Chapter Eighty-Four: Mountain Vegetables

Mother-in-law, mother-in-law?!!

What is Po Po Ding, it is a dandelion and one of the representatives of wild vegetables.

Li Zhongxin's mind quickly turned countless thoughts, and he thought in his heart, what was the least valuable thing in the eighties? Wild vegetables.

After the natural disasters of 60 years and 3 years, people have almost no feeling for wild vegetables.

In the 80s, people only had one idea about wild vegetables, and those who ate wild vegetables were the most tasteless people, the poor people who lived at the bottom, had a mouthful of coarse grains, ate some pickles, and would never eat that damn throat-grabbing wild vegetables.

At this time, people are most concerned about eating big fish and meat, and only big fish and big meat are the best things.

Like the canned food that Feng Xiaowu gave to Li Zhongxin's house before, it was a canned hawthorn and a canned horse noodle fish, both of which were good things in people's hearts, and they were both luxuries that could not be consumed at that time.

Many times, after decades of change, what people thought was good at that time was almost nothing that no one liked and no one ate in later generations.

And what people didn't like the most at that time was often the thing that people liked the most in later generations.

There are many, many examples of this, and the most popular parts of people in the 80s were the thighs and breasts, because only those two places had the most meat, and chicken feet and wings belonged to the kind of things that people didn't like to eat.

Later generations of people just reversed this, people like to eat chicken feet, chicken wings, and even like to eat the kind of chicken head and chicken crutch that people in the 80s did not eat.

The intestines in the belly of the duck were fed to dogs in the eighties, but in later generations, the duck intestines became a good thing.

And canned food was people's favorite in the seventies and eighties, and Li Zhongxin remembers very well that the canned products at that time were simply too good.

As soon as I heard that I was eating canned food, the children in the family were so happy.

This kind of item is not a kind of thing that can be eaten when you want to eat, but a luxury that only children or adults will eat when they have a cold and fever and are sick.

In the 80s, Li Zhongxin remembered very well that when he was a child, when he had a cold and fever, he did not need to take injections and medicines like later generations, as long as he could buy him a canned fruit that he liked to eat, as long as he ate it, he would get better immediately.

As long as people who have experienced the seventies and eighties should remember this statement, although eating canned food will cure colds and fevers is only a statement at that time, there is no scientific basis, but it is definitely possible to get better by eating canned food.

In later generations, canned food has basically bid farewell to the people's table, and the people who eat canned food are almost all poor, and people regard canned food as a kind of junk food with no nutrition.

These things, if you talk to people in the eighties, will definitely not be believed.

In the 80s, wild vegetables were basically synonymous with weeds, and almost no one went to the fields to dig them, as if they were a kind of weeds.

It's just that this statement is not complete, and people at this time eat two kinds of wild vegetables that sell for money, that is, bracken and thorny sprouts.

When the bracken and thorn shoots came down, people would start to dig up the bracken and thorn shoots and sell them down the mountain, because people thought that fried bracken and thorn shoots were one dish, and these two wild vegetables could be pickled into pickles and could be eaten until winter.

The other wild vegetables are almost all things that no one wants, and even if they pass by and see wild vegetables, people do not bend down to pick them.

Thinking of this, Li Zhong's thoughts in confidence gradually matured.

Li Zhongxin decided to set up several large-scale purchasing stations on the Jiangcheng side to purchase wild vegetables in a unified manner, and then asked Masako Mitsui to purchase a production line in RB to process these wild vegetables in China.

After processing, the taste of some wild vegetables, such as bracken and spiny sprouts, does not change much, and less nutrients are lost in it.

As long as the standard process is followed, there is no problem at all with the export of these wild vegetables. Although Li Zhongxin did not participate in the export of such a thing in the foreign trade of later generations, he still had a certain understanding of such a thing.

In later generations, the price of China's wild vegetables exported to RB was very high, even exceeding that of ordinary goods.

RB people, like Chinese, love food very much, but RB people are more health-conscious than Chinese, they prefer to eat some natural wild plants, they feel that only such food is the best thing that nature gives people.

Moreover, the nutritional value of wild vegetables is incomparable to that of ordinary vegetables, and since the 70s, RB people have been advocating raw fish dishes and nutritious and healthy wild vegetables.

However, there is too little land in RB, and there are very few wild vegetables produced, so wild vegetables have naturally become a good thing in the minds of RB people.

There is no way to compare RB with China's vast land and resources, it is a small land, and almost all good materials need to be imported, even if it is wild vegetables, they need to import from them.

Eighty-three years was the early eighties, and at this time, the people of Northeast China were completely disdainful of wild vegetables, and no one ate them.

If you want to say that people in the northeast, the mountain wild vegetables eat the most are bracken that is easy to produce carcinogens found by RB in later generations.

Bracken, also known as fist cabbage, cat's claw, and dragon head cabbage, likes to grow in sunny plots in shallow mountainous areas, and is mostly distributed in sparse coniferous and broad-leaved mixed forests. The edible part is young leaf buds that have not been unfolded, and the treated bracken has a fragrant and smooth taste, and then mixed with condiments, which is refreshing and delicious.

This bracken is very popular on the table of RB people, and it is indispensable in many expensive dishes.

And this kind of bracken, in the 80s, even in China, there were many people who liked to eat it, and preferred to pickle these bracken.

Pickled food itself has some harm to the body, and with pickling, the harm to the human body is even greater.

Li Zhongxin decided to build the factory before the large-scale production of wild vegetables came down in '83, and after the factory was built, he began to purchase a large number of wild vegetables.

At this time, wild vegetables are very worthless, and the purchase price is almost nothing, for example, a pound of fresh, good bracken is only sold for a dime a pound when bracken has not been put on the market in large quantities, which has to be said to be the best bracken, otherwise, bracken will be three to five cents a catty.

If you buy it in a remote mountainous area, let alone three or five cents, it is one or two cents a catty, and the people there will give you a few hundred catties a day.

Li Zhongxin remembers very well that in the 80s, those wild vegetables were not known by people at all, let alone loved by people, except for the natural disasters in the 60s, when people ate a large number of wild vegetables, and other times, people ate them, but no one ate them.