From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

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
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>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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