Chapter 471: Meatballs
But it can't be said that Germany is all bad, first of all, you don't have to pay for college in Germany, and you basically don't have to spend money to see a doctor, but there is a big problem with this doctor, that is, you have to make an appointment with the hospital to queue up, this queue is also a few days in line, and it is possible to queue for a month, and there is nothing strange about the first half of the year, so most of the diseases can't wait for you to enter the hospital, either you are better, or you have died, it is said that many old people in Europe are waiting in line for the hospital to see a doctor and die.
In addition, I have to emphasize that the crime rate in Germany is very low, so low that you can't even find a suitable subject for making police movies. Especially in northern Germany, robbers can only meet one in several years, and thieves are rare, and social security is very good. The southern part of Germany is a little worse, and most of the criminals are Turkish immigrants or stowaways, and it is not clear what Pan is responsible for.
As a passer-by, Hong Tao basically can't feel these deep-seated things, and what he can feel about Germany is also more disadvantages and fewer advantages.
Let's talk about the shortcomings, first of all, German food can't be said to be too unpalatable, but also unpalatable, except for fruit soup and ice cream, you go to try German ice cream, and then meet Häagen-Dazs You don't want to look at it, and it doesn't matter what brand, there are many ice cream shops on the streets of Hamburg, no matter how big or small, the taste is so good, and the price is so affordable.
Secondly, German women are too ugly, Hong Tao and Wang Jian walked around the center of Hamburg for a day, and they didn't see a beautiful local German girl, and a few were not bad, at first glance, they were foreign tourists, and beauties like Pan could be said to be rare.
The last thing is that the entertainment industry in Germany is almost non-existent compared to China, except for beer halls and bars, and the place that can be slightly stronger than China is the red light street, because it is legal in Germany. Even this red-light district is compared to Dongguan, Shenzhen, Tangshan, Dalian, and even the strictest Beijing in China. There is nothing that can be done, although it can be blatantly listed on the surface, but the content is not necessarily as strong as those half-hidden nightclubs and bathing centers in China.
As for those art museums, opera houses, concert halls, etc., Hong Tao really didn't count them into the entertainment industry, in Hong Tao's view, European opera, classical music and Chinese opera are similar to Chinese opera, they belong to the part of culture, and have nothing to do with mass entertainment.
Of course, Germany also has many advantages, and the beautiful environment is the first place, not only the beautiful rural environment. The city is not bad, and the Germans have a characteristic that they do not like to live in a big city, but prefer to live in a small town with tens of thousands of people. Even those who already live in big cities are trying to make small satellite towns one after another on the edge of the city. Except for going to work, if you can, you won't go into the city. So when it comes to tourism in Germany. Just visiting those big cities is not enough to play all over Germany. The tourist routes in the countryside and small towns are the highest.
The second is safety, the crime rate is low, safety and law-abiding are synonymous with Germany, there are rules everywhere, you don't follow yourself and feel embarrassed, people here are like living in a big chessboard, you should walk in a straight line. The one who walks the Tian character grid will never jump the horse, which is precise and precise.
In Hong Tao's view, Germany includes Europe, in terms of national vitality. It can't be compared with emerging countries such as the United States, Canada, and Australia. It is more like an old man, steady, slow, passive, lacking the motivation to move forward, lacking the necessary vitality.
As for Pan's statement that Germany is still a hardworking and dynamic country in Europe, and the further south you go, the lazier and more lifeless it becomes, Hong Tao can't do it right yet, but he still has a chance, because the first fishing tournament was held in France, and then he can take the opportunity to see what kind of state France is.
As the date of the competition approached, the Marx brothers took Hong Tao and Wang Jian to a large natural lake outside Hamburg to do a simulation exercise. As a result, after 36 hours of competition, Hong Tao and Wang Jian won the first place with a total score of 42 kilograms, and the Marx brothers caught less than 10 kilograms in total, one of which was not yet a carp and could not be counted as an achievement.
As for the difference between the two groups of people, there are not only differences in fishing tackle and fishing methods, but also for the reasons of fishing bait.
In fact, Hong Tao did not use his corn beans soaked in fish scale water this time, but used ordinary corn cooked, with some ordinary bait and nest material soaked in honey and white wine. The Marx brothers used a bait that is said to be their secret recipe, which Wang Jian called "meatballs".
There are many raw materials for meatballs, such as boiled soybeans, small fish, small shrimp, something called casein, eggs, live silkworms, mussel meat, etc., and then put these things in a blender to make a batter-like state, plus the kind of sugar water mixed in coffee, and finally put it into a special mold to squeeze out a thumb-sized ball.
At this time, it is not yet finished, and these noodle balls have to be boiled in boiling water for a while, just like we cook Lantern Festival. I don't know how long it will take to boil it, but anyway, the most important thing is to take it out and dry it in a cool place for a few hours until it is very hard but can still be pierced by an awl.
According to the introduction of the Marx brothers, this kind of meatballs are very nutritious, carp like to eat very much, and the hard point does not affect the carp's eating, those big carp can even be bitten by shells, crayfish, snails, eat these meatballs.
According to our Chinese anglers' understanding, such a hard bait will definitely open its mouth. The spout is a fishing term, which means that the bait is too large or too hard, which hinders the process of the hook piercing the fish's mouth.
But each village has its own tricks, and the Europeans also know that this meatball will be a mouthful, so they have successfully solved this problem in another way. They do not thread the meatballs directly onto the hook, but hang the meatballs on a line that extends from the hook and fix them with a toothpick or a special blocker.
In this way, when the fish sucks the meatballs into the mouth, the hook is also sucked in, and when the fish finds that there is a foreign body in the mouth and spits out, the meatballs can be spit out, but the hook is difficult to spit out, compared to the Chinese anglers directly wear the bait on the hook to use, this way should be said to be more scientific, but the operation is more troublesome, the limitations are greater, especially can not be thrown hard is the biggest defect.
Hong Tao is curious about the meatballs of the Marx brothers, and the Marx brothers are also curious about Hong Tao's corn beans, and they can't figure out how to use this simple corn beans to catch a cunning carp! But the fact is that when Hong Tao did not use special bait, the nest made of 200 catties of corn beans was beaten for 10 hours, and Hong Tao's three fishing rods began to fish one after another, and more than 80% of them were carp, and the meatballs of the Marx brothers did not seem to be too interested in carp.
In fact, this is not that carp like corn beans and don't like meatballs, according to common sense, meatballs should be more liked by carp. However, the Marx brothers forgot a more important problem, that is, when fishing in the natural waters of large waters, the bait is only one aspect, the most important thing is the bait, that is, the effect of the nest.
You'll have to lure the fish in the water first, and then they'll find out more delicious bait on your hook, so they have more chances to get the fish to take the bait. The Marx brothers' nest material is unformed and cooked meatballs, and the quantity is also small, only a few kilograms.
This kind of small and fine nest is not suitable for use in the vast natural waters, because there is not only a carp here, but also more other fish, you have a few kilograms of nest out of the water, the carp has not been found, a group of small fish can eat the nest material within ten minutes, at this time it is difficult to be found by the carp just by relying on a few meatballs in the water. (To be continued......)