Global Courant
A school cafeteria in Nanchang, China, has caused a stir by saying an object found in a student’s meal, suspected to be a rat’s head, is a duck’s neck.
The topic has since been viewed 310 million times on Chinese social media platform Weibo as of Wednesday, Chinese news website What’s On Weibo reported.
According to South China Morning Post, the incident, which took place at Jiangxi Industry Polytechnic College, surfaced on Chinese social media on June 1 and was debunked by the college on June 3.
The local food regulatory department investigated the incident on June 4 and its preliminary investigations confirmed that the item in question was a duck’s neck.
But samples of the school’s dishes will be tested and the results shared in the coming days.
Henan Business Newspaper reported that students at the university were told not to discuss the incident on the internet.
That same college made headlines in November 2021 when a rat was found in its cafeteria, The Paper reported.
Many netizens were not convinced that the object was a duck’s head, as the college claimed. A blogger on Weibo using the username Jianghu Lifuxiang posted a photo showing the similarities between the object and a rodent’s skull.
Another netizen asked, “How come the duck’s neck grew teeth?”
