Strangely Hongkongers found the chip company with Bombe de terre imports REASSURING
This was the latest viral story from Hong Kong, a German hand grenade was found in the potatoes imported from France by the local branch of a Japanese brand.
International audiences may found this amusing in various way, exotic location, the long distance of shipping. Even the Anglo-Saxons media branded the grenade as bombe de terre, a pun from the French word of potato itself.
Though the Brits really left some of their stereotypes against the French among people in Hong Kong, as it is inevitable that most Hongkongers learn about the world by English.
Generally they find this bomb in the shipment thing pretty ridiculous. But netizens saw the positive side of it, even find more trust towards the Japanese brand.
We could find some online comments suggest the incident is so French, so the potato imports are really coming from France.
