You’ve heard about the food made from cardboard in China. Of COURSE you have – I haven’t met a single person yet who has not heard the story of Chinese street vendors picking cardboard off the street, soaking it in chemicals and selling it as food. Since I’m getting ready to go to China myself it had me a little concerned – which friends had a lot of fun joking about.
Turns out the story is a hoax. The “investigative reporter” who made it up did so to increase his ratings and capitalize on the current publicity over China food quality and regulations. I’m glad I can rest easy about this one.
China CardBoard Food Story a Hoax
Beijing police have detained a television reporter for allegedly fabricating an investigative story about steamed buns stuffed with cardboard at a time when China’s food safety is under intense international scrutiny.
A city-wide inspection of steamed bun vendors found no “cardboard buns,” the China Daily said.
“Zi had provided all the cardboard and asked the vendor to soak it. It’s all cheating,” the paper quoted a government notice as saying.
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