Do you know why Americans don t eat carp?

The main thing is that they have a lot of land, facing the sea on both sides, and there are too many delicious things!

To put it bluntly, I don't know how to cook.

Americans don't like to eat Asian carp, which may have something to do with the characteristics of the fish and how they eat it, and it has little to do with the smell of the earth and parasites. As we all know, eating fish is to have more spines, and even Chinese people who eat fish to the extreme have seen reports of fish bones stuck in their throats and swallowed from time to time, resulting in esophageal punctures. Chinese people use chopsticks when eating, can easily help find fish bones, and there are also folk customs in Chinese food that can spit bone spurs on the table, coupled with the folk custom of eating freshwater fish for thousands of years, it is not surprising that they are satisfied when eating spiny freshwater fish.

Not only carp, but all freshwater fish don't seem to be liked by Lao Mei. Americans eat very differently than China. The meat they eat is rarely alive.

Chickens are all divided and sold in supermarkets, and most of the fish are killed and processed, unlike us Chinese, who know how to eat fresh. Fish is not killed and eaten, how to cook fish? How to cook sauerkraut fish?

This is simply intolerable for the people of Sichuan and Chongqing. Once, Gao Weiwei was buying live fish in a Chinese supermarket, and the Chinese boss was killing the fish, and after knocking the fish unconscious with a stick, he heard a white child screaming and saying: He killed the fish!

he killed the fish！Therefore, Americans are accustomed to eating sea fish, and the sea fish is basically dead when it arrives in the supermarket, and some are also divided. There is no market for this fish in China.

Secondly, in other words, Lao Mei's daily cooking methods are really scarce and pitiful, roasting, frying, and frying seem to be nothing more than these, how to eat carp? The carp has a bit of an earthy smell, and it can't be eaten if it's not a heavy taste! Sprinkle salt and pepper and bake and fry it?

Do you dare to eat? No appetite! In addition, carp are spiny.

Freshwater fish are generally spiny, troublesome to eat, and easy to prick the throat, which is also one of the reasons why the lazy Lao Mei does not like to eat carp. Think about it, how lazy are Americans? You let them eat a fish, spit out a plate of stabs, forget it, it's better not to eat it. ‍‍

Americans don't know how to cook or eat fish with a lot of bones, mainly because they can't make it.

Thanks to modern fishing operations and low transportation costs in the United States, there are many cheap fish products available, even in the interior. I can often buy six dollars a pound (about a pound) of cod fillet and three or four dollars a pound of freshwater fish fillet at the Minnesota supermarket, which is easier to handle with less than carp bones. Carp is really not very competitive in comparison. ‍‍

More than 40 years ago, the manufacturing industry in the United States was relatively developed, and all five major freshwater lakes were polluted. In order to clean up the lake's heavy metals, the U.S. Congress passed legislation to introduce Asian carp. Unexpectedly, as soon as the Asian carp arrived in the lake of the United States, it reproduced very quickly, had no natural predators, and flooded a few years later.

Carp is considered a delicacy in Asia, so why don't Americans eat it? There are three reasons: First, different eating habits.

Asian carp meat is greasy and fishy, Americans do not have Chinese seasoning and cooking technology, the carp made, the taste is not beautiful, fishy, not delicious, so they do not like to eat carp. Second, the way of eating is different. The United States has a long coastline and a well-developed fishing industry, with a wide variety of fish to catch in the sea, and there is a lot of choice.

They like to eat fish with no or few spines. There are many carp bones, Chinese are good at using chopsticks, it is easy to remove fish bones, Americans are used to using knives and forks, it is not easy to remove fish bones, it is inconvenient to eat carp, so they do not eat carp. 3. Psychological factors.

Freshwater lakes in the United States have been heavily polluted, and locals have developed a fear of eating freshwater fish. Eating fish that have been polluted by heavy metals is still susceptible to life and causing harm to the body, although after many years and the lake water pollution has been cleaned, they still have palpitations, so they have a natural aversion to freshwater fish, so they do not want to eat carp. All in all, it is the eating habits and eating patterns that determine that Americans do not eat Asian carp, and their deep-rooted traditional beliefs are unlikely to change. ‍‍

Although the freshwater lakes of the United States appear to have excellent water quality at first glance, large amounts of heavy metal pollutants have accumulated in major lakes and rivers in the era of economic primitive accumulation in the United States through heavy industry. These contaminants accumulate layer by layer along the food chain, leading to health problems. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Food and Drug Administration, has repeatedly warned the public to be cautious about eating freshwater fish from the waters of the Great Lakes. ‍‍

Americans believe that carp is not suitable for consumption. In order to curb the overbreeding and flooding of carp, the United States** has called on the public to eat Asian carp, but the local citizens believe that Asian carp has a strong earthy smell and is prickly, so it is not suitable for consumption. In China, for a long time, eight kinds of freshwater fish, such as carp, silver carp, bighead carp and grass carp, constitute the main body of fish consumption, and are the most important protein for Chinese people in addition to pork and mutton.

But in the Western world, beef, pork, and lamb are the main proteins**, and these spiny freshwater fish are difficult to get into the recipe. And Americans also think that this freshwater fish is troublesome to eat, does not provide many calories, and is a pure waste of time. ‍‍

Americans and us Chinese have different eating habits, they don't like the fishy smell of freshwater fish, and they have poor cooking skills, they will not use any spices such as onion, ginger and garlic to remove the fishy smell, let alone make any braised carp. Fish is eaten in the West, mostly sea fish, which is fried or fried after being skinned and boneless. For example, the famous fish and chips use the common cod.

In addition, they use knives and forks to eat, unlike us who use chopsticks, and can easily pick out fish bones. ‍‍

The eating habits of Western cuisine make it very inconvenient to administer spiny freshwater fish. Americans eat fish, either whole fried fillet, or wrapped in batter and fried, which is a bold way to eat meat. It's also popular in Minnesota to eat burgers with whole fish steaks.

This way of eating obviously does not allow for slow removal of fish bones. Most people in the United States have never learned to pick fish bones since they were young, and it is considered rude to spit out bones or fish bones from their mouths in Western food etiquette. In this way, the spiny freshwater fish will not be able to make it to the top of the table. ‍‍

The United States and many European countries are less fond of eating some freshwater fish with more bones. For example, the "fish and chips" stalk that has been used as a joke in the UK all year round, they prefer fish with more meat and fewer bones, such as tuna, trout, cod, flounder, sea bass and the like. Americans also seem to have a preference for land animals, with chicken, beef, and pork accounting for the majority of their recipes.

And the eating habit will be passed on, just like many people like to eat hometown food and miss the taste of childhood. ‍‍

Carp is one of the most familiar fish for Chinese, "carp jumping over the dragon gate" is a symbol of good luck, and carp is also the image ambassador of "more than every year". But in today's United States, carp is notorious as a "garbage fish" or even a "pest fish".

Carp are highly adaptable, have a high reproductive rate, and have a relatively long lifespan, and also devour the eggs of fish such as American white sturgeon and submouth fish, causing a decline in the population of these native fish and causing a series of ecological problems.

Carp are highly adaptable, have a high reproductive rate, and have a relatively long lifespan, most of which can live up to 15 years old. In this new environment in the United States, they crowd out other aquatic animals in the United States in order to occupy living space, and also devour the eggs of American white sturgeon, submouth fish and other fish, causing the decline of the population of these native fish and causing a series of ecological problems. So carp has become a target for killing in the United States.

Asia's rivers, lakes and ponds are home to carp. Due to its tender meat, it has even been successfully introduced to Europe and North America as a pond-cultured food fish. Later, due to the large flood, the carp escaped into the natural water body.

Carp are highly adaptable, have a high reproductive rate, and have a relatively long lifespan, most of which can live up to 15 years old. In this new environment in the United States, the carp did not seem to have many opponents, so it spread rapidly in the local area, and so far, it has occupied every state in the United States except Alaska.

Later, the Americans discovered that there were too many spines in the flesh of the carp, which was very inconvenient to eat, so they began to snub this exotic fish. However, the carp's casual personality soon evolved into gluttony, expansion, and gradually became a flood. They crowd out other aquatic animals native to the United States in order to occupy living space, and they also devour the eggs of fish such as American white sturgeon and sub-mouth fish, causing the decline of these native fish populations.

What is even more unexpected is that carp will uproot aquatic plants when feeding, which not only destroys the reproductive activities of waterfowl and other fish that use aquatic plants as spawning grounds, but also muddies the water, which in turn affects the photosynthesis of other aquatic plants, resulting in insufficient production of primary producers in aquatic ecosystems and causing a series of ecological problems. As a result, carp was no longer popular with the Americans, and in some areas it even became the object of "extermination" and was buried in gardens. As a result, carp became a scourge in the United States.

In order to control the carp, the Americans used their brains, fishing, poisoning, blocking nets and other measures, but the effect is still not obvious.

The reasons why carp has become a scourge in the United States are: excessive heavy metals in American river waters, resulting in Asian carp being eaten by no one at all; Asian carp has many spines, is difficult to handle, and does not conform to the eating habits of Americans; As an exotic species, Asian carp has no natural predators in the United States, so it grows as fat as a pig.

1. Heavy metals in American river water exceed the standard, resulting in no one eating Asian carp

The United States is a large industrial country, but their environmental protection measures are not perfect, especially in the last century, when the wastewater from factories was basically discharged directly into the river, resulting in serious excess of heavy metals in the river water. Until now, 6 million people in the United States still have excessive levels of lead in their daily drinking water.

Although after a period of treatment, the river water in the United States has become clear, but the perennial discharge has accumulated a large amount of heavy metal substances in the silt in the river water, and the Asian carp is a fish that likes to inhabit the bottom of the river, so the heavy metal content in their bodies is very high.

2. Asian carp has many spines, which is difficult to deal with, and does not conform to the dietary habits of Americans

In our country, carp is a delicacy, many carp have not yet reached adulthood, but the United States is the same, although Americans also eat fish, but what they eat is basically marine fish, rarely eat freshwater fish, and marine fish meat is spiny and less, and it is also very convenient to handle.

3. As an alien species, Asian carp has no natural predators in the United States, so it grows as fat as a pig

In the United States, Asian carp have very few natural predators, and only when they are sub-adults, they are preyed upon by some waterfowl, so the waters of the United States are simply paradise for them, and they can grow almost unscrupulously.

On top of that, Asian carp eat almost everything, whether it's aquatic plants or mussels, it's all their food, and the amount of food is amazing. According to statistics, Asian carp can eat up to 50% of their body weight every day, and the threat of natural predators makes them grow extremely fast, and some large Asian carp can even grow to about one meter, which is unbelievable.

The "mermaid" war has never stopped

Since the 90s of the 20th century, Asian carp has rapidly occupied the highest ecological niche in the entire freshwater waters, and in some serious watersheds, the proportion of Asian carp has even reached more than 90, and the flooding of Asian carp has directly led to a significant decline in many native fish (mainly food grabbing, not being eaten).

In order to control Asian carp, at the beginning of the 21st century, the United States specially developed a medicine to deal with Asian carp, but when these poisonous fish drugs were thrown into the river, the effect was very good, and a large number of fish carcasses floated on the river. However, upon closer inspection, it was found that most of these fish floating in the water were native to the United States, and only a few juvenile Asian carp were hit.

After the drug failed, the United States organized a large-scale killing operation, but the Asian carp, which has reached tens of kilograms of adult individuals, are not meat to be slaughtered, they will suddenly jump out of the water and slap their tails at the fishermen on the boat, and they can even break the nets. Therefore, large-scale hunting operations have had little effect.

Fish that have a lot of bones in foreign countries are either made into dishes without spines, or no one eats them at all. The reason is that in traditional Western etiquette, it is impolite to put food in your mouth and then come out.

Freshwater fish, on the other hand, have many and small bones, so it is easy to be rude to eat. Therefore, most of the Western recipes are saltwater fish, or freshwater fish with less spiny meat and easy to clean.

There are several reasons why marine fish is used in American cuisine:

1.Fish bones are easier to handle. In most restaurants** any of the fish has no spines. If a guest gets stuck in the restaurant, there will be a big problem.

2.The taste is also better. The most common dish is fish and chipsUsing carp to make it will taste more earthy. Of course, carp can also be eaten in Chinatown.

3.**。Marine fish fishing is a very mature industry. Therefore, eating a sea fish dish in a restaurant is 30 dollars, and the price of going to Chinatown to find a carp to eat is only a lot more.