Why are all the relief supplies mineral water, instant noodles and sausages?

When I saw this question, the first reaction in my mind was the words "Why not eat minced meat"! The flood is terrible, the communication is not smooth, and the traffic is blocked ... In this extreme environment, food and clean water are life-saving things! Since it is a life-saving thing, then ask for a lot, be convenient, fast, lightweight, easy to transport and deliver, and be generally borne by the masses! There are really only a handful of things that can meet these conditions at the same time, and face to face, ham sausage, eight-treasure porridge and buns can be described as disaster relief artifacts! Because they also fit in with several characteristics of life-saving materials in disaster areas, from the news broadcast in the 199s to the present, the four donkey kong plus drinking small packaged water (pure water, mountain spring water, disorderly spring water, etc.) are at most presented in the list of relief materials.

First, the demand is huge, and cheap is the most important factor.

Since it is a natural disaster, it is not small-scale, especially a flood like Henan, which often touches several counties and even several prefecture-level cities! Millions of victims, thousands of square kilometers of affected areas, need massive relief materials. These materials are naturally donated by enterprises and individuals, but most of them have to be purchased by the government! Procurement is about capital, and the government has to think about the overall situation. Money is needed everywhere during disaster relief, and there is more demand for post-disaster reconstruction, so every penny has to be spent in half! Some people will say that our country is so rich now, do you still care about this? What I said is that I don't know that rice is expensive. After the tax reform and the merger of national and local taxes, the money left to the central government will barely ensure the normal operation of the organization, and other projects will have to be transferred and paid by the central government! Therefore, there is never enough time for disaster relief, which requires a lot of financial resources. As the central government, it is necessary to think about this!

Compared with the plan, instant noodles, ham sausage, eight-treasure porridge, buns and pure water are simply the cheapest foods on the market at present, and the government will purchase them widely in the name of disaster relief, and the price will be further reduced! At this time, don't morally kidnap people's food consumption enterprises, clamoring for people to donate materials for flood relief! People who should donate will donate, but such a huge demand depends on procurement to deal with basic problems. Massive demand requires massive funds, and you have to fight for a penny cheaper.

second, the transportation and delivery of lunch boxes can be delivered to the victims in the first time and play a role

The biggest difficulty in the face of great disasters is transportation! No matter whether it is a flood or an earthquake, the most severely damaged areas are basically poor communication and traffic, so it will be particularly difficult to transport more materials outside! What the victims trapped in it need most is clean water and convenient life-saving food! And face to face, ham sausage, mineral water, etc. are particularly easy to transport, but they can be airdropped. As for the victims, these foods can be eaten and drunk when they are opened, at least to ensure that they will not starve to death! As for some people's requests for nutrition, calories, slogans, etc., it is almost as ridiculous as an idiot in the face of a grand disaster.

I remember what my grandmother told me when I was a child. In 1958, when the Huaihe River flooded, all my hometown became Zeguo, and people clung to narrow dams and few terraces like ants. There was no food, and there was no clean water. The government had to mobilize fishing boats to deliver food for disaster relief. Later, the water was too big and the waves were too big, and several wooden boats were overturned! Finally, it was dropped by helicopter. What was the food? Bags of pancakes! This thing is easy to mass-produce when it is hungry, and it can be regarded as the convenience food of that era. Grandma said that some people's roofs were smashed by sudden hemp bags, and my second grandfather next door was a cripple. I heard that his legs were also broken by falling cakes! Later, helicopters dropped on the edge of the river bank, and as a result, most of them were washed away by the flood, and what was fished up was soaked ...

By the time of the Huaihe River flood in 1991, I once remembered that the relief materials sent to us at that time were large bags of ham and sausage face to face! I still remember the instant packaging, the yellow bag, and a big bowl printed with twisted noodles and a big egg! It looks particularly attractive. At that time, this kind of food was almost delicious in the world. The biggest feature of this kind of food is that it is easy to eat. Although it is not hungry or nutritious, the heat it provides can at least maintain the basic needs of the human body. To put it simply, it can ensure that you will not die of hunger, which is the most important thing in times of great disaster.

Third, the taste is popular and can be tolerated by most people.

Some people propose to directly send compressed biscuits or self-heating food. Let's not talk about how high the capital is and how troublesome the transportation is. They don't have any advantages just from the level that they are borne by the masses! For example, as a war preparation food, the biggest advantage of the biscuit is that it has high energy density and is easy to carry, which is naturally no problem for people in the field and exploring, but as for the victims, they are all ordinary people and have not been trained to survive in the wild. How many people can afford this kind of tasteless food? Especially for the elderly and children, it is basically impossible to swallow. Besides, self-heating food is nutritious and easy to heat, but it has high cost, higher transportation cost and is not resistant to storage. As for the taste, to be honest, it is barely better than instant noodles.

Compared with the plan, everyone can see the improvement of face-to-face and sausage. Whether it is on the train, bus station, railway station or construction site, instant noodles and sausage can be described as golden partners! Even in the cubicles and rented rooms in the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, those white-collar workers will choose a bowl of instant noodles to deal with the pain of the stomach after they are tired of eating takeout. As for college students, instant noodles, sausages and beer peanuts are almost daily operations! So as far as China people are concerned, the taste of instant noodles may not be so good, but they are absolutely familiar with it, at least they can bear the taste!

Fourth, diversification and specialization of disaster relief food is the general trend

With the constant improvement of China's economic strength, it is a little unreasonable for disaster relief food to rely solely on the "four donkey kong" in the past, because instant food as emergency relief food has many advantages, but its defects are equally prominent!

First, nutrition is really lacking. It's not wrong to be called poor people's food or "junk food" face to face, because compared with today's various foods, at least the taste and nutritional balance are not a bit worse. This can be clearly seen from the picture below.

second, people's appetite is getting higher and higher. This is a good thing. With the progress of per capita income from time to time and the completion of a well-off society in an all-round way, people's demands for quality of life are getting higher and higher, and the most fundamental demand for eating and drinking is becoming more and more critical. Therefore, it is understandable that people who are used to chicken, fish, meat and eggs will naturally be crowded out and not conform to their stomachs.

thirdly, in extreme circumstances, it is not convenient to face it. Face-to-face is the demand for boiled water. If in the face of some extreme disasters, even boiled water can't be supplied, instant noodles have to be chewed as instant noodles, so that their slogan, convenience level and disaster relief effect will be greatly reduced!

therefore, the specialization and diversification of disaster relief food is the general trend, which is also the major trend of international disaster relief food at present.

one is canned food. This kind of food has a long history, but it has not been improved in China's disaster relief. The main reasons are high cost, inconvenient transportation and low public tolerance. In fact, canned food has great advantages in disaster relief. Including storage resistance, not easy to leak pollution, many tricks, very rich nutrition, it can be said that chickens, ducks and fish are not lacking in everything, and there are many fruits and vegetables. This piece will be the main force of disaster relief food in the future. I believe that some enterprises have tried their best in packaging and formula.

the second is to tighten food. As dry food in military field, compact biscuits and energy bars have great advantages such as high energy density and portability, which are valuable in disaster relief, especially under extreme disaster conditions. However, this kind of food often tastes bad, which is difficult for the general public to bear. Therefore, in order to improve it, it is necessary for relevant enterprises to think of ways on slogans and tricks so that everyone can bear these things.

thirdly, it's the convenience food. Instant food not only refers to instant noodles, instant vermicelli, etc., but also includes increasingly popular self-heating hot pot, self-heating rice, self-heating stir-fry and so on. At present, these foods do not have much problems in shelf life, taste, storage and convenience level. The most important bayonet is capital, and the price is really too expensive. It is a grand obstacle to use it in disaster relief. As mentioned earlier, the daily demand for disaster relief materials by a large number of people affected by disasters is an astronomical figure, and behind each string of figures, huge financial expenditure is needed to support it. This is not easy for any central government.