Chapter 234: Life Needs a Sense of Ritual

Although there are many delicious foods in the world, there are only a handful of people who can have this status and have a party specifically to eat it.

Sweden, crayfish are so awesome!

And it lasted a whole month!

SC Johnson looked at the crowds in the street garden, and began to think that it was some major festival that could make the Swedes so excited. After inquiring, I found out that it was the annual crayfish festival?

Can't help but be curious, buy tickets, and join the army of crayfish extermination. I didn't expect that the crayfish that could be seen everywhere in domestic stalls were eaten here with a luxurious sense of ceremony!

Set in a beautiful outdoor garden, the dining table is set at a long dining table, surrounded by colorful paper lanterns with a full moon smiling face, and filled with crayfish plates, placemats, tissues and shrimp tools.

There are even small national flags, and everyone is dressed up, around a paper bib decorated with lobster motifs, and a fun little pointed hat to sit around the table, as if it were an international dinner.

The most important ingredient for boiling live crayfish to achieve a classic Swedish flavor is crown dill. Boil a large pot of water, desperately put dill, add sea salt, sugar and onion, pour in an appropriate amount of beer to taste, and finally serve the crayfish.

The essence is not to cook for more than 8 minutes!

When the crayfish are served, everyone stands up, raises their glasses, and sings a toast, Helan G?r, before they can enjoy the privilege of drinking only half a glass.

Even the wine by the glass is very particular, and the perfect pairing with Swedish crayfish is the special Nordic spirit Aquavit, a vodka brewed with various spices or herbs.

Johnson raised his delicate wine glass, opened his mouth and sang with others silently, everyone was passionate, regardless of men, women and children, a mouthful!

Good guys, heartburn in the mouth, at least forty or fifty degrees, exciting!

Then shake off the cheeks and eat.

For Swedes, every year in August is the whole month of lobster festival, and every family eats crayfish during this time. There is a tradition of a father who takes his boy on a boat to go lobster fishing in the dark, and if he returns with a full load, it is a sign that the boy will have good luck all year long.

The reason why it's not like us drinking beer and skewers in the food stalls, ordering 10 catties of spicy crayfish at random. For them, it's a way to say goodbye to summer. Due to their high latitudes, long winter nights await them in the next seven or eight months......

It's already much simpler, and it's even more pretending to be in ancient times. The great writer Strindberg once talked in detail about how to cook crayfish, what cheese to go with, and what bread to use.

Don't look down on the crayfish in the supermarket. Every year, different brands are severely rated by various media outlets. It's hard to stand out and get the affirmation and recommendation of discerning media commentators.

Native crayfish can first be divided into two types: seawater and freshwater. The shrimp body is relatively flat, and the lighter color is the seawater crayfish in the local population, which has a long fishing time and is considered the main player.

Freshwater crayfish can also be divided into two categories, one is called flodkrfta, the scientific name is Aosta European crayfish, and the Swedish aristocracy has been eating this crayfish since the Middle Ages. King Eric XIV is the first crayfish controller in history to be stamped and sealed.

In 1562, a special letter was sent instructing her sister Princess Anna to be married soon, and the crayfish must be prepared.

It's not even enjoyable, and the moat around the palace is directly filled with crayfish!

Johnson watched everyone feast, toasted the rare enjoyment of indulgence, and couldn't help but sigh crayfish, eating this, what he ate was no longer protein, but feelings.

I used to think that the Chinese people who were invincible all over the world would have enough of all kinds of fancy crayfish, but if you really want to eat it once today, you will be drunk.

With a restrained and light style of cuisine, you can calm your impetuous taste buds and experience the preciousness of the original taste. It's fun to eat lightly and drink spirits.

Through chatting, I slowly learned that the most direct embodiment of this country is the concept of no big family. Huaxia pays attention to the five generations in the same house, children and grandchildren around the knees, and a large family is the best one who is neat and tidy.

In Sweden, everyone only needs to pay attention to themselves and their small family, for example, when they have a party, they should bring their own wine, and they will consciously take it home if they can't finish drinking. Garbage should be sorted by type before it can be thrown into the garbage room, not left for cleaners to sort. Solve your own incidents by yourself, and try not to trouble others as much as possible.

There is a sense of déjà vu of an island country, so we who are accustomed to Chinese-style relationships will definitely have a feeling of being too calm and indifferent here.

Probably because they are in the cold zone, they don't like to hug and kiss, especially when they are more serious about kissing, and acquaintances pull down when they shake hands when they meet.

It is not common to sit in a seat next to a stranger, especially on the bus, where everyone sits in a row by the window and the seats next to them are empty.

The people who got on the bus would rather stand than sit next to strangers, Johnson smiled secretly, there are not many people who are sorry for you, if you catch the domestic rush hour buses and subways, hehe......

It's even more bizarre to fall in love, first the body and then the soul. Maybe happy to go to the bar, look at each other, exchange phone calls, roll the sheets hand in hand. After doing it, I found that it was good, and I felt good, so I would go on a date, watch a movie, and have a candlelight dinner or something.

If two people become boyfriend and girlfriend, the legendary sense of distance comes again. He never talks about his feelings and emotions easily, and values the mental distance more than the physical distance.

Therefore, it is common for love to run for more than ten years without getting married, and cohabitation relationships are also protected by law.

Do you say that small countries have high welfare?

In fact, the wool comes from the sheep, and the so-called high-welfare state is not really free. Ordinary people here pay 30% to 50% of their monthly taxes, and the higher their income, the more they pay.

If you are unlucky, you will pay millions of taxes in this life, and you may only see two or three times of illness, so can you still say that it is free?

When you go to the hospital to see a doctor, every time you don't have a very urgent illness, that is, the kind that is not going to die in the doctor's opinion, you need to make an appointment, otherwise it will not be shown to you.

If you work for a few years and suddenly lose your job, you can't buy a car, you can't travel, you can't buy luxury goods, and such days are no different from those who receive subsistence allowances in China.

I finally understand why eating a crayfish is so crazy, it turns out that the restaurant in this country is too expensive, even white-collar workers are reluctant to eat it a few times.

Because the tax is too high, it is difficult to do business, and I work hard for a month to help the government, so it is better to wait for the dead to die.

The clothes are all imported from our country, and the streets are full of top brands such as HM and ONLY, which strongly demand Baleno landing!