Chinese take stamps to a new level
Aryavartha
12-01-2007, 18:40
That's right. This one has the people licking their tongues all over it..:D
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2150217.html?menu=
Sweet and sour stamps
Stamps released in China to celebrate the Year of the Pig taste of sweet and sour pork.
The stamps on sale in China to celebrate the country's New Year. The stamps taste of sweet and sour pork
When you scratch the front of the stamps, it smells of the popular chinese dish and when the back of the stamp is licked it tastes of the dish too.
The stamps are on sale in China ahead of their New Year on February 18, reports Metro.
http://www.ananova.com/images/web/849343.jpg
Awesome, tasty stamps. Maybe I'll order something from China and insist they use some of these stamps.
Call to power
12-01-2007, 18:48
it would be an awkward position if you where a Chinese vegan to say the least (then again its an awkward position for anyone having to eat sweet and sour foods:p)
The Infinite Dunes
12-01-2007, 19:01
aww, this is much cooler than I first thought it would be. I saw the picture and thought that China was finally admitting it's capitalist nature. If you can't beat the capitalist pigs then you might as well stamps of them...
Lacadaemon
12-01-2007, 19:03
That is genius.
The Infinite Dunes
12-01-2007, 19:09
it would be an awkward position if you where a Chinese vegan to say the least (then again its an awkward position for anyone having to eat sweet and sour foods:p)From what I know, you will have a very hard time explaining to the majority of chinese people the idea of vegetarianism, let alone veganism. Which doesn't surprise me. Vegetarianism tends to be a very western craze. The vegetarians that I know of that exist outside the west are Hindus.*
*as always this is a generalisation are there will obviously be exceptions to the rule
I had a friend who went to Russia. She said she was a vegetarian. Her hosts look extremely worried. So for breakfast her they gave her some boiled vegetables. She asked if they had any bread and it turned out that they didn't consider wheat a vegetable. They assumed that when she said she was vegetarian she meant she only ate proper vegetables like carrots, and onions and potatoes. In another places they will give you a meal that was cooked with meat, but remove the larger chunks of meat before they serve it to you.
German Nightmare
12-01-2007, 19:18
Harry Stewart New had come up with something similar at the beginning of the 20th century in the States...
Anyway - those stamps are a great way to celebrate the Year of the Pig, and pig sweet&sour is my favorite Chinese dish.
Go China!!! :D:D:D
Lacadaemon
12-01-2007, 19:20
From what I know, you will have a very hard time explaining to the majority of chinese people the idea of vegetarianism, let alone veganism. Which doesn't surprise me. Vegetarianism tends to be a very western craze. The vegetarians that I know of that exist outside the west are Hindus.*
Nah. A lot of chinese people know about vegetarianism. Some of them do it for religious reasons.
The Infinite Dunes
12-01-2007, 19:29
Nah. A lot of chinese people know about vegetarianism. Some of them do it for religious reasons.Really?
Which religion?
It looks like I'm wrong. Shucks. I hate it when that happens.