Chapter 111: Feast of Grain Insects
So after a few days when all the mushrooms in the other twelve management offices of Wucheng were eaten by the corrosive insects, they were occupied by a large army of maggots. Now the twelve management offices are densely packed with maggots devouring other corrosive insects, and a biological war is unfolding.
"If we don't make a decision now, these maggots will mature and turn into flies. When they are cooked into food, the taste will be much worse. The meat quality will also be poor, the protein content will be reduced, and the color, aroma and flavor will be bad. So they are best eaten when they are young!"
Under the dual advice of biologists, the government resolutely decided to serve meat to the citizens from then on.
Moreover, the government also takes into account the tastes of the general public.
According to psychologists, the first impression of taste is very important.
In order to cater to the tastes of the general public and get them to accept this ubiquitous food in the future, the government used various seasonings collected in recent days and decided to have a worm feast first, allowing the masses to choose a favorite flavor first, and then they can make it frequently in the future.
For example, you can try some pepper worms. First, fry them, then sprinkle some salt and chili powder on them. When you take a bite, the delicious protein will come out mixed with the fragrant seasoning.
For example, make a cumin worm.
Or make a light mushroom worm dish with some chopped green onions and salt.
Or you can stir-fry the maggots with rice, they all look similar anyway, and this batch of maggots is of excellent quality, each one is very nutritious, each one is fat, three centimeters long, and has a long tail at the back, each of them can eat large groups of carrion maggots.
"This one bug is enough to replace the mushroom rice. Furthermore, if we don't control them, once the bugs outside turn into flies and lay eggs everywhere, completely devouring the carrion bugs, they will become the next batch of carrion bugs. Therefore, it's best to keep the bugs and the corrosive bugs in check. This way, we can solve the food problem without any cost."
"So we need to encourage people to hunt for insects. We can use virtual currency to exchange for insects to increase people's enthusiasm, and then make them into ready-made food and give them back to the public, forming a virtuous cycle to help us get through this difficult time."
"We should try not to use our grain reserves if possible. After all, our country won't be able to grow anything normally in the next two years. Once the artificial sun is built, everything will be fine."
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Jingshu soaked more than 100 kilograms of glutinous rice, washed and cut all the lotus leaves in the pond and the space. Since there were no rice dumplings leaves, Jingshu had no good excuse to take them out even if she planted them, so she simply took out the lotus leaves, which tasted as delicious as the rice dumplings leaves.
I also soaked red dates, various dried goods, meat, etc., and plan to make more meat dumplings, red date dumplings, sea cucumber and shrimp dumplings, eight-treasure dumplings, red bean dumplings, etc.
After cooking and drying, the rice dumplings can be frozen and stored for several years.
For a foodie like Jingshu, the space and refrigerator must be filled up. In the future, she can just heat up the breakfast and eat it. How convenient. The corn tortillas she made some time ago have been eaten up long ago, so she must make more rice dumplings this time.
Jingshu’s favorite is the simplest and most classic red date rice dumpling, drizzled with honey and mixed with the purest glutinous rice. When you take a bite, it is fragrant, soft, sticky, and has the refreshing sweetness of honey... slurp, it smells so good that Jingshu’s mouth watered just thinking about it.
Wang Qiqi said, "Everyone, the Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon. The government is offering three days of buffets as a bonus. 0.5 cents per person for unlimited food, but you can only go in for half an hour, and only once a day. I heard the food is pretty good, so hurry up and get in line!"
Wang Cuihua sent a voice message: "Is it because the unrest has been so intense lately that they're finally releasing food? Then let's hurry up and line up. We've been hungry for days. I don't know what the government is being so kind about this time. What kind of food are they giving us?"
Feng No. 3: "I told you that if you dare to make trouble, the government will definitely release food. With so many people here, are they just going to watch us die? Didn't China have over three years of grain reserves? It's time to take it out! This time we can eat our fill!"
Fat Girl No. 25: "At worst, I can have unlimited amounts of the most awful mushrooms. I'm not bragging, I could bankrupt the entire Aijia Supermarket by eating them."
After finishing these preparations, we are waiting to make the rice dumplings. Jingshu looked at the chat in the group and smiled without saying a word. Stupid humans, what do you think is delicious?
Previous Life Subverted Her World Part 3
In the end, Guan had to compromise. In order not to waste 0.5 points, she tried several flavors of maggots and finally found the salt and pepper flavor acceptable.
Jingshu, who was free, was studying the upgraded Rubik's Cube in her hands while grinding the conical boulder in the space. Ever since she started using the steel mace, Jingshu felt that it would be great if she could make all the conical boulders into steel bars when she had the chance, so that they could be used repeatedly. However, it was a bit too eye-catching, so she decided to use the boulders first, as there was a large area of them in the back mountain.
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"Hurry up, the meal will be served soon. What are you hesitating about? The higher-ups said that whoever cooks the best will be promoted to team leader, and whoever cooks but no one eats will have to eat it all by yourselves! We must make it delicious the first time, so as not to leave a shadow on the masses!" the bald man said loudly.
In the large canteen renovated from the Aijia Supermarket, there are a total of eighty chefs divided into two rows, each with a stove in front of them. They almost vomited when they saw the maggots crawling and wriggling in the buckets. Everyone envied them, but who knew how hard they worked?
These more than 80 chefs have to prepare food for tens of thousands of people every day, but they are much better off than the displaced and unemployed people outside. They have a meal every day and earn work points.
"Director, this is covered in carrion bugs and all sorts of other things. Can we just cook it without washing it?"
The bald man glared at him and said, "If you have water, come and wash yourself."
No matter how reluctant or disgusted they were, they had to put on gloves for work, catch the maggots and start cooking. They couldn't do it carelessly, and they had to make it delicious under such harsh conditions.
Jingshu's third aunt Jinglai took out a large bag of cumin and salt from her pocket, and her face looked strange. Jingshu gave her these seasonings a few days ago and said that she might need them in the future, but she didn't expect to use them so soon.
After thinking about it, Jinglai decided to make pepper worms!
Burning coal and hot oil to cook insects. At the beginning, Jinglai didn't control the heat well and the juice of the insects splashed everywhere. After a few pots, after getting familiar with it, it was much better. Sprinkle the sesame seeds given by Jingshu and the whole insects will emit a fragrance.
After three hours of hard work, the chefs finally prepared worms of different flavors. Everyone hurried to eat. After the meal, they would go upstairs to start the buffet feast. They were responsible for making sure that everyone ate up all the worms they cooked.
The food provided by the cafeteria today was a pitifully small amount of mushroom rice, but it was still much better than what the group of people outside had. The only difference was that these mushrooms had some carrion worms and maggots in them. Thinking that the people outside were eating whole maggots, they felt relieved to eat the mushroom rice.
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