While Russians are falling all over themselves looking for a new country to bomb and devastate, the Chinese keep proving that an inventive and industrious nation will always kick the ass of a belicose, lazy one.
Behold this wonder of Chinese industry:
Yes! These are borscht-flavored chips for people who are not fortunate enough to have a Ukrainian person nearby.
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Chinese keep proving that an inventive and industrious nation will always kick the ass of a belicose, lazy one.
Yes, except Chinese products last a few months and then fall apart/break down. I don’t trust their food products; I certainly wouldn’t even buy pet treats from China. (They were found to contain poison; quite a few beloved family pets died from ingesting them) And their toys marketed for toddlers are covered in lead.
Building products? 60 Minutes found that Lumber Liquidators’ Chinese-made laminate flooring contains amounts of toxic formaldehyde that may not meet health and safety standards. “Chinese drywall” refers to an environmental health issue involving defective drywall manufactured in China and imported to the United States starting in 2001. Laboratory tests of samples for volatile chemicals have identified emissions of the sulfurous gases carbon disulfide, carbonyl sulfide, and hydrogen sulfide.
They poison their own children by manufacturing infant formula laced with melamine.
I love seafood. When I visit the supermarket to buy scallops I steer clear of the Chinese farm-raised stuff. The stuff they feed their farm-raised fish is mercury-filled sludge.
They’re certainly inventive and industrious, but they seem to lack any safety and regulatory infrastructure. They’re good at punishing offenders after the face (for example after Chinese infants die from tainted milk products) but they’re not doing much in prevention.
I personally avoid everything they export to us.
If I had a bag of their borscht-flavored chips, I’d have it checked by a lab.
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I was just trying to be funny with my post. Thank you, however, for the insightful and valuable comment.
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Unfortunately, much of what Mike says is true. OTOH, I have Chinese spicy dried shredded beef that I inherited from my mother, and after almost two decades it remains the same quality as the day she bought then.
Chinese are old hands at manipulating food products. They can take tofu, flavor and shape it so it looks and tastes like a pigs’ ear, which allows Buddhist monks to have their vegan ways and taste pork at the same time.
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Hummmmm… I want these borscht-flavored chips right now. No irony at all.
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It is a great dream of mine that one day I will have you over for my borscht. Your life will never be the same after that, I promise. 🙂
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Is there a better borscht than the Ukranian one? And then again, is there a better Ukranian borscht than yours?
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No and no. 🙂
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If Oksana and you are ever in the same town you will have to do a cook off.
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Now I am craving my wife’s borscht with smetana. The only thing Ukrainian about my wife is her first name. But, she cooks a couple of really good Ukrainian dishes in addition to Russian and Central Asian ones.
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What about barszcz flavored ramen noodles? (this is Polish barszcz so it’s just beet flavored)
Or cucumber soup ramen?
Or (god help us all) tripe flavored ramen
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