Among the edible freshwater fish in China, carp is the most colorful. People make carp into adult paintings, flower buns, and even serve them on the table, especially the big festival of the Spring Festival, the carp represents "more than every year", and is deeply loved by people.
However, China's vast land area and food culture are quite different, and it seems that most of the people who prefer carp are in the north, which can't help but make people wonder, don't southerners like to eat carp? Obviously, the meaning of carp is very good, but carp does not appear much in the daily life of southerners.
In fact, people eat carp not because it is delicious, but because they are poor. Carp is the cheapest kind of edible freshwater fish, easy to feed, meaty, tenacious, suitable for batch farming, any fish pond can raise carp, so carp is the most popular with the public.
In many second- and third-tier cities, carp is only half as cheap as pork, or even lower, because the number of carp is too large to fully meet the market demand. Compared with other freshwater fish, such as sea bass, black river fish, wild catfish, ** too much difference.
You know that there is a saying among anglers: where carp is not eaten, the water resources of that area are good! This sentence is really interesting, as long as the water is good and the fish species are abundant, people will not eat carp because there are other fish species to fill it.
Like the Americans, why are they reluctant to eat the fact that the Asian carp are flooded and they have to spend money to clean up the river? Is it too much of a thorn? In fact, there are many sea fish on people's side, which are delicious and not troublesome, who wants to eat freshwater carp, which leisure is easy to remove fish bones?
In terms of cooking methods, carp is more acceptable in the north. Because carp has a strong earthy smell, heavy seasonings are needed to mask the earthy smell and increase the flavor of the fish. Originally, carp is a fatty and compact fish, which is suitable for braised and braised fish, and can be stewed for a long time with the flavor of sauce and salty, and it can be turned into a meal.
Southerners, on the other hand, eat fish and love the delicious taste of the fish itself. The climate in the south is warm, and the carp does not need to accumulate a lot of fat in the body to resist the cold, so the meat is loose, and the water quality in the south is not enough, the carp raised in the south is not fat enough, the taste is firewood and cotton, and the earthy smell is strong, and the simple steaming or boiling is naturally not suitable for carp.
Coupled with the abundant freshwater fish resources in the south itself, in front of so many delicious fish, why do you have to choose carp that is not delicious and not easy to cook? Therefore, on the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner table of southerners, although there are fish that represent "more than every year", it will not be carp.
Southerners also have an ideological concept that carp is a "hair thing", which is a mysterious saying. Many elderly people in the south think that eating carp is easy to cause physical discomfort, and they do not think that carp is nutritious, even if the carp soup is boiled into a thick white soup, it cannot change this ideology, resulting in the daily consumption of carp by southerners.
In fact, the difference between the north and the south between eating carp and not eating carp is not only a matter of taste, but also reflects the culture and eating habits of different regions of China. Everyone let go of their mentality, southerners go to the north, taste the local roasted carp, eat the craftsmanship and taste, northerners come to the south, eat more local special fish, eat the freshness of local species.