I wish I was....
Dec. 17th, 2007 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terribleturnipCut-proof resistant.
That's what it says on this sample of compostable bio-disposable plates. Made in China, so, of course, not only is the translation odd and in English, almost meaningless, but you know the product's full of lead, riddled with undeclared sulfites, made by slaves, and resulted in the devastation of entire eco-systems.
Remember when everything used to be made in Taiwan? If you're old enough, you remember the days when "made in Japan" meant cheap goods, not superior electronics. (For the record, I am NOT that old.) Things weren't any different then. We just didn't know to test for lead, we had no problem with sulfites...or undeclared milk product, or tree nuts and frankly, we didn't seem to care WHO made it and under what conditions as long as it was cheap.
Look, we all grew up sucking lead-impregnated toys and WE turned out okay.
(Well, Lou, not so much. And yeah, okay, Phil...but maybe you were chewing on paint chips. And then there's Craig...
But that's beside the point -- besides, I don't think we can blame lead and undeclared additives for THEIR problems.)
But having taken a tumble down the stairs yesterday, landing on and breaking the veryperfectsizeTupperwarecontainerthatIreallyneeded, twisting my bad knee, wrenching my neck, skinning my knuckles...and then later, on a search for the rest of the Christmas stuff -- because when you've taken a header down the stairs, it's always a good idea to keep yourself flexible, crawling into crawlspaces, and teetering on ladders, looking for large, dusty boxes -- when I knocked the tequila bottle off the liquor cart, shattering it, spilling tequila everywhere, embedding slivers of glass in my hands and knees...well, cut-proof resistant begins to sound like something I could use.
But really, is it resistant to being cut-proof? Or is resistancy just an ADDITIONAL characteristic? I LIKE the idea of ornery plates.
That's what it says on this sample of compostable bio-disposable plates. Made in China, so, of course, not only is the translation odd and in English, almost meaningless, but you know the product's full of lead, riddled with undeclared sulfites, made by slaves, and resulted in the devastation of entire eco-systems.
Remember when everything used to be made in Taiwan? If you're old enough, you remember the days when "made in Japan" meant cheap goods, not superior electronics. (For the record, I am NOT that old.) Things weren't any different then. We just didn't know to test for lead, we had no problem with sulfites...or undeclared milk product, or tree nuts and frankly, we didn't seem to care WHO made it and under what conditions as long as it was cheap.
Look, we all grew up sucking lead-impregnated toys and WE turned out okay.
(Well, Lou, not so much. And yeah, okay, Phil...but maybe you were chewing on paint chips. And then there's Craig...
But that's beside the point -- besides, I don't think we can blame lead and undeclared additives for THEIR problems.)
But having taken a tumble down the stairs yesterday, landing on and breaking the veryperfectsizeTupperwarecontainerthatIreallyneeded, twisting my bad knee, wrenching my neck, skinning my knuckles...and then later, on a search for the rest of the Christmas stuff -- because when you've taken a header down the stairs, it's always a good idea to keep yourself flexible, crawling into crawlspaces, and teetering on ladders, looking for large, dusty boxes -- when I knocked the tequila bottle off the liquor cart, shattering it, spilling tequila everywhere, embedding slivers of glass in my hands and knees...well, cut-proof resistant begins to sound like something I could use.
But really, is it resistant to being cut-proof? Or is resistancy just an ADDITIONAL characteristic? I LIKE the idea of ornery plates.
