According to Taiwan's "Zhongshi News Network", there is an egg shortage on the island, and a public school in Taichung City recently announced that "diving eggs" were originally scheduled, but due to the shortage of boiled eggs, "diving eggs" were replaced by "scrambled eggs with tomatoes." As a result, the students did not discuss the problem of egg shortage, but the "crooked building" asked each other what is the "diving egg"?
There are also netizens who shared 120 yuan (New Taiwan dollars, the same below) to achieve "egg freedom" buffet, which attracted many netizens to sigh "I haven't eaten eggs for half a month". Some netizens also broke the news that a pharmacy on the island began to sell eggs, buying any health food, that is, giving away 1 box of eggs for free.
In front of the egg shortage, Taiwan's major supermarkets put eggs of various brands on the shelves for the public to choose. Photo source: Photo by Chen Shu'e of Taiwan's "Zhongshi News Network".
In order to solve the short-term egg shortage problem, Taiwan's "Agricultural Committee" imported eggs through the project, and it is expected that more than 3 million imported eggs will be imported by the end of March, but in the long run, imported eggs still cannot fully cope with the shortage of eggs on the island.
According to the statistics of the "Committee of Agriculture", the number of laying hens has rebounded slightly to 3091.11 million earlier, but the number of egg crates still remains at 1,2220 boxes (about 12.2400 million), which is still more than one million short of the <>,<> boxes (about <> million) required by the people.
In addition, it has also been reported on the island that egg merchants have to use higher "black market prices" to buy eggs, affecting the order of production and marketing. In this regard, Chen Jinding, executive director of the Taiwan Chicken Association's Laying Hen Business Production and Marketing Supervision Committee, said that the committee recently held a meeting to discuss price setting, and after the discussion, it was decided not to adjust the price for the time being.
Chen Jinding believes that at present, the authorities only mention that 3 million capsules will be imported by the end of March, but they cannot make up the gap at all, "500 million per day is enough", otherwise egg merchants may only default in the face of consumer and channel pressure.
What is the "diving egg" of the school group meal?
The serious shortage of eggs not only affects the catering industry, but Taichung Qingshui rice cake industry replaces marinated eggs with marinated duck eggs; Not only that, school group meals have also been affected, and a public school also announced a few days ago that the original scheduled "diving eggs" were replaced by "scrambled eggs with tomatoes" due to the shortage of boiled eggs.
Group catering operator announces that "diving eggs" are replaced by "scrambled eggs with tomatoes" Image source: Taiwan's "China Times"
As a result, the students did not discuss the problem of egg shortage, but the "crooked building" asked each other what is the "diving egg"? Some students said that I only knew about marinated eggs, tea eggs, boiled eggs, and poached eggs, but I never knew about "diving eggs", and this announcement also caused discussion among students.
Some group meal operators pointed out that in order to cope with the problem of egg shortage, the current nutritious lunch can only be not listed on the whole egg menu, but instead of dishes such as scrambled eggs with tomatoes or scrambled eggs with corn, which can not only reduce the amount of eggs, but also allow children to eat the nutrition of eggs.
Have a buffet "marinated eggs" free?
Earlier, a Taiwanese netizen shared that a few days ago found that a buffet restaurant has a lot of marinated eggs, jokingly, it is simply "egg freedom", at the same time he also took pictures of his own choice of dishes, the marinade pot is full of a bunch of marinated eggs, there is no need to queue and scramble, from the photos he uploaded, it can be seen that 2 full lunch boxes contain cabbage, cauliflower, spinach, ribs, 3 marinated eggs, and the checkout amount is 120 yuan, which makes him feel quite cheap. Unexpectedly, as soon as the photo came out, it made all netizens quarrel.
After the post was exposed, many netizens left messages saying, "I haven't eaten eggs for half a month", "It's cheap enough", "Your cabbage is really cheap to cry, and 3 eggs are worth 60 yuan, so cheap" "Cheap! And the food looks fresh and delicious."
However, some netizens think that the price is not cheap, "This is 75 in Tainan, at most 85", "Two pieces of meat 120 you are also happy", "This 120 is very expensive", "The buffet is almost not short of eggs".
Pharmacy sells "limited eggs"
Another Taiwanese netizen said on Facebook that a pharmacy on Huaxing Street in Zhubei City began to sell Taiwanese eggs, with a price of 8 yuan per box of 69, and one person is limited to 2 boxes, but as long as you buy any health food, you will get a box of eggs for free. Many netizens smiled and said: "Is it a real-name system?" Do I need to bring my health insurance card? "Too wonderful combination of activities" "Ready to detonate".
In order to sympathize with the silver-haired people with reduced mobility, some pharmacies specially ordered with familiar egg merchants, hoping that the elders would not work so hard and get up early in the morning to line up to buy eggs. (Photo by Guo Jiquan, Taiwan's China Times)
According to ETtoday News Cloud reports, the industry said that the regular customers of the pharmacy are generally elders who live nearby, many of them have limited mobility, and they still run to the market in the early morning to line up to buy eggs, "I can't buy it after running several times."
Despite this, the number of eggs is still limited, and it is not long before all 10 boxes are sold out from 70 a.m., and the industry also says that there may not be eggs every day, let alone when they will be available.