Stop eating fried toothpicks, South Korea warns after viral social media trend
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Video clips showing people consuming the deep-fried starch toothpicks with seasoning such as powdered cheese have racked up thousands of likes and shares on TikTok and Instagram.
A health warning from South Korea’s food ministry has urged people not to eat fried toothpicks made of starch in a shape resembling curly fries, after the practice went viral in social media posts.
Video clips showing people consuming the deep-fried starch toothpicks with seasoning such as powdered cheese have racked up thousands of likes and shares on TikTok and Instagram.
“Their safety as food has not been verified,” the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety said in a posting on Wednesday on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter. “Please do not eat (them).”
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So bizarre; foods like this already exist everywhere. In india they're called far far, in UK chinese restaurants they call them prawn crackers, in Mexico they're chicharrones de harina or duritos, and if you don't have access to any of these options where you live, you can literally just fry rice noodles or spring roll wraps and they'll puff up. So why the toothpicks?!
How have I not heard of "far far"
I can fry rice noodles? Uncooked ones? Brb
Yep!