Chinese folk outraged that the donkey meat they purchased is actually fox meat

[Lief 🗽]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/chinese-wal-mart-is-being-accused-of-trying-to-pass-off-fox

Hopefully v0031 could give us his take on this.

[minionofmidas]

Fox? As donkey?

There are not words.

There's a market for dog meat in parts of Asia, wouldn't that be presumably somewhat similar to fox?

[King]

"You got your ass all over my fox."
"You got fox all in my ass."

[DemPGH]

It's another reason why traveling to exotic places is not very high on my to-do list. The food that is consumed in some of these places is generally disgusting enough to nearly put me off of mine. Ugh.

If I took a vacation to the islands I assume they have fish and coconuts and pineapples and normal things, so that's still on the list. Just haven't made it yet.

[PJ]

The Chinese have more important things to be mad about.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

It's another reason why traveling to exotic places is not very high on my to-do list. The food that is consumed in some of these places is generally disgusting enough to nearly put me off of mine. Ugh.

If I took a vacation to the islands I assume they have fish and coconuts and pineapples and normal things, so that's still on the list. Just haven't made it yet.

How delightfully ethnocentric

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It's another reason why traveling to exotic places is not very high on my to-do list. The food that is consumed in some of these places is generally disgusting enough to nearly put me off of mine. Ugh.

If I took a vacation to the islands I assume they have fish and coconuts and pineapples and normal things, so that's still on the list. Just haven't made it yet.

Visiting a place where people eat food that one finds strange or disconcerting doesn't necessitate eating that food oneself, you know. Especially these days, pretty much anywhere on Earth has at least some elements of its cuisine that Americans would consider more or less 'normal', or at least interesting and worth trying out if not.

[angus]

Chinese folk outraged that the donkey meat they purchased is actually fox meat

I'd be outraged about it as well, wouldn't you?

[Ban my account ffs!]

It's another reason why traveling to exotic places is not very high on my to-do list. The food that is consumed in some of these places is generally disgusting enough to nearly put me off of mine. Ugh.

If I took a vacation to the islands I assume they have fish and coconuts and pineapples and normal things, so that's still on the list. Just haven't made it yet.

I've been to China.  Ate a lot of chicken, pork, fish, beef... rice... various vegetables.. amazing preparations all around.

Your attitude is dangerous and ignorant... luckily only for you.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It's another reason why traveling to exotic places is not very high on my to-do list. The food that is consumed in some of these places is generally disgusting enough to nearly put me off of mine. Ugh.

If I took a vacation to the islands I assume they have fish and coconuts and pineapples and normal things, so that's still on the list. Just haven't made it yet.

I've been to China.  Ate a lot of chicken, pork, fish, beef... rice... various vegetables.. amazing preparations all around.

Your attitude is dangerous and ignorant... luckily only for you.

Yeah, the idea that China of all places has particularly unfamiliar or 'gross' food, aside from a few quirks regarding meat from animals that we're more inclined to see as akin to pets (EDIT: or in the case of horses at least 'companion/workmate animals' rather than 'eating animals'; see what Foucaulf says about dogs below), is beyond absurd.

[Foucaulf]

Chinese folk outraged that the donkey meat they purchased is actually fox meat

I'd be outraged about it as well, wouldn't you?

I try not to empty quote, though...

The Chinese have more important things to be mad about.

More important than food safety? I very much doubt most people in the world would take a democracy without that to the converse.

(Also, dog meat is extremely out of style these days; many Chinese have dogs as pets and are signing pledges against such consumption.)

[DemPGH]

It's another reason why traveling to exotic places is not very high on my to-do list. The food that is consumed in some of these places is generally disgusting enough to nearly put me off of mine. Ugh.

If I took a vacation to the islands I assume they have fish and coconuts and pineapples and normal things, so that's still on the list. Just haven't made it yet.

I've been to China.  Ate a lot of chicken, pork, fish, beef... rice... various vegetables.. amazing preparations all around.

Your attitude is dangerous and ignorant... luckily only for you.

Oooookay.

It's another reason why traveling to exotic places is not very high on my to-do list. The food that is consumed in some of these places is generally disgusting enough to nearly put me off of mine. Ugh.

If I took a vacation to the islands I assume they have fish and coconuts and pineapples and normal things, so that's still on the list. Just haven't made it yet.

Visiting a place where people eat food that one finds strange or disconcerting doesn't necessitate eating that food oneself, you know. Especially these days, pretty much anywhere on Earth has at least some elements of its cuisine that Americans would consider more or less 'normal', or at least interesting and worth trying out if not.

Honestly, I'm sure. I'd hunt Mediterranean cuisine first, Italian second, vegetarian third.

I thought it was really obvious that my comment was intended to indicate a general distrust of the cuisine in an area where eating horse, fox, dog, and Lord knows what else is acceptable. That's all. I mean I thought it REEEEEALLLLLY obvious that the intent was to convey that, and that it was perfectly understandable.

Every now and again around here a warning or whatever will go out to watch this or that in Chinese food or that some Chinese restaurant was caught using mystery meat, so to wonder a little about what you're putting in your body in a country where eating that stuff is acceptable is just prudent. It's just sensible. 

You know, I'd call a bacon cheeseburger disgusting too. Not edible? No. Disgusting? Yes. So whatever.

[Foucaulf]

I thought it was really obvious that my comment was intended to indicate a general distrust of the cuisine in an area where eating horse, fox, dog, and Lord knows what else is acceptable. That's all. I mean I thought it REEEEEALLLLLY obvious that the intent was to convey that, and that it was perfectly understandable.

It did not begin by being acceptable; it was by being necessary. Horse meat, as I've heard, is actually very tender!

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And the Chinese who have to live in a country with abysmal food safety regulations - like my family, say - worry a lot more than you do. No need to make their lives even more miserable by mocking the food they like.

[Ban my account ffs!]

China is an enormous country with 1.3 billion people.  Not 1.3 billion dead people... 1.3 billion alive people who eat ALL KINDS of things that might be too "exotic" for your bland palate... but you know what, the food you eat is going to be alright.  Just ensure it is cooked.  Don't eat raw meat that you aren't sure about.

Don't drink the tap water.

China is fine.  You'd be better to worry traveling to remote areas of Papua New Guinea or the Congo or remote Namibia where refrigeration is unheard of and the meat might've sat out for a while before being tossed into a fire.

[Vosem]

People in this thread who can't eat anything they haven't been having nonstop for the past decade

[minionofmidas]

It's another reason why traveling to exotic places is not very high on my to-do list. The food that is consumed in some of these places is generally disgusting enough to nearly put me off of mine. Ugh.

If I took a vacation to the islands I assume they have fish and coconuts and pineapples and normal things, so that's still on the list. Just haven't made it yet.

Visiting a place where people eat food that one finds strange or disconcerting doesn't necessitate eating that food oneself, you know. Especially these days, pretty much anywhere on Earth has at least some elements of its cuisine that Americans would consider more or less 'normal', or at least interesting and worth trying out if not.

There's a hell of a lot of standard European fare that you cannot get even an approximation of in India for love or money. Indian cuisine is wonderful and I love it, but after a few months in India I dreamt of black bread and decent cheese and my mother's potato salad (no mayo in that).

[Filuwaúrdjan]

and my mother's potato salad (no mayo in that).

I'm intrigued. Details?

[minionofmidas]

and my mother's potato salad (no mayo in that).

I'm intrigued. Details?

Oil, vinegar and vegetable stock.
Potatoes.
Gherkins, spring radishes, onions, eggs (optional), Fleischwurst (optional), corn salad (optional)
Salt and pepper and all that. Far more pepper than salt.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

and my mother's potato salad (no mayo in that).

I'm intrigued. Details?

Oil, vinegar and vegetable stock.
Potatoes.
Gherkins, spring radishes, onions, eggs (optional), Fleischwurst (optional), corn salad (optional)
Salt and pepper and all that. Far more pepper than salt.

Sounds like my idea of food. Thanks for that...

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

That sounds delicious. Thank you for sharing.

[Ban my account ffs!]

and my mother's potato salad (no mayo in that).

I'm intrigued. Details?

Oil, vinegar and vegetable stock.
Potatoes.
Gherkins, spring radishes, onions, eggs (optional), Fleischwurst (optional), corn salad (optional)
Salt and pepper and all that. Far more pepper than salt.

Sounds good (minus the eggs)

I cut up bacon and fry it up crisp, then quickly fry the celery and onions together (just a short while)... deglaze with some white wine, then add the bacon back in with the oil, vinegar, and a bit of stock.  I like to add mustard powder, a touch of cayenne, a bit of sugar, salt and pepper.  Then I add the cooked, sliced potatoes.

At the last, I add some fresh chopped dill.  It's excellent warm, cold, or room temperature.  Baconey, onioney, potatoey, vinegary goodness.  No mayo, no eggs.  That's for heathens.