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The Green Camp on the island has constantly taken advantage of the situation in Russia and Ukraine to brush up on its sense of existence. Taiwan's "ETtoday News Cloud" news said that dpp "legislator" Cai Yiyu posted a video of making borscht on Facebook on the 10th, declaring that he wanted to "justify" the name of borscht. He said that borscht originated in Ukraine, and that Shanghainese were mistaken to think it was Russian Soup, so it was transliterated as "borscht". He believes that the soup should now be renamed "Ukrainian Hero Soup". Some netizens on the island sarcastically said, can you do something serious?
Screenshot of Taiwan's "ETtoday News Cloud" report
According to the "ETtoday News Cloud", Cai Yiyu claimed that in order to show his support for Ukraine, he visited Chef Huang Yuxin together with Wang Xuanmao, the proposed candidate for Tainan City Councilor, and Zhang Jialing, the proposed candidate for New Taipei City Council, to make Ukrainian authentic soups, and to name the "Russian Soup" named "Russian Soup" in Shanghai in the past as "Ukrainian Hero Soup".
Cai Yiyu. Video screenshots
Cai Yiyu claimed that in the early years of borscht spread to Shanghai, Shanghainese because of the Russian English for "Russia", "Russian soup" was transliterated as "borscht", but borscht soup is not from Russia, but from Ukraine, in Ukraine borscht is called "борщ", written in Roman characters is "Borshch", is the staple food of ukrainians for hundreds of years. As for why it became Russian Soup, Cai Yiyu claimed that this was because Ukraine was next door to Russia, and after it spread to Russia, it spread to the East through Russia, and then it became "borscht".
According to public information, borscht, also known as red cabbage soup and suber soup, is a thick vegetable soup originating from the East Slavic peoples (including Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus), which is popular in Eastern and Central Europe. Authentic borscht is made with beets as the main ingredient, and then added potatoes, carrots, spinach and beef chunks, whipped cream and other ingredients to cook, so it has a purple color.
Regarding Cai Yiyu's desire to rename borscht to "Ukrainian Hero Soup," some netizens on the island sarcastically said: "The essential work of the legislators" is not done, and some messy and insignificant things are netly engaged. ↓
Some netizens asked the "Green Committee" "can you do something serious"? ↓
Some netizens criticized the Green Committee for being very good at rubbing hot spots. ↓
Some netizens said: Who cares. ↓
After the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the DPP authorities never forgot to take advantage of the opportunity to speculate, first following the European and American sanctions against Russia, on the 8th of this month, the leader of the Taiwan authorities Tsai Ing-wen herself also "went down", posted orchids sprayed with the color of the Ukrainian flag on Facebook, declaring that "Taiwan's orchids are Ukraine", and the result was satirized by netizens on the island that "engaged in some useless things all day long."