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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite food is bulk seafood rejected by China over misplaced fears of radioactivity. The half life is how you know it’s fresh.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

misplaced fears of radioactivity.

The half life is how you know it’s fresh.

Would you please make up your mind?

Either way, I lean towards you being right the first time and afaik Japan has some of the absolute best seafood in the world, so China are missing out big-time!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure they were making a joke. "The X adds flavor" is an old one at that doesnt even have to be about polution. I remember my uncle cutting himself while making burgers once and some of the blood hitting the grill and saying the same thing.

[–] skhayfa 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Who will win this war? Can the US army eat as much seafood as the Chinese population?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I see a Japanese game show in the making! Add some scantily clad women and a sumo wrestler farting in the face of the losers of each round and we have a hit!

[–] Chainweasel 3 points 1 year ago

There's no way the entire Chinese population is dependent on Japan alone for their seafood.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

no, idk why but so many americans are disgusted by fish lol

[–] Number1SummerJam 1 points 1 year ago

iT hAs BoNeS iN iT!!!1

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good choice (in flavor, at least; I have no idea the costs involved). Seafood here is fantastic.

[–] Wootz -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have no doubt that even the fish in Japanese rations is fresher than most of the fresh fish I can get here (northern Europe)

[–] IdealShrew 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what are you on about, northern Europe is famous for fishing

[–] Wootz 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but who has the most famous seafood culture? Scandinavia or japan?

We're famous for eating a lot of fish, but not for high quality of it. Japan treats it's tuna like texas treats it's cattle.

We mass fish salmon, cod and plaice and sell it to the rest of Europe at dumping prices.

Japan has good fish, we have lots of fish.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There is something fishy about this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Unveiling the initiative in a Reuters interview on Monday, U.S. ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel said Washington should also look more broadly into how it could help offset China's ban that he said was part of its "economic wars".

Emanuel said the purchases - which will feed soldiers in messes and aboard vessels as well as being sold in shops and restaurants on military bases - will increase over time to all types of seafood.

Emanuel, who was former U.S. President Barack Obama's White House chief of staff, has in recent months made a series of blunt statements on China, taking aim at various issues including its economic policies, opaque decision-making and treatment of foreign firms.

That has come as top U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, have visited Beijing in an effort to draw a line under strained ties.

The most recent official youth unemployment data from China, published in July before Beijing said it was suspending publication of the numbers, showed it jumping to a record high of 21.3%.

Emanuel said he was also keeping an eye on how China's leadership responds to the recent death of former Premier Li Keqiang, a reformist who was sidelined by President Xi Jinping.


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[–] BertramDitore 4 points 1 year ago

Why not send some of that sweet sweet surplus Japanese fish over here to the mainland US? Afraid of lowering food prices in general? Screw that. Groceries are still absurdly expensive for us plebs, but sure, send all this food to the military. $800 billion a year clearly isn’t enough to satiate them. Don’t worry about all the civilians who can’t afford their meals.