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imBLIND
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2626 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-09-23 22:58:47
September 23 2007 22:58 GMT
#1
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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Wizard
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Poland5055 Posts
September 23 2007 23:04 GMT
#2
Or we can stop thinking at all, and just eat with the god damn chopsticks.
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oneofthem
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Cayman Islands24199 Posts
September 23 2007 23:05 GMT
#3
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 *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-09-24 00:02:12
September 23 2007 23:37 GMT
#4
- 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


"I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities...."
Wizard
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Poland5055 Posts
September 23 2007 23:41 GMT
#5
amen
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zer0das
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
United States8519 Posts
September 24 2007 00:06 GMT
#6
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).
zobz
Profile Joined November 2005
Canada2175 Posts
September 24 2007 00:31 GMT
#7
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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Fobbish
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
Korea (South)1071 Posts
September 24 2007 00:38 GMT
#8
when i read the title, i thought this was going to be about panda express...
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vstar
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Korea (South)693 Posts
September 24 2007 00:57 GMT
#9
err ok
inept.
Profile Joined August 2007
Iceland69 Posts
September 24 2007 00:58 GMT
#10
^ rofl yea. btw nice ownage physician
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fusionsdf
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
Canada15390 Posts
September 24 2007 02:06 GMT
#11
hahahaha

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azndng
Profile Joined July 2004
United States344 Posts
September 24 2007 02:09 GMT
#12
bamboo is a grass. so it really doesn't matter.
Gokey
Profile Joined November 2006
United States2722 Posts
September 24 2007 02:13 GMT
#13
ragnar birko quotes again!!!
Q(-_-Q)
Profile Joined August 2007
United States348 Posts
September 24 2007 02:43 GMT
#14
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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imBLIND
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2626 Posts
September 24 2007 03:12 GMT
#15
o.0 well i just thought it was scary whats really in those chopsticks.
Plus they fucking reuse them.....
im deaf
Titusmaster6
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States5937 Posts
September 24 2007 03:21 GMT
#16
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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Aphelion
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States2720 Posts
September 24 2007 03:29 GMT
#17
Typical, layman gets scared by obscure sounding chemical names. Everything is a chemical...
But Garimto was always more than just a Protoss...
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24676 Posts
September 24 2007 03:40 GMT
#18
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?
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
Physician *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
Last Edited: 2007-09-24 15:38:01
September 24 2007 05:19 GMT
#19
# 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.
"I have beheld the births of negative-suns and borne witness to the entropy of entire realities...."
exalted
Profile Blog Joined March 2004
United States3612 Posts
September 24 2007 06:17 GMT
#20
You should be more worried about the quality of the food than the goddamn chopsticks that are used mang..
too easy
micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24676 Posts
September 24 2007 06:27 GMT
#21
On September 24 2007 14:19 Physician wrote:
# 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 they work on keeping the contaminants to a "healthy" minimum.

Oh so there was no specific significance to 'macaroni and cheese.' I assumed you didn't just mean the conditions by which grains in general are stored, but now you have clarified that that is exactly what you meant.
ModeratorThere are animal crackers for people and there are people crackers for animals.
SpiritoftheTunA
Profile Blog Joined August 2006
United States20903 Posts
October 02 2007 01:09 GMT
#22
wait, what the fuck, are you a fucking idiot

bamboo is one of the fastest growing forms of wood around

you should be thankful they arent using maple or something ridiculous
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Dr.Kill-Joy
Profile Blog Joined June 2007
United States627 Posts
October 02 2007 01:24 GMT
#23
How about use Forks ?? Or how about Sporks? Im pretty sure at panda express or the one i went to they give you both. ChopSticks and Forks.
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