Fake food

Allegedly, some Chinese companies produce fake rice by mixing in plastic. This fake rice is then "massively sold" on the Chinese market.

Fake rice sold in Taiyuan, Shaanxi is made from a mixture of potatoes, sweet potatoes, and plastic, according to the report.


Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/108582/20110203/china-makes-fake-rice-from-plastic-report.htm

OK I know that certain fast food outlets make stuff that tasts plasticy, but this stuff is "allegedy" made with real plastic (not your cheap PVC stuff) :eek:

Deus Ex Machina

How is it the case that plastic cheaper than rice? I don't doubt that it is, but that is nuts.

Grasshoppa

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

How is it the case that plastic cheaper than rice? I don't doubt that it is, but that is nuts.

It's probably leftover bits of plastic.

You can't fault their recycling efforts.

How is it the case that plastic cheaper than rice? I don't doubt that it is, but that is nuts.

If you consider the fact that it takes about five barrels of oil to grow a cow from calf to beefburger, it's not that surprising.

Jesus Wept

Rice is made out of cows?!

The-Rigger

The-Rigger wrote: »

Rice is made out of cows?!

Mooooving swiftly along, it's the same in all modern farming for every one calorie (or Kjoule) of food energy produced, about six* of oil are used in the production


*between 4 & 10 depends which article you read.

Jesus Wept

But plastic is made from oil?

The-Rigger

The-Rigger wrote: »

But plastic is made from oil?

It is, they're just cutting out the agriculture part. :pac:

cormie

There's fake food all around us, packed with preservatives and additives, plastic is just another one to add to the list really.

If you want to avoid fake foods, go for organic wholefoods, fruit and vegetables.

ollie1

I saw a TV programme about this a few months ago and it showed them making fake eggs it was messed up.
They looked just like real eggs and they even had yoke inside that was fake :eek:

Grasshoppa

ollie1 wrote: »

I saw a TV programme about this a few months ago and it showed them making fake eggs it was messed up.
They looked just like real eggs and they even had yoke inside that was fake :eek:

Some of the people who bought them have never gotten ova it.

Ghost Estate

In the good old days (1900) they used to put sawdust and rice into bread.

Almost all pet food contains ash because it's a cheap bulking agent.

It'll soon all be like this http://mostlyaboutmusic.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/fake_plastic_food.jpg

Badgermonkey

Supermacs allegedly use beef in their burgers.

I'm yet to be convinced.

TeddyTedson

If it still tastes good I don't see the problem.

TeddyTedson

TeddyTedson wrote: »

If it still tastes good I don't see the problem.

This! http://www.dealtent.com/sites/laughshop/images/0000062204.jpg

Larianne

:eek:

Corsendonk

Japanese have a whole fake food industry! But only for show.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fake food samples in a display case.Fake food samples appear prevalently in the windows and display cases of food-serving establishments throughout Japan. They are usually made out of plastic. The plastic models are mostly handmade and carefully sculpted to look like the actual dishes. The models are custom-tailored to restaurants and even common items such as ramen will be modified to match each establishment's food. During the molding process, the fake ingredients are often chopped up and combined in a manner similar to actual cooking.

The craftsmanship has been raised to an art form and plastic food has been exhibited at places such as the Victoria and Albert Museum. Regular competitions are held in making fake food dishes out of plastic and other materials.

The plastic food manufacturers fiercely guard their trade secrets as business is lucrative; the plastic food industry in Japan, by conservative estimates, has revenues of billions of yen per year. A single restaurant may order a complete menu of plastic items costing over a million yen.

In recent years, Japanese plastic food manufacturers have been targeting markets overseas, such as China.

LighterGuy

wow... never knew japan had that.

Probably only a matter of time before that becomes a western thing too. I mean every place likes to show pictures of their food. Half of the dishes shown dont even look like what you get one bit.

Asphyxia

Eww! I better be careful when I'm visiting these places.

Stinicker

Perhaps it is a communist conspiracy to lace the rice with plastic so all the Chinese will grow big plastic boobs. :D

Tar.Aldarion

http://funtimeshad.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/real-chicken.jpg

pennypocket

Deus Ex Machina wrote: »

How is it the case that plastic cheaper than rice? I don't doubt that it is, but that is nuts.

No it is not nuts, it is plastic.

kowloon

LighterGuy wrote: »

wow... never knew japan had that.

Probably only a matter of time before that becomes a western thing too. I mean every place likes to show pictures of their food. Half of the dishes shown dont even look like what you get one bit.

Got chatting to my father about food photography (he was a photographer, not of food though). One of the tricks he was telling me was to use cigarette smoke to make the food look hot and steaming.
The dishes in the pictures look like the food you get in the same way a model looks like the photoshopped version that ends up in a magazine.

At least with the plastic food everyone knowns it's a fake plastic display model.

ArtSmart

Deleted User wrote: »

OK I know that certain fast food outlets make stuff that tasts plasticy, but this stuff is "allegedy" made with real plastic (not your cheap PVC stuff) :eek:

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/109221/20110205/jpmorgan-chase-turned-a-blind-eye-to-madoff-s-epic-ponzi-scheme-alleges-6-4-bln-lawsuit.htm

the only thing i found interesting from that article was the above linked story.

macquarie

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

http://funtimeshad.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/real-chicken.jpg

With the amount of hormones, antibiotics and genetic mutations that the poor creatures go through these days they are hardly recognisable as chickens any more.

http://www.grinningplanet.com/2005/11-29/chiken-slaught.jpg
http://www.petaindia.com/images/chick2.jpg
http://www.chowrangi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Mechanically%20slauhtered%20chicken.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4659579143_107ce40751.jpg

tasty

pennypocket

kowloon wrote: »

Got chatting to my father about food photography (he was a photographer, not of food though). One of the tricks he was telling me was to use cigarette smoke to make the food look hot and steaming.
The dishes in the pictures look like the food you get in the same way a model looks like the photoshopped version that ends up in a magazine.

At least with the plastic food everyone knowns it's a fake plastic display model.

Another one was a tampon soaked in water, microwaved and placed innocuously behind the food. Courtesy of my lovely Home Economics teacher back in the day.

LighterGuy

macquarie wrote: »

With the amount of hormones, antibiotics and genetic mutations that the poor creatures go through these days they are hardly recognisable as chickens any more.

http://www.grinningplanet.com/2005/11-29/chiken-slaught.jpg
http://www.petaindia.com/images/chick2.jpg
http://www.chowrangi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Mechanically%20slauhtered%20chicken.jpg
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4659579143_107ce40751.jpg

tasty

Sorry, what?