My father read me out a joke from the Chinese newspaper, which depicts life in China today.
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A farmer wanting to grow his rice crop goes and spends all his savings at the seed supplier for the best rice seeds available. He plants the seeds and waits for them to grow, but nothing happens. He digs the seeds out and cuts them open to discover that the seeds are fake seeds and in his anger he goes to the merchant and demands his money back. Being unsuccessful at this, he goes home and decides to commit suicide by drinking the pesticide he has for his rice crop. After throwing down a glass, he waits to die, but then realises soon after nothing is happening. Once again foiled by fake goods, the pesticide is not pesticide. His wife comes home and notices him at the table with a glass and pesticide and cries out to him, what are you doing? He explains that he spent their money on fake seeds and after trying to kill himself with pesticide, he has also found out the pesticide is also fake. The wife cheers him up by saying he is lucky then, for she would not want to be a widow. She goes and buys some alcohol and cooks dinner so they can have a nice meal to celebrate that he was lucky not to drink real pesticide.
They both die from drinking the alcohol. Why? It was fake alcohol (i.e. toxic).
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LOL... it doesn't seem that funny right? But, it's humour because it reflects the true state of China today, where your goods are not what they should be, and people are now scared of buying and eating Chinese made foods.
My father spent an hour in town yesterday trying to buy some foodstuffs, and he was very annoyed to find that something labelled as Taiwanese Rice Flour Noodles was manufacturered in Shanghai. He obviously didn't buy them. A lot of people now do not buy foods with any labelling that say Made in China. Even going to the extent of checking the barcode number because specific numbers mean country of origin. There is a slight discrepancy though as the product registration country is printed, not necessarily the country of manufacture, so you need to be wary of that too....
Ah, China, when will you grow up to be an adult country?
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A farmer wanting to grow his rice crop goes and spends all his savings at the seed supplier for the best rice seeds available. He plants the seeds and waits for them to grow, but nothing happens. He digs the seeds out and cuts them open to discover that the seeds are fake seeds and in his anger he goes to the merchant and demands his money back. Being unsuccessful at this, he goes home and decides to commit suicide by drinking the pesticide he has for his rice crop. After throwing down a glass, he waits to die, but then realises soon after nothing is happening. Once again foiled by fake goods, the pesticide is not pesticide. His wife comes home and notices him at the table with a glass and pesticide and cries out to him, what are you doing? He explains that he spent their money on fake seeds and after trying to kill himself with pesticide, he has also found out the pesticide is also fake. The wife cheers him up by saying he is lucky then, for she would not want to be a widow. She goes and buys some alcohol and cooks dinner so they can have a nice meal to celebrate that he was lucky not to drink real pesticide.
They both die from drinking the alcohol. Why? It was fake alcohol (i.e. toxic).
**
LOL... it doesn't seem that funny right? But, it's humour because it reflects the true state of China today, where your goods are not what they should be, and people are now scared of buying and eating Chinese made foods.
My father spent an hour in town yesterday trying to buy some foodstuffs, and he was very annoyed to find that something labelled as Taiwanese Rice Flour Noodles was manufacturered in Shanghai. He obviously didn't buy them. A lot of people now do not buy foods with any labelling that say Made in China. Even going to the extent of checking the barcode number because specific numbers mean country of origin. There is a slight discrepancy though as the product registration country is printed, not necessarily the country of manufacture, so you need to be wary of that too....
Ah, China, when will you grow up to be an adult country?
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