A twist has emerged in the story of Israeli citrus fruit reportedly sold in Iran in defiance of a ban on commercial dealings between the two enemy states. It has now been revealed the fruit, a type of orange-grapefruit hybrid marketed as Jaffa Sweetie, were not Israeli in the first place.
The Sweeties were brought to Iran from China, where faking the origin of goods is a common practice.
The discovery of apparent Israeli origin caused a stir in Iran. Outrage followed, distribution centres stocking the fruit were sealed and accusations were traded. Such is the infamy of dealing with Israel that an Iranian official went so far as to accuse the opposition of a “citrus plot”.
However, Tal Amit, the general manager of Israel’s Citrus Marketing Board, told the BBC the fruit had not originated in his country.
“First of all, it’s a bit annoying that somebody is using our brand name and registered trademark without our permission,” he said.
Too many chuckles on this one. Take your choice!
HA HA HA!!
China to Iran – “Made you look!”.
By the way, I’ve tasted one of these sweeties before, and Iran can have them.
The Israelis will juice this for all it’s worth!
From China? You don’t suppose… I mean melamine and … No, of course not.
Didn’t know China had a big citrus export market.
Turns out they are just grapefruit painted with orange lead paint.
I love the irony. I’m waiting for Alphie to explain how the bible explained this long ago.
3) And the Eyerackies received gifts from the Mongoloid creatures. A gold colored fruit.
4) The fruit was retched, making many fall ill and writhe in torment.
5) The Eyerackies saw that the fruit was labeled as from their hated enemy, the Auswitch Survivor clan. They then became more ill with untold illness.
6) It then came to pass and all had the shits.
7) That dastardly King Obama was the devil in disguise.
I should mention that passage in #4 is from I Bullshit MFE
(Mr. Fusion Edition)
Sounds like a rejected James Bond script or Tom Clancy Novel.
Re:#5, glad you clarified that Mr. F., I was about to drop everything and follow you to the end of the earth …
Fatwa on china. I’m calling it.
#5 Mr Fusion
Old or New Testament?
Mr. Diesel, Mr. Fusion, too bad it’s not from the MFE BubbaRay Testament, which due to posting guidelines cannot be printed here.
My guess is I MFE New Testament because of verse 7.
Iran should try to see how wonderful the world is without Israeli inventions. They should ban
(a) Cell phones
(b) Firewalls
(c) Pentium chips
(d) IM
(e) VoIP
(f) voice mail
Hope the Iranians executed a few officials before they found out….anything that causes dissention in the ranks is a happy occurence.
The sticker doesn’t even spell Sweetie right! Of course, neither the English language nor Latin letters are used in either Iran or China (or Israel, for that matter)…