Cha Siu Bao - cardboard flavored
 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19723152/?GT1=10150

Mmm... pork-flavored wood pulp. Yesss.

that's one way to recycle

mmmm...its fiber-licious! I wonder if they roast up those little origami birds too

Not just cardboard. Dirty floor cardboard!

And not just dirty floor cardboard, but dirty floor cardboard soaked in chemicals.

[homer]mmm chemical soaked floor carboard[/homer]

you make is sound so bad, we like to call it "vitamin and mineral enhanced"

You know, you'd think Chinese citizens would be a bit more cautious about food safety these days.

Actually, what the article doesn't tell you is that they usually are. My brother (who is married to a Taiwanese woman) was over there (well, Taiwan, or Chinese Taipei as China likes it called), and said you knew which street vendors to eat from and which to avoid because some had a huge line, and some no customers at all. Apparently people keep tabs on the sucky vendors.

Definitely time for another execution to put a positive spin on things.

I have lost my taste for Bao :(

That's just disgusting.

That article leaves some things out that the others articles revealed.
Among them, exactly what you said.
There are a few articles about this that cite the fact that there are many vendors, and this is a single case.

well yeah. thats just like truck stops. hit one that has a lot of trucks, its likely decent. stop at one because you can get in and out real fast cuz its empty...chances are it sucks

Actually, here in the states I think bao are quite good. I particularly like the ones from Vons (yeah, I know, gringo market) because they're sweeter than some of the others.

Then again, you can go to 99 Ranch Market and get the real thing, and pick up red bean popsicles while you're at it :D

Why do we allow things to be sold in the US, like pet food and toothpaste,to be made in China?

after the last year or so, I wonder the same.

$$$$

Because it's cheap.

Several decades ago, this country made the decision (rightly) to improve health and safety standards in all industries while (less rightly) not insisting on similar progress from our trading partners. As a direct result, the cost of goods here has obviously outpaced imported goods, which we've happily consumed, dumping trillions of dollars into economies based on poor industrial standards. That money has allowed those countries to catch, and in many ways surpass, the United States in industrial productivity while maintaining their low standards of health and safety. Meanwhile, the gulf in costs has increased exponentially, and now we are completely locked in to continuing to rely on them for cheap goods else our economy faces collapse.

I'm at a loss as to how to recover from this trap we've set for ourselves. The United States completely blew it. We once had the leverage around the world to promote social change through economics. Third world countries once relied on our business to thrive to a far greater degree than we relied on them. And while it remains true that many smaller nations still rely on our business, we have become to mutually reliant upon them to really leverage that. And all the while we've supported corruption and slave-like labor.

Bleh.

Ah, but does it taste like Bacon ?

I seriously doubt it.

But if they made a Cardboard Bacon Substitute (hereby referred to as a 'CBS') would you? Huh? Would you?

yeah, they're marketed as Bac-O's in this country

Blech!

The LoT - where all threads turn to bacon.

Don't we know it ??? :D :D :D

aint that the truth. even the dogs wont eat em

China reporter held over cardboard-in-buns story

hes toast. didnt they already execute one guy for their food issues? Im thinking they're fresh out of 'sense of humor'

And what exactly would the vendor's motivation have been for agreeing to this?

NPR also ran a story