What will the Chinese counterfeit next?
bushmaster8
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Not content with counterfeiting coins, and PCGS slabs.
Nor satisfied with poisoning our toddlers and our pets with melamine, etc.
Now they are messing with the truffle market. The good truffles sell for about $650/lb.
"Truffle hunters in France use trained pigs or dogs to sniff out the delicacy, which is found buried just under the soil surface.
They are incensed by the incursion into the market of cheap rivals, especially Chinese truffles that are often passed off as "black diamonds."
One of these Chinese species is sometimes seeded with extracts from the real T. melanosporum to boost a lacklustre aroma."
What's next??
Nor satisfied with poisoning our toddlers and our pets with melamine, etc.
Now they are messing with the truffle market. The good truffles sell for about $650/lb.
"Truffle hunters in France use trained pigs or dogs to sniff out the delicacy, which is found buried just under the soil surface.
They are incensed by the incursion into the market of cheap rivals, especially Chinese truffles that are often passed off as "black diamonds."
One of these Chinese species is sometimes seeded with extracts from the real T. melanosporum to boost a lacklustre aroma."
What's next??
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<< <i>Is there anything they don't counterfeit? >>
Integrity. They have no use for it.
TD
<< <i>Volvos. Look for counterfeit Volvos.
They already did.
They're called, Toyotas.
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<< <i>I guess next would be a counterfeit PCGS message board with phony avatars... >>
They already did.
It's called, Collectors Society (NGC).
JK'ing!
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the Germans are the mechanics,
the Italians are the lovers,
the British are the police,
and the Swiss run the government.
In the Chinese counterfeit Heaven:
The British are the chefs,
the French are the mechanics,
the Swiss are the lovers,
the Germans are the police,
and the Italians run the government.
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<< <i>Hawaii. They will put a fake Hawaii on a small island for their own people to visit thinking its the real one. >>
It's funny you would say that.
There is already a counterfeit Disneyland in China!
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Sound familiar?
<< <i>...What's next?? >>
Manchurian candidates ?
Counterfeit humans ?
You gotta draw a line in the sand at "Pearlboy"!
This is just wrong.
Red Bottle? I am quoting Les Nessman here "Oh, the humanity".
A quiz; which one does not belong in the group?
<< <i>Pless espalin what the Truffle market ess? >>
Truffles are a highly aromatic yet pleasing tasting mushroom of sorts.
Some of the most expensive dishes in the world are augmented with truffles and chef's pay dearly for good truffles.
From Wikipedia:
"The record price paid for a single white truffle was set in December 2007, when Macau casino owner Stanley Ho paid US$330,000 (£165,000) for a specimen weighing 1.5 kilograms (3.3 lb), discovered by Luciano Savini and his dog Rocco."
Additionally (from the same source):
"Chinese truffles
The Chinese truffle (Tuber sinensis, also sometimes called Tuber indicum) is a winter black truffle harvested in China. Due to their bountiful growth, Chinese truffles are often exported to the West as an inferior-quality substitute of Tuber melanosporum. Some truffle exporters or delicatessen shops sell Chinese truffles into which extracts of the real Tuber melanosporum are introduced. These truffles are often sold at a high price, marked as Tuber melanosporum.[14] Another type of Chinese truffle is the Tuber himalayensis, which visually looks so much like the Tuber melanosporum that a microscope is needed to differentiate them. The Tuber himalayensis is harvested in very small quantities in the Chinese Himalayas due to the high altitude, and is not as frequently met on world markets as the Tuber sinensis. The third type of Chinese truffle is the Chinese summer white truffle, which does not yet have a scientific name.
Traditionally in Yunnan truffles were used as pig feed and not eaten by humans."
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shipping from CHINA should make one suspect
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<< <i>Hawaii. They will put a fake Hawaii on a small island for their own people to visit thinking its the real one. >>
It's funny you would say that.
There is already a counterfeit Disneyland in China! >>
"Some have claimed that the park is illegally copying Disney’s Minnie Mouse. However, the park’s operators have insisted that the character on the right is not a mouse. It is a cat with very large ears!"
<< <i>Is there anything they don't counterfeit? >>
Most probably chinese coins. That is actually illegal there and why do something that will get you into the wrong side of a forced total "organ donation" program when you can make fake coins from other countries?
or are they plates... no wait spoons... then again.
Maybe if they haven't done it already... they will counterfeit congress & senators... most are
robots anyway!! One last one, how about imitation leather... hehe
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<< <i>Maybe "IVF" >>
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<< <i>Is there anything they don't counterfeit? >>
Most probably chinese coins. That is actually illegal there and why do something that will get you into the wrong side of a forced total "organ donation" program when you can make fake coins from other countries? >>
Actually a racket was broken up and prosecuted a couple of years ago for doing just that - faking current Chinese coins. And yes, they fake the older Ming dynasty on back coins all the time. I saw quite a few obvious fakes for sale in Guangzhou and Beijing being touted as the real thing.
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