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Beetle Cereal 'Too Organic' for Hong Kong Shopper
Ireland Online ^
| 2-26-2005
Posted on 02/28/2005 7:30:16 AM PST by Pendragon_6
An upmarket Hong Kong grocery store is being prosecuted after a customer allegedly discovered 575 beetles in a jar of cereal, officials and media reports said today.
The customer, lawyer Philip Dykes, said the breakfast cereal was “too organic for my liking”, according to the South China Morning Post.
The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has charged the grocer store with providing “food not of the nature, substance or quality demanded by the purchaser”, said Emily Mak, a department spokeswoman.
The lawyer allegedly found the beetles and 17 larvae in the plastic jar, which he bought in 2003, it was reported.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: beetle; cereal
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To: Pendragon_6
a customer allegedly discovered 575 beetles in a jar of cerealAnd 17 larvae. I think the real story here is that someone actually counted them.
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posted on
02/28/2005 7:34:32 AM PST
by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
To: Pendragon_6
I think it's safe to say that the lawyer isn't a fisherman.
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posted on
02/28/2005 7:35:05 AM PST
by
elli1
To: Pendragon_6
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posted on
02/28/2005 7:35:57 AM PST
by
Humblebum
To: newgeezer
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posted on
02/28/2005 7:36:04 AM PST
by
beyond the sea
(Barbara Boxer is Barbra Streisand on peyote .....)
To: Pendragon_6
and he counted them.
but i thought cereal was supposed to be a good source of protien!
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posted on
02/28/2005 7:39:40 AM PST
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
To: Calpernia
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posted on
02/28/2005 7:40:46 AM PST
by
WestCoastGal
(From the time I came back, I knew I could race. It seemed like nobody else had confidence/Steve Park)
To: Pendragon_6
He had it in a jar since 2003 and it's the grocer's fault????
Sorry, but the beetles got into it after he bought it an poured it into the jar. Hello!
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posted on
02/28/2005 7:43:01 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: Pendragon_6
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posted on
02/28/2005 7:43:35 AM PST
by
JennysCool
(I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. -Johnny Carson)
To: newgeezer
I think the real story here is that someone actually counted them.
I'm sure it wasn't Lawyer Dykes...probably had some lackey do the numbers.
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posted on
02/28/2005 7:45:03 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(ErnBatavia, Boxer, Pelosi, Thomas...the ultimate nightmare Menage a Quatro)
To: Pendragon_6
>Beetle Cereal '
Too Organic' for Hong Kong Shopper
To: JennysCool
Wow! An early picture of John, Paul, George and Ringo!
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posted on
02/28/2005 7:46:03 AM PST
by
sittnick
(There's no salvation in politics.)
To: All
Now that I think about it, I've got two unopened boxes of "Warner's Crunch Time" cereal in the basement. It was a promotional thing after the Rams won the Super Bowl in... hmm... when was that... FIVE years ago? Maybe I should be surprised no critters have come through the box, yet.
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posted on
02/28/2005 7:46:13 AM PST
by
newgeezer
(Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
To: newgeezer
I make it a rule, to never eat cereal that moves!
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posted on
02/28/2005 7:47:18 AM PST
by
tiredoflaundry
(My quaker parrot can talk, can Your honor student fly?)
To: sittnick
They're Magically Delicious!
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posted on
02/28/2005 7:57:29 AM PST
by
JennysCool
(I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. -Johnny Carson)
To: newgeezer
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posted on
02/28/2005 7:58:17 AM PST
by
JennysCool
(I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing. -Johnny Carson)
To: JennysCool
In Bangkok years ago, my mom ordered a noodle dish for lunch at a nice hotel we stayed at. It was served with sauteed honeybees.
To: Pendragon_6
Just what I wanted to hear. I'm off on a business trip to Hong Kong in a few weeks.
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posted on
02/28/2005 8:05:10 AM PST
by
Kirkwood
To: Eric in the Ozarks
"In Bangkok years ago, my mom ordered a noodle dish for lunch at a nice hotel we stayed at. It was served with sauteed honeybees."
Sounds good. Did she eat it?
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posted on
02/28/2005 8:17:25 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: MineralMan
Sadly, she sent it back and went for the Raad Nah instead.
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