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"High-end" seafood disliked by Africans: dozens of pounds of grouper, giant lobsters and crabs

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This is the vegetable market of Mozambique, Africa, giant lobsters, crabs weighing a few kilograms, groupers weighing dozens of kilograms, and a variety of sea fish... They are randomly placed on stalls, and merchants sell their products vigorously, but unfortunately few people buy them.

"High-end" seafood disliked by Africans: dozens of pounds of grouper, giant lobsters and crabs

Is it because it's too expensive?

Every seafood here can be regarded as a high-end product, which is sky-high in many countries, and it is normal to not be able to afford it.

But the reality is quite the opposite, the reason Mozambicans don't buy it is because it's too cheap.

Yes, you read that right, these "high-end" seafood are indeed cheap, and a kilogram of beef here costs 30 yuan, which is enough to buy several lobsters and crabs, or a large grouper.

"High-end" seafood disliked by Africans: dozens of pounds of grouper, giant lobsters and crabs

If this price is in the country, at most a few minutes, people will sweep away the goods, but in Mozambique people disdain this.

Is Mozambique too rich? Can't see these things?

Mozambique in northeast Africa is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a per capita GDP of only 300 yuan, many people earn less than 1.5 yuan a day, most people are below the subsistence line, and it is the norm to not be able to eat for a few days.

"High-end" seafood disliked by Africans: dozens of pounds of grouper, giant lobsters and crabs

So why are these cheap lobsters and crabs not cared about?

As we all know, Africa is a vast land, rich in products, and has more varieties of ingredients, but there is little research on food, and African cuisine is rarely heard of in the world.

It's mainly their indescribable way of cooking.

In the whole of Africa, there are basically only a few ways to burn, roast and cook.

"High-end" seafood disliked by Africans: dozens of pounds of grouper, giant lobsters and crabs

Africa's favorite way is to grill, including chicken, duck, cow and sheep are directly placed on the fire to bake, simple and convenient, but also retain the umami of the food. Therefore, in their opinion, good food after being cooked by fire can be called good food.

But this way will not work if it is used on lobsters and crabs, lobsters grilled by the fire, some places are still raw, some places have been burnt, and when grilling, the smell is still extremely bad, so that the food, bad smell and unpalatable, many people avoid.

"High-end" seafood disliked by Africans: dozens of pounds of grouper, giant lobsters and crabs

Moreover, Africans make food mainly simple, there are not so many ingredients, seafood is generally very fishy, poor handling and great taste, far less simple and convenient than beef and mutton.

And because Mozambique is next to the Indian Ocean, fishery resources are exceptionally rich, seafood such as lobster and crab are common here, and the yield is very high, coupled with its "unpalatable" taste, making these seafood the most "low-grade" ingredients, people with a little status and status will not buy.

"High-end" seafood disliked by Africans: dozens of pounds of grouper, giant lobsters and crabs

Only the poorest people and foreigners with "unique" tastes buy this bad food.

This situation is not unique in Africa, as is Mauritania, thousands of kilometres away.

Mauritania is located in northwest Africa, west of the famous Atlantic Ocean, fishing resources are very rich, lobsters here are not only large, but also very numerous, a net can catch a large number of lobsters and crabs.

"High-end" seafood disliked by Africans: dozens of pounds of grouper, giant lobsters and crabs

But for the local fishermen, they are most afraid of encountering such a situation, because the locals do not eat these things, and can only sell them to foreign tourists at a super low price, and those who cannot be sold are directly thrown back into the sea, because staying on the boat will only occupy a position.

But fishermen here often catch lobsters and crabs, making them "miserable".

"High-end" seafood disliked by Africans: dozens of pounds of grouper, giant lobsters and crabs

It is indeed a pity that seafood, which is expensive in our eyes, has become "waste" in their eyes.

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