First, the demand is huge, and cheapness is the most important factor.
Since it is a natural disaster, the scale is not small, especially floods like Henan, which often affect several counties and even several prefecture-level cities! Millions of victims, thousands of square kilometers of affected areas, need a lot of relief materials. These materials are naturally donated by enterprises and individuals, but most of them have to be purchased by the government! Procurement is related to funds, and the government should consider the overall situation. Money is needed everywhere in disaster relief, and there is more demand for post-disaster reconstruction, so every penny has to be spent in half! Some people will say, our country is so rich now, do we still care about this? I said I didn't know rice was expensive. After the merger of tax reform and national tax, the money left to the central government can barely guarantee the normal operation of the organization, and other projects have to be transferred by the central government! Therefore, the time for disaster relief is never enough, and a lot of financial resources are needed. As the central government, it is necessary to think about this issue!
Comparatively speaking, instant noodles, sausages, eight-treasure porridge, steamed stuffed buns and purified water are simply the cheapest foods on the market at present, and the government will purchase them extensively in the name of disaster relief, and the prices will be further reduced! At this time, don't morally kidnap people's food consumption enterprises and clamor for people to donate money for flood control and disaster relief! Those who should donate will donate, but such a huge demand depends on procurement to deal with the basic problems. Massive demand requires massive funds, and you should strive for a penny cheaper.
Second, the transportation and distribution of lunch boxes can be delivered to the victims in the first time and play a role.
In the face of catastrophe, the biggest difficulty is traffic! Whether it is a flood or an earthquake, the worst-hit areas are basically poor communication and traffic, so it will be particularly difficult to transport materials abroad! What the victims trapped in it need most is clean water and convenient life-saving food! There are also face-to-face, ham sausage, mineral water and so on. It is particularly easy to transport, but it can be airdropped. As for the victims, these foods can be eaten and drunk when opened, at least to ensure that they will not starve to death! As for some people's requirements for nutrition, calories, slogans, etc. This is almost as ridiculous as an idiot facing a catastrophe.
I remember what my grandmother told me when I was a child. 1958 Huaihe River flood, all my hometown became Zeguo, and people clung to narrow dams and few terraces like ants. There is no food and no clean water. The government had to mobilize fishing boats to deliver relief food. Later, the water was too big and the waves were too big, and several wooden boats were overturned! Finally dropped by a helicopter. What is food? Bags of pancakes! This thing is easy to mass-produce when it is hungry, and it is also a convenient food of that era. Grandma said that someone's roof was smashed by a sudden hemp bag, and my second grandfather next door was a cripple. I heard that his leg was also broken by falling cakes! Later, the helicopter threw it to the edge of the river bank, and most of it was washed away by the flood, and the fish were soaked. ...
When 199 1 Huaihe River flooded, I once remembered that the relief materials sent to us at that time were big bags of noodles and sausages! I still remember the instant package, the yellow bag, and a big bowl with noodles and a big egg printed on it! It looks particularly attractive. At that time, this kind of food was almost the most delicious in the world. The biggest feature of this 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. Simply put, it can ensure that you won't starve to death, which is the most important thing in a catastrophe.
Third, the taste is popular and most people can afford it.
Some people suggest sending compact biscuits or self-heating food directly. Let alone how high the funds are and how troublesome the traffic is. Just from the level of the masses, they have no advantage! For example, as a war preparation food, the biggest advantage of biscuits is their high energy density and easy carrying, which is naturally no problem for people in the wild 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 tasteless food? Especially for the elderly and children, it is basically impossible to swallow. In addition, self-heating food is rich in nutrition and easy to heat, but it has high cost, high 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, you can see the improvement of noodles and ham sausage. No matter on the train, bus station, railway station or construction site, instant noodles and ham sausage can be described as golden partners! Even in cubicles and rented houses in the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, white-collar workers will choose a bowl of instant noodles to deal with stomach pain after they are tired of taking out food. 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, and at least they can tolerate that taste!
Fourth, diversification and specialization of disaster relief food is the general trend.
With the economic strength of China increasing from time to time, it is a little unreasonable to rely solely on the "four donkey kong" for disaster relief food in the past, because fast food as an emergency disaster relief food has many advantages, but its defects are equally prominent!
First, nutrition is really lacking. There is nothing wrong with being called poor people's food or "junk food" in person's face, because at least the taste and nutritional balance are not bad at all compared with various foods now. This can be clearly seen from the picture below.
Second, the 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 building of a well-off society in an all-round way, people's requirements for quality of life are getting higher and higher, and the most fundamental demand for food and drink is becoming more and more critical. Therefore, it is understandable that people who are used to eating chicken, fish, meat and eggs will naturally be excluded and do not conform to their stomach.
Third, in extreme cases, it is not convenient to face. Face to face is the demand for boiled water. If faced with some extreme disasters, even boiled water can't be supplied, instant noodles have to be chewed as instant noodles, so their slogan, convenience 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 general trend of international disaster relief food.
One is canned food. This kind of food has a long history, but it has not been improved in the disaster relief in China. 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, a lot of patterns, very rich nutrition, it can be said that chickens, ducks and fish lack everything, and there are many fruits and vegetables. This piece will be the main force of future disaster relief food. I believe that some enterprises have done their best in packaging and formula.
The second is to tighten the diet. As dry food in the military field, compressed biscuits and energy bars have great advantages such as high energy density and portability, and are extremely valuable in disaster relief, especially under extreme disaster conditions. But this kind of food often tastes bad, which is unbearable for the general public. Therefore, in order to improve, it is necessary for relevant enterprises to find ways to make everyone bear these things in slogans and tricks.
The third is lunch food. Convenience food not only refers to instant noodles, instant vermicelli, etc. , including the increasingly popular self-heating hot pot, self-heating rice, self-heating cooking and so on. At present, these foods have no big problems in shelf life, taste, storage and convenience. The most important bayonet is capital, and the price is really too expensive. Using it in disaster relief is a huge obstacle. As mentioned above, the daily demand of a large number of people affected by disasters for relief materials 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.