I wouldn’t expect CalMeacham to.
Considering how hard it can be sometimes to get good results using the correct ingredients, I’m amazed that they can get cardboard to give such a decent-looking end product that people are fooled.
Hahaha! But his is fresh from the PepperMill.
How would regulations have prevented this? Not punished the guilty after the fact, but prevented.
Well, if there was some government agency responsible for inspecting the places where food is made (much like we have in this country) and it was properly funded, then they would go in and see what was happening with surprise inspections and close it down when they found out the main ingredient was cardboard.
And there would be these pieces of paper hung in plain view at all food selling establishments that would indicate that the place had been inspected, and when, and to what degree they complied with the regulations. :rolleyes:
Have you ever eaten out? Are you familiar with the health inspectors?
The theory is that if people could get caught and punished doing something, they are less likely to do it.
In the U.S. there are lots of tax cheats. But very few of us would pay taxes if there weren’t regulations (laws) that say “pay your taxes” - and if those laws had no teeth, we probably wouldn’t bother either. Most people pay taxes because they have to and/or because if they don’t the U.S. Government will make their lives hell.
Put his kitchen on cable TV. Paper view.
What’s next? Chinese “Soylent Green”?
The Chinese Checkers?
It may also treat childhood obesity! Two for one, everybody loves a deal!
(I read The Jungle in High School. ::shudder:
So, how long until some Beijing government hack (sorry) loses his head over this scandal?
“Soylent Green is cardboard cutouts of people! It’s cardboard cutouts of people!”
I think we’ve just come up with a new use for the Chinese harvesting of organs from the executed.
SOYLENT GREEN IS MADE FROM PAPER! And you’re hungry again in an hour.
It wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t put so much MSG in their cardboard.
And you assume (quite unreasonably) that inspection would have prevented this in the real world, as opposed to a fantasy world.
I can’t help thinking of Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler and his infamous sausage-in-a-bun.
Well, some adulturation of food is inevitable, I’m sure, so there’s no way to say for sure that greater levels of regulation and inspection would have prevented this particular incident. However, food quality does tend to be better in those countries with food regulation and inspection than in those countries without. So it is reasonable to assume that this sort of thing would be less likely with health inspectors.
Why is that an unreasonable assumption?
Because it happened in Beijing, not Des Moines. China, of late, has had a real problem policing food quality and I think it’s safe to pin the blame on bribed or simply incompetent inspectors.
Part of more strenuous enforcement of policing food quality means improving the quality of the food inspectors…guaranteeing that competent people get hired and coming down hard on corruption.