It would be helpful if more foods indicated their country of origin, like Brussels sprouts.
General Tso’s Chicken is NOT made in China!
Go to the produce section of a major supermarket. Look for peeled garlic in plastic tubs. I’ll bet it says it is from China.
Not trying to speak for the OP here, but I think some posters are missing the point a little bit.
Shoddy products abound. I’ve owned screwdrivers that stripped out after five screws, shirts that came apart after one wash, and pens that stopped working after writing despite still have 3/4 of the ink left.
True “props” (thanks, Icarus) are ones that don’t even really work once.
Bad pencil erasers are always the one that drove me nuts. I always assume there was a conversation in a Chinese pencil factory once that went kinda like this:
“Okay boss, here’s our new pencils!”
“What are these? You’ve got the woody bit, and the writey bit in the middle, but you left off the rubbery bit on the end!”
“Rubbery bit? What’s that for?”
“No idea. Balance, probably. All I know is that those American second-graders are going to expect rubbery bits on the pencils they ‘win’ as ‘prizes’ for their spelling contests. There’s a pile of old whitewall tires out back; why don’t you go tear the white bits off those and just attach them to the ends of those with flimsy bits of really sharp steel?”
Nor is it made from anyone’s toes, military officer or otherwise.
My chopped garlic in olive oil doesn’t say…the only address is Florida. Gilroy garlic, on the other hand, is from California.
Marinated artichoke hearts don’t say it either.
Just this past Christmas, someone bought some plastic toy tools for my toddler son. The set consisted of 2 wrenches, a screwdriver, a hammer, and a level. Out of these five items, three of them broke the very first time he tried to play with them. The screwdriver I was able to glue back together, but the wrenches went into the garbage. Only the hammer and the level could withstand even light useage.