South Korea urges people not to eat fried toothpicks

#SouthKorea is urging people not to eat fried #toothpicks made of starch in a shape resembling curly fries, after videos of the practice were widely shared on #socialmedia.

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[CarterJohn.]

Maybe South Korea is more like the US than I thought

[jaschan]

If you didn’t label it as toothpicks, I would have thought those were parasite worms

[Tjd]

Seriously, when did the common sense bar drop this low?

[seraphim]

The warning continues “but do sell it on the streets to foreigners as local cuisine”

[stanlevox]

They've yet to discover the secret sauce... Tide pods.

[Haqqseeker]

Me in 1990: "2024 we will have flying cars and no cancer."
2024: Don't eat fried tooth pick."

[sis.dlightfull]

Why in the world is this even a thing? Don't people know, it's not ok to chew, eat, swallow forms of plastic.

[TheForestWandererU.S]

The fact we have to “urge people not to eat fried toothpicks” should scare everyone

[groovesound]

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.

[jaywholoveseveryone]

With a side of Nyquil chicken and dessert of Tide pods how can you go wrong?

[spyderdogg]

I told everybody that Idiocracy was a documentary and not a comedy

[Uzin]

This generations brains are so fried☠️☠️☠️🤦🏽‍♂️

[footofblut]

Nah at this point it’s just natural selection

[desiprioleau]

Is there a chip shortage or what? Fry a fkn potato, a turnip, a parsnip…rutabaga even

[MnTsuki]

That's plastic popping, and who tf even encouraged people to eat this 🤦

[alwaysreadin]

Yep thats enough internet for me today

[xgetxsickx]

i remember a time when we thought plastics were in the noodles. now we just eat the plastic with seasoning

[stvnsonrated]

I’m in pure disbelief that this has to be a warning ⚠️ 🤦🏽‍♀️

[Userhandle]

These are made of starch… but definitely NOT food grade 😂

[Vincentizer]

The fact that this is a thing is concerning. People are really dumb.