More than 100 sick as too many cooks spoil broth (China)

www.reuters.com ^ | 10/13/2008 | Nick Macfie and Paul Tait

[Red Badger]

Rust remover? Heck, the Donkey meat alone should have been enough to make you throw up........

[Zeppo]

powdered rust remover...

Wonder whether they got that idea from watching "Iron Chef"...

[caver]

What is it with the Chinese? They will put absolutely anything into their food.

[Schnucki]

Sure makes you wonder how it’s possible for the chinese to have a life expectancy only a few years shorter than folks in the USA. (71 vs. 77 or so).

[Red Badger]

What was “powdered rust remover” doing in the kitchen in the first place?........And apparently the cook can’t read.............

[Cagey]

Frank: Inchon, Korea, 1950. I was the best cook Uncle Sam ever saw, slinging
hash for the Fighting 103rd. As we marched north, our supply lines were getting
thin. One day a couple of GIs found a crate, inside were six hundred pounds of
prime Texas steer. At least it once was prime. The Use date was three weeks
past, but I was arrogant, I was brash, I thought if I used just the right
spices, cooked it long enough...

Kramer: What happened?

Frank: I went too far. I over seasoned it. Men were keeling over all around
me. I can still hear the retching, the screaming. I sent sixteen of my own men
to the latrines that night. They were just boys.

Kramer: Frank, you were a boy too. And it was war. It was a crazy time for
everyone.

Frank: Tell that to Bobby Colby. All that kid wanted to do was go home. Well
he went home alright, with a crater in his colon the size of a cutlet. Had to
sit him on a cork the eighteen-hour flight home!

[alicewonders]

WTH is going on in China??? My dad just sent me an email warning about hair bands made in China - apparently they are brightly colored thread wrapped around used condoms!

[Red Badger]

I wonder of this was the problem?.......

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It used to be every table in Asia had a bottle of Aji no moto. Now its powdered rust remover...

[sam_paine]

wonder how it’s possible for the chinese to have a life expectancy only a few years shorter than folks in the USA.

Maybe because they have the exact same effective/useful life expectancy, but Americans insist on tacking on 6 extra miserable years in a nursing home?

[Red Badger]

Recycling is a good thing. It helps fight glowbull warming!.............

[caver]

“And apparently the cook can’t read”

Maybe it was written in Engrish!

[Red Badger]

[Red Badger]

Don’t be so ronery!.............

[alicewonders]

No more ponytails for me!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The mother load !

[sam_paine]

There’s a difference between recycled and “used.”

Think about it the next time your drink from a recycled cup at starbucks!

[Ditter]

They thought it was MSG.

[Red Badger]

Think about it, just where would one go to retrieve enough “used condoms” to make a product that was sold all over the world? The hair bands might be made out of factory rejects that, instead of being disposed of, are recycled into a useful product............

[alicewonders]

If that recycled Starbucks cup was made in China - I’m going to be thinking about it all right.