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地溝油
ちこうゆ
1. [n]
▶ gutter oil
▶ [expl] recycled waste oil sold illicitly in China as a cheaper alternative to normal cooking oil



History:
5. A 2023-11-04 20:13:43  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
I don't think the addition of "normal" makes much difference.
4. A* 2023-11-04 19:05:22  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutter_oil
Reprocessing of used cooking oil is often very rudimentary; techniques include filtration, boiling, refining, and the removal of some adulterants.[30] It is then packaged and resold as a cheaper alternative to normal cooking oil.[31]
Another version of gutter oil uses discarded animal parts, animal fat and skins, internal organs, and expired or otherwise low-quality meat, which is then cooked in large vats to extract the oil.[32]
  Comments:
I watch enough random Chinese youtube news that I actually knew this term. Anyway...

The recycled "waste oil" is very often cooking oil in the first place.  If you substitute "cooking oil" for "waste oil", you'll see why I tweaked the gloss. ("normal" cribbed from wikipedia)

I had believed that "waste oil" was strictly post-restaurant waste(i.e. 100% cooking oil), but I guess it can include industrial byproducts(waste) as well.
  Diff:
@@ -13 +13 @@
-<gloss g_type="expl">recycled waste oil sold illicitly in China as a cheaper alternative to cooking oil</gloss>
+<gloss g_type="expl">recycled waste oil sold illicitly in China as a cheaper alternative to normal cooking oil</gloss>
3. A 2018-10-22 22:29:29  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
We'd normally only refer to the pinyin if it drove the Japanese reading. in this case ちこうゆ is quite regular Japanese.
  Diff:
@@ -12 +11,0 @@
-<lsource xml:lang="chi">dìgōuyóu</lsource>
2. A* 2018-10-22 15:57:54  Robin Scott <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Is the pinyin necessary? We don't usually have it for Chinese loanwords.
  Diff:
@@ -13,0 +14 @@
+<gloss g_type="expl">recycled waste oil sold illicitly in China as a cheaper alternative to cooking oil</gloss>
1. A* 2018-10-22 13:14:36  Marcus Richert <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/地溝油
g ng
地溝油	512
下水油	280
ドブ油	No matches
https://www.excite.co.jp/News/chn_soc/20120406/Searchina_20120406031.html
"日本ではなぜ「地溝油」が食卓に出ないのか"
  Comments:
Chinese transliteration from enwiki

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