I like the headline without the Bangkok extension. But then, I like meat flavored cardboard.

you honestly think that was an untrue story, and the Chinese government might just have some issue with the drop in sales of their exports to want to start jailing reporters for talking about it?


I'm sure Rove and Bush are taking notes.

Generation_D: you honestly think that was an untrue story, and the Chinese government might just have some issue with the drop in sales of their exports to want to start jailing reporters for talking about it?

Nail on the head.

Breaking News: Everything in China is perfect, and your tourist dollars want to be here.

"state media said on Thursday"

Hmmm...

I see the Chinese are up to western style reporting. When the guy is sprung he should apply to work at CBS.

Given the crap that routinely makes its way here from China, I'd be willing to believe that the story was false, and that the actual crap put into the bao was much, much worse than cardboard.

Cardboard: the other, other white meat.

I find it credible that an independent reporter may have staged the story. Happens in every country I bet..

I also find it credible that the Chinese government is trying to cover it up by going after the reporter. This has happened all too often recently in China.

Well hey, if the Chinese authorities say so, it must be true.

Gives new meaning to 'box lunch'.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11744841

Chinese regulators say nearly a fifth of the food and consumer products sold in China are substandard.

That's below Chinese standards, for god's sake.

in before wrong country, dumbass.

bongmiester:
yah don't fix the problem, just threaten the reporter

Well yeah, if nobody knows about it, it ceases to be a problem.

/everyone knows that
//sarcastic eye-rolling
/my eyes with some cardboard

NikolaiFarkoff

You gonna get laped!

L = r as in "fa ra-ra-ra-ra"

Fail.

Knowing China... they'll execute him for that.

cp

If it's a Chinese prison, shouldn't it be TMITA?

/Tickle me...

I though Bangkok was in Thailand, home of child prostitution.

submitter: Will have different kind of meat in his buns when he goes to Chinese PMITA prison.

If by meat in his buns you mean a bullet in his head then you're correct.

Even if this report is false, I still saw a report that some manufacturing plant was just unpackaging expired rice cakes, re-using the gooey filling for new rice cakes and rhe repackaging them -- not to mention the fact that my dog is dead.

/I have no desire to ever eat in China.
//Neither does my new dog.

a little while ago, my brother told me that he heard that the little cracks and pops your cigarette makes as it burns are actually little dried insects in the tobacco getting burnt. we both smoke. i told him that considering everything that's in the cigarette and what it does to you, the bugs would be the least of my concern.

point of the anecdote: if the guy wasn't making it up, do you really need to worry about a little cardboard?

I though Bangkok was in Thailand, home of child prostitution.

Bangkok is in Thailand. This is a wire report.

//You gonna get hung, not laped, slant-eye.

Jacket_Off: Even if this report is false, I still saw a report that some manufacturing plant was just unpackaging expired rice cakes, re-using the gooey filling for new rice cakes and rhe repackaging them -- not to mention the fact that my dog is dead.

/I have no desire to ever eat in China.
//Neither does my new dog.

gooey filling in the rice cakes, hehehehe

Man, that steams my dumplings!

I ate cardboard once. They called it Domino's Pizza.

Can someone tell me wtf Bankok has to do with China?

I'm with the skeptics... if the story was false there would probably be fanfare about the vendor guy being released from jail.

And to think that I was just boiling cardboard to make stuffed pork Caribbean patties!

gregory311: NikolaiFarkoff

You gonna get laped!

L = r as in "fa ra-ra-ra-ra"

Fail.

Don't you mean "Fair?"

Rod Roddy, tell him what he's won...
You're going to Bankok in Tailand for two weeks!

In the Philippines, we have the same kind of bun called "siopao" (pronounced Shaw-Pow). Back in the mid 80s, an urban legend circulated that they were filled with cat meat. Although this was never substantiated, there are is still a joke around that when you buy them you ask first if it purrs.

gregory311: NikolaiFarkoff

You gonna get laped!

L = r as in "fa ra-ra-ra-ra"

Fail.

Uhm, That's Nikolai Farkoff you're talking about, buddy. He doesn't fail. Evar.

Also, it's typically found in Japanese pronunciation of western 'r's (as seen by POLYSICS pronuciation of "rock and roll" and "Lock and loll"), so there is supporting evidence for him not failing.

/you fail for even suggesting such a thing, now and forever!
//Sorry, been watching a lot of Mooninites...
///State Cover-up++

"There's very little meat in these gym mats..."

ajt167: a little while ago, my brother told me that he heard that the little cracks and pops your cigarette makes as it burns are actually little dried insects in the tobacco getting burnt. we both smoke. i told him that considering everything that's in the cigarette and what it does to you, the bugs would be the least of my concern.

point of the anecdote: if the guy wasn't making it up, do you really need to worry about a little cardboard?

Well considering the fact that there was a person arrested in China for mixing feces with lard then selling it for cooking purposes, little cardboard isn't so bad.

And that stuff in your cigarettes isn't bugs. It's a special type of paper that keeps the fire going so the cigarette keeps burning.

gregory311: L = r as in "fa ra-ra-ra-ra"

So it's not flied lice? Someone should give those radio DJs back their jobs.

Fail.

ajt167:
point of the anecdote: if the guy wasn't making it up, do you really need to worry about a little cardboard?

If you don't live in China and buy pork buns from street vendors, do you really need to worry about a little cardboard?

/There's very little meat in these gym mats

I don't trust the Chinese government, but the Chinese reporters are really something. They make up so much scandalous crazy BS that I am totally not surprised about this story.

Hell, there's this one scandal Hong Kong reported a few years ago:

A wife committed suicide with her two kids. High profile news. Reporters of one of the largest newspaper in Hong Kong found the surviving husband, who was pretty devastated. Later that newspaper reports exclusively on front pages that this guy, even though he just lost his wife and kids, went to massage parlors and hired prostitutes in Shen Zhen, with photos showing him enjoying himself, and called this guy a heartless bastard. These reports continued on the front pages for weeks, making a big deal out of it, even though there should be bigger news during that time. People see the guy on the streets, spit on him, call him names, beat him up, etc. Finally the guy couldn't take it anymore, and revealed that the reporters were stringing him along, paying him to go to the massage parlors, etc. Newspaper issued apology, said they're sorry for lying to all their readers, and basically got away with it. Still the biggest, best-selling newspaper in Hong Kong.

Same thing a few months ago when they reported the infamous "bus uncle" (a meme of this old guy yelling at a young man on a bus in Hong Kong and have appeared on Fark a few times, I think) got beat up. Again totally fabricated.

So this story here? Not news. Not news at all. Which is why I avoid reporters like I avoid lawyers. Don't know what those crazy bastards will do to you to get a story.

huh huh

bangkok

post

huh huh

gregory311: L = r as in "fa ra-ra-ra-ra"

Fail.

Actually, the Japanese substitute Ls for Rs, and it's the Chinese who can't get their tongues round their Rs.

/obscure?

I dunno.

I would trust about any one before the Chinese government. Even a TV journalist. I smell a smear job/cover up.

Ruffage:
Same thing a few months ago when they reported the infamous "bus uncle" (a meme of this old guy yelling at a young man on a bus in Hong Kong and have appeared on Fark a few times, I think) got beat up. Again totally fabricated.

Sorry, forgot to clarify: The reporters hired guys to beat up "bus uncle". So they can report it as news.

I've traveled to China a couple of times and lived there for 6 months. Cardboard in pork buns is kinda remote on my list of things to watch out for in that country. After donkey meat, dog meat, pigeon on a stick, eel raised on contraceptive pills, and chicken that was recovered from a dumpster behind the KFC and resold on the street and in restaurants.

You want to talk about real capitalism? Those so-called communists pull it off better than anybody in the world right now. Minimal government intervention into worker safety, food safety, and environmental safety. Then you throw in the corruption of the Party and the cover-ups they are pulling to keep money flowing into their own pockets and it's a cauldron of disaster waiting to boil.

Mad Scientist: Cardboard: the other, other white meat.

No, that's Pokemon.