Nah, it’s better with increasingly hysterical gasps for air.
How can it possibly be cost effective to make fake peas? I realize that in the developing world labor is cheap while goods can be expensive, but seriously?
Exactly what I thought about the cooking oil. It sounds like a whole lot of work to make a fake bottle of oil, when the real thing is pretty damn cheap in the first place. How about going down to the Chinese Fred Meyer and buying a freaking bottle of store-brand cooking oil?
Don’t they do “generic” in China?
By a rather amazing coincidence, I just watched that skit on DVD a few minute ago (Mr. Smokes-too-much).
I’m imagining some poor Chinese dude reading this post (I know, I know, it’s probably filtered; work with me here) and slapping his forehead and yelling, “JESUS CHRIST! Why didn’t anyone think of that!? Someone go down to Chinese Fred Meyer and buy a case of store-brand cooking oil! MY GOD!”
Once I built a railroad; now it’s done. Brother, can you spare a piss-smelling boneless chicken wing?
I wonder if there’s any connection between the decline and fall of a civilization (as judged by the performance of an obscure chain restaurant in freaking Saudi Arabia) and the willingness of people like the OP to eat in such a place.
On the bright side, my potential vote in the live-in-Saudi-Arabia-vs.-North-Korea poll is now tilting towards North Korea.
You would think, right? Apparently they are made from dried snow peas and soybeans, green food dye, and a potentially dangerous chemical used to make bleach.
The pictures from the whole sewer/cooking oil thing are truly disgusting. It’s not just some one-off thing, it’s a huge industry producing about three million tons of the stuff. It’s believed one out of ten meals are prepared using “recycled” oil. People pay restaurants for their used oil or fish it out of the public sewers near large restaurants and hotels. They put it through a chemical “filtration” process and sell the aflatoxin-tainted results (aflatoxin is among the most carcinogenic substances on earth) at about half the price of regular cooking oil. Of course, the authorities have solved the problem by temporarily shutting down a handful of restaurants. :rolleyes:
Luckily, the recently banned making soy sauce from human hair, so I have one less thing to worry about!
TLDNR
Watney’s Red Barrel did jump out at me - and not in a good way.
On that sewer/cooking-oil thing, that reminds me of when I lived in Albuquerque. There was a scandal involving trucks going around late at night and stealing the used grease out of the grease traps behind restaurants, for resell to restaurants. Probably not as bad as that sewer thing, though.
Now I am really ticked off! The little shits have called and begged my forgiveness. But I shall deny it to them! Yes! I shall turn my back upon their laments!
Grumble. Ruining a perfectly good outrage.
I think you should try for beheading of the manager. If they’d go that far – and I don’t just mean SAY they will, but actually lop it off – then I’d forgive 'em. Maybe.
Oddly, I am not allowed to behead people. Something about violating a state monopoly.
No, no, not you. Get the local franchise owner to behead the manager. Say you’ll forgive them then.
This thread is the second-best thing to a sequel of Confederacy of Dunces.
Words to live by.
When I was in vacation in Colorado in May, I went to a Mexican place in La Junta about 7pm for dinner. As a heavy smoker, I don’t have a great sense of smell. This place smelled bad (rotten meat bad) the moment I walked in the door. By the time I was seated and looked around to see that at dinner prime time, there were a whole two tables occupied, I was noticing the bad smell more and more by the minute.
At that point, I walked out, and I can’t imagine why anyone with a sense of smell wouldn’t do the same.
Well, China does have an overpopulation problem…