*wtf *dark

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They're making cheap knockoffs in China now?

Next you'll be telling me they're violating human rights.

This is very common fact in Far East Asia right now.

Chinese products have a horrible reputation in Korea and Japan.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'worms, found, chocolate, south, korea, china, seoul, yuck' to 'worms, found, chocolate, china, chinese, product, yuck' - edited by legacy0100

Blergh... Are you and Zonbie trying to make us all puke with chocolate worms and bleeding eyes? I proclaim you the official couple of the dark channel.

Welcome to ALL your food if the Republicans had their way with the FDA. Remember: Industry is the best police of industry!

In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Blergh... Are you and Zonbie trying to make us all puke with chocolate worms and bleeding eyes? I proclaim you the official couple of the dark channel.

Bloody Rotten Valentines Day! Hooray!

More trouble for the * world affairs of international trade. And more good reason to buy local.

whats the big deal? its protein

>> ^legacy0100:
In reply to this comment by dystopianfuturetoday:
Blergh... Are you and Zonbie trying to make us all puke with chocolate worms and bleeding eyes? I proclaim you the official couple of the dark channel.
Bloody Rotten Valentines Day! Hooray!


how did you say that in Korean?

So true then I would have to change the title: Urrg my Chocolate with protein is moving!!!

>> ^StukaFox:
Welcome to ALL your food if the Republicans had their way with the FDA. Remember: Industry is the best police of industry!


Although I'm Libertarian and support a modest FDA, arguing about their role right now is like complaining about a leaky roof during a flood. So with that out of the way, I'll point out that the consumer's best friend is always going to be a solid court system. Even the most staunch capitalists aren't in favor of anarchy, protecting rights, upholding contracts, and offering recourse is essential, and I'm not sure China has that. Just recently, some guy here sold peanuts he knew were contaminated, and the socialists came out of the woodwork to claim that this is what capitalists are incentivized to do, make profits. Meanwhile, the company is about to be sued into oblivion, it has already filed for bankruptcy. If he was a good capitalist, he would have done what was profitable, and selling poisoned peanuts was the least profitable decision he could have made under this system. No system, it turns out, can prevent people from being idiots.

Still, the socialists argue that there is a way to protect everyone from idiots: by charging each family $1,000 a day to appoint one government inspector per peanut, and then $1,000 more to hire watchdogs for those inspectors, and so forth. Similarly, a socialist would probably approve regulation that locked us all in our basements to reduce the murder and fraud rate to 0. That's just an extreme example of how socialists fundamentally cannot understand that saving a few human lives simply is not worth incurring a greater, but non-fatal aggregate cost. In this case: the freedom to interact with other human beings. In the food case, the cost of the food itself. How much money should we take from people to ensure the safety of their food.

I think my biggest criticism of the FDA is that any agency which purports to protect you with its powers is subject to corruption. The FDA colludes with businesses all the time to look the other way on things, sort of like how impotent the SEC became (and to what degree were people less skeptical thinking that they were protecting them?). They allow things that have been banned in other countries for years: water fluoridation, bovine growth hormones in milk, nitrates in meat.... they were paid off in the 80s by artificial sweetener interests (billion dollar industry) to ban stevia, a natural patent-less sugar substitute that is far safer. And maybe the most dangerous of all, they have the power to ban promising new drugs they deem "unsafe" or "experimintal." Doesn't matter if you're dying of cancer and have nothing to lose, they won't let you choose.

If we could sue the government like you can sue private industries then we'd see just how 'fair' the government is about its regulatory powers... Oh what I wouldn't give to have the power to sue the federal government in a CAL for the Freddie/Fannie debacle, the 'bailout' bill, and this stupid 'stimulus' package.

I just got back from a long business trip to Incheon Korea plus Shanghai and I've got to tell you those are just typical meal worm looking insects. It probably won't hurt you except for maybe your feelings when you give it to your girlfriend because you can't afford the real thing. China gets a bad rap but truthfully you get what you pay for there, same as everywhere else. The only difference is that you have the alternative to pay less if you want to try your luck.

Oh, Ambassador, with these worms you are really freaking us the hell out.

>> ^BansheeX:
Even the most staunch capitalists aren't in favor of anarchy, protecting rights ...

I can agree with that!

Business is about taking risks. Cutting costs by endangering consumers or the environment is a risk that can save you money, if you get away with it you win at life. If you get caught you better hope you didn't just kill a lot of babies in China.

Both Chinese and local Korean made chocolates have worms in them, but everyone focuses on the Chinese made chocolates. Interesting....

Also, anyone know how these counterfeit products made it to store shelves in the first place?

When has "Made in China" NOT been damaged?

You got worms in my chocolate! You got your chocolate on my worms! Hey! It's delicious!

Chinese food has no quality control. I may have inadvertently poisoned all my close friends with Big White Rabbit Candy before it was recalled for having melamine in it .

eww

>> ^Fjnbk:
Chinese food has no quality control. I may have inadvertently poisoned all my close friends with Big White Rabbit Candy before it was recalled for having melamine in it .


Actually, this is not true. The whole aim of Chinese dairy farmers adding melamine into milk was, ironically, to pass the quality control for milk protein content. It was a case of unscrupulous farmers and suppliers staying a step ahead of an inexperienced reglatory body. In North America, quality control and regulation of diary is much easier with prevalence of large industrial farms.

Anyways, that distinction is moot considering the chocolates in this video are counterfeit. I mean it's pretty fucking stupid to expect quality from fake food.