[Zhang Fei]

I almost forgot! You know those delicious steamed buns that contain red, minced sweet pork? A large batch of those exported from China to Japan were found to contain flavored bits of discarded tampons.

Unless China is importing used tampons, I'm skeptical about this rumor. The Chinese market is 0% tampon-oriented. This compares to 2% tampon market share penetration in Hong Kong. Both %'s are abysmally-low by European and NA standards, but that's the way they roll.

[gaijin]

I’m probably in error, here, as I’m a guy —it might indeed have been PADS, but to me it’s more or less all the same, and I just said, “tampons”.

To me it’s all just, “gross” so that’s why I typed that. ;)

Another one from about 10 years ago in Japan centered on milk —that some outfit in China had struck on a way to cook up something that seemed all to heck like milk but was not that at all.

Or it could have been artificial EGGS? It sounded amazing.