When I was sick when I was young, I could eat whatever I wanted, but now

When I was sick when I was young, I could eat whatever I wanted, but now

As time goes by, "Anling Rongshou" gradually disappears, and "Yangkang" people return to work one after another. Life is gradually getting back on track. However, the impact of the virus on people does not seem to have completely subsided. The decrease in taste and smell sensitivity is one of them. Some netizens vividly described it: "It's like the Blu-ray image quality of 1920×1080 has turned into a low-definition resolution of 600×360. Rate." This undoubtedly greatly reduces the happiness of Xuanfan. Some people simply fight fire with fire, trying to awaken their taste buds with "destructive weapons" such as canned herring, mustard and lemon.

In fact, as the body gradually recovers after recovery, most people can return to a normal state on their own. There is no need to worry too much, and there is no need to use irritating substances to increase the burden on the mouth and gastrointestinal tract. When you are struggling with the unsatisfactory taste of food, you might as well try to comfort your soul with the food in your childhood memories and help your sensory system get back on track as soon as possible.

Can you recall what you wanted to eat most when you were sick as a child? I'm afraid most of them are hard-won delicacies, right? Although it seems now that these foods have lost their former aura and are no longer so tempting, they are still an indelible memory code in time.

The 1970s: Warm and bitter home-cooked meals

In the 1970s, our country was still implementing the planned economy system and was in the "voucher period" where daily necessities were supplied by voucher. Grain, oil, meat, eggs, non-staple food, daily necessities, and textiles needed for daily life must be purchased with tickets. Food stamps, which are closely related to meals, were once called the "second currency" because of their importance. When urban residents move their household registrations for further education, job transfer, etc., they must transfer their "food relations" at the same time, otherwise there will be no food stamps available. It was not until 1993 that food stamps officially withdrew from the stage of history.

Food stamps. Source/Wikimedia Commons

In the memories of people who spent their childhood in that era, the food rewards they received after being sick basically came from the "small stove" specially opened at home, and white noodles with poached eggs were one of them. Sprinkle a little chopped green onion and add a few drops of sesame oil, and you can drink the soup cleanly. This may have been inherited from the "sick rice" in the army at that time. In towns, eggs are supplied by ticket, and the quantity is limited; in villages, eggs are kept to exchange for salt and other daily necessities, which is called "chicken butt bank". You can imagine how precious eggs are. Flour also has a difference between refined white flour and standard flour. The noodles made with low-priced standard flour are black in color, and the water will change color when cooked in the pot. It seems now that standard flour certainly has more nutrients that have not been lost, but in the past, people who often ate whole grains looked forward to white flour.

Pour boiling water over canned tomatoes. Photography/bychykhin, Source/Adobe Stock Picture Chong Creative

Some people will also recall the special taste of some "off-season" foods. Northerners talk about home-made "canned tomatoes". Introduction Articles about its practice have even been included in middle school textbooks. When tomatoes are on the market in large quantities in the summer, fresh tomatoes are washed and cut into pieces, put into glass infusion bottles, steamed at high temperatures, sealed, and stored until winter, so that cabbage and potatoes are no longer on the table day after day. , and occasionally a little bright color can appear.

But if it is not sealed well,