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This is just a mini story that i have recently heard about. It involves the wooden disposable chopsticks found at some chinese restaurants. Some of u might have heard, some of u might have not heard about it. Anyway,s hers the gist of it.
It seems that certain brands of packed, wooden chopsticks are made in an extreamly weird fashion and might be one of those things u blame china for ex: lead in barbie dolls.
1. The chopsticks are cut from bamboo trees which are cut down to size to form normal sized chopstick.
2. They are bleached using SULFUR (EWW) and HYDROGEN PEROXIDE (WTF)
3. Dryed
4. Ready to be exported
5. Takes about 1 month to get from the factory to the final destination; in the mean time the chopsticks are exposed to various rodents and insects, including but not limited to rats and cockroaches.
6. The chopsticks here are not yet wrapped, so they are wrapped in plastic packaging at the destination. They dont disinfect the chopstick either.
7. Customer uses chopsticks.
8. Inside the chopsticks are thousands of tiny pores, where the SULFUR and the HYDROGEN PEROXIDE stays in until you use them.
9. We are cutting up over 29 billion bamboo trees a year for disposable chopsticks
10. Whats even worse is that people actually recycle these things; by bleaching using SULFUR and HYDROGEN PEROXIDE.
Think twice before going to Panda Express.
  
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Or we can stop thinking at all, and just eat with the god damn chopsticks.
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Cayman Islands24199 Posts
sulfur is not that bad, srsly. and peroxide is ok. there is hte usda you know.
what is htis panda express thing
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
- sulfur and h2o2 are not going to do anything to you in small quantities.
- h2h2 decomposes pretty fast into water and oxygen too, spontaneously, so you won't find it in dried chopsticks;
- small amount of sulfites (not sulfur, its sulfites that u can find in chopsticks) are not harmful, in fact a glass of wine or a maraschino cherry has a ton more than a chopstick has, and potatoes have more h2o2 than a million chop sticks.
- as for the roach and rodent shit.. your macaroni and cheese has more of that than you will ever find in a chop stick.
btw bamboo chopsticks, are a bad example, first bamboos are not trees, and second, they grow fast - you can keep growing bamboo just for that purpose, i.e. a crop; now chopsticks made out of other woods can be and usually are a waste of resources..
Anyway even if you don't want to use chopsticks, use a fork: Panda Express provides them. Yeah, think twice about everything you read or what you hear.
urban legends
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Yeah... hydrogen peroxide isn't that bad (but I wouldn't exactly chug it), Sulfur dioxide... I'd be less inclined to touch something that had been treated with it, but apparently it's just like the crap they put in hot dogs (guess I shouldn't be eating hotdogs? :S).
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On September 24 2007 08:37 Physician wrote:- sulfur and h2o2 are not going to do anything to you in small quantities. - h2h2 decomposes pretty fast into water and oxygen too, spontaneously, so you won't find it in dried chopsticks; - small amount of sulfites (not sulfur, its sulfites that u can find in chopsticks) are not harmful, in fact a glass of wine or a maraschino cherry has a ton more than a chopstick has, and potatoes have more h2o2 than a million chop sticks. - as for the roach and rodent shit.. your macaroni and cheese has more of that than you will ever find in a chop stick. btw bamboo chopsticks, are a bad example, first bamboos are not trees, and second, they grow fast - you can keep growing bamboo just for that purpose, i.e. a crop; now chopsticks made out of other woods can be and usually are a waste of resources.. Anyway even if you don't want to use chopsticks, use a fork: Panda Express provides them. Yeah, think twice about everything you read or what you hear. urban legends
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when i read the title, i thought this was going to be about panda express...
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^ rofl yea. btw nice ownage physician
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bamboo is a grass. so it really doesn't matter.
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ragnar birko quotes again!!!
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On September 24 2007 08:37 Physician wrote:- sulfur and h2o2 are not going to do anything to you in small quantities. - h2h2 decomposes pretty fast into water and oxygen too, spontaneously, so you won't find it in dried chopsticks; - small amount of sulfites (not sulfur, its sulfites that u can find in chopsticks) are not harmful, in fact a glass of wine or a maraschino cherry has a ton more than a chopstick has, and potatoes have more h2o2 than a million chop sticks. - as for the roach and rodent shit.. your macaroni and cheese has more of that than you will ever find in a chop stick. btw bamboo chopsticks, are a bad example, first bamboos are not trees, and second, they grow fast - you can keep growing bamboo just for that purpose, i.e. a crop; now chopsticks made out of other woods can be and usually are a waste of resources.. Anyway even if you don't want to use chopsticks, use a fork: Panda Express provides them. Yeah, think twice about everything you read or what you hear. urban legends
lol.. you should write a blog 2 X)
that was awesome
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o.0 well i just thought it was scary whats really in those chopsticks.
Plus they fucking reuse them.....
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I've never been to Panda Express, is it special? or is it just like any other American Chinese restaurant but with more grease.
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Typical, layman gets scared by obscure sounding chemical names. Everything is a chemical...
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United States24690 Posts
On September 24 2007 08:37 Physician wrote:
- as for the roach and rodent shit.. your macaroni and cheese has more of that than you will ever find in a chop stick.
Uh, what? Can you be more specific?
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
# micronesia - well if you ever worked near stored grain, you wouldn't need specifics, you just see the mouse and rat droppings, the beetle and other insect larvae and eggs, the yeast, the fungi infestations yourself etc..about 20%-50% of the worlds grains get gobbled up by pests, fungi and bacteria before they ever reach the consumer.. then there is high and low quality grains.. you don't want to go there, but the lower the quality the more dirty too.. bottom line, stored grains (even those that go to make flour, which in turn ends up as macaroni) all have a level of "acceptable" contaminants.. from pesticides, roach and rodent feces and a huge list of other critters.. also anywhere in the food chain, all the way into the box and box storage pests can continue to add their eggs, feces, saliva etc.. and yeast and bacteria their spores etc.. luckily the food industry works on keeping the contaminants to a "healthy" minimum.
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You should be more worried about the quality of the food than the goddamn chopsticks that are used mang..
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