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Don't get me started...everything is craft, artisan, single origin, organic, fair trade, free range, holistic, house made, small batch & bespoke these days....ARRRRRRGH VENT!!!

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That's why when in Asia I don't ask what im eating.. If it tastes good just eat it. :) Not too much scares me on that list although there is some real weird shit going on I have to say. 

 

Just say no is my advice. 

https://albatrossic.wordpress.com/2013/05/30/food-safety-in-china-2013-ten-to-avoid/

 

  1. Oil (street food): In Senegal, I scoffed at food poisoning. Meat left under the sun for hours? Strength training for my digestive system! I would eat what the locals ate without being an ambiance chump. I carried this same attitude to China. When I heard about gutter oil, again I scoffed. Carcinogenic bleached oil made from garbage or eponymous gutters? Surely no one could stoop to that level. Then I started noticing that the locals didn’t eat from the street carts.
  2. Lamb: Because it’s actually rat/mink/fox marinated in nitrates and red dye.
  3. Beef: Because is it lamb, beef, or rat/mink/fox marinated in nitrates and red dye?
  4. Pork: More than 15,000 sickened and dead pigs were found in the Huangpu River. However, this may actually be an improvement since these pigs were likely confiscated properly whereas usually, pigs who die of disease are sold on the market anyway.
  5. Chicken: You may have heard about the Avian flu.
  6. Eggs: The common chicken egg comes from a chicken cloaca. See #4. However, some eggs aren’t eggs at all!
  7. Beijing Duck: A duck is a bird. See #4.
  8. Noodle Soup: China’s tap water has heavy metals in it. You can’t boil heavy metals away.
  9. Bottled Water: Just the ubiquitous red-capped nongfu brand. It hasn’t followed national standards for bottled water and has been found to contain unacceptable levels of arsenic and cadmium.
  10. Rice: I know, Asian people are supposed to love rice. But not when half of the domestic supply could be tainted with cadmium.

Still not scared? 

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Nope. 

I am usually with locals over there.. So if that wasn't the case I would probably say otherwise! 

Actually the only time I have had food poisoning in Asia is at a Mariotth hotel... That taught me! ?

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Weird food ideas is a big vent topic for me.

Here's something to voraciously share with your weirdy food faddish paralogism-inclined friends, including Bondi hipsters.

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-clean-eating-delusion/

On the weekend I heard someone say they had, "a non-coeliac gluten sensitivity". I would have taken great pleasure in stabbing them in the forehead with my fork if there weren't so many witnesses :rolleyes:

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On the weekend I heard someone say they had, "a non-coeliac gluten sensitivity". I would have taken great pleasure in stabbing them in the forehead with my fork if there weren't so many witnesses :rolleyes:

People love to belong to a group or label ; it's a natural herding instinct. But in this case the person has a point. Or indeed , nearly had , 3 in fact , as part of a new "forehead forkwits" group.

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