Chinese entrepreneurs launch Barack Obama noodles

[emad]

Chinese businesses have welcomed the arrival of President-Elect Barack Obama by registering to use his name as a trademark on everything from instant noodles to children's clothes.

By Malcolm Moore in Shanghai
Last Updated: 12:24PM GMT 07 Nov 2008

China's State Trademark Bureau has received official applications from 16 companies so far, keen to exploit Mr Obama's popularity both in China and abroad.

Polls in China before the election found overwhelming support for Mr Obama, and the state media has been exuberant in the wake of his victory.

"We are elated at the landslide victory," said an editorial in China Daily, the state English-language newspaper. "We wish him all the best in re-energising the world's largest economy with his brand new ideas and vision," it added.

T-shirts emblazoned with the three Chinese characters for "Obama" sold briskly before the election and factories have already started producing a range of Obama merchandise.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/3397461/Chinese-entrepreneurs-launch-Barack-Obama-noodles.html

[Phred42]

1. How much melamine do they include?

Who in their right mind would eat anything they knew came out of China?

[orleans]

3. i was just wondering about the melamine myself.

did you see/hear this?:

"Docs report increase in kidney stones among children
"Doctors are reporting a "steep rise" in the number of young children with kidney stones, according anecdotal data cited by The New York Times.

"In China recently, many children who drank milk tainted with melamine — a toxic chemical illegally added to watered-down milk to inflate the protein count — developed kidney stones," the paper says. "The increase in the United States is attributed to a host of factors, including a food additive that is both legal and ubiquitous: salt."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/10/docs-report-inc.html

[Phred42]

4. Yep, Saw that. That crap is showing up everywhere in the food chain now

:mad:

[shadowknows69]

2. Barack Oramen?

Obama Ramen?

[surrealAmerican]

7. Ramen Obamen?

Obamarama?

[slampoet]

5. Let us all hope they are more respectful than "Darkie-brand Toothpaste"

Now called Darlie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlie

[On the Road]

6. I Have Some of That Darlie Toothpaste

Saw the characters for "black person" but could not figure out the name until after seeing it on DU.