{"id":243051,"date":"2026-03-12T14:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=243051"},"modified":"2026-03-12T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T11:34:14","slug":"lemon-water-instead-of-tea-fast-food-instead-of-hot-meals-india-faces-cooking-gas-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/243051\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemon water instead of tea, fast food instead of hot meals: India faces cooking gas shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In kitchens across India, hot food and drinks – even tea – are disappearing from the menu in place of fast food and lemon water as the Middle East conflict creates a nationwide ‌shortage of cooking gas, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

Cooks are switching to simpler meals that use less fuel to make their liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) stocks last longer.<\/p>\n

The gas supply problems have emerged following the halt of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz amid the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

India, the world’s second biggest LPG importer, has used emergency powers to order refiners to lift output, yet canteens and hostels say supply remains tight, forcing rapid menu changes.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In kitchens across India, hot food and drinks – even tea – are disappearing from the menu in place of fast food and lemon water as the Middle East conflict creates a nationwide ‌shortage of cooking gas, Reuters writes. Cooks are switching to simpler meals that use less fuel to make their liquefied petroleum gas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":243016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,47,101,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-society","category-economy","category-social"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243056,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243051\/revisions\/243056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}