Zhou Fangyuan was very happy to be able to meet Yu Ban.

He could see that Yu Ban had actually let go of some of his psychological burden a little, otherwise he would not have been able to sit opposite Zhou Fangyuan and drink and eat together.

It's actually really helpless to say, the two of them had a very good relationship, but because Zhou Fangyuan grew up too fast, it led to an imbalance in Yu Ban's heart, and after that, the two have not been in contact for so many years, and they have obviously had a good relationship, but they have become a lot weaker.

Thanks to Ban, he has woken up now, otherwise if he delays for a few more years, he is afraid that there will be no trace of this affection left. In the final analysis, no matter what kind of relationship it is, it must be maintained continuously to last for a long time. Even if it is a father-son-mother-son relationship, if it is really placed for more than ten years or even decades, it will be worn away by time little by little, not to mention such a small relationship?

The two chatted for a long time, during which they also talked about relationship issues.

Zhou Fangyuan's relationship problem is a mess, and he himself has long wanted to smooth it out, it makes no sense, anyway, it's like this, when he wants to get married one day, see who has feelings, and propose directly to the other party. If you succeed, if you don't succeed, try a few more times, and if you don't work, you will be replaced, anyway, it's very simple.

Yu Ban is different, he used to be a good boy, but now he is a good gentleman, he never found a girlfriend during college, and it was not long ago that he just solved the problem of being single.

And what he was looking for was actually a local German girl.

Zhou Fangyuan looked at him with pity.

"You and her...... If I don't say anything else, can you two eat together?"

In fact, it's okay not to say this, as soon as he said this, Yu Ban had a bitter expression on his face.

From his mouth, Zhou Fangyuan learned that Yu Ban and his girlfriend really had a lot of differences on the issue of eating.

As mentioned earlier, at this juncture in '06, Chinese food has not improved at all in the Western world, and it is not popular at all. For example, in Germany, the development of Chinese food is very, very slow.

No, Germans like sausages and potatoes, have you ever seen a sausage-flavored beer?

It simply blended the two favorite things of the Germans, and when Yu Ban mentioned it, his face was blue.

"It's a legendary dark dish!"

Yu Ban's face was full of depression.

Zhou Fangyuan chuckled on the other side.

If you want to talk about dark cuisine, in fact, he has not been uncommon over the years.

After all, he flew all over the world at home and abroad all day long, and when he arrived in one place, because of different customs and cultures, he also created different eating habits in different places. Some foods are disgusting just by looking at them, and some of them can't be seen at all, although he doesn't eat much, but he still has some knowledge.

For example, he once saw a food called hairy duck eggs.

This is a "delicacy" in Southeast Asian countries, which is actually to eat chicken or duck eggs that are about to break out of the shell. People in northern Vietnam like to eat older duck eggs, when the duck's beak and feet are already in shape, which is not only disgusting but also terrifying. Usually this food is eaten cooked and eaten in the shell, and the broth inside must be sucked off before peeling the shell. The bones of the ducks that are about to hatch in the eggshell are all formed, but they are still soft to eat. While eating, you can see the corpse of the duckling with bones, fur and blood vessels, with a slight feeling of blood, which looks very cruel. Not to mention foreigners, I'm afraid most Chinese people can't accept it.

But then again, there is a food called hairy eggs on Hu Jian's side, which is basically the same as this hairy duck egg, but the raw materials are slightly different, this thing is delicious or not Zhou Fangyuan doesn't know, anyway, he really can't eat it.

And then for example, canned herring.

Canned herring is a unique Swedish food, the smelliest food in the world, there is no one, here it can only be said that the taste of Swedish friends is really unique. Canned herring is a traditional Swedish food made by canning processed herring and allowing it to ferment naturally, and it is a canned food with a foul smell and a sour taste. The smell of this can made of herring is really like a bomb, and it is so stinky that it is difficult to disperse, and some people even say that it can be used as a biological weapon.

The Swedish government has also reportedly banned canned herring in residential areas. This type of can is also not allowed on international flights, as changes in air pressure may cause the can to break, and once it breaks, the taste will ...... The consequences in a confined cabin can be severe. Did you know that canned herring smells 300 times worse than natto. It's horrible......

Then there is the Icelandic dry shark, which Zhou Fangyuan once saw with his own eyes.

Although this dish is one of Icelanders' favorite dishes, it is also ranked as the most disgusting and terrifying dish by the American writer Anthony Bourdain.

Icelandic dried sharks may be made in a similar way to stinky tofu. Greenland sharks with high uric acid are selected and buried in the ground to ferment, and they are not edible for the first 6-8 weeks. After a long period of 3 to 6 months of decay, after fermentation, it is taken out and air-dried and cut into small pieces.

Icelanders recommend that first-time diners cover their noses and eat it, although usually first-time eaters mostly vomit. Netizens who have eaten this dish say that canned herring is the younger brother in front of the Icelandic dry shark, and stinky tofu is the younger brother. The horror of this dish is that the more you eat it, the more you can feel the stimulation like the smell of ammonia, just like the feeling of going to a public toilet that smells like smoke.

There is a dish called Kiwiak, which is also known as pickled puffin, which is also a super dark dish known to Zhou Fangyuan.

From this dish, it can be seen that the brain holes of human beings are really endless, especially the brains of the Eskimos who live in the Arctic Circle, which are even bigger than the sky! Because the local weather is cold, there is no green vegetables and other foods, so there is a lack of vitamin intake. In order to replenish vitamins, they invented such a terrible "delicacy".

It is said that this is how they make this "incomparable" delicacy. First, the trapped, cute seals are hollowed out of their belly organs, then stuffed with hundreds of puffins that do not pluck their feathers, and then the seal's belly is sewn up and coated with grease seal. Finally, it is buried in the permafrost and taken out after two or three years of fermentation, so that you can quietly enjoy the good time that the food brings. Kiwiak is eaten by removing puffins from the belly of the seal and plucking all the feathers off its body. In addition to tearing raw meat directly to taste, you can also use your mouth to suck the fermented visceral slurry or brain pulp in the head at the puffin chrysanthemum......

Really...... It's hard to accept when you think about it.

Casumasu cheese, this, is really the most terrifying dark dish that Zhou Fangyuan knows.

This food sounds like the name of a regular cheese, but it's not, and it's definitely more disgusting than you might think.

This cheese is a traditional delicacy on the Italian island of Sardinia, meaning "rancid cheese", also known as live maggot cheese, which is made from goat's milk. In the early fermentation stage, the larvae of flies, also known as maggots, are specially added. The larvae begin to feed on cheese, using their digestion to "rot" the ingredients, developing a special flavor and increasing the fluffy texture as the larvae continue to drill. When enjoying this "deliciousness", you can remove the larvae inside, but some people can choose to keep the worms if they don't mind.

At present, the cheese has been banned in Europe due to its harm to the human body, but those who like to hunt for curiosities can always find it on the black market.

Zhou Fangyuan had heard it, but he hadn't seen it, and he didn't want to see such a terrifying thing.

In fact, the dark cuisine itself is not too dark, in the end, the locals like it, and that is their culture. It's just that with the acceleration of the process of global integration, many things that originally only existed in the circle of local people began to gradually spread to the world, and some foods are acceptable to people all over the world, such as pizza, such as white rice, but some things, if you are not a local person and do not understand the local culture, you really can't accept it, which is not unusual.

And not to mention abroad, is there no dark cuisine in China?

The hairy egg above, who dares to say that it is not a dark dish?

In fact, in recent years, a large number of dark dishes have appeared in front of the world, and the most popular of them is the famous canteen dishes.

The main role of "canteen cuisine" in colleges and universities is to maintain the lives of teachers and students. However, in recent years, due to its selection of ingredients, cooking process, finished product shape, and strange color, netizens feel incredible, and it has successfully destroyed everyone's attention and become popular on the Internet, and has been named the ninth largest cuisine in China, also known as "dark cuisine".

Foods that are usually unpalatable, ugly, or have strange combinations that are beyond human comprehension are called "dark dishes." But the "dark cuisine" in some college cafeterias doesn't look ugly at all, and even the colors are too beautiful!

For example, for a period of time, it was particularly common on the Internet, such as fried watermelon with apples, chicken slices with oranges, "fried bananas with cucumbers" and "fried pineapples with tomatoes", fried corn with grapes, fried lotus root slices with dragon fruit, fried quail eggs with dragon fruit, fried tea tree mushrooms with purple cabbage, and so on.

When people evaluate food, they often take "color, aroma, and taste" as the highest evaluation standard, and there is a reason why the word "color" ranks high, because our eyes are the first "taste" organ.

Charlie Spence, head of the Cross-Modalities Laboratory at the University of Oxford, has pointed out that more than 50% of the areas of the human cerebral cortex are involved in visual processing, while the area responsible for taste accounts for only 1% to 2% of the cortex. Color affects our judgment of taste, which is why we put "color" first.

Brightly colored fruits and vegetables in the market can be sold at a better price, and some merchants even dye their food in order to make money. But what lowers the score of college cafeteria dishes is precisely these colorful bright colors, which have successfully caused discomfort among some netizens, after all, not all bright colors can stimulate human appetite. Humans are animals with severe stereotypes, especially when it comes to food. Among foods, the least favorite color of humans is blue, because blue food is relatively rare in nature. Many people already resist the moment they see blue food.

Because most people are naturally resistant to blue food, decades ago, the food industry firmly believed that blue food could not be sold, and in order to ensure the appetite of customers, even restaurant plates tried to avoid using blue. In addition to uncommon food colors, humans also have a hard time accepting food colors that are counterintuitive, such as green chicken thighs.

So many people may wonder, why are college cafeteria dishes keen on "dark cuisine"?

Since the chef of the college cafeteria makes a large pot of rice, the first consideration is the cost.

The shelf life of fruits is very short, and the fruits that are not sold in the school supermarket are directly thrown away and waste food, which will cause economic losses, and the canteen has naturally become a good destination for them to "exert their residual heat". In addition to fruits, other snacks in the supermarket with an unsatisfactory shelf life can also be transformed into meals before "retirement". After the Mid-Autumn Festival, many colleges and universities will have a "festival dish", this dish has its own hot search physique, and has developed many factions, yes! It is the Internet celebrity dish moon cake series: moon cake fried pepper, chopped pepper steamed moon cake, silk drawn moon cake, fried moon cake, sweet and sour moon cake, braised moon cake, shallot-mixed moon cake, etc.

However, mooncakes, crispy corners, cat ears, and crispy noodles do not appear as frequently as fruits in canteen dishes, because fruits not only have a shorter shelf life, but also have a special advantage - high nutritional value.

Although many people are very reluctant to stir-fry fruits, nutritionists said that fruits with low vitamin C content such as apples, pears, peaches, bananas, pineapples, etc., do not lose much nutrients in stir-frying, and after some fruits are cooked, the anti-nutritional components in them will decline, the cell wall of the fruit will be softened, the texture will become softer, and the stimulating effect on the gastrointestinal tract will also be reduced, especially suitable for people with poor digestion and absorption and poor appetite.

In addition, the combination of fruits and meat ingredients and vegetables can increase the flavor of dishes, especially the protease in fruits such as pineapple, kiwifruit, and papaya can also play the role of "tender meat powder", helping the stomach and intestines absorb the protein and minerals in food, and preventing food accumulation and fire. The soluble dietary fiber in fruits such as apples and mangoes is also effective in lowering cholesterol.

It is also a fruit in the dish, and the ancient meat of pineapple is very popular

In short, in order to make teachers and students eat more nutritious and healthier on the basis of saving costs and reducing waste, the chefs of college canteens are running more and more black on the road of innovation.

Zhou Fangyuan has a deep understanding of this, and he only recently discovered that in fact, there are some "dark dishes" in the canteen of the Yuanfang Group occasionally. He has also tasted it, how to say the taste, it is actually good, but the color is very peculiar, and the various ingredients can always exceed your imagination. The combination you can't even think of will appear directly in front of you.

Defy?

If you don't accept it, you can't do it.

Other chefs just like to be different, and they can't help it.

Zhou Fangyuan didn't express an opinion on this, anyway, he rarely ate in the canteen, and most of the dishes in the canteen were good, and besides, wouldn't everyone report it?