Cardboard - the secret ingredient in chinese take-away!

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:31 PM EDT

Article Source: the Mail online

odd-news, china, food, beijing, meat, fast-food, snack

A food manufacturer in China has been filmed using cardboard as the main ingredient in a popular snack instead of meat.

Chopped cardboard, softened in an industrial chemical and made tasty with pork flavoring, is a main ingredient in batches of steamed buns sold in a Beijing neighborhood to be sold by street vendors.

An undercover Chinese TV investigation filmed a shirtless bun maker - called baozi - talking about how his product was sold in a neighborhood in Beijing's sprawling Chaoyang district.

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MichaelWallace

Not much calories in cardboard - lol!

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#1 - Thu Jul 12, 2007 5:33 PM EDT

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Sally50

What is the point of this story? apart from the fact that foreigners are involved. albert, whenever I serve you at the local chippy I always throw up in your gravy.

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#2 - Sun Nov 25, 2007 7:24 PM EST

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Foundyouout

Michael Wallace = Peter Smart = Albert Hurwood = BNP sympathiser = founder of nutty vigilante group.

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1 vote

#3 - Mon Nov 26, 2007 5:23 AM EST

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Sandie Seward

Thanks, Foundyouout for the "outing" of Navigor. I am ashamed to admit that I was a Member for a few weeks....until I realised the true nature of the site, then I left as quickly as I could.

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#4 - Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:29 PM EST

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johnson36

I don't understand these comments.
This story is about something which happened in China and involved some extremely nasty practices.
Why are you attacking the man who seeded it?
That is not the purpose of Newsvine.
If you wish to comment on a story please comment on the story, not use it as an attempt to attack another member of Newsvine.

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1 vote

#5 - Wed Nov 28, 2007 7:22 AM EST

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	Beijing Steamed Buns Include Cardboard	Associated Press	Thu Jul 12	2
	Chinese food 'made from cardboard' - CNN.com	CNN	Fri Jul 13	1

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Cardboard - the secret ingredient in chinese take-away!

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