I was just reading the 17 August YOU magazine and it was all rather interesting. Not totally focusing on Cape Town here, but this information is useful, and strange!
I don’t usually read YOU magazine, but for the past two weeks I have been reading it.
Anyway, this one Beijing baker was baking buns, but not from the usual flour and whatever else they use to bake. These buns were made from 60 percent cardboard which had been presoaked in caustic soda. The other 40 percent was was fatty pork and this was all mixed with a flavour enhancer and then steamed.
“Excuse me Miss, what is your bun de jour?”
“It’s our cardboard of the day”
“That sounds lovely, I’ll have that”
Can you imagine putting that in your body? I eat a bit of junk food and feel sick, imagine not even eating food? Cardboard and caustic soda is pushing it!
Then there are the stories of soy sauce thickened with human hair. That is disgusting!
Then I opened todays Cape Argus and found another story on Chinas toxic products. It says that in New Zealand they are investigating a case after kids clothes were found to contain formaldehyde at up to 900 times above the safe level in cotton and woolen clothes from China.
The YOU magazine article is bizarre because it also says that tubes of toothpaste, which were made in China, were confiscated in Mozambique and then you have to listen to this:
The expiry dates were 32 July 2008 and 34 June 2009. Well they will never expire then which is great!
It goes on to say there have been instances where formaldehyde has been added to “noodles to lengthen shelf life, tofu made from gypsum, paint and starch, and fat for human consumption concocted from pork feed, sewage, insecticides and recycled industrial oil”
That is quite disturbing.
I can’t say I’m too worried down here in Cape Town as I rely on the people at Woolworths to keep me stocked up for various assignments I do around town. I trust them to do the best for me, and they certainly have given me some great food over the years, as is evident by this extremely tanned and toned body.
Ok, you don’t have to believe the tanned and toned part.
Thanks Woolworths for not feeding us hair, sewage and cardboard!
Sean Lloyd
Editor
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