I don't think so.......
Posted on 05/03/2013 10:21:24 AM PDT by Red Badger
Shanghai's residents have joked for years that the city's hot pot restaurants substitute cat meat for lamb.
Not quite, according to the city's police; the lamb is actually more likely to be rat, fox or mink.
On Friday, 63 suspects were arrested for a racket that makes horse meat in hamburgers seem positively palatable.
For the past four years, the police said, the gang had taken the small mammals, doused their flesh in dye and preservatives, and sold it as lamb "at farmers' markets in Jiangsu and Shanghai".
In a raid, nearly 10 tons of the counterfeit lamb was confiscated from a warehouse and the police said the gang had made profits of at least £1 million.
"How many rats does it take to put together a sheep?" asked one user of Weibo, China's version of Twitter.
There was weary resignation, rather than surprise, at the latest revelations in a city that is already accustomed to its food being cooked in oil dredged from the sewers, and where more than 16,000 putrefying pig carcasses were found dumped in a river that provides drinking water earlier this year.
However, the Shanghai police took the time to give advice on the internet on how to spot fake lamb.
"In fake lamb, it is easy to pull apart the fat from the red meat. In real lamb, the fat is difficult to separate," the police said on Sina Weibo, in a post that was forwarded more than 10,000 times.
The arrests in Shanghai were part of a countrywide operation since the beginning of the year to reassure the public that their food is safe.
A total of 904 people were arrested for selling fake, poisonous or contaminated meat and more than 1,700 underground butchers and processors were closed do
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Now I’m going to have that song in my head all day.
A friend used to run trap lines. One day he stopped by to show me the two minks he had trapped. Was I surprised! They smelled like skunks! Oil glands I guess.
Seeing reports like this, and others that I have seen in the past concerning restaurants in the USA sorta puts me off eating out ...........
Of course, now I start to wonder about the meat I buy from the supermarket and what it may be-—LOL!
Am I paranoid or what?
Minkey???
“My name is Chin, I’ll be your waiter this evening. Tonight’s specials are cat, rat and bat.”
Were they served Badger? Huh? Huh?
Chickety China the Chinese chicken. Have a drumstick and your brain starts clickin’!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd4XaLwXpLQ
Rather have cat than rat.
Well...I won’t be eating in Shanghai any time soon...in fact I call for a boycott.
Michael Palin of Monty Python fame went around the world in 80 days and got hung up in Shanghai.
He went to a restaurant where the waiter offered the house specialty...... snake.
He looked up and asked the waiter “ is it free Range’
Having eaten lamb before, I think the Chinese are on the right track!!
My old man loved the stuff.
Mold on a bone, as far as I’m concerned!
I don't think so.......
I love lamb.......real lamb......
I have a cousin living as an ex-pat in Hong Kong (15+ years by now) who currently commutes to Shanghai for most of the week. She spent Christmas with us and related how she would (illegally, it seems) carry as much food as possible with her to Shanghai each week.
Eyebrows were raised, but I guess she has a point after all...
These ppl are disgusting.
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