{"id":1913,"date":"2007-07-19T17:13:06","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T23:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/story-of-cardboard-food-in-china-a-hoax\/"},"modified":"2007-07-19T17:13:09","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T23:13:09","slug":"story-of-cardboard-food-in-china-a-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/story-of-cardboard-food-in-china-a-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Story of Cardboard Food in China a Hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/story-of-cardboard-food-in-china-a-hoax\/cardboardfoodjpg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1912\" title=\"cardboardfood.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/cardboardfood.jpg\" alt=\"cardboardfood.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve heard about the food made from cardboard in China. Of COURSE you have &#8211; I haven&#8217;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&#8217;m getting ready to go to China myself it had me a little concerned &#8211; which friends had a lot of fun joking about.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out the story is a hoax. The &#8220;investigative reporter&#8221; who made it up did so to increase his ratings and capitalize on the current publicity over China food quality and regulations. I&#8217;m glad I can rest easy about this one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>China CardBoard Food Story a Hoax<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Beijing police have detained a television reporter for allegedly fabricating an investigative story about steamed buns stuffed with cardboard at a time when China&#8217;s food safety is under intense international scrutiny.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<em>A city-wide inspection of steamed bun vendors found no &#8220;cardboard buns,&#8221; the China Daily said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Zi had provided all the cardboard and asked the vendor to soak it. It&#8217;s all cheating,&#8221; the paper quoted a government notice as saying.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2 You&#8217;ve heard about the food made from cardboard in China. Of COURSE you have &#8211; I haven&#8217;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&#8217;m getting ready to go to China [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3C0LX-uR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conradaskland.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}