted by a beautiful city propaganda film, they find that their simplest food desire cannot be satisfied here, and they can only call the city "food desert", which is their most helpless cry.

What is the criterion for judging "food desert"?

In fact, in the process of discussing "famine", we also found a new problem-everyone has a different definition of famine.

Media scholar Lou Jian, a native of Hangzhou, now lives in Beijing. According to our above choices, he has been eating in the desert for decades. But he raised a question-when people talk about food desert, are they talking about local food or local edible food?

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This contradiction is more obvious in Beijing and Shanghai, two big cities.

Shanghai ranked fourth in this gourmet desert selection. When people are full of praise for the city's food culture, French, Italian, Japanese and Korean cuisines are the first choice. However, in Weibo's account, local dishes and steamed buns have also been criticized by many people.

Why is Beijing, which has so many excellent food offices in Beijing, still ranked first in the food desert in the selection?

Another contradiction in discussing the food desert is the price brought by food. In the posts discussing hangzhou dishes (delicious), many people mentioned Jinsha Hall, a high-end restaurant with a per capita income of 743 yuan.

Wang Xuanyi, the author of State Banquet and Family Banquet, was born in a family in Zhejiang. Hangzhou cuisine is elegant in her impression, and its value lies in showing the sincerity of its owner.

She wrote in the article, "An eggplant is steamed and fried with scallops, crab meat, water chestnut and other materials and methods, and then stewed, braised, stewed, dipped in gravy, seafood and so on. I motioned for it. When serving, I only saw a plate of eggplant. The host proudly said, please eat eggplant, and finally wait for the guest to say, ah, what's delicious about this eggplant? "

However, this sincerity is usually based on high prices. Compared with the popular tastes now, the sincere hangzhou dishes and local dishes seem a little too arrogant.

But in a city that flaunts food, it is always glamorous to attract customers with some cuisines with a per capita price of several hundred yuan. If you really want to please tourists and young people, you still need affordable food that meets the tastes of the public.

After all, in the eyes of ordinary migrant workers, the real food is a delicious takeaway that works overtime until late at night.