China:Eatery closed for selling cardboard-stuffed buns(cardboard-stuffed dumpling)

Shanghai Daily ^ | 07/12/07 | Alice Gu

[TigerLikesRooster]

Illustration of the photos below

top-left: cardboard-stuffed dumplings -- look harmless

top-right: soak carboard in sodium hydroxide(lye,) its color turning dark-brown

bottom-left: shred the soaked cardboard using a cutter(or grinder?)

bottom-right: a shocked CCTV female anchor dropping her jaw

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Grimmy]

Heh.

They probably could have gotten away with it here in the US if they’d only labeled it a “pork like” filling.

Might even have found a solid niche market. It’s biodegradable, low cal, take out the pork fat and it’s vegetarian(ish) and probably fairly high fiber.

[Mobile Vulgus]

Just more proof of why the Chinese are the most dangerous people on the planet and how they have no interest in law, sanitary conditions or the environment.

[ONEBYEONE]

True meaning of a “box” lunch.

[Caipirabob]

[elli1]

So that's the recipe for Hormel Always Tender Flavored Pork.

[starbase]

There are so many food stories about China these days. Here in Taiwan they won't buy this sort of bristly crab (called "hairy crabs", named for the bristles all over its body) from China because the Chinese crabs definitely have a cancer causing chemical polluting them.

And two years ago there was a big warning about not eating one popular holiday treat imported from China (pork and sticky rice wrapped in green bamboo leaves, shaped like fat triangles) because unscrupulous vendors had added mercury, I believe, which kept the bamboo leaves green longer so they could sell more of them. Never mind that mercury is a fatal toxin!

The moral-less mainland Chinese are at least showing an impressive knowledge of chemistry. Too bad it's only to destroy humans with for a quick buck.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"OOOOOOoooooooooh. Cardboard."

[ChristianDefender]

bottom-right: a shocked CCTV female anchor dropping her jaw

She's beautiful... Chinese government should crack down these fake food manufacturers so that this beautiful lady and her kind will not be wasted... ;-)

[TheSpottedOwl]

Just when you think you’ve been grossed out by Chinese food ingredients, they come up with something worse :(

[Nathan Zachary]

" They probably could have gotten away with it here in the US if they’d only labeled it a “pork like” filling."

They do- it's called tofu, or soy substrate. It would taste like cardboard if it wasn't for the artificial flavoring and colors to make it taste and look like what ever you want it to.

God only knows what that stuff does to you, although we do know of some nasty side effects, such as raising estrogen levels in women causing fertility problems, (and any desire to be with men) and breast development in men, as well as decreased testosterone levels, higher pitched voices, (and any desire to be with women)

[HiTech RedNeck]

box lunch... groan... bada bing!

[SkyPilot]

Well, look on the brightside.

Also, was it "Free Range" cardboard? I know PETA protests those restaurants that mistreat cardboard.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Difficult to believe that the commonly used pork is as tender and mushy as this soaked cardboard, Also difficult to believe that the flavor wouldn’t be a dead giveaway. It would taste like alkali.

[thepainster]

PETA is happy, but the treehuggers are going to have a cow!

[Nathan Zachary]

"So that's the recipe for Hormel Always Tender Flavored Pork."

Naw, they do use real pork at Hormel's, just not the parts anyone would normally eat. (along with all the other road kill- deer, skunk, porcupine, squirrel- and waste animal parts and rotted expired meats they can grind up)
It can become anything you want it to be after they make that colorless white paste base product, heated to high temperatures to make sure any toxic and biological organisms are neutralized.
Add some red dye, mix in chunks of white paste that has had a slightly different red dye color combo, and it can be processed ham, turkey slices, canned ham, or the base product, spam. Yum!

/s

[Thinkin' Gal]

The recipe went like this: Cardboard was soaked in water and an industrial-use caustic soda, a poisonous chemical, was added. The cardboard lost its normal color and became fragile under the soda's strong causticity, making it look more like pork. Finally, pork-smell essence and pork fat were stirred into the concoction to make the stuffing more "vivid."

Preview of the Olympics menu?

[Right Wing Assault]

But how did the customers like it? That’s what counts, right?

[Nathan Zachary]

"The moral-less mainland Chinese are at least showing an impressive knowledge of chemistry. Too bad it's only to destroy humans with for a quick buck."

I think that rather than dump toxic waste, Chinese try to make a buck off it. Feeding it to humans seems to be a popular method. Another seems to be incorporating it into other materials such as recycled plastics, glass, paints, anything where it can be used as a filler. They even recycle waste animal bones into valuable -billion year old- fossil bones to sell evolutionists looking for that missing link, a big government grant and their name in a journal.