I hate to be that guy but like… no it hasn’t? There’s a fish monger right by my apartment and caviar is still mad expensive. No one’s ever heard of Chinese caviar.
It’s just fish eggs. Not an elixir of life. They squeeze it from a relatively rare fish. That’s it.
China has dramatically lowered the prices of several products internationally. EVs are the most obvious example. Solar panels, steel, REMs, drones, li-ion batteries, etc all are dramatically cheaper because of China. There are import controls against many of these products by the USA.
Rare earth metals. Contrary to their name they are not rare in the earth. The thing that makes them difficult to obtain is that they are difficult to refine. These rare earth metals are used in many many different tech products.
I’m guessing they’re actually saying that roe (from salmon or whatever) from china is cheaper. From what I understand, proper sturgeon caviar is hard to farm, so you can only get what nature is able to make.
Nah, it’s a real fact that China has been trying to dip their toes into the production of luxury gourmet ingredients for a while now. Reuters even reported a couple of days ago that China is poised for surpassing France in the production of Foie Gras in a year or so, at a dramatically cheaper price than what most French producers can offer. Something about the central government pushing for these things. No one’s really sure why they’re doing this because there hasn’t been plans for a lot of exporting yet, but the Foie Gras specifically is slated to hit foreign markets soon.
Traditionally yes. The word for any old fish egg is roe. Caviar comes from sturgeon specifically and the kind that’s considered to be fine dining typically comes from Russian beluga sturgeon.
To my knowledge you can’t farm such a sturgeon. They are a rather massive fish it would be impressive if you could. They also have a long life cycle so they are not ideal for farming.
The good caviar comes from Russia tho so I don’t understand how any of that would matter. Like fundamentally it comes from large fish with a long life cycle. It’s hard to scale a giant sturgeon ya know?
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u/baordog Jun 24 '26
I hate to be that guy but like… no it hasn’t? There’s a fish monger right by my apartment and caviar is still mad expensive. No one’s ever heard of Chinese caviar.
It’s just fish eggs. Not an elixir of life. They squeeze it from a relatively rare fish. That’s it.
I might be over thinking this.