S. Korea warns against recent trend of eating deep fried toothpicks
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You can just do this with regular dry noodles like pasta or vermicelli. No need to resort to toothpicks.
Seriously!!! Social media is seriously ruining the world!
If you can find either one, Mexico and India both have a snack just for this.
In Spanish, we would call them "chicharrones de harina", while the Indian brand name is "Fryums"
In SE Asia we have so many dry foodstuff that can certainly be deep fried for fun and still edible to boot. Rice noodles, Maggi, rice paper, su un, the regular fish/prawn chips, agar, wonton, tofu, even friggin fish cakes/balls/dogs (fish 'dogs' meaning fish sausages probably only made in my country that can both be boiled or fried).
Toothpicks is cheaper
Well social media need something different for making a content 🤦♂️
Business idea! The toothpick company should partner with a food company to sell safer edible alternative
Wouldn't that just be Fryums
No one should want to eat a toothpick… making edible toothpicks would create a bigger problem.
We have those in SE Asia already. Don't need literal toothpicks to do it. Fish/prawn chips. Agar. Wonton. Su un. Rice noodle. Maggi. Rice paper. You name it. Those certainly can be deep fried as chips. It's not the toothpicks but the food types that are already in the market for centuries that just need to be repackaged and challenged by the idiots.
@@dthtoangls
Well, the company only cares for the opportunity to make money and that generation of South Korea is obviously opening up that opportunity😂
@@dthtoanglstbf, the video is talking abt people eating toothpicks so🤨
Finding out they are made with starch made this trendso much less concerning than the original wood variety I pictured when I clicked. That being said, why would you not just deep fry the much more edible noodles? There are dozens of varieties of noodles that can easily and safely be deep fried. Bonus, they taste way better and have at least some nutritional value. Pure starch is not really made to be eaten all by itself.
But there's nothing dangerous about eating starch...
Lol the noodles are not healthy either Einstein. Stick to mouth breathing and being a useless waste of life.
Yeaa, it's odd, but with that bit of info, there's not really a big difference between this, and snacks made from extruding corn starch, which are very common in the snack aisle.
If only starch was the only thing
@yeshuaislord6880 What ingredients are added that worry you? I don't have access to the toothpicks, so I don't know what they are made of aside from starch.
If you get the idea to eat toothpicks, you're the kind of person who should definitely eat them.
Let natural selection do its job
😂 Exactly, have at it.
They're.... Made from starche. It's fine.
@@frediwalker2381 and hand sanitizers are made of alcohol. (Don’t drink hand sanitizers, its life threatening)
@@frediwalker2381 It's not. They are not made as food and could contain contaminates that are considered safe if you just come into contact a little bit when you use them to pick food out from in between your teeth, but not safe when you consume the entire toothpick.
The world is 2 generations away from being in serious turmoil.
They are already there
I feel like we are already there 😩
This Gen Z is catastrophic, I don't even want to experience what we created with Gen I. But it is we, my generation, that created this mental monster with a permissive raising. God help us all.
Its already
Darn kids these days eating literally corn and potatoes. When will they ever learn?
Inb4: But, but muh Ministry of Food and Drug Safety!
Is this even real? I thought it's only a joke
Unfortunately it's true😢
Did you forget the Tide Pod challenge - there is no limit to people's stupid behavior
Joke😂
I mean since it's starch it's nowhere near as outlandish as tide pods. Because starch by itself is completely edible. Don't know what's added to the starch to make these though, since it's not sold as a food there's no regulations to verify, like all food products usually go through.
It is the hardening stuff that will do damage.Because the frying changes the ingredients making them toxic.Could cause some type of cancers in the stomach.You only have one time to make things healthy in your stomach once you start having problems everything will start giving you problems.This trend is dumb and dangerous.
What if you have toothpick stuck in your teeth? A neverending cycle!
just like lipstick and toothpaste, its not poison but its not encourage to eat it as food.
@@blurdreamer ??, you wouldn't use lipstick to take clean lipstick stuck on your teeth. They're referring to needing a toothpick to take out the stuck fried toothpick...
someone madce toothpicks out of food
then this inevitably happened
😂 just said same thing basically
WTF is going on with the world?! This is absolutely nuts!
Nothing new about stupidity. Religion is over 2000 years old.
@@MrMakingwavesmedia this isn't even about religion wtf are you on about
@@sophietwilight7502the self like is also icing on the cake 😂
@@MrMakingwavesmedia*tips fedora* fellow redditor
@@sophietwilight7502just flew right over your head, typical anime pfp.
no no no
Yo NICK!
Try make edible/safe one nick
Even Nick rejects this crap 😭
o
Try it
“Hey mom, what’s for dinner?”
“ *f* *r* *i* *e* *d* *t* *o* *o* *t* *h* *p* *i* *c* *k* *s* *.* “
sounds awful, but who I am to judge
That's what a MAGA Mom would feed her children.
@@danr2652not a trump supporter but sounds more like a biden fan thing
@@michaelwarner7311 LMAO that's so true XD
@@IDrankALavaLamp You sound mad
Korean version of tidepods
Some starch won't kill you right then and there.
Somehow in the end I ended up being a lot less worried on behalf of whoever did this than in the beginning when I thought people were frying and eating green plastic.
They said thos on last moments. Lol.
Imagine needing to tell a bunch of grown adults not to eat fried toothpicks 🤦♂️
This is what happens when SK society is way obsessed with the western Culture 🤦🏻♂️
@@funni387 bro what does eating fried toothpicks have to do with western culture?
@@JackBlackYonko let me demonstrate, So you know how In the west there are lots of idiots doing fucked up trends right? Like licking random objects during the COVID times for clout, The so called "Pranking" which is just being a menace to the society, Well South Korean society is way obsessed with the western culture that it leads them to do trends like this
Dude lmfao 😂
@@funni387bro what does eating fried toothpicks have to do with western culture? That’s pretty racist and prejudice
Just fry any kind of noodles, don’t hurt yourself eating chemical foods!!
People in America drinking Mountain Dew are judging 😂
@@MilaJo-vr8znI don't know about that
this are starch lol..they are edible but not been graded as food safe..
@@VeNtI9909average Genshin player😅
Everything is a chemical, dude. Water is chemicals, I am chemicals, YOU are chemicals
This feels like a The Onion article.
Lollllll
this is why aliens refuse to visit us
"Anything is edible if you deep fry it long enough"
-Richard Watterson
He says that as he eats plastic fingers ripped off from a clown statue.
Murican and their fried food, somehow
More like anything is edible if you’re dumb enough
the problem is that it actually is edible, it's just made out of starch, but it's not made as food, and so doesn't have the same standards as food. basically means that there could be anything in it, that makes it not so edible.
Bro was the clown
People's hunger for internet validation is mind boggling
for real,it's sad and scary
Isn't it just.
Thats Korean culture
Clout chasing
Do these pair well with Tide Pods?
Ah, The Onion, my favorite source of sati-
Wait... This isn't The Onion?
This is legit?
The video telling me to NOT eat the toothpicks while showing people eating happily and describing the condiments on top is making them sound appetizing.
They even tell us how to make them
@@Carah-qk3nz give me one reason that has backed up evidence. If you're going to use the sickness they mentioned, I would like the evidence because they didn't give one. I'd trust them if they didn't paraphrase the logic away
honestly this feels more like a how-to than a " do not do "@@ZuluGamingSeries
That doesnt look or sound appetizing... 😂
"Our lawyers say no matter how funny it would be, we can't encourage people to eat the toothpicks. Do you hear that? Whatever you do, _don't_ eat the delicious toothpicks."
I have only ever seen plastic or wooden, or even homemade toothpicks, I was relieved to learn they are made of starch at least.
Nah better wooden I think at least I tried them
@@quortazan2914it's just pasta made into the shape of a toothpick and covered with green food coloring. Not exactly healthy but completely safe to eat.
@@petelee2477they just said it’s not safe to eat though.
they said its possibly unsafe because its unknown what other ingredients are in it which could easily be figured out so im not sure why they didnt do the minimum and figure out the ingredients before making this video...@@iwuvpiesgaming9164
@@iwuvpiesgaming9164they said it's not verified to be safe. So it's more like "at your own risk" than "this will definitely hurt you".
The toothpick company needs a food manufacturer to team up with..
Greetings from England 🇬🇧 ❤👋
Yumm, i wanna try. Is there a link where we can purchase them and with the sauce they used too?
This is a level of struggle meal I can't comprehend
Sounds like a bad Tiktok trend.
Dumb people will do anything just to make themselves trending on TikTok. What a joke app!
Nah, this is one of the safer ones imo
They were able to induce Tourettes, and now they are trying to induce Pica...😮
@@regis_cbro this is not safe
@arcqx9676 compared to Tide Pods, "Devious Licks" (doing crime for clout), the "Kiki, do you love me" car thing, and anything else, this is relatively better.
When you think you've seen it all.......🤦♂
What do you use to get the toothpick bits out 😅
The worst part it's that is still safer that eating soap pods
or anything inedible at all.
Nobody was actually eating tide pods for real, but people are definitely eating this for real.
@princess7jasmine you must not have been alive in 2013
.........
For real, Tide pods are so big they may cause choking hazards
i used to fry rice noodles the same way they’re frying toothpicks, if you want to try something similar but healthy, fried rice noodles are a good alternative
Yes, my mom used to make that for us! Good stuff.
Healthy deep fried noodles xd
@@WinterDominus Healthier than these toothpicks at least…
Ill give u that
Yeah but people are desperate for attention on tiktok so they prefer to eat fried toothpick
These are edible toothpicks. They're made from starch, basically like sharp noodles. I just looked it up.
so the ministry of health literally says to not eat them because they are not made to be edible, yet you think you 'looking it up' on the internet suddenly makes it ok to eat. Lmao people like you are why these stupid warnings in manuals exist!!
Oh great, here we go again. Just when you thought eating tide pods wasn't enough.
People stupidity had no boundaries
Meanwhile on the news in the other Korea
"Situation so dire for our brothers and sisters in the south that people have resorted to eating toothpicks"
"humanity will be so advanced in 2024"
Humanity in 2024: "please, stop eating toothpicks, people"
I like how they fully showed the receipt so that kids all over the world could make it
First it was tide pods for dinner and now toothpicks for dessert
you b stanky gurl, take a baf
Is this for real? Why people even do this?
For the likes and followers.
No show
People do everything for views and fame because they think they gonna be rich with those kind of contents.
For clout
I still don't understand or got any information how it's bad. I know the sickness thing but why? Is it because of the starch or something? Also, deep-frying and eating a product, believed to be starch, that is used in other ways other than eating is unthinkable, why wouldn't anyone try to scratch that curious itch? It's one of the more logical ones than eating a laundry detergent even when the information of it's hazard is publicly available and publicly infamous or risking your life just because.
When mom tells you "We have snacks at home".....
Korea: 12 hour school days + 2 hours cram school.
also Korea: mmm toothpicks.
미쳤어
They should import kerupuk from Indonesia if they like it's texture, i mean they put many mayo and sauce on it then they must be only like the texture rather than the original flavor
Yeah Indonesia fish cracker is the best...
@@Anon-cv7rufrr🔥🔥🔥
Why?
I thought it made out of wood everywhere.
S Korea is indeed different😂
edible toothpicks? thats genius!
They are not edible only biodegradable..
Seriously, the stupid stuff people do, is beyond me. Like what is the point? You want to eat something stringy and fried, use noodles. It's not rocket science people. 🤦🏻♀️
It's amazing how the species hasn't gone extinct yet.
@@TheAutumnWind_RN4L survival of the fittest applies on this case... although for homo sapiens even the dumbest can survive...
@@TheAutumnWind_RN4LI mean less than 1% of the population does dumb stuff like this
@allergictohumansnotanimals5671 that's somewhat true, but large swaths of the population is prone to influence and groupthink. Guns are dangerous...let's make them available to everyone. Nuclear weapons will destroy the world...let's make enough to destroy it indeed. Fast food is slow poison...let's eat that crap every day. In order for AI to become self aware, it has to digest the data of the human record, including the human desire to destroy ourselves creatively...let's put AI in every damn thing. We consume things like pufferfish and mushrooms, can you imagine all of the idiot humans who sacrificed themselves in the name of science and progress in order to define what is and what is not consumable, only for us to smoke, use drugs, and drink alcohol during activities where they should not be consumed? I'm surprised we made it past the Dark Ages.
Natural selection eventually finds a way
I’m just glad they are made out of starch. I thought they were plastic at first, which would make that trend even worse.
what are they made off?
*KOREA* *NOW* 🇰🇷
At first I thought they were frying up and eating those floss picks that doubled as “floss string”, that we have in the United States and I’m sure other countries as well. 😅
Damn, at first I thought they were made out of plastic 🤣🤣😭😭
Still I wouldn't eat something like that
what toothpicks are made out of plastic? its mostly wood
Eh i was thinking rice cracker
@@windshearahead7012 The unnaturally looking green ones that look like they're made out of plastic? 🤣🤣😂😂
@@windshearahead7012 plastic toothpicks do exist tho, at least here in my country. Though wood toothpicks are the most common one
Get Korea on chicharrones de harina 🤣
LOL Riiiight
That's what I'm saying if they eat duros it's the same concept but safe 😅
It's fried starches, sure they might not be regulated like a food company but I'm sure it's actually not that bad, like others have said, they should partner with a food production company and make an edible pre-fried version and make the un-fried toothpicks safer to eat. maybe go a lil lighter on the chemicals in it :)
that much food coloring can't be good for you but atleast it's still healthier than american fast food
@@DDraceeunless you're chugging down food colouring, i doubt its bad
@@ifergot well since these weren't made to be consumed, they likely used more than would be acceptable to make em look as green as possible, might even be coloring that's not even food-grade to begin with
and even within food-grade colorings, there's plenty that are banned in some countries for being carcinogenic yet not banned in others, so....
it's pretty nuanced, who knows, when in doubt better off not eating it rofl
Probably not worse than smoking anythiny
Im sure it’s food safe considering they’re intended to go inside people’s mouths.
I guess they already fried aliens from the different planet💀
"I bet by 2024, we'll have flying cars!"
2024:
We do but we also have this shit
2024: frying cars
This world does not care about themselves or other people health and Safety no more. Its truly sad
easy with the melodrama. we've come a long way from chewing radium. also the tooth picks are made of corn starch, a food product. they're only potentially dangerous because they aren't subject to the same quality assurance testing actual food products are.
still healthier than american fast food
well if the FDA issued a warning then that is probably not the case.
@@Mopsamaxwell the only warning they issued is they haven't tested it, FDA isn't really reliable anyway with all the carcinogens they allow in american food
What's the ingridient that makes them inedible?
And that's enough internet for today...
In South East Asia... we call that keropok... but usually with some seasoning like Fish/Prawn Paste, and some times just vegetable seasoning mixed with flour then dried up then deep fried which will cause it to expand. Funny how koreans had to start with toothpick. 😂
Jadi inget kerupuk warna gan, tapi udah gk ada. Di kota" udah hampir gk ada. Banyak yang tau itu warnanya bikin kanker. Lebih laku yang gk ada warna.
in vietnam we call it "bánh phồng tôm"
@@brukujinbrokujin7802kata siapa kerupuk warna bisa bikin kanker? Kalo bikin pernyataan pake sumber bro
@@CM-dx6xu pewarna nya gan. Itu bukan pewarna makanan yang dipake di kerupuk murah". Kadang pewarna tembok. Wa pernah lihat sendiri produksinya di pasuruan. Pake pewarna untuk cat (bentuk zat kimia cair botolan, non food grade). Kalau food grade ya gak bakal seribuan gan XD
@@CM-dx6xulu pikir mereka pakai pewarna makanan ?🤦♂️
Bro pewarna tekstil lbh murah dr pd pewarna makanan.
Sisanya lu pikir sendiri, knp bisa menyebabkan kanker..🤦♂️🤦♂️
kid in 1890: Dad, what will kids like me do in the future, will they be flying with wings or have superbrains?
the future:
hold up no, i just woke up their actually eating toothpicks!!!
so its just deep frying starch. "toothpick" part is for clickbait
Natural selection
It's literally just starch made from sweet potatoes. 🤦
?? They got the hardest college entrance exam in the world and yet they are stupid in inventing these.
Hardest is IIT-JEE Advanced
@@hiravparekh8695 no one cares
@@realitybender1145but you care 😏
Aren't these basically the same as those fried rice paper crisps (most often found in Vietnamese and Thailand cuisine)? They're just starch and are even also dyed different colours too.
Thought they meant the wood or plastic ones for a second
I have OFFICIALLY seen it all.
So have I….🫠🫠🫠
Fried toothpicks…..🤢🤢🤢💀💀💀
Squidward: “Just when I thought they couldn’t get any stupider!!!”
People are insane. They would do anything to get followers……
Just looking at this made my stomach turn...
There’s also those chicharrones de harina or flour pin wheels those you can actually eat just look it up there very delicious and affordable and better that toothpicks
I thought I was misreading the title because my eyes were getting tried but I guess I was wrong. This is crazy, why fry and eat platic flavor tooth picks, just eat food that is not going to harm your digestion system. I hope this stops sooner rather than later, because this trend is being seen on social media, and more young people are going to want to try it in other countries just out of curiosity for fun & if it taste good, or not.
Not plastic, they are made of startch.
Were there not enough foods?😭
These toothpicks are made of starch. Bit similar to edible ice cream cones. They're not plastic but still not meant to be eaten.
Honestly, it's no wonder older generations think we're all braindead.
Don't need to warn me, I already f****** know 🙄
The foolishness of people is never ending
The halloween stampede is starting to make sense now.
Wait...what.
imagine the cornpuff snack companies seething that these people would rather eat toothpicks than their product
the country with the world’s highest colorectal cancer rate btw
I tried lookin that up, it looks like S. Korea is above the world average for colon cancer, but below the US and many other countries.
@@iyziejane why am i not surprised the states is high on the list
This video didn't explain what was really going on until the very end. The toothpicks are made from edible products.
American mukbangers were following the trend properly this entire time. Put cheese on a random item and consume it.
Eh? Are you living in a cave?
We had a trend of people consuming detergent
@@ArariaKAgelessTraveller lol no I very much remember. Past few years have literally been drown stuff in sauce and eat it is what I was implying.
@@ArariaKAgelessTravelleri don't think there was tide pod mukbang videos
Theres literally foods like this tho (edible ones). So why use this?
one of the things i could never think about i would ever hear
Are we...stupid? Like is humanity as a whole getting dumber??
Reminds me of edible spoons. If people are this crazy, I think it's possibly a good idea to make a safer version of this. If people can just eat everything, that'll reduce waste.
Or edible bread plates
Gonna try it with plastic ones, wish me luck.
please dont 😞
@@theyluhvmaniyah just a bad joke homie
@@latenightwizard6892 lmao 😂
@@theyluhvmaniyah lol
Wow
We have food and we have toothpicks. We don't need to mix ❤
I thought it was standard, wooden toothpicks so I was really worried. But it’s actually starch coloured with food colouring, so technically it should be clean and safe, HOWEVER if the producing companies say not to eat them, people should listen.
Probably are safe, the only reason it deemed not safe is because the Government hasn't tested the product.
We getting out of the toxic food coloring with this one🔥🔥🔥🔥
Saving this hack for after the apocalypse.
Just came from a video about stir fried pebbles and cooking ice cubes
Social media thinning off the masses. I love it.
I love that you’re part of the masses maybe not the korean but america is failing us.
you said that too soon
First time hearing about this.
This give a new meaning to struggle meals.
They should try inhaling car exhaust smoke next, I mean, why not?
How dumb
They arent made of plastic yall, theyre sweet potato and corn starch.
the struggle is real
While I can think of plenty of better alternatives, this isn't as bad as what I initially imagined upon hearing about people in Korea eating toothpicks. Where I live, most toothpicks are made from wood or plastic, so I couldn't fathom how people would even go about eating such a thing without severe injury in the process. I feel like many of the comments here reflect how I felt before watching this video and, therefore, I doubt the majority of people posting replies have even bothered to watch the video. If they had, they'd realize that these particular toothpicks are made from potato starch - probably the same thing as Veggie Straws - and, therefore, it's not as completely inconceivable why people would try this. I wouldn't do it due to it not being made up to the standards of products meant to be ingested, but I'm pretty sure most fairly healthy bodies could process the toothpicks without any lasting damage. After all, it's a Tik Tok trend - just content. That doesn't mean people are about to introduce toothpicks into their regular daily diet. This is nowhere close to Tide Pods.
Self harm has many disguises. Self deprivation often resembles eating the wrong foods or prep'ing them wrongly. The self harm is secretive to the individual, yet it does reveal itself when others are able to recognise it.
The secretive part of self harm develops individual resistance. Thus, something as wrong as eating items is one of those silent cries for help that the individuals use to test their own emotional barriers against confessing that they are struggling with life.
I think most countries have specialist knowledge with these issues. 😊when a country is witnessing their younger generations being urged to treat self harm as though it was a 'fad', a phase or a trend, the understandable emotions may shield authorities away from being pragmatic & objective.
Korea has been being subjected to similar tactics many years now. I recognised a trait of 'individuation', minimising how individuals promote individualism and thus creating a trend of anonymity, facelessness, distancing themselves as individuals, as communities, as a people, away from self love. That was disguised as headless faceless mannequin dummies posing in clothing stores, encouraging shoppers to ignore themselves and focus on an item. It may have been a trait of animosity reacting to the old suspicions & racist reactions that the beautiful Korean Angels were subjected to when people were distracted from looking at the fan dancing patterns & colours decades ago.
The history of the "trojan horse" was transposed into more modern day with sayings such as "never trust a smiling dog". When things seem 'un-natural' they are most likely counter contuitive to a healthy humanitarian society. That human instinct has protected homo sapiens since cavemen escaped dinosaurs.
I learnt from a very wise relative many years ago that the human digestiv3 system is in itself very protective. As a Consultant nowadays, I try when giving answers such as these, to include solution suggestions, because criticisms & observations don't do enough to progress a resolution.
I would respectfully suggest 'subtle education'. Teaching the generations who are susceptible to the 'trend' has the capacity to help them teach future generations. Such education could include easily understood graphics depicting projected potential dangers from engaging with such a trend. More than 'info graphic imagery' that is so simplistic it lacks sufficient impact, understand the engagement of the relevant generation. Computer style graphics are part of everyday life. Zig zagging suggests importance in an almost easy cartoon style. Use characterisations to reveal the subtle dangers. Maybe using an 'iceburg' style image, where the visible tip of an image resembles someone laughing when engaging with the trend. A few inches lower, some graphic design of the carcinogenic damage to internal organs. Beneath that, the body dismorphic changes as illness bulges out of a representational character's stomach whilst internal organ damage develops. Beneath & behind them, a Michael Jackson "Thriller" style scene, with past corpses wailing "don't join us yet. Please, live healthy".
And put some subtle yet distinctive bright future sunshine in the horizon, maybe up in the future, images of children saying "your grandchildren already love you. Please, give us a chance".
If you can feel some emotional hope just from understanding the easy concept of this as a suggestion, created as I sat here typing this in the last few minutes, imagine how incredibly achieving the images would be when your experts spend even just a reasonable time sketching, designing, saving lives.
I hope this helps. I used to have a Korean friend. A beautiful young lady. Talented, brave & thoughtful. Please, if you ever attribute this suggestion with progress, my friend's name in Korean meant "flower" 🌺 in English. Her love developed my own. A flower should be represented in such a design. And yes, I did see the Korean Angels when they came to Fairfields Hall, London, in the 1970s. They are always inspiring ✌️🙋♀️☯️
Well said!
OMG you typed all this?? But I glanced through what you said and it's true
solid fucking comment right here
I admire this comment. You sound like a wise and thoughtful person.
There are a lot of dangerous trends, having eating laundry detergents as the most infamous, but I think this trend is more about curiosity than self-harm. It has starch in its name, I checked it and it is made from starch, and people don't like it because it's unhealthy, not because it's as dangerous as eating detergent.
I feel like unhealthy options is the only thing I see is bad. Maybe more information would help and defect me to the "against 'edible' toothpicks" side but for now, I'm neutral and curious. I believe that unhealthy foods should be at a minimum but it's a bit of an overreaction to act like it's tide pods all over again when the adverse risks I've seen for now is unhealthy "food" options.
It's like we get dumber by the day.