# Canned Green Peas **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 20, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004 "2014-08-20T15:14:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/21 "2014-08-20T20:01:11Z")
Huh. I guess beggars CAN be choosers. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/22 "2014-08-20T20:31:01Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > … if you can afford to turn down free food, why are you going to a food pantry at all? Not just turn down, but outright throw away without opening. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/23 "2014-08-20T20:36:53Z")
Even people down on their luck have standards…and Chinese peas apparently crosses a line. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/24 "2014-08-20T20:58:36Z")
All we are saying, is give peas a chance. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/25 "2014-08-20T21:28:02Z")
> [@Anonymous\_Coward](#): > > All we are saying, is give peas a chance. Where’s the “Like” button when you need it? StG ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/26 "2014-08-20T21:31:28Z")
> [@Lorene89095](#): > > Soon the US will not be able to feed ourselves. Our supply lines are too long and unstable… Do you have any idea how much food the US produces? It’s massive, we are in absolutely zero current danger of not producing enough to meet our needs. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/27 "2014-08-20T22:34:17Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > [Fatal Misperception: How Unsafe Is Chinese Food?](http://thediplomat.com/2013/07/fatal-misperception-how-unsafe-is-chinese-food/) Your cite is a little old. I canned be sure it’s still relevant. Do you have any fresh Greenpeace? ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/28 "2014-08-20T22:55:45Z")
The xenophobia is great in this one. ---
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/29 "2014-08-20T23:05:14Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Do you have any idea how much food the US produces? > It’s massive, we are in absolutely zero current danger of not producing enough to meet our needs. Then why are we importing green peas from the other side of the world?😕 ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/30 "2014-08-20T23:17:41Z")
> [@MLS](#): > > I, too, try not to buy Chinese imports, especially not food items. They may not be \*trying \*to poison us, but I think quality control is not a high priority there. Quality control is the responsibility of the people who import and distribute and put their name on the label – who in this case, are Americans. In the case of my Chinese mackerel, that’s Bublebee Foods LLC, San Diego CA. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/31 "2014-08-20T23:23:46Z")
Lorene doesn’t trust peas from China. I don’t know how she feels about peas from other countries but I have a feeling we’ll never have World Peas. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/32 "2014-08-20T23:28:31Z")
> [@Lorene89095](#): > > Then why are we importing green peas from the other side of the world?😕 Because canned peas are so foul that anyone producing them in the USA would be canned. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/33 "2014-08-20T23:37:06Z")
> [@Lorene89095](#): > > Then why are we importing green peas from the other side of the world?😕 Because even with the shipping it’s cheaper. If you can ship canned peas from China and do it for a few nickels less than those produced in the USA you’ll find a market. Some people are primarily concerned about price, but the idea that the US is not capable of producing a sufficient amount of food is preposterous. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/34 "2014-08-21T00:12:43Z")
> [@njtt](#): > > The xenophobia is great in this one. It’s not xenophobia - it’s the truth. The Chinese have notoriously slipshod quality control and export shit that kills. That is a fact. ---
**Author:** ![PorchePine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@PorchePine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PorchePine)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/35 "2014-08-21T00:32:23Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > It’s not xenophobia - it’s the truth. The Chinese have notoriously slipshod quality control and export shit that kills. That is a fact. Has there been a documented case of a death from imported food from China? Otherwise it’s not a fact. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/36 "2014-08-21T00:50:02Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > It’s not xenophobia - it’s the truth. The Chinese have notoriously slipshod quality control and export shit that kills. That is a fact. As someone who knows people who have their products manufactured in China, and who (like you, probably) uses very high quality Chinese made goods every day, I think this statement is dubious. A more accurate statement is that Chinese quality control is as good or as poor as their customers demand. ---
**Author:** ![Amberlei](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e56c9b/32.png) [@Amberlei](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amberlei)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/37 "2014-08-21T01:07:39Z")
There’s an Asian grocery store I frequent, specifically because they import foods from Asia that I can’t find anywhere locally. My last visit, I bought garam masala, kimchi, tamarind paste, and both Japanese and Chinese eggplant. The eggplants may have been produced locally but the garam masala had been produced in India, the tamarind paste was made in Thailand, and the kimchi was from Korea. It never occurred to me to question the safety of the foods they import. ---
**Author:** ![AnaMen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@AnaMen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnaMen)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/38 "2014-08-21T02:07:43Z")
What a wasteful way to distribute food. You can’t go through the bag at the food pantry and leave what you don’t want? I’ll bet half the food in the mystery bags gets tossed. ---
**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:** [August 21, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/39 "2014-08-21T02:28:16Z")
> [@PorchePine](#): > > Has there been a documented case of a death from imported food from China? Otherwise it’s not a fact. [Counterfeit drug.](http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/health/20heparin.html) > [@](#): > > The finding by the Food and Drug Administration culminated a worldwide race to identify the substance discovered early this month in certain batches of heparin, the blood-thinning drug that had been linked to 19 deaths in the United States and hundreds of allergic reactions. [World wide.](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/world/americas/06poison.html) > [@](#): > > Toxic syrup has figured in at least eight mass poisonings around the world in the past two decades. Researchers estimate that thousands have died. In many cases, the precise origin of the poison has never been determined. But records and interviews show that in three of the last four cases it was made in China, a major source of counterfeit drugs. [Lead content including toothpaste, children’s toys.](http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/preventive-care/china-lead-poisoning.htm) > [@](#): > > U.S. regulatory agencies and companies instituted numerous recalls for defective, dangerous or toxic products, such as toothpaste, children’s jewelry, toys, tools, dog food, baby bibs, tires and computer batteries. The common link between many of these products: They were made in China and contain lead paint. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2014, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004/40 "2014-08-21T02:38:05Z")
Not to mention all the pets they killed with contaminated pet food. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canned-green-peas/696004.md?page=3)