# Boycott Chinese Food \[Until they return our submarine!\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 17, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952 "2016-12-17T18:29:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Me\_Billy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Me\_Billy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Me_Billy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/1 "2016-12-17T18:29:47Z")
I am boycotting Chinese food until they return our submarine. If France stole our submarine, I would of course be boycotting French fries. But it was China this time, so no more Chinese food until you return our submarine! ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/2 "2016-12-17T18:42:25Z")
But wait…what will I do with out my lead infused sewage encouraged “fresh” ginger I use in all my fancy recipes? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/3 "2016-12-17T18:51:41Z")
Whatever food you eat instead, make sure you don’t eat it off china. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/4 "2016-12-17T18:59:53Z")
Charley…Charley…it was a Lilliputian submarine. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/5 "2016-12-17T19:00:12Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Whatever food you eat instead, make sure you don’t eat it off china. No shit. I cruise the local “Goodwill” store. Mostly looking for cheap clowns to terrorize my sister with…but I digress. Anyway, I often see nice plates and cups and bowls and cookware and “china” and shit. Then I see “made in china” on it. Screw that. I don’t have a lead testing kit at home. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/6 "2016-12-17T19:04:24Z")
And how many Chinese restaurants, in the U.S., have any ties at all to China? This is like “liberty fries.” Really stupid. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/7 "2016-12-17T19:11:52Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > And how many Chinese restaurants, in the U.S., have any ties at all to China? > > This is like “liberty fries.” Really stupid. _Freedom_ fries. [Liberty cabbage](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauerkraut) was from WW2. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/8 "2016-12-17T19:22:51Z")
I am going to do my part by ordering “Egg Freedom Yung” from now on. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/9 "2016-12-17T19:26:46Z")
And General Flynn’s Chicken. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/10 "2016-12-17T19:29:55Z")
Humboldt Bud Stickers. Washington DC Duck ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/11 "2016-12-17T19:31:52Z")
I heard this “drone” was in International waters. Is China upset with us about something? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/12 "2016-12-17T19:38:44Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > I heard this “drone” was in International waters. Is China upset with us about something? I don’t see why they would be. Trump had a very nice phone conversation with their president just a few days ago. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/13 "2016-12-17T19:42:28Z")
Well I certainly won’t order the sub gum. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/14 "2016-12-17T20:51:04Z")
> [@Me\_Billy](#): > > I am boycotting Chinese food until they return our submarine. You are denser than a black hole. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/15 "2016-12-17T20:52:04Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > And General Flynn’s Chicken. Your statement is a little ambiguous. I’m thinking you might just get a “visit” soon. Don’t you support our men in uniform? ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/16 "2016-12-17T21:49:00Z")
Y’know back in the early 20th century anti-German sentiment from WW I caused folks to re-name the German Shepherd the _Alsatian_ ( despite them not coming from Alsace ). Now I think the time has come for the [Chinese Shar-Pei](http://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/chinese-shar-pei/). Suggestions anyone? Remember, like the Alsatian they really needn’t be logical ;). **Burmese Wrinkle-Hound** perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/17 "2016-12-17T21:49:17Z")
> [@Me\_Billy](#): > > I am boycotting Chinese food until they return our submarine. Hundreds of years of environmental abuses and human rights atrocities and THIS is what you take up arms about??? Now excuse me, I need to order my lunch of Freedom Pao Chicken with Lincoln Mein Noodles and Mount Rushmore Goo Gai Pan. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/18 "2016-12-17T21:59:08Z")
I pledge not to use any Chinese proverbs until our little drone is repatriated. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/19 "2016-12-17T22:03:22Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > Charley…Charley…it was a Lilliputian submarine. I see what you did there. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boycott-chinese-food-until-they-return-our-submarine/774952/20 "2016-12-17T22:04:56Z")
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