New Post (139) : Fake rice made, in part, out of plastic
Good lord ! Could this be true ?
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Chinese companies are mass producing fake rice made, in part, out of plastic.
The "rice" is made by mixing potatoes, sweet potatoes and plastic. The potatoes are first formed into the shape of rice grains. Industrial synthetic resins are then added to the mix. The rice reportedly stays hard even after being cooked.
A Chinese Restaurant Association official said that eating three bowls of this fake rice would be like eating one plastic bag. Due to the seriousness of the matter, he added that there would be an investigation of factories alleged to be producing the rice.
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What next ? ? ? ( I shudder to think)
Brings to mind: Charlie Chaplin’s, “Gold Rush”.
In one of the most famous of Chaplin's transpositions of objects—his conversion of one kind of physical object into another—the Tramp cooks a dinner for himself and his starving friend, Big Jim McKay. Lacking anything else to eat, the Tramp sacrifices one of his own symbols, his floppy shoe, which he boils carefully in a pot, testing it with a fork for tenderness. He then carves it like a roast beef, twirls the shoestrings around his fork like spaghetti and sucks on the nails like chicken bones.
I doubt if [even] the genius of a Charlie Chaplain could come up with---"Fake rice made, in part, out of plastic".
Charlie Brown
