# Are those cheap bowls from Dollar General safe to eat from?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 14, 2014, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-those-cheap-bowls-from-dollar-general-safe-to-eat-from/678796 "2014-01-14T17:23:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2014, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-those-cheap-bowls-from-dollar-general-safe-to-eat-from/678796/21 "2014-01-15T20:14:48Z")

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I don’t buy any eating utensils or products that have what I call “Chinese colors”; you know, that garish red, blue, green or yellow that just seems to scream COBALT! LEAD! CADMIUM!

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