"You are Chinese, I am Chinese, round up, you are mine"...
Recently, the words above were printed on the package of a snail powder in mainland China, causing controversy in Taiwan.
The DPP authorities announced that mainland snail noodles violated relevant laws and regulations such as import and export, and the import was not allowed, and asked supermarkets and e-commerce companies to remove them from the shelves.
The packaging of snail noodles caused controversy in the island.
Image source: Taiwan Zhongshi News Network
Subsequently, Taiwan’s economic department announced on the evening of the 17th that because Taiwan’s domestically produced peanuts and a well-known spicy peanut produced in the mainland have not been opened for import, the “Ministry of Economic Affairs” will remind manufacturers to remove them from the shelves. In addition, the mainland snack Konjac Shuang must be imported with permission. Sale.
Taiwan authorities removed snail noodles and spicy peanuts?
Taiwanese people: buy! store!
The actions of the DPP authorities instead aroused the island's pursuit of mainland snacks and set off an upsurge of hoarding mainland snacks.
On the evening of the 17th, the well-known e-commerce platform on the island showed that the top-ranked popular product was snail powder, and the second was the well-known snack "Konjac Shuang" from the mainland. But there has been a wave of hoarding on the Internet."
According to Taiwan Economic Daily, when you open the e-commerce platform, you can see a variety of mainland-made snacks, and many sellers are selling konjac, spicy peanuts, etc.
Konjac cool is "crazy" among Taiwanese elementary school students
On well-known e-commerce platforms in Taiwan, many mainland snacks are selling well.
A reporter from the Global Times searched and found that on the Shopee shopping website, the more popular mainland snacks include jujube cake, deep-fried shrimp tail, old yogurt fudge, Weilong spicy strips, and konjac snacks.
In the open-air market on another e-commerce platform, such as white rabbit toffee, Chongqing small noodles, Lanzhou ramen, Huang Feihong spicy peanuts, etc. are very popular.
As early as March last year, Taiwan's United News Network reported on the popularity of mainland snacks such as Konjac Soup in Taiwan.
Konjac cool.
Source: Screenshot of CCTV Chinese International Channel
According to the report, a pack of konjac cool is sold very cheaply in Taiwan, with a unit price of about NT$5 (RMB 1 is about NT$4.49), and it has become a "crazy" snack among elementary school students.
Taiwan's "China Television" News Network stated on the 18th that these mainland snacks have unknowingly entered the snack cabinets of Taiwanese people, and many "Internet celebrities" have released "unboxing and tasting" videos.
Taiwan’s Yahoo! Kimo News Network conducted an online survey on the 18th, in response to the question “Will you buy food made in mainland China?” As of noon on the 19th, among the approximately 9,000 responses, 15.4% and 47.2% of the respondents were Choose between Frequent Purchases and Occasional Purchases.
A stall selling mainland snacks at a night market in Taiwan.
Source: Photo by Liu Yixuan, Taiwan's "United Daily News" reporter
Netizens on both sides of the strait: boring, the layout is small...
As soon as the news of the Taiwan authorities' "ban" on foods such as snail noodles and spicy peanuts produced in the mainland came out, netizens on both sides of the strait discussed heatedly.
Some netizens on the island commented, "It's really boring, and the food should be counted as a united front. Do you want to ban wonton noodles and fried rice? I'm stupid." It's been a few years, and the target is not Taiwan." "I bought the packaging in North America like this." "Facts show who is the glass heart."
Taiwanese Netizen Comments
According to Zhongshi News.com, in a street interview titled "What do you think should be banned the most", the answers of Taiwanese people included, "Japanese nuclear food, because it is not safe." "Laizhu, it has an impact on the body." Ban it first." "The head of the DPP, because it is too extreme and persistent."
A mainland netizen said that doing so "makes the situation smaller."
Source: Screenshot of Weibo
After all, "taste does not deceive people", "we are all Chinese, we all have a Chinese stomach".
Snail noodles, spicy peanuts, konjac...
Mainland snacks favored by Taiwanese people
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Source: Global Times, previous reports from China News Network, China Times News Network, comments from netizens