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Lewis Perin
 
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Default English on wrapper (was Dadugang puerh or not?)

"Space Cowboy" > writes:

> It just doesn't seem to me the Western consumer will ever get the
> chance to choose between 6FTM and Menghai. The plethora of Engish just
> doesn't add up beyond what would be an educated guess. I'd be
> interested if anyone can find compressed commercial puer besides
> Xiaguan or CNNP in their Chinatown which I can understand because of
> the penny/gram price. I qualify "plethora" because there is plenty of
> TaoBao auctions with Chinese only cake wrappers.


The per-cake cost of putting a few English words on the wrapper is
vanishingly small. Why be surprised by this?

/Lew
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