China: Food at Olympics is safe: Officials (looming food fight?)

China Daily ^ | 02/22/08

[TigerLikesRooster]

She also made it clear that according to established international practice, foreign athletes cannot take their own food into the Olympic Village.

Sounds like we got trouble. They are not backing down.

We may have the "Great Food Fight" of 2008.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Hegewisch Dupa]

Over/under on number of posts before Belushi shows up?

[robomatik]

[phoenix07]

“China has very strict rules. Forbidden drugs cannot be used in breeding, so we can guarantee safety,” he said.

And if anyone believes that, I have a bridge I’d like to sell them........

[TigerLikesRooster]

Either you buy the bridge or you will get a bullet into cranium.:-)

[davisfh]

Better fed (properly) than dead.

[duckman]

I wonder what the tourists will eat?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I look for widespread food poisonings.

[battlecry]

No first hand experience at the Olympics, but at the marathon Olympic trials competitors used their own fluid bottles to ensure no shenanigans. At Pan Am games we could eat at the village, hotels, restaurants, etc.

I call BS on this story.

There should be a term coined for the Chinese bold face lies.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Now I’m starting to wonder what China would intentionally do to the food to disqualify (or sicken) our athletes if the US were to start winning “too many” medals.

[phoenix07]

“I’ll make him an offer he can’t refuse........” - Don Vito Corleone

[battlecry]

It might be a simple matter for a few nations to form a food swapping cartel using random orders and drive the Chinese nuts.

[MoreGovLess]

The threat China poses to long term US interests is seriously underreported and underestimated (even here)IMO.

They got all in a snit when our Navy shot down the satellite, they support and block any meaningful sanctions against Sudan.

They sell us poisoned everything, they own most of our debt.

Some of us still remember how they run over peaceful demonstrators with tanks.

Any conincidence China’s marketing arm WalMart is from BillyBubba and HillBillary’s state?

“Made in China” ought to be anathema to any patriotic American. (especially for food, which anyone would be crazy to eat!)

[cspackler]

There should be a term coined for the Chinese bold face lies.

Bawd Faced Wies?

[battlecry]

Amen.

[LtKerst]

Yes!!!

Yummy Crab Cakes with a dash of mercury
and a tasty Bun lightly dusted with Lead

wash it all down with China’s favorite beer..Goo Goo Glycol!

No Law suits please.

[battlecry]

Snort.

Thanks. I need to clean the coffee mess.

[Thud]

I doubt there will be widespread food poisonings of tourists, but there will be some. I agree that the ChiComs will let each team bring in its own food - this statement is just PR.

But, with the awful air pollution and some food poisonings of tourists, plus everything else, IMO the ChiComs will deeply regret hosting the Olympics. They will get exactly the opposite publicity abroad they want.

As for domestic politics, we'll see how effective they are at using the Olympics to prop up a regime which is losing control.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Two guys from my home office were in Shanghai, China recently. They said the air was really awful and a lot of the food in markets looked old or spoiled. Unless there is a seperate food supply going into the hotels, I’ll wait and see.