Chinese eat baby soup - The Seoul Times

This is horrific, if true.

The link contains some disturbing pictures, so if you are very sensitive I suggest you don't read it.

http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=7333

Is this a hoax??

-m.

Originally posted by mikelom
This is horrific, if true.

The link contains some disturbing pictures, so if you are very sensitive I suggest you don't read it.

http://theseoultimes.com/ST/?url=/ST/db/read.php?idx=7333

Is this a hoax??

-m.

That's not quite the same issue though, or the same story, is it? 🙁

Originally posted by mikelom
That's not quite the same issue though, or the same story, is it? 🙁

If you check the sources on the Snopes article, it seems that suckers all around the developed world have been falling for this story since the 1990s.

I'm surprised at you for spreading this ancient xenophobic rubbish, Mike. 😠

but that snopes refers to a DIFFERENT story. 😉

Hey, it isn't me spreading it - it's all over the internet..... I just asked if it's a hoax or not... 😉

-m.

Those pics in the ST look pretty real to me.

I don't think Mike is being xenophobic; at worst he was just taken in by a realistic hoax about a nation with a history and reputation for eating weird stuff and an underground demand for the illegal also.

There was a program on TV this week in the UK showing a open air Chinese food market with everything from cooked rats to grilled scorpions on a stick. One guy was filmed eating chicken fetus straight out of the egg shell.

Originally posted by divegeester
I don't think Mike is being xenophobic; at worst he was just taken in by a realistic hoax about a nation with a history and reputation for eating weird stuff and an underground demand for the illegal also.

There was a program on TV this week in the UK showing a open air Chinese food market with everything from cooked rats to grilled scorpions on a stick. One guy was filmed eating chicken fetus straight out of the egg shell.

What I found interesting is that the same foreigners' fears have surfaced in Korea, even if it is only in Letters to the Editor and not a reporter's text. Our tribal ancestors may have invented xenophobia but it's taking a loooooooong time to become extinct all round the world.

Originally posted by divegeester
Those pics in the ST look pretty real to me.

I don't think Mike is being xenophobic; at worst he was just taken in by a realistic hoax about a nation with a history and reputation for eating weird stuff and an underground demand for the illegal also.

There was a program on TV this week in the UK showing a open air Chinese food market with everyth ...[text shortened]... d scorpions on a stick. One guy was filmed eating chicken fetus straight out of the egg shell.

Originally posted by Shallow Blue
Yeah, back when the good dean Swift published his Modest Proposal, there were also stupid, racist Englishmen who took him seriously. Nothing much has changed in the centuries since.

[quote]There was a program on TV this week in the UK showing a open air Chinese food market with everything from cooked rats to grilled scorpions on a stick. One guy was ...[text shortened]... so in China), but you won't see any of these Yellow-Peril-wailers ever mention that.

Richard

Originally posted by Sicilian Sausage
What is any different between eating a chicken foetus and grown chicken. It's all the same stuff at the end of the day. THe only difference is our perception of it and what we have been desensitized to. If you had never eaten meat in your life then were offered it now, I'm sure you would be disgusted at the thought of eating it.

Originally posted by divegeester
So if it's all about perception, what's the big deal about eating a baby foetus?

Originally posted by Sicilian Sausage
You tell me...

Originally posted by divegeester
If you want to call "English" to my face, just let me know.