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Restaurant owner eats fly to shut up customer

A RESTAURANT owner in southwestern China's Guizhou Province ate a fly in order to shut up angry customers after he told them the insect was "just an ingredient" he put in a dish, the Guizhou Commercial News reported today. The owner of the small... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Wed, Nov 14 2007

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