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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When I was a kid and lived in Japan, I was disgusted, nauseated, horrified and fascinated by the things the Japanese took out of the sea to eat.
But then, I was a bit of a picky eater...:)
That said, I think the Japanese placed a premium on keeping the food in good shape and clean, regardless of how disgusting I thought it was. I get the impression it isn’t that way in China.
During the sixties, the overall impression I had of the odor of Japan was sewage and fish smell. It was the open sewers that accounted for one part of that...
This is the way I heard it:
“Great big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts
Mutilated monkey feet,
swimming in a pool of blood.”
I forgot the rest except for the last line...”and me without my spoon.”
We used to sing this with great glee as 8 year old boys trying to gross out my sister.
try using mutilated instead of merculated, it works better.
Great big gobs of oooie gooie gopher guts
mutilated monkey meat
amputated birdie feet
all mixed together with all-purpose porpoise pus
... and I forgot my spoon
Being sung at summer camps across America even as we FReep.
When we were kids, my mother used to eat pickled pig’s feet. I can safely say that was the singularly most disgusting thing a kid can watch an adult eat.
Crabs and lobster are one thing, but watching your mother pull apart some vaguely humanly articulated looking pink things and gnawing the cartilage off of them and crunching it was unsettling, to say the least.
I have always suspected that she took a liking to them because she knew we wouldn’t filch them and eat them, a lesson my dad never seemed to learn when he bought his snacks.
My mom was a great cook, but her endeavors sometimes extended past the edge of what we as kids were capable of accepting.
One evening for dinner, we were all sitting around the table, and she bought out this great big Blue Danube soup tureen and set it in the middle of the table. I remember wondering what it was, and leaning over to peer inquisitively into the steaming interior.
Inside was red sauce, bright red against the white china interior, with...some kind of strips of white things in it. Some of them, as they broke the surface were smooth and white, but some of them had a bizarre textured or honeycombed appearance to them!
When we asked what it was, my mother said: “Tripe! It’s good. Eat it.”
No way. As far as I was concerned, it looked like some poor alien from outer space had been stripped of his flesh to feed us. None of us would touch it, including my dad, and boy, was my mom ever pissed...:)
Hehehe! That’s it...there was greasy grimy gopher guts, porpoise pus and...but she did say percolated!
Boy, that brought back some memories...Gopher Guts!
Hahahaha...we used the greasy grimy gopher guts version!
I remember the chorus was something like:
“Waiting, tooooo be fed...
Waiting, tooooo be fed...ohhhhhhh
Six quart cans of greasy, grimy, gopher guts...”
It's funny what we recall about our parents sometimes.
Great big gobs of greasy, grimy, gopher guts
Mutilated monkey meat
Teeny tiny birdie feet
All wrapped up in a stomach of a parakeet, and I forgot my spoon!
My poor mother. She spent years raising us alone while my dad was at sea. Of course, a family of eight driving from Virginia to California in 1967 in a big, white 1963 Chrysler New Yorker station wagon with a red leather interior with camping gear strapped on the top had to have a lot of songs for the kids to sing ad nauseum in the car...:)
We had that one, and others like
“There were eight in the bed and the little one said ‘Roll Over...roll over...”
“So they all rolled over, and one fell out, there were seven in the bed and the little one said ‘Roll Over...roll over...’ so they all rolled over and one fell out...”
I think i know now why my dad drank so much, and my mother wore sunglasses all the time...
That was a great site, I bookmarked it.
Sigh. I apologize to the guy who started this thread for trying to hijack it, but I can’t bear the concept of what kind of food the Chinese are willing to send us.
That’s why I grow my own when I can.
No problem FRiend. It makes for a more enjoyable thread! ;^)
Bon appetit.
Cleveland, Ohio version, ca 1950:
Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts,
and mutilated monkey meat,
all there is that you can eat,
and me without a spoon!
WAIT A MINUTE! You can sell 3 pounds of fresh chicken feet for thousands of dollars???
Looks like I've found my new career.
Also looks like Inner Mongolian bear paws go for around $2,100 each...
That's how it gets the local flavor.
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