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18 hours ago, dcarch said:
I think until recently almost all food are cooked in China.
dcarch
As I've mentioned here more than once, eating raw food, including vegetables, is extremely rare in China, even recently.
You have to remember that "night soil"* is still used as a fertiliser. Vegetables are washed thoroughly (to extreme) and then cooked. And before people get freaked out about night soil, remember it was common in the US until relatively recently.
*Human and other excrement.
18 hours ago, dcarch said:
I think until recently almost all food are cooked in China.
dcarch
As I've mentioned here more than once, eating raw food, including vegetables, is extremely rare in China, even recently.
You have to remember that "night soil" is still used as a fertiliser. Vegetables are washed thoroughly (to extreme) and then cooked. And before people get freaked out about that remember it was common in the US until relatively recently.
