From: "Robert G Lewis" 

China's part of America now ? 

"Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in
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> Well since there's no world outside America, what's the point labeling
> stuff as made there? It's like saying "Made on Earth".
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
> (I'm only semi-joking, and won't mind being proven wrong)
>
> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
> news:44187cd3{at}w3....
>>I just cooked for a friend.
>>
>> She admired my "fish slice".  Nah - it's a hamburger
flipper I earned
>> flipping burgers for a friend in Vienna VA when he had a staff crisis - I
>> did two evening shifts and was duly paid in beer and a flipper.
>>
>> I've had it over twenty years and it still looks pretty new.  No spalling
>> of
>> the handle, etc.
>>
>> I'm sure it was made in the USA - but there isn't a mark on it.  This is
>> a
>> GOOD product - why didn't the manufacturer put its name on it?
>>
>> That started a discussion.  I found I own quite a few objects that I
>> _know_
>> were made in the USA.  Not a trace of origin marks on any of them - are
>> these companies not proud of their products?
>>
>> I know my favourite breaker bar (lovely rubber handle - a delight after a
>> day's heavy use) was made by CK Tools - they don't seem to make them any
>> more.  A shame, but is it partly due to them not putting their name on
>> it?
>>
>> --
>>  Phil Payne
>>  http://www.isham-research.co.uk
>>  +44 7833 654 800
>>
>>
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