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Takes more than five comments to make a dupe, typically.
Yeah fine but this is a straight lift of the Times content. Thread should be moved.
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The hijacking of rare Japanese KitKats
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#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's pretty much true of most overseas candies and chocolates. Some of the best chocolates from Europe use cocoa butter and real sugar. Not Processed Cocoa Powder, HFCS, additives, colorings, preservatives, and then tempered with plastic.
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Costco doesn’t sell caseloads of Cocacola shipped all the way from Mexico to the north east because it’s “hipster bullshit.”
I’m in Europe right now and Coke tastes way better, and doesn’t leave a mild bad feeling after drinking it like it does in the US.
There is a significant chemical difference between sugar and HFCS. For one, the molecules in sugar are disaccharides while in HFCS they are free. High Fructose CS also has more fructose, which is the worst type of sugar. There’s a Wikipedia page I’ve been trying to find again for years, but basically fructose is multiple times more reactive in your blood than glucose and creates nasties when it reacts with other things you eat, namely fats.
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#93>Seemingly on cue, Tristan followed up. “Time for some coming clean,” he confessed. “I’m actually a scammer and the owner of HCH doesn’t have anything to do with this.” That's on odd admission from the scammer, when they could have said nothing,
When I was awarded MVP by Microsoft in like, 2004, they sent me a really nice watch by DHL.
I went to DHL warehouse and picked up the shipping box. I opened the box as I walked to my car. Inside was the watch box. I opened the watch box. Inside was no watch. Inside was a folded piece of DHL-headed yellow paper which had the following hand-written on it:
SORRY I STOLE YOUR WATCH
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#94For a moment there I thought it was going to be a company by one of HN's users: Candy Japan. Same business: Japanese candy subscription service. But the user profile says Candy Japan is no more. :-(
For anyone looking for a Japanese candy and snack subscription service, I enjoyed bokksu: https://www.bokksu.com/
Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's Nestle in the UK, and they don't sell the Japanese bonus snacks here either.
If you go to the Japan Centre in London you can find various flavours of Japanese Kitkats.
I can't recommend anyone going to Japan Centre because you will spend a lot of money.
Last time I was there I spent about £100 on sweets that had tiny little train cars in them and the chocolate was terrible and I ate all of it.
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#96In a past life of criminality I used to pay the truck driver who picked up all the pallets of Beanie Babies coming off the ship from China to have one pallet a month go missing.
It was roulette what Beanie Babies I would get, but even if they were the most worthless ones I was still getting them below wholesale price, causing much confusion from my competitors as to how I was selling them below retail.
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#97>Seemingly on cue, Tristan followed up. “Time for some coming clean,” he confessed. “I’m actually a scammer and the owner of HCH doesn’t have anything to do with this.” That's on odd admission from the scammer, when they could have said nothing,
When I was awarded MVP by Microsoft in like, 2004, they sent me a really nice watch by DHL. I went to DHL warehouse and picked up the shipping box. I opened the box as I walked to my car. Inside was the watch box. I opened the watch box. Inside was no watch. Inside was a folded piece of DHL-headed yellow paper which had the following hand-written on it: SORRY I STOLE YOUR WATCH
I need a follow up...what happened? Did they send you another?
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#98In a past life of criminality I used to pay the truck driver who picked up all the pallets of Beanie Babies coming off the ship from China to have one pallet a month go missing. It was roulette what Beanie Babies I would get, but even if they were the most worthless ones I was still getting them below wholesale price, causing much confusion from my competitors as to how I was selling them below retail.
Sounds like an interesting story! How big was a pallet? How does one come to know the specific truck driver?
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#99This sounds like a scam run by the storage companies. Otherwise it is hard to understand what motivation "Tristan" had to drop the product off there instead of just, say, abandoning it on the side of the road. I can imagine a scammer getting upset that their load was a bunch of candy and not laptops or something else of high value, but why take it to a storage unit after accepting the load?
The actual scam here didn't play out, so NYTimes does not have the full story. What happens is they truck the load to a yard and open it up. The contents of the trailer are then stolen and dumped into the gray market. If it has no value the load gets dumped into a storage facility and because the goods are accounted for law enforcement won't get involved. The load was coming from Japan and probably insured for a lot…
That doesn't quite scan either. Avoiding interest from law enforcement could be a motive for returning the goods, but the moment they actually steal a shipment they're on the hook again. I think the idea only works if the vast majority of the hijacked containers are returned -- but that is an absurd idea.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
According to a study from CargoNet the total theft of cargo containers in 2022 was 1,778 units for a total of about $220m. By comparison about 10,000 cargo containers fall off of ships every year. The problem is well below the threshold where anyone would pay a dollar more per container to deal with it.
‘Falls off ships’ is a pretty convenient excuse.
Maybe it is used as an excuse, but it really does happen regularly [1].
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/17qp82w/cargo_ship_ap...