South Korea urges people not to eat fried toothpicks
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Published 2024-01-25
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All Comments (21)
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Maybe South Korea is more like the US than I thought
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They've yet to discover the secret sauce... Tide pods.
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This generations brains are so fried☠️☠️☠️🤦🏽♂️
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Nah at this point it’s just natural selection
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The fact we have to “urge people not to eat fried toothpicks” should scare everyone
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i remember a time when we thought plastics were in the noodles. now we just eat the plastic with seasoning
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Korean toothpicks are made of corn starch! They're not eating plastic
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Ban fried toothpicks. And only allow baked toothpicks for consumption. Or boiled toothpicks.
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Im South Korean and I can assure you that we dont normaly do this. Instead, we deep fry calculators with shredded math books on top.
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These are made of starch… but definitely NOT food grade 😂
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The fact that this is a thing is concerning. People are really dumb.
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Cellulose is added to processed foods. Cellulose is derived from sawdust or cotton lint.
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Korean toothpicks are NOT made out of wood! It is made of corn or potato starch! Why is it that the western media doesn’t bother to explain that???? Despite the fact that it is made of starch, it is not known what happens to it when fried -hence the advisory! 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
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We should stop trying to prevent people from being dumb.
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....WHAT!..."NO CHICK FIL-A SAUCE"??
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Caught off guard seems more like a warning for us Americans 🤣
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Look up South Korean toothpicks. They are made from corn or potato starch and sorbitol, a fruit sugar alcohol. Green food coloring is often added. They are meant to be biodegradable not exactly ingested. They dont have wood toothpicks there like the US. This is mostly from popular "muckbang"videos which is nothing like tide pods challenge 🤦🤷
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Don’t stop them, let them live their lives
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People eating fired matchsticks
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What are Korean fried toothpicks made of? (answer below) Food coloring is used to impart a green hue to the toothpicks, made from "sweet potato or corn starch," which are seen as being environmentally friendly and biodegradable. Often used in restaurants in South Korea, they can also be used to pick up finger foods.
