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”
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!
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Fuck Uncle Roger. Party sell out piece of shit.
Sure, everyone must become a martyr for the noble cause and sacrifice their entire career so you can conveniently upvote and move along to the next meme. Fucking A+ 5/5 gr8 b8 m8
The guy he reposted is a literal cult member, of a cult they still glorifies foot binding and is known worldwide for spreading lies about China. Literal cult member. Of a cult implicated in trafficking. Not taking the video down would be the bigger piece of shit move. Don’t promote cultists.
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.
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?
Overwhelmingly type A. However, at least according to my faulty memory of the literature I’ve read, they were doing some of the initial testing with guided munitions. Mostly focused on bridges, though, which is an odd place for fried rice. Anything else seems like dumb (bad) luck.
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!
