Posted on 07/08/2013 4:42:08 PM PDT by rawhide
Police in China discovered decades-old chicken feet, beef tripe, and cartilage when they raided an illegal food storage site in the Guangxi region.
Twenty tons of meat -- some dating back as far as 1967 -- was apparently smuggled by a gang into China from Vietnam, according to the Chinese news agency, Xinhua.
According to a report in the South China Morning Post, the chicken feet were brought into China frozen, and then processed with bleach and other chemicals to add weight and improve color. By increasing the weight, the gang was able to turn about 2.2 pounds into more than 3 pounds of seemingly fresh chicken feet, and make thousands of dollars.
Over the last year, Chinese police investigated seven similar cases of smuggled chicken feet, seizing more than $3.2 million in tampered products. When they busted the Guangxi operation in May, the facility was rancid.
"The entire processing facility had a fishy and foul smell," Li Jianmin, from the local Public Security Bureau, told Xinhua. "You just couldn't stand it after one or two minutes."
Illegal imports of bear paws are also booming in Asia. Last year, authorities confiscated 141 smuggled bear paws in just one raid. The paws were also rotten and foul-smelling, but restaurants would cook the paws to mask the odor.
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If that is what they are doing to themselves, imagine what they are doing to us.
The perfect post to precede mine.
Chicken foot not a ping...
Chinese housewife on phone to grocery,"I want two dozen 1000 year old eggs, and make sure they are fresh!"
Note to self:
Do not eat Chinese chicken feet.
Wait, wut?
It's a fowl crime indeed!
“The entire processing facility had a fishy and foul smell,”
Shouldn’t old chicken feet have a “fowl” smell?
I had chicken’s feet soup as a kid. We had a neighbor how made it.
i am telling you you don’t want shrimp or fish from anywhere over there.
A favorite in Viet Nam is “Black Chicken Feet” Soup. You suck the “meat” off the feet with a little bit of noise. Yummy!
I have heard they improve with age...:)
“Chickety China, the Chinese chicken, ya have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin’.”
My kid is a chef. Just returned from HK. Saw RAW uncovered meat being dragged in an open plastic bucket “like a radio flyer” down the oppressively hot filthy streets.
Six quart cans of merculated monkey meat little dirty birdie feet
That is all I can remember, but to this day I think "What the hell is 'merculated monkey meat'?
My mom had a twisted part of her personality (that I find humorous today) She was a Navy Wife, and I remember her standing with us at some change of command ceremony, and the band was playing Sousa's National Emblem March, and my mom (with a kerchief around her head, the six of us kids standing around her with her Jackie-O sunglasses) was muttering the words under her breath: "...and the monkey wrapped its tail around the flagpole, up its a**hole..."
I think she sometimes made life hard for my dad professionally as a naval officer, because she sometimes couldn't be "the good Navy Wife" and would say impolitic things to the wrong people...she was fed up with the life sometimes, and who would I be to judge her. Hell, my dad would be at sea, come home, leave to go back to sea, and she would be pregnant again.
Heh, she was a bit of a wild mare for my dad, I think...they had a complicated relationship...:)
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