Just in case you're wondering the stamp shown here has nothing to with the edible squid postcards I wrote about the other day. It's not edible, but when you scratch the front it releases the tantalizing aroma of sweet and sour pork. Wait it gets better. When you lick the back, the stamp also tastes like the dish. I can safely say that this is the first time that thinking about a stamp has made my mouth water. Although ice-cream-flavored stamps are a close second.
China released the stamp last week to celebrate the Year of the Pig, which starts February 18. It's sure to thrill foodies, philatelists and lovers of all things cute. For some reason I feel like sending letters and eating bacon to ring in the Lunar New Year.
[via Boing Boing]
1-11-2007 @5:39PM flax seed said... Hey, I want General Tso's chicken next!!!!
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1-11-2007 @8:04PM Mike said... It's funny that the link to the Shanghai daily makes no mention of scent or flavor. CCTV.com, another Chinese news site doesn't either Various other non-Chinese sites do.
I could be wrong, but I'm extremely sceptical, especially since the tradition of the Pig and it's position on the zodiac isn't due to sweet & sour pork.
I don't smell pork, I smell something fishy. I think some blog site started that rumor and is having a big laugh right now.
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1-11-2007 @9:12PM Jenni said... being chinese and born during the year of the pig, i also highly doubt that the stamp celebrates sweet and sour pork, for many reasons.
1.) sweet and sour pork really isn't that chinese.
2.) such happy and jolly depictions of a zodiac animal in china's country colors probably isn't about food.
3.) a pig with SUCKLINGS just doesn't scream food.
4.) doesn't china release stamps celebrating the year's sign every year around this time (chinese new year time)?
that is it.
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1-11-2007 @9:18PM calamari said... Shanghaiist mentions no sweet-and-sour pork, and I can't believe they'd overlook that:
http://www.shanghaiist.com/index2.php
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1-11-2007 @11:00PM Gary said... It's the year of the Pig.
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1-11-2007 @11:01PM Gary said... (Don't look for too much depth in those comments. It's late...)
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1-23-2007 @3:14PM Jaide said... I purchased a couple of these stamps from ebay, straight from Hong Kong. There is no flavor or smell of sweet and sour pork. Just paper. Don't waste your money unless you LOVE the pigs on the front. Or you collect stamps.
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1-24-2007 @11:58AM Sir Charles said... Seems like it would be fun to get a bunch of these and mail something to someone in a Muslim country with them. Maybe we would smell something more like outrage...
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2-02-2007 @10:57AM Felix the Cat said... I also got some of these on eBay from a man in Hong Kong. No flavor. No scent. Cute piggies, though! :D
And Jenni, suckling pig is delicious -- you should try eating baby animals more often!
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