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“Imagine if you had to explain to your three children and grandchild that they had to go to bed hungry because the deficit in the national budget is more important than the deficit of food on the table.”
-Melissa Harris-Perry, in her “Open Letter” to Rep. Frank Lucas, Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, on re-authorization of the Farm Bill.
“Well, fine, if you think curbing soda sizes is a bad idea I challenge you to come up with a better idea, because we can’t keep selling our kids poison.”
- Mika Brzezinski, Why I’m obsessed with banning super-sized sodas
What exactly is ‘Hand Shredded A$$ Meat’? A new dictionary for Chinese restaurants may tell you
Overseas tourists often find the menus here befuddling, for good reason.
After all, what Westerner has experience with foods such as these: “Cowboy leg,” “Hand-shredded ass meat,” “Red-burned lion head,” “Strange flavor noodles,” “Blow-up flatfish with no result,” or “Tofu made by woman with freckles.”
With few English speakers, restaurants usually translate their menus word by word directly from an English-Chinese dictionary.
Image: Bo Gu/NBC News
China turns to the U.S. to supply its breeding stock
In a country where pork is a culinary staple, the demand for a protein-rich diet is growing faster than Chinese farmers can keep up.
