Food writer Wang Gang once again caused controversy because of a video of egg fried rice. It is said that one cannot step into the same river twice, nor can one trip over a stone twice, but Wang Gang stumbled twice on the home-cooked egg fried rice. Although some netizens asked loudly, "Why can't you post the egg fried rice video? What law states that you can't post it at this time? If you can't post it, please clearly write it in the document. I don't know the reason." But even after deleting the video in seconds, Wang Gang was still considered by many Internet celebrities as "playing with fire with a knife."

Compared with the controversy caused by the release of the "Yangzhou Fried Rice" video on October 24 three years ago, Wang Gang was obviously more aware of the potential risks this time. After deleting the video instantly, late at night on November 27, a haggard-looking Wang Gang posted a 2-minute and 46-second apology video on his social platform with more than 3.3 million fans.

In the video, Wang Gang not only apologized over and over again, saying that the video "caused a lot of trouble and an unfriendly experience" to everyone, he also took the initiative to clarify that he was busy with other things and did not participate in the release of the video, and believed that this was his fault.

Not only did he apologize, in this video, Wang Gang also made two guarantees to everyone. The first is "In the coming days, all videos will be released personally", and the second is "As a chef, I will never make egg fried rice or film egg fried rice again."

Even though in his apology Wang Gang also mentioned his grandfather who fought in the Korean War for 6 years, as well as his admiration for his grandfather and his education to him, Wang Gang's apology was once again found to be flawed by sensitive netizens. "If you are sincerely apologizing, then I suggest you delete the second guarantee. Such words that are suspected of being low-level red and high-level black can easily fall into the truth."

Regarding the matter of "forcing a cook to say that he will never make egg fried rice again", some netizens believed that this was "going online" and even complained that "it would be best if the entire Internet blocked egg fried rice from now on."

A home-cooked delicacy that is highly recognized by the people has been given more additional metaphors, so much so that it has almost evolved into a taboo. To be honest, not everyone knows it. Wang Gang himself also admitted when he apologized for Yangzhou Fried Rice three years ago that he "only learned about this situation after reading the comments."

Objectively speaking, the consequence of the encirclement and suppression of Wang Gang is that the scope of the metaphor of egg fried rice has expanded. Some netizens have timidly asked in the comments, "Will we not be able to eat egg fried rice in the future?"

A netizen wrote on the social platform, "The most bizarre thing about this is that the entire Internet is scolding Wang Gang for violating a taboo, but no blogger dares to explain to fans why Wang Gang violated a taboo. It seems that everyone is tacitly playing a game with weird rules."

In fact, Wang Gang not only released egg fried rice videos in October and November. In the past many years, this extremely popular food writer and successful businessman has released various types of egg fried rice videos in different months. It must be said that Wang Gang seems to like making egg fried rice very much. As he said before, in order to make Yangzhou fried rice videos, he also went to Yangzhou to "exchange and learn skills."

Since these videos were released in May, September, October, and November, netizens who were confused could only ask, "So in what month can they not be posted?" Some netizens asked uneasily, "Are you not even allowed to make egg fried rice?"

Indeed, there is no clear rule on how many months you cannot post egg fried rice, but some people, including Wang Gang, got into trouble because they were considered to have posted egg fried rice at an inopportune time. Even three years ago, Raistlin wrote "Wang Gang was criticized as a "political metaphor" for making Yangzhou fried rice, which is outrageous" on the "Write a Story for You" public account. However, three years later, Wang Gang was questioned again. It seems that this metaphor has not been forgotten with the passage of time.

Some netizens said, "The world has finally gone crazy." In fact, compared to whether the world has gone crazy, what I don't know more is, "What kind of society can force a chef to never make egg fried rice again?"