Meat buns with cardboard fillings in Beijing is hoax

[thereismore]

BEIJING, July 19 (Xinhua) --The recent widely publicized report of meat buns with cardboard fillings is a hoax and the TV scenario maker has been detained by the police, the Beijing TV Station has said.

The TV station apologized in a footage Wednesday evening for airing the staged report produced with a home DV by a temporary employee identified on its Life Channel.

http://www.cctv.com/english/20070719/102845.shtml

[Eric J in MN]

1. Whom to believe?

The initial report on Chinese using cardboard in place of flour, or a declaration that it's a hoax which may have been pressured by the govt eager to make a good impression?

[Swamp Rat]

2. They'll execute the guy, then go back making Soylant Yellow.

Move along. Nothing to see here. Obey your leader.

[smtpgirl]

4. So when will we starting eating Soylent Green or Red????

When we will start eating people?

Maybe not so far into the future, gee, no rain, global warming, Arctic & Anarctic ice caps melting, more fierce weather???

[smtpgirl]

3. I Don't believe it, that Chinese vendor WAS serving

cardboard, anyhing to make a buck, communisim no more.

[ben_meyers]

5. Why did I suddenly get a craving for White Castle?

And we don't have them in AZ.

[thereismore]

6. We have White Castle in Ohio. The legendary hamburgers have holes in them:

The joke goes: Do you know why White Castle hamburgers have holes in them?
No.
It takes five rounds to kill a rat.