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@rocnrule: Panama got a whole buttload of laced toothpaste. I'm pretty sure we're not the only ones complaining.
Unless of course the citizens of Panama enjoy toothbrushing suicide.
@rocnrule: Panama got a whole buttload of laced toothpaste. I'm pretty sure we're not the only ones complaining.
Unless of course the citizens of Panama enjoy toothbrushing suicide.
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\"The Senator usually rails against China for stealing our Ohio's jobs.\"
Deh took 'er jobz!
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\"STOP....in the naaaame of love!\"
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@Moosehawk:
I meant more that other countries don't seem to be getting these imports. Maybe they're worse at testing. I was merely referencing the article and the point that perhaps there is an anti-american portion to this.
@rocnrule: Maybe it's because America likes to take the cheapest route possible to manufacture anything, even food. Now it's biting us in the ass. We can't possibly be the only one taking Chinese imports in, can we? I can see where you're getting at.
If by anti-American you mean they're purposely targeting us, I think that might be a stretch. The people in charge of poisoning the food probably don't have control of where that particular section is being sent to.
Other countries test by letting Americans eat the stuff for a year and seeing what happens.
btw, it's Thomas the Tank Engine. It's a Brit thing - Ringo used to be on the show.
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This is all an unfortunate case of English/Chinese mistranslation. Several years ago, the Pepsi Cola Company had the slogan 'Pepsi Adds Life!'. In China it was interpreted as 'Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back From The Dead!'
In this case, the phrase 'Thomas the Tank Engine' was assumed to mean 'Little Devil Train That Kills Your Decendants.'
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# Electrical Products
# Toys
# Cigarette Lighters
# Fireworks
So which does defective tires fall into again? I suppose toys, since you can always make them into tire swings.
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Murray Lumpkin was to be executed but that process has been outsourced and well, you know, it's a lot cheaper but it just might take awhile to convince him to fly out to China for the bullet.
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Uh oh, he blamed consumers *and* the mob! I expect Lumpkin to be the next member of the Bush Admin. to step down to \"spend more time with his family.\"
Liberate China!
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@rocnrule: OMG - it was tainted CHINESE products sent to a CANADIAN company that caused the massive pet food recall in N. America.
Maybe Canadian news agencies missed this little tidbit?
I'd like the senators to ask what they are going to do about the problem instead of having a speed dating session.
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I want them all to sing Cat Stevens when they get back: Cause out on the edge of darkness,
there rides a poison train
Oh poison train take this country,
come take me home again
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\"As the subject of Chinese-manufactured diapers came up, Senator David \"Shitter\" Vitter jerked himself awake and paid rapt attention to testimony...\"
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\"I love fish, I'll handle it for you\"...Pardon me...I'm bad!
\"Could I just flick a switch on my fish...and just, it would know, like, if it was from a farm, or from the wild...and then I could take it on my motorcycle\"
@Toof_75_75: Hahahaha
I think he wants to take the fish on his motorcycle down the interweb supertubeway.
Since they mentioned cigarette lighters, I have to mention a souvenier that a friend got after a trip to China. It's a zippo-style knockoff lighter than plays the chinese national anthem when you open it. Unfortunately the top doesn't open far enough to avoid the flame, which is automatically lit when you open it. The cheap thing can't be saved from itself... while playing the Chinese anthem, how apropos.
\"Xenophobic fear-mongering\" seems to be what Megan was doing with all HER posts on here...
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How do you say \"Talk to the hand\" in Mandarin?
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nice reporting, but did you have to link to that Washington Post article in such a dismissive tone? After all, I would assume that most consumerists would find this paragraph to be of interest:
\"As it is, Food and Drug Administration records show that China isn't even the leading source of contaminated imports to the United States. India and Mexico have exceeded China in \"refused food shipments\" over the past year, and the leader in rejected candy imports was a country with an otherwise antiseptic image: Denmark. Domestic food sources also aren't exempt from scandal: Remember the California spinach scare last year? And last month, another California-based company recalled more than 75,000 pounds of hamburger distributed in the western United States, the latest in a lengthy series of tainted-meat incidents -- all from American suppliers.\"
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I will never stop loving chinese food, no matter what happens. Come to me, lo mein.
It seems odd to me that the US are the only country complaining about this. How come they are the only ones to be sent tainted food!? We've missed all this in Canada, aside from the pet food. Now I'm starting to wonder if this is somehow intentional.