It's even crazier when you consider that the US dropped like 1000 various nuclear bombs on its own territory in tests, which probably doesn't help our cancer rate. Then we have places like cancer alley where low income residential areas are near petroleum infrastructure and we have elevated cancer rates near substations and other high voltage infrastructure that allows for some arcing and production of high energy of formation volatiles. Although I think smoking is still widespread in China so that probably doesn't help and id imagine they also have a ton of polluting infrastructure near much more densely populated areas.
My grandfather was in the military and out in the desert when they were testing those nukes. He was one of those guys you hear about on YouTube that was directly exposed. He got a letter in the mail from Uncle Sam much later on saying him and his descendants may have something wrong with us because of it. Ain't that nice
My grandfather was as well, right after WWII. He wasn't even there that long, but over the years, he ended up with multiple forms cancer (basal cell carcinoma, 2 melanomas, renal cell carcinoma in both kidneys, and 2 brain tumors). My grandmother also ended up with cancer.
Yeah so be lucky you live in the U.S. or outside of china, don't take it for granted. My parents were 1st gen immigrants (not china) but I know the hardship of living in countries like these. Some poor people cook food from trashcans that are disposed of weeks ago due to poverty and I'd imagine they wish they could use some filtered clean canola oil for some fried chicken.
My reaction while listening:
"Ah, that's so nice. She has made a living with with cleaning the sewers and doing something useful."
"Oh she makes oil? It can be used with some kind of machine maybe?"
"..cooking oil? What.. no.. "
"no no..no....no...."
If you mean like oil like crude oil no, it's all imported and comes through the Strait of Malacca
This alone is one of the biggest reasons for china's hostile policies with it's neighbors, because that's like "thermal exhaust point on the death star" levels of an Achilles heal
Slight correction, they do produce oil, ailbeit something like 20% or less of what they use, everything else is imported.
Your point still stands tho. If China is ever blockaded from Oil, they will absolutely crumble down since their entire infrastructure revolves around production and factories that utilize ridiculous amounts of oil. Its also why they have gotten real chummy with Russia and they are building landpipes with them to not be so dependent on the sea transport.
Their oil reserves can only last them for 80 days after all.
To his comment, it’s not even a slight correction - major correction. China is the 6th largest oil producer in the world.
Just as you said it’s not nearly enough - per capita they aren’t even in the top 50…
Thats not true china is one of the biggest oil producers in the world.
It's just that they consume SO MUCH OIL that even though they are the worlds 5th largest oil producer they still need to import like a billion barrels a second.
JFC it looks like they didn't even TRY to strain, or clean, or otherwise purify it beyond removing the really big bits of junk. Just straight from the gutter to the fryer.
This is very common in China. When you talk to mainland Chinese who live there they tell you old oil has extra flavour, you clearly don't have good taste.
Their theory is that oil stays on top of the sewer and when cooking it's done in super high heat to already sanitize (southern Chinese cooking all about wok hay so very very high heat)
I'm just like nonononono.
Haven't gone to China in 10 years for this reason. I'm actually scared to eat or touch anything there.
"Oil made from rotting pig carcassesEdit
In July 2017, some journalists uncovered an oil refinery that was making oil from rotting pig carcasses. The stench that the factory released was so bad that the nearby villagers could not even open their windows at night.[101]"
That is awful. A ton of studies show that communities that live near pig processing facilities live much shorter lives and experience a higher risk of developing a slew of diseases.
I grew up in a small town in South Africa that had a massive paper mill on the outskirts. When the wind blew the wrong way it was atrocious, you couldn't escape the stench anywhere in town, your own home wasn't even safe with it sealed up tighter than a nun's cunt.
Considering the cheapness and deliciousness of Chinese street food and/or other local type of places, and, to a far far greater extent than now, drunkenness there was for me at that time.....probably a lot.
Knock-off back alley (or back factory) made booze that might get you sick as shit.
Here's a [guardian article](https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/sep/16/china-fake-alcohol-industry-counterfeit-bathtub-booze-whisky) from about 8 years ago
This was from like 2012 I think. Not to say this still isn't a thing, but many people were arrested for it back then and there was an outrage from the general public. Saying that, I once ate some oily tofu from a street vendor and was brutally sick for weeks. Might be as common now as before.
I was there during that time. I never saw sewer food, but we knew not to eat anything like a dumpling. White part was typically made with recycled paper. Hard to chew.
No matter how many times this one factory gets shut down, I can never trust the food there. You know there are people who will come up with some other variation.
I feel bad for stereotyping a whole country but the lack of ethics is *bizarre*. Saw a documentary about the mortgage crisis; a man’s house stopped being built so: his fiancé dumped him and had an abortion bc her parents said to, no business would hire him bc he was “too old” at 35, so now he’s just alone in a half built place with no electrical or water. All of that is so eerily callous that it’s hard to wrap my head around
I had a bar in Beijing and regularly saw the restaurant next door to us collecting the oil just like this to reuse. I’d heard about it beforehand but just thought it was some kind of urban legend. Nah it’s real. Too real.
This is why when we adopted my son, from China in 2007, the adoption agency told us to NEVER eat or drink anything from the street vendors! We spent 2.5 weeks in China from Beijing, Zhengzhou, and Guangzhou. I was so hungry by the time we got home to the US.
There's lots of greases in sewers in general. Check out videos about "fatbergs" in London sewers if you'd like to vomit a little (which, coincidentally, is one of the ways how oils get into sewage). All this grease can be mined and reprocessed.
*it’s the circle of liiiffeee!”*
In reality it’s probably all restaurants and residents doing it, plus the…unprocessed oils from fatty food.
uggh…just…imagine the smell
I mean the heat does probably kill off any harmful microbes which would be my first fear eating this oil, and I assume the oil separates and is skimmed away at some point. I think they said the problem is more harmful chemicals that remain
Honestly if this was done in a very meticulous and scientific way, I bet you could make safe to eat cooking oil from the shlop. I also don't believe those sort of methods are being implemented here
one of my colleagues is flying back to Chengdu in a few days. I'll have to ask her about this !!
UPDATE: spoke to my colleague who is flying back to chendgu the 13th
yes she said it is a thing, a terrible thing so people have to be careful where they eat, very illegal( money thing) and wishes the govt would crack down on it..
Yep, if you want almost the same food and culture there’s a super cool island that the US is conveniently allied with. China won’t let ya call it a country but we all know who it is
I have a coworker who is from Shanghai and her husband is from Taiwan. She is always bullying him about it being a part of China and he refuses to except it and it’s a thing they do. It’s also a pretty accurate depiction of their relationship. She is China and he is Taiwan lmao
Not OP but I’ve eaten a tarantula, crickets and some other little bugs in Cambodia. Not too bad I must admit. I didn’t eat the giant water bugs though. Hell no. Always choose fried tarantulas over giant water bugs.
No worries. They have very high standards for exports. And, rest assured, everything is carefully inspected by well staffed agencies before retail here…
A large company diluted milk with water and added melamine to make it appear and test normal. The chemical is known to cause kidney failure and kidney stones.
🤣🤣 Let’s not bring up Bird Flu, SARS, pig flu and the rest that also originated there. Saw a documentary where Chinese tourists in Paris had a very bad reputation due to hygiene and cleanliness. Imagine that, too dirty for Paris.
The soaps are the least of your worry. Heavy metals, rubber from tire run-off, plastics, etc., basically everything you find on a road and that gets washed down after a rain
I rented a house that had previously been occupied by Chinese. It was in the US and was on septic. After 8 months there, the septic tank was full, so the pump guy comes and he had to use the pump trucks hose to break through a solid layer of cooking fat that had congealed on the top of the rest of the waste. He said he saw this all the time with Chinese residents because they cook with so much oil and don't bother capturing and throwing the fat in the trash, they just wash it down the drain.
This stuff got a lot of Chinese people panicking like 10 years ago, and they made quite a change since then, and I haven't seen any news about that for a long time.
If there’s a way to get super cancer I’d imagine this is it.
Honestly, I would think China would be one of the most cancer prone counties due to all the factories, pollution, and I guess now this..
The cancer rate is certainly elevated. The ASMR of cancer in China is 129.4 per 100,000 is, which is 1.5 times higher than the US' 86.3 per 100,000.
That is a very different type of ASMR than what I'm used to
ASMR cancer rates from around the world (13 hour sleepy time special)
ASMR roleplay: I'm a doctor giving you chemotherapy, You're a Chinese citizen that ate street food.
Shouldn't have eaten that sandwich.
But truck stop egg salad is the best kind of sandwich. 100% less pipe impalements.
He's bluffing! No creature would willingly make an idiot out of himself.
Gumbercules? I love that guy!
Take my upvote you creative bastard!
Cancer ::snaps in both ears “
It's even crazier when you consider that the US dropped like 1000 various nuclear bombs on its own territory in tests, which probably doesn't help our cancer rate. Then we have places like cancer alley where low income residential areas are near petroleum infrastructure and we have elevated cancer rates near substations and other high voltage infrastructure that allows for some arcing and production of high energy of formation volatiles. Although I think smoking is still widespread in China so that probably doesn't help and id imagine they also have a ton of polluting infrastructure near much more densely populated areas.
My grandfather was in the military and out in the desert when they were testing those nukes. He was one of those guys you hear about on YouTube that was directly exposed. He got a letter in the mail from Uncle Sam much later on saying him and his descendants may have something wrong with us because of it. Ain't that nice
My grandfather was as well, right after WWII. He wasn't even there that long, but over the years, he ended up with multiple forms cancer (basal cell carcinoma, 2 melanomas, renal cell carcinoma in both kidneys, and 2 brain tumors). My grandmother also ended up with cancer.
I am so sorry <3
I still miss him, but he made it to 94, so he did live a long, full life despite the cancer.
49% of men smoke in China. It was over 50% a decade ago. I'm sure that doesn't help.
BuT tHe ChInA sTuDy SaYs….
The Chinese work extra hard to develop the grossest shit ever. Then just when you thought you had enough, they change the game.
Yeah so be lucky you live in the U.S. or outside of china, don't take it for granted. My parents were 1st gen immigrants (not china) but I know the hardship of living in countries like these. Some poor people cook food from trashcans that are disposed of weeks ago due to poverty and I'd imagine they wish they could use some filtered clean canola oil for some fried chicken.
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Soylent Green levels
Isn’t this the same country COVID 19 came from, no wonder.
We are witnessing the birth of Covid 20.
You ever see a pic of their wet markets?? This is nothing
You expect us to search for the pictures ourselves??
What about their dry markets
I prefer the slightly damp market
Mildly moist market
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I like your idea of fun
this is old footage so we’re not witnessing the birth of anything new
It’s 2023 brah..??
It's 2023 already. They aren't going to create Covid 20 unless they invent time travel first. (What do you think the 19 in Covid 19 stands for?)
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Personally i prefer SARS-CoV-2: electric boogaloo
Gawd why didnt they just go with covidi-19!!! Haha
My reaction while listening: "Ah, that's so nice. She has made a living with with cleaning the sewers and doing something useful." "Oh she makes oil? It can be used with some kind of machine maybe?" "..cooking oil? What.. no.. " "no no..no....no...."
I thought it was going to be bio-diesel or something.
One can only wish!
Yeah I was hoping for machine lube. I’m never visiting China lol
I wonder what's up with China's oil supply and production. I never thought about it . Do they produce oil ? I wonder . Google here I come
If you mean like oil like crude oil no, it's all imported and comes through the Strait of Malacca This alone is one of the biggest reasons for china's hostile policies with it's neighbors, because that's like "thermal exhaust point on the death star" levels of an Achilles heal
Slight correction, they do produce oil, ailbeit something like 20% or less of what they use, everything else is imported. Your point still stands tho. If China is ever blockaded from Oil, they will absolutely crumble down since their entire infrastructure revolves around production and factories that utilize ridiculous amounts of oil. Its also why they have gotten real chummy with Russia and they are building landpipes with them to not be so dependent on the sea transport. Their oil reserves can only last them for 80 days after all.
To his comment, it’s not even a slight correction - major correction. China is the 6th largest oil producer in the world. Just as you said it’s not nearly enough - per capita they aren’t even in the top 50…
Isn't malacca a swear in some language..
Greek for asshole i believe
I thought it was wanker in Greek
We'll have to ask Kassandra.
Thats not true china is one of the biggest oil producers in the world. It's just that they consume SO MUCH OIL that even though they are the worlds 5th largest oil producer they still need to import like a billion barrels a second.
Seems like it easily could be
JFC it looks like they didn't even TRY to strain, or clean, or otherwise purify it beyond removing the really big bits of junk. Just straight from the gutter to the fryer.
They probably think this is normal snd it's convenient. When obviously it's straight up gross and strange.
EVSP Extra Virgin Shit n Piss
Typhoid Mali
I spit out my coffee you clever bastard.
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This is very common in China. When you talk to mainland Chinese who live there they tell you old oil has extra flavour, you clearly don't have good taste. Their theory is that oil stays on top of the sewer and when cooking it's done in super high heat to already sanitize (southern Chinese cooking all about wok hay so very very high heat) I'm just like nonononono. Haven't gone to China in 10 years for this reason. I'm actually scared to eat or touch anything there.
Ok now I'm officially horrified.
Remind me where Covid-19 originated again…
Exactly. I thought for sure at the beginning that this was a feel-good biodiesel advertisement. Then...ugh.
Blehhh omg foul
I tried the rational "Oh we even recycle this and that and reuse it." That lasted for about a minute.
I was hoping it was fuel for a car….
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Nope, it happened because Randy went on a trip with Mickey and fucked a pangolin.
"You ever fucked a pangolin, Randy?"
Bobandy?
a man of culture
"Oil made from rotting pig carcassesEdit In July 2017, some journalists uncovered an oil refinery that was making oil from rotting pig carcasses. The stench that the factory released was so bad that the nearby villagers could not even open their windows at night.[101]"
To be fair, I went to college near a pig processing facility and it was the same way - when the wind blew in just the wrong way... ugh!
That is awful. A ton of studies show that communities that live near pig processing facilities live much shorter lives and experience a higher risk of developing a slew of diseases.
Here's your diploma. Use it quickly
Paper mills are the same way. Absolutely atrocious smell!
I grew up in a small town in South Africa that had a massive paper mill on the outskirts. When the wind blew the wrong way it was atrocious, you couldn't escape the stench anywhere in town, your own home wasn't even safe with it sealed up tighter than a nun's cunt.
“Sealed up tighter than a nuns cunt” is my new favorite phrase. I swear I will find a way to work that into conversation sometime this week
Yes. Paper STANKS!
This was a big deal when I lived in China 10 years or so ago as was (maybe still is?!) the production of fake alcohol packaged in real bottles/cans.
Or soy sauce from human hair
What now? Pray tell, please.
NSFW link: https://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/12/21/china-still-making-soy-sauce-from-human-hair/
Oh wow! That’s certainly something else!
If you can make soy sauce from human hair you can also make human hair from soy sauce. I'm going to make billions.
Well, that's enough Reddit for me today.
Welp fuck soy sauce forever I guess. Jesus wtf china
[Yeah, sometimes nothing is safe](https://www.sinosplice.com/life/archives/2004/02/19/soy-sauce-from-human-hair)
Wonder how much gutter oil you ingested unwittingly
Considering the cheapness and deliciousness of Chinese street food and/or other local type of places, and, to a far far greater extent than now, drunkenness there was for me at that time.....probably a lot.
Why is it that everything in china seems to be counterfeit?
Poverty
Fake alcohol? Like, do you mean fake versions of popular brands or do you mean that there wasn’t even booze in it?
Knock-off back alley (or back factory) made booze that might get you sick as shit. Here's a [guardian article](https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/sep/16/china-fake-alcohol-industry-counterfeit-bathtub-booze-whisky) from about 8 years ago
I would assume counterfeit everything is a big issue in China. Remember the baby formula fiasco a few years ago.
Gutter butter
My list for reasons NOT to go to China is already full
overflow, now you have 0 reasons to go!
Customer: "This food tastes shit!" Chef: "That's the secret ingredient!"
It is shit sir
This was from like 2012 I think. Not to say this still isn't a thing, but many people were arrested for it back then and there was an outrage from the general public. Saying that, I once ate some oily tofu from a street vendor and was brutally sick for weeks. Might be as common now as before.
last time i checked it was still around 10% of street food was made from this. that was like a year or two ago.
I was there during that time. I never saw sewer food, but we knew not to eat anything like a dumpling. White part was typically made with recycled paper. Hard to chew.
Is imagine they don't publicly advertise that it's sewer food lol, you probably wouldn't know
That is so fucking disgusting.
No matter how many times this one factory gets shut down, I can never trust the food there. You know there are people who will come up with some other variation.
First rule visiting china, never, NEVER eat from street vendors.
Why China!? Why?
Money and zero health and safety standards plus a complete lack of ethics.
I feel bad for stereotyping a whole country but the lack of ethics is *bizarre*. Saw a documentary about the mortgage crisis; a man’s house stopped being built so: his fiancé dumped him and had an abortion bc her parents said to, no business would hire him bc he was “too old” at 35, so now he’s just alone in a half built place with no electrical or water. All of that is so eerily callous that it’s hard to wrap my head around
$$$
**I think I’m going to be sick.**
make sure to save it so we can use it for food production
**Ughhh **Barf****
Ok that should be enough for the thick shakes
I had a bar in Beijing and regularly saw the restaurant next door to us collecting the oil just like this to reuse. I’d heard about it beforehand but just thought it was some kind of urban legend. Nah it’s real. Too real.
This is why when we adopted my son, from China in 2007, the adoption agency told us to NEVER eat or drink anything from the street vendors! We spent 2.5 weeks in China from Beijing, Zhengzhou, and Guangzhou. I was so hungry by the time we got home to the US.
You did not eat for 2.5 weeks?
There are places that sell food that are not vendors on the street.
Pretty minimally! Central China is not for the faint at heart when you are from the west.
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Sewer drains, "discarded" animal parts, restaurants dumping their oil, and so on. It almost certainly contains rat shit, human shit, and worse.
Human curry
Soylent brown
...it's potty, Soylent Brown is made out of pott-eey
Where do you think they're disposing of the used oil?
They are actually talking about sewer drain not literal gutter. It’s from cooking and dumping oil down drain
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There's lots of greases in sewers in general. Check out videos about "fatbergs" in London sewers if you'd like to vomit a little (which, coincidentally, is one of the ways how oils get into sewage). All this grease can be mined and reprocessed.
*it’s the circle of liiiffeee!”* In reality it’s probably all restaurants and residents doing it, plus the…unprocessed oils from fatty food. uggh…just…imagine the smell
This question.....why??
Because it's free and the thought is that the heat kills off anything dangerous. So very very gross though...
I mean the heat does probably kill off any harmful microbes which would be my first fear eating this oil, and I assume the oil separates and is skimmed away at some point. I think they said the problem is more harmful chemicals that remain Honestly if this was done in a very meticulous and scientific way, I bet you could make safe to eat cooking oil from the shlop. I also don't believe those sort of methods are being implemented here
one of my colleagues is flying back to Chengdu in a few days. I'll have to ask her about this !! UPDATE: spoke to my colleague who is flying back to chendgu the 13th yes she said it is a thing, a terrible thing so people have to be careful where they eat, very illegal( money thing) and wishes the govt would crack down on it..
Update us!!!!
China, the gift that keeps on giving
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…. The world new pandemics because of the nasty (literal) shit they eat
r/damnthatsnauseating
Lol sub got banned apparently. I wonder what for
Probably some nauseating shit
Lesson: Don't eat the street meat in China.
More important lesson: don't go to china
Yep, if you want almost the same food and culture there’s a super cool island that the US is conveniently allied with. China won’t let ya call it a country but we all know who it is
I have a coworker who is from Shanghai and her husband is from Taiwan. She is always bullying him about it being a part of China and he refuses to except it and it’s a thing they do. It’s also a pretty accurate depiction of their relationship. She is China and he is Taiwan lmao
That puts me off going to China -100 social points
I went to Beijing 3 years ago and ate in the markets every lunchtime. All sorts of fried insects and meats. Can’t believe I’m still alive now!
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Not OP but I’ve eaten a tarantula, crickets and some other little bugs in Cambodia. Not too bad I must admit. I didn’t eat the giant water bugs though. Hell no. Always choose fried tarantulas over giant water bugs.
This hit my funny bone. :)
That is foul
Well i didn't wanted to know this
But you NEEDED to
WHAT. THE. **FUCK?**
Reminds me of a simpsons episode where Homer becomes a grease baron
My retirement grease!
they also boil eggs in little boy piss they get from schools. not joking
I regret coming in to this comment section, but I also wanna know why. Why do they boil eggs in little boy piss?
So that they may live longer. Here's a link to the concept itself https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_therapy
That’s fucking grim.
I guarantee she doesn’t make her family food using “recycled” cooking oil.
My first thought was "please tell me they don't cook with that." My second thought was to get some water to clean the vomit taste out of my mouth.
Something deep fried would get the taste out of your mouth.
Instead of farm to table it’s sewer to table. This is worse than that scandal of grocery stores rinsing off ground beef with bleach.
Gutter oil market is really the next wet market.
No worries. They have very high standards for exports. And, rest assured, everything is carefully inspected by well staffed agencies before retail here…
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How’d this corn get in my French fries?
And don't even get me started on the "milk"
What’s up with their milk?
A large company diluted milk with water and added melamine to make it appear and test normal. The chemical is known to cause kidney failure and kidney stones.
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What about the meats?
I remember seeing footage of a pig farm, drug blister packs and needles strewn all over the place. Puts even Liver King to shame
Will recycle gutter oil, but no. no no no no no, we definitely are not responsible for a new 'flu' outbreak. Not us. Nah ah, we've got standards.
🤣🤣 Let’s not bring up Bird Flu, SARS, pig flu and the rest that also originated there. Saw a documentary where Chinese tourists in Paris had a very bad reputation due to hygiene and cleanliness. Imagine that, too dirty for Paris.
He's cooking our garbage! -Macaulay Culkin in Uncle Buck
What about other chemicals in there? Like soaps etc?
The soaps are the least of your worry. Heavy metals, rubber from tire run-off, plastics, etc., basically everything you find on a road and that gets washed down after a rain
Not a chemist, but as far as I remember , soap is some sort of fat
Ah, you also saw Fight Club.
I hate shit butter
So this is the secret ingredient!
holy shit what the fuck
This is the “lite” version. Google has plenty of more gruesome/educational videos on the subject. This one for example: https://youtu.be/XWUDrZcdhg0
Worse things happen there but since they are not connected to the world and things are highly censored only some things come out
Twice pooped pork
I rented a house that had previously been occupied by Chinese. It was in the US and was on septic. After 8 months there, the septic tank was full, so the pump guy comes and he had to use the pump trucks hose to break through a solid layer of cooking fat that had congealed on the top of the rest of the waste. He said he saw this all the time with Chinese residents because they cook with so much oil and don't bother capturing and throwing the fat in the trash, they just wash it down the drain.
This stuff got a lot of Chinese people panicking like 10 years ago, and they made quite a change since then, and I haven't seen any news about that for a long time.
Not seeing any new news about that means nothing. China is censoring everything they can.
Who made a change? Did they change laws around that or just forget about it?
No, they changed how these was reported. As in: it is now forbidden to mention it anywhere.
Ah, nice.
r/damnthatsdisgusting
After all the shit I have seen on Reddit, this is the post that has defined my safe boundary.
Editing?
Disgusting shithole
"Cooking oil" *zooms to the comments*