Chinese Cardboard Bun Hoax
The cardboard-bun hoax was reported in July 2007 on Beijing Television's BTV-7 (the Lifestyle Channel) as an alleged undercover story revealing that street vendors were adding cardboard to their baozi (Chinese: 包子; pinyin: bāozi), or pork buns. In the report, footage was shown on the air that implied that local vendors were selling pork dumplings filled with a composite of 60 percent caustic soda-soaked cardboard and 40 percent fatty pork. Coming after several product recalls of Chinese products, the report sparked widespread disgust.
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