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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
 
The Kobe Beef brouhaha continues, now generalized to the whole World-Wide Great American Food Piracy conspiracy.
The Kobe Beef brouhaha continues, now generalized to the whole World-Wide Great American Food Piracy conspiracy.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2012/04/14/kobe-beef-scam-part-3-why-the-u-s-government-wants-you-to-buy-fake-foods/

I just don't see as a big problem it is made out to be.

First of all, it clearly says right there on the packaging "Made in USA" [1]

Second of all, it's a time-honored American tradition, starting with "Turkey".

Third of all, at least in US, you can get the correct nutrition info with the list of ingredients [1, 2]. If you go to an ethnic store with imported food, especially Russian, you'll often see the original info pasted over with a different label. That's because the original one, for the native market, is a lie.

Fourth of all, for most of the "geographic" names of foods, American consumers otherwise never heard of those geographic names, don't know which country they are in, don't know what or where they are, and don't know the foods are named after those locales. Apparently, the conspiracy is so total that it is self-defeating.

Previous installment of the series, explained how nobody in US ever tried real Japanese Kobe Beef. That all the reviews, books, TV shows, restaurants, etc were fawning about American Kobe Beef. Such totality ensures that as long one is on a US soil and watches American Iron Chef, instead of the original [Japanese] Iron Chef, you are good. Everything is fine and consistent. You were fooled so totally that it amounts to not being fooled. Extremes coincide.

There is also a good chance that American Kobe Beef is better anyway. If Japanese Kobe Beef was really that good, somebody would have stolen some long time ago, like silkworms and cofee, or would be caught smuggling it, like butter into Norway.
https://plus.google.com/112065430692128821190/posts/4iZh3QAaL2w


[1] Except in the restaurants, where you can't get any info whatsoever, and which blatantly lie "Japanese Restaurant", while brazenly standing right there in NYC.
[2] with melamine correctly listed most of the time
http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2012/04/14/kobe-beef-scam-part-3-why-the-u-s-government-wants-you-to-buy-fake-foods/

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