"A live duck costs more than 40 yuan, but a roast duck costs only 18 yuan a piece." Why is the processed duck cheaper? Recently, there has been a fierce discussion on the price contradiction of roast duck on the Internet, why is the price of roast duck lower than that of live duck?
In the discussion among netizens, this reporter saw that netizens used words such as "dead duck" and "sick duck" to describe the ducks used in the roast duck restaurant, and accused the owner of the roast duck restaurant of being an "illegal businessman with a desire for profit." What kind of duck did the roast duck shop use? The reporter asked three roast duck restaurants in Wuhan with an average price of 30 yuan each.
The roast duck restaurant said that its roast duck is not a "dead duck" or "sick duck", but a white-striped duck or lean duck purchased from regular channels and sold after secondary processing.
The reporter learned that the price of live duck is more expensive than roast duck, which is caused by a variety of factors such as duck species, feeding methods, freshness, weight, and growth cycle. People are easy to ignore the processing of this link when calculating the cost, roast duck and live duck compared with only duck meat, less a lot of parts, such as duck down, duck gizzards, duck paws, duck tongue, duck intestines, duck wings, marinated duck tongue price more than 100 yuan / catty, and duck heart, duck claws of the unit price is also more than roast duck. Therefore, the price of frozen duck purchased in a roast duck restaurant will be low, but this does not mean that frozen duck has food safety issues.