Back Stories » Chicken Smuggled From Vietnam to China Had Been in Storage Since 1967

If you’re eating, you’ll probably want to stop for a moment. Chinese authorities have raided a food storage facility in Nanning, China and found tons of substandard meat, imported from Vietnam. Oh, and some of the chicken feet in question date back to 1967. What the actual f*ck

The storage site, which was raided in May, was run by a gang who allegedly smuggled chicken feet, beef tripe and cartilage across the Guangxi border from Vietnam.

You’re probably thinking to yourself, “what dumbass can’t tell that they are eating 45-year-old chicken?”

Well, with the help of some Chinese master chemists, bleach and “other chemicals” were added to the chicken to mask its age. Selling the meat on the market as fresh, the gang tuned a US$2,600 per ton profit.

And it’s not only tainted chicken that’s making its way to China. There have been multiple incidents of rotten bear paws found at the border over the past 12 months. Though rotting, the paws were sold to restaurants where they were cooked in a way that would hide the smell of decay.

With the problem growing, the Vietnamese and Chinese governments pledged last month to crackdown on illegal cross-border activities.

That being said, if we all pool the rotting food in our fridges and wait a few decades, we could be rich.

We'd doubledown on chicken feet...

[South China Morning Post // Photo via Martin Kenny]

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