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Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed

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Re: Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed

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Post by inigyou »

hluska wrote: post #77
Maxion wrote: post #51

Why on earth are they not composting it, but instead putting in a landfill and locking it up? What a dumb idea.

Environment Canada’s testing found it ‘acutely lethal’. I’d consider composting an acutely lethal substance that is extremely high in salt to be the dumb idea. Canada actually has scientists. From reading through these comments, I know that’s a shock but we do, they test things and they follow the evidence before making recommendations. In fact, those test results from back in 2016 are even public. Just because this…

yeah big surprise, fish placed in concentrated fish sauce die quickly. Good thing nobody was suggesting doing that.

Re: Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed

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Post by inigyou »

mythrwy wrote: post #90
hluska wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Environment Canada’s testing found it ‘acutely lethal’. I’d consider composting an acutely lethal substance that is extremely high in salt to be the dumb idea. Canada actually has scientists. From reading through these comments, I know that’s a shock but we do, they test things and they follow the evidence before making recommendations. In fact, those test results from back in 2016 are even public. Just because this…

A little salt in compost is fine. Too much is an issue. They actually sell salt based soil amendments for areas that have been depleted of minerals. (Sea-90 is one brand). It's very lightly applied. It could be composted and that would kill the smell, it's just getting the ratios right and you might need an additional nitrogen source, but Canada has a lot of wood chips for the carbon.

I thought fish was full of nitrogen compounds and that's why it smells so bad

Re: Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed

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Post by EA-3167 »

inigyou wrote: post #185
gruez wrote: post #62

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From cbc: >In 1985, the Canadian government tried to stop Jamaican bakeries and restaurants from using the term "beef patty." >At the time, Canada's Meat Inspection Act classified a beef patty as what goes in a hamburger. It could contain only meat and seasoning and it couldn't be encased in dough or a crust. Therefore, a Jamaican patty — widely known as a flaky pastry with a spiced beef filling — didn't meet the cri…

Did you know in Germany it's illegal to call a product "soy yoghurt" because yoghurt is a dairy product?

Specificity and rules in German bureaucracy? A real shock, let me tell you.

Re: Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed

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Post by inigyou »

EA-3167 wrote: post #194
inigyou wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you know in Germany it's illegal to call a product "soy yoghurt" because yoghurt is a dairy product?

Specificity and rules in German bureaucracy? A real shock, let me tell you.

As a result of this, half the stuff in a German supermarket doesn't say what it is on the packaging, just the brand name. So soy yoghurt doesn't say soy yoghurt, it says Alpro and you just have to guess or interpret the fine print to know that it's soy yoghurt.

Even actual yoghurt can't say yoghurt. It has to say mild yoghurt, on some technicality.

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Post by dmix »

inigyou wrote: post #195
EA-3167 wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Specificity and rules in German bureaucracy? A real shock, let me tell you.

As a result of this, half the stuff in a German supermarket doesn't say what it is on the packaging, just the brand name. So soy yoghurt doesn't say soy yoghurt, it says Alpro and you just have to guess or interpret the fine print to know that it's soy yoghurt. Even actual yoghurt can't say yoghurt. It has to say mild yoghurt, on some technicality.

Second order effects of well intentioned regulation. As is tradition.

Re: Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed

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Post by UqWBcuFx6NV4r »

roncesvalles wrote: post #137
dataflow wrote: post #97

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Not being from Toronto, never in a million years would I even think of that as a visitor.

Sorry, but you're just uncultured if you don't know what Jamaican patties are. This is like saying "never in a million years would I think 'butter chicken' is a red, spicy Indian curry instead of chicken roasted in butter".

Sorry, you’re just uncultured if you don’t understand that understandings of different “foreign” cultures differ from place to place.

I don’t even agree that the use of the term “beef patty” should be regulated just so you don’t confuse a dumb tourist lol. Getting something you didn’t expect is part of travelling. But YOUR comment is too condescending and hypocritical to NOT draw attention to, and it’s a type of hypocrisy that’s endemic to North America. You tell someone from the US that you don’t know Spanish or some aspect of Mexican culture or something like that and if they’re snooty enough they’ll call you an uncultured trailer park hick or something. Put another 1,000–2,000 km of distance to the cultural reference you’re making and you’ll get blank stares.

I live in a country that’s far further from the Caribbean, where it makes up an insignificant part of our vast multicultural landscape. Don’t act like I’m “uncultured” due to something that you’re much more likely to know about due to your geographic proximity.

Re: Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed

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Post by Dunati »

meshweaver wrote: post #73
cuechan wrote: post #17

Slightly Offtopic but the voice in the embedded youtube Video is so sounds so unnatural and creepy. I guess its AI generated and no one bothered to check the end result.

Sounds like a normal news broadcaster voice to me. I suppose the inflection is a bit over-the-top. The speaker says her name at the end - Leila Beaudoi.

It sounded very odd to me too. I was wondering if that was normal for Newfoundland maybe. To be honest it didn't sound AI, more like it was played back slightly too slow, but not by a constant amount.

Re: Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed

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Post by EA-3167 »

inigyou wrote: post #195
EA-3167 wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Specificity and rules in German bureaucracy? A real shock, let me tell you.

As a result of this, half the stuff in a German supermarket doesn't say what it is on the packaging, just the brand name. So soy yoghurt doesn't say soy yoghurt, it says Alpro and you just have to guess or interpret the fine print to know that it's soy yoghurt. Even actual yoghurt can't say yoghurt. It has to say mild yoghurt, on some technicality.

That sounds like industry lobbying got the better of them, we have similar fights going on here around calling things plant "milk" or "butter" and the rest. What a shame, I can't imagine it's a lot of fun having to forensically examine every item on the shelf.
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