I went down to the local Albertsons market the other day and was thinking about doing some seafood for dinner. I picked up some frozen salmon fillets and frozen scallops. Both were from different companies and double packaged. The inside package was vacumn packed with no markings at all. The outer packaging was marked (in small print) "Product of China". I guess I need to start looking at the lables a little closer.
I sent an E-mail about this to a number of people ("Buy American"!) and I got a response back from a friend that retired on the Kona Coast on the Big Island. He was doing a little home improvement project using round lava pavers. He didn't have enough to finish so he went back to the stone and rock place and was told that they were on back order from China. These people specialize in counter tops and have all sorts of stone saws. Obviously obtaining the lava raw material should also not be a problem in Hawaii!
So there we go, importing lava products into Hawaii. Go figure.
Well enough of my rant.
Tom