I’m skeptical of this claim, especially since near the end it became a political ad for Rick Scott. Also, a lot of our produce and other food products are imported from other countries. Are you telling me that we don’t have testing standards in place to insure the the quality of the food? I doubt it.
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I absolutely refuse to buy any food product that says that it came from China. I read labels and if it says made in China, I will not buy it. Why do we allow any food products from China to be imported to the US except for the fact that it’s cheap? We don’t need the friggin chinks selling us substandard food of any kind when the US produces far better food products even if it costs a little more to buy.
I can’t remember when Nixon opened trade w/communist China, but I was a kid and didn’t think it was a bold idea at the time.
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Chinese food imports? Hard pass.
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I agree with stp. that was a propaganda video
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Supposedly you can tell by looking. Most garlic will have evidence of a root on the bottom, while chinese garlic has an indention where the root should be.
7
I have watched travel films of China and when you get away from the big modern cities the rest of the country is in the Bronze Age. The smell of raw sewage in the summer makes travel unbearable, winter is recommended.
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Everything from there is shit.
And they like to use crap substitutions.
Remember Melamine baby formula and plastic rice?
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And dog food from China that killed our dogs.
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slave labor
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Children’s toys with lead paint.
10
The problem with our food labeling here in the US is that they don’t label the ingredient country of origin for every item used to make that food.
Some products, like beef, can be from another country. Take cows, for instance. They can be bred and raised in another country, but shipped here to farms that put them in a pasture to feed on grass for 10 days before slaughtering. That way, they can claim it was grass-fed beef.
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I have a new expletive now, “sewer garlic.”
The bloom has been off the Chinese rose for a long time now.
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Claudia Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 17:38 at 5:38 pm
We have a thing here about “Tyler Roses”. Roses from Tyler Texas.
Few Texans know that what you described is also happening with Tyler roses. They ship in young rose bushes/vines and put them in the ground for a few days so they can call them Tyler Roses.
Looking forward to the time when no lying will be the expected status quo.
For the uninitiated, that’s when we are with Jesus for eternity.
You can be there too, if you haven’t been saved yet, what are you waiting for? Once you have died, it’s too late to change your mind even though you finally see the truth then.
That’s when the gnashing of teeth and eternal regret starts. You really don’t want to choose that.
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What will the tilapia eat?
9
No, he’s correct. I’ve seen vegetables and herbs from China. They sell that stuff in Chinatown and some of the hispanic grocery stores. If you have produce in the dollar stores, check them, too.
China got busted years back for selling rice that was so old it looked plastic.
9
As a side note, I read sometime back that their pig meat was so bad it wouldn’t pass US inspection but a couple of major super markets were selling it anyway.
5
BLAST FROM THE PAST:
Many moons ago I worked in commercial real estate development. Our company owned several large shopping centers and office complexes in Central California.
One of my duties was FIRE AND SAFETY property inspections with local fire agencies and our insurance carrier.
One time I was working with Mike our CIGNA INSPECTOR in a “Chinese Restaurant”. I’d worked with Mike many times before and knew he was a little heard of hearing. All of our inspections were surprise visits and depended on our schedules. On this particular visit it happened to be in the middle of their lunch rush, so we made it quick not to impede work in their kitchen. And with the noise of the hood and duct system over their wok area I heard Mike yell to the owner “Hey ****, i just saw a huge cockroach run across your stove, I think he got a hot foot!” The kitchen was open to the dinning area and all of a sudden it got very very quiet!
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I thought Gilroy California was the “garlic capital of America”; what happened? Did cheap Chinese imported garlic kill the industry here?
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Doc
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 21:53 at 9:53 pm
“And with the noise of the hood and duct system over their wok area I heard Mike yell to the owner “Hey ****, i just saw a huge cockroach run across your stove, I think he got a hot foot!” The kitchen was open to the dinning area and all of a sudden it got very very quiet!”
…one of my sisters worked at a very large Chinese restaurant that also happenef to be very Buddhist, and also situated above an unrelated bar that filled the lower level as a completely separate business. The buddhist part was a problem because the way they practiced it was to prepare dishes for Buddha and place them around idols on high shelves. Large as he was, Buddha didnt eat much, so swarms of roaches were more than happy to help him out. Now the Chinese owners were aware of this so they did regularly bug bomb the restaurant. Problem was the restaurant owner and the bar owner mutually hated each other, so they did not agree on anything INCLUDING bug treatment schedules, which meant that when the restaurant would treat the roaches would all scurry down to the bar, and when the bar would treat they would all swarm back to the restaurant, all the while continuing to be fruitful and multiply. Just how bad became evident when a beer cooler motor failed.
See, a beer cooler like anything else climate controlled has compressor motors that run only intermittently as they can shut down at set point. This leaves them warm but still, inviting smaller creatures, like, say, roaches, to come in during an OFF phase and warm up.
Then it turns ON…
…when the beer cooler tech dismantled the motor, he found it was so crammmed with recently deceased roaches that their crispy yet gooey mass was great enough to literally stop the high voltage motor from turning due to their crushed corpses. He refused to do any more work from that point and evidently notified local health authorities as the restaurant AND the bar were shut down not long after.
The building owner then decided the infestation was completely out of hand and chose to raize the building and rebuild anew, inviting NEITHER of his former tenants back.
…so if you go to a Chinese restaurant and spot a Buddha on the wall surrounded by inexplicably dark flecked Chinese dishes, watch the specks for a moment.
Because some of them may be moving.
…the Bible also says some rather disapproving things about eating food sacrificed to idols as well, but thats a different subject for another day…
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I suppose God created cockroaches for a reason, but just the sight of one scurrying across a floor or a street fills me with utter disgust.
They are fast and have excellent evasive abilities, but sooner or later, after a few failed stomps, I’d get ’em. Then I’d have to hose off the bottom of my shoe.
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“I thought Gilroy California was the “garlic capital of America””
Oh my. memory lane. Or maybe mammary lane. It’s also the Artichoke Capital of the World, Complete with the Artichoke Princess. Back in 1976 we showed her and her court a good time.
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@ SNS
Bug bombs are useless in restaurants and contaminate the equipment that does the cooking. You just described DIYers. Not professionals.
Speaking as a 40 year professional, but what do I know?
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Dadof4
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 22:55 at 10:55 pm
…Im sure you are correct, Dadof4, but bear in mind I was maybe 14 at the time and getting this account entirely secondhand from my then-17 yo sister so it may not be accurate or complete in every detail, plus it was circa 1979ish so things in the bug game may have been different…
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We have refused to buy Chinese garlic for years. Mrs. RadioMattM looks at the roots. She can see if the garlic has been bleached.
I’m skeptical of this claim, especially since near the end it became a political ad for Rick Scott. Also, a lot of our produce and other food products are imported from other countries. Are you telling me that we don’t have testing standards in place to insure the the quality of the food? I doubt it.
I absolutely refuse to buy any food product that says that it came from China. I read labels and if it says made in China, I will not buy it. Why do we allow any food products from China to be imported to the US except for the fact that it’s cheap? We don’t need the friggin chinks selling us substandard food of any kind when the US produces far better food products even if it costs a little more to buy.
Anybody for some Chopped Sewage?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J2xi5Etnnk
I can’t remember when Nixon opened trade w/communist China, but I was a kid and didn’t think it was a bold idea at the time.
Chinese food imports? Hard pass.
I agree with stp. that was a propaganda video
Supposedly you can tell by looking. Most garlic will have evidence of a root on the bottom, while chinese garlic has an indention where the root should be.
I have watched travel films of China and when you get away from the big modern cities the rest of the country is in the Bronze Age. The smell of raw sewage in the summer makes travel unbearable, winter is recommended.
Everything from there is shit.
And they like to use crap substitutions.
Remember Melamine baby formula and plastic rice?
And dog food from China that killed our dogs.
slave labor
Children’s toys with lead paint.
The problem with our food labeling here in the US is that they don’t label the ingredient country of origin for every item used to make that food.
Some products, like beef, can be from another country. Take cows, for instance. They can be bred and raised in another country, but shipped here to farms that put them in a pasture to feed on grass for 10 days before slaughtering. That way, they can claim it was grass-fed beef.
I have a new expletive now, “sewer garlic.”
The bloom has been off the Chinese rose for a long time now.
Claudia Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 17:38 at 5:38 pm
We have a thing here about “Tyler Roses”. Roses from Tyler Texas.
Few Texans know that what you described is also happening with Tyler roses. They ship in young rose bushes/vines and put them in the ground for a few days so they can call them Tyler Roses.
Looking forward to the time when no lying will be the expected status quo.
For the uninitiated, that’s when we are with Jesus for eternity.
You can be there too, if you haven’t been saved yet, what are you waiting for? Once you have died, it’s too late to change your mind even though you finally see the truth then.
That’s when the gnashing of teeth and eternal regret starts. You really don’t want to choose that.
What will the tilapia eat?
No, he’s correct. I’ve seen vegetables and herbs from China. They sell that stuff in Chinatown and some of the hispanic grocery stores. If you have produce in the dollar stores, check them, too.
China got busted years back for selling rice that was so old it looked plastic.
As a side note, I read sometime back that their pig meat was so bad it wouldn’t pass US inspection but a couple of major super markets were selling it anyway.
BLAST FROM THE PAST:
Many moons ago I worked in commercial real estate development. Our company owned several large shopping centers and office complexes in Central California.
One of my duties was FIRE AND SAFETY property inspections with local fire agencies and our insurance carrier.
One time I was working with Mike our CIGNA INSPECTOR in a “Chinese Restaurant”. I’d worked with Mike many times before and knew he was a little heard of hearing. All of our inspections were surprise visits and depended on our schedules. On this particular visit it happened to be in the middle of their lunch rush, so we made it quick not to impede work in their kitchen. And with the noise of the hood and duct system over their wok area I heard Mike yell to the owner “Hey ****, i just saw a huge cockroach run across your stove, I think he got a hot foot!” The kitchen was open to the dinning area and all of a sudden it got very very quiet!
I thought Gilroy California was the “garlic capital of America”; what happened? Did cheap Chinese imported garlic kill the industry here?
Doc
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 21:53 at 9:53 pm
“And with the noise of the hood and duct system over their wok area I heard Mike yell to the owner “Hey ****, i just saw a huge cockroach run across your stove, I think he got a hot foot!” The kitchen was open to the dinning area and all of a sudden it got very very quiet!”
…one of my sisters worked at a very large Chinese restaurant that also happenef to be very Buddhist, and also situated above an unrelated bar that filled the lower level as a completely separate business. The buddhist part was a problem because the way they practiced it was to prepare dishes for Buddha and place them around idols on high shelves. Large as he was, Buddha didnt eat much, so swarms of roaches were more than happy to help him out. Now the Chinese owners were aware of this so they did regularly bug bomb the restaurant. Problem was the restaurant owner and the bar owner mutually hated each other, so they did not agree on anything INCLUDING bug treatment schedules, which meant that when the restaurant would treat the roaches would all scurry down to the bar, and when the bar would treat they would all swarm back to the restaurant, all the while continuing to be fruitful and multiply. Just how bad became evident when a beer cooler motor failed.
See, a beer cooler like anything else climate controlled has compressor motors that run only intermittently as they can shut down at set point. This leaves them warm but still, inviting smaller creatures, like, say, roaches, to come in during an OFF phase and warm up.
Then it turns ON…
…when the beer cooler tech dismantled the motor, he found it was so crammmed with recently deceased roaches that their crispy yet gooey mass was great enough to literally stop the high voltage motor from turning due to their crushed corpses. He refused to do any more work from that point and evidently notified local health authorities as the restaurant AND the bar were shut down not long after.
The building owner then decided the infestation was completely out of hand and chose to raize the building and rebuild anew, inviting NEITHER of his former tenants back.
…so if you go to a Chinese restaurant and spot a Buddha on the wall surrounded by inexplicably dark flecked Chinese dishes, watch the specks for a moment.
Because some of them may be moving.
…the Bible also says some rather disapproving things about eating food sacrificed to idols as well, but thats a different subject for another day…
I suppose God created cockroaches for a reason, but just the sight of one scurrying across a floor or a street fills me with utter disgust.
They are fast and have excellent evasive abilities, but sooner or later, after a few failed stomps, I’d get ’em. Then I’d have to hose off the bottom of my shoe.
“I thought Gilroy California was the “garlic capital of America””
Oh my. memory lane. Or maybe mammary lane. It’s also the Artichoke Capital of the World, Complete with the Artichoke Princess. Back in 1976 we showed her and her court a good time.
@ SNS
Bug bombs are useless in restaurants and contaminate the equipment that does the cooking. You just described DIYers. Not professionals.
Speaking as a 40 year professional, but what do I know?
Dadof4
Wednesday, 9 April 2025, 22:55 at 10:55 pm
…Im sure you are correct, Dadof4, but bear in mind I was maybe 14 at the time and getting this account entirely secondhand from my then-17 yo sister so it may not be accurate or complete in every detail, plus it was circa 1979ish so things in the bug game may have been different…
We have refused to buy Chinese garlic for years. Mrs. RadioMattM looks at the roots. She can see if the garlic has been bleached.
gutter oil in China
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp92BlLLVEI&ab_channel=TomoNewsUS
anointer video on the topic
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXWRlr_2iTw&ab_channel=ChinaInsiderwithDavidZhang
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SNS
Your story may be old, but it still happens today. So many DIYer stories, I should make a collection of them as what not to do.
Especially DIY constructions that guarantee termite infestations or just plain rot.
From the picture sewage also turns garlic into onions.