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Sqrt

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Oct 26, 2017
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The Guardian said:
Shares plunge after pair forced to fish unwanted meat from their dinner

A couple dining at a well-known hot pot chain in eastern China have fished out what appeared to be a rat from their pot of stewed meat and vegetables.

Video footage of a diner holding the rat with a pair of chopsticks circulated on social media and a report of the incident appeared on 7 September. By Tuesday, shares in the restaurant's parent company, Xiabuxiabu Catering Management, had fallen 12%.

A man identified only by his surname, Ma, said his wife had discovered the rodent. "She was so scared that she threw her chopsticks out immediately," he told the local website Weifang.sdnews.com in Shandong province.

Ma said the restaurant offered him and his wife, who was pregnant, 5,000 yuan (US$730) in compensation, but they refused because they first wanted to go to the hospital.

Food safety is particularly sensitive in China where consumers have witnessed incidents from buns filled with cardboard, the use of gutter oil, and counterfeit baby formula. Hot pot restaurants have been found to use fake meat as well as chemicals to mask the smell or taste of rotten meat.



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Anyone carves for a hot pot right now?
 

LewieP

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ReAxion

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Oct 26, 2017
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The whole internet loves jacuzzi rat, a lovely rat that loves hot pot! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the rat is racist
 

7aged

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Oct 28, 2017
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Sounds like something straight out of the Vulgaria banquet scene
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Maybe they should open branches in Hunan?
 

Rand a. Thor

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I have seen some wild stuff in the kitchens, but a dead rat floating in a hot pot is the stuff of nightmares. Hell to the now, I got sick with that vid.
 

Socivol

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Oct 25, 2017
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If you found a random dead bird in your soup, would you be fine with it because you also eat chicken as a meal?

It wasn't racism it was a legitimate question. I was legitimately wondering if it could have gotten in their food from being prepared for another dish. Not everything is racism.
 

Socivol

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Oct 25, 2017
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A feral, likely sewer one, though?

Nah man that's racism straight up. What Asians you know eat rats? Smh brother man.

I literally Googled it before I even posted and there was a BBC article about countries that eat rats because I was confused. The article didn't say it was feral and I couldn't watch the video. You can think what you want but my intentions were to have a better understanding.
 

deepFlaw

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It wasn't racism it was a legitimate question. I was legitimately wondering if it could have gotten in their food from being prepared for another dish. Not everything is racism.

You could have actually said that, though it would still be based on a stereotype, and also would be incredibly foolish to even consider as it goes against the part where this is clearly being treated as a problem that would merit a hospital trip instead of "oops, got the wrong meat".
 

Chopchop

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Oct 25, 2017
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It wasn't racism it was a legitimate question. I was legitimately wondering if it could have gotten in their food from being prepared for another dish. Not everything is racism.
I'm Chinese and though I don't live in China, I've never seen or heard of rat as a meal.

Considering the response on Chinese social media at this news, a rat showing up in food is just as disgusting there as it is in the West.
 

Rizific

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User Banned (Duration Pending): Downplaying Racism
A rat with hair in your pot, though? Would you eat a chicken soup with a pigeon, with feathers and all, on it?
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19852455/...ts-china-feasts-rat-infestation/#.W5vtKOhKguU
Obviously the rat in that hot pot wasn't intended to be in there but uhh...Not exactly a far fetched idea. But still racist though, right?
people foaming at the mouth to throw the race card on this forum at the poster who asked if rats were used as food in china. willing to bet the bank that china isnt the only place where rat is eaten.