{"id":1250,"date":"2009-04-04T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.froginawell.net\/china\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2014-08-30T13:37:22","modified_gmt":"2014-08-30T13:37:22","slug":"april-fools-day-self-puffery-and-tofood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/2009\/04\/april-fools-day-self-puffery-and-tofood\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fool's Day, Self Puffery and T\u00f6food"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hooray for me!<\/p>\n

China Beat<\/strong>, my second <\/em>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’\u00a0 (title of a China-related piece of writing), and ‘The Grittiest’ (best muckraking journalist to work the China beat)<\/em>.”<\/em><\/p>\n

And I won, beating out…. well, they didn’t say exactly how many entries, but it must have been several.<\/p>\n

To see my prize winning answers, please go to New Quiz Winner<\/a> (China Beat 4\/01\/2009).<\/p>\n

And, oh — I am sure that the fact that it was published on April Fool’s day is a sheer coincidence. I think.<\/p>\n

\"Go<\/p>\n

But the award for Best China April Fool’s Announcement has to go to Karen Christensen at Berkshire Publishing New<\/a>s. 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\u00ae during the Great Depression.” The Chinese canned meat substitute, made of soyabeans, has been given a new brand name, she continued: T\u00f6food.\u00a0 The product will be packaged, like SPAM\u00ae, in a distinctively shaped container \u2013 in this case, one that looks like a traditional Chinese pagoda.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Karen and her graphics designer, Anna Myers.<\/p>\n

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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’\u00a0 (title of a China-related piece of writing), and ‘The Grittiest’ (best muckraking journalist to work the China beat).”…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,119,123,124,131,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-english","category-food","category-frog-in-a-well","category-humor","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9yoH3-ka","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4698,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/4698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/froginawell.net\/frog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}