This is a scene that often appears in Korean dramas. The name of this pot is army hotpot.
The army hot pot is not a hot pot eaten in the army, but also a bitter and long world history behind it.
Let's talk about lunch meat first, the soul of the army hot pot.
▲ Troop hotpot
1, luncheon meat, a rare commodity that the working class can't afford 1937, an American named Jay homer made a canned food with spices and ham, named Spam.
He is the synthesis of two English words, spice and ham.
Spam was a luxury food at that time, which was often seen at lunch parties of middle class and upper class. The average working class can't afford it, and eating lunch is also the habit of the middle class and the upper class.
▲ Spam
So when spam reached China, it was translated into "lunch meat".
Lunch meat at that time was a rare commodity in all countries.
Eisenhower loved and hated lunch meat. When World War II broke out, the whole world became a pot of porridge.
All countries realize that logistics is the key to a war, besides weapons and soldiers.
The soldiers and horses did not move, and the food and grass came first, so that the soldiers had enough to eat became the top priority of logistics.
The staple food of the US military is lunch meat, which makes other countries envious. The Russians looked at the hard-boiled Dalian, and the Japanese looked at their miso soup.
Even if German and Italian food is one of the best, I'd like to try the lunch meat of American soldiers.
▲ Wild luncheon meat
Lunch meat has both carbohydrates and meat, and it can be preserved for a long time. Such excellent performance makes it travel around the world with the US military.
However, in the first week, American soldiers had a good attitude towards lunch meat, which was delicious and solid. But after the first week, I ate it every day, greasy and fat, like an insole soaked with sweat. ...
Later, General Eisenhower met the boss of Homer Company, thanked them for the lunch meat, and expressed the pain of nausea.
▲ Eisenhower
3. The picked lunch meat became a team pot. It turns out that the Korean peninsula was originally a family.
Since the last century, the northern part of the Korean peninsula has been planned as an industrial zone, which is today's South Korea.
▲ Map of Korean Peninsula
The southern part of the Korean peninsula is classified as a grain-producing area, which is today's South Korea.
Therefore, judging from the layout at that time, North Korea's economy was far better than South Korea's, and South Korea's economic foundation was indeed poor.
Later, PK and MacArthur of the Han Dynasty entered Korea with American soldiers.
▲ MacArthur
The United States has a strong economic strength and is already the largest country in the world. We are not stingy with military spending, so the food of the US military is extremely rich, especially the lunch meat, which is in great supply. Many expired and inedible foods will be discarded.
At this time, the Korean people, because of repeated tossing, were poor and had a bad meal.
At that time, the lunch meat discarded by the US military was often picked up by the Koreans next to the garrison and stewed with local hot sauce, which was almost the only way for Koreans to eat meat at that time.
▲ Troop hotpot
Because these ingredients come from the army, they are called army hot pot.
Of course, it also has another name-Johnson Hotpot, mainly to commemorate 1966, former US President Johnson who visited Korea.
Today's South Korea, the economy has greatly improved, so we don't have to eat the leftovers of the US military.
▲ Army hot pot raw materials
However, the military hot pot has always been preserved as delicious, and today's military hot pot has also added more abundant ingredients.
However, the luncheon meat is still the soul of the military hot pot, and South Korea is also the world's leading consumer of luncheon meat.