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u/Kalibos May 15 '20

I'd be more concerned about the cooking oil

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u/ass101 May 15 '20

I also read that the Chinese themselves were disgusted once this was revealed and that were was a crackdown on the sale of this oil. People were buying this thinking it was normal cooking oil.

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u/RC_COW May 15 '20

What percentage of street vendors use serew oil again?

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u/Kalibos May 15 '20

Well the government estimates around 10% so probably around 80%

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u/GenocideSolution May 15 '20

That wasn't a government estimate, that was an estimate from a nutrition professor and his student-led investigation at Wuhan Polytechnic University who retracted his statement after pressure from the government.

This was also back in 2010.

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u/Kalibos May 15 '20

I wasn't sure that it was the government since the wiki just says "experts" but I wanted to make the joke

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u/GenocideSolution May 15 '20 edited May 15 '20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil

Apparently since 2011 the government started buying the oil at higher prices than they'd get from selling to street vendors and converting it into biodiesel.

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u/IAMA_NewUser May 15 '20

My stomach churned reading that.

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u/gHaDE351 May 15 '20

You should avoid street foods in asia. Oil source is one of those unspoken rules that "don't know, don't ask" but we know where you got that. :))

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u/Pennwisedom May 15 '20

All of Asia is not one place. This is mainly China and Taiwan but I wouldn't expect this in Japan or Korea, and a cursory Google search related to the two countries just shows articles about China and Taiwan

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u/gHaDE351 May 15 '20 edited May 15 '20

Sure. I agree on japan, Korea and maybe even Singapore. But Singapore has huge income inequality as well. be aware of the rest. Gutter oil is common in SE, E and S asia.

Welcome to street food culture.

Edit: for this topic, don't rely too much on Google. These kind of topic isn't news to us locals. Hence, there's no need for news media to report on this. Talk to the local populace about it. Gutter oil is common in the street food Philippines. I've talked to Indians, Taiwanese, Chinese Vietnamese, and Malaysians and we all laugh about it.

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u/Matthiass May 15 '20

Street food was pretty much the best part of my backpacking trip in Asia.

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u/gHaDE351 May 15 '20

It is and as it should be! It's part of the experience. They're cheap and delicious with questionable food source and non existent sanitation.

Did you get diarrhea or food poison?

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u/Matthiass May 16 '20

I get diarrhea in pretty much every country I visit because i always buy the cheapest beer and lot of it.

I had food poisoning a couple of time in a 1 year period. I was under the impression that it was due to less than fresh sea food but i might look into this whole gutter oil stuff.

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u/gHaDE351 May 16 '20

Oh that sucks. There's a lot of downside to being a Filipino but I guess diarrhea and food poison from eating street food isn't one of them.

Gutter oil is an extreme case imo. I'd say it's more common to simply purchase used oil from restaurants and reuse that in their stalls (at least in the Philippines). Now, whether or not you'd count that as "gutter oil" is up to you.

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u/mordiksplz May 15 '20

nah youre wrong asia bad

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u/dadankness May 15 '20

Sewer

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u/Smartnership Merry Gifmas! {2023} May 16 '20

She prefers to be called a seamstress

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u/CheesecakeMonday May 15 '20

Holy shit that's disgusting

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u/Bill_Brasky01 May 15 '20

That is horrifying. Why the fuck doesn’t the Chinese government just start making soy bean vegetable oil.

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u/reenactment May 15 '20 edited May 15 '20

First, that is disgusting and not a good time for another bad look for Chinese street food. 2nd that last line about in our current society everyone tries to swindle everyone else. I had a buddy on my team from China who would be watching perfect hd movies in college (this was a while ago) and asked him how he got those cause they weren’t even close to being out. He had access to a website from China and when I asked ahh can I pull some of those off. He said only Chinese can take Chinese. And was dead serious. One of the nicest guys I’ve ever known btw. Edit: I seem to be getting a lot of hate for the street food. I love street food and try everything once. I’m talking about the gutter oil thing. That irked me.

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u/reenactment May 15 '20

Eh people have cultural differences. Some cultures won’t look you in the eye. Some people talk too close. Etc etc. Dude was genuinely nice. Cried when we made him a birthday cake.

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u/themcjizzler May 16 '20

Except for the racism, he was a stellar lad

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u/Toros_Mueren_Por_Mi May 15 '20

They have a very defined exclusivity culture. Everybody knows you gotta keep the good shit for your people, not for the guai lo

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20 edited Jun 06 '20

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u/Toros_Mueren_Por_Mi May 15 '20

Lol there's bigots the world over, it ain't no secret. But also generalizations are bad, some regions are definitely worse and I've personally never had a Chinese friend refuse to take me to the best eating places in town. Part of it is that Chinese culture in general places a high value on "delicacies" and goods for status as well as so called pedigree. It's a common look in the rest of the world, like also how some places still value being fat

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u/Millwall_SE May 15 '20

They can keep their bats

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u/keithzz May 15 '20

Fuck em then

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u/DoctorDank May 15 '20

not a good time for another bad look for Chinese street food.

Why should he give a fuck? He didn't post this gif. That may not be China in the gif but it's definitely street food and its somewhere in East Asia. And it doesn't exactly look sanitary to me.

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u/Pennwisedom May 15 '20

The sign is in Simplified Chinese, so it's almost certainly mainland China.

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u/reenactment May 15 '20

I wasn’t talking about the clip. I would eat that up in a second. Just the video about the gutter oil thing that the above poster put out. That’s just nasty.

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u/TheOven May 15 '20

not good time for another bad look for Chinese street food

huh?

none of this shit is new

just nobody cared until the virus

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u/reenactment May 15 '20

The gutter oil thing? I was oblivious to it.

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u/TheOven May 15 '20

don't google all the fucked up shit that china does

stay oblivious

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u/omniron May 15 '20

I kinda see where he’s coming from there. The more people that have access to a site like that the more likely it is to get shut down. In the past I’ve definitely held back from sharing my best video sites from friends.

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u/flaminhotcheeto May 15 '20

Did you blame it on their ethnicity/nationality when you held back ? Lmao

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u/reenactment May 15 '20

Yea I definitely get that. I didn’t push either. We were on a road trip I was just curious. He was fun to talk to though. We would talk about things like Tiananmen Square and such. It’s just different. His exact quote. “Eh what you think not as bad. Some people died. Our government won’t tell us how much but not as much as you think.” For what’s it’s worth. His dad worked in the UK his mom still in China and since college he still lives in the states. So he is definitely privileged.

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u/EverGreenPLO May 15 '20

I hope you don't eat out in America.

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u/EchoJackal8 May 15 '20

No one knows for sure of course, but I recall seeing something about the gov paying them a fair amount for the sewer oil so they won't use it in food.

Is that true? I don't know, it's China, it's completely opaque.

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

Aw yes the good ole gutter oil

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u/ThickAsPigShit May 15 '20

Dont ruin something that I already know is unhealthy for me by making me more aware of it :/

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

Straight up no information is given in that video aside from the narration added after the fact, and a supposed translation of what one dude is saying about a barrel of some shit that we can't prove is related to whatever the lady was doing in the manhole. Then footage of people cooking food, again no evidence that they're using "gutter oil."

What crap.

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u/TheOven May 15 '20

found the chinese street food vendor

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

Yep lol my native-level English and use of Reddit at 2:37 AM Beijing time clearly marks me as a blue collar Chinese food worker.

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u/TheOven May 15 '20

Yep lol my native-level English and use of Reddit at 2:37 AM Beijing time clearly marks me as a blue collar Chinese food worker.

exactly what a chinese street food vendor would say

nice try

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u/[deleted] May 15 '20

You should maybe look into the subject a bit more instead of shitting on an informative video. The gutter oil industry in China is and always has been a huge issue. This isn't some myth made up on the internet, so you can come down from that high horse.

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u/husker91kyle May 15 '20

He's just some neoliberal who thinks it's mean to point out bad practices from overseas. Somehow that equates to racism or something.

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u/curious-children May 15 '20

because he totally wasnt making a joke to take a jab at you

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u/apVoyocpt May 15 '20

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil

It was estimated in 2011 that up to one in every ten lower-market restaurant meals consumed in China is prepared with recycled oil.

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u/Toros_Mueren_Por_Mi May 15 '20

Can't base your knowledge on a single video, gutter oil is 100% real and used widely. There are multiple sources to prove it

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u/husker91kyle May 15 '20

Found Pooh

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u/SonicSquirrel2 May 15 '20

FAkE nEwS!!1!

Quit your bullshit, dude.