a nation of only fucking children. and we have some sort of hope that they'll just not rabidly consume out of evny of how we fat-asses have been living for generations?
please china...dont drive lots of cars, please china dont build lots of factories, please china dont power your industrialization with coal power plants...whine whine whine
I don't know whether it's rapid Westernization or whatever, but it's pretty much only the teenagers and middle-aged women that act like this. Ever gone to market and seen a dignified 44-year old mother of four throwing elbows and openly weeping because she didn't get the oranges from the top of the pile? It's pretty fucking surreal.
"I want sharkfin soup, I don't understand how there cannot be any more sharkfin soup"
"Just order something else"
"I won't accept it I want sharkfin soup.... SHARKFIN SOUP... Why?? WHY!?! There are so many fish in the ocean, and there's no SHARKFIN SOUP!?!?... Tell me, where is it? you're hiding it somewhere!!!"
"Hey, calm down"
"NO WAY I WANT SHARKFIN SOUP!!!!! People are so selfish eating all of it and leaving none for me!!!!! ... I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT I WANT IT... WAH WAH... HEY!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!? GIMME THAT CAMERA!!!"
The Chinese culinary demand for shark fins, which has decimated the population of sharks in oceans all around the world, isn't because of its flavor. Shark fin basically tastes of nothing. Not in a tofu sense, but in a total-and-complete-blandness sense. Shark fins are just cartilage. They add a textural component to the soup, but literally have no flavor.
The Chinese eat shark fin soup (and bird's nest soup) for the prestige. They eat it when the in-laws visit, serve it at weddings, and like to be seen eating it because being the kind of person who can afford it is something worth bragging about.
You'll occasionally find someone who claims it's delicious, but they're talking about the broth it's served in, which is ham and poultry-based.
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