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Buldak spicy noodles are back on shelves in Denmark after the food authorities there canceled part of their recall decision concerning the famous Korean instant noodles product, originally issued due to their extreme spiciness and consequent health risks.

The Danish Veterinary and Food Administration announced, Monday (local time), that two of the three products that had been recalled were not harmful to health, based on updated risk assessments.

"Based on the new analysis results and the DTU Food Institute's updated risk assessment, the administration concludes that two of the products, Samyang Buldak 2x Spicy Hot Chicken and Samyang Buldak Hot Chicken Stew, do not contain capsaicin levels as high as those reported by the distributors in the marketing," the Danish administration said in a press release.

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Weird! Here's the actual image resource that's being loaded, with the flames: https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimg.koreatimes.co.kr%2Fupload%2FthumbnailV2%2F378743_20240716_162624640_94dbd938333e8.gif

Here's the same resource on the site, with the flames: https://img.koreatimes.co.kr/upload/thumbnailV2/378743_20240716_162624640_94dbd938333e8.gif

Maybe this is a clickbait-type thing, so scrapers will drive more content to the article while it itself remains serious and professional-looking?

Edit: It does look like it loads it for sharing purposes, at least onto Facebook and the like. Not sure how it worked for Lemmy specifically. Maybe an actual web dev can answer.

[–] Hedgehog@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You don't have to use the same image for the feature as the embed preview. The featured image is often the default (and you have a fallback just in case), but you can also choose to replace it for socials. Don't know what this is built in (on mobile) but it could just be using a different file.

I haven't seen this before so grain of salt but I'm assuming it's just to be eye-catching so you click to their site. I'm also assuming you wouldn't want it to be a gif on your own site because of accessibility concerns, but that depends on your requirements which vary pretty widely by country.