Comments on: Imitation Ritz and Hershey’s chocolate bars http://jimmod.wordpress.com/2005/04/10/imitation-ritz-and-hersheys-chocolate-bars/ A glimpse into the life of an American living in Taiwan. Sat, 11 Sep 2010 15:10:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lon Guyland http://jimmod.wordpress.com/2005/04/10/imitation-ritz-and-hersheys-chocolate-bars/#comment-8855 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:12:11 +0000 http://jimmod.wordpress.com/2005/04/10/imitation-ritz-and-hersheys-chocolate-bars/#comment-8855 They don’t just copy foreign stuff though, they copy their own.

A well known local brand of toothpaste is　黑人 (hei ren) which at one time had ‘Darkie’ as its English name. There’s a picture of a black man in top hat and flashing teeth. At some point they were made aware how offensive that seemed and they changed the English to ‘Darlie’, though the Chinese characters remained the same.

I only recently noticed either another brand called ‘White Man’ or maybe it’s just a new line of toothpaste from the same old folks. 　

]]> By: Lon Guyland http://jimmod.wordpress.com/2005/04/10/imitation-ritz-and-hersheys-chocolate-bars/#comment-8853 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:02:47 +0000 http://jimmod.wordpress.com/2005/04/10/imitation-ritz-and-hersheys-chocolate-bars/#comment-8853 I was in Pingdong for qing ming and my daughter bought some of their phony kisses. She forced me to eat some and they were awful. You description is very apt. We ended up joking about them all day. Even for a chocoholic better nothing than that crap.

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