News China: Chinese Walnuts “Made From Cement”

[tom_mai78101]

Even the Chinese are aghast at their latest innovation – walnuts with tooth cracking cement fillings have apparently been recovered, the effort and cost of obtaining real nuts seemingly being greater than the trouble of making convincing fakes.

According to reports, the walnuts were on sale in a Henan province market, and consisted of a cement kernel with the outer shell glued on. The cement was wrapped in paper so as to prevent the “nut” from rattling suspiciously.

Translated Source. (NSFW Sankaku Forums)
Actual Source. (Xinhua JP, language is in Japanese)

 

[FireCat]

Holy crap. Just why?

 

[Accname]

The next level of scam.

 

[Slapshot136]

tooth-cracking? it's not like anyone would eat those with the shells on..

 

[FireCat]

tooth-cracking? it's not like anyone would eat those with the shells on..

Maybe there's someone out there? lol

 

[WildTurkey]

There's a group of low GPA dentists out there that are short on work and got desperate. Didn't quite think it through though

 

[Dan]

I want to see the time and effort to cost ratio of doing this. Seems a bit not worth it. How much do walnuts go for anyways? Also, how do you expect to get away with this for a very long time? Inevitably someone opens one up in the marketplace, right?

 

[FireCat]

Inevitably someone opens one up in the marketplace, right?

Yeah, and put a spy at the walnuts.