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It seems to me the way to win a food contest is to buy the cheapest rubbish food and pretend its high quality and charge accordingly.
This seems to have happened here. The moral is never buy any cooked food in the street. Once it's sold especially to take home you cant lose since youre not coming back.
It surprises me that these contestants can only find this out by experience. If they see cheap fish there must be a reason. Thats not the same as knocking down the price. I bet they could have got that squid for nothing.