Finish your plate! There are starving people in China!!!

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Can't tell you how many times I heard this from my mom as a kid and in grade school. Never made sense to me..Ok, send my left over french toast to China!

I don't mind buy things made in China, I really don't. I wish it were made in the USA but oh well.

However! I am finding more and more FOOD FROM CHINA in the stores. What's up with that?? Yesterday I went the the store to buy seafood for seafood chowder. Found scallops farmed raised from China! No thanks. Went the the local seafood store and bought local.

Can't stop thinking about the dog food **** that came from China that killed thousands of dogs in the USA. Why would I trust them for human food? NOT.

It is just hard to believe that food is being shipped from China to the USA when not to long ago....well, never mind.

They do pretty much own this country now.

Still.

Joe
 
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All us kids were told this growing up and I always wondered how my parents knew they were starving in China. Most of the time we cleaned our plates but sometimes that saying didn't make much difference to us.

We bought some sugar crisp or what we used to call ice cream cookies the other day at the Dollar store and they were made in Columbia, believe it or not.

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James
 
the times they are a changing....

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Mickey D said:
It was 'starving children in Biafra' when I was young. ;)
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Bad flashback! Bad flashback! :eek::eek: I recall being told this at school in England to encourage me to eat something that looked like a villain from a Sci-Fi movie. It had eyes, really!:eek: Then there were the vegetables, boiled to within an inch of their lives (or beyond) such that all the goodness went out with the water. OK, I'm going to have to find my teddy and some chocolate to get through the evening. Shudder.
 
I had a friend that was very fat; she blamed her mother for her weight problem. Mom always told her she had to clean up her plate because of the staving Kids in china. She when on to lose the weight and looked really nice. When asked how she lost the weight she said she got rid of the guilt. When she could not finish the food on the plate she would box it up and mail to the Chinese Embassy with a note saying the food was for the children.
 
Working as an inspector for a health department I encountered and inspected many Chinese resturants. I was told by a few owners when I found ducks or chicken aging on the trash dumpster and a washing machine in the kitchen used for separating cabbage and lettuce among many other infractions that "Chinese food no makee you sick."They were almost always "Closed for Remodeling" until they got their stuff straight and I let them re-open. :D
Eat your vegetables!!
 
Had a very good friend in college whose family owned and operated a large Chinese food condiments wholesale business. Nice Jewish feller from Scarsdale, NY. Go figure.
 
Foodfuzz said:
Working as an inspector for a health department I encountered and inspected many Chinese resturants. I was told by a few owners when I found ducks or chicken aging on the trash dumpster and a washing machine in the kitchen used for separating cabbage and lettuce among many other infractions that "Chinese food no makee you sick."They were almost always "Closed for Remodeling" until they got their stuff straight and I let them re-open. :D
Eat your vegetables!!
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Funny you would say all that. About 10 or 15 years ago in Bremerton WA there were reports of cats missing. The food inspector went to a few China resturants and open up their freezers and guess what he found? Yep! Lots of skinned out cats. Yuck.
 
Funny, I was never told that. But then I could eat a bowling ball if I'd worked up an appetite. Stuff other people hate--liver, squash, okra, Brussels sprouts--if it wasn't actually trying to escape, I'd ingest it.

Today I do try to avoid any fish or seafood I suspect was farm-raised in China or Southeast Asia. Heard too many disturbing reports of sanitation problems. I don't worry about Chinese restaurants--they have to dsiplay their Board Of Health sanitation rating where you can see it before going in.
 
My Mom would say, if we wasted food, to think about all the little kids walking around hungry overseas. My Grand daughter knocked my beer over and told her to think about all those little kids walking around sober overseas. My Wife was not impressed. Sometimes I wonder where our sense of humor goes as we get older. I'll bet it is waiting for us in a parallel universe or something. Maybe "overseas".
Peace,
Gordon
 
We didn't get the individual Country but I know what you mean, India, Africa, China were ever. The point for us was you eat whats served and clean your plate. Your Mother bought, cooked it and served it. It was just the way it was. You didn't waste anything.

Now, sad to say there are many kids starving in this Country. For some reason this and widespread poverty does not make the main stream news much, gee wonder why?:rolleyes: (just leave it)
 
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