Chapter 164

The most popular dish at this table is undoubtedly the fried peanuts and the fried Turkey.

Hongyun had never eaten fried peanuts before, so when they put a fried peanuts in their mouth with chopsticks, the unique aroma of fried peanuts immediately conquered their taste buds.

Fried peanuts, even if it is placed in later generations, it is absolutely ranked first in all the dishes. Whether it's pig ears or pig feet, or fennel beans or cucumber, they are far less important than fried peanuts!

The fact that this dish has been popular in China for so many years, and has been firmly holding the position of the leader in this dish, is enough to prove the charm of this dish.

So, even after hundreds of years of time and space, when Shi Xiong ordered out the boss of this dish, it still conquered everyone here.

It is said that we can see the truth in simplicity, and this dish is the answer.

Peeled peanuts into warm oil roll a few rolls, a slight change in color, fragrance slightly out of the pot can be. The oil temperature should not be too high, the peanuts should not be fried too long in the oil, and the pot should not be started until the peanuts are completely discolored, otherwise the peanuts will be fried.

If you sprinkle a small pinch of refined salt on the fried peanuts, you don't need to put anything else. That flavor will make all the gourmets never tire of eating

There are not many fried peanuts, so this dish is the fastest to be eliminated. Well, how fast? The stone bear just took a spoon to Baiyun and took two spoons. He took two peanuts with his chopsticks and found that the plate was completely empty

Another fried Turkey is also very popular.

Turkeys were domesticated by Indians a long time ago. Although Mexicans were the first to domesticate turkeys, by this time, turkeys have become common poultry in Indian tribes in both South and North America.

To be sure, the meat of Turkey is not as good as that of broiler chickens in later farms. However, this kind of poultry is big, and a chicken weighs more than ten jin. It tastes very good, and can play a very good role in relieving hunger for Indians who lack oil and water in their stomach.

This turkey is raised by Mo Mo Cao, Hongyun's good friend. The stone bear used a box of tofu and more than a jin of peanut oil in exchange.

Later generations eat turkey is baked in the oven, but now let alone the oven, there is no necessary seasoning, so there is no way to handcuff the turkey to eat.

So the stone bear took a different approach.

After the turkey was slaughtered, it was plucked to remove the internal organs, then the meat on the turkey was shaved with a knife, cut into chicken fillets, and then pickled with onion, salt, passion fruit and rosemary all night. Finally, it was put into an oil pan to fry chicken fillets.

Although there is no bread crumbs package, but so directly fried chicken is very delicious.

Cut the chicken legs into several sections and marinate them. Then fry the chicken legs separately. The same is true for the chicken wings.

Anyway, the fried chicken, chicken legs and chicken wings are also very popular in these dishes.

Whether it's red cloud or ray hawk or Ferguson, they have never eaten such a turkey.

Especially Lieutenant Ferguson, after tasting the fried Turkey, began to sigh: "eating this familiar Turkey reminds me of Thanksgiving..."

"Thanksgiving? Is that the kind of festival that you English celebrate every year in Beaver month? " Red cloud asks curiously, stone bear translates in one side.

"Well, you're right and wrong." Looking at Hong Yun's puzzled look, Ferguson continued to explain, and Shi Xiong continued to translate.

"We don't have Thanksgiving in Britain. Thanksgiving is a festival set up by immigrants themselves. So, it's only among immigrants from the new world that there's this festival. There's no such festival on the other side of the European continent. "

Red cloud felt very uncomfortable. Red cloud asked Stone bear, "big bear, do you know this festival?"

The stone bear nodded.

"Tell us about it." Fast horse said in the side.

For the festival, no matter what the country's festival, these simple Indians are very fond of.

Ferguson didn't mention the Thanksgiving, but when he mentioned it, the stone bear immediately felt that he couldn't eat it. Others do not know the origin of Thanksgiving, but he is very clear.

Although on the surface, this Thanksgiving is all kinds of big and big, but in fact behind the Thanksgiving is representing endless killing, how can the stone bear be interested in this festival?

But looking at them all want to know the origin of the festival, so the stone bear forbeared the discomfort in his heart and began to explain to them.

"When it comes to Thanksgiving, I have to mention a group of very special people. About two hundred years ago, around 1550 in the old world, a group of such people appeared in England on the other side of the ocean. They believed that the Bible was the only supreme authority, and no church or individual could be the interpreter or defender of the traditional authority. The group called for the elimination of the Catholic remnants of the Church of England. These people are called Puritans

"At the beginning, the influence of the Puritans was very huge, but about 170 years ago, the influence of the Puritans in England was greatly reduced. They were subjected to political repression and religious persecution by the king of England and the Church of England, so some Puritans were forced to leave the Church of England."

"About 130 years ago, on September 6, 1620, a three masted Galen named Mayflower, 19.5 meters long, 7.95 meters wide, 3.35 meters draught and 180 tons displacement, started from England with a team of 102 people composed of 35 Puritans and 67 non Puritans, And finally across the Atlantic to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where the Massachusetts people lived

Hongyun interrupted: "I know. When my mother was alive, she told me about the persecution of the Massachusetts by the vasichus. My mother said that the vassichuns who arrived in the territory of the Massa people were not sent by the king of England. They acted alone. At that time, masahoud, the chief of the Massa people, warmly welcomed the vasichu, and gave them how to hunt, fish and grow corn and pumpkin. If it wasn't for chief masasod, all these vasichus would have died there. "

The stone bear nodded and said, "yes, what kabulu said is right. With the help of chief Massaud, the group established themselves in that area and named it Plymouth in memory of the British city of Plymouth. The group gained a foothold in Plymouth. The next year, with the help of the masezhus, they had a good harvest. In order to express their gratitude to the Massachusetts, the vasichus decided to hold a celebration in the second half of beaver month

"With the joint efforts of these Puritans and the Massachusetts people led by chief Massaud, the celebration was very successful and lasted for three days. Later, at this time of the year, those vasichus would hold such celebrations, which gradually developed into vasichus' Thanksgiving

"Is this Thanksgiving just to show our gratitude to our aborigines?" asked Hongyun? Well, or thanks to the Massachusetts? "

"Thank you?" Stone bear doesn't know how to answer this question

Stone bear also participated in a previous colleagues' party. As a result, the day of the party happened to be the same as Thanksgiving Day in the United States, that is, the fourth Thursday of November in the winter of that year.

What else can a group of masters of the museum get together for a party? Besides drinking, bragging is better than drinking.

As a result, I don't know how to blow it. A colleague suddenly said that today seems to be Thanksgiving.

So a group of people around Thanksgiving began to brag. Anyway, they all work in museums and understand history, so colleagues who drank a lot of wine began to talk about how Thanksgiving came one by one

To be honest, before the party, the stone bear only knew that there was Thanksgiving in the United States and Canada, and he also knew that he needed to eat turkey at Thanksgiving, but he really didn't know how the Thanksgiving came.

After all, whether it's the United States or Canada, it's a Pacific ocean away from the country where you live. What's more, I don't understand the festivals in my own country. Who cares about foreign festivals?

On that day, the stone bear remembered that he drank a lot of wine, and clearly remembered that he made a speech about Thanksgiving, the festival of crooked nuts.

At that time, I said that since it is Thanksgiving, it must be a festival born for the purpose of Thanksgiving. Just like Christmas is to celebrate the birth of Jesus, so it is called Christmas. Then Thanksgiving must be set up to commemorate someone who makes Americans or Canadians very grateful.

This is similar to the meaning of most colleagues, because most of the colleagues who drank that day held this opinion.

As a result, Lao Liu of the administrative office of the library despised a group of people.

We all respect Lao Liu who is very senior, but respect comes from respect. You can't just despise people when you are very senior.

So everyone has been asking Lao Liu to explain why he should despise these people, or he will be fined 300 cups

Lao Liu drank too much that day, so he said a paragraph with a big tongue, which stone bear still remembers.

Lao Liu seemed to recite a poem: Once upon a time, an Indian chief named Massaud saw a poisonous snake freezing to death, so he put it into his arms. When the poisonous snake woke up, he had a party with the chief. Later, the snake poisoned wamsuta, the chief's eldest son, and cut off Philip's head for many years. Then it killed the chief's tribe, sold his wife and children to the Caribbean and Bermuda as slaves, and robbed the chief's land. Finally, the snake had enough to eat and drink, and decided to commemorate the stupid chief and his good luck, so he set up a festival called "thanksgiving"!

At that time, Lao Liu used a euphemistic tone when he said a paragraph, but all the colleagues present didn't know how to do it. After listening to this paragraph, they felt chilly all over. It seemed that countless innocent souls poured out of the darkness and whispered in their ears

Although these people enjoy drinking and boasting, in fact they are all serious senior intellectuals, otherwise they will not be able to work in the museum industry.

Therefore, although Lao Liu's words are so pitiful that people can't understand them, everyone knows that Lao Liu is saying things by borrowing things.

So the next day, the stone bear decided to figure out what Thanksgiving was all about.

Information is ready-made, even if there is no information, there are some information about Thanksgiving on the Internet.

I don't know the result. I'm scared.

It's true that the origin of this Thanksgiving really originated from the 100 or so people who were brought to the new world by the Mayflower. They really got a firm foothold in Plymouth with the help of the honest and loyal chief Massaud and the Massachusetts people, thus developing Massachusetts into the largest colony in North America.

That's how the famous Boston developed.

And the more than 100 British colonists did unite with chief Massaud and 90 Massachusetts Indians to hold a grand celebration on a certain day in November of the next year. The celebration lasted for three days, and the festival was indeed preserved

If this is how Thanksgiving comes, then this festival is really a wonderful one.

Gratitude is a necessary virtue for any intelligent creature. If a person does not know how to be grateful, then he is not worthy to be called a man, that is a beast!

It's wrong to say that animals hold him high, because there are crows feeding back and lambs kneeling. People who don't know how to be grateful are not as good as animals.

Maybe the people of the massazhusa at that time did help those people under the leadership of chief massasoud, but the fact is that there is no such record among the local Indians, and the local Indians do not recognize this legend.

According to the official records of the New Englanders, the real origin of Thanksgiving was in 1637, not 1621, the year after the Mayflower arrived in the new world.

In those official records, there is a clear record of the fact that with the Mayflower gaining a firm foothold in Plymouth, a steady stream of British immigrants came to the new world, and began to spread inland rapidly with Plymouth as the center.

It's as if these immigrants soon expanded to the territory of later Connecticut, which is no longer the territory of Massachusetts, but the territory of pecot.

At that time, there are exact records that there were more than 8000 pecots at that time. However, the arrival of the British colonists brought nothing else, but brought smallpox, plague and even the black death to the new world of North America.

As a result, in 1637, there were less than 1500 pekorts who had more than 8000 people. These poor pekorts were not conquered by the British colonists with force, but they were humiliated and died under the various pestilence viruses brought by these British people.

It is estimated that this is probably the earliest "biochemical crisis".

William Bradford, a former governor of Plymouth, wrote a history of Plymouth planting, which clearly recorded how the white people in New England slaughtered the native Indians. The words in those records made the stone bear feel creepy.

In 1637, in order to celebrate the successful conquest of the local Indians by the white people in New England, the first Thanksgiving was officially held! The purpose of holding Thanksgiving is to celebrate the white people's massacre of the pecots in New England

In 1703, the Puritans among the immigrants even decided in the Legislative Council that they would get a reward of 40 pounds for killing an Indian and peeling off his head. Later, for some reason, he was rewarded with 100 pounds for killing an adult man and 50 pounds for women and children.

This is the real origin of Thanksgiving!

In fact, Thanksgiving was only popular in a small part of Massachusetts and Connecticut at the beginning, but not in other British colonies. It was not until the founding of the United States that Thanksgiving was finally defined as the only local holiday in the United States.

So, the stone bear really doesn't know how to answer the question of Hongyun.

He did not dare to tell them the truth of Thanksgiving. He estimated that even Lieutenant Ferguson did not know the truth of Thanksgiving. If they really tell them the truth about Thanksgiving, stone bear worries that lieutenant Ferguson will be killed by them immediately