Posted on 10/14/2008 5:54:06 AM PDT by Red Badger
Some 170 wedding banquet guests were rushed to hospital in north China when powdered rust remover was added to the pot instead of salt after they all decided it needed added flavor, Chinese media said.
In a bizarre coincidence, 61 wedding guests were taken to hospital with similar symptoms a day earlier after a duck-and-donkey-meat banquet in northwest China.
In the rust remover case, the bride's proud father invited 170 friends and relatives to the wedding banquet at a village in northern Hebei province on Friday, the night before the nuptials, the Beijing News said.
"All food was stewed in a big pot but after dinner started, all of them felt the taste was too bland," the newspaper said.
Someone added what he or she thought was salt -- several times. An hour later, the guests were being rushed to hospital.
"When I arrived at the hospital, the observation room was packed with people vomiting, with stomach pains and with diarrhea," a doctor was quoted as saying.
The symptoms were short-lived and all the victims were released by the next day.
A day earlier, 61 wedding guests suffered food poisoning at a banquet in impoverished Gansu province, local authorities said.
"Currently, 17 people have been discharged but 44 are still in the hospital. No one has died," Xinhua news agency quoted an official as saying.
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Wonder whether they got that idea from watching "Iron Chef"...
What is it with the Chinese? They will put absolutely anything into their food.
Sure makes you wonder how it’s possible for the chinese to have a life expectancy only a few years shorter than folks in the USA. (71 vs. 77 or so).
What was “powdered rust remover” doing in the kitchen in the first place?........And apparently the cook can’t read.............
Frank: Inchon, Korea, 1950. I was the best cook Uncle Sam ever saw, slinging
hash for the Fighting 103rd. As we marched north, our supply lines were getting
thin. One day a couple of GIs found a crate, inside were six hundred pounds of
prime Texas steer. At least it once was prime. The Use date was three weeks
past, but I was arrogant, I was brash, I thought if I used just the right
spices, cooked it long enough...
Kramer: What happened?
Frank: I went too far. I over seasoned it. Men were keeling over all around
me. I can still hear the retching, the screaming. I sent sixteen of my own men
to the latrines that night. They were just boys.
Kramer: Frank, you were a boy too. And it was war. It was a crazy time for
everyone.
Frank: Tell that to Bobby Colby. All that kid wanted to do was go home. Well
he went home alright, with a crater in his colon the size of a cutlet. Had to
sit him on a cork the eighteen-hour flight home!
I wonder of this was the problem?.......
It used to be every table in Asia had a bottle of Aji no moto. Now its powdered rust remover...
Maybe because they have the exact same effective/useful life expectancy, but Americans insist on tacking on 6 extra miserable years in a nursing home?
Recycling is a good thing. It helps fight glowbull warming!.............
“And apparently the cook can’t read”
Maybe it was written in Engrish!
Don’t be so ronery!.............
No more ponytails for me!
The mother load !
There’s a difference between recycled and “used.”
Think about it the next time your drink from a recycled cup at starbucks!
They thought it was MSG.
Think about it, just where would one go to retrieve enough “used condoms” to make a product that was sold all over the world? The hair bands might be made out of factory rejects that, instead of being disposed of, are recycled into a useful product............
If that recycled Starbucks cup was made in China - I’m going to be thinking about it all right.
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