All the tea in China

[beetiger]

Yesterday, I took away my son's Aquadots toy, the one his best buddy gave him for his birthday. For those who don't follow the breaking news in preschoolland, the hottest toy for the preschool set apparently is made with a precursor to the date-rape drug, which metabolizes into it if the little beads get licked or swallowed. Kids had been showing up at hospitals in comas. 4.2 million units recalled.

This afternoon, I took my son to the Chinese grocery, and bought packaged goods with almost no English on them to feed to my family, Korean mixed-grain rice and weird tapioca beads and candy made with tamarind, sugar, salt, and chili peppers ground together, without even the slightest qualms. Only now that my son is in bed and I'm putting that stuff away does it feel a little bit weird.

Comments

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Eh, they're really just an inferior version of Perler beads, harder to work with and not as sturdy, even separate from the being poisonous bit.