I don't know if you have found it, the current pork and beef are not as meaty as when I was a child, maybe I didn't have to eat it before, but now I eat it at once, and I am naturally tired of it.
In the past, how poor the old society was, the older generation will not forget, my father was from the 40s, and I heard him say that when he was a child, the situation was: the family was embarrassed but unable to do anything, and the last meal was not followed.
In the past, there were not many chickens, ducks, fish, meat, eggs and other non-staple foods in the vegetable market, because the amount from production to sales was too small, and even if there were, most of them needed to have tickets**, plus people's income was low at that time, not to mention pork, even eggs could not be eaten.
Therefore, at that time, when you were able to eat a meal of pork, many times it was until the traditional festival or the New Year.
If you haven't eaten a meal of meat for more than half a year, and then suddenly let you eat it, I guess everyone will think that the pork is particularly fragrant, and it is a happy thing.
And now, pork has developed into a home-cooked meat that must be eaten daily and stockpiled food, and even indispensable for every meal, plus there are many non-staple meats to choose from.
In the past, eating meat was full of joy and fragrant, but now the feeling of eating meat is incomparable.
Pig breeding method changed the past farmer uncle pigs, because there are few greenhouses in the village, so the pigs are basically free-range, the feed is also grain and grass, so to raise a small pig to the pig slaughter at least nearly a year, the cost is very high.
The reason for free-range + grain and grass breeding makes the weight of pigs raised to the slaughter, generally growing to about 200 catties, plus the breeding period is long, so the texture of pork in the old days should be more tender and delicious, firm and delicious.
That's why my father said that in the past, even if I used fat to cook soup, the soup was very delicious. And now, pigs have become assembly line products, the current pig breed, basically is a cross-breeding of excellent breeds, the advantage is that the meat is fast, slaughter fast, plus the daily feeding is a special pig feed, piglets fat and meat fast, generally four months can grow into pigs slaughtered, raised.
At six or seven months, the weight of the pig can grow to more than 300 catties.
In addition, the current pigs are large-scale factory breeding, so its meat quality is naturally rough and soft compared with the previous rare pigs, and the umami taste is not good.
The meat bought, may also be chilled meat, frozen pork, because the current pigs are large-scale breeding, and in order to meet the different needs of different industries for meat products, will be slaughtered in the factory, slit, classified and packaged, and then frozen storage, and finally distribution**.
This is naturally the advantage of being able to cope with the ever-changing needs of the industry, and the shelf life of pork is also extended after being refrigerated and frozen.
The disadvantage is, of course, that the meat is not as good as fresh, but now the pork stalls in large supermarkets and vegetable markets are changed to cold fresh meat after thawing for convenience and good storage, and I don't know how long the meat has been stored in the refrigerator, and the taste of pork is naturally greatly reduced.
To sum up the above three reasons, in the old era of material poverty, it was a luxury to be able to eat a meal of pork, so I always felt that the pork in the past was particularly delicious.