Posted on 04/14/2005 9:42:43 PM PDT by bloggodocio
Two Taiwanese men have been arrested for allegedly smuggling raw duck tongues from China in the first such case amid lingering concerns over bird flu, an official said yesterday.
Investigators in central Taiwan nabbed the two men early Wednesday and confiscated nearly four tonnes of tongues from about a million ducks, said the official at the Bureau of Investigation.
The tongues, with a retail value of about NT10 million (US$317,000), were suspected to have been shipped from China, the official said.
They were destroyed immediately as China is considered vulnerable to bird flu, he said.
Cooked duck tongues are a delicacy among many locals and Hong Kong tourists.
Taiwan has slaughtered about 479,000 birds since H5N2, a less virulent strain of the bird flu which has hit the Asian region, was first detected at a chicken farm in the central county of Changhua in January last year.
It later banned imports of tigers, lions, wolves and other wild animals from most Southeast Asian countries as the fatal bird flu outbreak claimed more lives in the region.
Health experts have warned the H5N1 strain of the virus could lead to a pandemic if it mutated into a form which could be easily transmitted between humans.
And China wants these people to be part of their country? I'm definitely going to have check what my Taiwanese wife is putting in that stew :D
Dang, I wonder how many ducks it takes to come up with four tons of tongues?
LOL, that's a good advert campaign. The first thing I thought when I saw your pic was, "AFLAC"!
Not "tons" - "TONNES" (2204.62262184878 pounds). Sooo, 8818.4904873951 pounds out of a million or so ducks = .00801849873951 pound per duck tongue, or about 7.8 tongues to the ounce.
Doesn't seem like much...
Count their legs wings & tongue, divide by 5 and you will find it takes about a million ducks to get four tonnes.
It was a short article, re read it.
AFLAC....ahhhhhh..... (silence)
Yeah, me, too. But, you know, so what? What's .78 tongues per ounce of duck tongue between FReepers?
lol
Duck tongue smuggling. Duck tongue smuggling. Say it ten times fast. Duck tongue smuggling.
"Raw duck tongue" sounds like an Asian name. Wasn't there a Li Duc To in Viet Nam?
:^)
Thats dispicable!..- Daffy...
No, it's Dithpicable!!
Oh you guys are killing me.
My wife says she never heard of people eating duck tongue in Taiwan.
That reminds me, I almost lost my lunch when I saw not only street vendors selling chicken feet on skewers in Taiwan, but customers eating (pulling at the skin) them!
As for the best Chinese comic name EVER, that honor goes to the PLA pilot who crashed into our "spyplane" back in 2001(?): he was Wong Wei (pronounced "way"). You can't make that stuff up.
MRDUCKS
MRNOT
MRTOO
MRNOT
SMR
CEEMWINGS
LIB
Perhaps we should start collecting smuggler's tongues.I'm sure they are a delicacy somewhere.
Similarly...
O civile ergo fortibus es en ero.
O nobile deus nobus es.
Deus trux.
i vates inem causen dux.
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