The meat of pangasius is tender and delicate, while the scavenger has a low meat yield, and there is not much meat in a whole fish, and the taste is harder and more woody.
If you were to choose between catfish and scavengers, everyone would choose catfish, but surprisingly, both fish also survive in the Ganges, catfish are flooded, and even go ashore to eat, but Indians prefer to put the delicate meat of the catfish instead of eating, but to eat the woody and hard scavengers.
Perhaps the scavengers themselves did not expect that someone would make such an unexpected choice!
Why don't Indians eat catfish?
First of all, let's talk about how catfish flooded the Ganges.
The Ganges is the mother river of India, it has extraordinary significance, especially religious significance, if you travel to India, don't say that the Ganges is bad, in the eyes of Indians, the Ganges is extremely sacred, so many Indians will sink their bodies into the Ganges after they die.
Catfish are omnivores, in their eyes, carrion is also a good choice, do not shy away from saying that catfish will eat the corpses sunk into the water, in addition to human corpses, many Indians will also pigs, cows, sheep and other animal corpses, thrown into the Ganges River, of course, this is not for sacred purposes, purely Xi inertial movements.
In addition, dealing with excrement in India is a complicated affair because of religion.
Hinduism believes that toilets are filthy, and Hindus have gods in their homes, so they cannot build toilets at home, and if they need to defecate, they will go outside the house, and most of the public toilets by the Ganges River will directly connect the defecation pipes to the Ganges.
In summary, there is no shortage of food for catfish in the Ganges, and under certain conditions, catfish do get nutrients from feces, but there are very few in China, and the vast majority of restaurants choose formally farmed catfish, which is not so dirty.
After the catfish came to the Ganges, it began to reproduce frantically in the case of sufficient food, it can reproduce 3~4 times a year, and the spawning amount of each time is as high as tens of thousands, and the catfish will also eat the seedlings and small fish of other fish, even if the Ganges River is seriously polluted, but fortunately, the catfish has strong environmental adaptability, in the absence of natural enemies, the catfish will soon flood in the Ganges, as long as you throw some food to the Ganges, the dense catfish will swarm to snatch, the scene is really shocking.
Since there are so many catfish, they are all rushing to land, why don't Indians eat them? Do catfish eat people?
In 2008, a little girl was swimming in shallow water, and was dragged into the water by a mysterious water monster, which, according to eyewitnesses, was a huge catfish.
According to expert analysis afterwards, the catfish in the Ganges River may be Xi to the taste of human corpses, and the huge tank catfish will attack people and drag them into the water to eat, which also seems logical.
But if you want to say that Indians are afraid of catfish attacks, few people believe it, after all, there are many modern scientific and technological means, and it is not difficult to catch catfish.
The Ganges is not only a religious and important source of fresh water for irrigating India's farmland, but also an agricultural country, so the Ganges has a great spiritual and material significance in the hearts of Indians.
The catfish is regarded by the Indians as a sacred object conceived by the Ganges, and even some devout believers deliberately carry out water burials after their deaths, and what happens after sinking to the bottom of the river is not described.
In addition, there are many Indians who will pick a day and buy food to feed the Ganges catfish, so no matter what kind of catfish, but any catfish in the Ganges, Indians will not eat it.
The scavengers also survive in the Ganges, why are they running out?
Scavengers were almost eaten by predators millions of years ago, and they are also smart and have evolved a hard exoskeleton directly, so that predators can eat and stumble, on the other hand, scavengers have less meat and eat firewood.
The scavengers have evolved themselves into such a way that they have escaped us as foodies, but not the Indians.
Indians have a demand for meat, but the vast majority of people are limited by economic pressures and have been eating vegetarian dishes, which is certainly unacceptable in the long run, so they will catch some game from nature, such as crabs, shrimps, etc., and the scavengers in the Ganges River have become their targets.
Even we can't develop a proper cooking technique for scavengers, how do Indians eat them?
Indians are more direct, after cooking, remove the scavenger's meat, discard the bones, and continue to cook, adding various ingredients such as carrots, potatoes, onions, etc., and adding various seasonings such as "masala" until the food in the pot is cooked into a paste.
With such a special cooking technique, you can really not care about the taste of the scavenger, anyway, the taste of eating is the flavor of spices, and the hard and woody meat is also perfectly cooked into a paste, and eating it with rice is also a different way.
Catfish and scavengers live in the Ganges, why are catfish respected and sheltered, and scavengers have to be eaten by Indians?
You may not believe it, because the catfish went to the Ganges early, and the scavenger was one step late, so the catfish was given the "sacred mark" by the Indians, and the scavenger was not so lucky, after all, there is only one "sacred" position. (First come, first served)