{"id":12966,"date":"2010-08-18T15:19:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T21:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=12966"},"modified":"2010-08-17T21:41:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T03:41:20","slug":"war-on-food-konnyaku-the-deadly-savory-jelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/war-on-food-konnyaku-the-deadly-savory-jelly\/","title":{"rendered":"War on Food: Konnyaku, the Deadly Savory Jelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jetalone\/1402986458\/\" title=\"Konnyaku steak \u00e3\u0081\u201c\u00e3\u201a\u201c\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u201a\u0192\u00e3\u0081\u008f\u00e3\u201a\u00b9\u00e3\u0192\u2020\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u201a\u00ad by jetalone, on Flickr\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1263\/1402986458_b2cb173d6b_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Konnyaku steak \u00e3\u0081\u201c\u00e3\u201a\u201c\u00e3\u0081\u00ab\u00e3\u201a\u0192\u00e3\u0081\u008f\u00e3\u201a\u00b9\u00e3\u0192\u2020\u00e3\u0192\u00bc\u00e3\u201a\u00ad\" align=\"right\"\/><\/a>Made from the starch of Devil&#8217;s Tongue, a subtropical plant, the pulp is turned into a grey jelly that is used in a range of dishes in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/japan\/7898781\/Japanese-government-to-monitor-killer-jelly.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">anyone who bites off more than they can chew can end up choking to death due to the elasticity of the food<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>According to a task force of the Consumer Affairs Agency, 22 people have died in the last 16 years after eating konnyaku \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the vast majority either the elderly or young people. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The photo inset is konnyaku in its steak form. Yes. Steak. The<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?l=cc&#038;ss=2&#038;ct=6&#038;mt=all&#038;adv=1&#038;w=all&#038;q=konnyaku++&#038;m=text\" class=\"external external_icon\"> Flickr search<\/a> is very&#8230;enlightening. <\/p>\n<p>Any<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Konnyaku\" class=\"external external_icon\"> product derived<\/a> from a plant called Devil&#8217;s Tongue is just asking for trouble.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/asia\/japan\/7898781\/Japanese-government-to-monitor-killer-jelly.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">telegraph<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Made from the starch of Devil&#8217;s Tongue, a subtropical plant, the pulp is turned into a grey jelly that is used in a range of dishes in Japan. Unfortunately, anyone who bites off more than they can chew can end up choking to death due to the elasticity of the food. According to a task [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[608,51],"tags":[291,3027,3025,3023,3026,3024,3022],"class_list":["post-12966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-only-in-japan","tag-dangerous","tag-deadly-delectable","tag-devils-tongue","tag-food-fight","tag-jelly","tag-konnyaku","tag-war-on-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12966"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12970,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966\/revisions\/12970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}