He asked to cut the potatoes thin, so a cook cut them big and thin. Because the customer asked too much, he took revenge and sprinkled a thick layer of salt after frying. I didn't expect diners to like it very much, and this practice began to spread, which is today's potato chips.
There are also people who make a delicious food because of an accident, such as cookies that can be seen everywhere today. The first biscuit was not invented by a housewife or a cook, but by a group of soldiers trapped on an isolated island. More than one hundred and fifty years ago, an English sailboat sailed to the Bay of Biscay near France at around 1870. It was a cloudless sunny day in Wan Li, and suddenly the wind blew hard.
In the storm, the bottom of the ship suddenly hit a rock and stabbed a big hole. After several hours of storm, the crew were tired and hungry, so they stirred the flour and sugar soaked in seawater evenly and baked them on the fire. It was with this strange food that they persisted for several days and were finally discovered. To commemorate the death, these crew members baked some of these things in the same way, and people thought they were delicious. Slowly, this kind of food called "biscuits" became popular and translated into Chinese, which is now biscuits.
Cookies, as a kind of fast food to satisfy hunger, were once used in emergencies. On the basis of biscuits, military compressed biscuits were invented. As a compressed biscuit, it is crisp, soft and non-absorbent. Vacuum packaging is also beneficial to carrying and storage. Therefore, compressed biscuits are produced in large quantities and put on the battlefield.
The compressed biscuits first shined in the German battlefield in World War II. The German army launched a blitzkrieg against Poland. It can carry out a surprise attack because the food is easy to carry. At that time, German soldiers quickly replenished their energy by compressing biscuits, so they didn't need to cook with fire, which greatly saved the marching time. That's why compressed biscuits are so popular.
1942, on the eve of the end of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese Expeditionary Force went to Myanmar. Most of the soldiers are from Chinese mainland. They are not used to the local food. Besides, when they travel in dense forests, they are not suitable for cooking with fire. Whenever the war is tight, they eat compressed biscuits, because compressed biscuits are high in calories, and soldiers can alleviate hunger by eating one or two pieces, thus ensuring the supply of energy. The soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force are very expensive, and the compressed biscuits can be said to have made great contributions.
Many people are curious about how compressed biscuits are made so full. In fact, compressed biscuits are nothing more than basic materials such as puffed powder, sugar, oil 1, salt and water. Because of the way of compression, they are more energetic and fuller than cookies of the same volume. Someone once cooked compressed biscuits in a pot out of curiosity. Just put a standard-sized compressed biscuit, 120g compressed biscuit into the pot, and cook it for half at the back. Netizens have expressed shock. It's like a curious person explaining why compressed biscuits are so hungry.