Tag Archives: Food

Pitchwrap Supreme

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Will Moss

The art of getting your stoner snack into the New York Times The last time I remember being in a Taco Bell was in the late eighties, when I was a student at U.C. Santa Cruz. My buddy Darren and I … Continue reading →

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Hard Right at the Airplane Mart

Posted on November 27, 2024 by Will Moss

An unexpected lecture on the politics of European immigration I went to Amsterdam for two days last week. This was a classic of hallucinatory, placeless business travel, more time on planes than in country, mostly a prisoner of the Airport … Continue reading →

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The Great Luncheon Meat Disaster of ’24

Posted on September 14, 2024 by Will Moss

A food crisis hits me where it hurts This is one of the greatest things I have ever read in a press statement: First and foremost, our investigation has identified the root cause of the contamination as a specific production … Continue reading →

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Holiday special: An advanced socialist dessert culture

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Will Moss

In my years here, I have participated in passionate and heated debates on virtually all aspects of Chinese politics and society. What is the true nature of the government? Can the Chinese educational system produce creativity? Is the country rising … Continue reading →

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Seoul and the fermented stingray of perdition

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Will Moss

I’ll say this for Korea: Recently I’ve had reason to evaluate, and at a national level they have by far the nicest, softest bathroom paper towels I have encountered. Fluffy, soft and absorbent, neither the splinter-bearing roughage nor the instantly-disintegrating … Continue reading →

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Sanlu melamine milk powder crisis becomes a national issue

Posted on September 17, 2008 by Will Moss

Like on the top-forty radio show Imagethief used to listen to as a thirteen-year old, the hits keep coming in the Sanlu milk powder crisis. Over the past thirty-six hours the situation has evolved from a company-specific Sanlu crisis to … Continue reading →

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Melamine in Sanlu milk powder? Now that’s a crisis!

Posted on September 16, 2008 by Will Moss

If you want to get people mad –I mean fired-up, torch-and-pitchfork enraged– screw with their pets or their babies. That’s what we’ve learned over the past year thanks to the unfortunate tendency of the plastic melamine to pop up in … Continue reading →

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Will we all burn in a fire made of mooncake packaging?

Posted on September 5, 2008 by Will Moss

Imagethief likes the Mid-Autumn Festival. I like it because even though it actually comes in late summer, it reminds me of autumn, and autumn is famously the nicest time of year in Beijing. In any year devoid of Olympic rigging, … Continue reading →

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Hairy crabs, the hill of pain and the boulevard of a thousand massage touts

Posted on November 21, 2007 by Will Moss

Imagethief went for a hike with some good friends on Sunday. Hiking is one of the things that I was sorry to give up when I moved to Shanghai, and that I’ve been most eager to rediscover upon my return. … Continue reading →

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Deconstructing the White Rabbit wrapper

Posted on October 12, 2007 by Will Moss

Imagethief has rather a sweet tooth. Hence my long acquaintance with the gym and the pleasures of the long run. One of China’s under-appreciated pleasures is the enamel-stripping joy of a chewy White Rabbit Milk Candy. I’m not the first … Continue reading →

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