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French knife / China knife / Freedom knife?,
June 5, 2009 Upton O'Goode "Upton" (WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: MIU France 4-Piece Forged Stainless Steel Steak Knife Set (Kitchen)
Everyone knows that the best steaks are born, slaughtered and grilled in freedom-loving countries. (U!S!A!.... U!S!A!...) But, what about steak knives? Could it be that a good steak knife could be manufactured by workers who are unenlightened by or indifferent to freedom, democracy, and free markets? By workers who know nothing of two inch thick, 32-ounce, dry aged, prime porterhouse, seared over mesquite!? By hands whose ultimate purpose is to turn us all into tofu-loving, godless, Marxists?
What about a steak knife that pretends to be made in a socialist pseudo-democracy like France but is actually made in pseudo-communist China?
To be frank, these Freedom-hating knives appear to be manufactured to adequate tolerances. Their unserrated blades are seductively contoured... just like a paragraph out of Mao's Little Red Book. And, like Communism itself, these knives are certainly capable of cutting deep into red-blooded American flesh. A thousand cuts can...Read more