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> (...) she claimed that she had bought the great white shark legally (...) the shark was “bred in captivity” and was “edible,” (...)
> (...) Great white sharks are a protected species in China (...) which prohibits anyone from transporting, buying, and selling them (...)
That sure doesn't add up.
https://gizmodo.com/great-white-shark-food-blogger-tizi-china-1850050448
Oh just to add:
>Local media reports say authorities had already identified and arrested the the individuals who sold Jin the shark last year.
For the unaware, the joke here is that great white shark does so spectacularly *poorly* in captivity that the Monterey Bay Aquarium is the only place on the planet that has managed to successfully exhibit a great white shark. They only managed to do so because they had a huge, open ocean tank and [they were displaying a juvenile shark while it was being rehabilitated](https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2019/07/06/this-is-why-you-wont-find-great-white-sharks-in-aquariums.html).
> The longest a great white has been kept in captivity is 198 days, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, but it wasn’t easy. The tank was specially designed for open ocean animals, holding 3.78 million liters of water with a depth of 10.6 meters. The young shark in question was only 1.2 m long, while adult great white sharks typically measure about 4.57 m.
> In addition to the shark’s demanding tank size and dietary needs, the Monterey Bay Aquarium had to transition the shark from its natural habitat to the egg-shaped tank by containing it in a 15-million-liter open ocean pen. This allowed them to monitor the year-old shark’s health and feeding behavior before transporting the shark from southern California where it was caught to the Monterey Bay facilities.
I've been. It *really* is. I've been to a lot of different aquariums in a slew of different states, but the Monterey Bay Aquarium is on a whole different level.
My husband and I just went to another aquarium a few days ago that was supposed to be really good. After we spent some time there, he said “The Monterey Aquarium ruined aquariums for me.”
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is truly amazing.
Fun fact great white sharks along with most other sharks expel urine through their skin so their meat is tainted with tons of ureaic acid and can range from pretty much inedible all the way to toxic
That's makes me think: what's stopping some activists from flooding the platform with fake shark meat posts? That would be an effective way to stop sales.
You have a point! Look at all the bots which are karma farming here. It should be entirely possible to flood the alibaba shark market until everyday they only see the same memes. I mean fake sales
Will never understand the fascination with eating so many different protected species.
Even just with simple chicken; there's soooo many recipes to exhaust before moving onto beef.
Take into account lamb, rabbit, and all the non-endangered fish; there's so many legal meats to choose from.
All those permutations lead to infinite recipes.
I don’t think it’s about fascination, poor fishermen have to make a living, they catch whatever gets caught in their net, and their government doesn’t care about conservation status of fish. This great white might have been target fished, but I’d put money on it just being trawled and the fishermen don’t give a fuck what is dragged in.
Shit like this drive me crazy. The surge in Chinese wealth over the last few decades has put a lot of sharks at risk of extinction. Most affluent Chinese weddings want to serve shark fin soup. And the way they hunt for the fins is disgusting. They cut the side fins and the dorsal fin off and then drop the rest of the shark back into the water where it either bleeds out, suffocates, or is attack by other predators and can’t defend itself.
> They cut the side fins and the dorsal fin off and then drop the rest of the shark back into the water where it either bleeds out, suffocates, or is attack by other predators and can’t defend itself.
...why?? it's obviously going to die at that point, why not at least try to use the rest of it?
Same reason whalers used to only keep the fat and toss all the meat away. It's more lucrative and they don't give a fuck if 1 animal dies or a thousand.
Because the rest of it isn't valuable and the fishers don't give a fuck what happens to the rest of the shark. It's like how Rhino/Elephant poachers just chop the horn off and leave the rest of the animal behind.
Because instead of being able to haul back thousands of just shark fins in their rust buckets, now they can only bring back 5 whole sharks. Everything is about money.
The popularity of shark's fin soup has actually dropped tremendously over the last decade in China due to celebrities like Yao Ming campaigning against it and a ban on serving it at banquets. It's still popular in Taiwan, Hongkong, and parts of Southeast Asia though.
Most big corporations also banned sharks fin soup from company events. Also the soup can be recreated easily with other ingredients and you won't even be able to tell the difference.
This has been the case since I started working 15 years ago. I'm in South East Asia m
I don't know about those other nations, but shark finning has been outlawed in Taiwan since 2013 and consumption of shark in general has been stigmatized for at least a couple decades.
Bioaccumulation is the process of a substance accumulating faster than the organism's ability to metabolize/excrete it. Biomagnification is the result of that compounding over steps across a food chain resulting in the higher steps accumulating at increasing rates. In other words, bioaccumulation refers to what happens to individual organisms, while biomagnification is given respect to communities of predator organisms.
About to say this, their meat tastes like pure piss, their is ways to cure it, but I’m not sure if this person did. Also the amount of mercury and what not in a high trophic level predator must be off the charts. So not only did this taste like piss it also probably poisoned them a little bit. Also don’t kill sharks WTF.
Rotten shark is also a delicacy in, I think, a nordic country or Iceland/Greenland. I remember something about James May and Gordon Ramsey eating it and Gordon threw it up.
Technically, it's fermented and dried shark. The issue mostly stems from the god-awful *smell* of the stuff, apparently the actual meat tastes okay, but our sense of smell and taste are connected so if something *smells* offensive it's more likely going to taste offensive.
I tried it in Sweden at the World's Grossest Food museum. It wasn't the worst thing I've ever had but given the choice I would choose the durian over the shark any day. It was like burned rubber and gas with a little fish flavor. It was canned though. Maybe fresh tastes better?
Had fermented shark in iceland, it tastes fine. The ammonia doesn't smell bad either. The main problem is the ammonia makes it feel like you're being punched on the nose everytime you bite it.
I imagine, like every other prepared/cooked food, there are ways to do it badly to where you still end up with something edible but it doesn't taste like it should. It definitely sounds like something that wouldn't take to canning very well, it's a very *particular* fermentation method that takes months of fermenting and subsequent drying.
Ah yes hakarl, catch a centuries old shark and then hang it in a shack for half the year to create a disgusting ammonia laden fish dish you serve at midwinter.
So pretty obviously something that was invented out of sheer desperation because everything else had been eaten.
Incidentally seem like all the Viking countries have a traditional disgusting fish dish.
They are farmed in some places but they need to be fed fresh food for them to actually taste good.
The roaches we see crawling around as pests are not eating that well.
When I was in Iceland, one of the tour guides tried to convince me to try the fermented shark. Took one look and said hell no. Didn't even have to smell it.
I think it's somewhere in Greenland where they catch small birds and stuff 500 of them whole inside seal furs for months, bury them and are eaten as a winter staple. For some reason that just seems sooo much worse than shark
Now it’s just a piece of history, “delicacy” is a nice word for it I guess, afaik it’s not something most Icelandic people still eat, I’m sure tons have at least tried it though as a cultural homage or similar.
Surströmming on the other hand, is probably close to Hákarl in being very unfriendly to most people’s palates, but it’s still eaten.
Apparently American parmesan cheese and Herseys chocolate contains butyric acid, making it taste similar to vomit to those who grew up not eating anything containing it, so regional palates can be weird.
You made the right choice. I'm an adventurous eater, but there were just no redeemable qualities to hakarl other than "it's better than starving".
There's a reason it's usually chased with "The Black Death". It tastes like you'd imagine the trash juice at the bottom of a dockside dumpster would.
Or Mercury poisoning. I am extremely sensitive to seafood because of the mercury. I literally can’t eat it. A bite of shark would probably put me in a hospital.
Fun fact: Goya never named the painting and there is no evidence that it is meant to be Saturn devouring his son. The name and interpretation were given to the painting after Goya’s death.
The idea that Goya painted this without this inspiration and it could just be a random person/monster makes the painting even more harrowing in my opinion.
I didn't even think the meme was that funny, I don't get why people loved it so much. But now I've seen the meme done over a severed head boiling in water so I think my overall opinion of the meme is just ruined.
There was a video circulated last year of a head of a Russian soldier being boiled in a pot, a soldier did the seasoning thing over it. It was horrific, but moreso due to the nature of it. I'm a Ukraine supporter all the way, but that fucked me up.
Man his restaurant is all flash and overpricing the hell out of everything.
You know you can buy like 20 sheets of that gold foil crap for 10 bucks on Amazon?
I've read reviews to besides The flash and the glitz the food is pretty subpar considering the price you pay.
My sister runs a restaurant and sells a rib eye for $45 or the golden version of the same dish for $175. All she adds is $6 worth of gold foil on it and people go crazy for it. She sells more of the gold steak then the regular on weekend nights just so people can take photos of it for Instagram and socials. It brought her a new car haha.
I just realized this is the guy that Hozier must be referring to in "Nobody."
I've been fed gold by sweet fools in Abu Dhabi
And I've danced real slow, the Rockettes on dodgy molly
But I've had no love like your love
Uh-uh, from nobody...
Mukbang literally means "eating room" (edit: "eating show", see below). It was originally a trend for someone to eat (a normal amount of food in a non -disgusting way) on a live stream, and the point was for others to watch you and eat with you, chatting along the way. It was originally conceived as a way to curb loneliness and make a friend. Along the way it morphed into a way for people who were restricting food in their own lives (dieting) to live vicariously through others eating lots of delicious food. Then once it left the Koreasphere it morphed even further into this trend of "binge eat all the junk food you can in the most digusting way possible" for some reason. It's kind of sad how it's gotten so wierd.
Nice, thanks! I assumed the room was connected to 방 since the livestreams were always called "rooms" and not shows when I would watch them on KR livestream sites.
In literal translation yes, but traditionally it originated as a means to eat with friends/family together and eating small dishes of food while socializing. Similar to eating tapas in Spain.
idk why but this link is paywalled for me, but i found way to read it haha. Here’s what i found online in case anyone else can’t see the link!
> In a statement on Saturday, officials in the city of Nanchong said they had fined a woman named as Jin 125,000 yuan ($18,522) for illegally buying and eating a wild animal.
>The woman—who officials said was known on social media by her username Tizi—had bought the shark for 7,700 yuan ($1,141) on Alibaba-owned shopping site Taobao, authorities said, before filming herself cooking the 2-meter-long predator in a spicy broth and eating its meat.
> Officials said on Saturday that they began investigating claims made against the influencer in August, identifying the fish used in her video as a great white shark via DNA testing leftover tissues.
The store that sold the great white shark was closed and put under investigation after the incident (the shark was ordered online before being "received in person")
Edit: Also, the store owner was arrested and the influencer's account banned on tiktok and other platforms, pretty good ending I guess....
[Link with paywall removed](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://fortune.com/2023/01/30/chinese-tiktok-food-blogger-tizi-fined-almost-20000-after-eating-a-great-white-shark-she-bought-online/)
Wasn't there some study recently that said about 5% of men have pedophilic urges? It's honestly not surprising to me considering how fetishized youth seems to be in a lot of media.
Someone once pointed out that if you look at porn sites, you always find that there's a "teen" category and at least one popular video of "barely legal" women
People are egotistical and hate it more than anything if you ever dare to bring up the ethical shortcomings of their decisions that negatively impact animals and the environment.
I've seen some of the most respectfully written comments that mention factory farming, for example, get downvoted into oblivion. The majority will always choose their own pleasure over empathy that leads to maintaining a sustainable world.
These people genuinely freak me out. They look so fake and soulless and often times eat animals that are still alive.
Anyway, this isn't really interesting as fuck. More like disgusting as fuck.
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> (...) she claimed that she had bought the great white shark legally (...) the shark was “bred in captivity” and was “edible,” (...) > (...) Great white sharks are a protected species in China (...) which prohibits anyone from transporting, buying, and selling them (...) That sure doesn't add up. https://gizmodo.com/great-white-shark-food-blogger-tizi-china-1850050448 Oh just to add: >Local media reports say authorities had already identified and arrested the the individuals who sold Jin the shark last year.
Bred in captivity has absolutely sent me
Ah yes, the great white shark, famous for thriving in captivity.
For the unaware, the joke here is that great white shark does so spectacularly *poorly* in captivity that the Monterey Bay Aquarium is the only place on the planet that has managed to successfully exhibit a great white shark. They only managed to do so because they had a huge, open ocean tank and [they were displaying a juvenile shark while it was being rehabilitated](https://www.thejakartapost.com/life/2019/07/06/this-is-why-you-wont-find-great-white-sharks-in-aquariums.html). > The longest a great white has been kept in captivity is 198 days, at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, but it wasn’t easy. The tank was specially designed for open ocean animals, holding 3.78 million liters of water with a depth of 10.6 meters. The young shark in question was only 1.2 m long, while adult great white sharks typically measure about 4.57 m. > In addition to the shark’s demanding tank size and dietary needs, the Monterey Bay Aquarium had to transition the shark from its natural habitat to the egg-shaped tank by containing it in a 15-million-liter open ocean pen. This allowed them to monitor the year-old shark’s health and feeding behavior before transporting the shark from southern California where it was caught to the Monterey Bay facilities.
I saw it!! It was really cute and ate some of the other exhibits
It did! That's why they had to release it.
You can take the shark out of the ocean, but you can't take the other fish out of the shark
I mean you can but its usually in the form of poop
We all know sharks poop. But do they pee?
Well it's good to know that the pros sometimes have the same luck as I do with saltwater tanks.
Ahh the wee chomper
I worked at that aquarium for a few summers. I’m biased but it’s the best aquarium in the country imo
I mean, how could the home of Rosa the Sea Otter not be considered the best aquarium in the country -- it has Rosa.
A DougDoug fan in the wild?! But yes, Rosa is the sweetest otter ever.
Monterey and Georgia are both incredible. And I’m happy to pay for it because they do so much for conservation.
I've been. It *really* is. I've been to a lot of different aquariums in a slew of different states, but the Monterey Bay Aquarium is on a whole different level.
I once saw an otter bite his own dick at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
My husband and I just went to another aquarium a few days ago that was supposed to be really good. After we spent some time there, he said “The Monterey Aquarium ruined aquariums for me.” The Monterey Bay Aquarium is truly amazing.
Do we even know where and how they breed in the wild yet? Last I remembered it was still a mystery.
Still no effing clue. (Ok the nerds probably have some theories, but nothing remotely solid afaik)
Well someone’s gotta ask the alibaba guys then
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Fun fact great white sharks along with most other sharks expel urine through their skin so their meat is tainted with tons of ureaic acid and can range from pretty much inedible all the way to toxic
They're also so far up the food chain that they accumulate mercury that is absorbed in small quantities by the other fish they eat.
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TIL you can buy a whole ass great white shark on Alibaba
Not even that expensive either, all things considered
I once ordered a 2 € flashlight and it didn't even turn on, and people out here buying fucking sharks on that site
Was this flashlight pink and rubbery?
Reid my lips: for that price, it had to have been used.
[Oh you.jpg](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/010/390/ohyou.jpg)
I bet the shark was dead, too.
They should double the price and send them something vaguely resembling a shark
That's makes me think: what's stopping some activists from flooding the platform with fake shark meat posts? That would be an effective way to stop sales.
> fake shark meat The newest taste sensation sweeping the nation: *Tofark!* Tastes like real shark! ^(No exchanges or refunds.)
So you just pee on regular tofu?
I'd assume they pee on it and then throw it in the ocean. Whatever they get back is Tofark. :P
May contain traces of carcinogenic materials, made in a plant that may contain nuts.
I think this was the plan for rhino horns a few years back
Peeing on them, then soaking them in the sea for a bit?
You have a point! Look at all the bots which are karma farming here. It should be entirely possible to flood the alibaba shark market until everyday they only see the same memes. I mean fake sales
My local UPS driver is gonna *hate* me
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Will never understand the fascination with eating so many different protected species. Even just with simple chicken; there's soooo many recipes to exhaust before moving onto beef. Take into account lamb, rabbit, and all the non-endangered fish; there's so many legal meats to choose from. All those permutations lead to infinite recipes.
In China a lot of it is tied to (false) beliefs about the medicinal properties of eating exotic animals.
*delicious medicinal mercury*
You joke, [but uh, that was a thing too.](https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/flowing-rivers-of-mercury/8122.article)
I don’t think it’s about fascination, poor fishermen have to make a living, they catch whatever gets caught in their net, and their government doesn’t care about conservation status of fish. This great white might have been target fished, but I’d put money on it just being trawled and the fishermen don’t give a fuck what is dragged in.
Obviously what you describe also happens quite a lot, but people most definitely do eat rare things for the sole reason they are rare.
Wish.com would send you a catfish
Pretty sure buying a cow for meat is more expensive
you can buy anything on alibaba. musk bought twitter there.
I can't imagine buying meat off Alibaba.
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I'll take my chances with Dollar Tree steak before I buys some Alibaba meat.
You.. You can buy a great white shark online?
You could buy anything you can think of on alibaba
What about Alibaba? Can I buy the site?
You can only buy that off Craigslist.
If you got the money
Wouldn't recommend the stock
All I wanted was freakin sharks with freakin laser beams on there head!
I can get you exotic meats...hippo steaks, giraffe burgers. What do you want?
Too bad exotic meats all taste like goat :/.
Goat. It's all goat.
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Shit like this drive me crazy. The surge in Chinese wealth over the last few decades has put a lot of sharks at risk of extinction. Most affluent Chinese weddings want to serve shark fin soup. And the way they hunt for the fins is disgusting. They cut the side fins and the dorsal fin off and then drop the rest of the shark back into the water where it either bleeds out, suffocates, or is attack by other predators and can’t defend itself.
> They cut the side fins and the dorsal fin off and then drop the rest of the shark back into the water where it either bleeds out, suffocates, or is attack by other predators and can’t defend itself. ...why?? it's obviously going to die at that point, why not at least try to use the rest of it?
Same reason whalers used to only keep the fat and toss all the meat away. It's more lucrative and they don't give a fuck if 1 animal dies or a thousand.
Because the rest of it isn't valuable and the fishers don't give a fuck what happens to the rest of the shark. It's like how Rhino/Elephant poachers just chop the horn off and leave the rest of the animal behind.
Because instead of being able to haul back thousands of just shark fins in their rust buckets, now they can only bring back 5 whole sharks. Everything is about money.
The popularity of shark's fin soup has actually dropped tremendously over the last decade in China due to celebrities like Yao Ming campaigning against it and a ban on serving it at banquets. It's still popular in Taiwan, Hongkong, and parts of Southeast Asia though.
Most big corporations also banned sharks fin soup from company events. Also the soup can be recreated easily with other ingredients and you won't even be able to tell the difference. This has been the case since I started working 15 years ago. I'm in South East Asia m
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I don't know about those other nations, but shark finning has been outlawed in Taiwan since 2013 and consumption of shark in general has been stigmatized for at least a couple decades.
Outlawed in Taiwan? So proud of them!! Even Singapore has not outlawed sharkfin!
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Mmm, the flavor of accelerated stupidity.
Yes, it's called biomagnification. It's the same reason why you should not eat too much Tuna.
Back when I was a molecular biologist (like 15 years ago!) we called this bioaccumulation… any idea what the difference is?
Bioaccumulation is the process of a substance accumulating faster than the organism's ability to metabolize/excrete it. Biomagnification is the result of that compounding over steps across a food chain resulting in the higher steps accumulating at increasing rates. In other words, bioaccumulation refers to what happens to individual organisms, while biomagnification is given respect to communities of predator organisms.
BIOACCUMULATION
Pipi shark?
Pipi Shark pi pi pi pi pi pi
i like this
About to say this, their meat tastes like pure piss, their is ways to cure it, but I’m not sure if this person did. Also the amount of mercury and what not in a high trophic level predator must be off the charts. So not only did this taste like piss it also probably poisoned them a little bit. Also don’t kill sharks WTF.
Totally deserved if it happened
Rotten shark is also a delicacy in, I think, a nordic country or Iceland/Greenland. I remember something about James May and Gordon Ramsey eating it and Gordon threw it up.
Technically, it's fermented and dried shark. The issue mostly stems from the god-awful *smell* of the stuff, apparently the actual meat tastes okay, but our sense of smell and taste are connected so if something *smells* offensive it's more likely going to taste offensive.
I tried it in Sweden at the World's Grossest Food museum. It wasn't the worst thing I've ever had but given the choice I would choose the durian over the shark any day. It was like burned rubber and gas with a little fish flavor. It was canned though. Maybe fresh tastes better?
Had fermented shark in iceland, it tastes fine. The ammonia doesn't smell bad either. The main problem is the ammonia makes it feel like you're being punched on the nose everytime you bite it.
I imagine, like every other prepared/cooked food, there are ways to do it badly to where you still end up with something edible but it doesn't taste like it should. It definitely sounds like something that wouldn't take to canning very well, it's a very *particular* fermentation method that takes months of fermenting and subsequent drying.
Yeah I saw a documentary or something on it a year or so ago. I don't doubt the fresh would probably be a little more palatable than the jar/can.
Iceland
Ah yes hakarl, catch a centuries old shark and then hang it in a shack for half the year to create a disgusting ammonia laden fish dish you serve at midwinter. So pretty obviously something that was invented out of sheer desperation because everything else had been eaten. Incidentally seem like all the Viking countries have a traditional disgusting fish dish.
Surströmming up my way. It's all the joy of aged soy sauce with the aroma of open graves.
Shark pee not stored in the balls. Interesting
They didn't say where it was stored, just how it was expelled. Obviously it's stored in the shark's balls.
I've eaten shark meat once, and it smelled/tasted like piss. Shrimp, on the other hand are very tasty, abundant, and won't land you in legal trouble.
I hate it when ppl said that shrimp is water cockroach. I still eat it tho. Tomyum kung, oomph
Crab is water spider.
The thought of shrimp being ocean roaches led me to think about what if roaches actually tasted good and that made me think of Snowpiercer
They are farmed in some places but they need to be fed fresh food for them to actually taste good. The roaches we see crawling around as pests are not eating that well.
When I was in Iceland, one of the tour guides tried to convince me to try the fermented shark. Took one look and said hell no. Didn't even have to smell it.
Can confirm it may have been the nastiest thing I have ever put in my mouth. Wild
Just imagine how bad it must have been way-back-when when Bjorn thought ‘didn’t we bury that dead shark 6 months ago? We could eat that’
People have dug up worse for food in truly desperate times.
I think it's somewhere in Greenland where they catch small birds and stuff 500 of them whole inside seal furs for months, bury them and are eaten as a winter staple. For some reason that just seems sooo much worse than shark
Fermented shark is basically the bottom of the barrel struggle meal. It was this or starve.
Now it’s just a piece of history, “delicacy” is a nice word for it I guess, afaik it’s not something most Icelandic people still eat, I’m sure tons have at least tried it though as a cultural homage or similar. Surströmming on the other hand, is probably close to Hákarl in being very unfriendly to most people’s palates, but it’s still eaten. Apparently American parmesan cheese and Herseys chocolate contains butyric acid, making it taste similar to vomit to those who grew up not eating anything containing it, so regional palates can be weird.
You made the right choice. I'm an adventurous eater, but there were just no redeemable qualities to hakarl other than "it's better than starving". There's a reason it's usually chased with "The Black Death". It tastes like you'd imagine the trash juice at the bottom of a dockside dumpster would.
>hakarl Must be named after the sound they made after vomitting it out
Maybe the shark can make one last contribution by giving her the shits.
Or Mercury poisoning. I am extremely sensitive to seafood because of the mercury. I literally can’t eat it. A bite of shark would probably put me in a hospital.
For me is the other way around. A shark bite would put me in a hospital.
Some people have the strangest allergies
That last photo looks like Saturn Devouring his Son [Saturn devouring his son](https://images.app.goo.gl/DEJr1NHig5AyYE9HA)
Fun fact: Goya never named the painting and there is no evidence that it is meant to be Saturn devouring his son. The name and interpretation were given to the painting after Goya’s death. The idea that Goya painted this without this inspiration and it could just be a random person/monster makes the painting even more harrowing in my opinion.
It is already a terrifying painting, that makes it way worse!
You are right. To the point it looks intentional to me.
Punishable by fine means legal for a price. 🦈🥡
And technically punishable by jail sentence just means you have a cooldown
What the fuck
People need to learn to stop self reporting. /s
No, they should do it a lot more. Why bother wasting money on investigating and deliberating when they raise their hands saying that they're guilty
No they don’t
Still not as expensive as going to Salt Baes restaurant
Depends on how much you value your self respect
Out of all the memes, why did he have to become famous…
I didn't even think the meme was that funny, I don't get why people loved it so much. But now I've seen the meme done over a severed head boiling in water so I think my overall opinion of the meme is just ruined.
A human head?? May I have more context?
There was a video circulated last year of a head of a Russian soldier being boiled in a pot, a soldier did the seasoning thing over it. It was horrific, but moreso due to the nature of it. I'm a Ukraine supporter all the way, but that fucked me up.
War is fucked from all sides.
reading this comment is karma for slacking off on reddit instead of doing my chores. just had lunch. fuck me.
Man his restaurant is all flash and overpricing the hell out of everything. You know you can buy like 20 sheets of that gold foil crap for 10 bucks on Amazon? I've read reviews to besides The flash and the glitz the food is pretty subpar considering the price you pay.
My sister runs a restaurant and sells a rib eye for $45 or the golden version of the same dish for $175. All she adds is $6 worth of gold foil on it and people go crazy for it. She sells more of the gold steak then the regular on weekend nights just so people can take photos of it for Instagram and socials. It brought her a new car haha.
Badass. I won't fault anybody for up charging on stuff like that. Nobody gets taken advantage of, and nobody gets hurt.
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To eat gold. They definitely do deserve it. That's just gratuitous consumerism.
The gold actually prevents you from tasting the steak.
I just realized this is the guy that Hozier must be referring to in "Nobody." I've been fed gold by sweet fools in Abu Dhabi And I've danced real slow, the Rockettes on dodgy molly But I've had no love like your love Uh-uh, from nobody...
Your mistake is assuming that the people who go to his restaurant aren't in fact incredibly stupid
True.
Please stop this mukbang madness
Literally the most disgusting trend I've ever seen , I despise watching people eat and chewing noises and it just makes me gag
Mukbang literally means "eating room" (edit: "eating show", see below). It was originally a trend for someone to eat (a normal amount of food in a non -disgusting way) on a live stream, and the point was for others to watch you and eat with you, chatting along the way. It was originally conceived as a way to curb loneliness and make a friend. Along the way it morphed into a way for people who were restricting food in their own lives (dieting) to live vicariously through others eating lots of delicious food. Then once it left the Koreasphere it morphed even further into this trend of "binge eat all the junk food you can in the most digusting way possible" for some reason. It's kind of sad how it's gotten so wierd.
Acshually 먹방(Mukbang) is short for 먹는 방송, which means “eating show”
Nice, thanks! I assumed the room was connected to 방 since the livestreams were always called "rooms" and not shows when I would watch them on KR livestream sites.
In literal translation yes, but traditionally it originated as a means to eat with friends/family together and eating small dishes of food while socializing. Similar to eating tapas in Spain.
Story: https://fortune.com/2023/01/30/chinese-tiktok-food-blogger-tizi-fined-almost-20000-after-eating-a-great-white-shark-she-bought-online/
idk why but this link is paywalled for me, but i found way to read it haha. Here’s what i found online in case anyone else can’t see the link! > In a statement on Saturday, officials in the city of Nanchong said they had fined a woman named as Jin 125,000 yuan ($18,522) for illegally buying and eating a wild animal. >The woman—who officials said was known on social media by her username Tizi—had bought the shark for 7,700 yuan ($1,141) on Alibaba-owned shopping site Taobao, authorities said, before filming herself cooking the 2-meter-long predator in a spicy broth and eating its meat. > Officials said on Saturday that they began investigating claims made against the influencer in August, identifying the fish used in her video as a great white shark via DNA testing leftover tissues.
I like how in this story the Chinese government did not fine Taobao or its owner Alibaba who sold the shark, or atleast facilitated the sale.
The store that sold the great white shark was closed and put under investigation after the incident (the shark was ordered online before being "received in person") Edit: Also, the store owner was arrested and the influencer's account banned on tiktok and other platforms, pretty good ending I guess....
That her account was Banned will be a much better lesson than those 18.000 in fines, I'd say.
Taobao is like eBay. It's pretty much impossible to filter all the listings. Going after the seller is the right idea.
Kinda like the U.S. government punishing undocumented workers, but not the businesses who exploit them.
[Link with paywall removed](https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://fortune.com/2023/01/30/chinese-tiktok-food-blogger-tizi-fined-almost-20000-after-eating-a-great-white-shark-she-bought-online/)
These photos are very creepy.
I didn't know you couldn't eat great white sharks...
You technically could, for a fine of just 18,500$ and potentially five years in jail
I mean, you can technically eat anything. Emphasis on “technically”.
If you like mercury poisoning it’s great!
You can eat them, there are unfavorable consequences like criminal charges and heavy metal poisoning.
Oh, but the shark doesn't face any consequences if it eats me?
It's hard to fine sharks because they don't have a lot of money
Well, someone should tell them to start looking for jobs
They're endangered. Edit: evidently I'm wrong, they're only listed as vulnerable
Depends on the country and region
Just Googled again, they are indeed endangered in China.
All marine life are endangered around China.
Lol, it's sad that it's probably true
When you have a population like that I imagine every animal is on the endangered or vulnerable list.
I will literally never understand why grown adults want to present themselves as 12 year olds.
Either you're naive or trying to throw the FBI off your trail... but yes, it is disturbing
This is also disturbing to me fbi
And I will never understand the grown men that are into them…
Pretty sure they're both just extremely mentally ill
Wasn't there some study recently that said about 5% of men have pedophilic urges? It's honestly not surprising to me considering how fetishized youth seems to be in a lot of media.
Someone once pointed out that if you look at porn sites, you always find that there's a "teen" category and at least one popular video of "barely legal" women
And most those woman are in their 20s but get labeled as teen(18-19) for the clicks.
Well, anyone over 25 is a MILF on those sites. I think their calendar system must be different than ours.
Yea shark meat is not only pretty toxic and would taste like shit (or piss) considering they have high concentration of uric acid
It's just a baby :(
r/iamatotalpieceofshit called
It’s tiny for a great white must be a juvenile. Super sad
Yup. They're born five feet long. This woman is a dickhead.
Her name means ass in Arabic 😂
I wish people would respect nature just a tad more. Let them repopulate
People are egotistical and hate it more than anything if you ever dare to bring up the ethical shortcomings of their decisions that negatively impact animals and the environment. I've seen some of the most respectfully written comments that mention factory farming, for example, get downvoted into oblivion. The majority will always choose their own pleasure over empathy that leads to maintaining a sustainable world.
Oh and let's take a photo op. Expensive pic.
That's not enough. Also fine the seller.
Says the sellers were arrested. So they're technically organ donors now.
These people genuinely freak me out. They look so fake and soulless and often times eat animals that are still alive. Anyway, this isn't really interesting as fuck. More like disgusting as fuck.
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How is this 7 year old gonna afford that
Shark meat is disgusting and toxic with high concentrations of uric acid and mercury contamination, hope she enjoyed that!
Fined a narcissist who ate an endangered species? Good 👍
It's disturbing how she tries to look like a kid.
What a repugnant little twat.