★Rising rice prices…Popular ramen shop suspends free rice service as purchase price nearly doubles, offering extra noodles for free A popular ramen shop that celebrated its 50th anniversary this year has ended its long-running free rice service during weekday lunch hours. The reason for this is the soaring price of rice. Instead, the restaurant offers extra large servings of noodles free of charge. The long-standing “free rice” policy has been replaced by… The soup is made from a “matured sauce” made from garlic, onion, kelp, and other ingredients that have been aged for over three years, combined with pork bones and chicken carcasses. The filling is homemade thin, curly noodles. “Harbin Ramen” is popular mainly in the Suwa region. The company’s head office is located in Suwa City, and this year marks its 50th anniversary. We are currently suspending a certain service that we have been running for a long time. It’s “free rice service.’’ Harbin Foods President Jinrai Yamazaki explained the reason for this, saying, “Rice was the only product that had been doing well and hadn’t increased in price since before COVID-19, but now it has suddenly gone up.” Until now, during weekday lunch hours, the company offered a free small bowl of rice with every bowl of ramen, but this was discontinued in September, except at some stores in the same chain. Please see the link below.
>>1 Japanese farmers have small farming scales compared to other countries. Average farm size in each country ・France: 52.1ha ・Germany: 45.7ha ・England: 53.8ha ・Spain: 23.8ha ・Italy: 7.6ha ・Japan: 1.7ha To maintain low rice prices, it is necessary to intensify and expand agriculture, and to achieve this, it is necessary to abolish preferential treatment for small-scale farmers and designate areas for agricultural production in urban planning (municipalities will protect waterways and designate areas where unpleasant odors from fertilizers are acceptable).
The Liberal Democratic Party has always had idiots involved in agricultural policy, and they went too far in reducing rice production, causing confusion in the market and driving up prices when there was just a slight rice shortage. Shinjiro was also in the LDP Agriculture and Forestry Committee. A stupid post that does nothing.
Since I’m going to eat ramen, I’d prefer extra noodles. I wish that even places that offer unlimited bowls of rice for free would offer unlimited refills.
>>39 Grain production in America is on the rise due to technological innovations such as genetic modification. China’s food demand will decrease rapidly in the future due to the double whammy of a declining population and an aging society. You can guess the rest, right?
The situation is already deteriorating, but under the Kishida administration it has only gotten worse; I’m not talking about the upper classes, but the common people.
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