Posted on 08/03/2011 5:20:21 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
US exports millions of chopsticks to China
A shortage of chopsticks in China has become so acute that a US company has begun exporting millions of pairs to the country.
By Nick Allen, Los Angeles
8:54PM BST 02 Aug 2011
Georgia Chopsticks, based in the southern state of Georgia, is producing two million sets of the traditional eating utensils each day.
It is operating around the clock to keep up with demand and hopes to be exporting 10 million pairs a day by the end of the year, each set complete with a label marked "Made in USA." Amid a shortage of wood in China the abundant poplar and sweet gum trees in Georgia were found to be ideal for chopsticks, producing straight, pliable and light coloured implements.
They cost less than a penny each to make and are being sold in Chinese supermarkets.
Jae Lee, a Korean-American who started the company, said: "When I opened this business the reaction from my friends and family was 'Are you crazy?
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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Wow! That is brilliant! Now they need to think of something needed in India...............
As soon as greenpeace, earthfirst, sierra club and the rest of the watermelons find out that chopstick-making involves cutting down trees, this little business will be shut down chop-chop.
EPA to restrict harvesting of poplar and sweet gum trees in Georgia.
DOJ to investigate insufficient employment of "His People" and illegal aliens in American Chopstick Industry.
I bet China grinds them up and adds them to their food product lines.
Chines version of high fiber foods.
1. Don’t we export rice?
2. Kimchi to Korea, maybe?
3. Bangladesh is the recipient of old ships that need to be salvaged, because no other country will accept the health and environmental damage caused by the process.
Looks like the Chinese are too buys making VALUE ADDED products (to export to the US) to bother with chopsticks anymore. Glad we could step in and fill the void. [/s]
Talk about trading places.....jeeze...
Maybe we can start making bicycles...
Wow!
A low tech, low skill job just for Americans!
*Phew, and I thought silicon valley was good for us!
More Holy Cows!
and we don’t even put any lead, cadmium or anti-freeze in them either
“I hope they continue the tradition of bad English (Engrish?) translations on the wrappers.”
Maybe they can start a tradition of bad Chinese on the wrappers of imported chopsticks from America.
Who says you can’t sell refrigerators to the Eskimos!
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