“One man’s trash is another man’s delicacy,”
September 19th, 2009 9:58 am by Kelly G.joked CNN HLN correspondent Jennifer Westhoven, while discussing Chinese/American “trade wars” on yesterday’s edition of Morning Express with Robin Meade.*
The so-called “trash”? Chicken feet:
China is threatening to cut off imports of American chicken, but poultry experts have at least one reason to suspect it may be an empty threat: Many Chinese consumers would miss the scrumptious chicken feet they get from this country.
“We have these jumbo, juicy paws the Chinese really love,” said Paul W. Aho, a poultry economist and consultant, “so I don’t think they are going to cut us off.”
Chicken exports were thrust to the forefront of American-Chinese trade tensions on Sunday when China took steps to retaliate for President Obama’s decision to levy tariffs on Chinese tires. The Chinese announced that they were considering import taxes on automotive products and chicken meat, a development that some trade experts feared could escalate.
I’m pretty sure the ten billion chickens slaughtered annually view their feet as anything but “trash.”
Wordplay FAIL.
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* CNN doesn’t post transcripts of Morning Express with Robin Meade, so unfortunately I can’t offer context for Westhoven’s comments as I’d hope to – but the quote is verbatim.
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