He said a cleaner can earn 300 yuan (US$38.86) a month in wages from KFC but selling chickens "rescued" from the trash can bring them up to 6,000 yuan a month."A drumstick is sold at two yuan and a chicken wing is 1.5 yuan," he told the newspaper. "The job is popular because of the 'potential income.'"
Indeed, pure profit. You know what they say, one man's trash is another man's lunch.
Maybe it's time certain products should have to sport a label that says, "contains ingredients from China." — BEN POPKEN
Fuzhou vendors resell discarded KFC chickens [ShanghaiDaily]
(Photo: China Daily)
Raymond writes:
oh yea i just got a email with photos of the guys going to chicked farms and buying the dead chickens for pennies then plucking them on a crate, hot water soak, yellow dye soak, and tossed in the corner onto the floor to dry a little to make the skin tight, i think thats why they fry so crispy.
i was looking up the butterfly shrimp recipe on youtube and ran across eating live octpus that was crawling off the plate, they eat lots of things raw and after properly butterflying and battering a few shrimp i could see why. LOL i'm surprised that they cook anything. Oh yea i know that wings with sauce are atleast a day old.
While in China, my husband witnessed the kitchen staff cutting vegetables and meat on the cement in the alley next to the kitchen. I don't think he ate for the rest of his trip.
]]>I love how a few fucked up desperate vendors can tarnish the entire country in Westerner's eyes. I've never heard about this practice before, but everybody in China knows that street vendors are the grimiest of grimy bastards there (that's saying a lot, believe me) and avoid them on a regular basis. KFC is MASSIVELY popular with Chinese people anyway, but if you were visiting why the hell would you bother eating there in the first place? There's enough YUM brands in the States, and everything tastes exactly the same. Except it's way more irritatingly crowded.
Never heard about the soy sauce, on which I call shenanigans. Don't we feed hormones to our animals anyway? I can't find an example anywhere because I'm lazy.
@lanceb: I'm pretty sure they do that in a lot of places. Lettuce with tap water?! Oh the heavens, I'm fainting! (Unless you were being sarcastic.)
Man, I could go for a Famous Bowl right now.
I've eaten my fair share out of the dumpster- you can get some really great scores, and some guys have it down to a science, but I would never dive a KFC.
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Everyone knows you're always hungry after Chinese food...and maybe dead after KFC (maybe its a conspiracy by the Chinese government to decrease the population)!
Holy Crap!...Would they sell that too?!
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Also, the human hair soy sauce story is true. It's not like they grind the hair down and add water. They use some sort of processing to extract the amino acids from the hair. Supposedly, these amino acids mimic the taste of real soy. So really, the hair is just for flavoring. I'm sure the rest is just water, salt, MSG, and food coloring.
]]>Washing lettuce with tap water
Ice cubes made from tap water
Spiking beer with balming fluid for that extra kick
Mixing milk powder with flour and selling it off as entirely milk powder.
About the soy sauce and human hair, that has to be an urban legend. No way they could get their hands on enough human hair to make it profitable. Plus, I bet it wouldn't even work. If I ever get my long hair cut off, I'll try it myself.
(Now, I wouldn't be suprised if they were making soy sauce out of ink-soaked fish.... )
]]>That and maybe it's time we start funding FDA inspections again and try to avoid giving leadership of said oversight office to an industry crony.
]]>Already stopped eating at "Taco Bell" while ago after the rats report. Thanks god my stomach is doing much better to..
I didnt need to exercise, just needed to stop making pit stops at Taco Bell..
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