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• Eric
  I am so glad someone introduce the spoon to you people. Chopsticks are just so difficult to use. You would never see jello at dimsum for example... oh wait. you do. hmmm...
• jozjozjoz
  My people so "glateful" for this famous Western invention!
• johnklin
  Didn't you blog about this before? Or someone else - I slightly recall seeing this before? No matter. Still pretty interesting to re-watch...
• BigBrotherSpeaks
  "Ten types of gelatin"
  
  Very rough "translation"...
• Tristan Dewar
  Pah. The narrator isn't even consistently mixing up those "l"s and "r"s ... wacky Chinese ... er, Japanese.
• Tongcheng
  I think the baby is kind of cute, and I like the music! We don't need to be self-oppressed.
  BTW, 十様蔗露 means ten flavors of sugar cane dew
• jozjozjoz
  I knew
  十 = ten
  様 = types
  蔗 = cane
  露 = dew
  
  But ten types cane dew made no sense to me. But SUGAR cane actually makes sense, I mean, kind of.
• kai64
  蔗露 = Jello in Mandarin. Is a phonetic translation.
• jozjozjoz
  That makes even more sense. Although I don't think 蔗露 sounds like Jell-o. Well, ok, KIND OF. But not really.
• Gil Asakawa
  Yech, the whole things is racist, though it's a reflection of the mainstream image of Asians back then. It couldn't happen today... can it? (See Long Duk Dong...)
• jozjozjoz
  Actually Gil, I linked back to the KFC vs KGC commercial:
  http://www.8asians.com/2009/06/01/kfc-vs-kgc-wtf/
  
  I'm not saying the KFC commercial is racist, but -- as I said in the original post -- the two Asians and how they were dressed in that commercial was totally out of context.
  
  I constantly see this TV commercial on the air during sportscasts and it drives me bonkers.
• DonnieYen
  I frown at this, the low standards of our societies say label this as "Borderline Racist"
  
  It extremely racist in every sense that it's perpetuating the racial stereotypes, the defame of Asian culture, derogatory use of sound, text, faked accents to give Chinese people the biggest mocking on national television.
  
  Well in all correctness, I think Jelly is actually bad for the baby so it should be glad that these chopsticks saved it's life.
• mredster
  Stupid ignorant westerners, Chinese people have spoons!
• professoreric
  well you know what they say: There's always room for 蔗露.
• jozjozjoz
  哈哈!
  
  (haha!)