1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 95: The Nutrient-rich Spam with Low Price

Due to the rapid availability of funds, several factories under the McDonald Food Company under Clark’s responsibility were quickly completed. The first to be completed is the feed factory and a large pig farm. Thousands of live pigs can be raised here. It is completely different from the way ordinary people raise pigs. In this pig farm, there are very strict management measures. First of all, anyone entering the pig house must be disinfected first to avoid bringing in pathogenic bacteria. Once a large number of concentrated pigs become infected with the disease, it is very difficult to control.

Secondly, the feed used by the pigs in this pig farm is all provided by the feed factory under the company. And never allow the use of other foreign feeds. The pig pens are also regularly disinfected. In order to prevent diseases of live pigs, Shi Gaozhi was particularly conscientious to add a lot of sulfonamides to the feed.

However, sulfa is not the only thing that is added to the feed. The special feed also includes a series of the latest achievements of MacDonald Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals.

First of all, the simplest additive is copper sulfate. Adding copper sulfate to pig feed, adding copper sulfate to the feed during the early stages of pig growth can increase the daily weight gain of pigs by more than 8%, and the utilization rate of feed can also be ascension by more than 4%. As for some other additives, um, there are some names, which may be very familiar to a person in the 21st century. The most famous one is probably Clenbuterol-this is the well-known skinny Meat essence, but Scrooge added this to pigs for a different purpose from later generations. Later generations valued this thing more as it can increase the lean meat rate of pigs, while Scrooge’s most valued thing is that it can speed up the growth of pigs. In later generations, if there are no restrictions on the means, the time for a piglet from birth to 110 kilograms for slaughter can be completely compressed within three to four months. In this era, due to the selection and breeding of pigs and other facilities, this speed is absolutely impossible to achieve, but Scrooge still hopes that the time for pigs to be released can be compressed to less than half a year. Therefore, things like growth promoters will naturally be valued.

Of course, pigs that use clenbuterol hydrochloride will have a lot of side effects if they grow pork. But Scrooge was not worried about this problem. First of all, people in this era eat a limited amount of meat every day. Compared with those who eat more meat than vegetables every day in the 21st century, their total intake is quite limited. Therefore, there will be no major problems. Besides, even if there is really a problem, can you still find the problem based on the medical level of that era? Anyway, Scrooge wouldn’t eat that thing himself, so what’s he afraid of?

To say that these chemical methods are used, the effect is really not covered, the first batch of pigs only took 163 days to reach the slaughter weight, and the slaughter went out smoothly. To commemorate this miraculous achievement, this pig farm originally called the No. 1 Pig Farm was also renamed 163 Pig Farm.

Of course, large-scale centralized breeding certainly has a lot of advantages such as low cost and quick slaughter, but the risk of this kind of pig farm is not small. The biggest risk is that the pig herd is too dense and the density of the pig population is too high. Once a disease occurs, it is easy to die. Especially, the current antiviral drugs are still very limited. Therefore, in that era, those who dared to do this would hardly fail bankruptcy.

But Scrooge is different, he has a way to deal with this situation.

Generally speaking, pigs raised by one person get sick and die. It is very difficult to deal with dead pork because the difference between dead pork and live pork is too big, especially when it is put together with healthy live pork in the market. It’s a dead house where you can’t distinguish between leeks and wheat sprouts. You can tell at a glance that this thing is not right. In addition, there was no cold storage at the time. With the smell, as long as the IQ is not lower than the blow fly, it will not be indistinguishable. Therefore, even if this kind of meat can be processed, the price will be terribly low. In the end, you still have to lose your money.

But Scrooge is different. Even if his pigs die of illness, they don’t need to be dragged to the market for sale. They can be sent directly to the own food processing plant to process canned Spam luncheon meat.

Speaking of Canned Spam luncheon meat, at the time, it could be regarded as a high-tech product. A series of new technologies of Macdonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company have been applied on it.

The first is dyeing technology. If you really use authentic fresh meat to make this thing, the cost would be too high. Therefore, Scrooge’s Spam is mainly made with some suspicious meat stuff, um, mainly Starch, offal, suet, and some meat that is not in a good position, or some meat that is not good to sell directly (well, you know). These things were finely twisted in the meat grinder, all of which were minced into fine pieces, so no one could see what this thing was originally. However, there are still many problems, the first is the color problem. These messy things wrung out of things don’t have the bright and attractive red color of authentic fresh meat wringing things, which need to be dyed with chemicals.

There are many things that can dye these mixtures red, so what is the color of Spam? A dye suitable for coloring Spam must have these characteristics. First of all, the cost is low, production and preservation are convenient, and it cannot be matched with the virtues of purple dyes in the Middle Ages. What kind of money do you make? Secondly, the color should be good-looking, and the color durability should be good. It shouldn’t make the color change completely after ten days. What? You say security? Don’t worry, it’s fine if you can’t eat people. So after careful research, experts from Macdonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company unanimously recommended a red dye called 1-phenylazo-2-naphthol to Scrooge.

This recommendation surprised Scrooge, because this dye has a more familiar name in later generations, called Sudan Red. However, this thing did perfectly meet the previous requirements, so Scrooge did not express any objection. He just followed the example of the sages. After signing and agreeing, he washed his hands, and then whispered: “I am not responsible for the blood of this man. .”

Solving the color problem is only the first step of the Long March, and the next step is the problem of taste. If you just add some salt or something, Spam’s taste is really not very good, especially after using some poor quality meat, the smell of this thing smells, um, it is simply disgusting.

The solution is also simple. First, cook at high temperature, and then use activated carbon adsorption, so that most of the bad odors can be removed, and then use a masking agent. As a result, all kinds of spices, mainly spicy ingredients, were thrown in, and the abnormal taste was covered up.Then comes the taste problem. At this time, Spam, because there was too much starch in it, it didn’t taste like meat at all. Therefore, another invention of the Macdonald Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company, especially in the East, was used. This kind of thing is called sodium glutamate, which is also known as monosodium glutamate. This is also one of the few food additives invented by MacDonald Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals during this period, something that Scrooge himself was willing to eat.

After using these methods, especially after using MSG, Spam tasted, at least when it was just eaten, it was really fragrant.

The last question is the question of preservation. This is simple, just add sodium nitrite directly. Not only can it be antiseptic, but it can also help fix the color. Of course, the amount cannot be too large. It’s not good to just put people down. However, the cans are strictly airtight, and the requirements for preservatives are actually not too high.

Because Spam’s raw materials are mainly starch, sewage, suet and so on. So its cost is much cheaper than its real meat. After eating it, there was a real taste of meat. Later, after Spam was released in large quantities, some people who couldn’t eat meat would often use Spam to relieve their greed. After the war broke out, he became one of the most important rations for the federal army.

It was the end of 1860 when the first can of Spam was on the market. In November of this year, the results of the United States presidential election finally came out. The Republican candidate Lincoln won an undisputed overwhelming victory. Although there was no vote for Lincoln in the southern states, with the support of the northern states, Lincoln was elected president of the United States of America by an overwhelming advantage. His election, in a sense, meant the end of the Virginia dynasty, which had been ruling the United States since the independence of North America. (When the United States was first founded, a series of consecutive presidents came from Virginia, so this period is called the Virginia Dynasty) He opened a new era in which the political influence of the North has been completely Pressed to the south. Lincoln was able to win the election with absolute superiority even without even a single vote from the South, which means that the South’s political influence on the United States has shrunk to the point where it is not worth mentioning.

Many years ago, when United States first became independent, the South had the upper hand in terms of population and economy. At that time, the South dominated United States politically. Later, with the rise of the North, the North and the South were able to fight against each other. . Later, although the North had the upper hand, the political power of the South still cannot be underestimated. At least, although the South did not succeed in success, it was still more than defeat. Apart from other things, how many times have the North tried to raise tariffs, but it has not been possible under the opposition of the South. But now, Lincoln’s high vote shows one thing, that is, according to the rules of the game in the United States, not only can the political influence of the South fail, but even fail. Southerners feel that they can no longer guarantee their own rights through this game rule, and the “tyranny of the majority” is in front of them. Therefore, leaving the Union became the choice of some southern states. However, it’s like a few people playing mahjong. Someone in front had been winning, and when the luck of the opponent began to improve, he also started to tie the cards, but he withdrew from the table and said that he would not play anymore. How can it work? From the perspective of the North, the southerners have used low tariffs to take advantage of the North Nami for many years. Now they say that they will leave the Union when they leave the Union. How can it be done? Therefore, before President Lincoln had time to officially take over as President, the Civil War was imminent.