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Last month, we posted a slideshow of fake (or almost fake) products found in China. Well, while traveling in Shandong last week, we found another item to add to the already-amazingly-long list. It's WOERMA orange juice. What's WOERMA, you ask? Well, it's the pinyin name for Wal-Mart. They even use the exact same characters (沃尔玛) as Wal-Mart in China.
Will this lead to another Xingbake-esque lawsuit?
Perhaps more upsetting than the brazen IP violation is what passes for "orange juice" in this country, although we suppose people who love Tang find China to be a little bottle of heaven.
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well, it's no humor to laugh at China this way...the country is developping and changing in a respectable manner. that's all!
No, that's not all. Quit being a defensive nationalist retard and recognize that no one is laughing at China. They're laughing, disappointingly, at the losers who decided to rip-off Walmart and attempt to deceive consumers. China should develop and change in a respectable manner, and that means protecting intellectual property. It also means not calling something orange juice when it's really just sugar water with an orange hue.
Yea... that's not called juice. As Dave Chappelle put it... it's called "drank". Water, Sugar, and Purple... (or in this case, Orange).
Well, I am a lover of Tang -- the Tang Dyanasty that is! Obviously, it is the foreigners who named their delicious orange-flavored beverage after ancient China's great dynasty, so it is actually you foreigners who are stealing China's intellectual property and not the other way around!!!
Still, it is somewhat honorific that you would give your finest beverage a Chinese name, but I'll still sue your ass!!!
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Well, I am a lover of Tang -- the Tang Dyanasty that is! Obviously, it is the foreigners who named their delicious orange-flavored beverage after ancient China's great dynasty, so it is actually you foreigners who are stealing China's intellectual property and not the other way around!!!
Still, it is somewhat honorific that you would give your finest beverage a Chinese name, but I'll still sue your ass!!!"
A) Noone in the West really drinks Tang in the first place. I think I've seen Tang three times in my life.
B) How do you know Tang is named after the dynasty? Maybe it's named after Tang, the village in Ireland?
uhhh, I think I might have missed the satire of your post Tang Dynasty. I can't tell if you're really being that nationalistically stupid or if you are mocking people with that attitude.
Okay, taikonauts, Tang was so named because it is "tangy."
1. Who drinks and likes Tang? No one.
2. Who considers the Tang Dynasty name to be IP? No one.
3. Who would consider Tang juice "drank" an honorific namesake? No one.
Yes, I was mocking nationalistic stupidity.
...that said, this is China, where nationalism gets quite bizarre, so I can understand your suspended disbelief.
Fools, all of you. Chinese people don't like to drink Tang either, we just need a sturdy jar to make tea in. And you thought you knew everything.
"Fools, all of you."
Thanks, Megatron.
what so wrong with that? as long it is not harmful!
I remember 40 years ago, Japanese car maker Datsun (Nissan) launched her latest version of sedan, it featured 65' Dodge front and the rear of 63' Pontiac, it was a laughing stock for Detroit.
Today, the big three in Detroit have to copy the same from Japan. Looks like the history is reversing herself.
lol @ duhh
Stephen:
Fake food is never harmless, if you are consuming something with no nutritional value, just sugar to give you the feeling of being "full", you are still starving yourself.
Fake baby milk powder was essentially harmless except that it had absolutely no nutritional value. It was just a bulk item to fill a child's belly.
panda-hugging flag-waving patsy.
woah that's weird, I wrote about Tang yesterday