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Hot Crossed Beijing Buns?

July 19, 2007 2:24 PM | Categories: Spend Management

There's now news out that suggests the CNN story about street vendors in Beijing selling pork-flavored cardboard dumplings (scroll down for the links in the comments section) that I recently referenced might be a hoax ... hat-tip: Tony Poshek and Eric Strovink

- Jason Busch

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The more interesting question here is who slipped this guy the cash to publish the story in the first place ... might we trace it back to the US and the unions who are pushing this anti-China PR campaign?

# Posted By Jimmy Hoffa’s Worst Nightmare | 7/19/07 12:56 PM

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