I really really want to visit China one of these days. Especially since the Great Wall was recently picked as one of the new Wonders of the World. Well, we all knew the wall was something special when we could see it all the way from the moon. I didn’t need some organization to tell me how great it is to figure that out. Those Huns were something else, I tell ya. Fighting makes people acheive great things. Snickers, M&Ms, highways… I’m getting sidetracked. Besides, there are lots of other things I want to see there like the Forbidden City, the terra cotta army, Tang Dynasty’s (and China’s) only female emperor’s wordless monument.
Lately, I’ve been having some thoughts about the idea of visiting. There was a recent bust on a pork bun maker in China who made his buns with cardboard. He soaked it in caustic soda, chopped it up, added flavoring and fat and served it up hot ‘n fresh. The guy wouldn’t eat the stuff himself. Can’t blame him, cardboard doesn’t seem all that appetizing to me.
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You don’t need to understand Chinese to see what they’re doing. He said it’s 60% cardboard, 40% fat.
But that’s just a chip off the ol’ rotten block that’s going on there. And yeah, the three words ‘Made in China’ just got a bit scarier. Maybe next year…
Also, I’m well aware of the spinach e. coli mishap that happened last year right here in our good nation. I know there are rats running amok in fast food joints all around our nations capital. The FDA allows a certain percentage of rat droppings in peanut butter even. Heck, the White House mess hall is a veritable vermin resort. No, not that vermin, the other vermin. However, the difference between this and that is that the melamine in the pet food, the diethylene glycol (anti-freeze ingredient) in the toothpaste, were deliberately put in there. Being unsanitary is neglectful and inexcusable. Being deliberate is something entirely different. The bun guy wasn’t shy about showing this person around telling him how he did it. He was unabashed about the whole thing. There’s just something wrong with that blase mentality that it’s okay to hurt people for a buck. I’d be very worried if Skippy started putting rat droppings in the peanut butter to fill up the jar.
hey, looks like the cardboard buns story might not be true.
Or maybe that’s a coverup to the bun story. Either way, it’s hard to tell what’s fact/fiction round them parts. Their media/journalists aren’t exactly free to say what they want to say.
yeah, i thought about that, too.