Hey, Rats are Organic, Too!

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

8 Comments

  1. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted March 29, 2008 at 3:32 pm | Permalink

    Mmm, just a week after a Korean manufacturer had to recall its own product? How convenient.

  2. gaekujangi your flag
    Posted March 29, 2008 at 3:55 pm | Permalink

    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 your flag
    Posted March 29, 2008 at 7:56 pm | Permalink

    Mmmm frozen rats! Free meat in every vegetable bag!

  4. Sonagi your flag
    Posted March 29, 2008 at 8:37 pm | Permalink

    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 your flag
    Posted March 29, 2008 at 8:39 pm | Permalink

    And coming on the heels of the Nongshim case, this sounds a little too copycat.

  6. Posted March 29, 2008 at 10:26 pm | Permalink

    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 your flag
    Posted March 29, 2008 at 10:31 pm | Permalink

    There is something fishy about all this rat business. Or do I smell a rat?

  8. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted March 30, 2008 at 8:22 am | Permalink

    #4,

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

Post a Comment

You must be logged in to post a comment.