And the latest food scandal is...
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2013 saw horse meat scandal.
2014 sees donkey meat scandal.
What do you get when you cross a horse with a donkey? You get a mule.
2015 will therefore see the mule scandal
2014 sees donkey meat scandal.
What do you get when you cross a horse with a donkey? You get a mule.
2015 will therefore see the mule scandal
2013 saw horse meat scandal.
2014 sees donkey meat scandal.
What do you get when you cross a horse with a donkey? You get a mule.
2015 will therefore see the mule scandal
Do we have any experts on "real" Chinese food here? Is the issue that they don't eat fox at all, or just that they don't like it messing with that popular delicacy "Five Spice Donkey"?
Looks as though Wal-Mart are behind all this, so maybe I will hit ASDA tomorrow and demand some answers/tasters.
I prefer badger meat. Mwahahahaha.
No, I'm Chinese but didn't even know that they eat donkey meat over there. Donkey's are too cute to eat
didn't know about fox meat either. Isn't it just the same as the horse meat in beef burger thing? People just want to know what exactly they are eating?
No, I'm Chinese but didn't even know that they eat donkey meat over there. Donkey's are too cute to eat
didn't know about fox meat either. Isn't it just the same as the horse meat in beef burger thing? People just want to know what exactly they are eating?
horse donkey whatever. probably threw fox in for a bot of taste 
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So when I thought I'd been buying donkey meat what have I been buying?
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I prefer badger meat. Mwahahahaha.
No, I'm Chinese but didn't even know that they eat donkey meat over there. Donkey's are too cute to eat
Let's be honest, donkeys, and horses for that matter, are not cute. This is cute:
They are very particular about their meat.
I'm in China right now and we saw the donkey meat in wallmart. I haven't seen any fox for sale yet though, so they can't be happy. Then again some of the stuff they eat is pretty unappetising to a British palette: Duck head, turtle, throat, intestines, so a bit of donkey to them is nothing!
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I don't mind what I eat so long as it is labeled as what it is.
My wife is Taiwanese and I have pretty much eaten everything 'weird' you all have named thus far and much more.
Its not what it looks like before preparation its all about how it tastes and look after preparation.
Go and have real Dim Sum in this country and you can eat things like cow intestine, duck tongue, duck and chicken foot, amongst many other things.
Go to a decent Chinese restaurant in this country, not just one that caters to the 'British Tastes', and you can have the weirdest stuff... you just need to know where to go
My wife is Taiwanese and I have pretty much eaten everything 'weird' you all have named thus far and much more.
Its not what it looks like before preparation its all about how it tastes and look after preparation.
Go and have real Dim Sum in this country and you can eat things like cow intestine, duck tongue, duck and chicken foot, amongst many other things.
Go to a decent Chinese restaurant in this country, not just one that caters to the 'British Tastes', and you can have the weirdest stuff... you just need to know where to go
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honestly that is what it written on the menus. The attitude to a lot of things can be "meh, it's good enough."
The menu can often have things like "meat hotpot" written on them. Meat? The ambiguity can be off putting when they have something like "braised beef noodles" next to it. Why won't you tell me what the meat is, menu? I haven't plucked up the courage to ask. Not that they'd know; another example of the "good enough" attitude.
I got in a taxi the other day and he took me to a location nearly a block away from my destination and just pointed at my building and ushered me; I'd clearly arrived at my destination unbeknownst to me. A block is a long way in Beijing, buildings are LARGE. But alas I was wrong. I could SEE my building. Good enough.
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