People are taking this as a dig on China, but it's a tale of how fragile nationalists are the world over. This is a level of dumb on par with freedom fries.
As far as I understand from the article, by Chinese law what they're accusing him of is a crime, so technically this is much, much stupider.
Yes it’s a very stupid law. “No cooking fried rice on anniversary of death of son of great leader who cooked fried rice in Korean War during bombing run, literally exposing his own position”
Is this... Is this real?
If you're seriously questioning this, then the actual terrible laws and acts going on in China would BLOW your mind in... five.
I'm a bit informed about the current situation actually. It's just that the reason behind this law in particular is just... Comical...
Yeah, authoritarianism and nationalism are very fragile when looking behind their mask.
We never did really get over our tribal period.
At first I thought this was going to be a piece about Uncle Roger, but reality is funnier than anything he could ever put out.
Uncle Roger ~lovers~ loves Uncle Wang Gang. Him never making fried rice again is very sad. Haiyaa!
First they banned Uncle Roger, and now they’re coming after Chef Wang Gang :(
I was going to say, I assume this is uncle Roger again but apparently not lol
We need Uncle Roger to comment on this.
Mao Anying, a Chinese military officer, was killed by US bombers on 25 November 1950 during the Korean war. A persistent but frequently denied rumour says he was trying to cook egg fried rice instead of taking shelter, and the smoke from the fire exposed his position to enemy forces.
I mean... There's stupid and then there's stupid.
Was bombing in the 50s something where they'd say, "oh look, there's some smoke from a fire, let's hit that"? Or was it more like, "ok, this looks like the target area coming up, let's drop our bombs and hope they hit something useful and explode properly, or at least explode when an enemy finds them during this war"?
I mean, I know WWII bombing was like the latter and at some point they drastically improved precision and communication between ground teams and bomber teams, but had they done so yet by the Korean war?
Even in WWII bombers would visually identify target areas. A valley of suspected enemy positions that is the target area is much less easily confused for the valley next to it if there is a dumbass running a fire.
See also why London's lights were turned off in WWII.
Egg fried rice is seriously taboo cause some guy died 75 years ago? Lol
It’s fascinating how authoritarians demand respect, but throw fits over such petty symbols. “Our DIVINELY chosen, absolutely perfect leader’s own son was killed while DEFINITELY NOT cooking with eggs. How dare ANY true citizen take pride in making such a VULGAR dish?! Egg fried rice shakes the very foundations of our flawless, unshakable regime!”
The dumbest thing about that to me is that if the story about Mao is taboo, then people are not supposed to be talking about it.
If it's also something as mundane as egg fried rice, then it becomes possible that this chef simply forgot the taboo story because nobody talks about it.
Also, by making something as inherently inocuous as egg fried rice taboo, they are only drawing attention to the rumor. And the fact that the CCP are so bothered by it would make any reasonable person conclude that there must be some truth to the rumor.
Lemmy.ml allows that image to be hosted there? I’m surprised.
Of course they do, it's a picture of their glorious leader.
Thanks China, without your censorship I wouldn’t have learned this absolutely humiliating story of your past. You are so weak because your pilots cook rice in eggs! Now the secret is out!
The Streisand Effect
At least they made a huge fucking deal about it so everyone knows now.
What's sad is that the same level of stupidity could be said about America with anything that someone is immature enough to get offended over. At least we don't disappear people all day every day constantly. If we keep getting offended by stupid shit then it becomes increasingly more possible though.
Not constantly... There were those badgeless, patch less guys throwing people into minivans a few of summers ago. Also people straight up getting murdered in the streets (or their own fucking beds) by "public safety" officers.
Not to defend China cause they have their own brand of fucking awful, just pointing out that there's a whole rainbow of ways to be terrible and these are but a few.
Watch out or the tankies will show up to disappear you
In communist China the president dissappear you, in capitalist America the pentagon dissappear the president*
*just kidding... I hope
Are we not going to talk about how the guy's name is Wang Gang? I mean, that's fine, I just wanted to make sure.
"China reacts to Wang Gang's eggs" could be an alternative title though.
Wang Gang scrambles China's eggs
“As an ordinary person who gets a lot of money by posting some cooking videos, he should at least not be disrespectful to this country and the people who sacrificed for this country.”
So, uh, someone unordinary, who doesn't get a lot of money by posting some cooking videos, can?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A Chinese celebrity chef has apologised after he was accused of insulting the memory of Mao Zedong’s son by posting a video about how to cook egg fried rice.
“As a chef, I will never make fried rice again,” Wang said in his apology on Monday after taking down the video.
Mao Anying, a Chinese military officer, was killed by US bombers on 25 November 1950 during the Korean war.
A persistent but frequently denied rumour says he was trying to cook egg fried rice instead of taking shelter, and the smoke from the fire exposed his position to enemy forces.
The Chinese Academy of History has said the claim about Mao Anying is a “most vicious rumour”, but the story remains popular.
The rumour – and references to egg fried rice – are now a taboo topic in China’s highly sensitive and controlled political environment.
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Worth watching one of his egg fried rice videos. He is a craftsman. This is my favorite.
Ccp got egg on their face here
Oh cool, I didn't know about this rumour. Thanks to the glass hearts of these people now I do!
How have the Chinese not played the reverse card and intentionally celebrated cooking fried rice as a sign of bravery in the face of an adversary here?
Til US airforce killed Mao's kid.
this guy must have pissed off the CCP somehow, so they're going after him on social media.. people aren't organically complaining about this.. this is definitely a government driven campaign against this guy.. the complaints are just ludicrous, and specifically aimed at inflaming old tensions between the US and China.. seriously, bringing up the death of some dipshit son of Mao during the Korean War on social media? nobody really gives a fuck about that idiot kid..
the CCP are just extorting money from this guy and this is how they go about it
Egg fried rice is amazing though. It shouldn't be censored any time of the year.
This is about as dumb as the Freedom Fries controversy.
I'm pedantic enough to start a trend on tiktok of bad Chinese fried rice cooking, like "how bad can you make it while still be considered Chinese fried rice"
The Wang Gang strikes again!
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