Hooray for me!
China Beat, my second favorite China blog, has started a series of quizzes — why didn’t we think of that? The most recent asked readers to name the “‘Prettiest’ (photo of China), ‘The Wittiest’ (title of a China-related piece of writing), and ‘The Grittiest’ (best muckraking journalist to work the China beat).”
And I won, beating out…. well, they didn’t say exactly how many entries, but it must have been several.
To see my prize winning answers, please go to New Quiz Winner (China Beat 4/01/2009).
And, oh — I am sure that the fact that it was published on April Fool’s day is a sheer coincidence. I think.
But the award for Best China April Fool’s Announcement has to go to Karen Christensen at Berkshire Publishing News. Karen announced an “innovative Chinese company has made plans for the global launch of a vegetarian product popular throughout China after learning about the wildly successful introduction of SPAM® during the Great Depression.” The Chinese canned meat substitute, made of soyabeans, has been given a new brand name, she continued: Töfood. The product will be packaged, like SPAM®, in a distinctively shaped container – in this case, one that looks like a traditional Chinese pagoda.
Congratulations to Karen and her graphics designer, Anna Myers.
