"If you don't go to the Great Wall, you're not a hero, and it's a pity not to eat roast duck." When you arrive in Beijing, who can resist a delicious roast duck?
Bright red roast duck slices are placed on a porcelain plate, cucumber strips, sweet noodle sauce, shredded green onions, and a plate of lotus leaf cakes.
As a national intangible cultural heritage, even Russia President Vladimir Putin couldn't help but eat the second piece. Under the prestige, Peking duck sells countless times every year.
There are also many tourists who come to buy packaged roast duck to give to relatives and friends, but this is sending, and some people find that something is wrong.
A roast duck bone is separated, the sauce is more than the meat, and even after opening, there is a disgusting taste. When the matter came to light, the results of the investigation of roast duck were a big surprise.
Black-hearted merchants are desperate for profit, the price has increased dozens of times, the sanitary conditions are unsightly, and even bluntly said: I dare not eat!
What is the truth?
"I Was Deceived in Beijing"
The people take food as the sky, and food is the first thing. In 2011, a post called "I was deceived in Beijing" was posted on the Internet, and the poster hung up his experience, which instantly attracted a lot of attention.
Here's the thing, the poster was on a business trip to Beijing at the time, thinking that it would be rare to come to Beijing once, and he must taste the local food.
There are many delicacies in Beijing, and Peking duck is particularly famous. After tasting it, the owner of the post also thought it was very good, so he bought the roast duck in the finished package, thinking of taking it back to share it with friends and family.
At that time, the owner of the post was full of joy, because a roast duck is not cheap. Who would have thought that when they went home and opened the package, they would see that the roast duck inside could not be linked to the duck except for the skeleton of a duck.
All the meat is squeezed together, and the bones are also squeezed together, what is soft and glutinous, what is delicious, and the owner almost vomits out the overnight meal when he smells the taste.
At this time, he realized that he had been deceived, whether in terms of appearance or smell, this packaged roast duck was very different from what he ate in the store.
So, the poster directly edited his personal experience into a post and posted it on the website, and then in the comment area, it is not difficult to find that many people have been deceived by the packaged Peking duck.
But if the production is not up to standard, how can this roast duck be circulated to the market? When the matter was getting more and more exposed, some media reporters went to the sales office to visit.
Black-hearted roast duck source
To their surprise, the vacuum-packed ducks were not expensive, and they were very cheap compared to the traditional Peking duck prices.
However, if you think about it carefully, if it is a packaged roast duck on the production line, the cost will indeed be lower than that of the freshly made roast duck in the store, however, no matter how low it is, the price of vacuum-packed roast duck cannot be twenty yuan.
Twenty dollars a duck, excluding the cost of sales and labor costs, how much profit is there? No one dared to think about it.
When inquiring in detail, the store directly had a showdown, saying that this was not duck meat at all, but consumers bought it, and they sold it.
So, how many consumers of roast duck in circulation are deeply affected? Under the huge chain, they chose to call the police.
After tracing the source, the police set their sights on a workshop in Boye County, Hebei Province. When the police arrived at the scene, the scene inside was stunning.
There are mountains of inferior duck racks, and there are some that have been vacuum-packed and have not yet been put on the shell. The vacuum packaging looks okay, but as soon as it is opened, the meat inside is no longer formed.
The color is dark and there is no vacuum adsorption, and the "duck meat" instantly disperses into a mess. This is a real black-hearted workshop, and the police arrested the person in charge, Kong Lingye, and several main responsible persons, and the truth they confessed was chilling.
Something that you don't eat yourself
In June 2010, Kong Lingye set his sights on roast duck, and he felt that the business was hugely profitable, so he began to look for an upper and lower home.
Shangjia is a duck rack factory and meat food processing factory, Kong Lingye found a duck rack factory, which has a very simple production process for products, that is, cleaning, cooking, coloring, packaging, sterilization, and will not be roasted at all, that is, this has nothing to do with roast duck.
If you think that duck rack production is quite formal, you are wrong, the person in charge of the duck rack factory admits that his workshop is not tightly closed, sometimes flies will go in, and he does not have a license to produce duck racks.
The total cost of such a duck rack is only 2.3 yuan, and Kong Lingye will go to another factory to get the meat after getting it, but this meat is actually only "half a duck", and the factory has not yet been qualified to roast.
Wrap the duck rack and meat together, put two large bags of sweet noodle sauce, and then put on the packaging bag of brand-name roast duck, and find a small supermarket to sell it, this is the production process of Kong Lingye.
He is also skilled in finding merchants to sell, like him, unqualified "manufacturers", looking for some small supermarkets or small shops, etc., a roast duck sold to the store is almost six or seven yuan, but the store can sell it at a price of more than 20 yuan.
However, the store will generally be careful and ask Kong Lingye to show a health permit or quarantine certificate, at which time Kong Lingye will take out his forged information.
As for whether consumers will find them, it is not in Kong Lingye's hands, because among the ten people who sold out, at least nine and a half are outsiders, and they are already out of the local area when they open the package, so where do they look for them.
In this way, a closed loop was formed from production to sales, and Kong Lingye's business made steady profits until 2011, when the matter was exposed.
After the inspection of the meat quality sold by Kong Lingye, it was found that the total number of colonies of roast duck had exceeded the maximum limit that could be detected, at least more than 1,100 times the standard value; Even the number of coliform bacteria exceeds the standard by dozens of times, and it is not wrong to call it "black-hearted roast duck".
Regarding these roast ducks, Kong Lingye also bluntly said that he had eaten one or two at the beginning, but after making them for a long time, he didn't dare to eat them.
In the end, Kong Lingye and the other responsible seals violated food safety management regulations, and the circumstances were serious, and the court sentenced them to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from one year to six years.
Food safety
After the turmoil ended, people had a deeper understanding of food safety, and roast duck was even more apprehensive, and now, people have many doubts about the source of cheap roast duck.
In May 2024, a 18 yuan roast duck came into people's eyes, and it was only sold for 18 yuan after processing, according to the market price, a live duck is more than 40 yuan, can this 18 yuan roast duck be eaten?
After tracing the source, the reporter found that the cheap ducks are generally frozen white-striped ducks, and these ducks can be slaughtered within a month, so the cost will be cheaper. The more expensive roast duck is generally used in the freshly slaughtered live duck.
With the vigorous rectification of the country, most of the problems related to food safety have been solved, but there will still be some fish lurking in the net waiting for an opportunity.
Therefore, we must also keep our eyes open when buying, reject bad merchants, and safeguard the rights and interests of consumers, so that black-hearted merchants have no chance!
Information sources:
1. North Net - The Beijing Black-hearted Roast Duck Case Yielded Results The 9 defendants each received a criminal punishment
2. China News Network - The black-hearted roast duck colony exceeded the standard by 1,000 times, and the production and marketing gang said that they did not dare to eat it
3. Minnan Net - 2.3 yuan inferior duck rack to make "roast duck" after inspection "maggots"
4. Guangming Network - What's the Trick? A roast duck costs 18 yuan, but a live duck costs more than 40! Expert: Eat with confidence!