According to a news report on CNN or was it BBC, anyways … according to the report and video imnages of an undercover journalist of a Chinese TV station a manufacturer of bao zi (meat buns) mixed up to 60% recycled cardboard in its meat filling …
Result: recycling and having low calory buns … paper is mainly cellulose, a filler and fiber … how bad can it be? Shit heads …
I can’t remember now which one it is but one of those prison memoirs from China goes into some detail to explain how during the Great Leap prisoners were offered some ersatz dumplings filled with a mix of saw dust and other noxious agents, the aim being to try and offset the pangs of hunger with some filling. Unfortunately the resultant constipation kills several prisoners, but the authorities don’t bother to stop the practice.
It might have been false when he aired it, but I cant help thinking that it gave half the boazi makers in the country an idea about how to reduce their overhesds, especially with pork prices rising on blue ear disease.