Oh, wow.... Chinese food 'made from cardboard'

[NewWaveChick1981]

:yoiks: What's next? :shrug:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/07/12/cardboard.food.ap/index.html

Chinese food 'made from cardboard'

BEIJING, China (AP) -- Chopped cardboard, softened with an industrial chemical and flavored with fatty pork and powdered seasoning, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in one Beijing neighborhood, state television said.
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Steamed buns sold in Beijing contain 60 percent cardboard, a report on China Central Television said.

The report, aired late Wednesday on China Central Television, highlights the country's problems with food safety despite government efforts to improve the situation.

Countless small, often illegally run operations exist across China and make money cutting corners by using inexpensive ingredients or unsavory substitutes. They are almost impossible to regulate.

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[Rabrrrrrr]

1. And some people here keep preaching that Communism is the way to go.

:eyes:

[NewWaveChick1981]

8. ...

:rofl:

[CJCRANE]

17. Only if they used recycled cardboard.

;)

[tk2kewl]

2. I bet you can even get authentic shit on a shingle over there.

:puke:

[NewWaveChick1981]

6. ...

:yoiks: :puke:

[DS1]

3. Have you been living under a rock for the last 20 years?

[NewWaveChick1981]

5. ...

:rofl: Nope, not living under a rock... My mother uses Top Ramen as packing material. :P After reading the ingredients a long time ago, I decided against Top Ramen as a food choice. :rofl:

[ZombieNixon]

4. "soaked in caustic soda"?

So basically it's Chinese lutecardboard? :shrug:

[NewWaveChick1981]

7. ...

:rofl: Mmmm...that's good eatin'.....:P

[Zywiec]

9. They're trying to perfect the taste before the '08 Olympics n/t

[NewWaveChick1981]

10. ...

:puke: I think I'd pack a suitcase with my own food if I were going to the '08 Olympics.

[texanwitch]

11. I have a friend who works at a major grocery store and she says that the

customers are not buying food produced in China.

I was looking for fish, all the fish came from China.

I didn't buy any fish.

Don't buy the stuff and the stores will get the message.

[NewWaveChick1981]

12. Exactly.

:hi:

[texanwitch]

13. With stores it is all about the money.

We can produce our own food.

I either grow my own food or get it from my aunt.

Farmers market are a great place to get food, and you can support your local farmers.:hi:

[NewWaveChick1981]

14. I totally agree with you.

:hi: We have an organic garden in our back yard every year, and we always get great stuff from it. What we can't grow in our yard, we get from the farmer's market. There's a great one not far from here, and it means a lot to buy locally. Same thing goes for the rest of our food.

[Gormy Cuss]

15. A message that needs to be repeated.

Vote with your feet. Consumers have a lot more power than some think.

[texanwitch]

18. When the stores have to throw away all the crap they bought from China

they won't be buying it again.

[Shakespeare]

16. Well, that's one way to get more fiber in your diet.

:scared:

[NewWaveChick1981]

21. Yikes...

:yoiks:

[bleedingheart]

19. a friend of mine who did consulting work in the meat industry told me about "calimari"

and all I can tell you is...if you order it and you aren't anywhere near the shore...it might not be what you think it is...

[NewWaveChick1981]

22. Ewww...

:yoiks:

[BreweryYardRat]

26. More details. I'm in Florida, so fresh seafood isn't an issue, but I want to hear what the problem i

Please?

[bleedingheart]

27. this friend of mine did a project in a company that processed pigs

while he was there he happened to notice boxes labeled "calimari".

It just so happens that some companies will make "calimari" substitute...and they will basically take pig intestines and slice it in rings...soak it in some sort of solution and it will be shipped as calimari.

The key to knowing that the food you are eating is not what your think it is ...read the label.

If the calimari is not labeled as squid or as calimari...but as "seafood product"...then you might be eating something different.

Same goes for any kind of seafood.

Same for maple syrup...some of the cheaper brand maple syrups are produced by processing woodpulp with enzymes to produce the syrup... If it doesn't say "maple syrup" on the label...it is most likely a corn syrup substitute or in the cheaper varietals...processed wood pulp.....I learned that tidbit from a professor of biochemistry.

I also happened to have been in a social group with a woman who worked for a food processing company...she explained how they "add vitamins to food"...and based on what she told me...it is not always right...

[BreweryYardRat]

29. Eww...

Thanks for the warning.

[MissMillie]

20. I guess it's high in fiber

:shrug:

[NewWaveChick1981]

23. That's right.

:hi: But Jeebus knows what else is in it.

[Left Is Write]

31. Yeah, that's what I was thinking too.

[buddhamama]

24. i am all for recycling

but this is taking environmentalism too far. :)

[Kali]

25. and this is different from our corn starched/syruped over-processed junk food how?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

30. bleach.

[Critters2]

28. It tastes better after they add the MSG, though. nt