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[changeling]

Did you know that the US changed their laws about posting food to said country? As of December frickin' 12. I am Unimpressed. I can't even send a simple fucking lollypop without applying for FDA "approval". Totally fucking lame. The only food exempt is "food that is homemade and sent as a personal gift--for example, a cake." A cake?? A cake?? Have these people lost their senses? Who can send a cake from Australia to the US and have it arrive in any sort of palatable form? Bah.

So Radish and Buhfly, I was going to send you a cool lollypop, but your stupid government is afraid I'll hide anthrax or terrorists in it, so I can't.

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[scott-wells.livejournal.com]

Ah... one of the great philosophical debates of our times, "How many terrorists can hide on the head of a lollipop?"

Not quite as deep as "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?" but with times being what they are...

Odd that law. One would think that prepackaged food would be LESS likely to be contaminated with something than something handmade...

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

It's totally fucktarded. I have no idea why the law was passed.

[scott-wells.livejournal.com]

Because we have a fascist, racist, nationalistic asshole in charge?

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*grins* YES!

[cabell.livejournal.com]

That's what I was going to say. Confuzzling.

...I mean, come on, don't these people know about the proud tradition of jailbreaks aided only by files hidden in homemade cakes?

[vonlooney.livejournal.com]

With anthrax icing as the topping, cyanide capsules disguised as raisins and tiny but lethal bombs as the glace cherries.

Obviously a recipe long missing from Delia Smith's 'Complete Cookery Course'.

[billradish.livejournal.com]

Ahhh...revisiting just before Christmas of last year when all items shipped to Australia from the U.S. had to be examined first. Individually.

Christmas presents are not examinable. And the local post office not only does not have materials for sealing up packages (they do, really...but we're not allowed to use them), they get downright offended if you ask about it.

Yay for them.


This might not have been a country wide thing. All I know is that it happened when I tried to ship something and it took me aaaaaages to actually get it sent, wrapping and tape intact. And by ages, I mean months.

I'm sure it would have been a loverly loli. *smooch*

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Weeble. That's stupid. They just asked me what it was. (Although, I *did* have tape in my bag, thankfully, and could have showed them if need be.) Our PO people seem to be pretty cool. *loves Australia Post*

It would have been. But now I get to eat it.

...which is not necessarily a bad thing, as Chris and Sara just gave me a whole bunch of candy canes for Christmas. A whole bunch.

[billradish.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought. *envies your cool Post people*

Think of me. ^_~

heeeeeeeee! Pervy candy. Always fun.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

I will. *licks the lollipop lavishly*

Ergh, I did mean to say "is not necessarily a *good* thing", but my brain is dead. Or possibly called brian. It cannot tell.

[billradish.livejournal.com]

*pets you* FISHEH!

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

*blows bubbles at you*

[buhfly.livejournal.com]

Could always lie. *lies at airports all the time* I figure it's the same thing.

Fucking lollis they won't let through now? *FACEPALM* I DON'T WANT TO BE AMERICAN ANYMORE!

[buhfly.livejournal.com]

Oh! Oh! You an always say you made the lolli. *snerk*

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

ME NEITHER! ...wait...

*giggles* Unfortunately, I didn't know the new law until after I'd 'fessed up.

[dark-prophet.livejournal.com]

But how do they stop the terrorist with the easy-bake oven? You know, I've never trusted Delia Smith...

And how is personally packed, random ingredient food less likely to carry biological agents (or mini, sugar frosted nukes?) than pre-packeaged, sealed commercially produced products?

[vonlooney.livejournal.com]

Jamie Oliver is surely far more dangerous.

'So, we're just going to bang the anthrax cream pie into the old oven, gas mark 5 for 45 minutes, and then throw the old thing at Tony Blair. Nice, innit?'

[dark-prophet.livejournal.com]

*shudder* Jamie Oliver could terrify me far more than any number of chemical weapons simply by babbling incessantly.

[pinque.livejournal.com]

Now that's Pukka.

Hmm.. maybe we shouldn't feel so bad that NZ has been given the cold shoulder by a government this stupid...

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

If you hadn't been given the cold shoulder, you'd have NZ lads dead on the fields (?) of Iraq. I think you got off lightly.

[painispretty.livejournal.com]

Will NZ let me in, do you think?

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

If you can say "fush and chups" you're probably right. ;P

[painispretty.livejournal.com]

*clears throat*

"Fush and chups".

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Well done! You're in. *grins*

[pinque.livejournal.com]

We do have people out there, that's the problem. SAS and others. It's generally not talked about even here. I think the SAS did finish ops in Afghanistan a while ago though, that was mentioned in the news some weeks back.

It's our Anti Nuclear policy that's keeping us out of trade etc. We support the rebuilding of Iraq, just weren't involved in the initial campaign.

Not many people out there to be sure, but there are only 4 million of us.

Unless we bred a military sheep that is....

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Jesus! I didn't know that. *pets your country*

[filmbuff.livejournal.com]

What strikes me as odd is that something homemade would be a lot easier to tamper with than something pre-packaged.

I have given up trying to understand my government though.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Well, exactly. So why are they doing it, if presumably not to stop the spread of anthrax cookies?

Just to make the Christmas season difficult for non-Americans, I suspect. ;)

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Suckage.

My local post office is really cool. I handed over a bunch of parcels to be sent off, realised I'd left the post-office-copy bit of the customs tags at home, and they let me send them anyway. I just handed in the tags the next time I went in.

Probably because they know where I live (i.e. next door to one of the PO employees) and know I'm not mailing bin Laden clones to Maine.

[delirieuse.livejournal.com]

Nothing wrong with the PO in question. The people there were brill. It's a problem with the US.

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

Bloody US, then.