Re: Eew! Customer finds mysterious 'invertebrate' in mutton Briyani bought in Little
He was lucky that it was worm not invertebrate, His forefathers wasn't lucky opium was known as poison later and the supplier was his colonial master Brit, Stamford Raffles people, in Singapore.
Scapegoat
The English now intensified a two-decade effort to convince Western public opinion that Britain had never forced opium on China. Mr. Gladstone, in the opium debate in Parliament on May 10, 1870, argued that the Chinese government had ‘wisely’ decided to deal with opium as a commercial commodity. Gladstone praised the opium trade as not only a source of revenue but of great benefit to China and India:
“This is one of the most remarkable cases which the whole fiscal history of the world presents. I do not suppose there is, or ever has been, a country…in which £6,000,000 of its revenue has been derived from a particular article [
he still evades the word ‘opium’], of which you could say with so close an approximation to the truth, without any violation whatever of political justice, that the 6 million was virtually and substantially paid by the inhabitants of another country who did not complain of the burden.”
http://www.amoymagic.com/OpiumWar.htm
Why use fancy term like 'invertebrate'? Worm say worm lah, leech say leech lah, larvae say larvae. Make me spend 10 mins going through my dictionary. KNN.
