Rebirth of Hong Kong 1981

  Chapter 732 Simple and Rough Food Culture

   After returning from Downing Street, Yang Chen was interrupted by a phone call before he could have a good time with Alisha.

   "What did you say? You're coming to London?"

"when?"

   "Airplane in the afternoon."

   "Okay, I get it, I'll prepare it for you."

   "It's night on my side."

   "Wait until you arrive."

   "Press, that's it."

   Yang Chen hung up the phone, looked up at Lan Meiren who was walking towards him, saw that she was holding the phone, and asked, "Who is calling again?"

  Blue Beauty: "It's Mr. Cai"

   Yang Chen: "That Mr. Cai?"

  Blue Beauty: "Cai Lan, Mr. Cai."

   Yang Chen frowned slightly when he heard the words, and took the phone call from Lan Meiren.

"Hey"

   "Boss, it's me, Cai Lan."

   "Press, is there anything?" Yang Chen pointed at the teapot, motioning for Lan Meiren to make a pot of tea for him.

   "Boss, the next issue of our food column is going to shoot in London, so, so I think"

   Yang Chen saw that Cai Lan was hesitant, and couldn't explain the topic for a long time, and suddenly said speechlessly: "If you have something to say, don't hesitate, Ah Zhen just called me."

   Hearing that Boss Yang was a little impatient, Cai Lan didn't talk nonsense, and directly stated her purpose.

   Since the Asian TV station launched the food column, Cai Lan's food program has become popular throughout Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and even Southeast Asia and other regions, including some Asian countries such as South Korea, have attracted widespread attention.

   These days, programs like this are very eye-catching, especially after the end of World War II, the recovery of the global economy has made people at the bottom want to know about other countries besides their own.

In order to further expand the attention of the food show, Cai Lan immediately put his idea on Yang Chen. For this reason, he even fooled Li Lizhen, who had just finished filming the TV series, and wanted to take advantage of Li Lizhen's face and let Yang Chen show himself on the show. Face.

  Yang Chen listened to Cai Lan's nagging for a long time, and finally understood the other party's purpose. After thinking about it, he took a sip of the tea that Lan Meiren brewed without hesitation.

   "Okay, I promise."

"Press?" On the other end of the phone, Cai Lan was a little stunned. Boss Yang agreed so readily, which made him a little unbelievable. He looked at Li Lizhen and Guan Zhilin in front of him, and asked cautiously into the phone, "Old, boss. , what did you say? Can you say it again? I just had a bad signal."

"The signal is not good, you m!" Yang Chen rolled his eyes and repeated: I said, I promised, I have a manor in the UK, when the time comes, you can come directly. I will arrange for the chef or something. it is good. "

   "Okay, okay, thank you boss, we'll be flying over right away."

After    was confirmed, Cai Lan was so excited that she couldn't speak clearly. She didn't slowly put down the microphone until she heard the voice on the other end of the phone hanging up.

  Li Lizhen blinked her eyes with anticipation, and asked, "Mr. Cai, did brother agree?"

   "Yes, yes, thank you, Miss Li, if it wasn't for you this time, the boss would definitely not agree."

  Cai Lan looked at Li Lizhen in front of her, and secretly gave a thumbs up to her previous wise decision.

   Originally, he thought he would speak up, but he thought that Boss Yang didn't even think about it, so he agreed directly.

   He knew that Boss Yang agreed so readily, and it was definitely not because ATV was its subsidiary. Today's ATV is completely incomparable compared to the other party's net worth.

   Of course, the other party couldn't be because of Cai Lan's face. If a year ago, Yang Chen's net worth was not the richest man in China, his face was still useful.

   Now, if Xiangjiang can make Boss Yang give face, what qualifications do other people have to give face to each other except for people at the level of the top ten richest people? Stop making fun of yourself.

  Of course, people like Li Lizhen are extra.

  Heroes are saddened by Beauty Pass, which has been the case since ancient times.

  The whole ATV, who doesn't know that our boss Yang treats Li Lizhen as his sister, and even Chen Yulian loves her very much. As for Huang Xizhao and other ATV executives, let alone ATV, they are simply offering her as a little ancestor.

  As a member of Asia TV, Cai Lan dared to try it because she saw the relationship between Li Lizhen and Boss Yang.

  As Yang Chen's net worth soared, Li Lizhen got more resources on Asian TV. Under normal circumstances, Li Lizhen's roles were basically arranged directly by Chen Yulian and Huang Xizhao.

   It is no exaggeration to say that in the entire Asian TV station, Li Lizhen enjoys the most resources except Chen Yulian. As long as she wants the role, it is basically set, even the general manager Huang Xizhao will not easily deny it.

   The reason why Li Lizhen agreed to Cai Lan as the host of this food show this time was mainly because she wanted to go to London to find Boss Yang.

During this period of time, Yang Chen was running around the world, and he spent very little time in Xiangjiang. In addition, Li Lizhen also had dramas to be filmed on weekdays. This year, half a year has passed. Except for the New Year's Day, the two met each other during the New Year. At other times, Li Lizhen even had Yang Chen's shadow. have not encountered.

  So, Li Lizhen pushed the next play directly under Cai Lan's flickering, and was going to guest star as the host of a food show.

   Not to mention that Cai Lan was happy because Yang Chen agreed to record a food show, while Yang Chen called the old housekeeper Xiang Uncle after hanging up the phone.

   As for what kind of food is available in the UK, Yang Chen, a person who has no interest in Western food, really doesn't know.

   In later generations, he only watched one Tucao program, which talked about the dark dishes of various countries in the world. Among them, the country that received the most black comments was the United Kingdom.

  Uncle Xiang has been in the UK for 20 years, and he naturally knows the daily eating habits of the British. He heard that Yang Chen's TV station is coming to the UK to record a food show.

Uncle Xiang was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said: "Sir, the daily eating habits in the UK are very simple. Speaking of this food, for the British, French fries, fried fish and potatoes are the favorites of most British people in their daily life. food to eat."

   After saying that, Uncle Xiang paused and continued: "Actually, the food of the British, for us Chinese, oh, no, no, it should not be talked about food for the people of most countries."

   "The main reason is that the British food culture is too simple, and the food they eat is simple. There are many foods that are not really delicious at all. At best, they can only fill their stomachs."

   "If you want to record a program to attract attention, I suggest that you record a episode of the most unpalatable and unacceptable food. I think that should attract more attention."

   After hearing Uncle Xiang's words, Yang Chen was stunned for a moment, and then he was a little confused. He didn't expect that the British eating habits were so unfriendly to the old housekeeper, Uncle Xiang.

   For a while, curiosity arose.

   Uncle Xiang introduced British food culture to Boss Yang. As a housekeeper, Uncle Xiang knows things, not necessarily less than those elites in the upper class.

   Especially someone like Uncle Xiang who lives in a rich family and is a housekeeper all the year round needs to know more things.

   If it was at the very beginning, Uncle Xiang would definitely not make such a suggestion. At most, he would just arrange the things that Yang Chen ordered.

   However, since Yang Chen handed over the affairs of the manor to him, without interfering in the middle, Uncle Xiang gradually became more attentive.

   After Uncle Xiang's explanation, Yang Chen finally understood why the other party made such a suggestion.

  To say that the British, as the leader of the first industrial revolution, the empire on which the sun never sets, they have always been in the leading position in the world in many aspects.

  London is an international metropolis, where people can eat almost all the food in the world.

   However, as part of British culture, British food is a food that is unanimously rejected.

   Even the British dislike the food of their own country. If many people want to choose, then French and Italian dishes are the first choice.

  Why all this?

   This point must be well said.

  The British Empire, as an empire that never sets the sun that once ruled half the world for more than a century, can find all the rare things on earth in their museums.

   As for ingredients, from east to west, from north to south, in all regions of the world, there seems to be nothing that the British cannot get.

   But this is the case, the British food culture is unbearable to look at.

   With such doubts, we have to look over the history of British food.

In the earliest days, the British food culture was quite good, better than most European countries. As a country that monopolized an island and was so close to the European continent, the British food culture at that time, looking at the entire European continent, was considered Number one or two.

   However, after the Industrial Revolution, the eating habits of the British people have changed a lot since then.

   As we all know, Europe has always been dominated by large and small countries, and has never been completely unified, so each European country has a very small population.

   And this small population means that there is a shortage of labor.

   As the first country to complete the industrial revolution in the early days, the price paid by the United Kingdom is not low.

   Among them, the British made great concessions in terms of diet.

  Due to global trade and the industrial revolution, most of the British people were concentrated in factories and heavy work, so that many British people did not pay too much attention to their daily diet.

  Especially the people at the bottom of the UK, in the early days, in order to fill their stomachs, the staple food was the same, potatoes, potatoes, potatoes…

   Busy people do not have the heart to think about what to eat. A single food with heavy oil, heavy salt and heavy taste is the daily staple food of workers.

  This subtle change, due to long-term accumulation, has already numbed people's sense of taste.

  The monotonous and "make-believe" eating habits have become the daily routine of most working class.

  Britain is the first country in Europe to realize industrialization first, and it is also the country with the most thorough industrialization. In the early days of Britain, in order to develop the economy, more than 90% of the people in the country were all converted into textile workers.

  Without the living space for agriculture, the British wanted to obtain food. When the early commercial trade was not as developed as in the 21st century, the ingredients were naturally not as abundant as the later generations.

  The ingredients are single, which makes it very difficult for the British to make the delicious food they like.

   And what really changed the British diet mainly came from 'crazy cans'.

  In addition to the rapid economic development brought about by industrialization, another "result" is the real industrial products with long shelf life, low transportation cost and low price.

  Among them, canned food is the most important industrial product.

In fact, the technology of sealing cans was first invented by the French. At that time, Napoleon wanted to solve the problem of food supply for the army, so the French combined the existing practical experience and invented the technology of sealing metal cans and high temperature disinfection. canned food.

The appearance of   canned food has greatly improved the shelf life of food.

   However, for the diet-conscious French, canned food is just an alternative to the extraordinary period.

  In the eyes of the French, it can only be used as an urgent need, not as the main food in people's daily life.

   But for the British it was a life saver.

  Due to the living environment at that time, canned food became popular in the UK. With advanced industrial technology and production lines, the British produced meat, fish, vegetable soup, and candied fruits one by one and turned them into canned food.

  For British workers, taste is not the primary consideration, their first consideration is whether they can fill their stomachs and ensure that they will not starve to death.

   On the other hand, the British army has spread all over the world, and canned food has become the main food in the daily life of British soldiers.

  In the life of the army, everything is simple, especially in the early days, people could not achieve the level of later generations in terms of food preservation.

   Therefore, in many cases, it is a very luxurious thing for the army to eat canned food. The taste and so on, the pursuit of that stuff is too high, and ordinary people can't enjoy it at all.

   In addition to the impact of the Industrial Revolution, one of them is World War I and World War II, which lasted almost ten years.

  In the war years, canned food and other industrial foods were very important to the civilian class. The two wars of World War I and World War II, the British agricultural trade in the world was severely hit.

  Under the strict rationing system, canned food has become the only living guarantee for the commoners. Even some upper classes lost their exclusive chefs due to financial constraints during the war.

  Two world wars, baptism from top to bottom, when the economy recovered, the British had long been cut off in terms of food culture.

  British cuisine may still be seen in the royal family and aristocratic class. Folk food culture has long been replaced by French, Italian and Indian cuisine.

   Therefore, this is why Uncle Xiang said that British food is not considered good food in the eyes of Chinese or other foreigners.

  After all, what the British eat is difficult to resonate with everyone in terms of taste.

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   (end of this chapter)