In China, "Man bite dog", is not a shocking headline...
Posted on 07/04/2007 5:30:21 AM PDT by Flavius
BEIJING - Villagers in central China dug up a ton of dinosaur bones and boiled them in soup or ground them into powder for traditional medicine, believing they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.
Until last year, the fossils were being sold in Henan province as "dragon bones" at about 4 yuan (50 cents) per kilogram (2.2 pounds), scientist Dong Zhiming told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
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Chinese Captain Crunch
You know that contaminated toothpaste......?
“These people will eat anything.”
My wife is Chinese. She tells me that in the larger cities, you will not see any birds flying around. Even the smallest sparrow is eaten...
The amount of meat I have at one sitting would feed a family of 4 for a week.
She IS thankful to be here...
Bizarre...the Chinese seem to believe that the grossest and most inedible stuff have “medicinal properties.” With such a wide range of delectable choices (such as dinosaur bones, I wonder why they need acupuncture, tai chi, hospitals and the like).
Heh, when I stop and consider the form of government they have (and the form of governement the modern-west Liberal wants) I find myself stumbling over who is dumber-
The people who have little else but Communist education (an education system that ignore entire ages in their formation just to claim their “independent” formation.)
or
the people who WANT said education.
My fiance is American born. Her grandma (God rest her soul) made some interesting authentic Chinese and Viet food though.
Ever had jellyfish?
Some of the food is actually suprisingly ok...
Haven’t had enough to claim any of it is “good” though.
Never considered it before... maybe THIS is why they eat so much tofu. Not due so much to their history and out of “respect” of animals- but out of a recent indoctrinization that it’s “historical” so their government can excuse such conditions on actual edible meat.
Gigantopithecus was first identified from stock in Chinese apothecary shops (well, TCM, but anyway).
A very high percentage of Chinese (Koreans & Japanese, too) are lactose intolerant so they don’t get calcium from dairy products. They average something around 50% of the calcium intake that Americans do...most of it coming from veggies.
The thing about eating giant dinosaur bones is that you’re hungry an hour later.
Giant dinosaur bones are also very hard to pick up with chop sticks.
that’s why you’re hungry later, you didn’t get enough.
Yea, why don’t they call them a delicacy like the Westerner does.
Interesting book.
Actually, no. the coral is sucked up from the bottom (small fragments). The coral is only a small part of what they are after. There are thousands of marine organisms attached to the coral fragments.
I was hoping the guy, who Putin gave the polonium to, was gonna come back with super powers.
In China, "Man bite dog", is not a shocking headline...
That sure would explain the dragon legends in China.
Quite, I’ve only got the first one, just barely got to peruse the other one.
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