China's Olympic food
Posted on 02/21/2008 6:03:20 AM PST by yankeedame
Last Updated: Thursday, 21 February 2008, 11:21 GMT
By James Reynolds
BBC News, Beijing
China's Olympic food
China has expressed regret that the US has decided not to trust its food during this summer's Olympic Games.
The US delegation has said it is planning to bring its own food for American athletes.
At a news conference in Beijing, a senior official, Kang Yi, said it was a pity that the US had apparently decided not to trust China's food.
Ms Kang insisted that the food served to athletes at the Olympics would exceed international health standards.
For China, a good Olympic Games means cheering spectators, record-breaking performances and athletes and fans all sitting down to enjoy some good Chinese-made food.
But the US is not so sure about the food part, and plans to import its own meat and cook its own meals for its athletes when they get to Beijing.
Ms Kang and her colleagues were asked about the allegation that chickens on sale here are so full of hormones that athletes would test positive for steroids if they were to eat them.
There is no scientific evidence for this, insisted Lu Yong, who runs Beijing's municipal food safety monitoring centre.
C-rats?....
A Very. Good. Plan.
Fixed it for her.
Are they bringing their own mattresses as well?
The IOC should be so proud for selecting a host country with air too foul for athletes to breate and food so unsafe that countries will bring their own. That’s what this PC committee has accomplished. (By the way, I wonder if the IOC members attending will eat the local food.)
Smart,smart,smart
our atheletes need to prepare to compete, not look for a snack an hour after dinner. /sarc
I wonder where folks will go if they decide to step out for Chinese?
Too bad we can’t boycott and hold a counter-Olympics in Taiwan!
Bully for America!
Cute. They bring their own food for safety reasons and we aren’t allowed to know what foods we buy here come from China. I do think this is an insult to a host though. There could probably have been a more tactful way of handling this.
“Try the roast dog, it’s good for you!”
Not PC but right on target.
There is PC and then there is insulting.
"Cooked dog paws at a CXhinese restaurant. A French association of animal lovers on Monday launched a petition aimed at encouraging China to ban, by the Summer Olympics, the killing of dogs for food." (afp.com/toru yamanaka)
MRE’s. Three lies in one.
I got out just before the MRE’s were introduced. I remember C-Rats, fondly............
Maybe this will get China to take a long hard look at it's culinary practices...............
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