Hey, Rats are Organic, Too!

by Robert Koehler on March 29, 2008

First rat heads in Chinese-made snacks, now whole rats in American-made frozen vegetables.

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1 SomeguyinKorea March 29, 2008 at 3:32 pm: Mmm, just a week after a Korean manufacturer had to recall its own product? How convenient.
2 gaekujangi March 29, 2008 at 3:55 pm: Now all they need is to find a baby’s finger jammed into the usb drive of a SONY laptop import and the nationalism-scapegoat triumvirate will be complete!
3 littlebrownasian March 29, 2008 at 7:56 pm: Mmmm frozen rats! Free meat in every vegetable bag!
4 Sonagi March 29, 2008 at 8:37 pm: Nongshim claims that the rat’s head got into the batter at the Chinese facility. However, this is highly unlikely as I explained in my post about the subject. Crunchy little shaped snacks like shrimp chips are made with extrusion machines that pop the batter out into shapes. It is extremely unlikely that the rat’s head, larger and shaped differently, could have come through one of those little holes. Moreover, there was no batter stuck to the head.
5 Sonagi March 29, 2008 at 8:39 pm: And coming on the heels of the Nongshim case, this sounds a little too copycat.
6 skindleshanks March 29, 2008 at 10:26 pm: Hey, I’ve got a package of that in the freezer! I’ll have to check for extra protein . . . Any reason why they aren’t naming our favorite wholesale members-only imported food store? Probably a good thing, I guess.
7 craig March 29, 2008 at 10:31 pm: There is something fishy about all this rat business. Or do I smell a rat?
8 SomeguyinKorea March 30, 2008 at 8:22 am: #4,

Unless the snacks are made in China, not simply made from Chinese ingredients as Nongshim claims.