#SouthKorea is urging people not to eat fried #toothpicks made of starch in a shape resembling curly fries, after videos of the practice were widely shared on #socialmedia.
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Funny because there's a lot of wood in processed food 😢
Interesting to watch but no thanks 😮
I’m glad it is not US for once
The height of STUPIDITY.
This Korea lol
In Korea, only wooden toothpicks were used. But after eating at a restaurant, the wooden toothpicks used by customers were mixed with the food waste. In Korea, people used to collect clean food waste and used it as a pig's feed. Then, wooden toothpicks often got stuck in pigs' esophagus. So the government had to use toothpicks made from sweet potato starch in restaurants.
I wouldn’t be a fool and buy that in no country.
Darwin will find his victims.
so make eatable toothpick and all will be good
If its organic, why not.
That one smart asian classmate:
"see told you its a stereotype! stop categorizing me! and dimishing my achievements!"
"ok man we believe you"
Serously though social media clout can't be good for the mind, too much to perform for. In just a group of 5 people, we had fellas willing to eat paper and glass to "impress", we were preteens mind you. Social media just multiplies this bc you have hundreds if not thousands and millions.
How are they green? Imma try deep frying toothpicks just to see if this is what happens. Makes no sense
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Tide pod sauce. Delicious.
Wow. We have to tell people this?
Toothpicks? Cmon people.. everyone knows toilet paper has the flavor 🤙
FOR ANYONE WONDERING.
South Korean starch toothpicks are made from corn or potato starch, sorbitol, and sometimes green food dye. Sorbitol is a sugar alcohol that occurs naturally in some fruits. Since they're made as a biodegradable disposable hygiene product, their safety as a food for consumption has not been verified. To avoid any potential lawsuits the manufacturer and the government issued a warning against their consumption.
Probably an improvement on there usual cuisine.
People who have ate these are genuinely stupid and brain dead, no lie.
Plastic …. deep fried for human consumption? You need a government warning? Huh????
🙌 Asians 🙌
But you share the post…
Guys listen up!
If the toothpicks were made of plastic, they even doesn't be fried.
Actually, that toothpicks are made of starch
so it means it's edible! (But taste isn't good
Don't do it!!!)
i thought they were worms😂