Shredded cardboard filling in steamed buns???

[pnwmom]

Yum!

http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_6362554

SNIP

In the report aired Wednesday night, China Central Television showed a shirtless, shorts-clad bun maker in Beijing using cardboard picked up off the street to stuff his steamed buns.

A hidden camera followed the man into a ramshackle building where steamers were filled with the fluffy white buns, called baozi, traditionally stuffed with minced pork.

It showed how cardboard was first soaked to a pulp in a plastic basin of caustic soda - a chemical base commonly used in manufacturing paper and soap - then chopped into tiny morsels with a cleaver. Fatty pork and powdered seasoning were stirred in as flavoring, and the concoction was stuffed into the buns.

"It fools the average person," says the bun maker, whose face was not shown. "I don't eat them myself."

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:puke:

[MADem]

1. MMMMM...a cardboard bun and some stone soup on the side! Yum Yum!

Well, at least cardboard doesn't go MEOW....it could have been much worse.

[Ron Green]

2. MY buns would be steamed over that kind of thing.

[Spinzonner]

3. Good source of fiber-

-board

[pnwmom]

6. This may be why we have a bigger problem with obesity.

What do you think? Is this their secret? Just eat paper instead of food?

[A-Schwarzenegger]

4. Seasoned pig corpse or mushed cardboard?

I'm thinking, I'm thinking.

[pnwmom]

5. LOL! n/t

[Spinzonner]

9. Is cardboard Kosher ?

may break things in its favor.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

10. Not this cardboard. This cardboard is pork-flavored.

[kurth]

7. Deport the Bush cultists to China

so the Chinese can use them instead of cardboard.

[WinkyDink]

8. For about how long would that "average person" be fooled? 'Cause I'm thinkin', ten seconds tops, for

me.

[Hekate]

11. The guy reminds me of Terry Pratchett's sausage salesman "Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler"

There's one in every country of the Discworld, selling adulterated food-products on crowded streets -- so cheaply it's like cutting his own throat. Mmm. Yummy.

Once again, Pratchett draws from real life.

Hekate