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What happens when 5,000 gallons of molasses spills on a highway? I’m stuck for an answer.

A sticky mess has been cleaned up after an overturned tanker truck poured 5,000 gallons of molasses onto a major Texas highway.

Drivers heading to Sugar Land were rerouted Thursday after the afternoon accident shut down Texas 6 at Southwest Freeway for eight hours.

Molasses in Sugar Land. Haha. You couldn’t have scripted a better news story.

If you’re headed to the Beijing Olympic Games and you were planning to eat a nice big plate of Egg Foo Dog or had your heart set on some Dog Sum, you are going to be disappointed. Along with those dishes, Sweet and Sour Dog, Moo Shoo Dog, and Egg Dog Soup will not be offered either. You see, the Chinese government is taking dog off the menu during the Olympic games.

Beijing’s 112 officially designated Olympic restaurants have been banned from selling dog meat during the Olympics, the city’s food safety administration has said.

Non-designated restaurants (especially those serving Korean, Yunnan and Guizhou cuisine) have also been encouraged not to serve the meat, a notice drawn up earlier by the administration said.

All meat transported into Beijing during the Olympics will be checked to prevent violations, the notice said.

“Dog meat sales are being suspended as a mark of respect for foreigners and people from ethnic groups,” an anonymous official with the administration was quoted as saying by Beijing Daily on Friday.

They are not pulling dog from the menu because some people might find it gross to find Lassie chopped up in little pieces on their plate, they are pulling it because they don’t want to offend people from different “ethnic groups”. Wow.

When you visit a foreign country, isn’t it customary to experience their culture “as is”, without the need for any policing of the culture you see while you are there? Seriously… If you are going to be offended that the Chinese eat dog in some of their dishes, then you need to stay the hell home. That is, until being offended is added as one of the official Olympic sports. The way people are acting lately, it should already be one.

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