Posted on 01/03/2014 6:15:57 AM PST by Red Badger
Wal-Mart recalled donkey meat – a delicacy in northern China – because of contamination.
If the discovery of “pink slime” in American hamburgers and horsemeat in European ones made you squeamish, read no further.
Wal-Mart has just recalled donkey meat products from some of its stores in China because tests have found them to be contaminated with fox meat.
Donkey is a delicacy in northern China. Fox is not.
Fox meat smells rank, according to those who know. But it is cheap (less than 50 US cents a pound) because Chinese farmers who raise foxes for their fur have no use for the animal carcasses once they have been flayed.
Food processing companies get away with mixing in a little fox with whichever meat they claim to be selling by using products such as “The King of Rank Smell Removers.” For more details (and a pretty gory picture of fox corpses) see Gwynn Guilford's Quartz article. The Guangdong company's website is selling the same sort of chemical as police in the city of Wuxi last year found being used to make frog meat taste like mutton.
Chinese consumers are accustomed to discovering that they are putting things into their mouths that they had never suspected. Not long ago, some kebab stalls in Shanghai were closed down for selling rat, not lamb. “Gutter oil” recovered from drains outside restaurants and then filtered is commonly sold to other restaurants. Six babies died and 300,000 others were poisoned in 2008 after drinking milk contaminated with melamine, an industrial chemical that made the milk seem high in protein.
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We know what the fox says; how does the fox taste?
I always wondered how those Chinese buffets keep prices so low.
I will never, under any circumstances, eat any food labeled “product of China”.
Cat’s In The Kettle
Did you ever think when you eat Chinese,
It aint pork or chicken but a fat Siamese?
Yet the food tastes great, so you don’t complain.
But that’s not chicken in your chicken chow mein.
Seems to me I ordered sweet-and-sour pork
But Garfields on my fork.
Hes purrin here on my fork.
Theres a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon,
The place that I eat every day at noon.
They can feed you cat and youll never know,
Once they wrap it up in dough, boy.
They fry it real crisp in dough.
Chou Lin asked if I wanted more
As he was dialin up his buddy at the old pet store.
I said “Not today. I lost my appetite.
Theres two cats in my belly and they want to fight.”
I was suckin on a Rolaid and a Tums or two,
When I swear I heard it mew, boy.
And that is when I knew,
Theres a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon
I think I gotta stop eatin there at noon.
They say that its beef or fish or pork
But its purrin there on my fork.
Theres a hair-ball on my fork.
You may and not even know it:
http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2022117749_chickenchinaxml.html
General Tso might have choked his chicken, but he never cooked it.
All I know is that I haven’t seen a single stray cat or dog around here in over a year...
Same say progressives get into government.
Sh*t happens.
They ran short of Yak or Albatross!
Waiter, there’s a fox in my ass!
We serve all kinds here, sir.
LOL!...can’t...breathe...LOL!
I just spit my coffee out. That’s hysterical. I must share this poem.
I’ve read that French chefs can make anything into tasty food, except fox. It is just too rank.
OMG! I needed to laugh today. Thanks.
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