Is there such a can in your memory? It may be in a basket of relatives who come to visit, or it may be hidden in a high cupboard by the mother.

 

For those of us who were born in the material age, when we were young, our mouths were greedy and we felt that small canned bottles were full of magic. How could oranges, which we usually get tired of, be so sweet when poured out of the bottles? I even look forward to getting sick, because when I get sick, I can pet my mother for canned food.

 

 

 

Thirty years ago, eating a bottle of canned fruit was a special luxury for many people. At that time, canned fruit used to be a high-end gift in people's eyes. When visiting relatives and friends on New Year's Day, they would bring several canned fruits as heavy as their hearts.

 

 

 

In Ningbo, canned oranges are naturally the most common. Every late autumn, walking in the field of Ningbo, the most likely to see is the golden orange, this time, Ningbo farmers can grow their own oranges can be picked one after another. Ningbo's oranges are not delicate in appearance, even rough in taste, not sweet in taste, and some are sour in taste, but they are very tasty. So when I was a child, even if my mother told me over and over again that oranges should not be eaten more, they would easily catch fire. But still unable to control their greedy mouth, with oranges secretly hiding in the corner to eat another.

 

 

 

Ningbo people are enthusiastic, their own can not eat oranges, they will be divided into relatives and friends, so in that era of scarcity of materials, other fruits rare, Ningbo people the most indispensable fruit is oranges.

 

 

 

However, when the orange changed into a canned orange, it became a distant "luxury goods". Through the transparent glass jar, the golden, glittering and translucent orange flesh is seen swimming in the sugar water, thinking of the sweet and sour taste, and the saliva will keep overflowing between the teeth.

 

 

 

With a spoon to scoop a piece of crystal full orange into the mouth, teeth gently smash orange petals, sour and sweet juice burst out in the mouth, smooth and sweet, a sense of satisfaction comes from. If it's a frozen orange with sugar water, the refreshing enjoyment of popping juice at the entrance will reach its peak in hot summer. In those days when there were no refrigerators, a bowl of canned oranges could be placed in a shady place beside the sink for several hours to achieve a certain cold effect, and the food was relaxing and pleasant.

 

 

 

With the increasing convenience of transportation and abundant food supply, more and more kinds of fresh fruits from all over the world pour into Yongcheng. Canned fruits seem to be less important to keep fresh. Canned fruits are fading out of people's lives. But people still remember the sweet and sour tangerine, which is the taste of childhood memories. That memory will linger in people's minds from time to time.

 

 

 

As we grow up, the delicacies around us become more and more. Canned oranges are no longer luxuries. They are even forgotten slowly. When we look back, we find that this is the lost childhood and the youth we can't retrieve. .