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Imdramayu · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 394 Location: South Korea

Who has heard of the Saudi man who brought 2 pressure cookers in his checked baggage (en route to visiting his nephew in the US)?

http://news.yahoo.com/lawyer-mans-pressure-cooker-food-not-bombs-194558291.html

My questions:
1. Do Saudi people frequently bring pressure cookers with them on airplanes (as the man's lawyear claims)?

2. Are the pressure cookers sold in KSA really better than those sold in the US (as the man's lawyear claims)?

tttompatz · Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 9:34 am Post subject:

Only the Americans would arrest someone for carrying an empty cooking pot in their checked luggage.

And I can understand the Saudi man's nephew wanting to import one and his worry about low quality of pots in America since we know that American pots blow up.

"Terrorist" .... the boogy-man is coming....

As the sheep get lead down the garden path ... perhaps exploding bubble gum is next on the list ...

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Wilsonthefarmer

Imdramayu · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 394 Location: South Korea

So...it sounds like US pressure cookers are OK for the food commonly cooked in the US. For those people who want kappa, do KSA pressure cookers (made in Egypt or Pakistan)?

But, kapsa is such an unhealthy and oily food.

sparks · Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 632

Thanks for sharing. Stories like this make me feel embarrassed about my country...

Imdramayu · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 394 Location: South Korea

Do you embarrassment "for" your country or "about" your country?

Im

sparks · Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 632

Yeah...., perhaps I should go back there to brush up on my English, too long abroad... Smile

Wilsonthefarmer · Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 1:14 pm Post subject: Re: Pressure cooker quality

Imdramayu · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 394 Location: South Korea

This is so true. A lot of food people eat in the US is terribly unhealthy (sausages, bologna, french fries, burgers). It's better to stop eating all unhealthy food. Start eating veggies and low-fat/sodium food. But tell that to parents who take their kids to the mall and eat out in the food court.
Nasty!

My parents used to bring their own food to eat in the food court.

scot47 · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Posts: 15343

Food court ! OMG. Flashbacks of the horrors of the shopping mall and all that other amerianised crap about life in Khobar and Dhahran !

Thank God I am living on a remote Scottish island where the only malls are on American soaps on TV !