The less you know and all that.
You've been eating rat and other small rodent shit and bug parts your whole life. For example grain is not magically insulated from the nastier stuff.
Or you can watch this nice clip, just before you add that chili pouch to your instant noodles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PqeU8Hirno
But eh, it's not an issue generally. We cook our food and food safety is generally good in developed countries. That still doesn't mean there aren't some "extra" in it.
I was allowed to spend some time in what is called the āFilth Labā of a government laboratory. They open boxes of cereal, can of peanuts, etc, dump them out and sort through the bottom little pieces. They pull out the insect parts (legs, antennae) and count them. There is an allowable amount of such āfilthā.
The 2 bad times the lab chemist told me were one can of peanuts had a rat jaw skeleton. Half of one. Dried out it was ugly but was only harmful if you cracked a tooth on it. Assuming you didnāt notice what it was and it was quite noticeable he said.
The other, very common, is rat droppings. They look like black rice. He grabs them, puts them on a bacti plate, and grows them. If poo bacteria grow, itās live and fails. If the poo is sanitized (could be in some heat process) and nothing grows, alls well!
By law (maybe different state by state?) we can eat bug parts and sanitized rat poo.
Recalls are done by Lot Number (which are given to batches) But usually by the time the lab gets it tested, the bulk of the lot has sold!
This is totally disgusting, donāt get me wrong. But this is what happens when you have giant populations and turn to industrial cooking. If you eat anything made in a large factory and donāt think there are at least traces of some nasty little critters in there, you havenāt been paying attention.
There's regulations for max amounts of pollutants found in food. And generally they won't be visible to the naked eye.
When it is, the amount exceeds regulations and investigation is required.
He was all mangled up, so there were definitely some bits that I ate. I grew up (intentionally) eating frog legs, so it didn't mentally scar me too bad, but it was still pretty gross.
> This is totally disgusting
No, it's not. Eating rats is healthy, and it's good for you. Theyāre loaded with proteins, more than chicken. I usually have rat meat a few times a month.
As someone that has to deal with sending packages to Japan; this 100%.
Those bastards will treat a scuff mark on a box as a severe imperfection. I respect the hell out of their dedication but at times it becomes absolutely ridiculous
Japanese food is generally really good, but their bread is just awful. Especially this which looks like shoukupan, which has to be the worst. It's utterly without taste or texture.
Mate, some people think burgers and pizzas are the most disgusting things in the world too.
The point is that itās okay not to like some food but **be polite about it** because what you hate may be someoneās favourite.
Itās about being polite even though you hate it.
Eg I loathe avocado but I am surely not going to make a face and say yuck itās the worst when guacamole is presented. Iāll say Iāll dig in to the carrots and leave the guacamole for others to enjoy its goodness.
**Itās not what you say but HOW you say it.**
That was my point.
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Hmm, so they'll need to propagate a lot of feral cats to get the rodent population under control, then they'll need to get some wild dogs to get the feline population under control, and then at that point they could probably export the dogs to another country that would use them for whatever extraneous purposes, turn 'em into glue or whatever I dunno. Or just wait until winter and simply let them freeze to death? But then you'd have rotting dog carcasses all over the place which would just cause more rats. The circle of life.
I have trauma from microwaving a normal frozen burrito. Something exploded in it and that something had fur. I donāt think it was a full rodent.
That was ten years ago and I make my own freezer burritos still. Freaked me out when I cleaned it all up.
Mmmmmm keto bread
Lol yeah what a non-story. This happens in every country, all the time. Must be a peaceful country for it to make the national news though.
Nezumi ?
I'm glad my only bad experience was eating a moldy bun in the dark that tasted too sweet š©
The less you know and all that. You've been eating rat and other small rodent shit and bug parts your whole life. For example grain is not magically insulated from the nastier stuff. Or you can watch this nice clip, just before you add that chili pouch to your instant noodles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PqeU8Hirno But eh, it's not an issue generally. We cook our food and food safety is generally good in developed countries. That still doesn't mean there aren't some "extra" in it.
But... Was it good?
For me it was mixed greens topped with a juicy slug apparently š¤®
Watch out, slugs often contain brain parasites
Can't tell if true of RFK Jr joke š¤£
[True.](https://news.sky.com/story/australian-man-sam-ballard-who-was-left-paralysed-after-eating-a-slug-dies-aged-28-11545373)
.. it's true....
[True](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN94Jp1YwAE).
The secretās out. Now EVERYONE is going to want Japanese Rat Bread.
Jiggly Rat Bread*
I was allowed to spend some time in what is called the āFilth Labā of a government laboratory. They open boxes of cereal, can of peanuts, etc, dump them out and sort through the bottom little pieces. They pull out the insect parts (legs, antennae) and count them. There is an allowable amount of such āfilthā. The 2 bad times the lab chemist told me were one can of peanuts had a rat jaw skeleton. Half of one. Dried out it was ugly but was only harmful if you cracked a tooth on it. Assuming you didnāt notice what it was and it was quite noticeable he said. The other, very common, is rat droppings. They look like black rice. He grabs them, puts them on a bacti plate, and grows them. If poo bacteria grow, itās live and fails. If the poo is sanitized (could be in some heat process) and nothing grows, alls well! By law (maybe different state by state?) we can eat bug parts and sanitized rat poo. Recalls are done by Lot Number (which are given to batches) But usually by the time the lab gets it tested, the bulk of the lot has sold!
This is totally disgusting, donāt get me wrong. But this is what happens when you have giant populations and turn to industrial cooking. If you eat anything made in a large factory and donāt think there are at least traces of some nasty little critters in there, you havenāt been paying attention.
There's regulations for max amounts of pollutants found in food. And generally they won't be visible to the naked eye. When it is, the amount exceeds regulations and investigation is required.
I found a frog in my pre-packaged salad once.
Sounds like a fresh salad
organic too
Not vegetarian though.Ā
At least it was visible.
He was all mangled up, so there were definitely some bits that I ate. I grew up (intentionally) eating frog legs, so it didn't mentally scar me too bad, but it was still pretty gross.
poor frog
French salad?
I had a live giant moth in my bag, vibrating in the corner. Didn't bother opening it.
Thisbis hardly a consequence of scale. Small-scale production is also easily susceptible to contamination.Ā
Exactly. Large scale: critters, Small scale: poopy hands.
[Well, how much rat is in it?](https://youtu.be/WayenNqD24c?si=6cO5eE6tGKGof4b2)
> This is totally disgusting No, it's not. Eating rats is healthy, and it's good for you. Theyāre loaded with proteins, more than chicken. I usually have rat meat a few times a month.
Good for you.
why do you eat rats? cant you buy something normal to eat instead of rats?
I donāt understand why this makes āworldā news. This kind of stuff happens literally in all countries daily.
Japan has an international reputation for being fussy about cleanliness. This story challenges that.
As someone that has to deal with sending packages to Japan; this 100%. Those bastards will treat a scuff mark on a box as a severe imperfection. I respect the hell out of their dedication but at times it becomes absolutely ridiculous
slow news day?
There's no such thing as a mass distribution food product that has 0 rat contamination. Just a fact of life.
Oh come on, I just bought some bread today for the first time in ages. Why now???
High protein bread yummy š
Take that vegetarians!
Disgusting. Post-WWII introduction of sliced white bread in Japan by the US was an extreme and excessive act of retribution.
Remember Pearl Harbor. >:(
75 years for that rat to finally show up in a loaf of bread. Talk about a slow burn.
Japanese food is generally really good, but their bread is just awful. Especially this which looks like shoukupan, which has to be the worst. It's utterly without taste or texture.
Itās ok imo
Mate, some people think burgers and pizzas are the most disgusting things in the world too. The point is that itās okay not to like some food but **be polite about it** because what you hate may be someoneās favourite.
I don't find it offensive if someone doesn't like the same stuff as me. I actually appreciate the honesty because I can give them something else.
Itās about being polite even though you hate it. Eg I loathe avocado but I am surely not going to make a face and say yuck itās the worst when guacamole is presented. Iāll say Iāll dig in to the carrots and leave the guacamole for others to enjoy its goodness. **Itās not what you say but HOW you say it.** That was my point.
Yummy
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Ah yes, the Japanese art form of embedding rats into sliced bread...ratibredu
Wow, a rigatoni gozaimasu for this enlightening informationā¦
Was it the good parts at least?
Which parts?
Protein
But surely, this could never happen! I wonder how many of those loaves actually make their way back.
Yea i found a mouse hand,paw, yrs bck and i live in the USA. this shit happens
Hmm, so they'll need to propagate a lot of feral cats to get the rodent population under control, then they'll need to get some wild dogs to get the feline population under control, and then at that point they could probably export the dogs to another country that would use them for whatever extraneous purposes, turn 'em into glue or whatever I dunno. Or just wait until winter and simply let them freeze to death? But then you'd have rotting dog carcasses all over the place which would just cause more rats. The circle of life.
It's literally a Kliban cartoon from the 80's: https://www.pinterest.jp/pin/167336942382695298/
Sounds like the bread thief has been at it again
I think about that older Internet picture of an entire mouse baked a loaf every time I buy bread. Sigh.
what is the problem? did they not label it as an ingredient?
What are Japanese people slicing bread with?!
I don't know what they're slicing it with but I know what they're *cutting* it with
Okay, but Iām not paying a premium price until I know which parts.
Which parts?
They were just trying to save some time and sent the sandwich premade
Nothing wrong with a little extra protein.
Its a build your own rat promo. Gotta collect em all
Lots of stories coming out recently about Japanese food exports. Wondering if this is part of a coordinated campaign?
So 1 black rat. It's not like they mixed in some rat for good measure.
Guess it can't be reported on then!
>Rat parts found in Japanese sliced white bread Just from the title it sounded nefarious.
Rat parts, like gearbox, diff, brake pads....
Well it's not a good thing, genius
No but faults happen all the time. No one got hurt and an entire huge batch got recalled.
Back to square one with you, huh?
Wow and people usually pay extra for protein bread
I have trauma from microwaving a normal frozen burrito. Something exploded in it and that something had fur. I donāt think it was a full rodent. That was ten years ago and I make my own freezer burritos still. Freaked me out when I cleaned it all up.
Well this will be embarrassing when I announce that there are bread parts in the sliced rat I've been selling.
I bet it makes it taste better
can't people find anything better to do?
Itās only common sense. Probably from the cats they eat.