Re: Another Modest Proposal: Bomb China

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From: Ian Andrew Bell (fork@ianbell.com)
Date: Fri May 11 2001 - 12:41:10 PDT


And the Mandarin Orange comes from Japan!

http://www.bouquetoffruit.com/frman.html

-Ian.

On 5/11/01 12:25 PM, "Bill Humphries" <bill@whump.com> wrote:

> Ian Andrew Bell <fork@ianbell.com> smirked:
>> Next we'll force the UN to embargo all trade between China and the rest of
>> the world. This means no giveaway rubber balls at Pizza Hut, no fortune
>> cookies, no Mu-Shu Pork, no Rice... and none of those tasty little Mandarin
>> Oranges that the Florida Orange Growers' Association is always complaining
>> about.
>
> I know your piece is satire, but --
>
> fortune cookies are a Californian invention [1], and most of US rice is grown
> in Arkansas [2].
>
> [1] http://www.chcp.org/Vfortune.html
> [2] http://www.riceland.com/rice/production.html
>


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