As we all know, China's food culture is broad and profound, and there is a deep attachment to eating. In fact, for eating, Europeans are more "excessive", we know that many precious ingredients were originally ordinary, and as a result, they were eaten by Europeans as precious products. For example, snails, roe, etc., today Xiaobian wants to talk about another expensive food that is eaten by Europeans.
It is the Spanish young eel, which is the juvenile eel that is abundant in Spain. For foodies, juvenile and adult eels are almost two animals. The life of eels is legendary, they are freshwater creatures, but adult eels have to travel over mountains and mountains through most of Europe into the Atlantic Ocean, reaching the Sargasson Sea in the North Atlantic, during which they have to travel at least 5,000 kilometers.
Adult eels spawn at depths of 500 metres and then age. Once the eggs hatch, young eels are born, and they drift all the way to Europe along the Gulf Stream, reaching the Atlantic coast of Spain two years later. Grow, reproduce, and cycle over and over again. During this time, some young eels will become the meal on the plate. Young eels are one of the most expensive ingredients in the world, and in 2017, the first net of young eels caught by Spanish fishermen sold for 5,500 euros, equivalent to 43,500 yuan.
The net is actually only 1.25 kilograms, which is about 35,000 yuan per kilogram on average. Subsequently, Spanish fishermen caught a second net, the same 1.25 kilograms, the price of 1017 euros, a five-fold reduction, but still very expensive. The first few nets of Spanish young eels are not sold at a fixed price and are sold in the form of auctions. Since the young eel is so expensive, it must be very delicious. The result may surprise everyone.
According to the owner of a local restaurant selling young eels in Madrid, Spain, this young eel is colorless and tasteless, not even fishy, and lettuce is more flavorful than it. In the past, in the Spanish Basque Country, people were more likely to feed chickens and pigs. But later, I don't know who stirred up the value of the young eels, and the demand began to increase significantly. Overfishing and environmental destruction have led to fewer and fewer juvenile eels, causal and cyclical snowballs to where they are today. Copyright notice: If copyright issues are involved, please contact the author with proof of ownership ( Article source: Oriental Headlines)