Topic: Just two white guys doing white guy stuff together
+Anonymous A — 6 months ago #67,609
+Anonymous B — 6 months ago, 34 minutes later[T] [B] #671,370
traditional chinese delicacy+Anonymous C — 6 months ago, 2 hours later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #671,383
@previous (B)
1.) How do you know that picture is from China?
2.) How do you know what substance that is?
3.) Why do you assume it’s intended to be eaten?
1.) How do you know that picture is from China?
2.) How do you know what substance that is?
3.) Why do you assume it’s intended to be eaten?
·Anonymous C — 6 months ago, 32 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #671,387
I found a Wikipedia page that mentions incidents of "gutter oil" in Japan, Taiwan, and China…
https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/%E5%9C%B0%E6%B2%9F%E6%B2%B9
https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/%E5%9C%B0%E6%B2%9F%E6%B2%B9
·Anonymous C — 6 months ago, 8 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #671,388
@previous (C)
Now that I’m looking into it "gutter oil" is a Chinese slang term for recycled oil.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_grease
But the pictures are from "oil collection companies" in the United States… and I googled "oil collection companies" and found some in my state…
Now that I’m looking into it "gutter oil" is a Chinese slang term for recycled oil.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_grease
But the pictures are from "oil collection companies" in the United States… and I googled "oil collection companies" and found some in my state…
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·Anonymous C — 6 months ago, 11 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #671,389
@previous (C)
After looking into it, it seems clear that "gutter oil" means "recycled cooking oil" but recycling waste cooking oil is actually normal because cooking oil can be used in biofuels and for other industrial purposes. So making gross looking oil from strange sources isn’t really weird and it is done in the United States too, there are plenty of "cooking oil recycling" companies you can easily find in the US online. But the problem in China was that companies were selling recycled oil as non-recycled oil illegally. But the numbers I found on those websites were in the thousands of tonnes. So I think probably that specific picture isn’t a picture of one of those operations because the scale wouldn’t make sense.
After looking into it, it seems clear that "gutter oil" means "recycled cooking oil" but recycling waste cooking oil is actually normal because cooking oil can be used in biofuels and for other industrial purposes. So making gross looking oil from strange sources isn’t really weird and it is done in the United States too, there are plenty of "cooking oil recycling" companies you can easily find in the US online. But the problem in China was that companies were selling recycled oil as non-recycled oil illegally. But the numbers I found on those websites were in the thousands of tonnes. So I think probably that specific picture isn’t a picture of one of those operations because the scale wouldn’t make sense.