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Swiss James
Joined: 26 Nov 2003
Location: Shanghai
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 Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 12:28 am Post subject: sweet potato toothpicks |
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I was out at a restaurant with a korean friend on Friday- at the end of the meal he told us that the crappy green toothpicks you often get (instead of the good wooden kind) are made out of sweet potato.
I wasn't having any of it- they look like plastic to me- but can anyone confirm or deny? |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 12:57 am Post subject: |
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| Thats correct. Some restaurant scraps get recycled as hogfeed & some pigs were getting the wooden picks lodged or impaled in their throats. The sweet potato jobs turn to mush once they get wet. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 6:37 am Post subject: |
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schwa
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| Thats correct. Some restaurant scraps get recycled as hogfeed & some pigs were getting the wooden picks lodged or impaled in their throats. The sweet potato jobs turn to mush once they get wet. |
Did you make that up? |
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Mankind
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 7:17 am Post subject: |
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| desultude wrote: |
schwa
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| Thats correct. Some restaurant scraps get recycled as hogfeed & some pigs were getting the wooden picks lodged or impaled in their throats. The sweet potato jobs turn to mush once they get wet. |
Did you make that up? |
No thats true. It's actually against the law for resturants to use wood picks (at least it used to be, assume it still is).
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peppergirl
Joined: 07 Dec 2003
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Mankind wrote: |
No thats true. It's actually against the law for resturants to use wood picks (at least it used to be, assume it still is).
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Yes, this is true. The toothpicks are made of starch, don't know where they get it from, but I guess it could be from sweet potatoes.
Restaurants are also not allowed to have disposible chopsticks, those should be exclusively for take-away/delivery food. |
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Juggertha
Joined: 27 May 2003
Location: Anyang, Korea
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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I was eating in one on a staff meeting today and told everyone that story. They all broke out laughing and htought me the fool. I put one in my water cup to see if it'd disolve.. it didnt but became more maliable.
Anyways my WJN confirmed the story and made me feel like less of an oaf. |
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