Chapter 385 Snacks and gifts (5)
Dadong nodded without hesitation. That day, bread, sausage, fried dough sticks and mohua was really considered a high-end snack. How could the children usually let them eat it every day? It was amazing to taste it once or twice a month.
There are also cakes, biscuits, canned cakes, and only the commonly known as trough cakes, which are hard and hard. At that time, they were the top snacks. During the Chinese New Year, they usually carry two or four boxes of gifts. It is considered a heavy gift. Few families really want to eat them. They put them there when others send them, and wait to deliver them to others. The cakes are like traveling, and sometimes they will be transferred back to the original house by chance.
At that time, people had no concept of shelf life. Many times, the cakes in the box were hard and were still sent like green stones. No one opened them to see them. At that time, the packaging was all paper boxes, and it was easy to break when it was opened, so it was impossible to deliver them again.
Some people will carefully open it, then take one or two pieces to satisfy their children's cravings, and then carefully wrap it and continue to give it to them. Everyone understands that no one can eat it.
There are also naughty kids who secretly open the box and steal a piece to eat when the adults are not paying attention. Sometimes they have to travel for a long time, and there are too few cakes inside. If they take one, they are too obvious, so they will take it out and take a small bite and put it back. Haha, when they receive the cake with tooth mark, they just smile and know it.
Those who are really willing to eat will not get angry if they open it and see that they can’t eat it. After throwing it away, everyone knows what’s going on.
At that time, there are no cookies at all now, and no one will eat them in modern times. They are just flour and a little sugar, and the taste is very poor. Now there are only many small food factories in Dandong, Liaoning and Tonghua, Jilin, which are specially used for North Korea.
And the highest gift among those years was canned.
Although the modern canned food market is shrinking, most children may never have eaten it, but in the 1980s, 1990s, or before the 1990s, canned food was quite awesome and has always been the big brother in the snack industry and the gift industry.
At that time, children in ordinary families had the opportunity to eat canned fruit only when they were sick. At that time, there were no synthetic sugar, no additives, no artificial pigments and preservatives, and no one used sour fruits that could not be sold on the market to cook canned food. The kind of sweet food that I felt so sweet that I felt that children who are now guarding countless snacks cannot understand or understand.
As for canned meat, (I swallowed a big mouthful of saliva and made me greedy) it was simply a legendary mysterious gift.
The initial canned meat was used to provide the troops with the problem of meat eating during the marching and war. In those years of resistance, it reached a rare point in the domestic market, with nearly 7 million people in demand.
After the war, in addition to ensuring the regular supply of the troops, canned meat began to enter the side food store in small quantities, becoming a high-end commodity.
Then the semi-hostile relationship with the Russians began, and after several battles, the entire northern half of China entered the preparation and preparation for war. Most of the existing large number of permanent fortifications and combat preparation repositories were built in those years. Many of them were nuclear-level fortification repositories, and air raid shelters were everywhere. Even the small place of Nanfen had seven or eight air raid shelters, and several mountains were hollowed out.
Chongqing has the most air-raid shelters in China. Now many hotels and shops in Chongqing are open in air-raid shelters, but most of the air-raid shelters in Chongqing were built by the Guo-Cheng government, which has little to do with the subsequent combat readiness construction.
In those years, canned meat almost disappeared from the market. Only the armed departments of each factory had a little share and followed the military supply line.
Because in those years, after the Russians were rejected for the privilege of living and management in Northeast China, they made some tricks, stopped all aid projects, withdrew the aid expert group, and asked for materials and money to help China in the early stage.
The car swaddles drove to Moscow one by one, bringing a large number of light-employed products and meat products, and canned meat became the main force in "paying debts". At that time, the extremely tough government simply took the opportunity to regain the sovereignty and management rights of the Northeast Railway, ending the occupation and humiliation of the Northeast by the Russian era from the Tsarist era to the Soviet era.
When the Soviets controlled the Northeast Railway, although it was impossible to be as cruel as the Japanese occupation period, it was a war era, but they did many bad things. Their contempt and hostility towards the Chinese were at heart. Will this have something to do with the second Yellow Peril starting from the Russian country?
To give a real example, from modern times to modern times, the Spring Festival travel rush has always been a big problem. Since there was a train, the Spring Festival travel rush has never stopped.
At that time, the Northeast was still under the jurisdiction of the Northeast Office, and the chairman was Gao Gang. At that time, the Northeast Office was located in Shenyang. During that time, Harbin was mainly controlled by the Soviets.
Gao Gang reminded the Soviet station's Soviet station to increase the number of trains at Shenyang Railway Station to ensure the transportation of people returning home. The Soviet station master refused without hesitation. As a result, something happened and it was crowded to death. Gao Gang shot the Soviet station master directly on the platform, which was also the fuse for the Sino-Soviet conflict.
Actually, now thinking about it, those older generation revolutionaries and the first generation of leaders of New China are all hard enough, and they are really not afraid.
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After the Great Revolution, due to the serious shortage of supplies, easy storage and delicious food, canned food once became a shortage of supplies.
After 79 years, canned food, especially canned meat, has become a circulating commodity and entered the homes of ordinary people. However, its identity is still not the food on the vegetable table, but the packaged gift.
Compared to the salary of thirty or forty yuan a month, a box of canned food costs a few yuan is really a high consumption.
In the 1990s, canned food began to be truly placed on the dining table, which was briefly brilliant for several years. Because the domestic development was too fast, the materials quickly changed from shortage to more. The people directly went to a well-off life, and canned food was once again left, and sales fell sharply year by year. To this day, there are few canned manufacturers who are still struggling to produce, because they are canned meat.
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Zhang Xingming and Dadong entered the restaurant at the grain station, and there were many people in line. Dadong licked his lips and asked, "Are you really eating here? You want food coupons."
The restaurants at the grain station did not have bargaining goods, and all food coupons had to be paid. At that time, no matter how young or naughty the child was, he knew that the food coupons were precious.
Zhang Xingming patted his coat pocket and said, "Didn't this just get it? How many can you eat?"
Dadong hesitated for a moment, but finally succumbed to the temptation of food and said, "Thirds and four are enough, right?"
Zhang Xingming nodded and said, "Why do you want Mahua?"
Dadong turned his head and looked at the piles of marijuana flowers in the window, swallowed a few more mouthfuls, and said with difficulty: "Is it enough to eat? Or, forget it, if you spend too much food coupon, you won't be beaten when you go home?"
Zhang Xingming said: "It's okay, my family's food coupons are enough, so buy some, I'll take it back and freeze it."
Chapter completed!