The price of crayfish has dropped, but the sales volume has dropped significantly compared with previous years. Why do young people not like it?

Introduction: The price of crayfish has dropped, but the sales volume has dropped significantly compared with previous years. Why do young people not like it?

In summer, the most popular food is crayfish.

As one of the most well-known invasive species in China, it is also the most popular food. As soon as summer enters, whether in the south or in the north, crayfish is the most popular food in the night market. Many people are still tasting its delicious food with relatives and friends in the middle of the night.

Since the Dragon Boat Festival, a large number of crayfish have been listed one after another, and now two months have passed. Compared with the same period last year, there are two obvious phenomena in the crayfish market this year: one is that its price has dropped, and the other is that the sales volume is far less than before. Compared with the same period in the past, the sales volume of crayfish this year is almost It's a cliff-like fall.

Recently, some media released data of a local crayfish processing enterprise. The sales volume in 2020 was 1,200 tons, but in 2021, it dropped to 200 tons, a decrease of 83.3%.

In fact, this is not an exception. Many vendors selling crayfish, as well as restaurant owners who process and sell crayfish, are saying that since 2020, the sales of crayfish have declined significantly. Even though its price has dropped again and again, there have been significantly fewer people buying crayfish. Compared to the craziest days a few years ago, sales are now cut in half.

It used to be a hit in the night snack stalls and attracted countless people's favorite Internet celebrity food, but now the price is low, and there are fewer people eating crayfish? Why don't young people nowadays like to eat crayfish? In fact, there are mainly the following reasons:

The first is that the price of crayfish in the end market is still expensive.

It is estimated that many people have heard that the price of crayfish has dropped a lot in recent years compared with previous years. In some places, the purchase price of crayfish has been as low as a few dollars a pound. However, its price in the terminal market is still not cheap, especially after cooking, it still costs tens of yuan per pound.

The author and my colleagues went to eat crayfish once this year. At that time, the restaurant said that it was a new store opening event, and a 3-pound crayfish was only 100 yuan. Such a price is indeed much cheaper than the previous nearly 100 yuan per pound, but it is still unacceptable to many people.

Because crayfish has no meat, a pound of crayfish may not eat 2 taels of meat. What's more, the crayfish sold by the restaurant is not enough at all. They are only 3 catties when they are added with soup and so on. At that time, I also raised a bar with the boss and said that the crayfish in the store was not enough, but he told me that the whole industry was like this, and it was all overweight with soup and water on the face.

The second is that it is more troublesome to process it yourself.

Some people may say that since the price of crayfish at the restaurant is expensive, you can buy it and cook it yourself, which will be much cheaper, because the price of fresh crayfish is usually more than ten yuan per pound.

Although this is said, the handling of crayfish is more troublesome. First, it is more difficult to clean. Such crayfish should be carefully cleaned with a brush, and the heads should be removed, the shrimp lines should be cut off, etc., otherwise they really dare not eat. Second, cooking also requires skill. Although crayfish is delicious, if the skill is not at home, the cooked food is still unpalatable. And most people are afraid of trouble and do not have excellent technology, so they are reluctant to buy.

The third reason is that many people worry that the crayfish they buy are unsanitary.

As we all know, crayfish grow in ponds and rice fields, and there are many parasites in such an environment.

If you don't wash it while cooking, especially if you don't cook it thoroughly, you may not kill all the parasites. It is precisely because some people worry that the crayfish is not cleaned properly, and they eat undercooked crayfish, which will affect their own health.

I have a friend who never eats crayfish and says that crayfish look like bugs. Especially after hearing that there are parasites on it, I dare not eat it. Even if the people in his family often buy it from the market and make it, he just eats it and doesn't eat it.

The fourth is that many people have passed the freshness of crayfish.

Since crayfish became popular on the Internet a few years ago, many places are building crayfish brands and promoting crayfish farming, which has also created great value for many farmers and locals.

And now crayfish has been popular in the market for nearly ten years, and for many people, they have long been unfamiliar with crayfish. Many people who liked to eat crayfish at the beginning have long been tired of it and have no interest in it.

Like the author, I also liked crayfish very much before, and I have to eat it every few days every year. But now I don't like to eat it once or twice a year. I feel that the taste is not as good as before. Maybe I am picky about my mouth. It is estimated that many people, like the author, are tired of crayfish. Especially when some are old, they are even less interested in food with heavy oil and heavy seasoning such as crayfish.

Finally, there is another point, that is, many people have been shy in their pockets in recent years.

Because the sales of crayfish began to decline, it also has a lot to do with one thing. Many people lost their jobs because of this, or earned less money than before. And since the money is tense, I will definitely have to tighten my belt to live, and I can't buy what I want to eat when I see it.

After all, crayfish and hairy crabs are the same as the lubricants of life. If you have money and conditions, you can eat them, but if you have no money and conditions, you can not eat them. They are not necessities of life.

The above are some of the author's views on this. In fact, for any Internet celebrity food, it has a "life cycle", that is, the popularity has a time limit, and it is impossible to continue to be popular. Because the competition in the Internet celebrity market is also very fierce, some Internet celebrity products will be eliminated, and new Internet celebrity foods will emerge.